It was there that I first saw Honeycomb Glacier, a proof-of-concept notebook designed to simulate gameplay across two monitors. Intel Honeycomb Glacier hingePropped up on a double hinge, Honeycomb Glacier boasts a unique value proposition over the competing dual-screen options, namely ergonomics. Unlike most laptops, which notoriously require stand attachments to use at eye level, the stand for Honeycomb Glacier is built-in. Intel Honeycomb Glacier secondary displayIn terms of specs, the Honeyco

During AMD’s opening keynote at Computex on Monday, the company unveiled a new generation of mainstream Ryzen processors, among them the Ryzen 9 3900X with 12 cores and 24 threads of compute muscle. It somehow took on a life of its own on the internet,” Dr. Su said. And so you will see more from us with Threadripper,” Dr. Su said. The tricky part for AMD will be finding enough separation between its mainstream Ryzen processors and upcoming Threadripper parts. “If mainstream is moving up, then Th

Journey was released by Thatgamecompany for the PlayStation 3 all the way back in 2012, and then updated for the PS4 in 2015. And PlayStation-exclusive it remained until December 2018, when a PC version was finally announced for the Epic Games Store. Now that thick fog of uncertainty has lifted, as PC publisher Annapurna Interactive said today that it will be available to one and all on June 6. Friendly and hostile creatures will be encountered along the way as well, and it’s possible to run acr

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Revealed at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan earlier today, the company’s long rumored 10nm Ice Lake chips are—at long last—making their way to the best gaming laptops sometime later this year. A key component in the Project Athena initiative, Intel aims to make laptops more intuitive with Ice Lake. Per its earlier announcements, Project Athena-compliant devices using the 10nm processors will offer “a new level of responsiveness,” according to the Santa Clara chipmaker. As TechRadar reports, inte

One of his most popular creations, DayZ: Battle Royale, was a mod built on top of another mod. Instead of PUBG Corp. explaining what a battle royale is, players are now telling the developer what they want in the game. In December 2018, PUBG Corp. told The Verge that PUBG Mobile had more than 200 million users. In June 2018, PUBG Corp said it had more than 400 million players, 227 million of which logged in monthly. “In the beginning, we spent all our time explaining what battle royale was,” PUB

Owlcat Games have been patching their party-based RPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker regularly since its released in September of 2018, and in June they’ll be upgrading it to an Enhanced Edition. As with Wasteland 2 and Divinity: Original Sin 2, this will be a free upgrade for anyone who owns the existing game. The changes will include a new class called the Slayer, and a new prestige class to switch into as you level up called the Swordlord. There will be an option to hide specific items of clothing if

It’s been more than a year since CD Projekt partnered with Dark Horse to give Geralt a relaxing bath. Now, finally, we can all join in that bathtime experience: the statue is available for pre-order on Amazon for $72, to be released on May 29. Dark Horse is proud to bring you this marvelously detailed, hand-painted polyresin statuette featuring Geralt of Rivia relaxing and healing from his perilous journeys, in a candlelit bath, complete with his rubber ducky!” If you’re curious, the official Tu

For six of the eight players in a Project Winter team, the goal is surviving a chilly wilderness long enough to escape. It’s a fascinating concept, and this week it finished its three-month Early Access stint with a 1.0 update that added new weapons and maps. The new weapons are the crossbow and the tranquilizer gun, both of which are near-silent ranged weapons. One place to find these new weapons will be the armory, a new building that only spawns once per map, and has a high chance of containi

Hack-and-slasher Mirador, which launched a Kickstarter campaign this week, follows a tried and tested approach to loot, but the bosses you face during dungeon runs are far less conventional. When controlling an adventurer you’ll battle bosses of increasing difficulty either solo or co-op, picking up evermore powerful gear along the way. The two sides of Mirador—boss creation and dungeon runs—are brought together by the loot system. You can pick up new boss abilities during runs that plug directl

