The selection of motherboards for AMD’s recently launched Ryzen family of processors isn’t all that fleshed yet, but the situation is definitely improving. MSI has been especially active in kicking out more AM4 motherboard options, the latest of which is the X370 Gaming Pro. The new X370 Gaming Pro is similar to MSI’s recently announced X370 Gaming Pro Carbon, it’s just toned down in some places to make it more affordable. The main difference is that MSI traded RGB lighting for red LEDs, which a

Remember that gigantic gaming laptop with an equally big price tag Acer first teased at CES earlier this year? Well, if you’ve been saving up for a $9,000 desktop replacement, you’ll soon have your chance—Acer has updated its website with product pages for its massive Predator X 21 system and says it will be “available soon.” The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti wasn’t available when the Predator X 21 was first unveiled, but these are notebook GPUs on MXM cards, so that’s not an upgrade option (unless Nvidia

One of our Discord and comment moderators, CrazyCanuck, pointed my droopy Dark-Souls-loving mug towards these beauties, near perfect recreations of the Silvercat Ring and Havel’s Ring. So as a reminder, don’t jump down any wells with the Silvercat Ring. Same goes for Havel’s Ring. They’re great gifts for anyone that just completed The Ringed City and can’t come to terms with the Dark Souls series coming to a close. And really, that’s not too far off from how the series wraps up.

We invited the Project Cars 2 developers to the PC Gamer Weekender live event in London to talk about the game. Here is their session from the PC Gamer Stage, powered by Omen by HP.

The army painter function has been part of the Dawn of War series since the beginning. To change the way your army behaves in battle you can apply three army doctrines, and three elite doctrines. Army doctrines give your ordinary units extra abilities, and can improve their performance in certain situations. In addition each of your three elite units can take one elite doctrine each. There’s an open beta coming, which you can sign up for on the Dawn of War 3 site.

The Dota Asian Championships was held this past weekend as a display of the best international Dota 2 talent. Similarly, the battle between Southeast Asian Team Faceless and Team Liquid ’s European squad went on for a while, but was an engaging battle to stay in the league. ‘Team World’ consisting of EternalEnvy, Suma1L, iceiceice, JerAx, and Miracle- faced off against ‘Team China’ with BurNIng, Sccc, rOtk, fy and Faith_bian. The first was the ongoing friendly Twitter war between Newbee and Team

Making matters easier, Scottmw15’s corporation, Standing United, recruited only brand-new players. “I’d never played before and I’d been told EVE Online is really involved and complicated,” Circo Maximo tells me. For days, he had launched a one-man siege against Standing United, and the cracks were beginning to form. But eventually suspicion fell on Neerah and Standing United ambushed her, destroying her ship in an attempt to interrogate her. For Alexya, Circo and the rest of the recruits, the r

It’s another busy weekend in the world of digital sports and lots of tournaments are heating up. Both the European and North American schedule can be found here , while the stream can be found over on Twitch . Street Fighter V: Ultimate Fighting ArenaCapcom’s first official European Street Fighter tournament of 2017 is taking place at the Jean-Bouin stadium in Paris this weekend. The stream and schedule can be found over on the official World Gaming Federation site. The North American branch sta

Yooka-LayleeRelease date: April 11 | Link: GOG, Steam , official siteYooka-Laylee is a throwback to N64 platformers that perhaps throws itself back too forcefully. Mr ShiftyRelease date: April 13 | Link: Steam , official siteLooking a lot like Hotline Miami, Mr Shifty is a top-down, one-hit-kill brawler. FlinthookRelease date: April 18 | Link: Steam , official siteZip through randomly-generated 2D spaceships with a grappling hook, as space pirates do. Tekken 7Release date: June 1 | Link: Steam ,

Testing was done at our standard “Far” location that we use on our Best Routers and Best Wireless Adapters Guides. The wired connection shows its value with the lowest latency, although right behind it is the 5 GHz wireless connection. It is certainly becoming clear why a wired connection is the best choice, and the 5 GHz Wi-Fi connection emerges as the best alternate choice. Both locations of the Powerline connection had latency spike issues, even with the game as the only program running. For

Despite the creepy character models, Rock Band VR is still engrossing. The Rock Band VR tracklist Check out the Rock Band VR tracklist here . It’s a strange sight, especially to onlookers, but I wish Rock Band VR experimented more with music visualization, psychedelia, and gestures. Rock Band VR is not the reason to own an Oculus Rift. More importantly, it’s the only way to play Rock Band on a PC.

