If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that keeps things relatively simple, you should check out Corsair’s Vengeance K65. It’s a compact keyboard without RGB lighting, and it’s on sale for just $55 at Newegg. It’s not just missing RGB lighting, there is no backlight at all on this plank. The Vengeance K65 uses Cherry MX Red key switches, which are linear, light, and comparatively quiet. You can grab the Vengeance K65 on sale here.

In the meantime, renowned overclocker der8auer took apart a Threadripper 1950X processor that was in his possession and discovered something ‘Epyc’ inside. Threadripper CPUs are comparatively large to today’s consumer desktop processors, and now we know why—they’re Epyc server chips in disguise. What’s not clear is whether two of the dies are simply disabled by AMD or actually defective, or a combination of both (depending on demand). Interestingly enough, AMD asked der8auer to take down his You

The early FMV game Night Trap is notable primarily for three things: Dana Plato, not being very good, and helping to usher in the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The release date trailer gives a pretty good idea of what’s in store from the updated game, but it also constitutes the totality of the launch date announcement. “In Night Trap, the player takes the role of a special agent tasked to watch over teenage girls visiting a house which, unbeknownst to them, is full of danger. To give cre

That’s the situation playing out in the graphics card market because of the cryptocurrency mining boom, a topic we’ve covered extensively in recent months. But just when we thought there was nothing left to report on the matter, it’s come out that some of the most active Ethereum miners are renting Boeing 747 airplanes to ship orders of graphics cards. And also a shortage of graphics cards, as Streng is aware. And apparently business is still good enough that not only can they afford to rent Boe

That never happened, though AMD did casually mention that it’s now making its top-of-the-line 140W Wraith Max cooler with programmable RGB lighting available for individual sale. Results from the Wraith Max should be even better. Wraith Max coolers will ship with the necessary hardware to install on AM4, AM3, and FM2 motherboards. That’s library level quietness, according to most noise level charts. We couldn’t spot any stores offering the Wraith Max at the time of this writing, though with AMD

Observer tells that third kind of cyberpunk story, and is about as pure a version as you can imagine. Plugged in, I experience their fading consciousness as an Orwellian computerized job interview and a stealth sequence in an open-plan office, but also through more metaphorical scenes. At its best, the hide-and-seek pursuit stuff is reminiscent of Alien: Isolation, and at its worst it’s every instafail stealth sequence shoehorned into a genre where it doesn’t belong. At its best, the hide-and-se

Newegg has plenty of sales going on this summer, and a new one starting today is a simple weekend sale which will run until Sunday. There’s plenty on offer on the main page, but the highlights are the motherboards and SSDs which can be found. You can find a bit of money off the WD Blue SSD, both the SATA and M.2 variations, as well as the 512GB WD Black M.2 drive. As for the motherboards, the likes of the ASRock Z270 Taichi can be found for $160 after rebate, or you can opt for the more budget A

Announced last October, Mouldy Toof and Team17’s jailbreaker sequel The Escapists 2 is due to launch on August 22. Today it’s showing off one of its more interesting prisons: the space-set U.S.S Anomaly. Some of that is depicted here:When The Escapists 2, ahem, lands it’ll come packing nine other uniquely themed prisons—including a lockup that’s set on a moving train. Prisons can be tackled in both solo or multiplayer, and online and local co-op and versus modes support up to four players. Again

Gorgeous 3D graphics brought the high fantasy world of Norrath to life in ways that Ultima Online’s 2D sprites never could. 2001: Dark Age of CamelotThe act of killing another player in any MMO before Dark Age of Camelot was, at best, shortsighted. Not content to distinguish itself by focusing only on PVP, Dark Age of Camelot also features a staggering 47 different classes. Warhammer Online: Age of ReckoningTaking lessons learned from Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic Entertainment turned the Warhamme

The first time I played JITD’s Dark Souls Aggressive Mod I nearly had a breakdown. A series of other painstaking mods have since followed suit, the latest of which reallocates the placement of Lordran’s hostile wanderers. Reddit user gumbenzoin’s Enemy Placement is a work-in-progress mod that was originally designed as a private project “made for myself and a friend to make our coop more interesting,” so says its creator. As you’ll see in the short footage below, Enemy Placement “features tons o

