This may not be strictly gaming related, but in what is sure to please gamers hoping to upgrade to a new graphics card, Bitmain has announced pre-orders for its upcoming Antminer E3. The new ASIC will target the Ethash / DaggerHashimoto algorithm, currently used by Ethereum, Ethereumclassic, Ubiq, Piri, and several other cryptocurrencies. Prior to the arrival of the E3 ASIC, Ethereum has been one of the favorite mining targets for GPU miners, with droves of AMD and Nvidia GPUs working in the min

Right on schedule, there are a slew of new gaming notebooks sporting these chips from all the usual suspects. For graphics, the GS65 supports either the GTX 1070 Max-Q or a GTX 1060 (non-Max-Q). It supports the new Core i5 and Core i7 6-core mobile processors and includes a large 82Wh battery, weighing 4.14 pounds. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon and Newegg, with the i7-8750H, GTX 1070 Max-Q, and 256GB SSD starting at $2,099; the GTX 1060 model starts at $1,799. Finally, the GE63 and GE73

Totem Teller makes glitches look good. To hear developer Grinning Pickle tell it, it’s a simple 2D game about guiding a curious robed individual called the Teller through a “beautifully broken” storybook-like world peppered with glitches which the Teller must resolve. Most PC gamers are no stranger to resolving glitches, but Totem Teller does things a little differently. Glitches represent corrupted story fragments, and by healing them, you can learn more about Totem Teller’s world. And while I

A new race mode is coming to GTA Online that combines the two best things about life in Los Santos—dangerous driving and guns—into one super-sport. Target Assault Races puts one player on the wheel and another on the trigger in a race where accuracy is even more important than speed. Passing checkpoints and finishing in the top three will earn bonus points, but hitting the targets is what really counts: Smaller targets are worth more, and hitting the bullseye will earn more points too. That puts

Vandals has one of the coolest elevator pitches I’ve ever heard: turn-based stealth graffiti. Rather than a secret agent infiltrating underground bases in search of top-secret intel, you’re an agent of expression infiltrating cities like Paris and Tokyo in search of sweet canvases to tag. Developer Cosmografik says Vandals has 60 levels set in five cities: Paris, Tokyo, São Paulo, Berlin and New York. Sneak through their curiously well-guarded streets and alleys, elude the Man (after memorizing

It also means there will be deals to be had as companies look to make room for the new stuff. One deal that we came across is Dell’s Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop. It’s on sale today for $750, down from its list price of $1,050. You can get it even cheaper by using coupon code 50OFF699 at checkout, which brings the price down to $700. It’s powered by an Intel Core i5-7300HQ processor, 8GB of DDR4-2400 RAM, and a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU.

Intel has finally introduced some additional chipsets for its Coffee Lake processors, which will widen the field of motherboard options when building a new system. Sure, you could readily find Z370 motherboards in the $110 range, but it’s still a flagship chipset. Now Intel is offering a handful of additional chipsets that support Coffee Lake—H370, H310, Q370, and B360. These new chipsets and motherboards coincide with the expansion of Intel’s desktop Coffee Lake processor family. Between the ne

Ever fancied having three animal companions—at the same time? Soon you’ll be able to fulfill that fantasy and many others thanks to the new Animus Control Panel, coming later this month to the PC version of Assassins Creed: Origins. The Animus Control Panel will give players the ability to fiddle with 75 parameters across 11 categories. Details won’t be revealed until it’s closer to release but the image below shows sliders and toggles for options including diving speed, NPC movement speed, mele

We’re deep into the reveal season for Hearthstone’s next expansion, The Witchwood, which means we’re starting to get a good sense of the power level of this set’s legendary cards. First, he has an immediate impact on the board, and second he has the potential to snowball a game. Played on turn nine three times, you get a Dopplegangster (four mana) and a spell (five mana) that puts three random legendary minions into your hand. This card’s effect isn’t so good that you should consider including b

Here’s Mighty Goat , one of the many struggling streamers uploading reams of candy-coated Fortnite: Battle Royale videos to the internet every day. “Battle Royale is not Fortnite.” However, after the Battle Royale module was airdropped in, the mood quickly turned apocalyptic. Fortnite: Battle Royale celebrated a million players on day one. “So Battle Royale and Saves The World fans should really support each other, not put each other down.

