It’s midnight on a miserably humid Thursday in downtown Atlanta, and sitting to my right is Geralt of Rivia. Well, I say he’s Geralt, but he’s actually Doug Cockle, the man who’s voiced Geralt for the past 12 years. Without Doug Cockle, Geralt as we know him would not exist. An hour with Doug CockleI don’t know it yet, but I’m about to spend way more than an hour with Doug Cockle. Because I’m not Geralt, Geralt is Geralt.

The new Zephyrus S (GX531) sports a 15.6-inch “IPS-level” display with a 1920×1080 resolution and fast 144Hz refresh rate, up from 120Hz from its predecessor. It is also 12 percent slimmer, measuring 0.62 inches at its thickest point, and 0.59 inches at its thinnest section. There are two versions available—one with a GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB GDDR5) and a higher end SKU with a GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB GDDR5). “One of the biggest challenges with creating such a thin laptop is making sure that the chass

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 was not an overly positive experience for CI Games. The stumble won’t spell the end of the series, but it will result in some big changes in the next game, which was announced today as Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts. “We were too ambitious in terms of the scope of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, but we’ve learned from our missteps,” CI Games CEO Marek Tymiński said. “Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts will be more focused on emergent gameplay with an open-ended mission design that th

Intel set up a new Twitter account for its graphics division and its introductory tweet teases a discrete GPU that’s scheduled to arrive in 2020. It’s probably not a coincidence that Intel timed its tweet just days ahead of Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX launch, which is expected to take place on Monday, August 20, a day ahead of Gamescom 2018. Intel’s current HD Graphics 630 solution by contrast checks in at 23 EUs (Execution Units), each with 8 shader cores, for a total of 184 cores. That’s a h

Hearthstone mission designer Giovanni Scarpati sat down for a new fireside chat today to talk about the Puzzle Labs, a series of singleplayer challenges coming to the game’s latest expansion, The Boomsday Project. If you’re able to finish them all, you’ll earn a one-on-one with Dr. Boom himself, in particularly challenging puzzles across all four categories. card back—and of course the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction that comes from a job well done. The Puzzle Labs goes live on August

We noted in 2015 that Razer’s Mamba gaming mouse was “almost the Deathadder” and a “big improvement over the wireless Razer Ouroborus in form factor.” The latest iteration, Razer’s new Mamba Elite, actually uses the same exact optical sensor found in Razer’s Deathadder Elite, which we consider the best gaming mouse on the market right now. The Mamba Elite still features a 16,000 dpi sensor as found in previous versions, but for this iteration Razer swapped out the laser sensor for an optical one

With The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Telltale has finally deployed its secret weapon: Time. Clem’s role in The Walking Dead is an interesting mix of maternal figure and cool big sister—old enough to have brought young AJ up mostly on her own, but still very much a child. The Final Season is, likewise, almost certainly heading towards a fixed conclusion. If this Final Season can convey that kind of emotional payoff, it won’t necessarily matter how much branching there is and how many endings.

Total War: Three Kingdoms is bringing the series’ grand strategy formula to ancient China. You structure your armies around heroesYou build armies out of hero retinues in Total War: Three Kingdoms. In battle you can control units independently and group them however you wish—just like a normal Total War game. Duelling is pretty neatIf a hero is close enough to an enemy hero you can click a small ‘duel’ button above their portrait on the UI, and then select the enemy hero they want to duel. For m

That technology hasn’t quite been mastered yet I don’t think, though it is a very pretty game, as you can see above. Stick around to the end of the trailer for what appears to be a very brief tease of Battlefield Royale, which is what we assume the battle royale mode announced at E3 is called, though that might change. It seems that a bunch of soldiers somehow fell into this burning ring of fire, and as the match progresses its radius goes down, down, down, while the flames go higher, and it bur

7 Billion Humans, the new game from World of Goo creators Tomorrow Corporation, will launch next Thursday. By the looks of things, 7 Billion Humans is also a programming puzzle solver, but there are some key differences. Where Human Resource machine used Assembly as the basis for its programming language, 7 Billion Humans uses a bespoke language written by the developers. 7 Billion Humans is also much larger than its predecessor, offering 60 unique puzzles, three times as many as Human Resource

