Legends of Runeterra, Riot Games’ free-to-play card game based on League of Legends, is headed to open beta tomorrow, but those who pre-registered can jump in now and start slinging cards. But with all collectible card games, like Hearthstone, how much it costs to earn new cards matters a great deal. How Legends of Runeterra’s economy worksUnlike Hearthstone and similar digital card games, Legends of Runeterra doesn’t force you to buy booster packs and hope to randomly receive the card you want.

If you have not done so already, I advise reading Jarred’s article why AMD’s last minute 5600 XT BIOS update feels like a bait and switch of sorts. Reviews (including our own review of the 5600 XT), show performance based on the updated clocks with the updated BIOS, as that is what was provided. To make things easy, here’s a roundup of updated 5600 XT VBIOS files that are currently available. ASRockASRock offers three 5600 XT cards and has made available VBIOS updates for each one. GigabyteGigab

Netgear’s Nighthawk AX4 router is the best gaming router in Wi-Fi 6 territory for buyers on a budget, and that’s before factoring in today’s discount. Netgear Nighthawk AX4 Router | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) | $99 (save $50)This is a fast Wi-Fi 6 router that is rated to deliver up to 600Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and up to 2.4Gbps on the 5GHz band. Most of your devices probably are probably based on an older specification. However, Wi-Fi 6 is backwards compatible, so you can upgrade your router and be in

Today, that experience got a little better, possibly, with the addition of a Hardcore Mode that’s going to make your murder investigation more rewarding, or maybe just more miserable. If you’re new on the beat, come back after you’ve already enjoyed your time in Revachol. “But if you’ve loved this strange story in this forgotten city, it’s a way to experience it from a new perspective—a Martinaise perspective. For those of us here at ZA/UM, who’ve already spent hundreds of hours playing, this ne

A new season of Apex Legends will begin in February, and when it does a new character will join the ranks of contenders. I don’t know if Apex Legends people know that, but if you’re a Titanfall fan you’ve heard of it before. The lead-in to the fourth season will see big changes to the World’s Edge map, similar to the King’s Canyon update in season two, design director Jason McCord said. There’s also a new Master Tier being inserted between Diamond and Apex Predator, which will require 10,000 RP

A brown, wooden settlement in Spruce Knob, or in the wreckage of a massive crashed space station? Space station, please! Even a space station that’s no longer in space is cooler than anything else on the ground. Foundation is in a nice spot in The Savage Divide region, and the Settler base looks, you know, pretty nice! I’m personally going to be making a beeline for the base of the other major faction in Wastelanders, the raiders, who have taken over the crashed Valiant-1 space station located i

One of the biggest controversies in videogames in 2019 revolved around Hearthstone grandmaster Cung “blitzchung” Ng Wai, who was suspended from pro competition for a year and stripped of his winnings after declaring “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!” “Gaming is just part of my life, but I want to live in [Hong Kong] for the rest of my life. He just told me that everything is okay and you just need to worry about yourself and everything here in Hong Kong.” “To me, Blizzard is like what

(Image credit: Psyonix)Psyonix is dropping ongoing support for Rocket League on Linux and MacOS. A patch will roll out in early March which will eliminate the game’s online component, though local matches and split-screen play will still function. “We want Rocket League to be the best experience possible for all our players,” Psyonix wrote in a statement. This has made it more difficult to support macOS and Linux (SteamOS). Meanwhile, for Linux users, Psyonix suggests users try Proton or Wine.

The peaceful, pleasant farm-life sim Stardew Valley was released on Steam in February 2016, and by April it had surpassed one million copies sold—a big benchmark of success for just about any game, and particularly for a niche indie release developed entirely by one guy. Four years later, the game is available on Mac and Linux, consoles, and mobile devices, and it’s now moved past ten million. Stardew Valley has sold over 10 million copies. !January 23, 2020The sales aren’t broken down by platfo

Vermintide 2 is returning to Castle Drachenfels today with the first chapter of Curse of Drachenfels. It looks like you didn’t kill enough Skaven in the last game and the place is still troubled. It’s free for all players, and it coincides with the launch of the in-game store. You can earn cash from doing daily and weekly quests, and then spend your haul on cosmetics like hero skins and hats. You can earn a bit more from completing Okri’s daily and weekly quests, too, giving you a bit more to sp

The Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2020, with discounts on thousands of games and a festive Night Market to explore, is now underway. Each day of the sale, Steam users will be given a red envelope containing Year of the Rat tokens that can be spent in the Lunar New Year Night Market. Similar to the Holiday Market in the recently-ended Winter Sale, it will offer seasonal Steam stuff including animated profile backgrounds, chat room effects, chat stickers, and more. If you plan on going heavy on games

The indie platformer Horace is out, and the indie logic puzzler The Bridge is in—as this week’s free game on the Epic Games Store. The Epic Store listing describes The Bridge as “a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective.” The Bridge is free until 11 am ET on January 30. After that, things heat up with Farming Simulator 19, “the most complete farming experience ever,” short of actually getting your hands dirty. Did you know there’s a Farming

Even though Corsair acquired Origin PC last year, it still intends on building and selling its own line of branded gaming desktops, including its Vengeance series. In fact, it just added a couple of potent AMD configurations to its Vengeance lineup. They’re part of the company’s new Vengeance 6100 series and include the 6180 and 6182. It’s the biggest that will fit inside the relatively compact Crystal Series 280X RGB enclosure. Both systems also contain 16GB (2x8GB) of DDR4-3200 RAM (Corsair Ve

(Image credit: Aaron Steed)When is a roguelike a puzzle game? Ending is excellent, and it’s just got a surprise sequel in the form of Unending, which is Ending but endless, as you might have guessed. As with the original game, Unending is pretty strategic, although you’re generally given a bit more wriggle room thanks to the larger map. Unending a perfect coffee break game, a great blend of puzzle and roguelike, and it’s playable in your browser over here. For more great free experiences, check

Slick murder sim Dishonored is getting the tabletop RPG treatment from Modiphius Entertainment, the creators of Star Trek Adventures and the upcoming Fallout wargame. You’ll be able to roll a character and hit the streets of Dunwall this summer. It’s gloomy, magical and full of murder—not a bad setting for an RPG. As for what’s driving the game, Modiphius uses its own 2d20 system, which I haven’t used but apparently is a bit more action-focused. The tabletop developer has also worked with Arkane

Co-op cooking romp Overcooked 2 is celebrating Chinese New Year with another free update. The Spring Festival, like last year’s Chinese New Year update, includes a pair of new chefs and new kitchens to put them through their paces. Since we’re about to enter the Year of the Rat, one of the new chefs is a cute rodent, but it’s also accompanied by an equally adorable turtle. Dragons all have inherited wealth, so they can never understand the plight of the small business owner. The Spring Festival

(Image credit: Paradox)Europa Universalis V released seven years ago, and since then it’s amassed a frankly intimidating amount of post-launch content. The company announced on its forums today that it’s testing a subscription service for Europa Universalis V. A new patch, 1.29.4, is designed to accommodate the testing and will not, the studio ensures, affect the game in any other way. A subscription model has been suggested to us on many occasions, so we thought we’d run a test to see how popul

(Image credit: InXile)Announced back in 2018, Wasteland Remastered is a substantial upgrade to the original ’80s RPG. Originally scheduled to release last year, the game will finally launch on February 25 on Steam, GOG and the Windows Store (it’ll also release for Xbox One). The game has received a nice visual upgrade, and while it’s definitely no Wasteland 3, it’ll make the game more palatable for those averse to chunky pixels. (Image credit: InXile)It’ll serve as a nice entree to Wasteland 3,

Spotted by one Twitter user this morning, someone has uploaded what appears to be benchmark scores for Intel’s 11th generation processor, aka Tiger Lake. The scores uploaded to Geekbench are just for the Tiger Lake-U processors, though, since Intel is only planning to include them in laptops at the moment. Assuming the Geekbench numbers are true, Tiger Lake-U has some modest gains in performance: a single core score of 1400, and a multi-core score of 4920. However, Tiger Lake-U has a base clock

Half-Life: Alyx doesn’t have a firm release date yet—it’s still listed as “Coming March 2020” on Steam. Understandably, the AMA doesn’t reveal any deep, dark secrets about Half-Life: Alyx, but it does provide some insights into what players can expect from the big VR adventure. “We didn’t talk about Half-Life for a long time because we weren’t actively working on a Half-Life game. Half-Life: Alyx will feature a new voice actor for the lead character, Ozioma Akagha, in order to reflect the charac