Monthly Archives: June 2019

(Image credit: Riot Games) Teamfight Tactics, Riot’s League of Legends-themed autobattler, has proved to be a bit popular. Riot made its Auto Chess bid earlier this week and it looks like players have been flocking to it in their droves, straining the servers and bumping up queue times to an hour. Dealing with the demand […]

(Image credit: Acer) Acer’s got a raft of daily deals happening right now at Amazon, and one of the best of the field is this Core i7-8700, Radeon RX 580 powered desktop (one of the best CPUs for gaming and best graphics cards, respectively). The Acer Nitro 50 usually retails for $899, but this daily […]

(Image credit: Future) Update: In a post on the official Steam for Linux community, a Valve developer said that Steam will likely continue to support Ubuntu. The reversal came after Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu Linux, said they would continue to support select 32-bit packages on upcoming versions of the Ubuntu desktop OS. "We’re still […]

(Image credit: Bernie Sanders YouTube) U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has created a Twitch channel, which probably doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing him stream PUBG duos with Shroud, but we can always dream. Instead, as Recode reports, the Sanders campaign plans on using Twitch alongside Facebook and YouTube to stream up-to-the-moment live […]

(Image credit: ASRock) The Radeon RX 590 is currently AMD’s best mid-range graphics card, with slightly better performance than the 8GB RX 580. The card has occasionally dropped below the $200 mark, and now it has happened once again. ASRock’s Phantom Gaming X model is now $199.99 on Newegg, and it comes with three free […]

(Image credit: Mad Catz) You could practically build an entire PC using only anniversary edition parts, which now includes a mouse from Mad Catz. In celebration of 30 years of gaming, the company is offering a limited run of its R.A.T. 8+ 1000 optical gaming mouse with a unique color scheme. What makes this version […]

(Image credit: Future) Detention, the ruminative Taiwanese horror game by Red Candle Games, is getting a film adaptation, and its set to hit cinemas in Taiwan this September. Set in Taiwan during the ‘White Terror’ period of martial law, the game is a cryptic and lonely exploration of political dissent and its ramifications, set entirely […]

(Image credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation) The Raspberry Pi Foundation today unveiled the next major iteration of its popular mini PC, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. While the new model looks similar to previous variants, there are some key upgrades that embolden the company to pitch this as a potential desktop PC of sorts. Chief […]

Microsoft Flight Simulator was one of the best things to come out of E3—and the prospect of soaring over realistic cities and snowy mountains just got even more appetizing. The game will support "third-party content development and community content creation", the development team confirmed in a blog post this week, and no doubt modders are […]

Tim Schafer offered a simple, to-the-point explanation for agreeing to Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Double Fine Productions: Money. He was joking, sort of (maybe?) but he took a more serious tone in an interview with Gamasutra in which he talked about the studio’s long-term prospects under the Microsoft flag.  Schafer said Microsoft has committed to […]