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What just happened? If you’re a Discord user, you may notice a pop-up message about PlayStation integration when logging into the social platform today. That’s because the first stage of the long-awaited PlayStation functionality is finally rolling out. It was back in May last year when Sony Interactive Entertainment's president and CEO Jim Ryan announced a partnership with Discord that would see it integrated into the PlayStation ecosystem early in 2022. As promised, PlayStation users are now receiving basic support for the app. It started “gradually rolling out” to those in the US a few hours ago and will be making its way overseas soon—the feature has already arrived in the UK. Connecting your Discord app to your PlayStation Network (PSN) account works like connecting to any other service. Just select the User Settings cog in Discord, click on Connections, and hit the PSN icon. You’ll then be directed to a PSN login page followed by an agreement to link the two accounts. Once you’ve connected the accounts, you’ll have the option to display any PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5 title you’re currently playing, as well as your PSN account name so Discord friends can add you. The feature works on all platforms where Discord is available: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web app. It’s noted that in the PSN Privacy Settings, your “PSN Online Status” and “Now Playing” visibility must be set to “Anyone” in order for your status to be visible on Discord. While there isn’t a lot of functionality introduced today, statements from Sony and Discord suggest this is only the beginning and that more features, such as voice chat integration (hopefully), will be added over time.

What just happened? It's starting to look as if 2022 is the year of the PC case at CES. Following reveals of unique designs by several companies, HP has joined the party with the Omen 45L ATX, which features an Omen Cryo Chamber that stores the system’s radiator outside of the main case. The Omen 45L is the latest in HP’s well-reviewed Omen desktop line. In addition to being larger than the previous Omen 40L, the new PC comes with a patented Omen Cryo Chamber. It’s a chamber placed outside of the main interior section that can house all-in-one liquid coolers measuring up to 360mm in length. The theory behind the Cryo Chamber is that by keeping the radiator on the outside of the case, it can suck in cooler ambient air than if it were on the inside. The chamber design also means that the chassis can be carried around by the handle it creates. HP claims that the Cryo Chamber can lower CPU temperatures by 6 degrees Celsius compared to standard designs. There’s also an intake on the front of the case so the three 140mm RGB fans can pull in fresh air. Another benefit of the Omen 45L is that it has lockable front and side panels that can be easily removed without tools. HP is now selling the case on its website with a complete system packed inside—up to an Intel Core i9-12900K, RTX 3090, 64GB of DDR4 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD—starting at $1,999. There are also AMD-powered options starting at $2,378.99 that can be specced up to a Ryzen 9 5900X. It's worth noting that all the components come from named brands. The good news for those who prefer to build their own PCs is that the Omen 45L case will soon be available to purchase by itself. No price was given but expect it to be somewhere between the $199 Hyte Y60, which offers panoramic views of the interior hardware, and the $250 Kinetic Series with its 18 motorized triangular vents.

Hearthstone’s Mercenaries game mode is now live and I had a chance to get my hands on it early over the past week. The new Hearthstone game mode that intends to delivery a strange combination of roguelike and RPG gameplay elements within the confines of a card game. While we’re no stranger to card games in a similar vein (like Slay The Spire), I was curious to see how Mercenaries intended to capture my attention so here are my thoughts on playing it. One of the first mechanics that we are introduced to in the new game mode is the rock-paper-scissors style of combat roles assigned to your board pieces. The Mercenaries you control can be classified into Fighters, Casters and Protectors. Each Mercenary comes with its own unique moveset, giving the game a familiar depth in building team composition. You can create a Party of six Mercenaries, picking three of them to start a combat instance and replacing them upon their defeat as you progress in the game. The synergies between certain Mercenaries is impressive and fun, giving me more of a reason to try out different characters until I find the team I like. You get eight of your first Mercenaries simply by completing the introductory missions and once you’ve put together your Party, you can start hunting down Bounties to earn rewards. These rewards help strengthen your Mercenaries, depending on which, you can farm the Bounty that tickles your fancy. This offers the mode some sense of replayability in a very traditional RPG sense and comes with that flavor of roguelike randomness. Each Bounty consists of a set of individual encounters as you make your way up to the final boss. The combat is the farthest away from the game’s typical format yet but retains the simple, straight-forward style that Hearthstone fans are familiar with. During the initial phase of each turn, I choose which abilities to use on my Mercenaries and target the opponent, who does the same. Then the moves play it based on their assigned Speed stat, playing out before our eyes in a manner similar to Battlegrounds. However, there’s a much higher degree of strategy here as I get to choose which ability to use on which enemy, deciding between various effects like halting their attacks or doing wide-spread damage with my own skills. Hearthstone Mercenaries is a really good addition to the game for all kinds of players, despite its potential dependence on microtransactions. The game’s steady independence from its traditional card game format has lead to some very interesting things like Battlegrounds, which had quickly become one of my favorite games to play on mobile. While Mercenaries has similar potential, it will depend greatly on how Blizzard intends to continue bringing players back to it through continued content drops and expansions.

