Are you looking to build a system around one of Intel’s Core X-series processors? If so, check out the Asus ROG Strix X299-E Gaming motherboard. It’s a high-end board for Intel’s top processors, and you can bring one home for a nice discount today. While not exactly cheap, that’s a good price for high-end motherboard. You get eight SATA 6Gbps ports and two M.2 sockets for storage devices, plus two USB 3.1 Gen 2 (Type-A and Type-C) ports, four USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports, and two USB 2.0 ports.

AMD has started rolling out its Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.7.1 driver release, and with it comes some claimed hefty performance improvements to Earthfall, the co-op shooter that’s due out tomorrow, July 13. According to the release notes, the game runs up to 28 percent faster, compared to the 18.6.1 driver release. Display modes may sometimes appear as not available when setting resolution or refresh rates of a display. Memory clocks may remain at higher than expected values on some di

The month before a new expansion is a magical time for World of Warcraft players. With a free trial that showcases its most tedious aspects, an abstract value proposition, and a painfully steep buy-in cost, World of Warcraft is a nightmare to get my friends into. Just wait until endgame…World of Warcraft’s free trial is all vegetables and no dessert. But World of Warcraft’s free trial is all vegetables and no dessert. Build a better free trial and let World of Warcraft speak for itself.

We took a look at inXile’s upcoming Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep today and found it “a captivating dungeon crawler,” which is really good news for people (like me) who have been looking forward to getting their hands on it. Also in the “good news” department, inXile announced today that the game will be released on September 18. Like its 1980s predecessors, Bard’s Tale 4 is a single-player, first-person, party-based RPG set inside sprawling dungeons filled with puzzles, traps, and monsters. I’ve

Perhaps I’ll refresh my memory soon, as Tropico publisher Kalypso Media has “secured all rights to the highly-acclaimed fan-favourite gaming IP”. In a statement, Kalypso talks of developing “completely new games for all platforms” and so-called extensive adaptations of “the existing titles for contemporary technologies and platforms.” Kalypso’s takeover also nets it the rights to Behind Enemy Lines follow-ups Commandos 2: Men of Courage, Commandos 3: Destination Berlin and Commandos: Strike Forc

The feature is called “Site Isolation” and is turned on by default in Chrome 67, whereas before Chrome users had to edit Chrome’s flags to enable it. “Site Isolation is a large change to Chrome’s architecture that limits each renderer process to documents from a single site. However, the Site Isolation feature narrows the scope, limiting each renderer process to documents from at most one site. Google said it’s been working on this for several years, independently of Spectre, so the inclusion of

Here’s everything we know about Fortnite Season 5—including its new Paradise Palms, desert and Lazy Links locations. After posting about his awesome player-made superhero film earlier today, Sonny Evans sent us the replay system cinematic above that shows off Fortnite’s newest locales. “I love that, Paradise Palms, Lazy Links and all the little Easter eggs and throwbacks to Season 4. At the end of Season 4, rifts started opening up all across the world making certain things disappear over time.

Every Old School Runescape player dreams of one day attaining the most gold you can possibly carry: 2.147 billion, the fabled “max cash.” As a result, roughly 20 minutes after the update went live, developer Jagex outright turned the game off, temporarily disabling all servers while they look into the gold duplication bug. As YouTuber OakDice pointed out, some wires got crossed and this update caused instanced events that store or generate gold to yield billions. In a statement to PC Gamer, Jage

When Digital Extremes first released it in 2013, people immediately wrote it off because it was a free-to-play game. And it all contributes to why Warframe is the best free-to-play game on PC. But when Digital Extremes finally showed off new features, like a hoverboard and giant walking robobugs, people were screaming with excitement. When talking with their audience, you get a sense that Digital Extremes isn’t trying to spin the truth or sell something. Of course, it’s to Digital Extremes’ bene

At a certain point in Kingdom Come’s story, Henry helps clear out the bandit-occupied village of Pribyslavitz. Divish names Henry the village bailiff, but says he can’t spare any coin because of the chaos gripping his province. Inexplicably, Henry doesn’t get his own house in the village despite investing his life’s savings in it. Having all these amenities in one place would’ve made Pribyslavitz a place worth visiting frequently and using as a base of operations. From the Ashes ultimately doesn

