If you’re looking for a cheap gaming laptop that will still out-perform integrated graphics, the MSI GF63 might pique your interest. It’s equipped with the latest-generation Core i5 processor and an Nvidia GTX 1050, and right now it only costs $650 on Newegg. The MSI GF63 is equipped with an 8th-gen Intel Core i5-8300H processor, 8GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive, and a 4GB Nvidia GTX 1050 graphics card. The laptop is fairly light by gaming laptop standards, weighing in at just 4.10 pounds. You can b

The Sims 4 is getting a new expansion next month called Get Famous that will enable your Sims to—surprise!—get famous. But if you’re not famous yet, you may have to wait (and work on it) to get in. Sims who take up an acting career will practice their craft, join a talent agency, and stay on top of social media, while working gigs at Plumbob Pictures. “Be transformed in the hair and makeup chair, rub elbows with the director, and act in an award-winning performance,” EA said. Get Famous will als

FoIP is part of Star Citizen alpha 3.3, which is releasing today to coincide with CitzenCon, the fan convention being held in Austin, Texas. Face and Voice over IP are available to all players in the Star Citizen Persistent Universe.” This ship marks one of the first times Star Citizen players can obtain and fly a ship immediately upon announcement. This ship marks one of the first times Star Citizen players can obtain and fly a ship immediately upon announcement. One new gun, the Kastak Arms Ka

BlizzCon is now less than a month away, and I’m sorry to say that the opportunity to purchase tickets to attend the event in person are long gone. But Virtual Tickets are still available, and if you pick one up Blizzard will throw in a BlizzCon 2018 card back for Hearthstone, plus two card packs each from the Classic, Witchwood, Kobolds & Catacombs, Knights of the Frozen Throne, and Journey to Un’Goro sets. That’s not the only in-game freebie that will come along with the ticket. BlizzCon 2018 r

The Overwatch Halloween Terror event is live, bringing with it the return of the Junkenstein’s Revenge PvE brawl, a bunch of new seasonal skins, and an opportunity to pick up some “spooky gear from previous years” that you may have missed the last time around. Let’s get this party startled!Overwatch Halloween Terror begins NOW.👻🍬🎃 https://t.co/cBH1rWjipd pic.twitter.com/hk3TQsOrouOctober 9, 2018The Halloween Terror kickoff also marks the rollout of the latest patch, which completes the rework of

One benefit of the current glut of licensed Games Workshop games is that some of them are trying to recreate that tabletop experience. Right now there are several turn-based 40K games in varying stages of production and I’ve had a chance to play three of them. The Space Hulk board game has been adapted before, beginning with an atmospheric and brutally difficult 1993 version by EA. Space Hulk: Tactics has an immediate advantage over the other videogame versions, because it has a Genestealer camp

Hunt: Showdown is just incredible, said our Steven after being shown an early build of Crytek’s latest at E3 2017. The multiplayer survival game has come some ways since—having improved on its optimisation, matchmaking and performance during this year alone. Today, it offers the teasiest of teasers for its second and much-anticipated map. The dev also says the map will go “live shortly after the event”, which runs from October 26-28 in San Jose, California. Hunt: Showdown is out now in Steam Ear

Signing in to GTA Online this week will net you a minimum $800,000 of free in-game money. Broken down, that means players can expect a minimum of $800,000 without hardly lifting a finger; and $1.3 million by completing the RDR2 tie-in challenges for the first time. Elsewhere this week, GTA Online introduces three new cars: the Karin Futo, Bollokan Prairie and the Imponte Ruiner. “The Imponte Ruiner: What happened in the 80’s stays in the 80’s. Nightclub earnings are doubled this week too, and al

Czech indie studio Amanita Design is best known for brilliantly bizarre point-and-clickers like Samorost, Botanicula, and most recently, the laugh-out-loud funny Chuchel. It’s called Creaks, and it’s a sidescrolling platformer about meeting your neighbors. Creaks is being developed by a new team at Amanita, headed by artist and designer Radim Jurda, with music by Scottish composer Joe Acheson, also known as Hidden Orchestra. Even so, I think it’s fair to say that it looks and sounds very much li

