The maker of the de facto mechanical switches has added a new model, Speed Silver, to live alongside the Reds, Blues, Browns, and all the rest. The complete guide to mechanical switches Looking to see the difference of how Cherry’s new MX Speed Silver stacks up against its own offerings and other switches? So what’s the deal with the Silver switch? I tried out the Silver switch in one of Ducky’s keyboards, and it was immediately noticeable how much shallower the key felt than a Red switch. Expec

El Presidente will return next year in what is almost certainly Tropico 6, the latest in the building-sim-strategy series set in a tongue-in-cheek semi-democratic republic. The teasing trailer below doesn’t quite announce the game, but it does show the series’ cigar-sucking icon, El Presidente, getting ready to lead his people once again. Whatever it ends up being called, the game will release next year, and if the trailer is any indication, there will be plenty of references to topical politica

If this Donkey Kong case mod by modder Thermaltake Mike (larger image here) doesn’t fire off every videogame love receptor in your brain, I don’t know what will. This might be the best damn case mod I’ve ever seen, and builds like it are the highlight of Computex every year. Most of Computex’s booths draw crowds with flashy custom PC builds, with intricate liquid cooling and cool cases and colorful LEDs. Luckily, that means there are dozens of awesome PCs for us to photograph and lust after. Her

CD Projekt and BioWare have them roundly beaten when it comes to story and characters, but I do have a soft spot for Piranha Bytes’ moderately shonky RPGs, which tend to be pretty great at exploration. Following on from the Gothic games, and the increasingly piratey Risen series, is the upcoming Elex, which mashes up fantasy with science fiction and the post-apocalypse. Oh, and there are jetpacks, because jetpacks are most definitely in this year. There are loads of videos floating around of Ele

Following on from April’s triptych of Dawn of War 3 covers, we wind the clock back a few thousand millennia to bring you another great Warhammer cover, this one focused on the new lizardmen race that will be winging its way to Total War: Warhammer 2. Chris Thursten went hands-on with the armoured reptiles for this month’s cover feature, although there’s another Total War: Warhammer treat waiting inside. The Grim & The Grave, DLC for the original game, is included free with this month’s print iss

Overkill co-founder, and the Payday series’ lead designer, Ulf Andersson has announced a new game: GTFO. That’s, er, that’s the name of the game, not a rude instruction, and you can see the incredibly bare official website here. Andersson’s new development team 10 Chambers Collective is behind the game, which is described as a “4-player hardcore co-op action horror FPS” . We can go for a more niche audience—so GTFO goes out to the tight knit, die hard co-op teams of 2-4 people. I can’t tell you

For Honor’s promised quitting penalty feature will be implemented in a coupleof hours—although it won’t be turned on just yet. There’s no indication as to when the penalty system will be switched on, so until it is, feel free to quit anytime you like. Check the preceding link for the full list of changes, but I’ll stick the bit about the quitting penalty below. “Developer comments: We are now able to activate the Quit Penalty feature during matches. This will reduce the amount of Rage Quitting d

Numantian Games, developer of the thoroughly old-fashioned CRPG Lords of Xulima, has revealed a new game. No, it’s not a fantasy RPG: it’s a post-zombie-apocalyptic real-time strategy game set in a steampunk universe. There will be a Spelunky-style weekly challenge in Survival mode, with the best scores being saved onto a leaderboard. As for how the game will play:”This is a real-time strategy game, but don’t get too nervous. In Pause Mode, you can place structures to build, give orders to your

M.2 SSDs are fast, but what if you could make them way faster? MSI has some crazy storage performance in mind with a PCIe add-in card that puts two M.2 SSDs in RAID 0 for crazy speeds of more than 7,000 MB/s across x8 PCIe lanes. If you’re not running SLI in your system, this could be an awesome upgrade to crank up storage performance and make use of that second PCIe slot. MSI strives to double that with its x8 PCIe add-in card, which has two heat-shielded M.2 mounts and a small fan to keep the

Phil Savage wrote about an interesting looking racer back in 2015 called Formula Fusion. Based on footage released then, it looked like the Wipeout clone PC has always needed. It’s out on Steam right now for $19.99, and features 8 tracks, 5 “fully customizable” vehicles for which you can tweak weapon load-outs and handling. Meanwhile, there are six race modes in the form of quick race, time trial, clean, speed lap, elimination and endurance, in addition to a singleplayer campaign. Here’s the Ste

