Even better, AMD claims esports games will benefit the most, with up to 17 percent better performance on average. The latest driver release also comes with a few bug fixes. Fan speeds may remain elevated for longer periods than expected when using Tuning Control Auto Overclock or manual fan curve in Radeon WattMan on AMD Radeon VII. Zero RPM will correctly disable in Radeon WattMan on available system configurations when manual fan curve is enabled. Follow this link to grab the latest driver rel

GOG’s Fair Price Package programme is coming to an end, the digital distributor announced today. Some games are more expensive in other regions, but in those cases the price difference was then given out in store credit. On average, GOG gave customers 12 percent back, but it could go as high as 37 percent, it claims. Stopping the Fair Price Package will allow GOG to “offer better conditions to game creators”. The Fair Price Package will end on March 31, but until then you will keep getting the p

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s new update is out today, tempting players back to Greece with a New Game Plus mode where you’ll be able to start Alexios or Kassandra’s adventures again. Tweaks have been made to the Shadow Heritage DLC, as well, which previously locked players into a heterosexual relationship despite their earlier romantic decisions. New Game Plus mode will become available when you complete the main quest, hurling you back in time to Kephallonia. You’ll be able to see that change tod

It looks like The Sinking City, the Lovecraft-styled horror game of shadows, insanity, and bad shaves, will not make its scheduled release date of March 21. As noticed by OnlySP, the release date for the Day One console editions on Amazon is now listed as May 31, and more tellingly, Steam now says only that it will be out sometime in 2019. The Sinking City is set in the 1920s, in a fictional city called Oakmont that’s been flooded by monstrous deities from the Cthulhu mythos. Austin got a previe

Digital distribution platform GOG has confirmed with Kotaku that it laid off roughly a dozen people last week. A reason for the cuts wasn’t provided, but one of the employees who was let go told Kotaku that staff were told it was “a financial decision.” “I mean, it’s just an odd situation, like things got really desperate really fast. I know that February was a really bad month, but January on the other hand was excellent,” the employee said. I’ve reached out to GOG for more information and will

Judged on cost alone, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is the clear choice—it’s around $70 cheaper. RTX vs GTXShakespeare once wrote “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but even though both the RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti are powered by Nvidia’s latest generation Turing GPU architecture, the RTX and GTX nomenclature matters. All GeForce RTX cards support real-time ray tracing and DLSS processing, whereas the GTX 1660 Ti lacks the necessary RT and Tensor cores for those things. That’s more of a

Outlaws of the Old West is an open-world sandbox survival game set in the American frontier of the 19th century, an unforgiving time and place that challenges players to hunt, forage, mine, and craft—or die! The game will give players a “vast” map to explore with terrain including deserts, plains, swamps, and mountains. That last bit sounds like it could be the most interesting aspect of Outlaws of the Old West, although neither the announcement nor the Steam page have much to say about it. The

When I started playing Foundation, an Early Access medieval city builder, I spent most of my time frowning in confusion. After about 20 minutes, I figured I’d just close the game and wait for Foundation to leave Early Access with (hopefully) a proper tutorial to give me a clue. Unlike most city-building games, you don’t draw roads in Foundation. Maybe it’s some Early Access problem, maybe I am just not quite grasping my supply lines, or maybe my workers are living too far from their jobs to be e

“For the earlier sensitive art material incident, the whole team of Red Candle Games bears the responsibility of this awfully unprofessional mistake. It is not Red Candle’s vision to secretly project extensive ideology, nor is it to attack any person in the real world. Even if the sensitive art element was wrongfully placed before, we kindly ask you not to over interpret other game material,” the studio wrote. Worst of all, however, is that the game is very suddenly no longer available for sale

Alienware hasn’t managed to crack our list of the best gaming monitors, but if you catch one on sale, it’s a different story. Case in point, Alienware’s 25-inch AW2518HF can be had for just $259.99 right now. The AW2518HF is a 1080p monitor that is built for fast-action gaming with a blazing fast 240Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links. Read our affiliate policy for more info.

