With the Fallout 76 beta launching on PC on October 30, we really don't have all that long to wait until we can get our hands Bethesda's online Fallout game. It still feels like a long time, though, especially when the beta will be coming to Xbox One a week earlier. However, there's the possibility of a stress test for PC ahead of the beta's release date of October 30.

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has died as a result of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 65. 

Last week, Ninja made a quick appearance on Ellen, where he did his best to teach her how to play Fortnite. Today—as in right now—Ellen is returning the favor on Ninja's Twitch channel. 

Valve's CCG Artifact is a little different from most in that it won't be free to play. Instead, players will shell out $20 up front, which Valve boss Gabe Newell said in August will help prevent a "flood of free stuff that destroys the economy and the value of people's time." Even more interestingly, players will be able to buy and sell cards as part of an "open" economy on the Steam Marketplace.   

If you've been looking for a good deal on a mid-range graphics card, today might be your lucky day. EVGA's GTX 1070 GAMING card is currently $359.99 from the company's online store—a discount of $20-60 from most other GTX 1070 models.

Remedy's upcoming Control is a third-person shooter about the Federal Bureau of Control, a secretive government agency dedicated to investigating, containing, and controlling supernatural phenomena—a bit like FEAR, I suppose, but more of a spy org than a military unit. Today the studio released a new dev diary video examining two of the game's central characters: Jesse Faden, the new director of the FBC, and her predecessor, Zachariah Trench.

The monitor market isn't exactly flush with 49-inch models, though it did just grow by one today with the introduction of Dell's UltraSharp 49, an incredibly wide display that is essentially the equivalent of two 27-inch monitors.

Destiny 2 players who haven't yet waded into the waters of the expansions will have a little more incentive to do so beginning tomorrow, October 16, when Bungie will begin bundling the Curse of Osiris and Warmind DLCs with Destiny 2: Forsaken. 

Epic Games has confirmed that in-game tournaments are coming to Fortnite with the release of the 6.1 update. The tournaments will be open to everyone, and will pit competitors on all platforms—and all types of control setups—against each other "as equals."

TechPowerUp has updated its GPU-Z utility to detect "fake" graphics cards so buyers of second hand GPUs can tell if they've been scammed.