However, you can now at least save some money if you’re also in the market for a mouse or keyboard. Newegg and G.Skill have teamed up to bring you some TridentZ RAM and Ripjaws peripheral combos, giving you a decent saving. Things are particularly looking up if you’re looking for what we call the best overall gaming keyboard, the G.Skill Ripjaws KM780. You can pair the KM780 in a combo with 16GB of TridentZ RGB Series RAM in either DDR4 2400, or DDR4 3000 speeds for savings of around $20. If you

Paradox Interactive, developer of some of the best strategy games and the deepest RPGs around, is having a sale today. If you’re looking for a fantastic city builder, and perhaps if you’re looking to recreate Blimpton, a town where you don’t need roads, you can get 75 percent off Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition. Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV are both also 75 percent off, and they’re great if you’re looking for some complex grand strategy. If you fancy some strategy in a 20th centur

And while there was little in Dead Cells that surprised me, there was a lot that compelled me to keep playing it. From here, you’ll enter a dank prison system which serves as the game’s first level, but unlike most platformer rogue-likes, Dead Cells’ linearity ends there. When this element emerges Dead Cells clicks, alleviating the dread of repeating the same level themes with each death. But the balletic dodge roll and slash rhythm is very rewarding, and Dead Cells’ enemies are all geared to de

The launch and unprecedented popularity of genre similar Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has somewhat overshadowed DayZ in recent weeks. It’s been quite some time since we last reported on the zombie survival MMO, however its latest update—0.62, which has now entered its Experimental branch—is the most promising for a while. Feedback is encouraged—which players have been sharing over on the game’s corner of Reddit, most notably frame rate issues and the fact that tree camping is no longer possible

Fallout 4 may be free this weekend on Steam for the first time ever, however if you prefer your first-person shooting alongside fatigue-donning friends you might be interested in what’s happening in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 next week. As of Tuesday, May 30 at 10 PST/6pm BST, the ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Multiplayer DLC Trial Pack for PC’ kicks off which, as the name may imply, grants players access to all four of the war shooter’s DLC packs free-of-charge. “The deal is even sweeter for Season

Using some examples from this month’s Overwatch Monthly Melee and April’s Overwatch Rumble, I’ll show you how a lean approach to the game can help you improve your ladder win rate. That’s 33 seconds of fighting for the point without people lingering for useless kills and creating an awful respawn stagger. Call out targets and aim to punishA controlled fight is a fight you should win. If your team isn’t designating targets or at least calling out the location of enemy DPS, you’re not in control.

If its fast-paced and brutally violent 2D platformers you’re after, we’re living in a bit of a golden age. Now you can add Blasphemous to this pantheon – a recently Kickstarter-funded game by the creators of The Last Door. According to the Kickstarter page you’ll “explore a huge land” which feels “as open as it is oppressive”. There are a bunch of different funding tiers and stretch goals to peruse over on the Kickstarter page. The game is scheduled to launch proper in early 2019, though there w

There are no whip-wielding Belmonts here, but if you slapped an old Konami logo on Castlevania: The Lecarde Chronicles 2, it could likely pass for the real deal. In reality it’s a fan game, a sequel to an earlier project released in 2013, which seemingly has Konami’s blessing. The Lecarde Chronicles 2 really gets the hokey vibe of the Castlevania games right, too. As I wrote then, fan games are illegal but also a strong part of the culture of PC gaming. You can download The Lecarde Chronicles 2

Before there was Battlefield 1 there was Verdun, a “realistic” First World War multiplayer FPS released in 2015 by M2H and Blackmill Games. It obviously wasn’t as much of a hit as EA’s big-budget shooter but its unique, unforgiving approach to online combat found an audience—enough to justify a “standalone expansion” called Tannenberg, announced today and scheduled to come to Steam later this year. Tannenberg brings the Russian Empire into the fight on the Eastern Front, in a very different styl

The parade of Quake Champions continues with today’s reveal of Sorlag, a reptilian warrior who was born and bred for a single purpose: Hunt the warmbloods. She can spit acid at her enemies, and brings two separate passive abilities to the ring, Bunny Hop and Acid Fiend. Bunny Hop is fairly self-explanatory: Continually jumping in one direction will increase Sorlag’s speed and maneuverability. The less-obvious Acid Fiend grants the character immunity to acid attacks, including her own and those o

I first encountered Nino in Steam Hammer, an open-world steampunk RPG similar to Life is Feudal, before we actually ran into each other. Steam Hammer is in Early Access on Steam, and some features are barebones. The bulk of Steam Hammer is about building and maintaining tools and structures, and slowly leveling skills through use. Trying to make a perfectly level plot is a pain, especially when bugs are biting you. But sandbox RPGs like Steam Hammer are more than the sum of their bugs.