The first big Mass Effect: Andromeda patch is live, and brings a selection of features and bug fixes. It’s easy to see the improvement when the old eyes are compared side-by-side with the new ones. Over on YouTube, a side-by-side comparison of the waking up from hibernation scene gives us another look at the more natural, and not-glowy new orbs:Reddit is stocked with comparison shots as well. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of Suvi and Addison’s changed eyes. Some of the dialogue scenes have ha

It’s a great map to get creative on as you can net yourself some important kills with a variety of heroes. Far elaborates: “Sanctum is one of the best maps in the game for environmental kills, right behind certain Ilios maps. Even if there’s a Pharah in play, the 76 option up top should cancel out that pick if nothing else. Map knowledge isn’t just some tertiary skill in Overwatch: it’s something that could possibly save you a few invaluable seconds. On Nepal, that means looking for environmenta

Mount & Blade is an unlikely success story of the kind that only really happens on PC. In Mount & Blade: Warband, 2010’s standalone expansion and easily the best game in the series so far, players have free rein to explore a massive, politically intriguing medieval kingdom. TaleWorlds’ sizeable, dedicated fan base has been clamouring for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord ever since its announcement back in 2012. For me, Mount & Blade finds a captivating midpoint between Skyrim and Crusader Kings II.

Microsoft has revealed what’s under the hood of its next console and it’s packing some pretty impressive hardware. It looks like the goal was to beat PS4 Pro on every spec, and by the numbers Scorpio does exactly that. In raw performance, Microsoft and AMD have more than tripled the graphics capabilities of the Xbox One. PCs have to run a large and complex operating system, and there are as many potential combinations of PC hardware as there are stars in the sky. Now triple the performance of th

Nvidia has revealed its new Titan, the Xp. The card runs on Nvidia’s Pascal architecture and comes with a suitably titanic price tag of $1200 / £1,159. “They made 1080 Ti so fast that they need a new top-tier Titan,” says PC Gamer hardware expert Jarred Walton. “It’s the full GP102 chip, so just like we had GTX 780, the Titan, the 780 Ti and the Titan Black, we’re getting the 1080, Titan X (Pascal), 1080 Ti, and Titan Xp.” We’ll try to get the Xp into the testing chambers as quickly as possible

My first goal as I spawn in as a bunny is to grow to adulthood, which is accomplished, I discover, with a single keypress. With 2,000 karma points in my pocket—apparently, passing through a tiger’s digestive tract comes with a decent reward—I start over as a deer. While wandering around looking for a mate, I discover I can attack by performing a sort of headbutt. I’m a tiger after all, a tiger in a rabbit skin. I’m pretty sure this isn’t intended, judging by the reaction of the puma to being lig

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. This week we’ll be talking about the now confirmed Destiny 2 on PC news, Dark Souls 3’s Ringed City DLC, Hearthstone’s imminent expansion, and more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! This week’s topics:Mass Effect is getting an update, Hearthstone is getting an expansion, and more news…We talk about what we’ve been playing recently. James breaks down the latest (and final) Dark Souls 3 DLC. Tim gushes about Destiny 2’s comi

Who knew the final boss of the entire Dark Souls series would be a super sad uncle? Fun-damentalsThe bigger a Dark Souls boss, the more frustrating they are to fight, generally. Dark Souls’ combat system is at its least frustrating when fighting human figures. Character and mechanics collide to make that sad, exciting Dark Souls stew so many love. Dark Souls’ last boss never gets the final hit he worked so hard for, and it still hurts.

Jesse’s complete Journey to Un’Goro card predictions For predictions on the power level of all 135 Un’Goro cards, check out Jesse’s spreadsheet here. This allows you to have a much stronger early-game presence and still win with value in the late game. Much like the Warrior quest, Deathrattle decks already come with a powerful late-game value win condition in the form of N’zoth. One weakness of the strategy is playing the quest on turn 1 instead of a minion in such a highly-aggressive deck. Poss