If you’re looking for an affordable gaming laptop, Lenovo’s 15.6-inch Legion Y7000 laptop is a good option right now. For today only, it’s $500 off from B&H Photo, dropping the price to $1,099.00. The Y7000 is equipped with an 8th-generation Core i7-8750H processor (clocked at 2.2GHz), 16GB of DDR4 memory, a 512GB PCIe SSD, and a GTX 1060 6GB graphics card. The laptop has a decent selection of ports as well, including Gigabit Ethernet, three USB 3.0 Type-A ports, one USB 3.0 Type-C connector, a

The original starting price of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card was $799, but in the months since its release, most models have dropped in price. Now you can get Gigabyte’s RTX 2080 WindForce card for $639.00 from Newegg’s eBay store—a $61 discount from the original price, and about $100-250 cheaper than most other 2080 cards. This card has 8GB of GDDR6 memory, Gigabyte’s custom ‘WINDFORCE 3X’ cooling system with alternate spinning fans, RGB lighting, and a metal backplate. Beyond that, i

To be fair to his seemingly near-sighted opponents, YouTuber jackfrags mostly avoids moving and shooting (the main things people do in Battlefield 5) while testing the awareness of other players in the video above. Even so, it’s pretty funny watching him become Solid Snake by lying down on some books. And for the most part, simply by lying down for a bit, jackfrags is able to become a chameleon noticed only by snipers and those who happen to come face-to-feet with him. Is Battlefield 5’s camo to

If, on the other hand, violent imperialism is really your bag, then allow me to introduce Suleiman the Magnificent, head honcho of the Ottoman Empire. A potential “major player in diplomacy,” Ibrahim has his own promotion tree, is the only governor who can be established in another civilization, and is available only to Suleiman. The Ottomans also have access to the Barbary Corsair, a unique replacement for the Privateer that becomes available earlier in the game and does not incur a movement co

AOC today bolstered its Agon 3 gaming monitor series with a couple of new models, one with G-Sync support (AG273QCG) and one with FreeSync 2 HDR support (AG273QCX). Both are 27-inch monitors, each serving up a 2560×1440 (QHD) resolution on a curved panel, and both support HDR content. The G-Sync monitor is built around a TN panel and offers a higher 165Hz refresh rate, while the FreeSync display uses a VA panel with a 144Hz refresh rate. Pairing HDR support with variable refresh rate technologie

It’s somewhat of a surprise release, and an interesting one when you compare the specs to Samsung’s 970 Pro family. In this case, however, the upgraded 970 Evo Plus drives are rated to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 3,500MB/s, and sequential write speeds of up to 3,300MB/s. Samsung is offering the 970 Evo Plus in capacities up to 2TB, at the following price points:Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250GB: $89.99 (~$0.36 per gigabyte)$89.99 (~$0.36 per gigabyte) Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB: $129.99 (~$

AMD’s Radeon VII graphics card launches in a couple of weeks (February), and it will arrive with both Windows and Linux drivers from day one. The former is a given whenever AMD (or Nvidia) launches a new graphics cards, though Linux drivers sometimes lag behind. That shouldn’t be the case when the Radeon VII launches. It’s a good sign for Linux users that AMD is aiming to get things right on launch day. AMD also recently said it will have enough Radeon VII cards to meet demand, in the wake of a

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire features real-time pausable combat, but some RPG enthusiasts maintain a preference for turn-based battles. “The turn-based mode slows everything down. It highlights some abilities and debuffs and things like that, that aren’t necessarily as highlighted in the real-time with pause combat system. “When you enable it, it means that all of the combat is in turn-based mode. The turn-based combat option is slated to come to Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire on January 24.

Metro Exodus’ guns don’t look pretty, but it sure looks like they still pack a wallop. The end of the world means that nobody’s mass producing new firearms anymore, but as the latest Exodus trailer reveals, there are still plenty of weapons out there. The series has had weapon customisation since the first game, Metro 2033, but Exodus has expanded the system again. The Metro gunsmiths have also designed their own toys, special weapons like a silenced rifle and scrappy crossbow. While you wait fo

Most VR games make me feel a little bit disorientated, but just watching A Fisherman’s Tale’s launch trailer—check it out above—makes my brain do somersaults. In this peculiar adventure game, you play Bob, a solitary fisherman who lives alone in a lighthouse. To get to the top of the lighthouse, you’ll need to bend reality by interacting with a model of said lighthouse, with its own Bob. Which way is reality? A Fisherman’s Tale is out now on Steam for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Real

