And, while Fallout 4 essentially already lets you become pretty darn super-powered, there’s a mod that makes it literal by adding a couple dozen exciting mutant powers. You can even transform yourself into a terrifying shadow monster like everyone’s favorite superhero, Captain Terrifying Shadow Monster (also made up, though I’d watch the Netflix show if there was one). You have to go out into the world and kill enemies, which have a chance (standard enemies have a low chance, and bosses have a h

Take it from us, it’s not worth skimping on a generic brand power supply with a questionable reputation. Paying a little more for a name brand PSU is worth it. As the model name implies, the RM650x is a 650W PSU and it’s currently on sale for $80 on Newegg after a $20 mail-in-rebate. The RM650x is fully modular, which can be handy when building inside tight confines, such as a small form factor chassis. As for connectors, things shake out like this:1 x ATX1 x EPS1 x floppy7 x 4-pin peripheral (M

The publisher stresses that all players’ Steam accounts have been, and still are, secure. The ‘hackers’ did not access any personal information. They spoofed user IDs to appear as other players to Friday the 13th’s servers, booting the victim from their game. “No personal information was viewed, compromised or lost,” developer IllFonic told PC Gamer in a statement passed along by the publisher. Some individuals just found a way to boot some players out of the game and affect player XP, CP and Pe

Starting with the X370-F Gaming, Asus says it is similar to its high-end RGB Crosshair VI Hero. Like that board, the X370-F Gaming features automated overclocking capabilities, with Asus claiming its software can push CPUs past 4GHz with no manual tweaking. As for the Strix B350-F Gaming, Asus says it has a full complement of overclocking tools and is “adept at overclocking eight-core processors thanks to a capable power delivery circuit and beefy heatsinks.” Like the X370-F Gaming, the Strix B3

While pricing per gigabyte and terabyte is still not on par with mechanical hard drives, the situation has improved a great deal over the past year or so. Case in point, Newegg is selling a 1TB SSD from Adata for $246. Adata’s Ultimate SU800 1TB drive is on sale for $266, though you can knock $20 off the price by applying promo code EMCSRGRB5 at checkout. It uses 3D triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory paired by an SMI controller to deliver sequential read performance of up to 560MB/s and s

Around half-a-year ago, players finally started to come across the long-teased aliens of Elite: Dangerous, after this astonishing first encounter with the frightening Thargoid species. It was an event that was reproducible, with a bit of persistence, and a pinch of luck, and the same is true of humanity’s second encounter with the eerie Thargoids, which occurred recently. It’ll then scan you a bit, and then eventually let you go. In the video, Mass_Locked Mafia breaks free and attempts to attack

You place your CPU in the Delid-Die-Mate’s housing, slot in the slider above the CPU, and start cranking it with a hex key. You can take the heatspreader off your CPU, replace the thermal compound with a better material, and significantly lower your CPU temperature, with much less risk than you’d take delidding a soldered CPU. And also, let’s say they produce one million Skylake-X CPUs, which is absolutely possible. A prototype of the Skylake-X / Kaby Lake-X delidding tool. I don’t want to do a

Why is every damn computer in this convention center running Mass Effect: Andromeda? So why did practically every single booth on the Computex show floor have systems running Mass Effect: Andromeda? But man, was there a lot of Mass Effect Andromeda. As soon as I approached the Asus booth, I saw a PR rep actually playing Mass Effect: Andromeda on a gaming laptop. He was also standing next to a computer running Mass Effect: Andromeda.

There just aren’t as many car combat games as there used to be. 2015 brought us Mad Max though, and if you’re looking for some post-apocalyptic action today, you can grab it for 80 percent off on Bundle Stars. There’s a whole bunch of vehicular combat, and you can customize your car with all manner of attachments and weapons as you travel The Wasteland. There’s on foot combat too, but in our review we noted that it’s not quite as good. The satisfying driving and beautiful visuals make up for the

We thought that it should be as low as possible, and now Valve has come to the same conclusion. The company was considering a fee somewhere between $100 and a whopping $5000, but, in a new Steam blog post, it’s been announced that the lowest end of that estimate has been settled on. “There were rational and convincing arguments made for both ends of the $100-$5000 spectrum we mentioned,” Valve explains in the blog post. Valve is also making changes to the way the Steam Curators system works. The

