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Walmart is offering an outstanding gaming laptop deal that I haven't seen since Black Friday. As part of the Walmart Memorial Day Sale, you can pick up a powerful MSI Vector HX 16" Gaming Laptop for just $1,399.00 with free shipping. This laptop features an RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 140W TGP rating for impressive gaming performance. MSI Vector HX 16" RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop for $1,399 The MSI Vector HX laptop is equipped with a 16" 1920x1200 144Hz IPS display, Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 1TB SSD, and weighs in at about 6 pounds. Both the RAM and SSD are user-upgradeable. The Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX is a 20-core CPU with a max turbo frequency of 5.2GHz. This is a great processor for both gaming and multi-core tasking. A 1 year warranty is included. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti mobile GPU can handle the most demanding games The RTX 5070 Ti mobile GPU performs about 20%-30% better than the RTX 5070. Compared to the previous gen...

If you're planning out a PC build and have been hoping to get one of the new Nvidia Blackwell graphics cards at a reasonable price, this might be the best opportunity you'll get in the near future. Walmart is offering a retail boxed PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB graphics card for just $599 shipped. Mind you this is still $50 over MSRP, but it's the best price I can find right now for a standalone 5070 GPU and the first time I've seen this card drop below $600 this year. PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB OC Graphics Card for $599 The GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is an excellent choice for 1080p or 1440p gaming. Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 offers a slight performance improvement over the RTX 4070 Super , which was and still is an excellent GPU. The fps gain is greater in games that support DLSS 4.5 with multi-frame generation. Read our RTX 5070 review for our hands-on impressions. This PNY model features a slim 2.4-slot triple-fan cooling system and a slight ove...

Warhorse Studios has revealed what it’s working on: a Lord of the Rings role-playing game and a new Kingdom Come game. In a post on social media , the Embracer-owned developer confirmed rumors that it was making a Lord of the Rings RPG, although it described the game as an “open world Middle-earth RPG.” The suggestion, then, is this game may not be set within the Lord of the Rings era of Tolkien’s fantasy setting. But it seems likely to follow the template established by the studio’s hugely popular Kingdom Come: Deliverance games. Indeed, it's easy to see why Warhorse is a great fit for a new Lord of the Rings game; Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a story-driven open world RPG set in medieval Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic). And while the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games are pride themselves on their historical accuracy, you can imagine this Middle-earth RPG as Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 with a dash of fantasy thrown in to give it that Lord of the Rings feel. Speaking of which, Wa...

Embracer Group is spinning off Fellowship Entertainment, a new business unit designed to expand The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider, as well as breathe new life into some of the company’s dormant video game franchises. In a letter to investors , Lars Wingefors, founder and chair of Embracer, said the new Fellowship Entertainment will “more actively be exploring” external partnerships around its well-known IP, such as Saints Row, Legacy of Kain, Deus Ex, Red Faction, The Mask, Thief, TimeSplitters. The suggestion is we may see new games in these franchises, developed by studios that are not under the Embracer umbrella. Wingefors did not outright confirm any new games or announce a timeframe for more news, but there is now hope for some of these franchises where fans thought there was none. Take Saints Row, for example. Earlier this year, Saints Row 1 design director Chris Stockman said he believed the series was “dead” and that Embracer had “zero ability” to do anything with the fran...

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced , the upcoming remake of 2013's Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, will give players the option to completely disable the HUD at will. Ubisoft has revealed in a new gameplay clip that players will be able to turn off the HUD at the press of a button without opening any menus. It's extremely seamless and allows players the chance to fully immerse themselves in the world. The option is being welcomed as a great addition, as Ubisoft can sometimes clutter the screen with a lot of icons like health bars, weapon/throwables, the map, and more. To our explorers, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced will feature an option to seamlessly hide the HUD in-game with the press of a button 🤝 #AssassinsCreed pic.twitter.com/QNP5UFeVs1 — Assassin's Creed (@assassinscreed) May 19, 2026 This gives players the chance to remove all of that and simply embrace the grand, beautiful open world that Ubisoft is creating. Assassin's Creed 4: Bl...

Microsoft is continuing its drive to revamp brand Xbox with the launch of a feedback platform that gives fans the chance to vote on community requests. Predictably, the request with the most votes is a return to exclusives. Microsoft’s multiplatform push may have increased sales (Forza Horizon 5, for example, has found significant success on PlayStation 5), but it has come at the expense of alienating hardcore Xbox fans, some of whom want Microsoft to return to Xbox exclusivity. Earlier this month, it was reported that new Xbox boss Asha Sharma was “treading carefully” as she worked out what to do with exclusive games. Sharma, who replaced Phil Spencer as boss of Xbox earlier this year, has spent her first few months in the job making a number of significant changes as Microsoft works to win back the hearts and minds of its core gaming fans. Among them was the end of the controversial ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing campaign , quickfire new Xbox console features, and a Game Pass price cut ...