CD Projekt’s Gwent Challenger Tournament went down this weekend, pitting four amateurs against four seasoned pros for a slice of $100,000 in prize money. Lifecoach earned $60,000 for the victory, while Noxious pulled down a nothing-to-sneeze-at $20,000 payday as runner-up. In what has to come as good news for Gwent studio CD Projekt Red, Lifecoach described the tournament as a “great event,” with “awesome people” working on it. If the highlights above aren’t enough for you, the Gwent Challenger

The Runescape community is in a tizzy trying to figure out the meaning behind a logo that was accidentally revealed during a developer livestream on Friday. Another Runescape employee who was hosting the stream alongside him began to comfort him, explaining it was a simple mistake. Aside from that single image, there are no details on what this “Next Gen” project is or whether it’s even related to Runescape at all. Of equal concern to many has been whether Mod Shauny would be punished for the sl

The second expansion to the rumble-in-the-jungle multiplayer FPS Ghost Recon Wildlands is coming on May 30, Ubisoft announced today, and will wrap up the ghostly adventures in the Santa Blanca-ruled Bolivia. Except in Fallen Ghosts, the Santa Blanca cartel doesn’t rule Bolivia anymore, and it sounds like things haven’t worked out quite as well as they could have. The good news is that, thanks to the efforts of the Ghosts, the Santa Blanca cartel has fallen. The bad news is that without a long-te

One way to spark a debate is to bring up the topic of wired versus wireless mice. Some will tell you that wired mice perform better no matter what anyone says, while others claim that the best wireless mice are every bit as good as their wired brethren. Peripheral maker Roccat falls into the latter camp with its new Leadr mouse, though there’s no need to bicker. If going wireless, Roccat says you can game for up to 20 hours on a single charge. While first debuted at CES earlier this year, Roccat

It’s the reason my primary desktop is still rocking an Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon processor released several years ago. If information is accurate, Intel’s Kaby Lake-X processors will stick with Intel’s Core i7 branding. In related news, Guru3D dug up some supposed benchmarks of the Core i9-7900X and Core i9-7920X. In UserBenchmark, the former scored 107 points in single-core performance and 1,467 points in multi-core performance, whereas the latter scored 130 points and 1,760 points, re

You may have heard rumors of AMD’s new vicious-sounding CPUs codenamed “Threadripper,” and now it looks like the full lineup has been leaked ahead of their supposed release in June. The 1998X has a base / boost clock speed of 3.5/3.9GHz, while Ryzen 9 1998 is only a little behind, with a 3.2 / 3.6 GHz base / boost clock speed on 16 cores. The 1977X has a base clock speed of 3.5GHz, and a boost clock all the way up to 4.1GHz with a 155W TDP. The slightly lower end 1977 has a base / boost clock of

A rumor went around last week, inciting joy or dismay depending on how you feel about these things, that a new Thief game might be in development. Eidos Montreal studio head David Anfossi was a bit more on the nose about it today on Twitter, however. Apparently we’re developing Thief 5 game! That there’s not actually a new Thief game coming at all. I will keep listening (like a thief) and let you know if I hear anything else, but right now is sounds like this particular rumor needs to stay on th

It’s a peaceful place: a private, whitelisted Minecraft community built specifically for autistic children, their families, and their friends. Your average free-for-all Minecraft server isn’t much different than a middle school hallway, but Autcraft is different. Somebody will say ‘I’m such an idiot’ and everyone will say ‘don’t say that, you’re not an idiot.’ Somebody will say ‘I’m such an idiot’ and everyone will say ‘don’t say that, you’re not an idiot.’ Last year The Guardian’s game critic K

The Humble Store Spring Sale is in full swing, and all the developers and publishers seem to be getting in on the party. Today, the SEGA Spring Sale begins, and lasts until Friday, May 19. In this deal you’ll find the likes of Total War: Warhammer, Company of Heroes 2, the Alien: Isolation Collection, and much more for far cheaper than you’d normally find them. Total War: Warhammer is one of our favorite strategy games of the last few years, and it’s down to £20 / $30 in the sale. Alien: Isolati

There are plenty of bells and whistles to be found on the Asus ROG Crosshair VI Hero motherboard, the company’s flagship AM4 board for Ryzen. Aptly named the Crosshair VI Hero Wi-Fi AC, the Wi-Fi module on this motherboard supports MU-MIMO, which means it can connect to and communicate with multiple MU-MIMO supported devices simultaneously. Other than a built-in Wi-Fi module, the Crosshair VI Hero Wi-Fi AC is the same board as the regular model. That’s not a bad thing, as the Asus board is packe

