It is entirely possible to build a potent gaming PC inside a compact case and if that’s your plan, you might want to consider Fractal Design’s Define Nano S. The tiny tower is currently on sale at Amazon for $52. There are not many mini-ITX motherboards available for Ryzen—Biostar is the only one with mini-ITX options right now—but the situation is different for Kaby Lake and other Intel processors. What you get with the Define Nano S is a sharp looking chassis that supports up to three liquid c

Forza Horizon 3 is getting a Hot Wheels themed expansion on May 9 that will add 10 new toy-inspired cars and a brand new area to the game. The area will be a chain of islands connected by large, fluorescent-orange Hot Wheels tracks you can drive on. But most importantly, Forza Horizon 3 is getting gigantic loop-de-loops. As far as branded tie-ins go, Hot Wheels is a pretty great excuse to give the game some super strange and fun tracks to drive around—complete with a ring of fire jump, and what

Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai has not wavered on his stance that his Democratic predecessor erred when adopting net neutrality rules under the previous administration. In keeping with that theme, Pai will look to loosen the government’s oversight of Internet service providers and wireless carriers. While short on details, high-speed Internet service would no longer be regulated like a utility as it is now. Under the previous administration, President Barack Obama publicly pushed to re

Hardware manufacturer Rosewill is having a big 24 hour sale on Newegg today, where you can find up to 50 percent off a whole range of products. We like Rosewill’s classy tempered glass cases, but the company also makes power supplies, various fans, server components, keyboards, and much more. If you’re looking for a cheaper case, there’s 50 percent off another of Rosewill’s cases, down to $50. Alternatively there’s a 550W Platinum rated Quark Series supply for $70 too. Very useful if you’re look

Now it can add CPU cooling to the mix with the introduction of its Windale 4 and Windale 6 coolers. These are FSP’s first cooling solutions of any kind. Both CPU coolers employ copper heatpipes that make direct contact with the CPU. They both also feature a 120mm fan that FSP says is low noise, along with anti-vibration rubber. The Windale 4 and Windale 6 are compatible with a wide range of sockets for both Intel and AMD, including the latter’s AM4 socket for Ryzen.

With AMD having refreshed its Polaris lineup with Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards, we imagine there will be some discounts on RX 400 series cards as vendors look to clear out remaining stock. Case in point, Powercolor’s Red Dragon Radeon RX 480 can be had for $180 at Newegg. It also features a custom cooling solution featuring two double blade fans that Powercolor says increases airflow by up to 20 percent. It’s not really built for overclocking like the Red Devil variant, which pairs three

After being announced last week—and leaked before that—Call of Duty: WWII has been officially revealed, shooting the prolific series back to WWII for the first time since World At War in 2008. Watch the trailer above. “Gritty, authentic war feel” and “boots on the ground,” by the way, are also direct quotes used to describe Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (see the third slide here). Multiplayer will be playable on the floor at E3, and Call of Duty: WWII will be out November 3. Oh, we also got con

WHY I LOVE In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. Today, Joe admires the plight of his comrades in the Dark Souls series. If I were to ask you: what is your favourite thing about Dark Souls—what would you say? My favourite thing about Dark Souls is its NPCs—not because I enjoy its collection of incongruous characters as adversaries or companions but because, in almost every instance, they serve to underscore all of the above

If you’re coming to the series this year as a PC player, there’s a lot to catch up on. Here’s what you need to know about Travelers, Ghosts, Guardians, Light, robots, time travel, blue people, red nanomachines, and more. The TravelerThe extraterrestrial sphere called the Traveler is Destiny’s most iconic image and also its central mystery. They were approached by a servant of the Traveler called the Leviathan, but rejected the passivity that it advocated and chose to dive into the gas giant inst

You also enjoy running around in Fallout 4 in third-person perspective, but prefer first-person view for combat. You can switch between third- and first-person perspectives manually, of course, and it’s not any kind of hassle. It’s called MGS Aiming, created by modder PeterTran, and when installed it will switch from third-person to first whenever you aim with your weapon sights. Stop aiming, and you snap right back into third-person. The mod is activated (and deactivated, if you decide you don’

