Throughout the life of this meta, one thing has remained constant: Talon heroes have not been played much at all. Widowmaker, Reaper and Sombra have their time on certain points, but their Overwatch-aligned counterparts have stolen the spotlight. Well, as life imitates art, the shadowy villains came out to enjoy some esports last weekend after the official Doomfist announcement . Oftentimes when we see teams try to get more and more creative, it means a meta shift is waiting around the corner. I

The best EVGA GTX 1070 dealsEVGA has a whole range of custom GTX 1070 options available, some of which are even water cooled if you don’t want to do it yourself. The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW Hybrid has a base / boost clock speed of 1607 / 1797MHz, with an ever so slightly boosted memory speed of 8008MHz. The best Asus GTX 1070 dealsAsus has plenty to offer on the GTX 1070 front too. The best Gigabyte GTX 1070 dealsIf you’re looking for power, but don’t want to fork over the cash for a GTX 1080,

We’ve rounded up the best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals , which offer some good prices on hardware we’d recommend any day of the week. Even in the realm of PC hardware, there are a whole lot of “deals” on Amazon you shouldn’t be buying. iBUYPOWER Gaming Desktop PC AM8140A for $500$500 is a pretty sweet entry-level price for a gaming PC. Our cheap gaming PC build , at $500, will give you far greater bang for your buck. There are a lot of deals right now on Amazon that sell out really quickly,

You might think Stardew Valley is a cute game about raising and caring for farm animals—but not every animal in the valley is living a peaceful existence. At this very moment, countless guinea pigs across every save file of Stardew Valley are suffering in silence. After all, I can’t imagine many people are looking to Stardew Valley to learn proper guinea pig care. But Barone’s fatal mistake was not considering that guinea pigs have different needs than their furry cousins. I certainly don’t want

The best free online games aren’t just a fun way to waste a few hours. Free online games can deliver a quick thrill and a punch line and then let you get on with your day, but there are deeper experiences out there as well. Play some of the best boardgames of all time online for free. Here’s our curated list of the best free online browser games. Part of this year’s IGF Student Showcase, Rhythm Doctor takes the style and irreverence of rhythm games, but features a much stricter margin of error.

If you’re running low on space and attack the problem with a vengeance, HGST’s super capacious 8TB hard drive is now on sale for $260. The drive in question is the HGST Desktar NAS. “If the Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) sensors feel a vibration rippling through the drive, they send a signal to the actuator that controls the head’s position. On the flip side, there is a convenience to having large amounts of data on a capacious HDD versus spread out on multiple HDDs. As for reliability, HG

To understand the Fashion Police, it’s important to grasp the concept of ‘Fashion Souls’. A month before Dark Souls 3’s release, a member of the Fashion Police was spotted prowling Drangleic in Dark Souls 2 by Reddit user FullMetalLlama:”So this guy just invaded me. A recreation of SirKrohan’s Fashion Police that many players may have encountered in Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. I’d be remiss in ignoring the video evidence of possible Fashion Police captured in Dark Souls 3. The Fashio

Redeemer is a top-down action game about an elite spy and assassin named Vasily, who after a long and illustrious career manages to escape his corporate overlords just before they turn him into a cyborg murder-machine. He retreats to a secluded monastery and spends 20 years seeking peace, redemption, and an escape from his past. A release date hadn’t been set when we first looked at Redeemer earlier this year, but today publisher Gambitious announced that it will be out on August 1. The trailer

MSI went all out on its new X299 XPower Gaming AC, a top-shelf motherboard that offers up just about every modern amenity you can think of. Built to handle Intel’s Core X series processors, the X299 XPower Gaming AC features a 14 phase (12+1+1) power design with loadline calibration to help keep overclocks stable. Beyond the tight power regulation and premium components, the X299 XPower Gaming AC is loaded with features, including a pair of second generation heat shields for M.2 SSDs. For extern

Every so often, an ambidextrous design emerges in the world of gaming mice, though according to Asus, they’re mostly crap designs (we’re liberally paraphrasing here) that often result in accidental button clicks. With that in mind, Asus and its ROG division just announced the Pugio, a better designed ambidextrous rodent. It is equipped with a 7,200 DPI optical sensor and uses Omron D2FC-F-K switches (made in China) that are rated for 50 million clicks. There is a pretty decent guide on the diffe