Ubisoft’s deep-woods drug bust shooter Ghost Recon Wildlands will kick off Year 2 on April 10 with the launch of Special Operations 1, the first of four major updates planned for the year. Each Special Operation will have its own theme, campaign updates with free missions and special challenges and rewards, and other “highly community-requested features.” It will also contain the content that had been planned for the fifth and sixth updates listed on the original Ghost War development roadmap. A

For anyone who is not upgrading from the original Vive and therefore doesn’t already own touch controllers and base stations, HTC will offer a starter kit bundle for $1,099, beginning April 5. The starter kit pairs the upgraded Vive Pro headset with two Vive 1.0 controllers and two 1.0 base stations, neither of which are included with the $799 headset. What the Vive Pro brings to the table is a higher resolution and more comfortable design, compared to the original Vive. Chris had a chance to pl

Kine is an upcoming 3D puzzle game about three robot musicians looking for their big break. Its announcement trailer is chock-full of jazz, graphic novel-like art, and cleverly synchronized movement, putting it right up my alley. “If you answered yes to any of the above questions then this game is for you! If you answered no to all of the questions above then this game might not be for you. Frey previously co-founded The Molasses Flood, the studio behind survival roguelike The Flame In the Flood

The April line up of Free Games With Prime includes Tales From the Borderlands, DubWars, Steamworld Dig 2, Kingsway, and Tokyo 42. All the games are available now to Twitch Prime subscribers and are yours to keep, forever and ever, even if you cancel your subscription. Twitch Prime offers ad-free viewing, emotes, and “game loot” every month, like the Fortnite cosmetics and heroes it rolled out last week. But the Free Games With Prime program brings it in line with, for example, the Humble Monthl

Here’s a look at the performance lineup:Excluding its Xeon processors for workstations, there are two other 6-core/12-thread 8th gen Core processor options for laptops, including the Core i7-8850H and Core i7-8750H. These are the parts that will more commonly be found in higher end laptops, including gaming systems. Intel also introduced some new designations, including Core i5+, Core i7+, and Core i9+, as shown above. These are related to Intel bringing its Optane Memory and other Optane soluti

For the last seven weeks, 21 developers from Steel Division: Normandy ‘44 studio Eugen Systems have been on strike. After several meetings in March, an agreement still hasn’t been reached, and 15 current and ex-developers have taken the matter to the French Labour Court. In a post relayed by the French game developer union, Le Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo, the striking devs explained the situation. At the start of the strike, Eugen made a statement denying that it igno

The sad truth about Warhammer games is that it’s much easier to round the bad ones than it is the good—something we’ve already done here on PC Gamer. Sit back and scowl through this disappointingly brief list of the best Warhammer games on PC. After years in the 6/10 wilderness, Warhammer Fantasy fans were rewarded with two excellent Total War games in the space of two years. Blood Bowl 2Perhaps it’s slightly disappointing that one of the best games on a Warhammer list is the comedic sporting sp

JRPG darling Chrono Trigger took its time coming to PC. Lamentably, the version we got was a mobile port, itself based on the DS port, laden with an awful UI that was designed for touch screens, ugly “high-resolution” graphics and some extra bugs for good measure. “We have been working on addressing the issues that you’ve raised, and will be releasing a number of patches over the coming months as we continue to support Chrono Trigger on Steam,” the update on the Steam page explains. The first pa

No longer blessed with the patience or time to invest in flight sims, the free-wheeling aerial acrobatics of Above seem right up my street. It’s a top-down action adventure that tasks would-be pilots with soaring through the skies above a flooded world in a tiny plane. While the teaser trailer shows off stunts, cargo deliveries and big ol’ sea beasties, developer Mighty Moth is also promising a “story-rich aeronautical odyssey”. We’ll be joining a scrappy young pilot in the cockpit and embarking

At first mention of Summerset Isle you might think The Elder Scrolls Online development team had finally lost their minds and were going for some weird Wicker Man mashup. Sadly, you’re thinking of Summerisle, while this new fantasy expansion has a lot more high elves and a lot less burning people in giant effigies. Of course, as any good HBO miniseries will tell you, behind the perfectly manicured scenery lies intrigue, drama, and serial killings. In the space of 30 minutes there was a “life suc