Everyone knows by now that your PC and games will run the best off a solid state drive. However, SSDs haven’t killed off the old spinning hard drives just yet, because they’re still great for bulk, and more importantly, cheap storage. You can get a massive 5TB Seagate Expansion external hard drive for $108 today on Newegg. The Seagate Expansion just so happens to be our favorite high-capacity portable hard drive. It doesn’t need external power, nor do you need to install any software for it to w

Now, Digital Extremes has announced a partnership with esteemed indie label Top Cow Comics that will see a Warframe-inspired comic series launch later this year. We spoke to Top Cow’s president and COO Matt Hawkins to find out more about the collaboration and how the comic series ties into DE’s ever-popular game and its respective lore. Matt Hawkins Matt Hawkins is a veteran of comic book publishing, having worked in the industry for close to 25 years. The comic series also aims to expand and ev

There are four PCIe x16 slots, only two of which are x16 capable, with the others limited to x4 and x8. TUF X299 Mark 1Onto the TUF series now, and as their name suggests, these are motherboards built to last. The TUF X299 Mark 1 has dust shielding which also helps direct airflow for better cooling options. Much like in the Prime range, the TUF X299 Mark 2 does away with some of the unnecessary features to keep the price down. Three PCIe x16 slots (two x16, one x8) sit on the board, and there ar

But the new Vive Deluxe Audio Strap takes cues from the Rift’s greatest strengths to give the Vive the best of both worldsAs $100 optional add-on, it’s not cheap, but with it the Vive is now my favorite VR headset all in one. The Deluxe Audio Strap doesn’t fix all of the Vive’s problems, it still feels like the clunkiest VR headset of any I’ve used. If you can afford the Deluxe Audio Strap, it’s an upgrade well worth getting. Probably the biggest drawback of Deluxe Audio Strap is the quality of

Chris and Michael Johnson’s tips and pointers have proven invaluable to my slow progress so far, however news of both 2D and 3D replay systems sounds exciting so far as tracking and analysing performance is concerned. The conversation covers the game’s in-development maps, the idea of implementing lore, colour-coding ammo, the possibility of a single-player campaign and, most interestingly, the apparently incoming 2D and 3D replay systems. The 3D variation will however include slow motion, cinem

It took Suda51 17 years to bring one-time console-exclusive The Silver Case to PC when he launched a remastered edition late last year. Fraser Brown wasn’t entirely convinced the adventure visual novel game has aged well, however Edwin’s conversation with the man himself is no less interesting. Now, The Silver Case PC remaster has introduced two new levels free-of-charge that are said to “link the story to its upcoming sequel”. Written by Suda and Masahi Ooka respectively, scenarios ‘White Out’

AMD’s Ryzen can offer a legitimate performance alternative to Intel’s Core i5 and Core i7. The leaks mentioned up to 12-core parts, but that wasn’t the whole lineup—there will be Core i9 parts with up to 18-cores/36 threads. A few days later, we received an updated slide deck……but even now, Intel hasn’t fully detailed the specs for the Skylake-X parts. Previous enthusiast CPUs have included boxed air coolers, but for Skylake-X Intel will have a liquid cooling solution. LGA2011-v3 CPUs had an off

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote speech on the first day of Computex wasn’t the grand coming out party for its next generation GPU architecture, but it wasn’t completely devoid of exciting gaming news today. While talking about Nvidia’s range of GeForce products, from graphics cards to laptops and monitors, Huang announced that this year’s show would be the debut for a new line of HDR G-Sync monitors. This may well be the next big thing for gaming monitors, now that we have high refresh, high q

Rarely does a week go by without some form of new Overwatch content being teased and / or speculated about, and this week is no different. This new tease – which comes straight from Blizzard – is fairly substantial though, pointing as it does to something quite big seeming. My suspicion is that we’ll be getting a new Horizon Lunar Colony map soon. Though it’s equally likely that a new Overwatch playable character is being teased. If you’re a lore investigator or enthusiast, it’s worth checking o

Papers, Please, the modern classic bureaucrat sim, is getting a short film adaptation. And while it’s hardly going to rival the likes of Assassin’s Creed [the movie] or Street Fighter [the movie] or even Mario Bros [the enigma] at the box office, it’ll probably be immeasurably better than any of those, if these screenshots are anything to go by. The game’s creator Lucas Pope posted the shots on Twitter today. The short film is the work of Nikita and Liliya Ordynskiy, and while I’m not sure how o

