Combine the above and buying used graphics cards starts to look like a gamble. Anyway, a card used for mining might actually be in good shape… but there’s unfortunately no way to effectively know what a card has been through. What used graphics cards should you look for? That’s why graphics card prices are still higher than MSRP, and no miner is going to sell a card for a song if it’s still working properly and earning $1.50 per day. When prices do come down, which they eventually will, if you

It was bound to happen eventually: Bethesda’s demon-destroying FPS Doom has been updated to version 6.66. The update unlocks all multiplayer DLC content for all players, including maps, weapons, demons, and equipment, and also overhauls the multiplayer progression system. The new system will also see all veteran players reset to level 0, but that’s apparently not a big deal, because “that’s just your level.” “Regardless of whether you keep your gear or choose to re-earn it, we’re giving all vete

The Core i9-7920X is a 12-core part with 24 threads. And compared to AMD’s Threadripper 1920X, the Core i9-7900X is 600MHz slower. The thing is, the Core i9-7900X has a base clock of 3.3GHz, but the all-core Turbo Boost 2.0 clock is actually 4.0GHz. What this means is that while the base clock on the Core i9-7920X is relatively low, it’s the all-core Turbo clock that we are more interested in. For gaming, the Core i9-7920X will be overkill anyway, no matter the Turbo clockspeed ends up being.

You’re in luck—Amazon has one in stock with a capital “O” and at a pretty nice price—$1,350—albeit it’s refurbished. We typically try to avoid refurbished products, though this one happens to be certified refurbished, meaning HP was the one that gave this system a once-over. The HP Omen on sale here (17-W151NR) sports a 17.3-inch IPS display with a 4K resolution (3840×2160). For gaming, it has a GeForce GTX 1070 GPU with 8GB of GDDR5 memory do the heavy lifting. You can grab the HP Omen 17-W151N

(Image: © Wikimedia Commons via AgnosticsPreachersKid)Net neutrality rules that were enacted by the US Federal Communications Commission under the Obama administration are hanging by a thread. The topic of net neutrality, and more specifically how the rules are currently enforced is not only controversial, it is a partisan issue. The FCC even recently refused to release text of more than 40,000 net neutrality complaints. We have gone in-depth over what the threat against net neutrality means for

Less than 48 hours after the strong suggestion circulated that a second season of The Wolf Among Us was not in development, Telltale Games has announced that a second season of The Wolf Among Us is in development. It’s scheduled to debut in 2018, and will be joined by the fourth and final season of Telltale’s Walking Dead series, which was also revealed today. A new Batman series, entitled The Enemy Within, is also on the way, and it’s a lot closer: the first episode will be available on August

AMD has already said it’s planning to announce its Radeon RX Vega lineup for consumers at SIGGRAPH 2017 at the end of July / early August. The build with a Radeon RX Vega inside was attached to the MX34VQ and the GeForce GTX 1080 system was hooked up to the PG348Q. This suggests AMD is looking at around $700 (give or take) for the RX Vega, which would put it into direct competition with the GTX 1080 Ti. If the demonstration really used a GTX 1080 and not a 1080 Ti, performance would appear to be

San Diego Comic-Con gets underway today, which makes this a fine day indeed for Blizzard to release its new Doomfist comic. The digital edition of Doomfist: Masquerade is free for everyone, while a printed version will be given to attendees of Blizzard’s Doomfist panel at SDCC this Friday night. Doomfist: Masquerade details the returned villain’s efforts to steer Talon in a new direction, away from a purely criminal organization into something far more ambitious. You know better,” he says to ano

WHY I LOVE In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. It’s worth noting that I’m not the type of player who particularly enjoys arbitrarily replaying games. As a long-standing fan of the survival horror genre, not least Mikami’s work on the Resident Evil series, I was certain I’d love The Evil Within pre-release. During my first playthrough I played with the game’s awkward preset letterbox mode turned on; I’m doing the same now.

