Mental Health Awareness Week 2022: Self-Care and Gaming

Mental Health Awareness Week 2022: Self-Care and Gaming

For a week in May, the Mental Health Foundation hosts Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. The theme for 2022 was loneliness, something many people struggle with after the tumultuous start to the decade.  Here at Overclockers UK, we are big believers in the benefits gaming has on our mental health. From being part of a community to capturing that all-important me time, our mental health is just as important as our physical wellbeing. In honour of MHA week, we are taking a look…

Spend the Weekend Chilling with These Life Sims

Spend the Weekend Chilling with These Life Sims

At long last, it’s finally here – the weekend! The sun is shining (hopefully), you’ve got a kitchen full of tasty gaming snacks, and you're looking for the next great game to play. That’s where we come in!   Life Sims are the perfect way to escape your everyday and that’s why we can’t think of a better way to spend this weekend other than losing yourself in some relaxing, vibrant life sim gameplay. To spark your inspiration, we’ve put together this list of our favourite…

NVIDIA Inside Look: Ansel

NVIDIA Inside Look: Ansel

NVIDIA graphics cards come equipped with countless built-in cutting-edge features, designed for gamers, content creators, and streamers. That’s why we’ve decided to create a brand-new blog series, titled ‘NVIDIA Inside Look’. Throughout the series we’ll be taking a closer look at some NVIDIA’s ground-breaking technologies, and how they can optimise your gaming or streaming performance.   In this article, we’re showcasing NVIDIA Ansel, detailing what Ansel is and recommending our favourite Ansel compatible gaming PCs.  NVIDIA Ansel NVIDIA Ansel is a built-in feature that comes as…

Top 5 New Game Releases Coming in May!

Top 5 New Game Releases Coming in May!

Another month, another great line up of incredible new game releases.   We’ve picked out our top five new games that are heading to our gaming libraries in May!  Redfall – May 2nd The once idyllic island town of Redfall is under siege by a legion of deadly vampires. Cut off from the sun and the rest of the world, you must venture through this vast open world, gather an arsenal of specialised weaponry and resources, whilst uncovering the mystery behind the vampire’s sudden appearance.   Official…

Work From Home: Make the Most of Your Desk (Part 4)

Work From Home: Make the Most of Your Desk (Part 4)

It’s time for part four of our dedicated work from home series, designed to help you streamline your desk and boost your productivity.   Today, I’ll be giving you an insight into my work from home set up, highlighting all of the great tech and how it helps me optimise my creative workflow.  Our WFH Series Before we kick off with my set up – here's a little reminder of the rest of the articles in the series, just in case you wanted a refresh.   Emily's…

Duke it Out With Some Brawlers This Weekend

Duke it Out With Some Brawlers This Weekend

Our favourite time of the week is here: the weekend! Aka a two-day-straight gaming session with the squad. This weekend, we’re feeling brawlers. After a stressful week at work, sometimes there’s nothing to it but to blow off some steam with controlled combat. Or rather, combat you control with a mouse and keyboard (or console controller if that’s your thing). We’ve put together a list of great brawlers, for you and your mates to play this weekend. Whether you conduct a tournament of skill or…

Earth Day: The Best Earth-Friendly Tech Being Developed!

Earth Day: The Best Earth-Friendly Tech Being Developed!

This Earth Day, we’ve decided to celebrate some of the very best Earth-friendly tech that’s currently being developed.   All of this eco-friendly hardware and technology has been designed to reduce the strain on precious resources, prioritise recycling, and protect the Earth’s natural environment.   Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse: Microsoft has made huge strides in sustainability and eco-friendly tech through its Ocean Plastic Mouse. This mouse has been built from 20% of recycled ocean plastic, which has been cleaned before being processed into recyclable plastic resin pellets. …

Killer Frequency Launch Date Revealed

Killer Frequency Launch Date Revealed

Last week Team17 Digital announced the launch date for their upcoming Black Comedy Slasher-Adventure, Killer Frequency.   Set in a small-town US radio station, Killer Frequency will take to the airwaves later this summer on PC, consoles, and VR. Last week Team17 Digital announced Killer Frequency will see a simultaneous release on PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox, meaning console player can tune in too.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpgcMzUJ8iA “Folks, you heard it here. We’ve got a killer on the streets of Gallows Creek tonight. For now,…

Coming To VR: Breachers

Coming To VR: Breachers

Climb, vault, rappel, swing, shoot, and strategise your way to victory in the awesome VR game, Breachers.   Breachers has tactically entered into our Coming To VR series. Launched on Thursday, 13th April, Breachers is a 5v5 VR FPS where your wits and decision-making skills are put to the ultimate test.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcClud1gcd4 Does the game already being released breach the ‘Coming to VR’ name of this series...? Yes, it does!   Do we care...? No, we don’t! Because Breachers is our new favourite VR title!…

Level Up Your Creative Workflow with an RTX 40 Series GPU!

Level Up Your Creative Workflow with an RTX 40 Series GPU!

The RTX 40 Series comes packed with a range of incredible features designed to enhance your gaming performance and creative workflow.   To fully showcase some of the cutting-edge technologies, we’ve put together this article highlighting how you can achieve next-level content creation with an NVIDIA RTX 40 Series graphics card.   The NVIDIA RTX 40 Series Engineered utilising cutting-edge Ada Lovelace architecture, the NVIDIA RTX 40 Series graphics cards are perfect for gaming, streaming, and content creation.  Take advantage of powerful third-gen RT and fourth-gen Tensor cores,…

The NVIDIA RTX 4070 is Now Available!

The NVIDIA RTX 4070 is Now Available!

Hold on to your hats, the NVIDIA RTX 4070 is officially available to order today from Overclockers UK.  The RTX 4070: The latest addition to the NVIDIA RTX 40 Series, the RTX 4070 has been designed for gamers and content creators looking to harness the latest generation of hardware. Built utilising ground-breaking Ada Lovelace architecture with 5888 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR6X video memory, and a boosted clock speed of up to 2.48GHz. All of which combined results in superior performance in all your favourite…

Overclockers UK’s Ultimate Collection of Streaming Guides 

Overclockers UK’s Ultimate Collection of Streaming Guides 

Over the years, we have compiled many a streaming guide. Today, we’ve brought them all into one handy dandy place. Welcome to Overclockers UK’s Ultimate Collection of Streaming Guides!  Now, this is an article you’re going to want to bookmark, all you budding streamers out there. This ultimate streaming guide is linked to every blog we’ve ever written about streaming. Plus, any time we cover new streaming content, it will be added to this guide. Let this be your one-stop-shop for all things streaming. Content…