Monthly Archives: May 2019

It’s always been there for us, during dull meetings, at working lunches, and as a way to assassinate countless long, slow afternoons. And now it’s finally being properly recognized as the historic time-passing keystone of gaming it truly is. Microsoft Solitaire has been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Microsoft Solitaire has […]

Back in January we wrote about Daughters of Ash, a long-in-development mod for Dark Souls that adds piles of new material to the game. At the time it was only available for the original ‘Prepare to Die’ PC release of Dark Souls, but now compatible with the 2018 Remastered release of Dark Souls, too.  Here’s […]

Fortnite Season 9 is just one week away, and whatever’s in the Loot Lake vault will be revealed soon—but for now, there’s still time to knock out the last few challenges and max out your Battle Pass before moving on to a new season. This week’s treasure map challenge begins with finding the map in […]

Competitive multiplayer games wage a neverending shadow war against cheaters, a network of profiteers who make and sell aim-assists, speed boosts, x-ray vision, and other illicit, performance-enhancing mods. When Respawn added its widely-requested reporting tool to Apex Legends in the March 19 Season One update, almost half a million players had already been banned for […]

Epic Games has dropped the hammer on more Fortnite World Cup Online Open competition cheaters, and this time around it cost pro player Damion "XXiF" Cook a spot in the $30 million finals in July. Cook qualified for the big show earlier this week, but the way he did so struck an awful lot of […]

Every PC needs a good CPU, whether for gaming or other purposes. AMD is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary as a company, and as part of the festivities, Newegg is selling the Ryzen 5 2600 at a discounted price of just $149.99. That includes a $15 instant rebate (code: EMCTYWT23), dropping the price from the […]

While VR never took over the gaming industry as many expected, there’s clearly still quite a strong interest in it: The Valve Index VR bundle, which is priced at a cool $1,000, was completely sold out on day one of pre-orders. And according to Upload VR, the kits sold out in less than half an […]

CS:GO’s Danger Zone battle royale looked so dreadfully dull compared to the more flavoursome Fortnite and, later, the slick Apex Legends, that I never really gave it a shot. The new Sirocco update makes me wonder if I’ve been too harsh on what I thought was an also-ran battle royale contender, however, because it actually […]

There are many things you can do with your old PC: donate it, cannibalize, turn it into a fish tank—but if you’re the creative type you might want to upcycle the old components and turn it into something more artistic.  That’s what several Etsy shop owners are doing: recycling old computer parts and turning them […]

Valve’s Index Controllers have a lot of sensors. The second half of its new Valve Index VR system, each controller uses a whopping 87 sensors, including optical, motion, capacitive and force sensors. All the better to detect what each of your fingers is doing, letting you pick up and drop objects, throw things around or […]