Going in the opposite direction, Gigabyte’s new Aero 15 measures just 1.9cm (~0.75 inches), at least at its thinnest point. A look at Gigabyte’s press renders show some added thickness where the external ports are located, but overall the Aero 15 is incredibly thin. The Aero 15 is carved from CNC aluminum and comes in three different colors—black, orange, and green. In our experience, thinner gaming laptops tend to get really hot, which can lead to throttling. Until we test an Aero 15 out for ou

Corsair is calling its new Carbide series SPEC-04 cases “bold” and “ready to stand out.” The SPEC-04 supports standard ATX parts, including graphics cards up to 370mm in length and PSUs up to 225mm long. If you’re still holding onto an internal optical drive, you won’t be able to install it here—there are no 5.25-inch drive bays. Corsair includes a single 120mm fan in the front the SPEC-04. You can install a 140mm radiator up front and/or a 120mm radiator in the back.

THQ Nordic has now unleashed the Darksiders 3 reveal trailer, confirming that the game will be played as Fury, the sister of the Four Horsemen, who’s being sent off to deal with the escaped Seven Deadly Sins. Fury will move back and forth between environments to uncover secrets while advancing the Darksiders 3 story.” THQ said it is working on Darksiders 3 with Gunfire Games, a studio “largely comprised of the original creators” of Darksiders. “The Gunfire team brings an intimate involvement wit

Chet Faliszek, whose writing credits include Half-Life: Episode One and two, Portal and Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, L4D2, CS:GO, and Dota 2, has confirmed with GamesIndustry that he is no longer with Valve. “I worked there 12 years, shipped a bunch of great games and some amazing hardware and wanted to change things up. “This isn’t some—often in VR we’re talking about the future, something that comes later,” he said. “But what we’re saying is, right here today, that day, it was the number-one selling

The touchline pretenders among us aren’t the only ones scouring Football Manager 2017’s database for the perfect signing. “We have some clubs that will take every single aspect of data,” Sports Interactive’s head of business development, Tom Markham, tells me. “One of the Champions League clubs we are working with will evaluate the composition of teams. “There’s another team in the Premier League that uses our data, and all they wanted was height and weight data. We’ve got clubs that will come t

The dust is starting to settle on the Hearthstone meta after Journey to Un’Goro launched early last month, and we think it’s one of the best Hearthstone expansions yet. But questions about price are starting to loom over the game, which just hit 70 million players . Popular streamer/caster/pro Brian Kibler even released a great video on the subject of Un’Goro’s cost the day after we filmed these interviews at DreamHack Austin . While at the event this weekend I managed to catch up with eight of

LKA’s narrative-leaning exploration games The Town of Light arrived on PC in 2016, however will launch an enhanced edition at some point later this year. Today, we have part two of the interview trilogy presented by the game’s artist and environmental artist Lorenzo Conticelli. Within, Conticelli explores the meticulous research that went into crafting its videogame interpretation of the Volterra asylum and how Luca, the game’s screenwriter, took the lead in digging into the controversial settin

Back on April 10 we received news that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which entered Steam Early Access on March 23, had sold a million copies. Today we learned the multiplayer battle royale shooter is showing no signs of slowing down, as less than a month later it has doubled its sales to 2 million copies. Along with the sales news, developer Bluehole has announced that it’ll be matching donations up to $100,000 during their first charity invitational. The invitational, benefiting Gamers Outreac

With Relic’s epic real-time strategy affair marching ever closer to a launch date, our cover feature this month sees Samuel taking our most comprehensive look the long-awaited Warhammer 40K sequel. After more than ten hours of steadfast battling, find out what he’s got to report from the lost planet Acheron. Elsewhere inside, we take a look at Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the massively expanded sequel to 2014’s Shadow of Mordor, and gather the top 50 free games on PC in our now annually updated

Between our review, multiplayer beginner’s guide and performance analysis, we’ve covered Dawn of War 3’s recent launch pretty extensively. But if you’re in need of more Marines, war and waaagh, the following video offers some behind-the-scenes thoughts, analysis and explanation from the real-time strategy game’s designer Caro Mastretta. Live from the PC Gamer Weekender Studio earlier this year, Chris chats with Mastretta about why the battlefield and its races work in the ways in which they do,

Dishonored 2 was our favourite game of 2016, however its PC launch wasn’t without its problems. “First of all, it’s not like we first do the game on console and then in the end we suddenly port the game to PC,” says Colantonio. That’s how game development works. The real reason why PC games often have problems is because there are so many permutations of hardware. Prey is due this Friday, May 5—make sure your own specs are up to scratch against its system requirements before then.

