Bad news: As of this weekend, registrations for the Gwent closed beta will no longer be accepted. Good news: CD Projekt said the end of closed beta signups “is part of the preparation for the upcoming public beta,” details of which will be revealed next week. “Throughout Closed Beta, we’ve reworked and added a huge amount of features and mechanics to Gwent. Balance changes, numerous tweaks of how cards work and how the game flows, additional cards, a new faction, and ranked play—It was an amazin

Blizzard announced the Overwatch League last November, saying that its goal was to put together the “world’s premier esports league,” with city-based teams and minimum salaries and benefits packages for players. It’s been unexpectedly quiet on that front since then, however, and despite the game’s success on the competitive scene and optimistic predictions for the future, not a single Overwatch League team has been announced. In the wake of all that, Blizzard has issued a statement addressing th

Despite plentiful advice online about how to protect your privacy and keep your data safe, we all make mistakes now and then. That’s a pretty big oops, especially when someone finds it. The Intercept published a fascinating story today about WindsorGreen, an encryption-breaking computer designed by brilliant mathematicians and likely used by the NSA. Not even a single username or password separates these files from the public internet right now. In other words, Juicero wasn’t just a sign that Si

“Hong Kong will be released in August as part of Season Three and South Korea in November during Season Four,” Ubisoft said. “While Poland no longer has a dedicated season, our GROM Operators will be released at the start of Season Three and Four.” “The Year Two Pass provides players with early access to eight new Operators. While we will not have two new Operators every three months this year, we will still deliver on your early access to the remaining Operators. You will receive the content an

Asus added a new monitor to its growing lineup of gaming displays, the VG275Q. This one is a 27-inch 1080p display with a TN panel that is focused primarily on fast performance. While Asus is billing this as a “console gaming monitor,” the same benefits apply to PC gaming. There is no USB hub on this monitor, though it does have two 3.5mm audio jacks and a Kensington lock slot. As for ergonomics, the VG275Q supports tilt (33 to -5 degrees), swivel (-90 to 90 degrees), pivot (90 to -90 degrees),

A new Quake Champions teaser turns the spotlight on the Quake 3: Arena stalwart Visor, a “cybernetic clone” with a big piece of metal welded to his face. Visor’s passive, “Grasshopper,” sounds like a good one for players who can take advantage of it, as it lets him continually pick up speed while strafe-jumping, with no upper limit. In a way it’s reminiscent of Ranger’s “Son of a Gun” passive, in the way it facilitates old-school movement: Rocket jumping in Ranger’s case, and strafe-jumping for

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. This week we’ll be talking about our time with Prey, Forza Horizon 3’s Hot Wheels expansion, Divinity 2’s Game Master mode, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! This week’s topicsVanquish is coming to PC and Assassin’s Creed may be going to Egypt. We jam about driving cars in Forza Horizon 3’s Hot Wheels DLC. Tom talks about Divinity: Original Sin 2’s Game Master mode.

It was more than four years ago that Starbreeze revealed Storm, a “co-op sci-fi FPS” that the studio said “is our future.” Today, however, Starbreeze posted a “Storm Visionary Teaser” on YouTube, and while it’s not exactly overloaded with detail, it does point toward some very ambitious plans for a virtual reality experience. Starbreeze dug into some of its ideas for VR during a livestream earlier today, which included the “first vision” of Storm embedded above. That “large field competitive exp

The problem is that this new one seems set to retread the same ground that every World War II shooter released since Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers has beaten into the sand on Omaha Beach. There was so much more to World War II than the Western Front and the Pacific. But it would behoove anyone looking to make a great single player World War II campaign (or some quality DLC) to consider including some of the following battles, which represent facets of an extremely complex conflict tha

We spotted Logitech’s G602 wireless mouse on sale at the beginning of the year for $40. The G602 is again on sale for $40, this time from both Amazon and Best Buy. One final word about this mouse—this used to be our top pick for the best wireless gaming mouse. We’ve since swapped that out for Logitech’s G900 Chaos Spectrum, which is more than triple the price at around $130. If you’re interested, go here to grab the Logitech G602 from Amazon or here to get it from Best Buy.

