At long last, AMD finally announced its first Vega graphics card… only you won’t be using this to play games. Instead, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition that AMD unveiled yesterday evening during its Financial Analyst Day presentation is a muscular card for professionals. AMD is claiming 25 teraflops of half-precision FP16 compute performance and 13 teraflops of single-precision FP32 compute performance (both are peak metrics). “The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics card is going to empower

Despite Pro Evolution Soccer playing some of the best digital football of its career, FIFA is still the best recreation of the beautiful game on PC. That’s according to our reviews of both Konami and EA’s latest offerings, where the former was criticised for its lacklustre PC port. PES 2018 now has a launch date—September 14—and casts its focus on improving its PC profile. A statement reads: “Centred on the concept that PES 2018 is ‘Where Legends are Made’, the new game hits the floor running wi

The Humble Indie Bundles just keep coming, and we’re now onto the 18th instalment of cheap indie game goodness. The Humble Indie Bundle 18 contains seven games right now, based on how much you pay, with more being added next week. At the “pay what you want” tier, you’ll get Ziggurat, Windward, and SteamWorld Heist. In Windward, you’re sailing around an open world, which also happens to be procedurally generated. Actually, there might be a theme here, as SteamWorld Heist is a strategy game from l

The following day, we exclusively revealed said image was from Wild West Online—an upcoming western MMO from newly formed outfit 612 Games. “In addition Wild West Online will now release with its previous stretch goals in place at launch, including female characters, rich role-playing and social activities such as card games, and localization,” reads a statement. “After launch 612 Games will release additional content and gameplay features as part of several expansions in order to continue deliv

The Witcher Saga—the series of novels which inspired CD Projekt Red’s esteemed videogames—is getting an “English language drama series” on Netflix. “We couldn’t be more excited about bringing Netflix members around the world.” Sapkowski himself adds: “I’m thrilled that Netflix will be doing an adaptation of my stories, staying true to the source material and the themes that I have spent over thirty years writing. “I’m excited about our efforts together, as well as the team assembled to shepherd

Improbable’s SpatialOS technology gives developers “the ability to define and build simulated worlds which can accommodate thousands of simultaneous players”. Now, Improbable has announced a partnership with RuneScape developer Jagex which will see the latter “deploy SpatialOS in the development of new projects.” “This allows for an online game world to be built and iterated rapidly in the presence of players. “A game developer can spend their time on what they want to do: creating and growing t

Founded in 2005, GoldenEye Source is a Half-Life 2 mod and international hobbyist project that aims to reimagine Rare and Nintendo’s 1997 FPS GoldenEye 007 on modern hardware. Update 5.1 is now on the horizon, and the mod’s team has now teased some of what we can expect. The former, so says the mod’s team, was a test level found on the original game’s ROM by using a GameShark on the GoldenEye N64 cartridge. Composed by Tweaklab, both maps have new soundtracks—Citadel’s can be found over here, wh

Photo credit: Riot GamesThe Mid-Season Invitational is the second biggest international event in League of Legends after Worlds. What we have learned from this years MSI, and what can we take forward into the playoffs—and eventually, 2017’s Worlds? Hey, remember at Worlds 2016, when Albus NoX Luna managed to make it to the quarterfinals, and everyone was shocked? Perkz has gone from bragging about the legends he’ll clap in mid lane to making self deprecating jokes. The Flash Wolves are essential

Crowfall developers worked “directly” with Unity engineers to upgrade the game’s visual quality and performance. “I have no doubt that our current backers, and our future players, will be delighted by this significant leap forward.” When work first began on Crowfall, the team opted to tie race and class together to help keep development costs down. The graphical upgrade trailer is above, while the “Adios, Archetypes” video can be seen below. Crowfall is currently in pre-alpha testing, but is ava

Last week capture card-maker Elgato sent us their new Stream Deck to test out, and of course the immediate first thing I did with it is what you see above. But beyond its overflowing potential for memes, the $150 Stream Deck is basically a button pad with a tiny screen behind each button. It’s billed as a companion accessory for streamers, allowing them to set up custom commands and macros help run their shows, but it may find a use with other gamers as well. It’s not a complex piece of hardware