Fighting against an army of Mazdamundi’s resilient Lizardmen, Creative Assembly has showcased Total War: Warhammer 2’s ultra-defensive High Elf units in action for the first time. Check all of that out below in this developer-led extended trailer:”This battle gives a greater, more in depth look at the High Elf roster and how they play, alongside some new elements of the Lizardmen roster not yet showcased,” says Creative Assembly of the above. “This battle was created in a custom battle using an

One of the first features Funcom’s Conan Exiles locked down upon entering Early Access was adjustable dong sizing and realistic dong physics. Given much of the game’s open world surviving involves crafting towering camps and multi-storied base HQs, it seems a wee bit odd climbing mechanics have only now been introduced. Firstly, players can now climb “almost anywhere in the game”, be that mountain sides, ruins, walls, or trees, so says Funcom. “This makes climbing great heights quite dangerous,

Image credit: GamasutraJump is a newly announced monthly subscription service that bills itself as “Netflix for indie games”. According to the company’s Cade Peterson and Anthony Palma, Jump’s main benefits are twofold: users get instant and unlimited access to a library of award-winning indie games, and indie game developers get a better chance of being discovered. “You go in there now and you get these very specific categories, like indie horror movies with strong female leads. So we will be a

You play as a girl called Mineko, who moves to a suspicious Japanese island overrun with tricksy felines. Developer Meowza, run by husband-and-wife team Brandi and Brent Kobayashi, is based in Vancouver, and the couple was inspired by the Richmond Night Market that runs throughout the spring and summer. In fact, cats play a huge part in Mineko’s Night Market. From what I’ve seen so far, Mineko’s Night Market looks like a world of enchantment. “Cats, Japanese snacks and learning about local tradi

Mouldy Toof Studios and Team 17’s The Escapists 2 was announced in October 2016, and offered a glimpse at its newest wild western-styled map earlier this year. It’s now got a launch date, August 22, and has marked the occasion with a new trailer. “Carefully plan and execute an intricate escape from your initial incarceration with your fellow inmates,” says Team 17. And whereas the first Escapists game’s customisation options were relatively limited, its successor promises 300 variables as player

With last week’s ludicrous big-head mode still on our minds, the new Killing Floor 2 Weekly Outbreak is a little less lighthearted. Via Tripwire: “The mode has two new zeds—a Quarter Pound which is a mini Fleshpound, which behaves differently than a regular Fleshpound. They have less health, are in much higher numbers, and move much faster than a regular Fleshpound. Tripwire says to expect “a lot, and I mean a lot of both Quarter Pounds and regular Fleshpounds mixed with lower level supporting z

After unveiling its impressive list of over 180 fully-licensed vehicles last week, Bandai Namco and Slightly Mad Studios have now revealed the full roster of racing tracks heading to Project Cars 2 this September. From the Algarve to Daytona, Dubai to Knockhill, racetracks the world over are pretty well represented in Project Cars 2—a choice the game’s publisher reckons has “never been greater”. Using Slightly Mad’s LiveTrack 3.0—which targets realistic weather conditions and how each car adapts

The option to appear offline in the likes of Overwatch and Hearthstone has been something players have been badgering Blizzard about for quite some time. That’s according to Hearthpwn who spotted a few new strings tied to the digital card ’em up’s freshest update which appear to indicate offline functionality’s imminent arrival. In November Kaplan said: “We would like to add an ‘Appear Offline’ option to Overwatch. Because our social system is a cross-game system (WoW, Hearthstone, Heroes, SC2,

Released in 2012, Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD was a fairly underwhelming throwback to the classic PS1-era Tony Hawk games. It combined the original Tony Hawk Pro Skater with its sequel, before eventually releasing maps and a few other elements from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 as DLC. If that’s a piece of gaming history you need to have in your Steam library, then you’d better act quick: according to a Steam announcement, it’s being delisted on July 17. No reason was given, though given the prevalence o

Half-Life got a new update today, which is significant for only one reason: the game is old. So it’s cool that Valve is still supporting it, despite Valve clearly not pulling its weight in other areas (releasing or even working on Half-Life Fricking 3). The update addresses some small bugs the likes of which don’t seem too gamebreaking, but since Valve probably wants to keep this game evergreen on Steam, it makes sense to address them. And yes, I’ve read the patch notes several times and there’s