Ark: Survival Evolved – aka the survival game with dinosaurs a fully-fledged crapping system – has received a major new update. Among many major additions, including a new motorboat and five new creatures, there’s a new interactive toilet. “In ARK update v258, Survivors have become more civilized and have managed to invent their own version of indoor plumbing. Never has there been a more appropriately placed exclamation mark than at the end of that paragraph. For all the details on the new creat

Microsoft’s free-to-play brawler Killer Instinct is getting a new character next month in the form of Eagle. I guess you need to be familiar with the original because the teaser embedded above is very inside baseball. Aside from there being some kind of eagle featured (because the character is called Eagle) there’s not much in the way of “information”. So let’s defer to history (aka, the Killer Instinct Wikia). The character is due to be added some time after E3, according to the game’s communit

I’ve thought for some time now that the end-of-the-world survival game Impact Winter looked very promising. Joe said he felt the same way, and our preview was very positive too, although it acknowledged that the game’s mechanics “are a little messy.” So it was a real surprise to pop over to the Impact Winter page on Steam and see that the user reviews are “mostly negative.” Mojo Bones said its short-term objectives include “continuous improvements of keyboard and mouse controls,” and support for

Project IGI: I’m Going In is a tactical FPS released in 2000 by Eidos Interactive. We may soon be hearing more about it, however, as a report on Norwegian site Pressfire has revealed that a new IGI game is on the way. The translation comes via Google and is thus a little rough, but the article subtitled “Project IGI resumes” states that the bulk of funding in the most recent round of NFI grants will go to “a kind of comeback for the Norwegian classic from 2000, Project IGI.” The new game is bein

The fate of Hitman studio Io Interactive remains up in the air, but it appears that Hitman itself will live on. In its financial results briefing document released last week, Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda said the company is taking steps to ensure that the series carries on regardless of Io’s future. “Because the firm is engaged in the development of Hitman and other renowned titles, we are negotiating with prospective external investors capable of ensuring that these titles carry on.” To

The PC version of Vanquish suffers from an unusual, but not unique, bug that scales incoming damage with framerate: The higher your framerate, the harder you get clobbered by the bad guys. The good news is that Sega has released a patch to correct the problem. “It’s a holiday here in the UK, but we wanted to get a patch out to you as quickly as possible, so we have made publicly available our beta patch,” Sega said. To do that, right-click on Vanquish in you Steam library, select “Properties,” a

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. We all know one of life’s greatest treasures is love, but if you combine love with a computer that can play videogames, then you find something better. Anyway, this PC is also a treasure chest filled with 3D-printed coins. The build comes from Xtreme Custom Computers, and while we don’t have much on the construction process, I’d rather imagine they dug it up on a beach somewhere beneath

The easy answer is because Hearthstone is fun and we want to win. In this light, refusing help from other players signals stubbornness and may result in the failure to solve key problems. Reframe it…This is one of the trickiest aspects of Hearthstone to reframe because randomness is inherently disruptive to any demonstration of skill. As a quick example, by removing the Charge ability from the Patron deck, the deck became more vulnerable to board clears. While other people’s preferred deck or pl

Here’s your regular reminder that you live in the parallel universe where Shenmue 3 is in development (sadly, you don’t live in the one where it’s already out). After being announced at that ridiculous 2015 PlayStation E3 conference, and after being Kickstarted for A Lot of Money, you might be hoping that Shenmue 3 would be at this year’s E3. “We have also been receiving questions from our backers regarding our plans to participate in upcoming game shows,” states Ys Net in the post. “While our s

We know what we want from the Final Fantasy 7 remake, with the main thing being that it releases at all—much more likely now that we live in a post-Final Fantasy 15 world. Of course *cough* Kingdom Hearts 3, but unlike with that long-long-long-gestating sequel, some FF7 remake news has just appeared out of Japan. In a recent Japanese YouTube broadcast, Mobius Final Fantasy lead Naoki Hamaguchi announced that he was a) now also in charge of Final Fantasy 7 remake development, and that b) creation