Remember the RTX 3080? Of course you do. While it’s easy to get caught up in the latest 40-series GPU releases, the RTX 3080 still makes for a great gaming card. It wasn’t particularly heat-prone, yet some of the third-party cards came with very large coolers to push it to the maximum. None, however, is going to beat the sheer size of the passive cooling solution created here, as 10 (!) CPU hea…
Read moreAt this year’s BlizzCon event, Blizzard revealed a formidable new endgame event coming to Diablo 4 called the Abbatoir of Zir. Set to go live on December 5 as part of patch 1.2.3, this event sees players tackling a set of dungeons designed to push your character to the limit, offering “permanent and evergreen endgame challenges.”
The challenging nature of Abbatoir of Zir was reiterated by…
Read moreIt’s just another normal day in Helldivers 2. Players, regrettably, appear to have failed the major order to liberate Fori Prime and Zagon Prime. While the galactic map shows Fori Prime as safe and sound, Zagon Prime is regrettably at zero percent liberation. We lost, folks. As a consequence of our collective inability to manage our democracy at acceptable levels, Arrowhead Games has hit player…
Read moreMars terraforming simulator Per Aspera has released a new, free DLC called Home about making Mars more livable. New features expand the process of terraforming Mars to include deeper, broader coverage of flora and larger, more habitable open-air cities for Earth’s population to move into.
It shifts the goal of Per Aspera to include a post-game, where once terraforming would have been cons…
Read moreAccording to Tony Hawk, the billion dollar, 20 game legacy of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was very close to not happening at all.
On a recent podcast, Hawk said that, months before he got the call from Activision that led to the Pro Skater series, another company contacted him with an idea for a “more technically difficult” skating game.
“They were trying to truly emulate skating,” said …
Read moreThe coronation of King Charles III takes place this weekend and, while it’s unavoidable pretty much anywhere, if you’re in the UK and couldn’t care less about the royals then this is hell. The country is a master at this kind of stuff: Sweeping everything to one side under a rug, putting on a fresh coat of paint, and sticking Princess Kate’s frozen toothpaste grin on the front of every paper. Read more
It’s been a while since we spotted some really good cheap gaming PC deals. Just when I was getting worried, this Katana X10 gaming desktop deal for $1082 on Newegg, as if it heard my cries, popped up out of nowhere. PC gaming deals are back, baby.
An Intel Core i5 CPU and an RTX 3060 Ti GPU combo keep the Katana sharp (hah), along with 16GB of DDR4 RAM. This team-up delivers excelle…
Read moreMembers of the Call of Duty league have filed a federal lawsuit against the league’s owner Activision Blizzard seeking $680m in damages, alleging the company has an unlawful monopoly over professional esports leagues.
Originally reported by Bloomberg Law, the lawsuit was filed by Hector “H3CZ” Rodriguez, leader of Call of Duty esports team Optic, and Seth “Scump” Abner, one of Call of Dut…
Read moreIt’s unclear if the people’s champion of 2022 will ever slow down: hot on the heels of an Among Us crossover DLC with outer space maps and enemies in December, Vampire Survivors has released yet another free content update.
Content patch 1.9.0, also more auspiciously titled “Space 54,” maintains the intergalactic vibe with a distinct ’60s rayguns and spandex thing going on. We’ll get to p…
Read moreYou know what’s relevant and exciting in the year of our lord 2024? The third Ultima game from 1983. OK, not really, and I leave drawing a line from Ultima 3: Exodus to the CRPGs of today as an exercise for the reader, but it really is fascinating to look back at nonetheless.
This is the game Richard Garriott led the design of after leaving Sierra On-Line (who had published Ultima 2…
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