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In context: If you have never heard of Wordle, you're forgiven, even though it seems to be the "in" thing to be talking about on social media right now. Wordle is a puzzle game only available on the internet and only offers one puzzle per day. Despite its limitations, its popularity has gone viral, with unofficial copycat apps appearing in app stores. Wordle is a play on the creator's last name, Josh Wardle. The game plays like the multicolored peg game, Mastermind but with five-letter words instead. Players have six chances to guess the word of the day while receiving feedback on the presence and position of each letter in the guess. You can play once per day for free on Wardle's Wordle website. Self-proclaimed New York entrepreneur Zach Shakked recently submitted his iOS version of the game to the App Store and had it removed in less than 48 hours. It is unclear whether the original game's creator filed a copyright claim with Apple or if the publicity brought on by Shakked's pompous attitude alerted the Cupertino firm to the blatant ripoff. To his credit, Shakked did make some changes to the game by adding four, six, and seven-word variants. He also introduced a paid version that allows players access to unlimited puzzles instead of once daily. Despite his changes, Shakked came under fire on Twitter after bragging about how well his app was doing. Of particular note was developer Andy Baio calling Shakked's tactics "so gross." "This guy shamelessly cloned Wordle (name and all) as an F2P iOS game with in-app purchases and is bragging about how well it's doing and how he'll get away with it because Josh Wardle didn't trademark it," Baio tweeted. "So gross." Shakked defended himself, pointing out that Wordle is a ripoff of the 1980s game show Lingo. He also said he was justified in stealing the name because Wardle never trademarked it, but Baio wasn't buying any of it. "There have been games with similar mechanics dating back at least to the 19th century — the 1980s game show Lingo was far from the first — but this guy plagiarized the name and interface from Wordle as a naked cash grab," Baio said. Others pointed out Shakked's hypocrisy by dredging up a tweet from last summer saying that he "despised copycats." At some point, Shakked locked his Twitter account, presumably because of the backlash, but has since unlocked it, apologizing for the fiasco. "I realize I crossed a line," he tweeted. "And I surely, surely will never do anything remotely close to this again. I f***ed up." The Verge notes that Apple removed several other "Wordle" apps but that many clones remain under various names. Shakked is appealing Apple to reinstate the game.

