We said in early 2017 that the Ultima Online-inspired fantasy MMO Legends of Aria “has great potential but needs just a few more months in development” before it was really ready to shine. 31 months later, it’s going live on Steam Early Access. The Early Access version of Legends of Aria will feature a new Bard skill line, a “guided” Profession system, and a new system for enchanting weapons and armor that enables a greater number of high-end items. “We’re ecstatic to finally be launching Legend

(Image credit: Logitech)Logitech produces several of the options in our best gaming mouse roundup, one of which is the G703. It’s a wireless mouse that uses Logitech’s proprietary ‘Lightspeed’ low-latency technology, and it dropped to an all-time low price of $49.99 during Prime Day. If you missed that sale, the mouse has once again gone on sale for $49.99, this time at multiple retailers. The G703 mouse uses a PMW3366 optical sensor for excellent tracking, paired with Logitech’s ‘Lightspeed’ wi

Star Citizen might still be a long way off completion, but as of the weekend it now boasts the beginnings of a legal system, the cornerstone of civilisation. Alpha 3.6 brings with it 19 new laws to the slice of space open to players, along with space cops eager to enforce them. “The new law system brings a much more systemic approach to law and order throughout the Star Citizen universe,” says CEO Chris Roberts. During this time, however, you’ll be chased by other players who have received missi

(Image credit: Antec)Antec is fleshing out its case lineup with a couple of new midtower options, the NX500 and NX600. They are similar overall, and both can be outfitted with up to six cooling fans to keep temps in check, though they only come with one fan apiece. They each offer up separate power and reset buttons, a USB 3.0 port, two USB 2.0 ports, and separate headphone and microphone jacks. Scan has these cases in stock, priced at £69.98 for the NX600 and £57.98 for the NX500. That said, eq

A kit of DDR4 RAM should work in any motherboard with DDR4 DIMM slots, whether you’re running an Intel processor or one from AMD. As such, Geil has validated certain Evo X II kits specifically for Ryzen PCs. Dubbed Evo X II AMD Edition, these kits are being offered in frequencies ranging from 2,400MHz all the way up to 4,000MHz. Still, G.Skill has the most attractive kit right now for a high-end Ryzen PC. Geil did not say when its new Evo II AMD Edition kits will be available or how much they wi

Twitch Plays is a category of channel on Twitch in which groups of people of varying sizes get together to collectively play a game that in most cases is meant to be played by a single person. In 2016, for instance, Twitch played Punch Club and beat the entire game in 36 hours, easily surpassing the developer’s expectations. Now Twitch is playing Teamfight Tactics, Riot’s League of Legends-based autobattler, and it’s doing a pretty job of it. Teamfight Tactics uses the same ranking system as Lea

(Image credit: Intel)The Intel Core i9-9900KF was released earlier this year as an alternative to the 9900K without integrated graphics. However, Intel priced it nearly identically to the 9900K, so there wasn’t much of a reason to buy it. It dropped to a more reasonable $440 two weeks ago, and now it’s available for just $420. It’s just a 9900K with the integrated graphics disabled, so you’ll need a dedicated graphics card to use it at all. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy somet

(Image credit: Asus)The ASUS RT-AX88U has earned the top spot in our best gaming routers roundup, thanks to its support for the relatively-new Wi-Fi 6 standard and excellent wireless performance. If you’ve been looking for a router upgrade, the RT-AX88U is now $280 at B&H Photo, a decent discount from the usual price of $300-325. The ASUSWRT interface has plenty of options and features for you to mess with, including additional security and parental controls for connected devices. In our review,

Fans have of course speculated since then that Dragon Age 4 would head to the mage-ruled nation. An upcoming collection of short stories authored by several BioWare writers titled “Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights” lends a lot of extra credence to that theory. Each Dragon Age game so far has been closely connected to a particular location. Dragon Age: Origins took place in Ferelden, Dragon Age 2 was famously confined to the city of Kirkwall, and Dragon Age: Inquisition was largely concerned with the

Beyond: Two Souls, Quantic Dream’s peculiar psychological thriller, makes its debut on PC today. It joins Heavy Rain, while Detroit: Become Human is due to round out the collection later. Check out the PC trailer below. This version of Beyond: Two Souls will include the Advanced Experiments DLC, 4K support and 60 fps. Beyond: Two Souls is out now on the Epic Games Store for £16/$20, but you can try out the demo first.

