Not everyone has made the bump from DDR3 to DDR4 memory, but that hasn’t stopped the Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC) from looking ahead to DDR5. In fact, the memory standards consortium announced it working on an official DDR5 specification that will offer more bandwidth and better power efficiency. Compared to DDR4, the new memory standard will provide double the bandwidth and density, along with improved channel efficiency. Don’t worry if you just upgraded to a Kaby Lake o

The Fate of the Furious, the eighth film in The Fast and the Furious series, will be out next month. Also coming next month is new Rocket League DLC featuring Dom Toretto’s “Ice Charger” as a premium Battle-Car. The package will also include exclusive Wheels and six unique Decals: Clean Cut, Crazy Sandwich, Flames, Rakugaki, Rally, and CCCXL. And it’s not as though Psyonix hasn’t done this before: Previous car-related licensed DLC has included Hot Wheels, Batman, and Back to the Future. The Rock

If you’re looking for a case to show off your build, Corsair’s Crystal Series 460X with tempered glass side and front panels is a strong contender. The case is currently marked down to $105, which in and of itself is a decent bargain (Amazon has it listed for $130). However, the real deal is after the $20 mail-in-rebate, which knocks the tally down to $85. A large slab of tempered glass provides a full view of your setup. The front is also covered by tempered glass.

Adata has a new solid state drive line that uses 3D NAND flash memory chips—the Ultimate SU700 available in 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB capacities. The type of 3D NAND that Adata is using on these drives is of the triple-level cell (TLC) variety. That said, Adata is claiming up to 560MB/s of read performance and up to 520MB/s of write performance for these drives. Performance is going to vary by capacity, and unfortunately Adata isn’t providing specific metrics for each drive. All four capaci

In late 2015, Levine described the team’s next game as “sort of a small-scale open-world game” which “fights against the linear nature of the games we made before, like BioShock and BioShock Infinite.” He avoided too many specifics, but cited an inspiration we expected a lot of developers to draw from back when it released. “The game that I think inspired me most—that we were maybe onto something, on the right track—was Shadow of Mordor, with the Nemesis system, which was my favorite part of the

Spoiler alert: this article contains spoilers for the first playthrough of Nier: Automata. Nier: Automata is a game about white-haired Ken dolls plotting their ascension while a colony of surviving humans hides on the moon. In Nier you play an android, dispatched by android high command to destroy the little rust-coloured machines that have taken over the planet. Ghost in the Shell is ostensibly about cool cyborgs hunting cool cool cyborgs, and the premise is used as a vector for exploring the p

Creative Assembly recently revealed work on its second Total War: Warhammer game has been “underway for some time.” Speaking to PC Gamer at EGX Rezzed in London Creative Assembly’s development communications manager Al Bickham and game director Ian Roxbourgh explained how Total War: Warhammer 2 aims to tackle endgame fatigue. He says there’s a big desire to address this problem, one which many strategy games face. In the first Total War: Warhammer, each race had two Legendary Lords that started

Renowned world cup-winning footballer Diego Maradona plans to take “appropriate legal action” against Konami for using his likeness without permission in Pro Evolution Soccer 2017. These players can be used in conjunction with PES 2017’s myClub mode, as can Argentina legend Diego Maradona who boasts a 97 rating—three points above countryman Lionel Messi. On his Facebook page, Maradona said (via the social media platform’s translate function):”I heard yesterday that the Japanese company Konami us

After revealing work was well underway last month, Sega and Creative Assembly have now officially announced Total War: Warhammer 2. “Players will struggle for dominion over the ailing Great Vortex that has swirled for millennia above the elven homeland of Ulthuan,” continues Sega. “Performing a series of arcane rituals, each race must save or disrupt the Vortex according to their motivations—a struggle culminating in a cataclysmic endgame.” Further to the new playing field, Sega says a “vast com

At yesterday’s EGX Rezzed conference in London, DayZ creator Dean Hall revealed his latest game, Stationeers—a space station construction and management sim. Throughout the AMA, Hall notes Space Station 13 as inspiration for his latest venture however suggests there are lessons to be learned from its steep learning curve, among other things. At present, Hall says Stationeers is in pre-alpha and is around 20 percent complete with its most “complete game loops” being its ‘construction’ and ‘atmosp