Changes to the game’s PEGI (Pan European Game Information) rating in Europe have thrown that out slightly for console owners, but don’t worry: Steam, therefore PC, isn’t affected by this. “This PEGI-16 rating was an unexpected surprise to us, as we had a PEGI-12 rating going into our Certification process with Microsoft and Sony. Unfortunately, we just received this rating earlier this week and we are now forced to re-submit the game to Sony Europe for approval. Here’s another gander at its Stor

With the release of Radeon Software 17.7.2, AMD has extended Radeon Chill to support DX12 and Vulkan so they can be cool too. In addition, Radeon Chill now supports hybrid graphics setups (typically found in gaming laptops), external graphics cards, and multi-GPU setups. AMD claims that Radeon Chill can extend laptop battery life by 30% in League of Legends. Radeon Software 17.7.2 also looks to enhance one of the hottest forms of media: streams. New features are great, but improving performance

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has long been due a good remaster, so when Activision announced one last year there was elation. Or at least, there was until the details emerged: you’d need to pre-order Infinite Warfare to get access to it. Fast forward about eight months, and Modern Warfare Remastered is now finally available as a standalone purchase on Steam. But people aren’t happy still, if the “mostly negative” rating its attracted is anything to go by. Interestingly, the Call of Duty: Infinit

Now that the console beta period for Destiny 2 has passed, Bungie has announced its plans for the PC equivalent. And it’s happening relatively soon: Early access to the beta (ie, access to those who have pre-ordered) will start August 28, while everyone else will gain access the following day. The period will wrap up on August 31 though, as is usually the case, it’ll no doubt be extended. “This is not the last piece of news we’ll have for PC players prior to the Beta,” the announcement reads. To

If Steam has a rule about explicit content, why wasn’t the content flagged before House Party was allowed on the store in the first place? So why is one uncensored sex game acceptable, while another is not? House Party remains available to anyone who bought it, and Eek! I played the first 20 minutes of House Party, and the overriding impression it left was one of horror rather than humor. And at the least, House Party does bring out the best in YouTube thumbnail faces.

Heavy hitters in PC displays like ASUS, LG, Acer, Samsung, and Dell have all announced HDR gaming monitors, and the specs are generally impressive. High-end desktop gaming monitors, which top out around 300-400 nits in brightness, don’t come close to making the cut. Just keep in mind that using a TV for PC gaming has a few idiosyncrasies you should read up on before pulling the trigger. HDR PC monitorsHere are all the announced HDR PC monitors so far, their specs, and what we know about price an

Photo credit: Riot GamesGambit recently took home the $500,000 prize pool after beating Immortals 2-1 at the PGL Major in Poland. Overwatch: Apex Season 3Overwatch APEX Season 3 wraps up this weekend, with the conclusion of the monthly series and a $177,000 prize pool being awarded to the victor. Hearthstone’s Thailand Major begins its three day tournament today at Pataya Beach where 256 participants from across the world will battle it out. This weekend the world’s best Rocket League players wi

“The PC needs a new skateboarding game,” we said back in May, and that remains the situation because, sorry to say, we’re still not getting one. But we are getting something that might just scratch the sports on wheels itch: Descenders, an “extreme downhill freeriding” game that new indie publisher No More Robots described as “essentially Skate on bikes.” Descenders makes use of procedurally generated maps and a “fully-fledged physics systems” that enables players to string together extreme comb

Yesterday we brought to attention that our budget pick among the best SSDs for gaming, Crucial’s MX300 525GB SSD, could be had for $135. It still can be, but if you don’t need that amount of storage and want to spend less than a C-note, Newegg is selling Apacer’s Panther 240GB SSD at a discount today. Apacer’s 240GB SSD is on sale for $75, down from its normal selling price of $90. It is rated to deliver up to 500MB/s of sequential read and up to 410MB/s of sequential write performance. You can

But even bigger than that is the promise of a new “dedicated server infrastructure” that’s coming “further down the road.” So it’s a constant work we’re still doing and we still do, until the dedicated servers are used in the live environment.” But it’s the addition of dedicated servers that’s the big news here. “And in the end, based on all the data we gathered … we decided to do the move and to migrate to a dedicated server technology.” “With dedicated servers, you don’t have session host migr