Spawn Killing: We have seen the community’s frustrations regarding spawn killing, and our level design teams will be taking steps to mitigate the locations where this is still possible. To be clear, spawn killing is when a Defender is able to kill you within seconds of spawning. Defuser issues (audio, planting, destroying): Interaction with the Defuser is not always fluid and intuitive, and sometimes does not work as intended. The various Defuser issues will be worked on throughout the entirety

My goal isn’t just to blot out the sun with blimps, but to design a town around them. I build two blimp stops in each area, and connect them first with blimp lines (it dictates the path blimps will fly) and then create the blimp lines themselves. I click from blimp to blimp (to blimp to blimp to blimp), searching for the lone rider. I add another blimp depot and three blimp stops and create new blimp lines between it and the other existing districts. The extra blimps begin returning to the depot

Fallout 4 is pretty fantastic, but it’s also been out for well over a year and so there must be a reason if you haven’t played it by now, right? If that reason happens to be price (which is still hanging in at the $60 mark), then get ready to rub your face in the post-nuclear future, because beginning tomorrow and until May 28, Bethesda is making the game free to play on Steam. The free weekend will kick off at 7 am ET/10 am PT on May 25, and run until 10 am ET/1 pm PT on May 28. During that tim

Larian Studios puts out Divinity: Original Sin 2 Kickstarter backer updates on a very regular basis, which is great for anyone following along. But update number 37, released today, is more important than most, because buried within it is a link to a video, and in that video is the announcement of a release date: September 14, 2017. It’s also a much better setting for some of the relationship building that we added to the game,” the studio explained in the update. Finally, at the end of a chase

WHY I LOVE In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. Today, Joe gets paranoid by PUBG’s open and closed doors. If you discover an open door on your travels, this can only mean one thing: that someone’s been here before you. As such, I’ve now taken to leaving certain doors open and closing others so as to confuse my foes. And so I guess much of my passion for doors in PUBG is tied to tricking players and successfully setting tra

MSI’s Z270 Godlike Gaming motherboard is the first to feature Killer’s xTend technology. The Z270 Godlike Gaming meets those latter two requirements—it’s up to the user to install Windows 10. It’s an interesting proposition, though it’s not the only thing the Z270 Godlike Gaming board has going for it. Unfortunately MSI did not say when the Z270 Godlike Gaming will be available or for how much. Our bet is you could buy a decent motherboard, WiFi extender, and network switch for less than the mot

Fractal Design’s new Focus G and Focus G Mini cases live up to their names by bringing your build into focus with large side windows, though the enclosures themselves are relatively compact. Starting with the bigger of the two, the Focus G measures 443mm (H) by 464mm (D) by 205mm (W). Additional cooling options include two 120mm fan mounts up top, and 120mm fan mounts in the rear and bottom (one each). Like the regular Focus G, opting for the largest supported liquid cooling radiator means havin

Acer is not making a big fuss about its newest monitor, though for gamers looking for large and curvy display, the Predator Z35 is an interesting (albeit expensive) addition. Acer’s Predator Z35 also serves up 300 nits of brightness and a 2,500:1 contrast ratio. On the ergonomic side, the Predator Z35 is height adjustable up to 5.12 inches. The Predator Z35 has a 3.5mm audio jack to tap into the monitor’s pair of 9W stereo speakers. Amazon is accepting preorders for the Predator Z35, which runs

The two have the same CUDA core count, and the GTX 1080 Ti has higher clockspeeds, meaning better performance. Basically, Nvidia has pulled out all the stops with the GTX 1080 Ti, and that’s why we like it so much in our review. The best MSI GTX 1080 Ti dealsMSI has gone all in on the 1080 Ti, with 10 models to choose from. The best PNY GTX 1080 Ti dealsBeyond the Founders Edition, there are a couple of blower models available, and the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 Gaming OC, with a triple fan cooler