Here’s your weekly PC gaming digest:• Censorship, Steam, and the explosive rise of PC gaming in ChinaSteven brings us a deep dive into China’s PC gaming scene: how it started, why Steam is somehow allowed to operate outside the law (though no one really knows), and how everything may change soon. We’ll let you know as soon as we receive a sign of life from the Valve offices. #o7May 23, 2019Around the (virtual) officeChris, Andy C, Wes, and Tyler did some normal pirate things in Sea of Thieves th

They’re not as animation-heavy as weapons in Monster Hunter, even with the slower weapons like the hammer and axe. The Skarn, who I will now call Magic Rock Lizard, is visually totally different from anything I’ve fought in Monster Hunter: World, and that’s really exciting. Monster Hunter has cats that cook me gigantic steaks; Dauntless has this guy who wants me to spend $9.99 on Platinum. I think one of Monster Hunter: World’s most undercooked systems is the experience of finding a monster and

I first saw Dead Island 2 in 2014 (I think), back when it was being made by Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager. “Dead Island 2 is still being worked on. ), Coffee Stain Studios, 4A Games and Warhorse are also mentioned on the slide you’ll see in the video above, too. For context, the original Dead Island released in 2011, during the first half of Barack Obama’s presidency, and when LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem was tearing up the charts. Original developers Techland went off to make Dying Light, a v

Questions like “What if a moose could breathe fire” are the ones that keep me up at night, and fortunately, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is about to answer that one specifically with a new DLC set to launch in July. Seed of Evil adds a new story campaign to last year’s Fantastic Mr. Fox-meets-XCOM adventure, and introduces a new mutant named Big Khan, a tough-as-nails moose with his own special abilities and synergies. A malevolent plant seems to be abducting people—friends and enemies alike—a

Free-to-play arena shooter Splitgate is out on Steam today, giving everyone the chance to find out what Portal might have been like if it was Unreal Tournament with Halo’s guns. That pretty much sums up the premise of Splitgate, and the game makes no effort to mask its influences, as Tyler discovered when he played an early build at PAX East last year. There’s the perspective-bending linked portals, there’s jetpacks and low-grav areas, and there’s punchy shotguns and big old rocket launchers. Th

Two Democratic Senators have signed on to Republican Senator Josh Hawley’s anti-loot box bill, providing bipartisan support for the proposed legislation that would fine publishers and game distributors over both blind loot boxes and “pay to win” mechanics. The bill itself gets fairly specific about what does and does not constitute a fineable pay-to-win transaction in games. The bill also outlaws selling time-savers, the kind you often find in Ubisoft’s single-player games like Assassin’s Creed

If you’re in the market for a solid gaming portable to carry to the office or to play on the bus or the train, Acer has some great deals over Memorial weekend. One of the best of their budget offerings, this 1050 Ti, Core i5 equipped laptop, is marked down a solid $170 to just $629.99 through May 27th. It even packs a 256GB SSD to speed up your OS boot times and limit those precious seconds you spend staring listlessly at loading screens. If you’re in the market for a matching desktop, bop on ov

Total War has always been a bit of a misnomer, with even the first Shogun giving you a way to broker peace and get some breathing space. Since then, diplomacy has occupied an increasingly large place in Total War, but it’s always felt like the series’ most inconsequential battlefield. In Total War: Three Kingdoms, however, it’s become the linchpin in my campaign. Creative Assembly shoves diplomacy into the spotlight by suggesting Cao Cao as the leader for your first game. And one of the reasons

Touting a powerful 8GB GeForce RTX 2070, the discounted model in question is $610 off. Alienware m15 price: $1,799.99 (save $610)Never again forcing you to lug around your ungainly musclebook PC, the Alienware m15 is a laptop and desktop replacement. Clearly, the Alienware m15 has a lot going for it. If you want ray tracing on the go, the Alienware m15 is a good option. Though not perfect, for this price it is an excellent value, especially since we’re talking about the RTX 2070 config.

Around 2,000 players were banned from Mordhau this week for using third party software to cheat, but the developer is now overturning some of them. The ban announcement was quickly followed by players claiming they were innocent, not surprisingly, but in this case there were apparently some false positives. “We are revoking some bans that have been part of this wave,” a forum update reads. Bans that are “blatantly obvious” will stay in place, while players who have been affected but still can’t