A new Middle-earth: Shadow of War cinematic unveiled today at the PC Gaming Show at E3 turned the spotlight on the Blade of Galadriel, a powerful Elf assassin who will be playable in one of the game’s two planned expansions. The Blade of Galadriel has been sent to Mordor “to hunt down the Nazgul, and hunt down anyone corrupted by a Ring of Power,” Monolith’s Michael de Plater explained. She’s also able to see the spirit of Celebrimbor, the Elf lord who shares Talion’s body—a neat and unexpected

Adam Isgreen, creative director of Microsoft Studios, appeared on the PC Gaming Show in Los Angeles today with a very special announcement: a remastered version of 1997’s real-time strategy Age of Empires is in the works. Check out the exclusive trailer above to see Age of Empires Definitive Edition’s remastered 4K graphics and soundtrack, new zoom levels, and improved gameplay. 20 years ago, Age of Empires challenged players to build a civilization beginning from the Stone Age and leading into

We’ve already caught a few glimpses of Wargroove, the Advance Wars inspired tactics game from Starbound developer Chucklefish, but today at the PC Gaming Show the studio showed off a hands-on demo. In it, we got a first look at its campaign editor, which will give you the tools to build full, multi-stage campaigns—complete with custom levels, dialogue cutscenes, and branching paths to follow. These custom campaigns and levels will be available to share online, meaning Wargroove could have some s

LawBreakers, the new arena FPS from Cliff Bleszinski’s Boss Key studio, will release August 8. The date was revealed by Bleszinski at the PC Gaming Show today along with the new trailer above. Also worth noting is that the final closed beta period runs from June 30 to July 4—you can sign up at the official site to try out a new map and mode while it’s on. I enjoyed LawBreakers when I first played it in April of last year, though a lot has changed since then. Watch the full show segment with Clif

Ylands, Bohemia Interactive’s sandbox survival exploration and crafting game, showed us a new gameplay trailer at the PC Gaming Show in Los Angeles, which you can see above. It features the game’s many themes and possibilities, from island survival to pirate adventures to racing cars. And yes, that is a horse being fired out of a catapult. Ylands is currently playable through Bohemia’s Incubator initiative, but will release into Steam Early Access later this year. Watch the full PC Gaming Show s

During the PC Gaming Show today, Intel was on stage promoting its upcoming Extreme series of Core i9 processors. Twitch Destiny streamer TeftyTeft said he’s spoken with Bungie, and that the PC version will be able to use all the cores on your PC, including even on insane 10-core and higher models. “If you have an i9 Extreme, it will be able to take advantage of all those cores.” He also says the PC version is running great, with excellent mouse and keyboard support, along with all the extras we’

Tripwire announced the The Killing Floor 2 ‘Summer Sideshow’ event today at the PC Gaming Show. The seasonal event will include a new map, Tragic Kingdom, complete with carnival games, as well as “over 50 cosmetic items” to unlock. The Summer Sideshow will be out tomorrow, and Killing Floor 2 will be free to play for a week—with a discount for anyone who decides to buy it during that time. Check out this post for more from The PC Gaming Show at E3 2017. You can watch the show live on Twitch, and

In case you need more storage, Best Buy has a pretty good offer on a WD Red 4TB hard drive for NAS appliances. However, Best Buy sweetens the with a $25 store gift card (usable online or in-store). The WD Red series is built for NAS boxes, though they work just fine in a traditional PC. If you’re looking for anecdotal evidence, I’ve been running a 3TB WD Red in my main PC for several years now without issue (knock on wood). You can grab the 4TB WD Red on sale here.

Brendan Greene, creator of Early Access battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, appeared on the PC Gaming Show in Los Angeles today, and gave us an exclusive look at some upcoming features. Most notably, players will soon be able to vault objects like cars, fences, and low walls, climb up and onto taller objects, and even dive through windows. Diving through windows looks fun, too, and I can definitely see it being not just flashy but practical when you’re indoors and some other pla

We’re pretty sure indie charmers Ooblets and Tunic are going to have to duel to the death for the title of most adorable game at this year’s PC Gaming Show. Tunic, which previously went by the name Secret Legend, stars a cute fox taking part in some surprisingly fast-paced sword-swinging and dodge rolling as it explores a gorgeous isometric world. You can see a hint of that world, as well as some combat and a pretty intimidating boss fight, in the trailer above, which debuted at the PC Gaming Sh

