HomeFeatures Magic: The Gathering Jumpstart packs revealed: Minions and RainbowExclusive info Exclusive info Next month, Wizards of the Coast will release a new way to play Magic: The Gathering in the form of Jumpstart. Available physically and also inArena, its PC-based incarnation. We previewedJumpstart yesterday in conversation with Magic’s principal product designer, Mark Heggen. Today we’re exclusively revealing two of its 46 different themes, and discovering the incredible calculus Wizards of the Coast apply to their card designs....

HomeNewsMinecraft Minecraft’s big Nether Update launches on June 23rdLight your portals Light your portals The overhaul forMinecraft’s underworld is almost here. Mojang have been throwing out new information about the changes coming to The Nether for a while now and you’ll get to check it out for yourself before the month ends. The Nether Update launches on June 23rd for both the Windows 10 and Java editions of Minecraft. I popped in to take a look at some of the new underworld areas earlier this year when thefirst Nether Update snapshotgot pushed to the Java edition of the game....

HomeNews PAX West and Australia are being replaced with PAX Online in SeptemberNo lines online No lines online At this point, I imagine anyone planning to travel to Seattle or Melbourne for the Penny Arcade Expo in September was anticipating a change in schedule. Almost every physical game event this year has been changed, delayed, or gone online due to the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. PAX West and Australia are no exception....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves adds ghost ship fleets with spooky wraith cannonsSomething spooky this way sails Something spooky this way sails The marquee change is of course the spooky ghost ships. They can pop up around the sea to bother you just like skeleton ships and megalodons but can be called up on cue for a fight as well. Rare say that ghost ships are more agile than other enemies on the seas....

HomeHardwareNews AMD’s Ryzen CPU family got a little bigger today with three new XT chipsXTra XTra, read all about it XTra XTra, read all about it If their newB550 motherboards going on saletoday wasn’t enough, AMD have just announced three brand-new Ryzen CPUs. Going on sale on July 7th, the Ryzen 5 3600XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and Ryzen 9 3900XT are part of a new XT series of desktop processor that offer higher clock speeds to help get the best possible performance....

HomeNewsDisintegration Disintegration is out now, crashing hoverbikes into RTS-y bitsFrom the art director of Halo From the art director of Halo The futuredream of metal legs and a hoverbike come together today with the launchDisintegration. Combining first-person shooter with mild RTS squad control, it’s about a plucky bunch of robotised freedom fighters trying to save the world and that. While I’m always up for futurebikers, our VidBuds recently had a play and didn’t really get on with it....

HomeDeals Humble’s Fight For Racial Justice Bundle is a great deal for a great cause50-odd games 50-odd games As one bundle ends, another begins. Humble Bundle today launched theirFight For Racial Justice Bundle, raising money for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Race Forward, and The Bail Project. For $30 you can get 50-ish games includingSpelunky,Kerbal Space Program,Baba Is You, Jackbox Party Pack 4,Hyper Light Drifter,NBA 2K20, and Football Manager 2020. It’s impressive....

HomeNewsHardspace: Shipbreaker Spaceship salvage sim Hardspace: Shipbreaker is now out in early accessCan’t wait! Can’t wait! Hardspace: Shipbreakergives us a whole lot of spacedebt and the tools to work it off: a cutting torch, some tether lines, and a basic awareness of how to strip spaceship wrecks for parts. We’ll head in to carefully extract the valuable bits, cracking, peeling ships, and gutting ships - while trying not to do anything that might cause a disaster and ruin our salvage....

HomeNews Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition starts today with demos and dev talksHere are a few early picks Here are a few early picks Head on over toValve’s event pagefor every game taking part. So, so many games are there. Even with the incomplete list available before launch, a few games with demos caught my eye. Pendragon, theArthurian turn-based strategy RPGfrom Inkle, the makers of80 DaysandHeaven’s Vault. Windjammers 2, the sequel to a cult favourite Neo Geofrisbee battle game....

HomeHardwareNews The internet’s convinced that Nvidia are cooking up an RTX 3090 with 24GB of VRAMRTX 3080 Ti vs RTX 3090, FIGHT! RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX 3090, FIGHT! Rumours about the upcoming line-up ofNvidia AmpereRTX 3000 graphics cards have intensified this week, as the latest internet gossip suggests that the expected RTX 3080 Ti won’t be the graphics card sitting at the top of the Ampere foodchain. Instead, it’s going to be theRTX 3090, according to new leaks from German tech siteIgor’s Lab, which is apparently going to have a massive 24GB of GDDR6X memory....

HomeVideos Watch our Vidbuds try and play every demo in the Steam Game FestivalAudio-visual demonstrations Audio-visual demonstrations Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube If you weren’t in the know,the Steam Game Festivalis a week long digi-vent running from today, celebrating upcoming games with free demos and Q&As with developers. You can learn morein a round up from Alice0 herethat lists some of the demos you can get your chops around (including Inkle’s Arthurian strategy RPGPendragonand mad space adventure noir gameGenesis Noir), but next week they’ll all be gone....

HomeFeatures Why, on further thought, Star Wars: Squadrons can’t be the next TIE FighterLet the past die; kill it if you have to Let the past die; kill it if you have to Reader: I’m sorry. I was drunk on lasers. Utterly trolleyed on spaceships, and slurring that a trailer was my best mate. This has happened before, I will admit. In 2002, after watching a midnight screening of Attack Of The Clones with my mate Josh, the two of us sat on the night bus home to Mottingham, and looked at each other guiltily for a while, before one of us dared speak the unspeakable....

HomeFeaturesMagic: The Gathering Arena Like many CCG-curious people, I can’t even think about playing Magic: The Gathering properly. Building a deck from a library of thousands of cards and mechanics makes impossible demands on my time and – frankly – ability. But that’s about to change with Jumpstart, a new format that’s due to launch July 17 on paper in the US and also inMagic: The Gathering Arena, its excellent free-to-play PC-based incarnation....