With a $1 million grand prize on the line, Dota 2’s Kiev Major was an event for the history books. While OG didn’t have quite as neat of a group stage, with a 6-5 record, they fought through their bracket well. Namely, they took out top American team Evil Geniuses in the semi-finals, plus Team Faceless and former TI6 squad Team Random along the way. The biggest surprise upset was when Brazilian team SG E-sports upset the top seed of the group stage, European favorites Team Secret. The latter had

Revealed in June last year, Julian Gollop’s latest strategy venture Phoenix Point teased its first in-game footage on April 25 to mark the start of a Fig crowdfunding campaign. Less than a week on, the project has surpassed its $500,000 goal and has now unveiled two prospective stretch goals. With 36 days and 15 hours remaining at the time of writing, Phoenix Point has accrued $501,083 and of course has plenty of time to add much more to that total. And should the campaign reach $850,000, a ‘Flo

It’ll strike most as the most redundant of truisms, but making blockbuster video games involves a fair bit of compromise. If you’re the ‘creator’ of the game, you need to not only collaborate with hundreds of people on its creation, but you also need to please the businessfolk upstairs. And that holds especially true when it comes to a series as massive as Assassin’s Creed. Speaking to Gameology, via Gamespot, Desilets laid out some of the reasons he left Ubisoft shortly after the release of Ass

Revoking net neutrality isn’t going to stop you from playing Battlefield, or prompt restrictive bandwidth caps overnight that make it harder to download games from Steam. Here’s what you need to know about net neutrality, how it intersects with gaming, and what the FCC’s proposes regulation changes will mean for the future. Pai seems perfectly content with ignoring all of these issues to justify tearing down these net neutrality protections. In other words, existing net neutrality rules should b

240Hz is an excessively high refresh rate, but damn did it look good. I was at DreamHack Austin all weekend, and managed to get my hands on two different 240Hz monitors: the BenQ XL2540 and the Asus ROG Swift PG258Q. Both are 24.5″ 1080p TN panels, and I got to try out some CS:GO and Overwatch on both. My mouse felt snappier at the high frame rate as well, so there were definitely differences, but not life changing ones. The TN panels were also really painful to see after using IPS monitors at h

Death becomes a certainty, and in traditional try-again games, it’s making the experience far less scary than it could be. Some of the best horror games are built around the same idea, of producing horror without death as a system. Death, like horror tropes in film, can and should be subverted in order to maintain tension before and after scares take place. Horror games are best when they strive to stay unfamiliar, and in adopting a familiar die-and-try-again videogame death system, they’re knoc

The Capcom Fighters Network will undergo a second public beta later this month, which means free access to Street Fighter V online play for everyone—even if you don’t own the game. “We’re continuing to optimize the new and improved Capcom Fighters Network – but we want to ensure things are just right before unleashing it onto the world. To that end, we’re planning to run an additional online Beta Test this month, with the intent of making the official launch of the new CFN as smooth as possible,

If you’re intrigued the prospect by going with an ultrawide display, now is a good time to make the leap. That is because you can grab LG’s 34-inch 34UM60-P from BuyDig for $299. LG’s monitor is listed at $399 and can be found at other places for a little less—Amazon has it priced at $375. But if you use coupon code GAMEON100 when purchasing from BuyDig, it will knock $100 off the price, bringing it down to $299. However, the price tag makes it a bit easier to overlook, assuming you’re in the ma

I worried last year that the XWVM project, a long-running fan effort to port the great Star Wars: X-Wing space combat sim into an updated engine with all the bells and whistles, was coming along so well that it would soon be slapped with a cease-and-desist order by way of Disney and/or EA. But it doesn’t look like that’s happened yet, as a new gameplay video was posted to YouTube over the weekend, showcasing a number of lovely new visual effects. The XWVM Facebook page says the project is “a mod