Just revealed at the PC Gaming Show, Shadowverses’ fourth expansion will be releasing at the end of this month, June 29. Titled Wonderland Dreams, the expansion will add 104 new cards to the game, most of which have an Alice in Wonderland or fairy tale theme to them. The announcement was made in a new trailer, which you can watch above. The trailer was introduced during the show by Hearthstone streamer Octavian “Kripparrian” Morosan , who recently threatened the very existence of Blizzard’s CCG

Total War: Warhammer 2 got right into the action at The PC Gamer show. The video is actually depicting a specific quest battle, The Battle of the Fallen Gates, which will be playable on the show floor at E3. Our favorite thing about the original Total War: Warhammer was how much fun The Creative Assembly was able to have with the setting. Back in April we wrote about what we want from Total War: Warhammer 2, with the hopes of seeing some changes to the Total War formula rather than just new fact

While Plextor offers some higher end SSDs, the company’s new S3 series targets the other end of the spectrum with affordable prices. Specs and capacities vary between the top options, with the S3C series shipping 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities, while the S3G comes in just 128GB and 256GB. 4K random read and write performance also varies by model. The 128GB drives hit up to 72,000 IOPS (read) and 57,000 IOPS (write); the 256GB is rated at up to 90,000 IOPS (read) and 71,000 IOPS (write); and

There are strands of PC gaming that feel specific to our desktop boxes – that no other gaming device could do as well, or with such vigour. If the latter is your jam, you’ll be wanting to see this new footage of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, exclusively unveiled at the PC Gaming Show. Mount & Blade: Warband fans will know broadly what to expect, but Bannerlord offers some major improvements – not least to the graphics. For more about why Bannerlord is one of the most exciting RPGs on the horizon,

On stage at the PC Gaming Show today, Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman unveiled the first footage of its single-player campaign, and the massive Argo ship that will serve as your heavily armed home away from home. Battletech will offer three modes of play: single-player skirmish, multiplayer skirmish, and an “open-ended mercenary campaign” in which you’ll help a deposed ruler reclaim her throne. Once the campaign is over, you’ll be able to continue roaming the galaxy, taking contracts from a wi

One of the last pieces missing from the RGB invasion is the sound card. That changes today with the introduction of Creative’s Sound BlasterX AE-5, an all-new “audiophile-grade” discrete sound card for gamers. Creative has been participating the discrete audio space for nearly as long as I’ve been alive (let’s just say several decades now). The message from Creative is that this is a sound card for gamers who have an audiophile ear. An RGB lighting controller is built into Creative’s latest soun

Since the beginning, Ooblets has been all about adorable Pokemon-esque creatures, and also dancing. The trailer above, which debuted at this year’s PC Gaming Show, stars both of those things, but it also gives us a look at parts of the game we haven’t seen much of before. Crucially, you can have hair that looks like a poop emoji (or soft serve ice cream, but let us live this dream for a moment). In the world of Ooblets, dancing, it seems, is encouraged anytime, anywhere. Check out this post for

At the PC Gaming Show Firaxis’ Jake Solomon gave us our first look at XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, a huge expansion that adds new enemies, environments, missions, classes and fellow resistance factions. The Chosen are alien heroes with distinct personalities and skillsets tasked with hunting XCOM across the world. Jake Solomon detailed The Assassin on the PC Gaming Show stage, she’s a stealthy purple close combat master. In War of the Chosen XCOM is joined by three other resistance factions. You c

It also saw the reveal of a new, $1 million Intel Grand Slam prize, which will awarded to the first team that wins four qualifying CS:GO tournaments in a 12-month period. “We are excited to level-up our partnership with ESL, invest into the development of future esports stars, and create premier events like the Intel Grand Slam.” Qualifying events include the Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One, ESL Pro League and DreamHack Masters series. Qualifying events include the Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One,

One of the potential downsides to gaming with a wireless mouse is that the battery might die at the most inopportune time. That is also what makes it unique from Corsair’s Qi-based Project Zeus concept, which limits wireless charging to one corner of the pad. “Recent advances in wireless charging technology have made it easy for nearly anyone to keep their mobile phone topped off without plugging in. Of course, charging is not the only concern gamers have with wireless mice, there is also the is