An external hard drive can help up free things up, while also providing a backup solution for multiple PCs. If you’ve been waiting to snag one at a discount, now is the time—Best Buy has WD’s EasyStore 8TB external HDD on sale for $180. It also features backup software to backup your data automatically in one of three modes: automatic, continuous, or scheduled. While this serves a different market than internal HDDs, the sale price represents a pretty good value on storage. You can grab the 8TB

EK has a new RGB monoblock aimed at a very specific target audience. Obviously only users who plan to liquid cool need apply here, but to narrow the field even further, its latest monoblock is built specifically for MSI’s flagship X370 XPower Gaming Titanium motherboard. If you’re planning to build a liquid cooled Ryzen system using that specific motherboard, you’ll find that the new monoblock integrates seamlessly with the board’s RGB illumination. It has a 4-pin RGB LED strip and is compatible

It is getting increasingly difficult to find a mid-tier Radeon RX graphics card with a Polaris chip underneath the hood. That includes AMD’s newer Radeon RX 580 or Radeon RX 570 parts. The folks at Computer Base did some digging at Computex to find out why the newer cards are so difficult to find. If you are interested in cryptocurrency mining, our resident GPU expert Jarred offers this piece of advice. The GPUs are clocked so they can run heavy workloads 24/7, but they cost too much to be viabl

Big changes are coming to Runescape, with Jagex launching its first ever proper expansion for the long-running MMORPG. To give players a taste of what’s new, every free-to-play account is being upgraded to a premium one this weekend so everyone can explore Menaphos and reap the rewards of being a temporary member. The expansion opens up an area that’s been alluded to for years, but never experienced by players. Menaphos chucks in a whole bunch of new story quests and dungeons, increases skill ra

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fan blade like it before, and certainly not a PC fan. But there are also smaller, micro-vibrations on the surface of the fan blade itself. “When you have a fan blowing against a heatsink or a radiator, it builds up pressure,” Dellinger says. Dedicated PC builders might be wondering, at this point: sounds awesome, but is it a static pressure fan or an airflow fan? Apparently that’s not as simple a matter as making everything 20 mm bigger; Noctua has to redesign the

Galactic survival game Empyrion, which has been in Early Access since 2015, has been something of a panacea for those disappointed by No Man’s Sky. This week, on June 7, the alpha 6.0 update will go live, introducing a slew of new features and improvements based on player feedback. “After having worked for months on content, new features, lots of game changers, thousands of feedback posts and reports, the release of the public version of Alpha 6.0 is now only a matter of days,” developer Eleon G

Good news, then, because that won’t be happening anymore. Chief among those game design concepts was ‘everything should react’ (which you might notice applies beyond just the Operators). The solution: give only human body parts hitboxes. “We’ve reviewed every character to ensure that they’re in-line with our new mantra: only the human body counts in damage hitboxes,” Ubisoft clarifies. “With these changes implemented, you should start to see damage occur in a more intuitive way as you’d expect.”

Humble Monhtly is a subscription service where you pay $12 to get over $100 worth of games every month. June’s Humble Monthly is live now, and the first game to be added is Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is essentially the director’s cut version of the game which came out in 2014. It contains all of the Dark Souls II DLC, adds DirectX 11 support, brings in new items, adds new enemy placements, and generally makes things a bit tougher. Plus, Month

Gaming laptops can be expensive since you have to pay for the display as well as the components inside. Even budget laptops can run you upwards of $1,000 if you’re going to be playing games on them. However, you can get yourself an MSI GP Series GP72 Leopard Pro-401 laptop on Newegg today for $967. The main driving force behind its usefulness for gaming is the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. All this takes the price down to $967, not bad for some budget gaming.

Every now and again, Silver pops into my head. And now, finally, you can grab it on Steam and jump back 18 years. Here’s how THQ Nordic describe it: “Back in 1999, Silver was the European answer to JRPGs. Instead, you’ll use your mouse to swing your sword, simulating its movements, which is still an enjoyable novelty today. Silver is available until June 9 for £3.99/$4.79.

