The Kiev Major and DreamHack Open are well underway: it’s going to be another busy weekend across the world of digital sports. Invictus Gaming is the third seed of the Kiev main event, and arguably the strongest team in the world given their recent results. TNC Pro Team will be looking to continue their climb when they clash with Team faceless today at 00:00 PDT / 09:00 CEST. Street Fighter V: DreamHack 2017The fourth Premier Event of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour season will also be at this year’s D

This was how most DotA players socialized and played. The matchmaking system as we know it today came about in late 2013, after the game came out of beta. It introduced the numerical matchmaking rank, with no upper ceiling but a floor of, of course, zero. However, that’s generally where Dota 2’s general similarity to other games’ matchmaking ends, and some of the criticism it warrants begins. So does Dota 2’s ranked matchmaking have anywhere to go from here?

While it doesn’t have a specific release date nailed down yet, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is scheduled to release some time in the first half of this year. And as proof that this is probably still the case, Tripwire Interactive has opened pre-orders for the war shooter on Steam. There’s a standard edition as well as a Digital Deluxe Edition: the former is, y’know, standard, while the latter comes bearing a bunch of extra perks. Tyler went hands-on with Rising Storm 2 last year, and you can read his

PC Gamer: This is the first Tekken for PC – how are you finding developing for PC? It’s also the first time we’ve not only taken the game to the PC platform, but also developed based on the PC. Stuff like Overwatch and League of Legends have aspects of fighting games, for example the character-based format. PCG: Will there be an alternative way to roll out fighting games, with the decline of that market? They had to stop because it’s very severe conditions in the arcades, the operators won’t pic

WD aims to solve that problem in spades with its new 12-freaking-terabyte HGST Ultrastar He12 hard drive. This is WD’s fourth generation HelioSeal drive, which features helium inside. That’s two more than the highest capacity air-based enterprise drive, and it’s what enabled WD to offer 12TB of storage space. The Ultrastar He12 HDD is perfect for any application that requires massive amounts of cost-effective storage,” WD says. WD’s new drive features a 7,200 RPM spindle and a beefy 256MB cache.

That’s the setup for Stardew Valley and just about every Harvest Moon game. While he’s always enjoyed the older Harvest Moon games, Stardew Valley took hold of him in a different way. For someone who grew up in the country, Stardew Valley had a powerful grasp on the beautiful nuances of that kind of life. True to the premise of Stardew Valley, the 2.5-acre property had been neglected for years. Given how much his life is turning out to become Stardew Valley, nothing would surprise me.

Next up is the Colonel, who has access to most management tools, and thus can cover for the General in most situations. The Lieutenant’s access is considerably more limited, to accepting or rejecting Platoon applications (if they’re required for access), and linking rented servers to the Platoon. Any player can create and manage a Platoon, but only one General rank can be held at a time. This essentially ‘overrides’ your equipped emblem; when you represent a Platoon, we want you to really repres

Whether it’s a custom cooling loop or an extended-ATX motherboard, there are plenty of reasons to consider going with a full-tower in a build. Full-sized towers can get really big really fast. The only real limit to how big a tower can be is the length of the PSU and SATA cables you’ve got. It’s hard to hide a big tower in a room, so you might as well make sure it looks handsome. Here’s our picks for the best full-tower cases available now.

But what really got my attention was the August 2015 announcement of an upcoming Motörhead expansion, “Motörhead: Through the Ages,” which developer Haemimont Games said would be “heavily inspired by and based on Motörhead’s history, lyrics and general attitude.” Virtually nothing more was said about it after that, however, until early last month, when Haemimont confirmed it was still on the way as either separate DLC, or in the upcoming Victor Vran Overkill Edition. Naturally, there will be ple

Having a fast and reliable router can be the difference between getting the Internet service you’re paying for, or not. With those things in mind, if you’re looking for a high-end model, an open box Asus TM-AC1900 can be bought from Tanga for $57 with free shipping. That’s not much, though internally, this is pretty much the same router as the Asus RT-AC68U that typically sells for around $145 and up. As to being open box, Tanga says it is “brand new or performs as new with very little to no sig

