That latter bit is thanks in part to HyperX and its new Fury RGB SSD family. SATA drives generally offer a better bang for your buck and are far faster than mechanical hard disk drives. In this case, the Fury RGB SSD series is rated to deliver up to 550MB/s of sequential read performance and up to 480MB/s of sequential writes. Pricing from HyperX’s web store breaks down as follows:HyperX Fury RGB SSD 240GB (standalone): $128HyperX Fury RGB SSD 240GB (upgrade kit): $155HyperX Fury RGB SSD 480GB (

Several major technology firms are attending a quantum computing summit hosted by the White House today, as the US looks to make some major headway in the field over the next decade. Quantum computing is much more complex and far faster at running calculations than today’s computing methods. In short, whereas conventional computers are based on bits (0s and 1s of binary code), quantum computing uses quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in superpositions of 1 and 0. There are several challeng

Rakuten is one of the best online stores for PC hardware, especially with the site’s frequent deals. From now until tomorrow at midnight (11:59PM PST), almost everything on Rakuten is 15% off (up to a maximum of $60 off), and we’ve highlighted some PC-related deals. To get the discount, you’ll need to use coupon code SAVE15 at checkout. The code can only be used on a single transaction with one merchant, certain products are excluded (like gift cards and bulk purchases), and it’s only valid in t

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the game about traveling back in time to fight zombie tigers in the Roman Coliseum (or something like that), comes out in, let’s see here, two-and-a-half weeks. Okay, so you might think that being so far down the road makes a “Launch Gameplay Trailer” a little premature at this point. The video features gameplay from all three Black Ops 4 modes: Zombies, Blackout, and the catchall “multiplayer” combat. Blackout, Black Ops’ take on battle royale, is probably the bigger

Guild Wars 2 may have become the latest game to fall victim to increased aggressiveness in gambling law enforcement, as players in Belgium can no longer access the game’s Gem Store. As explained on the Guild Wars forums and Reddit, players began experience trouble purchasing gems last week, and Belgium is no longer listed as a billable location. The Guild Wars 2 Gem Store itself may not seem like a problem, but it facilitates “ecto gambling,” an RNG-based form of in-game wagering, which Reddit u

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 and features. For example, Newegg shows Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX Blower model for $749.99 and an EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC Gaming for $799.99, neither of which is currently in stock. If you’re wanting to go whole hog on a GeForce GTX 2080 Ti, Best Buy is selling the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC Ultra Gaming for $1,24

If you’re looking to upgrade your monitor without spending a king’s ransom, you can snag a Dell 27-inch UltraThin (S2718D) today for $219.99 at Staples. That’s a savings of $480 over Dell’s ambitious list price, and $380 less than the regular price that Staples list. Realistically, this monitor goes for less, though the sale price is still a big discount over the next lowest price we could find ($329 at Adorama). This is also the same monitor we highlighted in June when it was on sale for $320.

The sudden, shocking closure of Telltale Games last week was deeply disappointing for fans of its games, including The Wolf Among Us, Tales From the Borderlands, and The Walking Dead. That last one is a particularly stinging loss because The Walking Dead: The Final Season, which would conclude Clementine’s narrative, just got underway in August and will almost certainly go unfinished. Their workplace health coverage, which is particularly vital in the US, will also be cut off just one week after

These are eight techniques that all players should know. In Siege, many floors and ceilings are partially destructible, meaning that destroying them will expose holes in the floor that can be shot through. ClaymoresClaymores in Siege are a lot less forgiving than the ones found in many other first-person shooters out there. So when reinforcing a wall, you’re actually creating a second layer of wall that muffles the sound a bit. Advanced drone deploymentAdvanced drone deployment is a feature that

In the first of three features about the future of PvP, Alex Wiltshire speaks to Bungie about the creation of Destiny 2’s new mode, Gambit. And in our quest we’ve realised that some of the traditional spawning grounds for new PvP games, such as the modding scene, Garry’s Mod, Minecraft and Roblox, don’t seem as fertile as they once were. Bungie’s team ended up making Gambit, which launched with Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion in September. Still, Gambit is very much its own game, with a set of de

