Activision has removed the Nickmercs skin from Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone, following an anti-LGBTQ+ comment the streamer made earlier this week.

On June 7, retired Halo pro and MLG executive Chris Puckett tweeted a video of an attack on pro-LGBTQ+ demonstrators outside of a school board meeting in Glendale, CA. 

“This happened 4 blocks from my Overwatch League apartment,” Puckett tweeted. “Americans are in a sad place right now. Let people love who they love and live your own life.”

In response, Nickmercs tweeted, “They should leave little children alone. That’s the real issue.”

As noted by Dexerto, the tweet sparked an immediate backlash. “Who is this they and what terrible act is everyone afraid of?” Puckett replied. “I think/hope the goal of most …

What we have here are two graphics cards that were meant to retail for $899 when they launched. And, honestly, that was a laughable price for both GPUs. The Radeon RX 7900 XT is the second-tier RDNA 3 card, coming in just $100 below the top card in the chiplet GPU stack, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, but with a 10% dip in gaming performance.

If you were spending that much cash, you’d always kick yourself for not spending that little bit more on the clearly superior card. Thankfully that performance delta has only grown, and now you can pick up the RX 7900 XT for $699.99 at Newegg that makes it a far more tempting proposition.

The cheapest RX 7900 XTX I can find is $920, which means you’re spending 24% less cash on an RX 7900 XT for 90% of the gaming performance of the top card. Th…

The team behind the snowbound survival-and-murder game Project Winter is turning its talents to the zombie apocalypse in The Walking Dead: Betrayal, a new game in which players must work together to complete objectives, avoid the undead, and ferret out the “traitors” who for some reason are trying to get everyone killed.

The Walking Dead: Betrayal is a third-person action game for up to eight players, who find themselves stuck in the rural backwaters of Canada with no resources and a herd of walkers—The Walking Dead’s term for zombies—bearing down on them. The only way to escape is to work together to scavenge resources, cook food, craft weapons, and otherwise stay ahead of the relentless shambling hordes pursuing them. Proximity chat will encourage players to stick to…

One of the year’s most unusual stories thus far has been the Witcher 3’s spiffy next-generation update not only polishing the game to a mirror sheen, but adding detailed vagina models to a select group of monsters. Four characters suddenly found themselves in possession of anatomically accurate nether regions (The Crones of Crookback Bog, who look more like Victoria’s Secret models than crones, and the vampire-like bruxae) and the weirder element was that, initially at least, the game’s developer CD Projket Red didn’t seem to know why.

When first reporting on this, PCG’s Josh Wolens speculated on a likely cause: The various community made mods that CDPR integrated into the new version of the game. Looks like that was on the money, because CDPR has now confirmed in a statement t…

Take a look at our clue for today’s Wordle, written to give your guesses a helpful nudge towards the answer while still leaving all the fun bits to you. If you prefer, you can click your way through to the solution to the May 24 (1070) Wordle if you need to—it’s better than losing your hard-won win streak, after all.

The vast, vast quantities of grey letters filling up the first few rows of my Wordle guesses did all the heavy lifting this Friday morning. It’s always a little shocking to see an unimpressive (and slightly worrying) spread of grey and yellow boxes suddenly turn solid green, but it never gets old.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Friday, May 24

Moving smoothly and with little or no effort is the key to winning today…

You can’t tell me that as soon as Portal got the full path tracing experience you weren’t sitting there jonesing for them to do the same thing with Half-Life 2. We all want it, and Nvidia has been working with, what it’s calling four of the HL2 mod community’s “top mod teams,” to make it happen. It’s called, obviously Half-Life 2: RTX.

But while Valve is aware of this Nvidia-backed project, the company behind one of the greatest PC games ever made has no formal involvement. Though, to be fair, that might actually mean it gets a release this side of the next ice age, such is the laggardly power of ‘Valve Time’.

It must be said, however, that development has only just kicked off, with the current four mod teams—now going by the sobriquet, Orbifold Studios—actively …

Prepare to be mesmerised by the beauty of technological mandalas. These intricate and oh-so-delicate artworks by Leonardo Ulian are born of a marriage between tech and art, and the artist’s fascination with this idea that technology has become so important to us that it’s “almost something to worship.”

Ulian’s work ties wires, batteries, resistors, and other tiny components into incredible, vast webs that seem to move when you inspect them closer (via Designboom). 

There’s a big focus on the fact that these are parts that are often hidden to us—unless you’re into the whole transparent casing thing, of course. In bringing them to the forefront, and in such a fascinating way, Ulain’s work feels pretty impactful to me. 

I remember how good it felt going fr…

We’ve already seen one miraculous CS:GO play recently, in which a player killed an entire enemy team with an incredible, one-in-a-million shot. Now, the Counter-Strike gods have intervened again, with a player surviving a dramatic 4-v-1 clutch all thanks to the bomb.

As reported by Dot Esports, it all happened in the final moments of a CS:GO match recorded by Reddit user Few_Willingness_3700. His Counter-Terrorist team were winning the match 15 rounds to 14. But the climactic round starts disastrously for the CTs, as all Willingness’ teammates are eliminated by the terrorists.

When the clip begins, Willingness is all alone and hunkered down in a corner on B site Inferno. They sit and wait until three of the four terrorists are in close range, unaware of Willingness’…

When Intel returned to the discrete graphics card market last year, it promised that the Arc GPU drivers would improve over time. And true to its word, that’s exactly what’s happened, with regular updates appearing to massively improve frame rates in older games. But I don’t think anything will top the one of the claims in the latest set of beta drivers.

Released yesterday, the new version of Alchemist drivers is said to provide up to 54% more performance in Returnal, at 1080p with ‘epic’ ray tracing enabled. That’s a healthy boost and it’s not the only game that’s been given a wave of the coding magic wand. Guild Wars 2 players might see 53% more fps at 1080p, with Ultra settings, and if you’re a fan of Yakuza Zero, then an extra 154% performance (again, at 1080p ultra graphics) …

Helldivers 2 is by far the best co-op shooter at the moment, certainly in terms of the sheer amount of fun it is. If you’ve already been enjoying it, you’ll know just how fast and frantic the battles can get. Having a clunky old mouse won’t help matters, so if you’ve been looking to upgrade your rodent, then you probably won’t need to look any further than the Logitech G502 Hero.

It’s been part of Logitech’s mouse roster for years and it’s barely changed over time. When we reviewed the G502 Hero in 2021, we highly rated its flawless performance, thanks to the 25,600 DPI sensor and the 1,000 Hz polling rate. You’ll certainly have zero issues regarding precision and accuracy.

The G502 Hero isn’t super light but it still effortlessly glides across any surface, due to the large …