Razer have officially lifted the lid on the world’s first wireless keyboard and mouse combo designed for the Xbox One, which also happily works on Windows 10 PCs, too. Dubbed the Turret, console box-ers who have always yearned for the pixel-perfect precision of a mouse and keyboard in such popular past times as Fortnite, Warframe and that new and definitely not aeons old DayZ that just launched, er… again, can finally get their heart’s desire and enjoy all those glorious clicks and clacks from the comfort of their own sofa.

Well, they can in a few months time anyway, as Razer’s new Turret isn’t due to launch worldwide until sometime between January and March 2019. You can, however, pre-order one right now if you’re in North America, all for a princely sum of $250.

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The Long Dark‘s frozen apocalypse is just a little bit nicer to survive through this week, as Hinterland Studio have launched their ‘Wintermute Redux’ update for the game. After putting plans for a third episode of its story-driven main campaign on hold, they opted to overhaul what was already there. As detailed here, the story now plays out entirely in first-person with fully voiced and animated dialogue. There’s more locations, a new intro, and Hinterland claim that they’ve opened up its mission structure to allow for more free-form survival between its narrative bits. Check out the trailer below.

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There’s been a lot of upheaval in the world of best gaming monitors over the last twelve months. Not only have we started to see more 4K monitors arrive on the scene at ever lower prices, but HDR (or high dynamic range) also finally made its way to PC in 2018, setting new benchmarks for brightness and colour accuracy in the process. It’s still early days for HDR on PC at the moment, but with more and more of today’s [cms-block]s coming with built in support for it, it’s only going to get better over the course of 2019.

To help you make sense of all the changing standards and find the best gaming monitor for you and your budget, I’ve put together this handy guide. Below, you’ll find all of my top recommendations for a variety of different screen sizes and resolutions, and I’ve also put together an in-depth buying guide on the second page of this article for everything else you need to know about buying a new gaming monitor, including in-depth explainers of all the different panel types, high refresh rates and adaptive frame rate technologies like Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync. If you’re in need of a new gaming monitor, you’re in the right place.

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You re not the hero in Kenshi. You re not the chosen one. There s nothing out there for you to save – other than your own skin. You re just another inhabitant of a huge open world that doesn t care about you. That s its magic, and it takes design to create a world so exquisitely uncaring.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

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I spot the man seconds before my flare fizzles out. It s dark – so dark that even though he s just a few feet away, I can only tell he s there from the condensation of his breath. My own breathing stops, thoughts racing behind a moment pregnant with possibility, a crossroads where anything could happen. Hey , he says. Would you like my beans? .

DayZ doesn’t get more exciting than that.

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The game behind door 19 of the RPS Advent Calendar contains the cleverest use of cutscenes in 2018. That’s unexpected.

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As 2018 draws to a close, now’s the time to start looking forward to the best graphics cards of 2019. It’s been a tumultuous twelve months – the first half of the year saw a prolonged graphics card drought and sky-high prices due to crypto-miners hoovering up every last GPU on the planet, and the second half of year saw the arrival of several new graphics cards such as Nvidia’s trio of Turing RTX cards and AMD’s Radeon RX 590.

The old RX and GTX guard are still going strong, too, though, which now means we’ve got more graphics cards to choose from than ever before. Fortunately, I’ve compiled this handy guide to help you find the best graphics card for you and your budget. Whether it’s for playing games at 1920×1080, 2560×1440 or 4K, I’ve got a card recommendation for you.

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It shall be a white Christmas in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds this year, as the snowy new map Vikendi has launched on the main client. It’s a mid-size map, 6x6km, with exciting spots including a cosmodrome, castle, and dinosaur park. Here’s a little festive secret for you: all those assault rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenades, bulletproof vests, and boxes of ammunition are lovingly hand-placed for you by Father Christmas before the start of the round. If you only find terrible loot, well, clearly Santa knows what you’ve been up to this year.

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My DayZ are numbered. After spending the past week being murdered in the original multiplayer survival sandbox, I’m not sure I can stomach another. Although Miscreated does have varied zombie types, aggressive wildlife and more interesting weather than ‘rain or not rain’. It’s fresh out of early access, though somehow they’re still calling version 1.0 “a beta release”.

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There’s a pirate MMO on the horizon, and its sea-farers look ambitious. Atlas is being made by Ark: Survival Evolved devs Studio Wildcard, and sets sail on early access today. It plops 40,000 players into the same fantasy world, where they compete to govern territory and can fire at any ship on the sea.

I spoke to project director/lead programmer Jeremy Stieglitz and creative director Jesse Rapczak over Skype. We chatted about singing to stave off boredom on voyages, player politicking, ship combat as a team sports game – and a plan to save every player before they die of old age.

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