(Image credit: AMD)As expected, AMD followed up the recent launch of its Ryzen 9 Pro 3900 CPU for businesses with a non-Pro variant for consumers, the Ryzen 9 3900. It also further fleshed out its latest generation of Zen processors with new Ryzen 5 3500X processor. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, a 3.1GHz base clock and 4.3GHz boost clock, and 64MB of L3 cache. Unfortunately, AMD is not releasing the 3900 as a standalone processor—it’s only being made available to OEM and system integrator (SI)

(Image credit: MSI)MSI is the first to offer a gaming laptop built around AMD’s recently announced Radeon RX 5500M GPU. Its new Alpha 15 also employs another piece of cutting edge 7nm technology, a Ryzen 7 3750H processor. This as-to-now unique pairing is now lost to MSI, which is billing the Alpha 15 as the “first 7nm technology gaming laptop.” Assuming the configurations are not gimped the $999 and $1,099 price points, the Alpha 15 has the potential to be one of the best gaming laptops, in ter

This isn’t a Halloween skin, but we needed something spooky for the header image, OK? It’s October, which means Halloween is on the way, which means every game on earth is going to make some money by selling us images of classic horror monsters plastered on and stretched over characters with completely different anatomies. But, credit where it’s due, League of Legends’ 2019 Halloween skins are actually pretty cool—oh no, it’s working, I’m converting in-game currencies to cash and thinking about

Colorful Playtonic platformer Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair bounced onto PCs today. After only being revealed back in June, the 2.5D spinoff of 2017’s Yooka-Laylee has arrived on both Steam and GOG. James played some of Impossible Lair back in June and called it “basically a Donkey Kong Country game on PC,” which sounds pretty appealing and makes sense, given that several of the developers previously worked on Donkey Kong Country. As for the Impossible Lair itself, it’s a culmination of t

Every year, Riot puts out a song for the League of Legends World Championship. Today it continued that tradition with the release a new song for the 2019 Worlds called “Phoenix,” featuring performances by Cailin Russo and Chrissy Costanza. (Correction: The post originally said that last year’s Worlds song was Pop/Stars by K/DA, but that’s not actually the case: It was Rise, featuring The Glitch Mob, Mako, and The Word Alive. The 2019 League of Legends World Championship play-in stages concluded

One of the perks available to anyone who bought the Premium Edition of Mortal Kombat 11 is a week of early access to each DLC character, which is why, as of today, The Terminator is out there in the wild shotgunning players. It’s the Old Man Arnie version of the Terminator of course, just like we’ve seen in the trailers for Terminator: Dark Fate. He still seems pretty capable of breaking bones and blowing off legs, and his fatality seen in the trailer above makes inventive use of a time sphere.

(Image credit: House House | YouTuber: TerakJK)I was fed up with the jerk goose: I was determined never to write about the bastard again. It’s not actually every object in town: the gardener’s hat and hammer are missing, and the delivery woman broke two mugs during the process. Still, every other object has been taken, and it took seven hours to do so. As you’ll see if you watch the video below, the goose has dragged all of the objects into the vicinity of a giant hole. Which just goes to show t

A list of the games being tackled by speedrunners at Awesome Games Done Quick in January of next year has been released, and it includes a bunch of highlight PC games. A team will be taking on Destiny 2’s Last Wish raid with all encounters, which should be an interesting one. There’s also a 45-minute Nosferatu speedrun of Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines, which will presumably involve memorizing all the sewers, as the Nosferatu vampires are so deformed they can’t even be seen in the street wit

New mods for Resident Evil 2 Remake just keep coming. We only recently enjoyed the mods that make Mr. X adorably tiny, and transform him into Pennywise from It. Now here’s one that swaps Leon for Barry Burton from the original Resident Evil (and the under-rated Revelations 2). It’s the work of modder DarknessRvaltier, who also has mods that let you play as Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine if you’re in the mood for a STARS reunion. They also have a mod in the works that will let you play as Cass

(Image credit: YouTube: Hearthstone tournaments)Following Blizzard’s removal of Chung “blitzchung” Ng Wai from the Hearthstone Grandmasters, the company is feeling the heat. Backlash is rife, and the Blizzard subreddit was temporarily closed today due to an onslaught of negative feedback. In the lead up to BlizzCon, it’s looking like the backlash won’t slow down. During a broadcast of an American Collegiate Hearthstone Championship match today between American University and Worcester Polytechni