The first “dungeon” you’ll explore in The Bard’s Tale 4 is not a maze of gloomy underground tunnels, absent of life but for the skeletons and goblins you have to kill. The Bard’s Tale 4’s exploration really started to feel right once I got past the tutorial and started exploring with no waypoints to string me along. The Bard’s Tale 4 is frequently gorgeous, especially after its first two areas. If the rest of The Bard’s Tale 4 maintains this level of atmosphere, I’d play through it for the scene

Fortnite Season 5 is here, bringing with it new biomes, new places of interest and a neat wee four-person All Terrain Kart. Worlds Collide is its theme, and the above footage—courtesy of our sister site GamesRadar—details the new campaign’s skins, dances and emotes. Emotes and dances include the Gentleman’s Dab, Breakdown and Calculated. Check out the above footage for more on all of that, visit our everything we know about Fortnite Season 5 breakdown for a deep dive, and lend your eyes to the l

The Sanhok map is live and PUBG players are battling for chicken dinners in huge numbers. To celebrate, we’re giving away 1000 Event Passes that will speed up your levelling and access to more cosmetic items. The event pass naturally has a Sanhok theme, so expect Sanhok-specific missions alongside daily and weekly missions. The first 1000 will receive a key once the email has been verified. Enter the key in the ‘activate a product on Steam’ section of your Steam client to redeem.

Last week, Epic kicked off its #FortniteBlockbuster—a contest designed to put players’ filmmaking skills to the test. “Use the Fortnite replay system and a little in-game movie set magic to make a blockbuster hit highlighting the heroes of Season 4 and their adventures.” Entries are now closed (Epic is judging the contest behind closed doors), but Sonny Evans’ ‘The Final Fight’ is great. They’ll also have the title of their film displayed on a marquee and a poster of their film shown in-game. Ju

Everything detailed in Fortnite Season 5’s patch notes points us towards a new All Terrain Kart, Rifts that’ll take us for a “wild ride”, and a string of new biomes. The new All Terrain Kart has space for your entire squad, so says update v5.0’s patch notes. Update v5.0’s patch notes inform the centres of Storm Circles 7, 8 and 9 can now shift in random directions, as opposed to shrinking as normal. The first three challenges will remain complementary, while the back four will be exclusive to Ba

Video games were mindblowing in the ’90s. Nowadays, it’s possible to be unimpressed by a photo-realistic open world video game, but back then, Prince of Persia’s excessively bloody death-by-spikes animation was devastating and poetic. The video below, which compiles the intro sequences to 51 ’90s-era DOS games (yeah, there’s at least one game from the ’80s, I know), is a nostalgic delight. Created by YouTuber einokeino303, the video excludes CD-ROM titles, so don’t expect FMV sequences but do ex

Modders and level creators continue to produce goods for the original Doom. But nowadays they’re often designed for modernised versions: source ports like ZDoom or GZDoom. These are cool, but it’s neat to find a new Megawad created for the original DOS game, built under the ye olde engine restrictions (no free look, no slopes). That’s what Rekkr is, but it’s not the only cool thing about it. It’s a Viking-themed Megawad complete with 25 new levels, boasting its own textures, music and sound.

If you’ve been on the lookout for a large monitor, this is the deal for you. Right now, you can get the Acer EB321HQU (great name, I know) 32-inch IPS monitor for just $259.99 on Newegg—a savings of $120 from the MSRP. This display has a resolution of 2560×1440, with a 4ms response time and a contrast ratio of 1,200:1. The display is also VESA-compatible, so you can easily mount it. You can buy the Acer EB321HQU from Newegg here.

VIDEO: The PC Gamer Show, Ep. 135, also available on YouTubeWelcome 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 discuss the Monster Hunter World PC news, Fortnite’s questionable Season 5 ARG, the latest suite of battle royale games, and close with listener questions. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RS

Most Steam users will agree that the storefront’s ‘Upcoming’ tab is a little on the unhelpful side. Described as a “smarter, more tailored list”, the new ‘Popular Upcoming’ tab will compile games that have attracted considerable pre-release interest. More useful will be the ‘see more Upcoming Releases’ button, which provides a list based on your personal interests and habits. “If you follow a developer or publisher with a new game coming out, the Upcoming Releases page will feature those games,”