In context: Intel Arc Alchemist mobile GPUs should be coming out soon, but Intel hasn't shared much about their specifications yet. However, a leaked Intel slide has recently started making the rounds confirming some rumors we've been reading about the upcoming laptop SKUs. The leaked slide titled "DG2 Graphics Memory configuration" has found its way onto the Internet through HXL, a known leaker with a good track record. The slide has a table briefly detailing the specifications of five DG2 NB (notebook) SKUs, which may or may not be the same as the desktop SKUs. First, we have the DG2 SKU with 512EUs, which supports up to eight 2GB memory modules (16GB of VRAM) clocked at 16Gbps. Thanks to the 256-bit memory bus, bandwidth maxes out at 512GB/s. I/O voltage for this SKU is set at 1.35V. Then, we have the DG2-384EU SKU, capable of carrying up to six 2GB VRAM modules for a memory capacity of 12GB. The I/O voltage checks in at 1.35V, and the memory is clocked at 16Gbps in a 192-bit memory bus, maximizing the bandwidth at 384GB/s. In the middle of the lineup, there's the 256EU SKU with 8GB of GDDR6 memory (four modules of 2GB) running at 16Gbps. A maximum bandwidth of 256GB/s is achieved using a 128-bit memory bus. Like the 512EU and 384EU SKUs, the I/O voltage in this one is also set at 1.35V. Last but not least, we have the 128EU and 96EU SKUs sharing the same memory configuration. With up to two VRAM modules (4GB total) clocked at 14Gbps, they offer a maximum bandwidth of 112GB/s using a 64-bit memory bus. Unlike the other SKUs, their I/O voltages are set at a lower 1.25V, hence the lower memory speed. Just because the table shows five SKUs, it doesn't mean there will only be five mobile GPUs. For example, Nvidia uses the GA 102 SKU to power the RTX 3090Ti, RTX 3090, RTX 3080Ti, and RTX 3080 12G/10G, some RTX workstation (A4500, A5000, and A6000) and professional (A10 and A40) graphics cards, and even a mining card. So, expect to see more than five mobile GPU options once they release. In related news, a SiSoftware Sandra result of Intel's supposedly flagship desktop GPU was recently found in the benchmark database. According to these results, the Intel card is on par with an RTX 3070Ti. Who knows? Maybe these results can be replicated in the laptop format.

A new card expansion is set to launch on December 7th, giving Hearthstone players a tough decision to make. In the third part of the over-arching narrative from the last two expansions, Fractured in Alterac Valley promises an epic showdown between Horde and Alliance. Players will choose between the two factions and be rewarded a Golden Legendary card that is available right now. The Frostwolf clan’s Elder Shaman Drek’Thar of the Horde and the Stormpike Guard’s Mountain King Vanndar Stormpike of the Alliance are the Legendary cards that players will be obtaining depending on their faction. Moreover, from December 7 to January 11, each faction will have unique Quests to complete in-game that will earn then Honor points. The faction that acquires the most Honor points will be declared victorious and each player will be getting a diamond version of the winning faction’s leader card. Of course with every new expansion comes new mechanics to play around with. Fractured in Alterac Valley is all about honor, so the new keyword “Honorable Kill” rewards you for dealing lethal blows to a minion. Dealing the exact damage required to kill a minion triggers the Honorable Kill effect and grants the player unique bonuses such as reducing the cost of cards or gaining additional stats. The Mercenaries we’ve been following through the previous expansions have been through a lot. They’ve cleared the Barrens, the Wailing Caverns, Stormwind, and the Deadmines and are now featured in the latest expansion as Hero Cards with their own battlecary effects and hero powers. Each class will be getting a Hero Card modelled after a Mercenary. Objective spell cards will be special effects that last for only three turns, giving the expansion a battle-themed feel where you need to press your advantage and try to swing a fight that you could otherwise be losing. Fractured in Alterac Valley already has it’s pre-order pack out now if you’re interested in a big ‘ol bundle of cards and other benefits like Battlegrounds perks. You can purchase it at the Battle.net store here.

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TL;DR: After months of waiting, Dropbox users can finally download a beta of the desktop app that runs natively on Apple’s Arm-based processors. Users can get it by opting into early releases, though Dropbox doesn’t specify what improvements this version brings. Apple asserts that its transition from Intel’s x86 processors to its Arm-based CPUs has wielded better performance and lower power consumption in applications that run natively on it. Since then, users have waited for their favorite programs to release ports to Apple silicon. Google Drive started natively supporting Apple silicon with version 52.0 last October. Around the same time, Dropbox users started asking when that cloud storage program would bring out a native Apple silicon version, and the company told 9to5Mac that it was in testing but wouldn’t be available until 2022. This week, Dropbox released a version of beta build 140.3.1903 for Apple Silicon. The macOS offline installer for this beta has two versions, one for Intel and one for Apple silicon. To get it as an automatic update, opt into early releases on the desktop app. Dropbox users can opt-in by opening the desktop app, clicking on their avatar, going to Preferences>General, and then toggling on early releases. It isn’t clear how Dropbox improves from running natively on Apple silicon compared to the Intel version in compatibility mode. The company did not have a timeframe of when a public M1 version would be ready.

