It’s a game where you wander around a map with a metal detector, trying to detect metal things. After playing for a couple hours, the best way I can describe Serious Metal Detecting is that it’s DayZ, though there are no guns (unless, perhaps, you detect one!) So, yeah, you basically begin by putting batteries into your metal detector, turning it on, and cranking a dial up. Finding something can take several tries, and often it’s junk: a bottle cap, a rusty hex nut, a bottle cap, a bottle cap, a

Journey to Un’Goro, we said last week, “is Hearthstone’s best expansion since the League of Explorers.” Blizzard revealed on Battle.net today that more than 70 million players have now signed up for Hearthstone, and that following the launch of Un’Goro it had “more players playing together on the same day—around the whole world—than at any point in its history!” “We’re humbled and grateful that so many players have chosen to join us for some Hearthstone fun,” the studio wrote. “As our way of say

We have to presume that Biostar’s latest AM4 motherboards are affordable solutions because the company did not reveal pricing information. But what Biostar did make clear is that its TA320-BTC and TB350-BTC are both aimed at Bitcoin miners who haven’t yet moved on to ASIC-based mining machines. They’re both full-size ATX motherboards that draw power from a combination of 24-pin and 8-pin power connectors. Each board also comes with two optional 4-pin Molex power connectors to keep things stable

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 has been around for quite awhile now: We reviewed it in November 2015, finding it to be a decent but unremarkable CoD experience. An ESRB listing noticed by (and posted on) the CoD Zombies subreddit has revealed something entitled Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles, although what exactly it is, is not perfectly clear. The listing has since been removed from the ESRB site, but a cached version remains viewable via Google. Rumors about Zombies Chronicles have su

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. That’s a computer, not a Rocket League match happening in the distance. While the build looks a bit unwieldy, it captures the essence of Rocket League with the signature orange and blue color scheme, hexagonal grid, and the ever-so-important inclusion of cars. For more pictures and information on the build, check out the Oz Modz Facebook page and watch the build timelapse above. Rocket

If you’re looking for a computer case and don’t need anything overly fancy, Newegg has a really good deal going today for Zalman’s T5 mini tower enclosure. It is on sale today for $20 with no promo code or mail-in-rebate to fuss with. Both Newegg and Amazon call it an ATX tower, but it does not support full-size ATX motherboards. Outside of the motherboard, the case does support standard ATX power supplies and full-size graphics cards up to 300mm (around 11.8 inches). We haven’t spent any time w

We learned late last year about an upcoming law in China, scheduled at the time to go into effect on May 1, 2017, that would compel the makers of games that use randomized “loot boxes” to publish the odds of various bits of stuff falling out of them. Last week, Riot got ahead of the big day (which is today) a bit by publishing the drop rates of its Hextech crafting and loot boxes on the Chinese LoL site. Loot boxes were first added to League of Legends in the 2016 season. PvP Live pointed out th

Magic Online, the digital version of the godfather of competitive card games Magic: The Gathering, doesn’t always get a lot of love. But last week saw Magic Online spring into the spotlight by providing enough immediate data to get a card banned from both the digital and physical versions of Magic in only two days. This time, that list came on the same Monday Amonkhet hit Magic Online, and somewhat surprisingly contained no bans or restrictions for Magic’s Standard format. Enter, the combo: Sahe

Oculus VR has had a notable presence at E3 since 2014, but the company has confirmed it will not have a booth at this year’s convention. EA, Activision and Wargaming won’t be there, either. Oculus used last year’s convention to showcase its Oculus Touch peripherals and, the year before that, the version of its Oculus Rift headset which would launch to retail in early 2016. As VentureBeat notes, it’s possible that Oculus just hasn’t anything new to show at this stage. Not having a booth doesn’t m

Now, thanks to a mod for The Witcher 3, simply called Shields, Geralt can finally use what his enemies probably take for granted. The shields—there are dozens to choose from, representing all the factions in the game—aren’t just cosmetic, they really work. Check out the demo video above to see them in action. The mod can be configured from the options menu, and there’s also a nice selection of hoods, robes, cloaks, and armor included. Below, check out some screens—enlarge ’em by clicking the top

