Since its Early Access launch in March, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has gone from strength to strength—showering players with updates and watching its player count skyrocket along the way. One such player who’s taken to its bloodthirsty war zones is ex-NFL linebacker-turned-Hollywood star-turned PC gaming enthusiast Terry Crews. “[Our favourite] was Overwatch at first, we loved Overwatch, we still love it,” Crews tells me over Skype. [Crews makes a point of noting he is not sponsored by either

Half-Life 3, aka the Half-Life game that doesn’t exist, probably wouldn’t have tied off any narrative loose ends anyway, according to series writer Marc Laidlaw. The former Valve staffer and Half-Life 2 writer said as much in a new interview over at Arcade Attack, and the reason? I had hoped for a reset between HL2 and HL3 that was as dramatic as the shift between HL1 and HL2. Oh, and Half-Life 3 or HL2 Episode 3 wouldn’t result in the end of Gordon Freeman’s story necessarily. “There was some r

That’s nice, but you can stop bugging American McGee about it, please. It’s all pretty straightforward: EA owns and controls the Alice brand, while American McGee does not. In fact, American McGee seems pretty confident that there will be a new Alice game at some point, but he doesn’t know when. McGee also wants you to stop bugging him about a Madness Returns demo and the game’s removed content. As recently as 2013, McGee was actively soliciting answers regarding the Alice fanbase’s eagerness fo

From July 19th – 23rd we’re showcasing some cool new titles on the affordable Dell Inspiron gaming laptops and Inspiron 7000 desktop systems. Gamers can come by the booth to play Giant Cop in full-motion VR and The Walking Dead Pinball in dedicated VR rooms on the Oculus Rift headset. Additionally, show goers can get their hands on Thief of Thieves before it’s available to the public, Oxenfree, Labyrinth, and Telltale’s latest The Walking Dead: New Frontier. As you approach the booth, you will b

Battlefield 1’s next expansion, In The Name of the Tsar, doesn’t actually release until September. But the new map Lupkow Pass will release officially next month – and it’s been rolled out on the CTE already. If you’re not one to get involved with early testing phases, then here’s over an hour of footage of the map in action. Based in the Carpathian Mountains, the map naturally has a thick layer of snow covering it, as well as ravines, mountains – stuff you’d associate with the Carpathian Mounta

When it comes to Street Fighter, I can’t do much more than spam hadoukens at friends who are just as bad as I am. As you watch EVO, you realize there’s so much more to Street Fighter than the skill it takes to remember combos and execute special moves. This year’s grand final was essentially Street Fighter 101, and Tokido was delivering the lesson. And not for lack of trying: Tokido’s been competing at Street Fighter 4 and 5 for years, and he’s other won tournaments, but never EVO. But this year

The action-RPG Ys Seven was originally released in 2009 in Japan, and a year later in the rest of the world, for the PlayStation Portable handheld console. Now it’s coming to the PC courtesy of Xseed Games, which announced today that an updated version of the game, “with all the features of a modern PC release,” will be out this summer. Ys Seven promises more than 30 hours of gameplay, set in a world where players must unite the five tribes who protect the god-like Five Great Dragons who may rep

BOT Connor is his name, and shaming seasoned Counter-Strike players is his game. If you’re losing and the bot wins this super important round, it’s just insane. But BOT Connor doesn’t need a human puppet-master pulling his strings because he’s a goddamn pro. As the players on the counter-terrorist team lose their minds over what they just witnessed, BOT Connor scores a third kill. You can hear him laughing his ass off as BOT Connor begins his rampage.

I’d never heard of Abigail, a vicious brawler boasting biceps bigger than a Volkswagen, so I looked up his biography on the Street Fighter Wiki (he’s from Canada, if you were wondering). And why am I looking up facts about a Final Fight fighter on the Street Fighter Wiki? Because “the biggest lad in all of Metro City” is coming to Street Fighter 5 as part of Season Two Character Pass on July 25. “Every day is arms day for Abigail, and when he’s not busy cracking skulls he’s either driving a car

We got our first look at HEVN back in February by way of a pair of teasers that hinted at something very sinister happening on the isolated planet of Naic. Co-creator Larry Johnson said that the studio will “iterate on the demo over the coming weeks and months, to keep a public log of what we’re working on. It’s never good to delay games but we want to share improvements with our players as we go.” But better a delayed game than a bad one, especially when it looks as promising as Hevn. If you ha

