PC Gaming

It’d be tough for me to recommend a $1,000 Ayaneo Kun over a $800 Asus ROG Ally X, but one particular sticking point may go away — you can buy it (and the fairly weak Ayaneo Next Lite) directly from Best Buy, making potential returns easy.

Ayaneo has lovely build quality. While its PC handhelds haven’t nailed battery and affordability yet, it’s one to watch!

The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro has:

🛜2.4GHz wireless
🧲Drift-free Hall effect sticks
🦞Four customizable paddles and two extra shoulder buttons (for claw grip)
🔒Hair-trigger lockouts with mouse-like clicks
⏩1,000Hz wired polling rate on PC
🌈and RGB accent lighting.

I’ve been testing it for over a week and there’s a lot to love. Stay tuned for my full review.

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Following the release of Marathon in May and Marathon 2 in July, the third game in the trilogy, Marathon Infinity, is out now on Steam.

It’s been a good year for classic FPS games.

We held off on a story ’cuz we couldn’t initially find it on preorder, but here it is at Scan UK and Overclockers UK and Germany’s CaseKing, for example.

What about the US? Zotac told Tom’s Hardware it isn’t offering preorders here. Can’t imagine it beats ROG Ally X for the same $800 with a much smaller battery inside... but twin trackpads and OLED intrigue me!

The SN30 Pro was already one of the best pocketable Bluetooth gamepads you could buy, complete with Switch motion controls — 8BitDo recently added drift-resistant Hall Effect sticks, too.

Now, Genki is adding this gorgeous transparent white version with cool legends and a handy reference to swapping between its three modes. Note: It’s a crowdfunding campaign right now, but it’ll retail for $50, just $5 more than the opaque version.

Among Asus’ peripherals announced at Gamescom is a new $199.99 ROG Falchion Ace HFX keyboard. It has Hall effect switches, 8,000Hz polling, and a “Speed Tap mode,” which sounds like the Razer and Wooting features freshly banned in Counter-Strike 2.

Thanks for showing up with the beer after the party’s been raided, Asus.

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Herdling is a beautiful new game about herding from developer Okomotive (Far: Changing Tides and Far: Lone Sails) and publisher Panic (Untitled Goose Game, Thank Goodness You’re Here). It’s launching on PC and consoles in 2025.

Secret Level is a new animated anthology series featuring a bunch of video game franchises that’s coming to Prime Video on December 10th. Featured franchises include Armored Core, Mega Man, Sifu, Spelunky, and “various PlayStation Studios games” — I’m pretty sure I saw Kratos in the trailer.

And by that, I mean, of course, that the Overwatch-like multiplayer game Marvel Rivals finally has a release date. It’ll be hitting PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on December 6th.

While it doesn’t come out until next year, Capcom continues to show off the next big Monster Hunter game, with a new trailer featuring a very creepy giant spider that players will need to take down.

We finally have a release window for the survival game Dune: Awakening, which is going to make me do terrible, terrible things when it launches. In the meantime, check out this new gameplay trailer.

The new game from Glowmade and Amazon Games will let you battle through dungeons with up to four players, or, if you want to, you can create your own. King of Meat will have crossplay and cross-progression, and it’s coming to PC and consoles.

One of the strangest games of the past decade is getting remastered. The updated version of Goat Simulator, which first launched back in 2014, will include all of the game’s DLCs, along with new visuals and some quality-of-life tweaks. It’s launching later this year.

Nvidia is announcing an updated RTX 4070 with GDDR6 memory today. “To improve supply and availability to meet strong demand, we’re introducing the GeForce RTX 4070 with extra fast GDDR6 memory,” says Nvidia. All of the other specs of the GPU are the same, and Nvidia says “it offers similar performance” in games and apps, despite the decrease in bandwidth from GDDR6X to GDDR6 memory. This updated RTX 4070 will be available worldwide starting in September.

SanDisk is launching new Pokémon-branded microSD cards at Gamescom today. Designed for the Nintendo Switch, there are three options available for purchase: a 1TB Snorlax microSD card for $129.99, a 512GB Gengar one for $54.99, or the smallest 256GB Pikachu model for $32.99. These new Pokémon microSD cards support up to 100MB/s read speeds and up to 90MB/s write speeds and are available through Western Digital’s online store.

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Black Myth: Wukong is currently the most played game on Steam with more than 2 million concurrent players. It has already passed the all-time peaks of Elden Ring, Dota 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Counter-Strike 2, and now Palworld. It has become only the third game to beat Counter-Strike’s all-time peak on Steam. The Chinese RPG only launched today, so if the momentum continues it could even top PUBG’s all-time peak of 3.2 million players.

Update: Black Myth: Wukong has now passed Palworld.

PowerA is launching a pair of wireless gamepads for PC, and they’re some of the company’s first to use drift-free sticks. The OPS v1 ($49.99) and OPS v3 Pro ($99.99) join the recently-announced Fortnite SE controller for Xbox to offer Hall effect sticks and extra programmable buttons.

The new gamepads arrive in September and early October.

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While Intel battles to deal with crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, the chip giant is preparing its Arrow Lake generation of CPUs. Benchlife reports that the Intel Core Ultra 200 lineup will launch on October 10th, and feature 14 chips in total. Videocardz also has a roundup of the cores and boost speeds Intel is expected to target for its next-gen CPUs.