InXile’s Torment: Tides of Numenera did something that I didn’t honestly think it could: It succeeded as a “spiritual successor” to the great RPG Planescape: Torment. The Servant of the Tides update released today on Steam (and coming soon to GOG and other platforms) promises to make it even better with the addition of a brand new companion, fixes and balance changes, and the Voluminous Codex. The new character, Oom, “is a new stretch goal character who you will discover on your journey through

Heroes of the Storm’s latest patch released today, the highlight of which is the introduction of Overwatch’s D.Va as a playable hero. D.Va is the fifth Overwatch character to join the cast of HotS, following Tracer, Lucio, Zarya, and Genji. Interestingly, D.Va’s Self Destruct, her Overwatch ult, is not her Heroic ability, as has been the case for the other Overwatch heroes in HotS. The patch includes a few hero balance changes—several of Alarak, Tyrande, and Dehaka’s talents and abilities have b

A new video for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood has revealed the game’s theme song, “Revolutions,” composed by Nobuo Uematsu and performed by Susan Calloway. It is, in essence, an anime music video (and a very nice one), but for dedicated players, there’s quite a bit of potentially meaningful things to see—and possibly some spoilers, too. As noted by Siliconera, the video doesn’t contain any in-game dialog, so you’re not going to be hit with any “I am your father”-type revelations. (As you can pro

Not long after Rocket League launched in 2015, we started cataloging the best plays of the week, such as this YouTube video and the gif above. The gif is slightly more impressive, but neither of these highlights would make it anywhere near the front page of the Rocket League subreddit today. Of course, my 200 hours is puny compared to the thousands of hours the best players have put in. (I compare Rocket League to hockey because it’s more like hockey than soccer, even though there’s a ball. What

“On July 31, 2013, Carmack brought a former ZeniMax employee and friend, Matt Hooper (‘Hooper’), who had been fired by ZeniMax, back into id Software’s offices after hours to ‘talk about Oculus.’ “After providing Hooper access to the locked premises, Carmack left Hooper unattended, free to examine ZeniMax confidential materials, at which point Hooper went alone into offices where ZeniMax maintained and stored confidential information. From there, it’s a short step to essentially the same argumen

First, players will now be able to complete quests when playing against friends. This builds upon the popular Friendly Feud event from last year, when players could complete quests with friends. Blizzard says players reacted very positively to the change, so the company decided to bring the functionality back permanently. It’s a nice change that will make the slog of completing those more obscure quests much more manageable. Blizzard says these new features will arrive in an update sometime in t

In two days Bungie will lift the veil on Destiny 2, revealing the first gameplay footage via a livestreamed event from LA which you can watch here , starting at 10 am PST. It’s a warts and all recap, covering everything from Destiny 1’s “troubled” launch, through high points like The Taken King expansion, and all the content droughts in between. When Destiny’s first raid, the brilliant Vault of Glass, opened its doors, Datto’s clan got the world’s first completion . Destiny was a hot mess when i

Steam trading cards may not immediately strike you as an aspect of the platform that’s in dire need of an overhaul. “That’s when our group of bad actors arrived, aiming to make money by releasing ‘fake’ games on Steam,” the blog post explains. Even if no real players ever see or buy one of these fake games, their developers make money by farming cards.” Valve acknowledged that nobody is really being hurt by the trade in “fake” Steam cards. “With this change, we hope to significantly reduce the e

Far Cry 5 and The Crew 2 are both on the way, and the oft-delayed South Park: The Fractured But Whole is (hopefully) coming, too. The publisher also teased a new Assassin’s Creed, although details—like, for instance, a subtitle—are being held back, possibly for a full-on E3 reveal. “These successes have strengthened our visibility for the coming two fiscal years, with a line-up of releases principally comprised of established franchises. In 2017-18 we will see the exciting returns of Assassin’s

If you need a new router and don’t mind taking a chance on a refurbished model, Daily Steals has a really good deal on the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900. It’s marked down to just $75 and comes with a free Wi-Fi adapter to boot. In this case, Daily Steals says the EA7500 is factory refurbished by Linksys and in “like new” condition with no signs of wear. There are three external antennas on this model that Linksys says are capable of covering a medium size house. It also features MU-MIMO suppo