It’s also a great price for a powerful, slender laptop packing a 9th Gen i7-9750H and one of Nvidia’s RTX cards, the 2060, which has dedicated RT cores to handle ray tracing workloads and Tensor cores to deal with deep learning tasks. Dell 17″ gaming laptop | $1,400 at Best Buy (save $200)A big, thin, powerful 17.3-inch Dell laptop at a solid discount. Loaded for bear with one of Nvidia’s potent RTX cards and a 9th Gen Intel processor, this is a great machine to rock even the latest triple-A gam

Wolfenstein: The New Colossus had some brilliantly funny moments, but it went to some pretty dark places too, particularly in the flashbacks to BJ’s childhood. “We have our Wolfenstein timeline and lore that we’ve written down internally. The difference with Youngblood is we wanted to do something lighter. Gustafsson also revealed that, while Wolfenstein: Youngblood is being packed with Nvidia RTX cards, it won’t actually support ray tracing at launch. Wolfenstein: Youngblood will be out on July

(Image credit: Origin PC)I have now seen gaming nirvana thanks to Origin PC, which is celebrating its 10-year-anniversary. Not entirely unique, Origin PC actually built a Big O several years ago, though it ‘only’ incorporated an Xbox 360 alongside traditional PC components. Origin PC also upgraded the storage on both consoles, each of which sports its own 2TB Seagate Barracuda SSD (SATA). Being a one-off system, Origin PC built this as a showcase rather than a SKU that is available to purchase.

And if you’re looking to relive the glory and catharsis of defeating the game’s brutally tough bosses, I’ve got some great news. You don’t have to play through the entire game again from the start to go a few rounds with the biggest, baddest brutes—now there’s Sekiro’s Boss Rush mod, which lets you fight the game’s bosses, and only the game’s bosses. With the Boss Rush mod installed, you can select from a list of bosses using the Sculptor’s Idol at the Dilapidated Temple, and warp right to the b

Blizzard has confirmed that the new Overwatch hero is an eccentric astrophysicist named Sigma, whose groundbreaking work promises to change the universe as we know it—maybe by blowing it up! The trailer doesn’t say much about Sigma or how he ended up in that unfortunate state, but according to Shacknews, he was a brilliant, kind scientist who gained the power to manipulate gravity when an experiment went badly wrong. Unfortunately, he also sustained serious psychological damage and was locked aw

(Image credit: ZOTAC)Nvidia’s GTX 1660 is the first graphics card in a long time that can unseat the Radeon RX 580 as the best budget GPU around, but the prices for most GTX 1660 models have stayed above $200. Now you can get a Zotac dual-fan version for just $199.99 on Newegg, one of the lowest prices we’ve seen yet for any GTX 1660. There’s only one customer review on Newegg, but over on Amazon, the card has an average of 4.5/5 stars. In general, the GTX 1660 is a mid-range graphics card that

While the latest Spidey outing won’t be gracing PCs, modder J16D has rather skilfully incorporated some of its best bits into a GTA: San Andreas mod. San Andreas isn’t quite as vertical as Liberty City, which is based on Spider-Man’s stomping grounds of New York, but Spidey still very much looks like he belongs. Spider-Man 2, arguably the best Spider-Man game adaptation prior to the latest, came out in the same year as San Andreas, though you couldn’t tell from the video. While I still have plen

Just when you think there are enough gory ways to murder people in Mortal Kombat 11, players find new variations on them. The brutality finishers, most of which are unlocked in the Krypt mode, have alteration versions that tweak the ultraviolence with a few extra button presses. YouTuber Dynasty has found one for Cassie Cage, which changes her Get Yo Ass Beat brutality so that instead of just punching her opponent’s face into goop she adds a final gunshot to remove their head altogether. To perf

Has Steam Labs recommended something interesting to you? I will say, though, that I like this system way better than having games recommended to me the old way. On the popular end of the slider, I’m being recommended The Witcher 3, Hollow Knight, NieR: Automata, The Witcher 2, and so on… The niche recommendations are far more interesting looking, mostly because there are lots of games I’ve never heard of. Also, it says I have 3,021 hours total spent in Steam games.