Prolific RPG designer Chris Avellone has been working on Owlcat Games’ adaptation of the Pathfinder tabletop game, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, but he’s taken a break from scribbling down quest ideas to answer questions from the community, teasing some of the adventure’s features in the process. “She has some of the best lines in the game so far, and it’s no surprise,” says Avellone. “She’s fun to write for.”Not surprisingly, given Avellone’s involvement, Kingmaker will come laden with choices. These

Unlike Tracer, you probably can’t hop through time, so if you’re hoping to pick Overwatch up with a big discount, you’d better get on that soon. Today is the final day of Blizzard’s Overwatch sale, which sees the cost of both the standard edition and the Game of the Year edition slashed, Genji-style. Until the end of the day, the standard edition will set you back £16.99/$29.99, while the Game of the Year edition has been reduced to £34.99/$39.99. Opt for the fancier GOTY version and get 10 loot

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap originally released in 1989 as a Sega Master System exclusive, and in my opinion, it was among the best titles for that console. Earlier this year a remake launched for the Nintendo Switch, and it’s probably among the prettiest remakes of an 8-bit platformer ever made, but crucially, the remake can also be played with its original pixel-style graphics. The game launches June 9 on Steam and GOG, and while there are more fun and complex platformer adventures available

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an action RPG set in a medieval environment, and to be honest, I’m pretty damn excited about it. Initially scheduled to release in 2016, it was delayed into this year partly because of its ambition but also, probably, because publisher Deep Silver picked it up. But it looks like we’ll hear more about the game’s release date soon, because in a brand new trailer the publisher is hinting at a “global announcement” being made this Friday. I’m only guessing it’s related t

Fast forward over three decades, and now for gaming there are plenty of options for an input device for your PC. Two of the more popular ones on the desktop platform are the mouse, and the trackball. There are also wired and wireless variants, and mice specifically for gaming that have additional buttons to facilitate gameplay. For the mouse we used a Logitech wired, optical mouse, on a mousepad and for the trackball it was a Kensington Orbit trackball with scroll ring. While the trackball has i

Rocket League is nearly two years old, and in celebration of that, Psyonix is gearing up to release an Anniversary update during the week of the soccer-with-cars game’s birthday—July 7. Announced during the RLCS World Championship, the Anniversary update adds a bunch of free content, including a new arena, cars, and customizaton options. The Anniversary update spells the end of Competitive Season 4, and in turn, the beginning of Competitive Season 5, so make sure you get all your matches in by t

No Trace is a top-down, stealth-action game that looks like it has a great atmosphere. Developer Square Mountain released a new gameplay trailer (above), which shows more relaxed areas in addition to the typical, tense areas of covert decision-making and assassination. The trailer shows a low-poly art style that makes me think someone added more colour to the world of Superhot. And while it does seem to focus more on stealth in this trailer, Square Mountain says you’ll be able to take a more act

Neverwinter is about to get some dang dinosaurs in its next expansion, Tomb of Annihilation. TOA is based on the recently announced D&D storyline of the same name, and Neverwinter lead designer Thomas Foss talked about the new expansion on D&D’s aptly-named livestream Stream of Annihilation. Perfect World community manager Andy Wong also teased in a post that you’ll be able to join “Volo’s hunt for exotic monsters,” which I’m guessing means you’ll be hunting dinosaurs at some point. Neverwinter:

The Australian ratings board has posted an entry for Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2, suggesting that Telltale’s episodic adventure game is to get another series—and, given the date of classification, one that’s likely to be announced at or around this year’s E3. The listing is actually for the first episode, titled Hero in Residence, and we can expect “mild fantasy themes and violence” from that. If you fancy playing the first season before then, the debut episode is free, providing you have Win

Well, don’t look now but that coffee cup on your desk just turned into a hardcore difficulty mod. It’s called Prey For Death, created by modder jvames, and it will make your time in Prey a grueling (yet hopefully enjoyable) nightmare. If you’re just looking for more immersion without a completely punishing difficulty change, jvames has you covered. The Prey Immersion Mod mostly makes changes to what you see on your HUD, removing the crouch icon, flashlight icon, enemy markers, and stamina and je