Our favorite racing-themed gaming chair is the Vertagear SL5000 (see here to see what we recommend from regular crop of chairs). It’s a sweet place to park your backside, though if you’re not looking to spend anywhere near the $350 street price, then check out this Essentials chair that is on sale at Amazon. While it does not have all of the same amenities as the Vertagear SL500, the Essentials model does bring a racing theme to your desk environment. It’s also made of “SofThread” leather and fe

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. Elemental Infusion is a scratch build put together by modder Kanishka Akalanka out of Sri Lanka using carved sections of a mahogany log to form a gorgeous chassis. I believe it too, because it took some magic to put the Elemental Infusion together. No one will know it’s a Dota 2 PC anyway, except for a nephew or niece and one ‘cool’ uncle. For more details about of Elemental Infusion wa

Blizzard’s new StarCraft 2 War Chest is a “seasonal program that offers StarCraft 2 players access to an array of cool digital content,” including skins, decals, sprays, and a digital comic. Unlock progress is shared across all three races and is retroactive as well, so if you’ve unlocked five Zerg rewards and then purchase the Protoss Chest, five Protoss rewards will unlock immediately. Blizzard is earmarking 25 percent of all War Chest sales for StarCraft 2 esports, although it’s very vaguely

As a result, profitability is way down, and some miners are putting their GPUs up for sale on second-hand sites such as Ebay, CoinDesk reports. That could change at the drop of the hat, of course, but with the way things are now, miners are less motivated to stock up on GPUs and mine Ethereum. But since then, Ethereum has fallen in value, declining to a low of $133 over the weekend. Combined with Ethereum’s spiking value, miners went running for the hills with as many GPUs as they could carry in

After five years of development, sandbox MMO Albion Online releases today for the first batch of players. The focus is on guild-based PvP combat and a player-run economy—much like EVE Online, the game’s primary influence. Especially the end game of Albion Online is guild-based PvP. EVE Online was probably the game that had the most influence on Albion Online. And then the other two problems with EVE Online, which is a great game—I really like EVE Online, I think they are doing such an amazing jo

Reddit user sh00ter999 posted several pictures of the fake Ryzen processor he received to Imgur. A little over a week after this happened, another user (Yae_Ko) uploaded a photo showing that he had received a fake Ryzen processor from Amazon as well. One of the more plausible scenarios is that the culprit is requesting RMAs for purchased Ryzen processors, and then returning rebadged Celeron chips in their place. The folks at WCCFTech seem to think that two of these fake chips appearing in the wi

Earlier this year, Blizzard revealed the drop rates for Overwatch and Hearthstone in China, as required by Chinese law. Late last week, as reported by Inven Global, it did the same for South Korea, and it turns out that the drop rates are identical. That all jibes with what was previously announced for China, suggesting that these drop rates apply everywhere—something we noted we couldn’t be sure of when the Chinese rates were revealed. To be fair, we still can’t, but it looks like a better bet.

Agents of Mayhem has spent the last year or so teasing its over the top, off-the-wall Saints Row-esque open worldyness with a series of flashy trailers. In April, Wes was nevertheless underwhelmed during a hands-on demonstration, yet a deluge of equally ostentatious shorts have followed—the latest of which showcases Scheherazade, Oni and Pierce Washington who combine to form The Firing Squad. Here’s the laser-firing, insta-teleporting trio in action:Speaking to that last part, The Firing Squad l

If you’re looking for a case for your next PC build but don’t want to break the bank, then the NZXT S340 is the way to go. It’s our favorite budget ATX mid-tower case, and you can get one today on Newegg for $55. The NZXT S340 has a nice clean design, with plenty of room inside for your cable management, components, and even liquid cooling radiators. It’s a great case for your first ever build thanks to its simplicity, but we’d also recommend it for advanced builders looking for something on the

You, a lone Soviet cosmonaut, are sent to investigate a communications blackout on a space station. The environments are realistic, modeled on Russia’s famous Mir space station, meaning there’s no technology that didn’t exist at the time. The zero-gravity movement feels just right, which is the result of a lot of painstaking tweaking and adjusting by Pixel Spill. The chunky tech is reminiscent of Alien: Isolation, which Pixel Spill cites as a big influence on the art design. The developer also s