The G.Skill Ripjaws KM780 is, in our opinion, the best overall gaming keyboard available right now. You can get the slightly revised version, the KM780R, which doesn’t have any changes to the keyboard itself, for a reduced price of $105 today on both Newegg and Amazon. There’s no functional difference between this one and the KM780, which means it’s still got the great switches (Cherry MX Red in this case), wristrest, USB passthrough, and a bunch of other features. $105 is usually the price the

When IO Interactive and Square Enix first revealed its latest stab at Hitman would follow a fully-episodic release schedule it raised a few eyebrows. When IO gained full control of the Hitman name last month it failed to say whether or not the so-called fully-episodic release schedule would remain. The post continues: “This month is a bit special because it brings the final Elusive Target for Season One. The final Elusive Target for Season One will arrive later in the month and will be on the Ma

Cold Waters doesn’t require any prior knowledge of Tom Clancy, and it does a tidy job of easing you into complex and unfamiliar systems. It puts you in charge of a single US submarine hunting down Soviet naval vessels while remaining undetected yourself. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game where I needed the tutorial more. Again, not a bad thing—it’s just that I still don’t quite feel I’m in complete control of my destiny. And while I still love sails more than submersibles, the tense, crisp c

Today’s group matches will see MVP.Hot6ix face SG e-sports at 09:00 PDT / 18:00 CEST, while Alliance will duke it out against Midas at 14:00 PDT / 23:00 CEST. StarCraft II: Global StarCraft League Season 3The Global StarCraft League is the bedrock of competitive StarCraft II play in Korea, so expect plenty of drama this weekend. Players will battle in a dual tournament group stage, and the top two from each group will advance to the single-elimination playoff bracket. The group matches concluded

Rare’s Sea of Thieves is a full-blown shenanigan simulator, so reckons Steven following his E3 hands-on, and it’s now teased one of its most anticipated features: storms. Observe:As you might expect, vulnerability and exposure to the elements are central to how Sea of Thieves’ storm system functions, whereby each encounter “goes beyond the visual of: it’s dark and there’s big waves,” according to Kozin. A dynamic weather system sees wind affect the direction of the rain, while ill-effects such a

We reported on this declaration yesterday, suggesting that Greene’s words point to full release by October against his proposed timeframe. Now, it seems that might have been a touch over ambitious as PlayerUnknown himself has now issued PC Gamer with the following statement:”Today I want to update everyone on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds progress through Early Access. “Over the past few months I have done a lot of interviews, and in many of them, I said we hoped to be out of Early Access six mo

This fall, World of Warcraft players will travel off-world to the Eredar homeworld and Burning Legion headquarters of Argus with the release of patch 7.3 . Though this is still just speculation, the World of Warcraft community believes the next expansion will send players to Kul Tiras to fight the Old Gods . There are eight icons in the database for Kul Tiras Quest Armor. Well, Kul Tiras is a naval superpower led by Lord Admiral Proudmoore, father of Jaina Proudmoore. If that’s true, there’s no

The new set of 135 cards is called Knights of the Frozen Throne, and it’s due to arrive sometime in August. To which your immediate question is likely: “So, have they finally added the Death Knight class?” So, instead of adding the Death Knight as its own hero, Knights of the Frozen offers a more interesting solution: All the existing heroes get to become Death Knights. Each class gets a new legendary ‘Hero Card’ that transforms them into a Death Knight, complete with a different hero power and

The most notable change is the news that some activities won’t let players change their loadout mid-mission. Game director Luke Smith wants players spending less time in menus and more time carefully considering what to bring. ‘” he says, “because for some of those activities you’re going to be loadout locked once they start, which means you can’t change.” Now, event timers and locations are built right into the map UI. Destiny is best when you have a glut of stuff to do—even if some of it isn’t

We’ve all had that moment of moral conflict over whether we should totally screw over a stranger in an online game. Or, if you’ve been harboring that secret shame of getting hoodwinked by an obvious scam, we want to know that tale too. Here’s our collection of five stories of murder and theft that prove why Ultima Online deserves its great legacy. “My personal favorite was from [Ultima Online]. Of course, as soon as I drop it, people swarm to try to pick it up.

