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HyperX keeps on showing its strength in the PC gaming peripheral market, with the HyperX Alloy Origins gaming keyboard as the latest example (See it on Amazon). It sports all the RGB flair and mechanical switches you expect from a gaming keyboard, at a modest $109 price. And it introduces HyperX’s custom key switches to boot. At this price, it competes readily with the best budget gaming keyboards around, even if it doesn’t have quite the aggressive budget proposition of something like the $49 G.Skill KM360 or $69 Cooler Master CK530. Here’s what you need to know and what I experienced using the HyperX Alloy Origins.

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Cuphead is the perfect candidate for an art book. The captivating visuals and 1930s-style cartoon animation make it a marvel to watch in motion. Luckily, StudioMDHR agreed, and soon you can own an official Cuphead art book. The newly announced limited-edition of The Art of Cuphead is currently discounted to $63.84 at Amazon (listed at $100).

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The limited-edition comes with a beautiful cloth slipcase and portfolio with acetate sheets inside. The transparent sheets walk you through the start screen animation. A standard edition of The Art of Cuphead is also available to pre-order. It’s currently $28 at Amazon, which is $12 off the list price.

StudioMDHR partnered with Dark Horse Books to give fans a behind the scenes look at the process that went into creating Cuphead’s gorgeous animation. The 264-page hardcover promises to show early designs for both characters and levels, as well as frame-by-frame animation examples. Co-directors Chad and Jared Moldenhauer discuss the design process throughout, too. And there’s even new art from the upcoming DLC The Delicious Last Course.

Heads up: It’s entirely likely that prices for both editions will rise as we get closer to the March 17 release date. The standard edition has been available to pre-order for several months. I pre-ordered the standard edition when it was $20, so it’s worthwhile to get your order in as early as possible.

Ubisoft is suing cheat provider MizuSoft, claiming that the company has sold “hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of cheats for its tactical online shooter Rainbow Six Siege, forcing the developer to spend “enormous sums of money” attempting to remediate the damage.

As reported by Polygon, the lawsuit, which was filed on October 23 in California, alleges that MizuSoft operators are selling and servicing cheating programs that expand a player’s field of vision, increase weapon damage, and reveal hidden enemies, among other game-ruining exploits. Ubisoft’s legal proceedings are aimed at the company and its owner, a minor referred to only as J.V.L. in the lawsuit.

MizuSoft calls itself “a leading cheat provider focused on providing powerful but user-friendly software,” with its website stating that it has a “clean detection record” and is “deadset on keeping cheat undetected” as a way to prevent player’s accounts from being banned. The “Budget Edition Rainbow Six Siege Cheat” is sold on the website as a subscription for around $13 per day or $77 per month. Ubisoft claims the company has violated copyright and encourages players to breach its terms of use and code of conduct.

Ubisoft has been dealing with a slew of cheaters ever since Rainbow Six Siege launched back in 2015. In 2016, it updated the game’s code of conduct, permanently banning first offenders found cheating or hacking. It later added new anti-cheating tech and saw it ban 3,800 cheaters on PC within the first week of being implemented. Ubisoft says MizuSoft’s cheating software has been downloaded and used by players “thousands of times,” earning the website thousands of dollars each month. The lawsuit alleges that this money has been funnelled through a payment processor linked to a web design firm called Simply San Webdesign, which is supposedly owned and operated by J.V.L.’s mother.

Ten other defendants are listed on the lawsuit, but Ubisoft only knows who the website owner is so the majority are being sued under their Discord names. Ubisoft also notes that J.V.L. “bragged to the media that his Cheating Software ruins R6S for other players,” and the developer is asking the court for maximum damages equating to $25,000 per violation. At the time of writing, MizuSoft’s website is no longer operational, simply displaying a message stating that it “will be ceasing operations as of October 24, 2019.

We love the standard Xbox controller, but there are a lot of excellent alternatives.

If you’re running an Nvidia GPU you should consider a G-Sync monitor for more fluid gaming. They can be a bit pricey, so here’s our rundown of the best cheap G-Sync monitors.

From budget to bonkers, Intel and AMD, we’ve rounded up the best mATX motherboards for your next PC building project.

Could it be real? Could there really be another good Terminator film in the world? It seems so, and that’s one of the plethora of topics on the table in this week’s IGN UK Podcast. Matt’s seen it, and he’s got a few thoughts on why – for better and for worse – it’s the best one since T2. Not only that, but we’ve got an interview with stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton on the show, too.

Before all that, though, there’s more to discuss. Star Wars! The Outer Worlds! Watchmen! Big hefty topics that require big old hefty chats. And that’s exactly what Matt, Cardy, and Joe have for you in episode 510.

There’s also a truly thrilling edition of The Endless Search with a first act twist that you wont want to miss, plus your feedback.

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