Beyond Good and Evil 2 was at E3 2017 and 2018, but this year the 24th century space pirates game will be skipping the show. "This year, as we are focusing on core development milestones, we will not be attending E3 2019," reads the developer post. "We will, however, continue our commitment to the Space […]
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Xbox Game Pass on PC is official, launching with 'over 100 high-quality PC games'
Microsoft’s E3 showcase isn’t going to be all about the consoles this year: the PC is getting some love too, including details on how Xbox Game Pass is going to work on PC. It’s officially coming, and it’s going to be at least somewhat different from the version available on consoles. "We designed a service […]
Iron Maiden, the band, has filed a trademark lawsuit against Ion Maiden, the game
Ion Maiden is a 2018 first-person shooter indebted to the genre classics of the ’90s. Iron Maiden is a British heavy metal band best known for its 1982 album The Number of the Beast. You can probably see where this is going: the names attached to these two different things are similar, and feathers have […]
A new Need For Speed is coming this year but it won't be at E3
It’s been 25 years since the release of the first Need for Speed, and the last few of them haven’t been a very smooth ride. The 2016 open-world reboot Need for Speed wasn’t very good, and the 2017 followup Need for Speed: Payback, which brought back a single-player mode, also wasn’t very good. Hopefully the […]
Twitch's Artifact category has become a wasteland of porn, memes, and worse
The collapse of Valve’s CCG Artifact was remarkable enough in itself, but it’s had an unexpected side effect on Twitch. The Artifact category was effectively abandoned to become a digital wasteland, almost entirely devoid of viewers. Nobody was paying attention—and as so often happens when nobody’s looking, somebody started causing trouble. The category was—and is—filled […]
Cyberpunk 2077 won't support mods at launch
One of the best things about gaming on your PC is the availability of mods. With them, you can add a dog to Doom—and then pet that dog. You can turn yourself into an Orcish Warchief in The Sims 4. You can be One Punch Man in Monster Hunter: World. You can even turn Mr. […]
Much faster SSDs are coming (this one from MSI tops 5,000MB/s)
Processors and graphics cards aren’t the only things getting faster, so are solid state drives. To demonstrate this, MSI is showing off a new NVMe SSD that can hit sequential read speeds exceeding 5,000MB/s. That’s insanely fast, folks. To put that into perspective, Samsung’s 970 Evo Plus is rated to read data at up to […]
John Romero's Doom Megawad, Sigil, has a firm release date
After a series of delays, John Romero’s much anticipated Doom Megawad, Sigil, will release on May 31. The free Megawad, which is an "unofficial spiritual successor" the the fourth episode of Ultimate Doom, will be available on the official Sigil website come that date. The episode is for the original Doom, and is therefore designed […]
NZXT's H700i mid-tower case is just $130 right now
A few days ago, NZXT’s H200 Mini-ITX case dropped to $67 on Amazon, a discount of roughly $15 from the usual price. That sale is still live, but if you need something a bit bigger, another popular NZXT case is now on sale. The H700i is currently $129.99 at multiple stores, roughly $55 below the […]
Some systems are refusing to install the Windows 10 May 2019 update
Update: See below for a workaround that we’ve successfully used. Running out and grabbing the latest updates for Windows 10 isn’t always recommended. Quite a few people had issues with the October 2018 update, and it was delayed several times. But that didn’t stop some of the hardware team at PCG from taking the plunge […]