Today, however, Kotaku reported that developer BioWare Montreal is being transitioned to a “support studio,” with a number of its employees moving to the Jade Raymond-led EA Motive, while the Mass Effect series itself has been put “on hiatus.” “Our teams at BioWare and across EA put in tremendous effort bringing Mass Effect Andromeda to players around the world. Even as BioWare continues to focus on the Mass Effect Andromeda community and live service, we are constantly looking at how we’re prep

After arguments broke out about the FAR patch yesterday, we reached out to Kaldaien, but haven’t heard back yet. That didn’t help smooth the ruffled feathers of people who felt there was no call for a piracy check in the first place—and who were presumably also being prevented from using the mod. Interestingly, Kaldaien said on GAF that the check has nothing to do with his personal views on piracy. Despite those concerns, Kaldaien recently listed an older version of the mod as an alternate relea

Of course, there is a lot going on from a technical standpoint and while developers and animators have gotten pretty good at simulating water and sand, combing the two into mud has been especially challenging. Adding water obviously changes things, and it’s difficult to simulate with computer graphics what happens when water and sand mix. “Technically, we use particles to represent individual grains of sand and water droplets. In each simulation time step, individual material responses as well a

The WoW Cookbook The World of Warcraft Cookbook is $23 on Amazon, though you can grab the digital Kindle version for $17. World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook is 200 pages of recipes based on WoW’s eclectic consumable items. As she developed the WoW cookbook, she was set on following the recipes of any meal you could cook in-game as closely as possible. “For me, I think building these recipes really weirdly ties into that. The Hearthstone cookbook , which will feature “more than 50 delicious

DeepCool recently added RGB lighting to two if its Captain EX all-in-one liquid coolers. The DeepCooler Gamer Storm Captain 240 EX is available for $60 at Newegg after applying promo code EMCSRFRK3. DeepCool was aiming for a sort of steampunk look when designing the Captain 240 EX. And while it doesn’t have RGB lighting, it does have red LED illumination. As the model name implies, the Captain 240 EX has a 240mm radiator and comes with two double-blade 120mm cooling fans.

We’re being whisked to a galaxy far, far away in Galaxy of Pen and Paper, the latest addition to the Knights of Pen and Paper series. Learn more about the Knights of Pen and Paper series with our preview of the first game in the series. It’s more of the self-aware, fourth wall-breaking silliness you may remember from Galaxy’s predecessors—you play a character playing a tabletop RPG character. In Galaxy of Pen and Paper you choose a player and build up a tabletop RPG character for them, with opti

There are also significant “combat balance updates” that BioWare said will address complaints about weapons and powers not getting the job done at higher difficulty levels. “We’ve received a lot of community feedback about balance issues in multiplayer. We found current damage levels significantly slowed the pace of games on Gold and Silver difficulties. To fix this, we started to overhaul the balance in multiplayer. The base damage of powers have been boosted in the update, and some of the bonu

Nvidia has updated its GeForce Experience software to version 3.6, and with it comes a welcome upgrade in functionality. Specifically, the latest GeForce Experience build adds video capture and broadcasting support for OpenGL and Vulkan games using ShadowPlay. It’s powered by our acclaimed ShadowPlay technology, so you can capture up to 4K 60 FPS and never miss a beat while you game,” Nvidia says. Outside of expanded ShadowPlay support, GeForce Experience 3.6 features some UI improvements, inclu

(Image: © Microsoft)Microsoft broke the ice at its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle today by announcing that Windows 10 is now running on 500 million monthly active devices, The Seattle Times reports. That puts Microsoft halfway towards its original goal of reaching 1 billion Windows 10 devices by around the middle of 2018, a target it is likely to miss. Citing unnamed sources who are supposedly familiar with Microsoft’s plans, The Verge says Microsoft is shooting for 550 million month

Sloclap and Devolver Digital’s stylish open world fight ’em up first poked its head above the parapet this time last year. It’s since shown off a number of cool looking trailers—not least this developer-led showcase—and now has a comprehensive overview of its equally thorough combat system. The bottom line: whether you’re into refined fighting or button bashing, Absolver comes packing loads of combat customisation options, some of which is detailed in the following short. Prospects will choose a