Last year, Samsung turned the market upside-down with their super-ultra-wide, 49” CHG90 gaming monitor (review), and it provided a uniquely awesome experience—despite a somewhat low 1080p vertical resolution. This year, they’re one-upping themselves with the CRG90 (See it at Amazon), which—for a $1499 list price—brings the same super wide form factor at a much higher 1440p resolution. Samsung lent us a model to try out so we could see how it performs.
When I spoke to Sean Murray last year, he had decided that he was done with huge updates to No Man’s Sky. The last major addition, titled Next, had added so much in one go that it had left him a little exhausted, and he wanted to switch to smaller, more regular patches. For a while, he kept that promise to himself. “We kept things more as a live game, like a normal studio would,” he tells me. “We were doing really well, like a proper game!”
“And then we just went mad.”
13 months after Next’s release, we’re sat in the same office, and Murray is showing me a new mega-update called Beyond. It’s considerably bigger than Next, rolling three planned sets of changes into one package. The free update will be out on August 14, and is built with the kind of altruistic optimism we’ve come to expect from Hello Games, designed to simultaneously offer meaningful changes to existing players, tempt lapsed players back, and offer brand new experiences for those who haven’t yet been converted.
After a year on the backburner KT Racing’s ever-improving WRC series is back for 2019 and, based on a recent hands-on with it, I’m optimistic about its return.
The natural comparison for the current WRC series is Codemasters’ revered Dirt franchise, and it’s a fair one. Buoyed by decades of off-road pedigree the Dirt games are generally regarded as the best contemporary rally games available, so it makes sense to assess any other aspiring rally racer with that in mind.
While I’ll reserve the more exhaustive analysis for the review, WRC 8 is certainly coming out swinging. WRC 8 will contain more than 100 stages across 14 countries, and this time around there’s dynamic weather. The refurbished physics have improved the driving feel noticeably, too – especially on a control pad. On default settings, at least, WRC 8 seems to have shed WRC 7’s control pad twitchiness; countersteering and course correcting feels a bit less deadly but overall it’s still nice and responsive. KT Racing has even included classic rally cars at long last, though there’s only a small handful in the preview build and it’s unclear whether the retro roster will expand much in time for release.
Codemasters has announced VR support for the excellent Dirt Rally 2.0 is ready and available now for the PC version of the game.
Dirt Rally 2.0 is on the Oculus Store now and OpenVR support has been added to the Steam version for free. Players who pick up the Oculus version will apparently able to compete in special daily, weekly and monthly challenges (and the Oculus edition will also feature five exclusive car liveries for players who really, really want the word Oculus writ large on their car).
Codemasters has again reiterated there are no plans to add PSVR support to Dirt Rally 2.0, but a free new (old) location has been added to all versions of the game: DirtFish Rally School. DirtFish has been inserted as Test Drive location and is expected to be added to Freeplay “in a future update.” American rally academy DirtFish, located in Washington state, was previously included in Dirt 4.
The Australian Classification Board has refused classification for Bohemia Interactive’s long-gestating survival shooter DayZ, creating a confusing scenario IGN is still attempting to unravel.
DayZ was refused classification on June 4 this year due to “illicit or proscribed drug use related to incentives or rewards,” a video game rating hurdle that has persisted in Australia despite the major reforms of 2013.
“One of the options to restore the player’s health is a marijuana joint, labelled ‘cannabis’, which is denoted by a cannabis bud in the player’s inventory,” explains the report, via Kotaku.
Both Nvidia and AMD have recently launched a new wave of video cards aimed at the PC players who want high-end performance at a mid-range price. These new GPUs expand the wealth of options for those on tighter budgets, and as you’ll see in our benchmark tests, deliver impressive performance in relation to their predecessors. But the old question for PC gaming enthusiasts is relevant now more than in recent years: AMD or Nvidia? Well, it depends.
While Nvidia has largely remained unchallenged in the most expensive category with the RTX 2080 Ti, its begun to diversify its affordable options by offering a reasonable entry points for the relatively new ray tracing tech–namely, the RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 cards. Now, we have souped up versions aptly named the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2060 Super. Nvidia’s RTX lineup now has incremental steps between each pricing tier, but these new cards perform well enough (relative to their price point) to render base models obsolete.
AMD, on the other hand, has been largely playing catch-up. The Radeon VII, which launched in February this year, was the company’s strongest GPU yet but had trouble keeping up with its Nvidia’s counterpart. However, AMD has made good on its approach of being the brand that brings value–not only is AMD offering aggressive pricing, its new RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 have the performance to back it up.
For those who count every dollar when it comes to building PCs or upgrading their existing rig, it’s an exciting time to make the jump for a new GPU. The competition is strong, and regardless of your choice, you’re getting plenty of performance for your dollar. In this comparison and review of the new RTX Super and Radeon RX cards, you’ll see how these sub-$500 cards stack against each other.
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