Doom 2 is pretty well-lit for a labyrinth full of demons, and after 25 years its power to intimidate has perhaps diminished a little, but there’s a solution! Night64K is a mod that turns out all the lights, forcing you navigate the darkness with flares. You’ll need to toss out flares to get your bearings and keep a look out for more Shadows, and they come in different colours, too, just in case you wanted to turn Doom into the world’s most depressing nightclub. You can see it in action in the vi

(Image credit: Ubisoft)The first free episode for The Division 2, entitled DC Outskirts: Expeditions, will go live on July 23 for Year 1 Pass holders, Ubisoft announced today, and one week later—July 30—for everyone else. The update will take players beyond the boundaries of Washington DC in two missions and a new multi-part “Expeditions” mode built around a search for a lost military supply convoy. The first new mission, Camp White Oak, will be a “well-planned attack” on the presidential compou

(Image credit: Wikimedia Commons via Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine)If you plan on buying some PC parts from Newegg soon, you might be interested to know that the retailer is handing out free store credit. For a limited time, when you buy a $50 gift card from the company’s website, you get an additional $10 gift card for no extra cost. The promotion is limited to one per customer, and the cards are delivered instantly via email. You can send both cards to yourself, or just keep the

Moons of Madness was introduced in 2017 as a game that “aims to separate real mental illness from Lovecraftian madness.” Two years and one 12-minute gameplay trailer later, I have to wonder if that focus on realism is still a priority. Rock Pocket’s publishing deal with Funcom has also moved Moons of Madness into The Secret World setting, where Lovecraft-style supernatural horrors are real. It’s still too soon to tell whether Moons of Madness will live up to its early promise, but even if it fal

Cooler Master cleverly calls the MasterCase H100 “a little game changer.” The case measures 312 x 216 x 301 mm if you count the protrusions, otherwise it checks in at 278 x 216 x 294 mm. It’s hard to see without a banana in the pic, but the MasterCase H100 is compact. Cooler Master says the MasterCase H100 will be available soon for an affordable £54.99. I’ve reached out to Cooler Master for clarification and will update this article when I hear back (and after I finish my banana).

(Image credit: Asus)The floodgates have somewhat opened on AMD’s new Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 GPUs, so if you’ve decided that either model is the best graphics card for your setup, you can purchase one right now. Those will come, eventually—Asus said it will have custom Navi cards in September. It remains to be seen what kind of custom designs Asus will concoct. The image at the top of this article is of an Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX 590. Reference specs break down like this:Radeon RX

A new Super Monkey Ball has appeared on the Taiwanese rating board’s site, which will apparently see the big-eared scamp making his way to PC for the first time, as well as Switch and PS4. While Google’s translation is unlikely to be very accurate, it does indicate that the monkey appreciates good food. Super Monkey Ball (現嚐好滋味！超級猴子球) and The Food is Great! Super Monkey Ball (たべごろ！スーパーモンキーボール). While the Gamecube original spawned a whole series of Super Monkey Ball games, I can’t recall playing

Here’s a quick look at the specs, comparing the new RX 5700 models with several of AMD’s previous generation GPUs:All three RX 5700 models use the same Navi 10 GPU, with the 5700 XT cards sporting fully enabled chips while the RX 5700 disables four CUs and 256 cores. (Image credit: AMD)AMD provided reference models of the RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 (but not the 50th anniversary limited edition) for testing. Radeon RX 5700 XT performanceImage 1 of 12 (Image credit: Future) Image 2 of 12 (Image credit

The Steam Summer Sale Grand Prix has sputtered to its inevitable finish, with an easy win for Team Corgi and a promise from Valve to do better next time around. The summer sale for 2019 was relatively unremarkable as these things go, but the Grand Prix event was something else entirely. “Thank you to everyone who participated in the Grand Prix. “As an extra gift for those that participated, we have randomly selected 5000 users that contributed from any team in the Steam Grand Prix to receive the

(Image credit: Creative)I get it, onboard audio in this day and age is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was during the sound card’s heyday. Old habits die hard, though, and my current setup rocks a Sound Blaster ZxR. That changes with the introduction of the Sound Blaster AE-9 and AE-7. According to Creative, these are the “most advanced PCIe sound cards ever.” The AE-7 is a slighter lesser product, though “very much a powerful sound card in its own right,” Creative says.

