Summer heat brings summer boredom, especially when all you have are the same games to play month after month. While E3 brought plenty of games to get pumped up for, August actually puts some of them in our hands as it kicks off the fall gaming season with an array of exciting titles. With the return of fan-favorite heroes such as Batman and the long-awaited release of No Man’s Sky, you can beat the heat with these new games.
Here’s an inside look at the hottest games coming out this month, and when exactly you can snag them. Get your month started off right by prepping yourself for the weeks to come. Fighting the illuminati, scoring touchdowns and saving Gotham City are all things you can do this month. With Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Madden 17 you can hit the future and the gridiron right after each other. Don’t miss a thing this August!
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.