If you’ve followed the Elite Dangerous Thargoid saga, you’ll already know it kicked off with the discovery of an alien crash site, and led to players uncovering a selection of alien ruins and artifacts. Alien spacecraft was sighted thereafter, and now players have found a Thargoid machine and have worked out how to activate it. Tune in below for footage (that was live earlier today) of CMDR Isokix exploring an alien structure:Also, watch back CMDR Miekhawk and the Canonn Scientists on Twitch as

CI Games’ Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 was delayed on two occasions in the lead up to its eventual April 25 release. Perhaps the writing was on the wall at that stage, given the developer has now admitted its plans were too ambitious—a fact galvanised by a small development team and pressing deadlines. Since launch, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 has suffered frame rate and load time issues and while CI promises to continue supporting its open world tactical shooter into the future, it suggests trying to keep

After the teasiest of teasers last year, James shared some cultured thoughts on Bloober Team’s Layers of Fear follow-up Observer, after going hands-on with an unreleased demo in February. Within, he claimed Bloober Team’s second major project still holds onto the “haunted house tricks” of its forerunner, but that it “breaks up those tiring sequences with contemplative detective work.” In its latest developer-led commentary trailer, Bloober explains how it hopes to do so by allowing players to in

And that’s no better demonstrated than by the list of games in this new Humble Store racing sale. Just look at the names: Gas Guzzlers Extreme, Race The Sun, Bang Bang Racing. There are other, more high profile games in the sale too, including Mad Max ($7.99), Project Cars ($14.26), and Dirt Rally ($14.99). Among the many games in there, quite a few aren’t racing games in the traditional sense: Thumper – which is excellent – can be had for $11.99, while Roundabout is available for as little as $

Most children of the ’90s (and the late ’80s, for that matter) will have some exposure to Double Dragon, whether via playing the actual game, or seeing Fred Savage play it in Nintendo-promo vehicle The Wizard. Whatever the case, for those not exhausted by the Steam Sale, the game is currently free with every purchase on GOG this week. Go forth and idly purchase games you may never play. Oh, and here’s the Double Dragon Trilogy trailer if you want to know what’s at stake. The offer ends on July 3

When VR was conceptualised, it wasn’t just in the hope that we’d be able to explore strange and fantastical digital worlds. No, there was probably also the notion that VR would allow us to beat the ever-loving crap out of burly shirtless men, without fear of reprisal. The work of Broforce and Genital Jousting studio Free Lives, Gorn is dubbed a “ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator”, and I can’t really think of a better way to describe it. Though it does undersell it a bit: not only can yo

Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a much-anticipated isometric RPG take on the classic pen-and-paper game. We know it’s much-anticipated because the game has just been successfully funded on Kickstarter, to the tune of $522,000. “It’s hard to find the words to describe just how overjoyed and excited we are to have the support of our amazing community,” the new Kickstarter blogpost reads. Well of course: stretch goals. Full details can be found over here, but it looks like those stretch goals will be met

“[It’s] very much like Star Wars, very much like the Marvel Universe, where you see a lot of amazing things happening, but we don’t worry too much about why they’re happening, or how they’re happening, the science of it,” Flynn said. This one is much more about just having fun in a game world that is lush and exotic and really sucks you in.” In a similar vein, he also noted that ideas for Anthem’s game world, despite how fantastical it is, often come from “our own personal lives.” “We’ve had fol

A new Agents of Mayhem trailer introduces the Bombshells, a trio of agents—Joule, Rama, and Red Card—described as “the most volatile” members of the corporate law enforcement outfit know as MAYHEM. Despite the “Bombshells” moniker, the third member of the group, Red Card, is actually a dude—specifically a “football-obsessed psychopath” who seems to enjoy hitting things more than shooting them. The Bombshells are called into action “when circumstances are most dire,” according to the trailer, and