In January, I suggested that the then latest trailer for Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares was its scariest yet. Demonstrating nine different ways micro protagonist Six could meet her demise, I stand by that claim however now think the puzzle-platformer’s launch trailer is scarier still. It’s of little surprise, then, that Little Nightmares champions the axiom “Play with your childhood fears” and that its launch trailer is also named ‘Childhood Fears’. At EGX Rezzed earlier this year, I took Li

Since storming onto the scene in February, For Honor has received a number of substantial updates, banned a number of cheating players, and adjusted some controversial in-game currency and microtransaction decisions. At the PC Gamer Weekender earlier this year, we invited the PC version’s producer Philipp Sonnefeld to chat about the importance of emblems, the ins and outs of the game’s factions, the layered approach tied to its customisation suite, and much more. Live from the Gamer Stage, Sonne

Photo credit: Riot GamesCloud9, Team SoloMid, FlyQuest, and Phoenix1 all flew out to Vancouver, Canada to fight for glory in the final stages of the League of Legends playoffs. Each team had ups and downs throughout the spring split, and despite the perception that spring is just a warmup for the summer split, there was still a lot on the line. Beyond the bragging rights and validation, the winner of the spring split also earns the right to represent North America on the international stage in B

“It’s impossible to see all the alien powers in one playthrough,” says Colantonio of the base game’s diversity. Also, at some point, the story branches and you have choose between doing one thing or another thing. When Phil spoke to Arkane earlier this year he asked the question: Is Prey the BioShock successor we’ve been waiting for? In Prey you’re surviving an environment, but it’s not necessarily survival horror. It’s not trying to be a survival horror game—it’s more like a plain survival game

After months of hype, Sega and Relic Entertainment’s Dawn of War 3 lands tomorrow. In preparation, you may have taken part in last weekend’s multiplayer open beta, or perused our review in progress—however if you’re after some light relief ahead of time, this real life Space Marine Power Fist has you covered. The in-game weapon when fixed to the mighty arm of a Space Marine, can punch through almost any defence, even hammering through the side of tanks to tear out the crew. While the real life v

DDOS attacks are fast. Justice isn’t so swift, but eventually some hackers behind distributed denial of service attacks do get what’s coming to them. That happened this week, as The Guardian reports a teen who created and ran a DDOS service called Titanium Stresser has been sentenced to two years in prison. Adam Mudd of the UK didn’t just create and launch denial of service attacks, which would be bad enough. According to The Guardian, Runescape’s developers spent £6 million trying to stave off

If NAND flash memory chip makers can get a handle on production, we’ll eventually see higher capacity SSDs in the consumer space. In this case, the 8TB HRS-M1HC is a 2.5-inch SSD with a SATA 6Gbps interface. Smart HRC also offers its new rugged SSD in 4TB, 2TB, and 1TB capacities. Samsung last year announced a 15.36TB SSD for enterprise storage systems, while Micron and WD both offer 8TB SSDs. In case you’re wondering, the largest capacity SSD to date is a 60TB SAS SSD model from Seagate.

In a post on the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds official site, creator Brendan Greene announced the battle royale shooter’s first charity event. The 2017 Charity Invitational will take place on May 4, and will feature 128 streamers from both North America and Europe. The proceeds will benefit Gamer’s Outreach, a charity that “provides equipment, technology, and software to help kids cope with treatment inside hospitals.” The event will feature two-player teams, with 32 teams from North American a

Capcom announced today that Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite will release on all platforms—including PC, news which surprised us last year—on September 19th in North America and Europe. “A combination of the robotic foes known as Ultron from the Marvel Universe and Sigma from the Capcom Universe, this psychotic villain is obsessed with infecting all organic life with a cybernetic virus. History’s greatest gathering of warriors must now unite to fight back against Ultron Sigma and save their newly form

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a fascinating and genre-defining game, but what’s equally as fascinating is its origins as a simple 2D prototype . While it has the look of the classic Zelda, all of the DNA of Breath of the Wild is present, and the two make a fascinating mix. “I definitely don’t feel bound to copy Breath of the Wild directly,” they said. What is immediately apparent, however, is how well Breath of the Wild’s open world and physics-driven designs fit inside of a 2D spac