HyperReuts’ Evolvation bills itself as “a class based and fast paced multiplayer arena space flying shooter with multiple game modes which can be played solo and team-based.” Yesterday evening, a peak of 172,870 concurrent players caused its servers to buckle. “My server is not made for 180K people logging in at the same time so the servers are overloaded. I do not have the money (or receiving any) to setup a server which is able to process 180K concurrent requests. At the time of writing, Steam

Now that the reviews are up, you can make an educated decision on whether to buy a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card , at least based on current performance metrics, features, and prices. We still don’t know how they’ll fare with real-time ray tracing and DLSS-enabled games at large, so there’s a leap of faith involved. However, if you’re ready to make the jump, we’ve rounded up several listings where you can buy one right now. If you’re looking for something more powerful, t

The best weapons in Fortnite are determined by circumstance, strategy and tactics. I like blowing things up, wherever and whenever—which is why I’m digging the battle royale’s next incoming firearm. As teased via the game’s message of the day screen, Fortnite is getting a Quad Launcher. Alongside the description “quickly fire up to 4 rockets to blanket an area with explosive damage”, the Quad Launcher looks like this:The Quad Launcher was first mentioned back in September, when intrepid datamine

No Code, the studio behind 2017 sleeper hit Stories Untold, has announced its next game. Observation is a contemporary sci-fi thriller that lets players control a sentient space station AI. As reported by IGN, Observation takes place on an Earth-orbiting facility where players control an AI system named S.A.M. Observation is without a hard launch date, but is due in Spring 2019. Sam’s thoughts on why Stories Untold shows we need more anthology series in games are worth your time, too.

Onimusha is coming to PC in early 2019. Have a gander at Onimusha: Warlords’ latest ‘gameplay action’ short:With that, it doesn’t look like much has changed from Warlords’ 2001 PS2 iteration—despite its new widescreen display options, analogue stick support, new soundtrack and high-definition graphics. Onimusha was never my cup of tea, admittedly, but I’m sure there are plenty of people out there excited about a $20 HD PC release. That said, I do quite fancy the claustrophobic Ganon-meets-Yoshim

When I decided to switch to a standing desk, I wasn’t curious about the (“disputed,” according to Wikipedia) health benefits. If I can help it, I won’t play PC games in a chair at home again. It’s infused my gaming space with a greater feeling of ownership, something that I think PC gaming naturally invites. If you want a standing desk, you should build a standing desk. I can’t emphasize this more: if you’re running a standing desk, you need a proper mat under your feet.

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Comanche: Maximum Overkill Developer: NovalogicYear: 1992We’re spoiled by technology these days. The most famous example of them was Outcast, but the game that really introduced them to the world was the flight simulator Comanche. That was fine in a plane, but the lower you got (say, in a helicopter), the more obvious it became. Enter Comanche, which used voxels to create hills and valleys and

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Right back at the start of its development, Wargaming was adamant about one feature that would never make it to its naval action game, World of Warships – submarines. “It was not in our plans,” says World of Warships’ prodicer, Artur Plociennik, “because we never had an idea about how to do it properly. For the upcoming Halloween season of the game, submarines are just what punters are going to get. Bringing submarines into the full game is no mean feat, so, for now, that’s exactly what Wargamin

Here’s what surprised us the most in our time with Fallout 76. That’s Fallout to me, and that’s how Fallout 76 felt. Austin: I play Fallout games to explore and get lost, so I don’t have much interest in the PvP in Fallout 76. “As in the other Fallout games a lot of it is inventory management,” said development director Chris Mayer. Fallout 76 uses the same snap-on building system, but it applies it in more interesting and compelling ways that feed into the cycle of looting and shooting.

I think we can all agree* that the town museum-cum-library is the worst part of Stardew Valley to interact with. There’s a mod that fixes these problems: The very pragmatically named Archaeology House Content Management Helper . It fixes my clunky interface problems, and a bit more besides:Allows item rearrangement when you’ve got nothing to donate. Lost books can be sent directly to the library rather than carried. If this sounds like a mod for you, go check it out on Nexus Mods .