Steamworld Dig is a Metroidvania-inspired 2D side-scrolling platformer that was originally released for the 3DS handheld in August of 2013, and for the PC in December of the same year. The first Steamworld Dig tells the tale of Rusty, a steam-powered robot who inherits a Wild West-style mine from his uncle. The concept is fairly simplistic but the game itself is engaging and entertaining, and Steamworld Dig 2 promises more of the same. The good news is that this time around, Image and Form expec

We’ll jump into the numbers in just a moment, but first a quick refresher on the Frontier Edition. One of the systems was equipped with a Frontier Edition card and the other had a Titan Xp. While Nvidia’s professional Quadro cards would perform better in these tests than the Titan Xp, the professional equivalent to the Titan Xp is the Quadro P6000, which sells for nearly $6,000. AMD’s Frontier Edition is much less expensive—the air-cooled model will sell for $1,200, while a liquid-cooled variant

Taking the VSS’ spot will be the new bullpup, the Groza, which will only appear in care packages. will no longer be found in Care Packages. At a low probability, you will be able to acquire AR Silencers and SR Silencers in Care Packages. and in Care Packages. At a low probability, you will be able to acquire 4x Scopes in Care Packages.

There was something of a brouhaha over the weekend when word went out—sparked, as far as I can tell, by this NeoGAF thread—that Star Citizen studio Cloud Imperium Games was in financial trouble. But the chatter was persistent enough to prompt Cloud Imperium to release a statement explaining what exactly the loan was for. “Our UK companies are entitled to a Government Game tax credit rebate which we earn every month on the Squadron 42 development. As for the collateral, Freyermuth described it as

Developers at Debian have discovered a critical Hyper-Threading flaw affecting Intel’s 6th generation Skylake and 7th generation Kaby Lake processors. If left unaddressed, the flaw could cause “unpredictable system behavior,” Intel says. Intel details the errata in its own documentation as such:Errata: SKZ7/SKW144/SKL150/SKX150/SKZ7/KBL095/KBW095″Short Loops Which Use AH/BH/CH/DH Registers May Cause Unpredictable System Behaviour.” Intel has already issued microcode updates for its Skylake and K

Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra – a liquid metal thermal material that’s so good, it’s almost as cool as the T-1000. Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut – The best conventional thermal paste, according to some exhaustive testing by Der8auer. Scotch tape – For protecting the CPU die. Here I used a drop of my thermal paste removal solution and wiped it gently with a tissue. Where active gaming used to push my CPU above 70C, with the Liquid Ultra applied, the highest temperature I’ve recorded is 62C.

Sure, those $2,000 systems sure are nice, no doubt about that. But if your budget doesn’t stretch that high, then check out Lenovo’s Y520. This is not a monster gaming laptop by any stretch. The Lenovo Legion Y520 as configured is a 15.6-inch laptop with a 1080p display. It’s powered by an Intel Core i5-7300HQ processor, 8GB of DDR4 memory, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU.

Some interesting bits of trivia: The most-nominated games at this year’s E3, with four each, are Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, and Mario + Rabbids Battle Kingdom. The Game Critics Awards Best of E3 2017 nominees can be seen below. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, June 28, and a full list of judges and rules are up at gamecriticsawards.com. Best of ShowAssassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo)Mario + Rabbids Kingdom B

However, it looks like Sapphire has beaten all others to the punch with a handful of AMD Radeon RX 470 and 560 cards built specifically for mining. As far as we can tell, it is the only company with consumer-based graphics cards for miners on the market. They include the following models, all of which are available to preorder at OverclockersUK:Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Mining Edition 8GB (Samsung)—£300Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Mining Edition 8GB—£290Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Mining Edition 4GB (Samsung)

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Having now spent a couple of hours stalking the lonely corridors of its abandoned Naic space station I can affirm my initial impressions. HEVN is a slow burner, but I’m now keen to see where it steers its story from here on. HEVN’s opening half hour establishes Mar’s routine as he explores his working, social and living quarters in turn. Around the 45 minute mark, I made my way into a maintenance shaft which is where HEVN really starts to open up. From what I’ve played so far, it’s a considered