Aesthetics is certainly one element of the equation, as most gaming notebooks tend to be a bit blocky and ugly. There’s an alternative in thin and light gaming notebooks (like the Razer Blade or MSI GS63VR), but noise and/or skin temperature while gaming are now a concern. Most companies will ‘bin’ their chips into various categories based on how each performs, so for example the best GP104 chips might be sold as mobile GTX 1080, then one step down is desktop GTX 1080, then mobile GTX 1070, and

It sure seemed ahead of its time in 2009, and that’s still more or less how I feel about wireless charging. I think gaming is ready for wireless mice. But is it ready for wireless charging? That’s the idea behind Corsair’s new Concept Zeus mouse, a wireless model which supports Qi charging when it lives on the Concept Zeus mousepad. Since other mouse-makers already have RGB mousepads, it’s not a stretch to think they could be plotting similar models for their own wireless mice.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew, aka the VR “yelling at your space friends” simulator, is out on Steam and the Oculus Store as of Monday. Available until the end of June, the offer bundles Bridge Crew in with the usual bundled Vive titles, which include Zombie Training Simulator. It’s a pretty good incentive for anyone in the market for VR, as Bridge Crew is among the few big budget, major publisher-backed projects on the horizon. “With friends or people on the same wavelength, Bridge Crew has the potent

The best Hearthstone legendaries Standard still has plenty of powerful cards, as our list of the 20 best legendaries to craft shows. The first and most important of which is that the cards must be from the Basic or Classic sets only. Win Axe has been the poster child for autoinclude Warrior cards ever since the game released. Early game plays are essential since the Warrior hero power is such a misery in terms of interacting with early board states. So in order for them to compete in the early g

Without careful planning, a typical RollerCoaster Tycoon map can fill up in just a couple hours of building. The moment that winning message pops up for completing the park’s objective, this haphazardly formed park is left behind and forgotten. “At first I liked the gameplay very much,” says Brendgen as he reminisced on playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 for the first time. The Middle Ages area has a log flume weaving between an ancient forest and a roller coaster that loops through castles. A decad

There are some good games available in the Humble Adult Swim Games Bundle that kicked off today, but that’s not all that’s on the table. For a minimum of $1, you’ll get Small Radios Big Televisions, Wasted (the game, not the state, sorry), Westerado: Double Barreled, and Volgarr the Viking. Also up for the taking are the Small Radios Big Televisions, Volgarr the Viking, Headlander, and Rain World soundtracks (at their respective price points), a coupon for ten percent off new Humble Monthly subs

The second anniversary of Blizzard’s hit MOBA Heroes of the Storm is almost upon us, and to mark the big birthday the studio is holding a two-week event that will award daily loot chests to dedicated players and unique anniversary rewards including a portray, spray, and banner. Between May 30 and June 12, the Daily Quest will reward players with one common loot chest per day for playing one vs AI, quick match, unranked, or ranked game. Play three games during the anniversary event, and you’ll st

But the next project from developer Ovosonico, a “profound interactive adventure” called Last Day of June, is coming to the PC, and it looks like it could be a very memorable experience. Last Day of June “showcases the beauty of life and love, but also the contradictions of loss,” the studio explained in the announcement. That bodes well for Last Day of June, which promises a striking visual style but will succeed or fail on the story it tells. I’m really a fan of that sort of narrative-driven e

Old-time arcadists may want to turn their attention for a moment to GOG, which rolled out 15 “essential SNK Neo-Geo classics,” including four Metal Slug games, a half-dozen fighting titles, and the 1996 great Twinkle Star Sprites. The games are available individually or in one of three bundles, and all on sale for up to 75 percent off until June 6. Most of the rest don’t appear quite as well supported and they’re lacking the “extras,” like soundtracks and wallpapers, that help make other GOG off

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, the multiplayer military shooter set in the sweltering jungles of Southeast Asia, is now live on Steam. Which also means it’s time for a launch trailer featuring heavy-firepower gameplay backed by the obligatory psychedelic sounds of the ’60s. “Rising Storm 2: Vietnam has grown out of all we’ve learned over the years in the Red Orchestra franchise. We’ll continue to do that post-release as well, with a series of upcoming updates – new factions, new gameplay and more.” Ri