How to beat Vex OffensiveAs a horde mode, Vex Offensive sits somewhere between Reckoning and the Menagerie in terms of difficulty and complexity. Vex Offensive best weapons and gearNow onto the and abilities and best Vex Offensive weapons to use. You can pretty much use whatever primary weapon you’d like for Vex Offensive (as long as it’s not a sidearm). Vex Offensive features basically every type of Vex enemy. The best Vex Offensive lootVex Offensive isn’t just fun: the loot is pretty generous,

If you’ve ever thought about starting a family no doubt you’ve already been told, “you won’t have time for games anymore!” Whether you play World Of Warcraft, Monster Hunter or Final Fantasy XIV, you don’t need to give up your hobby. In fact it’s an important way to keep some much needed ‘me time’ during a period of high stress and turmoil as you adjust to your new life. Conversely try turning the background music up—a lot of MMOs have relaxing area music that can chill your baby out. Keeping up

But right now you can get one for less by grabbing this MSI RTX 2080 for $649.99 at Best Buy. The original iterations of Nvidia’s RTX cards have certainly become a tougher sell since the release of the “Super” line of RTX cards, with their improved performance and similar MSRP. At a glance, the 2080 Super simply has more of everything when stacked against the original 2080. The difference isn’t monumental, but at launch, when it was offered at around the same price, the 2080 Super was an easy se

The system requirements for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order are now up on the Origin game page, and if you’re hoping to play at recommended settings then you better be packing a lot of RAM in your rig. The recommended specs are pretty high-end all the way around, but 32GB of RAM is a real eye-popper. Time flies and things change, but this is the first time I can recall seeing that number thrown around. Making it even more surprising is that the minimum required hardware is quite accessible, and com

War Selection is an Age of Empires-style RTS with evolving factions, a multiplayer focus and a terrible name. I’m trying to think of any other subscription-based PC RTS games and I’m drawing a blank. Along with sandbox, free-for-all and horde modes, there’s a 62-player Armageddon mode that sounds a little bit like an RTS spin on the battle royale formula. It’s not a straightforward adaptation, thank god, instead thrusting players into conflict by forcing them to constantly expand their borders.

The Radeon RX 5500 got its formal introduction yesterday, alongside a mobile variant, the 5500M. Display artifacts may be experienced on some 75Hz display configurations on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics system configurations. Radeon FreeSync 2 capable displays may fail to enable HDR when HDR is enabled via Windows OS on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products system configurations. Stutter may be experienced when Radeon FreeSync is enabled on 240Hz refresh displays with Radeon RX 5700 series gr

Source (Image credit: Rosie S., Yelp)Aside from Micro Center, Fry’s Electronics was the brick-and-motor store to get all your PC parts and other tech in the 80s and 90s. However, I’ve noticed emptier shelves, a lackluster PC component section, and fewer employees wandering the floor during my recent visits—and I’m not the only one. Most were employees wandering the Incan tomb that is Brokaw Fry’s. Fry’s recently switched most of its suppliers to a consignment model, according to spokesperson Man

The Grandmaster player was removed from the tournament after he called for the “liberation” of Hong Kong in a post-match interview. Supporters of the boycott are calling it an attack on free speech, voicing their discontent on Twitter with the a Boycott Blizzard hashtag and closing their wallets. “I support young people proactively advocating for their freedom and democracy.” I support young people proactively advocating for their freedom and democracy; They are shaping a better tomorrow. Activi

This is not a surprise—we suspected the PS5 would debut sometime in 2020 when Sony and AMD revealed earlier this year that the next-gen console was in development, with AMD hardware inside. However, Sony has now officially committed to a holiday 2020 release, and also confirmed it will in fact be called “PlayStation 5.” For the most part, console gaming is out of our purview, this being PC Gamer and all. As it relates to that, the Navi GPU is one of the things that makes the PS5 launch interesti

Fans and players are pledging to boycott Hearthstone and other Blizzard games in response, and earlier today the Blizzard subreddit was made private, meaning that it can only be accessed by people specifically invited by the moderators. “[The suspension], naturally, has sparked a lot of… let’s call it ‘discussion.’ As of writing this it’s the top thread on r/worldnews, r/gaming, r/hearthstone as well as other Blizzard subreddits including r/overwatch, r/starcraft, r/heroesofthestorm and r/warc