I was hoping that, after 2015’s surprisingly classy Dirt Rally, Codies’ racing series would drop the extreme-sports-high-octane-maybe-cut-down-on-the-Red-Bull-geez aesthetic of Dirts 2 and 3, but I fear that may be creeping back with the relatively recently announced Dirt 4. Here’s our first ‘gameplay’ trailer, which features pretty cars zooming around a series of visually resplendent tracks, and in a variety of inhospitable weather conditions. In the blog post accompanying the new trailer, Codi

A few days ago, undersea survival game Subnautica received a humdinger of an update that added a new Silent Running mode to your aquatic exploration pod. This plays into one of the update’s other big features: dangerous creatures that are newly interested in your previously safe Cyclops vessel. You’ll need to enable Silent Running mode to deal with them, which turns off all exterior lights, replaces interior ones with an eerie red glow, and slows your pod the heck down, so you can sneak past tho

Even in the early days of VR, there’s a surprising lack of PvP games out there. Hover Junkers was one of the first, with Insomniac’s The Unspoken arriving more recently, but it’s still a small segment of an already small market. Velocibeasts thinks that might change, promising to be a competitive melee arena game in VR, with developer Churroboros hosting an early in-development tournament at this weekend’s DreamHack in Austin. Pompili hopes that esports will get people into VR games like Velocib

A bunch of Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite news and information was recently revealed, including its story mode, release date, and more characters. And thanks to a new gameplay trailer (above), we can see those characters in-game and in action. The trailer’s combatants include classic Capcom characters including Chun-Li from Street Fighter, Chris Redfield from Resident Evil, and Strider Hiryu from Strider. This whole series started with X-Men vs Street Fighter back in 1996. Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite

When I went hunting for crazy cases at DreamHack Austin this weekend, I wasn’t expecting to find anything quite like this. The Sea Drive is a brilliant custom case made by Cameron Watkins of CWE Cases that’s part computer, part fully-functional fish tank. The Sea Drive currently houses eight live GloFish that react to its blacklight LEDs. That being said, hopefully neither the water cooling or the tank itself springs a leak before the weekend is over. Keep an eye out tomorrow for our round-up of

If you want to see more awesome For Honor emblems, check out Part 1 and Part 2. The first one I want to highlight is an emblem by Reddit user JayySpicey that exemplifies why sometimes simpler is better. The minimalist design that is present in many For Honor emblems is actually my favourite part of the in-game creator. Now I kinda want to see a Power Rangers game in the For Honor emblem. Source: Reddit user Incendo_WolfLastly, user Sleepytummies has created my favourite emblem of today’s collect

The origins of the conflict date back months ago to a private Discord server for the WAFFLES alliance. Reza NajafiWAFFLES’s anime fans were understandably crushed by the blow and, for a while, the anime menace seemed to have been quelled. Being the leader of his own storied alliance, Reza is also somewhat of a tactical genius. Regardless of whether anime culture lived or died in WAFFLES, Jin’Taan had just become one of the most wanted men in EVE. For a few days, the EVE Online subreddit was floo

We’re getting closer to E3 every day, and we’re bound to see some new games get revealed once we reach that fabled week. Bethesda is one of the companies we already expected to show off new games, but it seems the Fallout publisher is teasing a couple with its E3 media briefing invite. The invite included an image (above), which is a cartoony mockup of a fictional theme park called Bethesdaland. Similar to Disneyland, there are several different themed sections to the park, all based on Bethesda

Playing Overwatch’s PvE Uprising event made me want an Overwatch campaign more than ever. With every new seasonal event, Blizzard makes money hand over fist selling loot boxes to its now more than 30 million players. When the Uprising seasonal event comes to a close, this fantastic slice of Overwatch’s history will disappear along with its themed skins and cosmetics. Overwatch Uprising goes back into the archives May 1.Relive the past before it all becomes history (again)! ⏰📂 https://t.co/jqvaWx

I was pretty happy in my relative ignorance of Rare’s open world, online co-op pirate adventure Sea of Thieves, but now—after watching the following videos—it is a game I must play, one way or the other. Since then, a second dev video has appeared, and now a third, both of which I’ll link below. In video 2, the developers do a bit of treasure-hunting, and a bit of sailing, before engaging in a spot of ship-to-ship battling. For the third trailer, the co-op team includes head of Xbox Phil Spencer