Fortnite’s chilly seventh season continues with a new 7.20 content update. To make the most of the weather, you can now disguise yourself as a sneaky snowman to creep up on enemies and give children nightmares that will stay with them for life. You can throw a projectile that creates a snowman, or you can wear the snowman as a disguise. Fortnite’s space for player-made arenas currently features the Omega Pyramid, an imposing creation from Directingpete. The sneaky snowman is also available in cr

If you’ve had your fill of dragon and dinosaur murder in Monster Hunter: World, you might want to try your hand at taking on the galaxy’s most fearsome monster: the xenomorph. This Aliens mod replaces Xeno’jiiva with a xenomorph queen, though she thankfully doesn’t lay any eggs. It looks appropriately horrifying, though not quite as horrifying as that Thomas the Tank Engine mod. The main takeaway from pretty much every piece of Aliens media is: stay away from xenomorphs. Monster Hunter: World ha

Resident Evil 2 Remake’s one-shot demo has been downloaded over three million times, according to Capcom. But only a quarter of the people using the Resident Evil.Net stat tracking feature have actually finished the 30-minute misadventure. Of the three million or so demo players, 2,440,739 use Resident Evil.Net to track their game progress and other stats, and of them, only 26 percent have actually made it through the whole demo. I’ve always been terrible at Resident Evil 2. The Resident Evil 2

Blizzard recently announced its plans for World of Warcraft esports in 2019. This year will see the return of the Arena World Championship with a larger prize pool, while the Mythic Dungeon Invitational has dropped the ‘invitational’ part and is now open to everyone. The Arena World Championship—check out the plan below—will pit the best arena players against each other after a year of fighting. The North American and European regions will have two seasons each, and six cups, each with a $10,000

It is a resilient cup, in other words—unlike the Overwatch Contenders trophy, as South Korean Contenders champion RunAway discovered over the weekend. Overwatch Contenders launched in 2017 in North America and Europe as a development league for the Overwatch League, then expanded the following year to South America, Australia, China, Korea, and the Pacific. This past weekend, RunAway decisively defeated Element Mystic to claim the Contenders Korea title. As Fox News Asia noted, this is the secon

There are a pair of Anthem demos coming prior to its February release, one for preorders and Origin Access subscribers running January 25-27, and another for everyone else on February 1-3. They’ll give the unconvinced an opportunity to see what it’s all about before they commit themselves to a preorder, and in the case of the preorder demo, I suppose, will (hopefully) make the already-committed feel good about the choice. The demo won’t be exactly the same as what players will experience with th

A PC release of Yakuza Kiwami (and Yakuza 0) was announced at last year’s PC Gaming Show, but there was at the time no indication of a release date. A Steam update in November suggested that a launch was imminent. And now it appears, unofficially but only technically so, that it will finally arrive on Steam on February 19. The Steam listing still indicates that Yakuza Kiwami is “coming soon.” I’ll update when the Steam release date is changed to make it officially official.

Far Cry: New Dawn is basically a continuation of Far Cry 5, except that the world has been given a nuclear face-wash and all of the oh-so-important things that you fought, bled, and killed for—as with all things in life—meant nothing in the end. @Battlesand from Twitter asked us “What game mechanics changed over Far Cry 5?” In Far Cry 5, once an outpost had been seized, the locals moved in to assume control and that was that. The big question is whether the choice to hold or squeeze enemy outpos

A roadmap was released for Monster Hunter: World last month, detailing a number of fixes that were expected to roll out over the next few months. One of the update listed was Title Update 5.1, and it’s set to roll out tomorrow. The update will add the much-requested support for 21:9 ultrawide monitors, although sadly, it seems that cutscenes won’t display 21:9. Various bug fixes are also expected to be implemented, though these haven’t been detailed at the time of writing. The Monster Hunter Wor

For games that play better with a controller, the Xbox Elite Wireless is the best luxury option, in our opinion. It’s on sale at Rakuten (formerly Buy.com) for $127.49, after applying coupon code SAVE15 at checkout. This controller doesn’t dip to the $130 mark very often, and very rarely does it ever fall below that mark. On Amazon, for example, the black model currently sells for $139.99, and the white model goes for $170.82 (via a third party seller). If you’re not interested in paying extra f