Nadella’s comment comes after some employees protested the contract via an open letter addressed to him and Microsoft president Brad Smith. The letter, titled “HoloLens For Good, Not War,” demands that Microsoft cancel the IVAS contract and calls for the appointment of an independent, external ethics review board. “The application of HoloLens within the IVAS system is designed to help people kill. In addition to blow back over the military contract, which was awarded last November, Microsoft tod

Three years after launching its HoloLens augmented reality headset, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2, an improved and pricier iteration that costs $3,500. What it is, though, is a better version of HoloLens in practically every way. Microsoft said it more than doubled the field of view in HoloLens, while maintaining a holographic density of 47 pixels per degree of sight. However, the expanded field of view is the potential game changer for people who use this kind of thing. In addition t

Dead Cells is really good: “A stellar action platformer with gorgeous presentation and excellent combat” that earned 90/100 in our review and a place on the list of our favorite games of 2018. Later this year it will also get some DLC, and today you can get an early look at what’s coming. The footage is included in a Red Bull Gaming mini-documentary on French developer Motion Twin, which has been around for nearly two decades but was focused on free-to-play “casual” games prior to the creation o

Thanks to a leak on Amazon we know what the next official adventure will be for tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons. Ghosts of Saltmarsh will update several old modules for the current fifth edition of D&D, including The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, TSR UK’s first scenario, which was published in 1981. The new book will detail the port town of Saltmarsh, and contain enough adventures to carry PCs from level 1 to 12, which can be run individually or linked together into a single campaign. There are

Announced a couple of years ago, Chex Quest HD is a remake of everyone’s favourite Doom WAD designed to peddle cereal. If you’re too young to know about Chex Quest this is going to seem very strange but here we go. Well, Chex Quest is back, in HD form. Chex Quest HD is still a game about a dude who wears wheat-based cereal for armor zapping slimy aliens in a kid-friendly way. How long until the Brutal Chex Quest mod, you think?

Baba is You is a puzzle game that won both Best Student Game and Best Design at the IGF Awards. BABA IS YOU reads one rule, and ROCK IS PUSH another. But shove the words around to read ROCK IS YOU and suddenly you’re controlling a boulder. The parts of each level that block you, drown you, or burn you can all be messed with the same way. Watch the trailer to get an idea of how it works in play.

Deep Style is a neural network based on the Deep Dream thing that did the rounds a few years ago. Modder Jam2go took Deep Style and used it to replace every texture in Fallout: New Vegas after feeding it a wide-ranging catalogue of paintings, in styles from surrealist to post-modern. He previously did something similar to Skyrim with Deep Dream and that’s worth a watch too. Run through his mod (which you can download from Nexus Mods), New Vegas looks like someone ate a gallery and vomited on it.

#OWL2019THE @ShanghaiDragons SECURE THEIR FIRST WIN!https://t.co/U6dIipgQGs pic.twitter.com/Nfux0Zvl7HFebruary 23, 2019After a staggering 42 losses across two seasons, the Shanghai Dragons have finally won their first Overwatch League match. With their third map win in the series tonight, the Dragons secured victory over the Boston Uprising, breaking the longest losing streak in professional sports history. This Shanghai team, of course, is quite different than the team that went 0-40 in the ina

That’s why it’s surreal to see modder Onureth’s immaculate recreation of Hogwarts in Planet Coaster. What I love though, is the attention to detail present in every single room. Basically, if a room was shown on screen at any point in the eight movies, Onureth has included it. It’s probably one of the most accurate models of Hogwarts I’ve ever seen, and to make it in Planet Coaster must have been an immense challenge. If you have Planet Coaster and the required DLC, you can download Onureth’s Ho

The best gaming monitors for playing at 4K are Acer’s Predator X27 and Predator XB321HK, but if you’re looking for something more affordable, check out LG’s 24UD58-B. The name is boring compared to something called a “Predator,” but it’s on sale today for $229.99. LG’s monitor sports a 23.8-inch IPS panel with a native 3840×2160 resolution, and supports FreeSync to boot. It lacks bells and whistles such as HDR support and a built-in USB hub, but for the price, it’s hard to complain. It also supp