The new Ballistix Tactical Tracer DDR4 RGB memory line will be available in speeds starting at 2,666MHz. Unfortunately, Micron cut the details short and did not specify any other speeds that its RGB memory will ship in. In the meantime, it is worth noting that Micron’s regular Ballistix Tactical DDR4 memory modules ship in 4GB and 8GB capacities in 2,666MHz and 3,000MHz frequencies. “It’s all about customization and personalization for gamers and the Ballistix Tracer series continues to make tha

The ROG Zephyrus tapers down to 16.9mm, or about 0.67 inches if you’re still shunning the metric system, yet still manages to house up to a GeForce GTX 1080 GPU and Core i7-7700HQ CPU inside. Keeping those components cool inside such tight confines seems like an impossible challenge, and in fact Asus had to rethink its cooling scheme. These improvements help reduce the temperature of air flowing into the fans by about 10C compared to typical laptops,” Asus claims. Asus designed the fan blades to

Tokyo RPG Factory, the developer behind last year’s retro-JRPG I Am Setsuna, has announced that it is well into work on a new, similarly-styled project called Lost Sphear. Set for release in early 2018, the studio says Lost Sphear will expand on the features of I Am Setsuna with seamless environments and “a revamped ATB battle system where players can strategize and freely adjust their placement mid-fight.” Lost Sphear follows the adventures of a young boy named Kanata, who awakens from a dream

Usually when it comes to wholesale upgrades, it is best to wait for Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday. However, there are some good deals to be found across the board at Newegg right now as part of its 48-hour sale bonanza. If it’s a new motherboard you need, one of the items on sale is an MSI Z170A Gaming M5. Here are some other highlights:That is just a small collection of what is on sale. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links.

Created by Mike Judge, Beavis and Butt-head is an animated sitcom that originally aired on MTV from 1993 to 1997. But the best is undoubtedly Virtual Stupidity , a point-and-click adventure released in August 1995, just as the show was entering its sixth season. Adventure game heroes usually get tangled up in a conspiracy or find themselves on a desperate mission to save the world, but Beavis and Butt-head are utterly self-serving and narrow-minded. The interface uses a Full Throttle-style verb

Announced almost a year ago, Volition’s Agents of Mayhem shares “certain story elements, symbolism, and design inspiration” from the developer’s typically off-the-wall Saints Row series while taking place in the same overarching universe. Over to that below:Publisher Koch Media explains that when the Agents of Mayhem aren’t flaunting their supernatural powers by foot, they’re often found touring Seoul in a “fleet of luxury vehicles created by the automotive genius of the ARK, Quartermile.” It al

We were interested in Corsair’s K68 keyboard purely for a friend. But for our spill-inclined friend, Corsair’s new keyboard is a promising design. The K68’s bravery in the face of water or Red Bull comes from individual shielding Corsair’s added to each key. But if liquid flows over the keyboard, the shielding can keep each key safe from several millimeters of accidental flow. The Cherry MX Red K68 feels exactly like any other MX Red keyboard, and the same goes for the Blues.

The sleek metal stylings of the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv grace our shortlist of the best mini-ITX cases and our collection of the best cases for any PC build. The Evolv Shift and the larger Evolv Shift X are both mini-ITX cases, but they aren’t aiming for the usual compact approach. The Shift X is really designed for a custom cooling solution, as Phanteks showed it off with a water block and hard piping. But the rest of the system, like the Shift X, is a mix of tempered glass sides and gorgeous alu

Over the last few years, Twitch viewers have collectively played everything from Pokemon to Dark Souls, but today they’re going to be playing a different kind of game: the stock market. I learned about Stock Stream over the weekend, and sat down with Mike to get some more info about why he’s letting Twitch handle his stock portfolio. “It’s basically the same concept as other Twitch Plays games, but with stock trading,” Mike says. Mike has even set up a scoring system to rate Twitch viewers’ stoc

Image credit: TumblrTwo Point Studios is based out of Surrey in the south east of England and is headed by Garry Carr and Lionhead co-founder Mark Webley. Carr and Webley’s combined profile boasts the likes of Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Black and White, and Fable—and a new an as yet unannounced project is on the way that’ll be launched in partnership with Sega. Said to have assembled a team of “some of the best talent” the pairing has worked with during their times at Bullfrog and Lionhead, Two