Newegg is offering this laptop for $1,399 today, down $350 from its $1,749 list price. If you’re willing to spend that amount on a gaming laptop, you can do better than the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU that’s inside this thing. Other parts inside this laptop include a Core i7-7700HQ processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB PCIe SSD. To that end, it measures 14.06 x 9.97 x 0.45-0.66 inches, and weighs 4 pounds. Connectivity options include 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, two USB 3.0 ports, Thunderbolt 3, an HD

Do you remember Logitech’s G19 keyboard with a customizable color display built into the top of the deck? It seems EVGA does, because its new Z10 mechanical keyboard also has a built-in LCD panel. The comparison between the two is inevitable because LCD screens are not exactly commonplace in the keyboard market. It’s a customizable display that lets you monitor various stats, such as system temps, framerates, clockspeeds, and so forth. Purchases made direct from EVGA come with a free X10 Carbon

It looks like the Ghost Recon Wildlands gang will soon be teaming up with a familiar face—or, more precisely, a familiar voice. Ubisoft dropped a teaser today for “The Call,” a special operation that will see Sam “Splinter Cell” Fisher headed off to Bolivia to do what he does. This wouldn’t be the first time that Third Echelon has turned up outside of a Splinter Cell game. Ironside portrayed Sam Fisher (and did a fantastic job of it) throughout the Splinter Cell series, until he was replaced by

The Humble Bundlers have unveiled the new Humble Monthly for May, which features Kerbal Space Program, Dead Rising 4, and Ruiner, plus more games to be revealed later, for $12. The Humble Monthly is a subscription-based program that offers up a different collection of games each month. Any games you’ve picked up prior to cancellation are yours to keep. Five percent of funds raised by the May Humble Monthly will go to support St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital. It will be available until May 4

Ahead of its launch from Early Access on May 8, I recently got to check out some of the new features coming to Conan Exiles, Funcom’s multiplayer survival sandbox. There’s even a bit of farming coming to Conan Exiles, though it’s really more like gardening, as players can build planters and grow small crops from seeds and compost. Bylos explained that about half the players of Exiles have never played a survival game before, but were drawn in because they were fans of the Conan universe. We were

Hates… Seifer Almasy (Final Fantasy VIII)There are some really obvious choices for this one: Hope from Final Fantasy XIII, the whiny teenager who, to be fair, loses his mother early in the story, but is super irritating in all ensuing cutscenes. Andy KellyLikes… Vincent Valentine (Final Fantasy VII)Sullen, brooding, and draped in red, Vincent is one of the two optional party members in Final Fantasy VII. Hates… Selphie Tilmitt (Final Fantasy VIII)I feel a little bad for this, because Selph

Thurrott via Rafael Rivera. Rafael Rivera at Thurrott.com spotted the new method in the latest Windows 10 Pro Redstone 5 preview build (17639). As shown in the image above, Microsoft added a new “Screen clip” Quick Action to the Action Center. Here’s a look:Thurrott via Rafael Rivera. Windows 10 doesn’t really need yet another way to save screenshots—you can already do that by hitting the Print Screen button (or Alt+PrtScrn for a single window), using the Snipping Tool, through the Game Bar, and

Mount & Blade 2 is as yet without a release date. I’ll get to what Taleworlds has to say about its impregnable fortresses in a second, but first let me recount my pitiful experience with Mount & Blade 2’s castles to this point. At Gamescom last year, I sampled the game’s multiplayer Captain Mode which contained a mini castle of sorts, with a drawbridge and turret. No matter how large or complex our castles are, we always try to give commanding positions for both the attackers and defenders. Agai

Larian Studios is, for now, the Divinity: Original Sin studio. Dragons firstWhile Dragon Commander and Divinity: Original Sin started out being developed simultaneously, eventually Larian shifted its focus to Dragon Commander. But Original Sin was going to be the game Larian poured everything into, including the earnings from Dragon Commander. Divinity: Original Sin became Larian’s fastest-selling game and within a few months it had sold 500,000 copies. And just last year, Larian released Divini

That would become Divinity: Original Sin 2, Larian’s newest and biggest success story. Once the Enhanced Edition was finished, work on Original Sin 2 began in earnest, and Larian quickly tripled in size. “One of the main critiques of Original Sin was the story could have been better and could have benefited from more gravitas,” Van Dosselaer remembers. It proved to be Original Sin 2’s big hook, and the thing that most clearly set it apart from its progenitor. Despite this, Original Sin 2 launche