A third of Cyberpunk 2077’s digital preorders on PC have been made on GOG, according to developer and platform owner CD Projekt Red. “Thank you for your support—it’s breathtaking,” CD Projekt Red said on Twitter, repeating a phrase that will absolutely follow the John Wick star around for at least another year. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney congratulated GOG in a tweet, adding that it proved the multi-store future had arrived and that GOG Galaxy will unite the PC gaming community instead of fracturing it

Not content with being stuck in Zombies mode, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s undead menace has broken lose and spread to the rest of the game, kicking off a zombie apocalypse. Operation Apocalypse Z is out today on PS4 and will appear on PC at a later date. The zombie update brings with it new monsters, weapons, maps and more in both the Zombies mode itself and the normally zombie-free regular multiplayer modes and Blackout. Treyarch says its 400 percent larger than the original Nuketown map and ha

And PC Gamer checked out a trailer for Kingdom Under Fire 2, an MMOARTS—massively multiplayer online action real time strategy game—that had been announced in 2008. But now it looks like it’s actually, finally going to happen: Gameforge announced today that it has acquired the KUF2 publishing rights for North America and Europe, and that it will arrive on Western shores later this year. “We are determined to help Blueside realize their vision of the ultimate MMO, launching Kingdom Under Fire 2 f

Sindel, the former Queen of Outworld and hair metal enthusiast, is joining the Mortal Kombat 11 roster. She’s looking a bit undead. 7 deadly Sindels #MortalKombat11 pic.twitter.com/d1isuSbwxHJuly 8, 2019Like a lot of Mortal Kombat fighters, Sindel’s not had the best luck. Sindel was killed again along with Nightwolf—also returning in DLC—in the Mortal Kombat reboot, but showed up as a Revenant in Mortal Kombat 10. Despite being taken care off by the good guys in the last game, Kronika’s time-war

The Crusader Kings board game will be gracing tabletops very soon, letting you plot and fight and spawn incompetent heirs while your opponents, the other great European dynasties, sit across from you. Paradox announced a few board game adaptations last year, which is fitting for a company that started by adapting a board game, Europa Universalis. Like its PC counterpart, Crusader Kings is driven by characters rather than nations. Jon Bolding and I played a few rounds at last year’s PDXcon and, w

The human-shaped supernova that is Keanu Reeves is becoming a familiar face in games. John Wick cropped up in Fortnite and is getting a tactics adaptation in the form of John Wick Hex, and of course there’s his upcoming stint as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077. Thanks to modder JinMar, we can now add Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain to the list. The work-in-progress mod lets you play as either John Wick or Johhny Silverhand while you’re leaping out of helicopters and knocking out Soviet

Devilishly tricky 2D shooter Cuphead is getting an animated comedy spin-off on Netflix, with Studio MDHR’s Chad and Jared Moldenhauer serving as executive producers. Unlike the game, The Cuphead Show will be possible to finish even if your hands refuse to obey your commands. The cartoon will be produced by Netflix Animation and will apparently give us more Cuphead and Mugman antics as it expands upon the weird world we saw in the game. Cuphead was inspired by Fleischer and Disney cartoons from t

(Image credit: Flickr (Hanul))There are many ways you can speed up your PC, everything from overclocking to upgrading your hardware. You might remember frantically pushing your mouse around your desktop while waiting for Windows 95 to finish installing or loading a program, or some other task that was taking FOR-EV-ER. There’s a thread on StackExchange that explains there is a very real reason why moving the mouse cursor appeared to improve performance in Windows 95. There is the lengthier expla

I wrote about it very briefly when it came out, but ever since I’ve been checking in occasionally to see how Jump King is faring. (To answer that question, here’s a sample of some recent Steam reviews: “If you ♥♥♥♥ing hate yourself you should buy this game”, “i am not king of jump”, “you jump”, “Horrible game with memorization controls”.) The thing about Jump King is that it’s immensely bloody hard. Because the Jump King cannot do anything except jump (he cannot walk! Anyway, thanks to speedrunn