In Subserial Network you are an agent of the Machine tasked with finding synthetics who aren’t doing what they’re supposed to be doing, who install serial ports into themselves and find new, inorganic ways to interface. In their quest to be as human as human, synthetics have recreated one of the few things left behind by their absent creators—a version of the internet as it existed in the 1990s. You read their episode guides devoted to obscure TV shows, their online diaries and fanfic, and you j

Battlerite Royale, the standalone battle royale spin-off of excellent MOBA brawler Battlerite, is gliding into Early Access on Wednesday, and to mark the occasion developer Stunlock Studios has released a new trailer showing us how an average match will unfold. Battlerite Royale will cost $19.99 in Early Access, where it will remain for six months. When it launches for real, it’ll be free-to-play, but you might have to pay for extra champions (Stunlock is still working out the details). During E

With three days left until Fortnite Season 6 drops, Epic has taken to its social media pages to tease upcoming skins and themes in its usual inexplicable fashion. This season, it’s a robotic llama DJ because of course it’s a robotic llama DJ. That all might still happen, but we did not expect a robot llama with sick cans to save or ruin the day. If Season 6 is party themed (and since it’s arriving a day after the one-year anniversary of Fortnite Battle Royale, a party is in order) then I’ll part

In Space Hulk: Tactics, the Warhammer 40K turn-based strategy game due out October 9, you won’t just be able to play as Space Marines—you’ll also get control of the nasty Genestealers in multiplayer matches, skirmishes, and a standalone campaign. In a new trailer, above, developer Cyanide Studio details exactly how they’ll work, and they’ll require a completely different playstyle to the Space Marine Terminators. Instead, you have to first spawn ‘blips’ by converting cards once per turn. You can

Amazon Game Studios also revealed on Twitter last week that it has started inviting players to its alpha test at random, from people who signed up on the game’s website. Like last week’s look at the game, the new screens mainly focus on New World’s pretty-looking environments. “Some aspects of the game are experimental…we’re gonna test, we’re gonna expand over time. If you’re interested in taking part, then, you have to head to the game’s Amazon page, log in and click the ‘Email me’ button. He

PS3 emulator RPCS3 is a fascinating project to keep up-to-date with. You’ll see that Uncharted 3 and The Last of Us are now running in-game, which is neat, considering they’re two of the format’s all-time classics. “The Last of Us and Uncharted 3 can now go in-game for the first time thanks to Eladash fixing a crash with cutscenes by making improvements to the RSX Shader Decompiler,” says the video’s YouTube description. The framerate for both remains choppy, but it’s great progress. As ever, yo

A Swiss Super League match between Young Boys and FC Basel over the weekend was interrupted by protests against the growing influence of esports on Swiss football teams, with fans throwing tennis balls and a PS4 controller onto the pitch. FC Basel has its own FIFA esports team. Young Boys does not but reports (summarised here on Nau.ch) suggest that league authorities are considering launching an official esports tournament in which every club would have to compete, which is likely what prompted

Modern military multiplayer FPS World War 3 will enter Early Access on October 19 and will cost $28 (roughly £21), developer The Farm 51 has announced. The shooter will have two modes—the first, Warzone, will see infantry, armored vehicles, and drones battle over fortified points. Winning smaller-scale fights will net your side resources that can be used to influence the War on a larger, tactical map. The developer predicts that the shooter will be in Early Access for between 12 and 15 months, d

But he also worked on other Elder Scrolls games including Oblivion, an RPG whose flaws I will happily overlook because it was blessed to have one of the best expansions in videogame history: The Shivering Isles. The twin islands of Mania and Dementia, ruled over by the Daedric Prince of madness Sheogorath, are bewildering and strange. The Duchess of Dementia wears a frill of spiny, seashell growths, and has sleeves that look like eels or pike caught in the act of devouring her hands. You can see

Unlike the last grand console adventure in the Dragon Quest series, the music in Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age is entirely synthesized. Some Dragon Quest enthusiasts were disappointed by this perceived step backwards, especially since Dragon Quest 8 on PS2 had a lushly orchestrated soundtrack. If you’re among the disappointed, never fear: a mod has been released that lets you replace all the music in DQ11 with pre-existing orchestral versions of the songs. “Our team appreciates your