Yesterday, I spoke to Studio Wildcard’s co-founder Jeremy Stieglitz—who is also Ark: Survival Evolved’s lead designer, lead programmer, and development director. Jeremy Stieglitz Jeremy Stieglitz is the co-founder of Studio Wildcard, and is the lead designer, lead programmer, and development director on the dev’s seminal dinosaur survival adventure game Ark: Survival Evolved. We also did another deep dive into the online debates about the wipe versus no wipe situation in Ark. Calling ita ‘no wip

Samuel and Phil, fresh off their recent job promotions, gather to answer the questions of you: the listener. Or at least, the questions of those listeners that have actually asked us a question. We are yet to work out how to intuit your questions telepathically. You can also subscribe on iTunes or keep up with new releases using our RSS feed . This week: Samuel Roberts , Phil Savage

It’s not exactly clear why you’d need a $600 graphics card and a beefy processor and motherboard combo for going back to school, but we’re not going to complain about cheap hardware. Newegg’s Early Back to School Sale is now on, and you can find money off a whole range of products. Some highlights:There are plenty more deals on Newegg to take advantage of, and the sale lasts until July 24, so there’s lots of time to decide. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one

But wherever you stand with the issue, the open world dino hunter’s Jeremy Stieglitz has explained the premature increase is tied to the game’s physical launch. “Admittedly, my intent, our intent, was to have the price hit the full retail price when the full retail launch occurred,” Stieglitz, the game’s lead designer, lead programmer and co-creative director, tells me. “That would have been at the retail launch, not prior to that. You might say, well, we didn’t have to do it and that’s true but

The Overwatch World Cup Shanghai Qualifier took place last weekend, July 14 through July 16. The good news for Overwatch esports was that this was a very high quality LAN tournament with a fair number of Twitch viewers ( a bit over 80,000 on day one ). Still, the Overwatch World Cup is a fun tournament with some money and bragging rights on the line. When paired with Tracer, Sombra becomes quite the asset to burst DPS because of how fast her gun shoots. If you’re a fan of European Overwatch team

Since the release of Battlefield 1 he’s taken on something of a celebrity status in the clan, appearing on Discord perhaps a couple of times a month to trade creative insults and remind us that the Battlefield he’s playing is still better than the Battlefield we’re playing. But after nearly 2,000 hours of Battlefield 4, I still haven’t found a medic rifle and attachment combo that I feel settled with. So the next time C-West comes to join us, I ask him what his favourite rifle setup is. He’s no

Nevertheless, how’ll you’ll disarm opponents and leverage Tension Shards to unleash powerful attacks looks pretty neat as the martial arts-leaning ARPG eyes its August 29 release. In a “flurry of targeted blows”, so explains the narrator below, players can catch their adversaries off-guard and steal their weapons in turn. “When a fighter is disarmed, their opponents are able to pick up the weapon and use it against them.” As for the game’s so-called ‘Tension Shards’, these absorb tension and col

Leopold sidestepped further education in order to commit to the project 24/7—which he feels could eventually rival the likes of YouTube, Instagram and Flickr while centering itself around videogame photography. But there is way more to it and some individuals truly are incredibly gifted at gaming photography. He points to Dead End Thrills as proof that there’s scope for making a living from videogame photography and that the absence of a so-called “rallying” point for the gaming photography comm

Here are a few important facts about Yonder: The Dream Catcher Chronicles. The game is set on Gemea, a lush green island troubled by a phenomenon called the Murk. This Murk covers regions of the map, and it can removed with the help of Sprites – floating Pokemon-esque creatures – thus opening up new regions and objectives. Yonder is just an environment to spend some time in and, usually, my tastes don’t abide that kind of listlessness. Yonder: The Dream Catcher Chronicles is a peaceful game with

Telltale Games won’t be following up The Wolf Among Us or Tales of the Borderlands any time soon, it has emerged. Following rumours that The Wolf Among Us would appear at San Diego’s Comic-Con this week, the company’s head of communications Job Stauffer took to Twitter to shoot down the rumours. That naturally means that any cliffhangers left hanging at the end of those seasons, will never be… unhung. On the topic of The Wolf Among Us, Stauffer had the following to say in the AMA, which took p

While level editors are hardly a new phenomenon, the release of Mario Maker for Wii U in 2015 did seem to trigger a wave of fan-built editors. We’ve seen a classic Zelda Maker (RIP), a Mega Man Maker, and now, a level editor for Super Mario 64. It’s not as straightforward as the others: it’s a ROM hack, which means you need an emulator and a ROM for Mario 64. It also uses the classic Nintendo 64 controller, which will no doubt present a problem for many. It’s the work of Kaze Emanuar, who has wo