SPOILER WARNING: I won’t be discussing any plot, bosses, or specific gameplay stuff, but there is an image below that reveals the full Hollow Knight map and key locations on it. There’s an overwhelming amount of stuff to do in Hollow Knight . It has an intricate and massive map, full of gated areas and secrets hidden behind tantalizing gaps just a bit too wide to jump. About six hours into my 35 hour playthrough of Hollow Knight, I started to lose track of all the places I’d been. Across 30 hour

Do you have burning questions you’ve always wanted to ask the PC Gamer staff? Or maybe you feel the overwhelming need to ask us face-to-face about our Dragon Age 2 score? Tomorrow, Friday, July 7, we’ll be hosting a Q&A over on the PC Gamer Club members-only Discord server, and we want you to come ask us anything! From 9-10am PDT/5-6pm BST on Friday, July 7, we’ll be on Discord taking your questions—whether they’re about PC games, hardware help, the Club itself, or whatever else is on your mind.

Paradox Interactive’s recent round of price increases did not go over well with fans. The sale came to an end today, and Paradox has now revealed the details of its compensation plan. “After exploring options with our sales partners, we’ve come to the conclusion that partial refunds (as in, refunding the price difference) aren’t practically possible,” Paradox senior community manager Escher explained. If you already own all of them, you’ll give credited with “equivalent giftable keys” instead. A

Destiny 2 opens with the Cabal’s Red Legion laying siege to The Tower, the Guardians’ central stronghold and the main social hub in the original Destiny. Thankfully, Bungie seems to have avoided these issues by condensing The Farm’s most important stuff and streamlining travel in Destiny 2. It can hold more guardiansThe Farm is going to feel much busier than the tower in a reassuring move towards creating a more social hub space. We already know that, following the loss of the Tower, the Guardia

Counterplay Games, the studio behind the free-to-play collectible card game Duelyst, has announced a new publishing deal with Bandai Namco, a change it said will allow the team to ignore the headaches of publishing and “focus solely on development” instead. “Bandai Namco will take on publishing responsibilities including marketing and customer service. The studio also noted that, while it is now “working together” with Bandai Namco on the game, Counterplay will maintain responsibility for its de

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s “Nemesis system” was great—so great that we wondered why it hasn’t been more exhaustively ripped off by other games. Today it announced that it’s also going to let players take the worst of their enemies (and the most stalwart of their allies) with them from the old game to the new one, thanks to a Shadow of Mordor update called Nemesis Forge. To use it, just fire up up Shadow of Mordor and select the Nemesis Forge game mode. The Steam listing states that Nemesis

I’m Cooper, the ship’s cook, and right now I’m the only person who can keep the MRS Tartarus from dying frozen in space. Righting a wounded spaceship is primarily an engineering problem, and the control hub of the ship routes through a primitive command line operating system. Rather than stacking crates or fighting monsters, puzzles in Tartarus are solved by exploring dense file systems and executing unknown programs. Command line systems around the ship hold massive directories of folders and f

As luck would have it, our top pick among high-end routers—the Asus RT-AC5300—is currently on sale at Amazon. Amazon has the Asus RT-AC5300 marked down to $233 and change ($233.44 to be exact), making it less expensive than even the Asus RT-3100. These are among the fastest speeds available on a consumer router currently, at least in 802.11ac territory. It also features a beamforming support, MU-MIMO, four Gigabit LAN ports, two USB ports (USB 3.0 and USB 2.0) for connecting external devices, an

The solution to this problem could like in switching to a multi-chip module GPU design. One was based on the current monolithic design and the other used an MCM design. The simulator showed the MCM design performed within 10 percent of monolithic GPU. It also showed that the MCM design would be nearly 27 percent faster than an SLI setup with similar specs. It is believed that AMD’s Navi GPU architecture off in the distance could utilize an MCM GPU design as well, especially now that AMD has the

Valve’s attendance at Indigo 2017 in the Netherlands last weekend was primarily a business-and-developers type thing. But images of slides displayed during a presentation by Valve’s Alden Kroll that were posted in the Valvetime forum reveal some interesting things about Steam, and what Valve has planned for its future. The promise of an “overall UI refresh and update” hearkens back to images discovered in February depicting a dramatically overhauled Steam interface. A separate but also very inte