Flickr via Free Press/ Free Press Action Fund Follow. (Image: © Flickr via Free Press)Yesterday Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai announced a proposal to rescind net neutrality rules that were approved by the FCC under the previous administration. To reach its full potential, the internet must remain a permission-less space for creativity, innovation and free expression,” Berners-Lee said. “In today’s world companies can’t operate without internet, and access to it is controlle

Ubisoft announced today that the second season of For Honor, entitled “Shadow and Might,” kicks off on May 16, and as suggested by a leak last month, the Centurion and the Ninja—actually the Shinobi—are joining the fray. The new season will also see two new maps added, extra customization options and “gameplay updates,” plus the start of the second round of the Faction War. Season two will also bring in a new “Epic” gear rarity level which will increase the maximum gear score, and rebalance the

Dawn of War 3 is out, which means millions of power cores are about to die. Dawn of War 3’s signature multiplayer mode is designed to drive huge forces towards vital objectives, encouraging enormous battles, particularly in 3 vs 3. and ‘why is the power core a wobbly blob of energy one minute and dormant the next?’ ‘Power core shelter’ lets the enemy lock down the power core for a duration—the vulnerable lightning core goes back into the shell and you can’t damage it. If you want to calculate wh

This case dates back to December 2014 when the U.S. District Court ruled against Cooler Master in all of the patent infringement claims brought against it by Asetek. A jury ordered Cooler Master to pay Asetek damages equal to a 14.5 percent royalty on all-in-one liquid cooling product sales since 2012 that were found to be using Asetek’s patented designs. Asetek took exception to Cooler Master’s all-in-one Seidon family, a line of sealed-loop coolers that required no maintenance. The matter offi

AMD has a new Crimson ReLive driver package available to download and with it the company is claiming Radeon RX 580 8GB graphics card owners will see up to a 7 percent performance gain in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3. That performance claim is based on moving up from the previous ReLive release, version 17.4.3. AMD doesn’t say what user of other graphics card can expect, such as Radeon RX 570 owners, but we imagine there are gains to be had. Other than the performance bump, the newest ReLive

Acer’s new Predator X27 comes as close as we’ve seen. On paper, the Predator X27 seems to have found a great balance between image quality and speed. At the very least, it is the first 4K monitor with HDR support running at 144Hz. If it’s brightness you crave, the Predator X27 is rated to hit 1,000 nits courtesy of 384 individually controlled LED zones. Beyond the brightness level, Acer says its panel offers up 99 percent coverage of the sRGB color space.

Wilson’s Heart doesn’t avoid feeling like a showpiece for VR, a light pull this and push that puzzler at every opportunity, but it paints over its deep bag of tricks with some of the best production I’ve seen in a VR game. Wilson’s Heart strings together all sorts of fun, physical sequences like this, from beating the stuffing out of evil teddy bears to bashing a vending machine with an hulking trophy. You won’t need to worry about plucking out your heart to throw at monsters: most use cases for

Razer wants to stomp out the notion that a wireless mouse can’t be every bit as responsive as a wired rodent, even on the professional stage. “The result is lag-free data transmission between the Razer Lancehead and PC that outperforms every other wireless gaming mouse,” Razer claims. “With a resolution accuracy of 99.4 percent, the Razer Lancehead Tournament Edition delivers pinpoint accuracy in the most intense gaming situations,” Razer adds. Unlike the majority of gaming mice, the Lancehead m

But we’re not being sent away entirely empty-handed, as the PC system requirements and “advanced settings” options have also been (mostly) nailed down. Minimum:CPU: Intel i5-2400, AMD FX-8320GPU: GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GBMemory: 8 GBRecommended:CPU: Intel i7-2600K, AMD FX-8350GPU: GTX 970 4GB, AMD R9 290 4GBMemory: 16 GBAnd these are the advanced visual settings you’ll be able to futz with. Both of them will have a launch day patch, and it’s safe to assume that the PC release will as well

Game dialogue needs to do a lot. Those are the basics for dialogue in which you’re rooted to the spot, the typical way games attempt to represent the messy and responsive nature of human conversation. Oxenfree uses the multiple-choice format that most dialogue-based games do: dialogue options that branch off into new areas of a greater tree. The future of dialogue: more ambient, more reactiveNot all dialogue in games is one-to-one. These dynamic systems feel like they might be the future of game