Is it Prime Day yet? Well, it certainly feels like it. We might still be a day—heck, a few hours—out, but the deals and discounts are rolling in. Manufacturers don’t seem to care for official deadlines, and neither do we when the pickings are good.
We’ve been combing through all the early bird deals and this is what we’ve come up with: the top ten PC gaming deals we can spot right now. From RTX 4070 gaming laptops to snappy 2TB NVMe SSDs and throne-like gaming chairs, here are our top picks for Prime Day before, y’know, Prime Day.
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On hearing there’s a new horror western movie called Organ Trail, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was based on the Flash game that became a Steam game in which a station wagon full of survivors have to travel westward across the zombie-infested United States.
And before you “um actually” me, yes, I am aware that game was based on the educational game called The Oregon Trail, although it took until I watched our video about it to realize in certain American accents the two sound almost identical.
It was apparently the original Oregon Trail game that provided the nugget of inspiration that became this movie. As screenwriter Meg Turner explained on Twitter, “I was looking for the original video game and forgot an e in Oregon. The script was essentially born out of the best ty…
The Invincible’s new trailer, shown at the PC Gaming Show, reveals the stakes in the sci-fi thriller. As you watch Yasna search for her lost crewmates, you see how humans may want to think twice before colonizing a planet. The trailer culminates in an ominous message: “Not everything everywhere is for us.”
Wasn’t that a big film from last year?
Sci-fi fans may recognize the title of the space game from Stanisław Lem’s novel, a story that explored themes of artificial intelligence and evolution on a distant planet. Developer Starward Industries has changed some of the main elements of the plot, but the team intends to throw you into the same thematic mix. Stranded on the planet Regis III and separated from the rest of her …
Earlier this week, Runescape developer Jagex announced upcoming pricing increases for Runescape membership costs. On September 27, 2024, the price of a membership subscription will increase from $12.49 USD per month to $13.99 USD per month. A premier 12 month subscription, which includes additional in-game bonuses for subscribing for an entire year at once, will increase in price from $79.99 USD annually to $99.48 USD annually.
Players currently subscribed on monthly or 6-month intervals will be able to continue paying their current “Grandfather Rate” for as long as they maintain their subscription. The Grandfather Rate is unavailable for players with annual premium memberships.
Jagex defended the price hike in its pricing change announcement, saying, “Membership pricing has…
I haven’t once thought about my Arisen’s mug ever since I slapped a helmet on his head, but even I’m annoyed that changing your appearance isn’t a god-given right in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Instead, alterations to your character and main pawn come in the form of a book you buy in towns. This book, Art of Metamorphosis, isn’t bought with regular gold, but a rarer currency called “Rift Crystals” acquired by finding Riftstones and sending your pawn out to help other players.
It’s a functional system on its own—I’m sitting on hundreds of RC I’m not using—but Capcom is catching reasonable flak on day one because it’s also selling Rift Crystals and the Art of Metamorphosis tome as DLC. Thankfully, modders have already uploaded a workaround to make character re-creation much easier…
While not the first attempt at a keyboard with screens in the keys, the PolyKybd by modder Thpoll is first one I can actually picture myself or the wider public using in earnest in the future. And as a recent split keyboard convert, I’m especially on board with this project.
The PolyKybd is a mechanical split keyboard with OLED displays inside of the keycaps. The idea is to have a keyboard with universal language support, by having the keys switch over to any language. Since it’s OLED, the letters and symbols on the keycap will come out ridiculously bright, making them easy to read under any lighting.
Thpoll has posted about the difficulty of adding glyph rendering for languages that use Japanese, Korean, and Arabic symbols. “To truly support multiple languages, …
Need a hint for today’s Wordle? Or how about a helpful bunch of more general tips to give every guess a little lift? Maybe the answer to the July 25 (1132) puzzle instead? The point is, that whatever Wordle help you need, from general advice to an instant solution, you’ll find it here.
I didn’t completely miss a whole bunch of really obvious clues, I just chose to take the scenic route to today’s answer. Honest. Have you ever had one of those games where you really can’t see the correct word at the time, but it’s blindingly obvious once you’ve exhausted every other option? Yeah, that was Thursday’s Wordle for me.
Today’s Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, July 25
What would you call that covered bit at the entrance to a house? Depen…
Get out of that mid-Wordle sticky spot with our helpful daily clue, spend some time reading our tips and guides if you’d like to make every game more successful, or go straight for the best part and guarantee you win the May 8 (688) puzzle by clicking or scrolling to today’s Wordle answer.
Twice in a row, I was certain I’d been clever and found today’s answer early, only to be crushed as Wordle flipped over more grey boxes and my yellow remained the same colour, just in a different spot. I ended up a bit stuck at that point, and that didn’t really change until I’d armed myself with a fresh mug of coffee, a notepad, and the determination to carefully work out every valid word remaining. I’m glad my efforts paid off, but I do hope tomorrow’s Wordle answer is a little easier.
A year ago it looked like Ubisoft’s ardor for NFTs was cooling, but now it seems that the heat is back on. The Assassin’s Creed publisher has entered into a new partnership with blockchain gaming platform Immutable “to create a new gaming experience that will further unlock the potential of Web3.”
Ubisoft’s history with NFTs has not been an especially good one. Bullish rhetoric and half-assed efforts like numbered helmets in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint didn’t impress anyone, Ubisoft employees included, and in September 2022 the company seemed to change tack, saying (not entirely convincingly) that it was really all just for research, and that “when we have something that gives you a real benefit, we’ll bring it to you.”
It didn’t take Ubisoft long to find the “benefits” it was l…
With the first examples of laptops powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X chip landing with actual buying customers, Qualcomm has released some more juicy details around gaming performance and features. According to Qualcomm, its new Arm chip trades blows with Intel’s Meteor Lake laptop CPUs, sometimes beating them handily, in a range of games.
The caveat, obviously, is that Qualcomm is hardly an unbiased source. But hold that thought. Qualcomm’s latest marketing dump (via Anandtech) commits the company to monthly driver releases for the Snap X’s Adreno integrated GPU. Qualcomm also has an Nvidia GeForce Experience-style app for the chip which includes pre-baked optimisations and settings for a range of Windows game titles. So, yeah, Qualcomm is pushing pretty hard with the …