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Blizzard Has Started Rolling Out its Major Battle.net App Update

For the first time in years, Blizzard is finally making some big changes to the Battle.net launcher. While the update has been in beta testing for a while now, it’s finally ready for its full release, the it’s begun rolling out to parts of North America. Here’s what you can expect from the new update: Improved navigation and layout—you can now favorite your games and arrange them for ease of accessA much more expansive layout for news and game content in full-page viewA revamped social pane so you can better

Lenovo’s Legion Slim 7i gaming laptop weighs less than four pounds

Sponsored Links Lenovo As part of its holiday lineup, Lenovo is releasing a new Legion Slim 7i gaming laptop. According to the company, this is the slimmest chassis of any Legion laptop. The Slim 7i weighs in just under four pounds (1.86 kilograms). Like the Legion 5i and 7i laptops, it uses NVIDIA’s Advanced Optimus graphics switching and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q.Thanks to that Advanced Optimus tech, the Legion Slim 7i can switch back and forth between lower power consumption in less-intensive moments and increased power

Marvel’s Avengers Shows Up Early For Some People In Australia

Marvel's Avengers is slated for release on September 4, but some people in Australia are getting their hands on the game early. A reader of the website Kotaku Australia said they received a copy of the game on PS4 from Amazon Australia.It's unclear if this was a one-off early shipping mistake on Amazon's behalf, or if Amazon has begun to ship the game ahead of schedule en masse, or some other issue entirely. Whatever the case, with copies of Marvel's Avengers beginning to appear in the wild, it's a good

Accidentally Paying for Stadia – The TouchArcade Show #458

In this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show we once again dig into the massive drama bomb going on between Epic Games and Apple. What side of the billionaire company fight are YOU on? We also get to a couple of reader emails and of course hit on all the major mobile gaming topics of the week, including the awesome Horizon Chase’s 5th anniversary celebration as well as the mind-boggling 99¢ deal (as of this writing) for the wonderful Diablo-like action RPG Titan Quest. Don’t forget to shoot us emails

‘Swim Out’ Developer’s Upcoming Tower Defense Puzzler ‘Rip Them Off’ Looking for Beta Testers

Early last month, the husband-and-wife developer duo known as Lozange Lab announced their new gaming project following their critically acclaimed logic puzzler Swim Out which launched on mobile back in 2017 but is now available on pretty much any platform you can think of. The new game is called Rip Them Off, and it’s a puzzler/tower defense game all about building storefronts, directing traffic, and manipulating people into spending all their hard-earned cash on stuff in your stores that they don’t really need. You’re trying to rip them off, it’s

The best laptops to use for schoolwork and gaming

There's never been a better time to be a PC gamer, especially when it comes to laptops. Gaming notebooks are lighter, more powerful and cheaper than ever before. They're particularly useful for students because their beefy hardware could be helpful for rendering video and doing any other school work that would make super-thin ultraportables sweat. You can find some general advice on choosing gaming laptops in our guide, but things have changed a bit since we wrote that piece. NVIDIA's mobile GPUs are better than ever, and AMD is finally making