Gorgeous JRPG-style roleplaying game Battle Chasers: Nightwar will release on October 3, publisher THQ Nordic has announced. Battle Chasers is actually based on his identically named comic series, and takes the form of “an RPG inspired by the classic console greats, featuring deep dungeon diving, turn-based combat presented in a classic JRPG format, and a rich story driven by exploration of the world”. So, a bit like Anachronox, it’s a Western RPG in a JRPG mould. Chris Thursten chatted to a cou

The factions and many of the features of Total War: Warhammer 2 were planned out before work on the first game began. On the campaign map, High Elf politicking manifests as ‘influence’, a resource that they can expend to toy with the relationships between other factions. As somebody with a long relationship with Warhammer fantasy, it’s exciting to get to explore more of it. As somebody for whom Total War has always been a game of half-completed campaigns, these top-level design changes are even

Following a tease yesterday, EA and Ghost Games has lifted the veil on its forthcoming Need for Speed game. As it turns out, Need for Speed Payback will release on November 10 and will feature, according to EA, “blockbuster gameplay never before seen from the series”. As is increasingly the case with Need For Speed games, there will be a narrative involved, which promises to be “gripping” and full of betrayal and revenge. The focus has moved somewhat away from winning races and more towards fulf

The future of Hitman is still up in the air, but there’s life in Hitman (2016) yet. IO Interactive has revealed what’s coming to the episodic murder-’em-up this month, and the June schedule includes two new Escalation Contracts, ten new Featured Contracts, and the penultimate Elusive Target, who you’ll be assassinating (hopefully) in Hokkaido in late June. At some point this month there will also be a game update, which IO seems rather excited about. The drip-feed of content starts today, with t

Check out our HDR monitor guide. The monitors I’m most excited about are the Asus PG27UQ and Acer Predator X27, a pair of 27-inch HDR monsters. The Asus ROG Swift PG35VQ and Acer Predator X35 use the same 35-inch ultrawide panel with a 3440×1440 resolution, G-Sync and HDR 10 support. The Acer Predator X35. I’m honestly scared to hear how much the Asus PG35VQ and Acer Predator X35 cost.

If you’re lucky, you’ll have already taken the Necromancer for a spin via a recent closed beta for Diablo 3, while the rest of us will have to wait until Blizzard finally releases the long-teased Rise of the Necromancer pack. That pack will whack in “several new cosmetics, two additional stash tabs, two additional character slots,” as the Diablog helpfully reminds us, not to mention that new class, the Necromancer. The pack will coincide with Patch 2.6.0, which is set to add two new Adventure Zo

This week, the PC Gamer team discusses a plethora of smaller games, from Tokyo 42 to Rime. Not us, though – partly because it’s a rubbish metaphor, but mostly because we doubt Little Nightmares would be appetising. Also, we discuss what games we’d smush together into a much better game, and inevitably Dragon Age 2 is mentioned. You can also subscribe on iTunes or keep up with new releases using our RSS feed . Discussed: Tokyo 42, Danger Zone, Perception, Rime, VanquishThis week: Samuel Roberts ,

For years, the big obstacle was connectivity–there just wasn’t anything that could carry enough data between graphics card and laptop. $600 including a Gigabyte GTX 1070 graphics card. Compare that, for example, with the Razer Core, which can support a larger graphics card up to 375 watts. Most people interested in this idea probably don’t have a graphics card already, making a bundle a smart way to go. Gigabyte’s mini-ITX GTX 1070 normally sells for about $380 / £350, so the dock adds about $2

Super Ultra Dead Rising 4 Mini Golf is the latest add-on for Capcom’s sandbox zombathlon, and if you hadn’t guessed by the name, this one’s set on a novelty golf course. “On June 20, get ready to flip zombies the birdie in Super Ultra Dead Rising 4 Mini Golf, releasing for Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam. Mini Golf is included in the Dead Rising 4 season pass, but it will be available to purchase separately as well, for $9.99/€9.99/£7.99. What did we think of Dead Rising 4? In his review, Leif Jo

People Can Fly, the Polish studio responsible for Bulletstorm and co-developing several Gears of War instalments, have a new project in the offing with Square Enix. The latter made the announcement today, and while no illuminating details were offered pertaining to the project, it was described as “a new high-end original title for console and PC.” Parties from both organisations provided statements, neither of which were revelatory: it may be some time before we hear what the game actually is.