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show, our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel, or after the fact at any of the links below. We’ll be looking at the recent news with Kerbal Space Program, doing an extended Twitch Chat Q&A, and talking about a whole lot more games—including Vanquish and Old Man’s Journey. This week’s topicsWe talk Kerbal and Overwatch newsWe discuss what we’ve been playing recently. Listen:Download the MP3 directlyS

One way to get started is by picking up a WD Red 6TB NAS HDD on sale at Newegg, where it’s marked down to $200 today. The WD Red line is specifically intended for NAS appliances with one to eight drive bays, though it will not hurt things to run one (or more) in a standard desktop. Either way, you’re getting an HDD with a 5,400 RPM spindle speed, 64MB cache, and a SATA 6Gbps interface. If you do stick this drive in a NAS box, you’ll also benefit from lower power consumption, which helps the driv

Obsidian Entertainment announced today that its CCG-RPG crossover Pathfinder Adventures will come to the PC on June 15. “With Pathfinder Adventures we are bringing the magic of the award-winning tabletop card game to your PC, letting you easily play any time you want,” Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart said. The announcement trailer above is cute but not terribly informative; fortunately, Obsidian released a full-on tutorial video for the mobile version that better explains what’s going on. And yes,

Some parts are as wild as any other Far Cry setting, replete with trees for miles, snowcapped mountains, bears, mountain lions, and plenty of strange people. Frankly, if there are people out there who identify so closely with a fictional fundamentalist cult that they’re angry about Far Cry 5, they’ve got bigger problems than the existence of Far Cry 5. My concern is that—while I acknowledge Tom’s point about us not knowing anything yet—I expect Far Cry 5 to be toothless. Change is good, and the

Bohemia Interactive announced Project Argo late last year as a total conversion of its military shooter Arma 3 into a 5v5 tactical combat game with three modes, two based on capture-and-control and one on attack-and-defend. But today it announced that the game, now called just Argo, will be given a full, worldwide launch on June 22, and will be completely free for everyone. “We always intended Argo to be more fast-paced and competitive in nature than Arma 3,” Bohemia explained in a blog post. “C

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is only available as part of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which is a real problem for gamers (like me) who would love to replay the classic but aren’t at all interested in Jon Snow’s Adventures in Space—especially after the way it stumbled out of the launch tube last year. Earlier this month, Charlie Intel spotted a listing on Gamefly for a standalone release of Modern Warfare Remastered that was slated to come out on July 20; shortly thereafter the PS4

The second thing: tempered glass. Now that everyone’s using tempered glass, what’s In Win got up its sleeve to woo us? The answer, judging from my time in In Win’s booth this year, is across the board elegant, stylish design, using glass, metal, and even wood in some damn pretty cases. The Gaming A1 and 806 are based on existing In Win case designs, but with some nice tweaks. With so many case makers now going after the tempered glass look in gaming cases, In Win is most definitely still classie

It likes as though Lenovo is trying to clear out inventory of its IdeaCentre Y710 Cube (90FL004SUS) PC. The company has just one configuration available, which is marked down from $1,000 to $699. This is not a gaming powerhouse by any stretch, but certainly capable of playing games at 1080p with an AMD Radeon RX 460 graphics card inside. Two more are found in the rear I/O, along with two USB 2.0 ports, PS/2 port, optical audio out, and HDMI, DVi, and VGA display outputs. You can grab the Lenovo

Master X Master, the game lots probably stopped reading about the moment they saw the word “MOBA” even though Tom did his best to explain that it’s actually an interesting and unique take on the genre, will leave closed beta and go into full, free-to-play release on June 21, developer Ncsoft announced today. The video is a silly, Saturday morning cartoon type of thing, showing no gameplay whatsoever. We described the feature in our PAX East preview as the game’s “most interesting mechanical twis

The mystery behind the cryptic Overwatch tweets that went out earlier this week has been revealed, and as we expected it is quite big indeed: It’s a brand new Assault map called Horizon Lunar Colony, it’s on the moon, and it’s also live right now on the Public Test Realm. It’s taken this long to finally get around to dealing with it, but now it’s time to figure out what went wrong and determine the fate of the station’s crew. Could it be that some mysterious force, perhaps driven by dark secrets