Sometimes for all the terrible stuff we hear about gamers in the news, both mainstream and from gaming-related places, it’s nice to know that some people give gamers a good name.

The video above is a gif that an Overwatch player posted to Reddit, wanting to show off his Play of the Game as Reinhardt. As you can tell, their machine wasn’t exactly top of the line which is one reason why they were so happy with their being awarded Play of the Game.

“I run Overwatch on a potato so it’s hard to get a good [Play of the Game], but when I do it is satisfying,” he wrote.

For those unaware, people tend to describe tech as a ‘potato’ when it’s really old. Most of the time it’s hyperbole but this player might have had a point. He has to play the game at 800×600 with all settings at low to get the game running, and even then he apparently is excited to hit 30fps. His specs included an AMD Radeon 8400 with only 512 mb of RAM, which is 200 mb short of Overwatch’s minimum requirements to run the game. It’s a miracle that the game has been running, but there was a Youtuber called LowSpecGamer who had a guide that has allowed the player to run it so far.

Anyway, a few hours later he checked Reddit to find that a number of replies had come in and some were offering him replacement computer parts to help him better run the game. “What GPU do you have? I have an EVGA 660 I could send you,” wrote one player. When there were questions about whether the power supply would be able to handle it, someone else offered him one that could. And it went on and on.

Of course, he has decided not to just rely on the donations and with the help of another Redditor he is picking out a few other parts to help him bring together his new build that are within his small budget. Thanks to the generosity of the Overwatch community though, the biggest expense will be Windows 10 – everything else more expensive has already been covered.

“I’m at a loss for words. Watching a community band together just to help one person, if this all works out and I end up getting this new PC I’ll probably break down crying.”

As I said at the beginning of this article, we so often hear about the bad that sometimes good news is very welcome. GG Overwatch Reddit community.

Halo Wars 2 has been released and while some people have leapt at the chance to try it, others aren’t so sure. Halo isn’t generally an RTS series and Halo Wars itself wasn’t loved much, so the sequel has some ground to cover. Also, RTS games and consoles aren’t generally a match seen a lot.

Now a demo has been released for Windows 10 on the Microsoft Store so you can try before you commit money. It comes with both the opening mission of the single-player campaign as well as Blitz mode which combines a card game with RTS elements. It’s strange but people who have bought the game seem to enjoy it.

Be warned though, if you decide to download the demo you’ll need to have a chunk of memory free for it – 17GB. Chunky for a demo sure, but the full game just received a 10GB patch so the game itself is fairly large as well.

So give it a try if you’re curious. Maybe you’ll discover to your surprise that a console-RTS works fairly well after all.

Since the beginning of its lifetime, many of the players of the huge spacefaring game Elite: Dangerous have been wondering and asking where the series’ antagonistic alien race the Thargoids were. Back in January one player might have had first contact, with his ship being yanked out of jump only to be approached and scanned by a weird flower-shaped ship before it vanished. A few other players have had similar encounters now, but so far nothing much has happened although players had a feeling that this wasn’t going to be all they’d be doing.

Now Frontier have shown off a new, short trailer (the “Unknown Trailer” that features one of the strange alien vessels and the atmosphere is distinctly unsettling. The trailer shows a few human ships landing on a planet and exploring the surface before the alien ship comes up behind them and the ‘signal’ is lost. Of course, anything could have happened after that but the overall tone and ambient noise makes it seem that whatever happened, it wasn’t good for the human crews.

Interesting times ahead for Elite: Dangerous players ahead it seems. Hopefully Frontier will release more information or someone will have a much more interesting encounter with a flower ship soon in-game.