When we quizzed Fatshark CEO Martin Wahlund about Vermintide 2’s punishing difficulty last month, he told us he and his team were working to “remove the extreme spikes”. The first-person Skaven-slasher’s latest update, patch 1.0.5, tackles this head-on. “We don’t want Hero Power progression to stop at Veteran,” explains this Steam Community update, which in turn should make gaining Hero Power in Veteran mode less of a slog, reckons Fatshark. The buffs and nerfs applied to Vermintide 2’s playable

Locking Sea of Thieves randos in the brig is no laughing matter—but, to be fair, I think Sam and Tom’s detainees deserved their incarcerations. To this end, it looks like Rare is working towards private, invite-only crews. “Players are misusing the brig for various reasons,” says executive producer Joe Neate in this blog post. The blog post continues: “Closely related to the misuse of the brig, players don’t really have any control over who they play with (apart from playing with friends). Priva

Today we’re introducing the Board Games channel on PC Gamer. We believe there’s a huge crossover between the audience for traditional PC games and board games. When you click on the board games tab in the nav bar at the top of this site, you’ll find coverage on both physical board games and their digital counterparts. Our board games channel editor is Jon Bolding, who has years of experience covering both PC gaming and board games. One of the board games channel’s early supporters is Asmodee Dig

This week, players who enjoy colonising the Red Planet in Paradox’s recent Surviving Mars might enjoy FryxGames’ Terraforming Mars, which has a PC edition on the way too. Perhaps in the past few weeks you have enjoyed building domes, delving mines, and pumping water in survival city-builder Surviving Mars. So if you’re interested in Surviving Mars, how about not just surviving, but thriving? Terraforming Mars is good because, like Surviving Mars, it’s a game about balancing moment-to-moment choi

Wormhole Wars, however, is definitely ‘Halo meets Portal’ as the developer says. It’s the most ‘Halo meets Portal’ game that could exist without an unlikely alliance between Valve and Microsoft. Wormhole Wars is being designed as a competitive shooter with esports in mind. Wormhole Wars is targeting a February 2019 release, and is presently receiving an overhaul after a big funding increase. Its elements, or at least those I saw, are unoriginal, but the combination of Halo and Portal might be no

When rumours emerge that a major publisher is working on a battle royale game, it’s pretty easy to believe. Activision has already indicated that it’s “eye balling” the genre, and it seems unlikely that shooter-centric publishers like EA and Ubisoft wouldn’t be doing the same. And sadly, it won’t be a Rayman battle royale game. The studio at the helm is Massive Entertainment, they of The Division fame, and according to the report, Ubisoft tasked the studio with investigating potential battle roy

The Elder Scrolls Legends expansion Houses of Morrowind went live today after a slight delay (from March 29 to April 5), bringing the strange land of the Dunmer to Bethesda’s fantasy CCG. What really hooked me about today’s announcement, though, is the trailer. I honestly thought for a second that I’d clicked the wrong link, until the “Indoril” bit clicked—and then the appearance of the Guar, which really sealed the deal. After that it’s the much-loved cliff racers, a mud crab taking the subway,

“Basingstoke is a town in England, renowned for its charming mix of handcrafted and procedurally generated features,” according to developer Puppygames. Now, I’ve been to the UK, and while Basingstoke is a real town located near London—a city whose twisting streets often feel procedurally generated—I’m not sure I believe the studio on this. That said, Basingstoke is also a top-down stealth roguelike set in an oddly adorable version of the town that happens to be overrun with aliens and monsters.

Timespinner is a 2D Metroidvania-style platformer proudly inspired by the likes of Mega Man X, Star Ocean and of course Castlevania. “Every Orb has both a unique melee and ranged-spell attack that grow in power the more you use them,” developer Lunar Ray Games says. Everything about Timespinners sounds pleasingly, distinctly Metroidvania, but for me its standout feature is the art. I don’t mean that in a bad way, it’s just not every day we see an ostensibly retro platformer that looks this authe

Island Expeditions have been available in an unfinished state on Battle for Azeroth’s closed alpha for awhile now. Island Expeditions is one of two exciting new instanced game modes coming in Battle for Azeroth. But during Island Expeditions, the enemy team is comprised of characters that feel convincingly real. Compared to a dungeon run, it was refreshing how rapidly things change throughout an Island Expeditions match. Island Expeditions feel like the perfect foil to dungeons’ choreographed, r