First announced in mid-2015, Elex is the work of Piranha Bytes—the folk responsible for the Gothic and Risen role-playing games. Billed back then as an “Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial open-world RPG” (see what they did there? ), the sprawling science fantasy adventure has since filled its reactive world with quests, monsters, hostile robots and killable main story NPCs. Elex starred at this year’s PC Gamer Weekender, and Chris welcomed THQ Nordic to the studio to demonstrate where it’s a

The Hearthstone Global Games, or HGG to its friends, is Blizzard’s first attempt at creating a national tournament for Hearthstone. P4wnyhof’s inclusion as a potential Global Games community nominee led to vocal pushback from both his potential HGG teammates and other countries’ nominees. Despite the negative reaction, P4wnyhof was voted in to represent Germany in the Global Games by the community. With Sintolol and P4wnyhof gone, Blizzard is looking to fill both their spots—and there are plenty

Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City is a much bigger expansion than Ashes of Ariandel, and it has a few surprises up its billowing sleeves that you might struggle to find. One of those is a hidden boss who’d be better off staying hidden, if you ask me. Head upstairs and look right to find the Ringed City Wall elevator shortcut. Halfway through, you’ll need to jump into a doorway that passes by. I recommend heading all the way up to unlock the door to the Ringed City Wall bonfire first.

Born from the Arma mod Battle Royale (which became the basis for H1Z1: King of the Kill), Battlegrounds is the latest mutation of the emerging subgenre of the same name. Despite that relatively long period of gestation, Battlegrounds’ launch last week wasn’t without the expected Early Access bruises. Still, Battlegrounds is the best game of its kind available, thanks in large part to its considerable Arma DNA. You want to wait until they’re out in the open, when they’re checking their inventory,

Bethesda and id Software continues the slow trickle of Quake Champions gameplay footage, with the latest showcasing the hoverboard riding “transhuman punk” Anarki. As his status as a “transhuman punk” implies, this guy is not stuffing around: he has a hoverboard, which means he can move around quickly and fluidly mid-air, all the better to frag fools with. His active ability is a health injection, which means he’s able to heal himself on the fly. That doesn’t seem very punk to me, but that’s why

Intel is getting ready to bring its Optane memory to market, which will help speed up storage drives in Kaby Lake systems, even those slow spinning 5,400 RPM hard drives. Optane memory uses Intel’s 3D XPoint technology and acts as sort of a high-speed SSD cache for your storage. Since reporting on this earlier this week, it’s come to light that Kaby Lake Pentium and Celeron chips may not support Optane memory. The good news for budget builders who are interested in Optane memory is that the Core

CD Projekt president Adam Kiciński added “The project is very ambitious,” pointing out that each of CD Projekt’s games has been more successful than the last. Either way, it doesn’t sound like Cyberpunk 2077 will be a one-and-done game for CD Projekt. Kiciński also talked briefly about CD Projekt Red planning to develop another game concurrently with Cyberpunk 2077, but offered no further details about what that game might be. “We already have [300 people on Cyberpunk 2077], at the very end it w

Even after new tests and retests, the Blue Yeti microphone remains the best microphone for gaming and live streaming. While some streamers will use the mic on their gaming headset to stream, having a discrete and dedicated mic will yield far better audio quality. Microphone audio quality is a deep rabbit hole. The AntLion ModMic is more practical for general gaming voice chat rather than livestreaming, as you won’t need the audio quality to be as pristine and the breathing noises won’t matter as

The first boss in The Ringed City, the final DLC for Dark Souls 3, feels like it was designed to be a co-op battle. Their toxic attacks are also telegraphed with animations and sound and well ahead of time. Mostly, they’re meant to be a distraction from the aggressive demon coming your way. This fight can go on for a long, long time, as you’ll soon find out. Now you need to kill The Demon Prince, who doesn’t behave very princely.

There’s a lot of fun to be had in Mass Effect: Andromeda’s combat. In the Mass Effect series Garrus was our best bro before he was potentially more than that, and the entire story of Mass Effect 2 is about becoming the space captain parent of an unruly extended family. Even compared to the first Mass Effect, Andromeda’s flirting feels jarring, never flows naturally out of conversations. But Mass Effect: Andromeda doesn’t do domesticity well. Even compared to the first Mass Effect, Andromeda’s fl