In brief: GPU prices have caused gamers a great deal of pain over the past year, but rising mining difficulty and tumbling Ethereum value are once again putting downward pressure on the ridiculous retail price of both Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. Last week, we learned Nvidia decided to increase the price of its Founders Edition GPUs in Europe. One possible reason for the change is the recent strengthening of the American dollar against the Euro, but since MSRPs have been rendered meaningless by insatiable demand it’s easy to dismiss it when looking at the big picture. However, 2022 started with some really good news for gamers and enthusiasts, as industry watchers hadn’t noticed any significant retail price change in over two months. According to a new report from German publication 3DCenter, there’s even more reason to be optimistic as the first weeks of January saw prices trending downward, particularly in the case of AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT. (Click to expand) Falling cryptocurrency prices and news of imminent country-wide cryptocurrency bans have made GPU mining less profitable, and now AMD cards sit at an average of 67 percent above MSRP. Nvidia GPUs still maintain a larger premium at 77 percent over MSRP, but they’ve at least returned to October 2021 levels. Newer graphics cards like the Nvidia RTX 3050 and the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT aren’t attractive to miners, but they’re also relatively low value for gamers. Elsewhere in the supply chain, it looks like material and component shortages may also be easing. According to DigiTimes, the supply of Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF) substrates will slowly improve in the coming months, and by the second half it will allow AIB companies like ASRock and TUL (PowerColor) to greatly scale up their graphics card shipments. ASRock president Lung-Iuen Hsu recently said the company expects to post a double-digit surge in shipments and profits this year. Still, tackling the chip shortage is a complex problem that won’t be solved by simply improving the supply of ABF substrates, but rather by rendering GPU mining obsolete. Ethereum mining difficulty continues to grow every month and if all goes well we should see a transition to Proof-of-Stake this year. Other Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies that can be mined using GPUs have nowhere near the scale or value of Ethereum, meaning most miners would be forced to sell off graphics cards to recoup some of their investment.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus is set to launch on Jan. 28, but that hasn't stopped some retailers selling physical copies of the Switch game early. Inevitably, spoilers are being posted online and Nintendo must be fuming. As Eurogamer reports, images and gameplay footage from Arceus started appearing today across social media. Combined, they spoil pretty much all of the major story elements present in the game. Copyright claims are being used to take the content down, but they can't keep up and many spoilers remain accessible. We won't be sharing any of them here, but be warned that you may inadvertently stumble across a few. The pre-release leaks were possible because some retailers are selling physical copies of the game early. We know this because photographs have been posted online of people holding their newly-acquired copy and clearly some individuals decided they wanted to spoil the experience for everyone else. They are collectively known as "the worst kind of people." Arceus is a big release not only for Nintendo, but Pokemon fans, too. It's the first action role-playing game in the mainline Pokemon series, and the open-world nature of the gameplay has more than a few gamers excited about how it could reinvigorate the franchise. It's unlikely Nintendo will choose to officially release the game early due to these leaks because all the advertising and promotion will be geared around Jan. 28. For anyone waiting patiently to play the game next Friday, perhaps treat this as a good opportunity to take a break from social media for a few days. Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 101104) MORE INSIDE PCMAG.COM Sealed Copy of Super Mario 64 Sells for $1.56M E3: Nintendo's Next Generation Begins in 2022 With Breath of the Wild 2 RomUniverse.com Owner Ordered to Pay Nintendo $2.1 Million for Game Piracy Knockout City (for Nintendo Switch) Pokemon Omega Ruby (for Nintendo 3DS) Review About Matthew Humphries Alongside writing for PCMag, Matthew is a video game designer and co-wrote the book Make Your Own Pixel Art (available at all good book shops). Before joining PCMag, he spent 14 years writing and editing for Geek.com, and before that, nearly founded a social network while Mark Zuckerberg was still struggling through puberty. He can probably fix your PC and will grab any opportunity to build a new one. More From Matthew Humphries Amazon Reveals Full Title for The Lord of the Rings TV Series Pokemon Legends: Arceus Is Being Sold Early and Nintendo Must Be Furious Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7B James Cameron's Avatar Is Being Turned Into a Mobile MMO Microsoft Adds Final Batch of Games to the Xbox Backward Compatible Library

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