Warhammer: Vermintide II’s first DLC will descend upon players on August 28. Full details about the DLC’s content will be announced at GamesCom, but for now we know it’s titled Shadows over Bogenhafen. In addition, a brief announcement trailer offered a snapshot of a moonlit town swathed in a soupy fog, while fireworks popped in the distance. “We are kicking off the fall with more content to Vermintide 2”, said Fatshark’s CEO Martin Wahlund. You can watch the announcement trailer for Shadows ove

Our friends at GamesRadar are teaming up with phone manufacturer Honor to bring a new livestream show to GamesCom. Titled GamesCom After Dark, the show will be streamed directly from GamesCom, and will feature a mixture of live game demos, interviews and developer roundtables. The games shown during the livestream will include BioWare’s Anthem, Forza Horizon 4, and Starlink: Battle for Altis, all of which will be demonstrating their latest builds on After Dark. Unless they’re actually at GamesCo

Tropico 6 is bringing the (political) party to GamesCom, in an upbeat new trailer that gives a closer look at some of the game’s key features. Tropico 6 also offers extensive customisation of individual buildings, enabling you to design the most extravagant palace imaginable for El Presidente to oppress his people in. Yes, don’t let the sunshine and snazzy buildings fool you, Tropico 6’s republic is still very much bananas, as the trailer demonstrates by coldly assassinating a random civilian fo

Yesterday, a new mod for DOOM II launched its first episode after twelve years in development. The mod, bearing the slightly bizarre name of Annie, was created by amateur level designer Serge Jaeken. According to Jaeken, the mod includes “many custom elements” like textures, music, monsters, weapons and more. Indeed, it looks more like a Quake mod than a DOOM II mod, as you can see from the images below. Taken to a research facility on the planet Thanatos, the UAC re-engineer Annie to act as a d

Perfect World has released the first dev diary for Torchlight Frontiers, which introduces its new developer Echtra Games and provides some more information about how the game’s MMO format will work. Echtra games was founded two years ago by Max Schaefer, who previously founded Runic Entertainment and headed both Torchlight and its sequel. After providing a tour of Echtra’s new studio, the video goes on to provide more detail about Torchlight Frontiers, which has attracted some scepticism due to

Oh THAT’S where we put that… pic.twitter.com/l3DeEouHYpAugust 15, 2018The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Twitter account teased a new weapon today, or rather, an old one. The MP5, a submachinegun that has been a fixture throughout the Counter-Strike series, appears in a short video set in the map de_train, being picked up and admired by a player. It has never appeared in Global Offensive, having essentially been replaced by the MP7 up until this point. It’ll be interesting to see how the MP5

Here are a few tips to get the most from Fortnite’s replay mode. To access the game’s replay functionality, dive into the Battle Royale menu, choose the Career tab, then choose the Replays option on the right. Clicking on one of them allows you to follow from their perspective instead, depending on your camera options. What’s the best camera option for my awesome kill compilation? The Drone options are a bit more complicated, but they allow you to get more cinematic angles with a bit of fiddling

If you’re looking to replace a few older USB drives, or to make a dedicated Windows/Linux install drive, this is the deal for you. The 128GB Patriot Memory Supersonic Rage 2 is just $35.99 on Newegg right now, a drop of ~$5 from the usual price. According to our Best flash drive guide, it achieved a read rate of 373.6 MB/s and writes of 151.8 MB/s. This is a Newegg ‘Shell shocker’ deal, so it’s only live for today. You can buy the Supersonic Rage 2 from Newegg.

Sunless Sea writer Richard Cobbett—who occasionally writes for PC Gamer—and Blackwell developer Wadjet Eye jointly announced a new game today: Nighthawks, an “urban fantasy RPG” about living as an outcast vampire in a grim society. “Enter a decaying city as a fledgling vampire out to climb from rags to riches,” the official site reads. “Feed your endless hunger. Run your own nightclub. Embrace the night and live its stories … Then, as the fragile peace threatens to snap, be ensnared by modern po

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show, our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. On this week’s show we talk about Steven’s time with the new WoW expansion, a week with Monster Hunter: World, and the first four hours of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. We close with listener questions, as always. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedWatch it on YouTubeYou