Category: Equipment

FromSoft games are, first and foremost, redolent with drip, and Elden Ring is no different. Sure, there’s something about bosses, a man with a pot for a head and the Game of Thrones guy in there, but 2022’s game of the year is above all a beautiful and expansive catwalk. See?

This is presumably why the game now has an official fashion collab with luxury streetwear brand ARK/8, manifested in the form of “The Lands Between Collection,” a set of eight eye-wateringly pricey pieces of clothing that I am desperately trying to figure out how to expense.

The line-up launched for sale today, and ranges from a luxurious faux fur coat lined with a map of The Lands Between (£1,400/around $1,700) to a “Tarnished Destroyed Sweater” (£190/around $230) that’s either edgy and chic or “looks like my dryer ate it,” in the words of PC Gamer fashion editor Andy Chalk.

As someone who is A) forever dressed like a keynote speaker at a young Tory conference and B) feels bad spending north of £10 on a T-shirt, it’s less that the clothes aren’t for me than it is that I’m not for them. But god, how I wish I was.

The creative director on the lineup is one D…

Bespoke, top-end PC components often have some things in common. Wallet-crushing prices, for one, but also things like massive overclocking headroom, a mountain of ports and connectivity, or a unique colour scheme. At Computex 2024, Gigabyte went one better, though, and rounded up the CEOs of AMD, Intel, and Nvidia and got them to add their signatures to some of its latest motherboards and graphics cards.

AMD’s Dr Lisa Su added her autograph to a TRX50 AI TOP, a motherboard for the latest Threadripper 7000-series workstation processors. As this is a brand-new model, there are yet to be retail prices for it, but given the basic TRX50 Aero sells for $560 on Amazon, this one will be a fair bit more expensive. Add Dr Su’s signature and…well…I don’t think you could stick a simple price to something like that.

A similar motherboard was given to Intel’s Pat Gelsinger to sign, specifically a Z790 Aorus Extreme X Ice. Again, you can’t buy one of these right now, but there are some online prices for the limited edition board—over on AWD-IT, you can pre-order it for a mere £1,600. Pat’s moniker probably adds another zero on the end of that figure, if i…

D&D’s revised ruleset—previously OneD&D, or 5.5—is difficult enough to explain that I’ll need a couple of sentences to get through it. It’s not a new edition as per its creator’s insistence, however, it’s a rehash of the existing, soon-to-be decade-old 5th edition ruleset that’s also mostly backwards-compatible with existing 5th ed content. 

Despite my misgivings on how to explain the dang thing to the uninitiated (as well as its flashy digital tabletop), however, I’m cautiously optimistic for it, especially having seen its new cover by virtue of GameInformer’s deep-dive into the art of the upcoming revised Player’s Handbook.

The cover art features a party of heroes facing off against a horde of kobolds, backed by a large and regal gold dragon. It’s a fun counterpoint to the trio of core rulebooks from 5e’s initial release, which showed adventurers fighting a beholder, a lich, and a giant—a reminder that all of the big beasties in D&D aren’t always out to hurt you.

In case you’re wondering why a dragon’s getting all lovey-dovey—good-aligned dragons have been a thing in D&D lore forever, namely the ones of th…

Wizards of the Coast has released a new video explaining some of the changes coming to Dungeons & Dragons when it gets new core rulebooks next year. The 12-minute video is a chat between D&D content director Todd Kendrick and game designer Jeremy Crawford, and covers the past year of playtests for the updated version of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. They also talk about why the One D&D initiative has led to an updated 5th Edition, not an entirely new edition like we originally guessed.

“5th Edition continues to grow, so there is no reason for us to stop it and all sorts of reasons for us to continue it,” says Crawford in this video. The new books will update 5th Edition to what Crawford says is the “current state of the art” to prepare it for what the D&D team hopes will be another decade of 5th Edition. At nearly 10 years old already, 5th Edition is already the longest that Dungeons & Dragons has ever gone without a new edition release or an update—both 2nd and 3rd editions had major revisions released by this time in their lifespan.

In the interview, Crawford says the team will “build the 2024 versions of the books with the goal that…

For those wondering what it would be like to play the cancelled 2008 PS3 demo of TimeSplitters 4 developed by the British studio Free Radical—which is an oddly specific thought—you’re in luck because it’s currently available to check out. 

One Reddit user has single-handedly brought the FPS game back from the dead after they posted a picture of a PS3 devkit that they found on eBay, which turned out to have a cancelled PS3 demo of Free Radical’s TimeSplitters 4 on it.

“I asked the seller a lot of probing questions without giving it away; they indeed had a friend who worked at Free Radical until November 2008, a month before the studio shut down,” Reddit user Flimsy-Zebra3775 explained in a comment under their original post. “They are going to boot the game up at the weekend to see what it is and send me a video; if it’s legit, I’ll buy it, and if someone who knows HDD dumping helps me, I’ll upload the drive.”

The seller ended up booting into it and discovering that this was, in fact, a prototype from the 2008 cancelled version of TimeSplitters 4. After spending $672 (£525) for the console, Flimsy-Zebra3775 uploaded the prototype to Hidden …

Bungie is best known as the studio behind Halo and Destiny, but before it did any of that, it made Marathon, a groundbreaking FPS released in 1994 for the Apple Macintosh. During today’s PlayStation Showcase, the studio made the surprise announcement that Marathon is coming back, but it won’t be quite the game it was 30 years ago.

“A massive ghost ship hangs in low orbit over a lost colony on Tau Ceti IV,” the Marathon website says, setting the stage for the game’s narrative backdrop. “The 30,000 souls who call this place home have disappeared without a trace. Strange signals hint at mysterious artifacts, long-dormant AI, and troves of untold riches. You are a Runner, venturing into the unknown in a fight for fame… and infamy. Who among you will write their names across the stars?”

That’s right, Marathon is now an extraction shooter, in which players will “compete for survival, riches, and renown in a world of evolving, persistent zones, where any run can lead to greatness.”

“We have a tremendous amount of respect for the original Marathon games and, from the very start, we’ve wanted to honor that, especially the mythology, story, and themes of the…

Destiny 2’s hotly anticipated expansion The Final Shape has suffered an enormous leak just days prior to launch, after PS5 players were mistakenly allowed access to the entire expansion via Sony’s Game Streaming service.

In what appears to be an oversight by Sony, Destiny 2: The Final shape had been pre-loaded onto Sony’s servers for access on its streaming service ahead of the expansion’s launch. However, when preloaded, the expansion was left publicly available, enabling players to access it early. Players who accessed the expansion were given a new Guardian Rank 1 account and were required to play through the game’s tutorial. But they could access the inventory, map, and other menu pages, which provided information about items and other details in the expansion.

The leak occurred earlier this morning, with the entire expansion reportedly available to play for about five hours. But players who jumped in don’t seem to have got too far into The Final Shape before access was revoked. Campaign details that have leaked so far relate only to part of the first mission, though it’s possible some users got further and simply haven’t shared the information online.

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