Impact Winter is mostly about departing your shelter and exploring the vast snowscape for resources. In many ways it cribs from The Long Dark, Hinterland’s first-person, winterbound survival game. I’m always a bit trepidatious when trying a new survival game, so I quickly set out to establish some security by following my team’s more structured story missions. While Impact Winter’s world is both enticing and intimidating, its mechanics are a little messy. It’s evident that Impact Winter would be

Now, the incoming open world shooter has a multiplayer trailer packed with shootouts, chases and, um, cats. Adorably named ‘Trackacats’, the latter sees players deploying nimble black felines into the game’s gorgeous cityscape in order to track down foes. Here’s publisher Mode 7 with more on how all of that works:”There’s a unique element of hide-and-seek in Tokyo 42. Mode 7 continues to say Tokyo 42 will ship with five maps: Market, Tears, Autoshow, Looks Like a Quadcopter and HRBRT. Tokyo 42 i

Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has revealed a new VR project that will welcome 16 soon to be graduates from Southern Methodist University’s game dev-focused Guildhall programme. Work on the as yet nameless virtual reality game will begin this summer. “In this year’s graduating cohort, I am very excited that such an amazing group of talent has emerged from the program prepared to hit the ground running with research and development in Virtual Reality,” Gearbox’s CEO Randy Pitchford told S

Devolver Digital—the publisher that’s redefining videogame publishing—will host a free event at this year’s E3. Named Indie Picnic, the showcase will feature “artisanal indie games [and] music” and will run between 11am and 7pm during all three days of the conference. Here’s the publisher with the skinny:”Indie Picnic includes the Devolver Public Access area, offering a hand-selected lineup of stellar indie game demos from Devolver Digital and extended families Indie MEGABOOTH, X-Split, and Gamb

Off the back of its recent successes—not least Creative Assembly’s fantasy strategy endeavour Total War: Warhammer—Sega hopes to expand its profile with more ‘global hits’. That’s according to the company’s Road to 2020 business forecast, which also outlines a desire to revive ‘major IPs’ at some point down the line. Under the subsection titled “Major Issue ‘Create titles that will become global hits'”, Sega says it plans to “Reinforce various IP measures including reutilization of dormant IPs,

In a recent blogpost on the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth website, creator (and co-creator of Super Meat Boy) Edmund McMillen teased a new project. It’s a collaboration with Closure programmer Tyler Glaiel, and while McMillen didn’t really say much about it, it’s likely to be the cylindrical platformer he teased last year. “…not many of you know this but Tyler and i have been in crunch mode for the past 3 months trying to finish this secret project,” McMillen wrote at the weekend. “We are coming c

It’s no surprise that Steam will get a Summer Sale this year – it’s been doing so for years and it makes perfect business sense. But according to some new leaks, we now (potentially) know when it will be taking place. The leaks come via reddit (first seen by PCGamesN), where a user posted what they claim to be a screenshot of the announcement, taken from the closed Steamworks developers group. This group is only open to developers, as the name implies, but since there are so many dang developers

PaRappa creator Masaya Matsuura and Gitaroo Man creator Keiichi Yano are working together on a game currently called Project Rap Rabbit. The Project Rap Rabbit Facebook page said earlier today that more about the “key gameplay mechanics” and “planned formats” would be revealed in the next day or so. Activision’s Guitar Hero hasn’t fared much better: the Call of Duty company sold Guitar Hero Live developer FreeStyle Games to Ubisoft this past January—this doesn’t necessarily mean Guitar Hero is d

The Call of Duty Twitter account shared four videos, each dedicated to one of the remastered maps. The first video (above) appropriately showcases the very first Zombies map, Nacht Der Untoten, from World at War. These are all of the maps from World at War that are included in the new map pack, with an additional four coming from Black Ops and Black Ops 2. Shangri-La, Moon, and Ascension are the three maps returning from the original Black Ops, while its sequel is represented by Origins. Expect

A couple of days ago, it was revealed that Paradox Interactive were teaming up with Shadowrun and Battletech developer Harebrained Schemes to see its promising turn-based strategy game through to completion. We enjoyed a fun trailer featuring clanky mechs walloping each other, but now we’ve surprisingly been afforded a longer look, in particular at Battletech’s multiplayer mode. There’s a multiplayer beta on the way soon, you see, so if you fancy a headstart over the other Kickstarter backers en