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I already thought the original ROG Phone was an amazing gaming smartphone, but this new ROG Phone 2 really ticks off all the boxes for the best mobile gaming device by being bigger and more powerful.

The first thing to note about the Asus ROG Phone 2 is it has a larger 6.59-inch display compared to the 6-inch screen of its predecessor. The new AMOLED screen has a slightly taller 19:9 aspect ratio that helps eliminate some of the original ROG Phone’s thick bezels.

While playing in portrait mode, the wider play space gave me all the room I needed for my thumbs to control the touchscreen without covering up the action I also needed to see. Ultrawide smartphones never made much sense to me for just watching movie trailers, but for gaming, it’s a godsend. I can control my character and see where enemies were at the same time in Mega Man DiVE.

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Hearthstone has launched its Saviors of Uldum expansion, and issued a speedy balance patch, but its accompanying Solo Adventures content is still incoming. Blizzard has now announced a release date for the upcoming “Tombs of Terror” missions, along with lots of details about how this new set of missions is unlike any previous ones. The missions will begin on September 17.

As with the Dalaran Heist missions from Rise of Shadows, you’ll take on a series of encounters in the style of a dungeon run, building your deck and collecting powerful artifacts along the way. This time, though, you’ll be playing as the League of Explorers themselves, and each of them is a dual-class hero. The pairing of classes will open up new combo possibilities. Each hero will be tied to a particular chapter over the progressive release, and the heroes will be taking on “Plague Lord” bosses with huge health totals.

The first chapter will be free for all players, and then the subsequent three chapters will release weekly for $7 or 700 in-game gold. You can also purchase the Deluxe Bundle with all three chapters, which includes an exclusive card back and a random Saviors of Uldum Legendary card for use in the game’s traditional PvP modes.

• Chapter 1: The Lost City of the Tol’Vir – Reno Jackson (Mage-Rogue) vs Plague Lord of Murlocs
• Chapter 2: The Scorching Dunes – Sir Finley Mrrgglton (Paladin-Shaman) vs Plague Lord of Madness
• Chapter 3: Khartut’s Tomb – Elise Starseeker (Druid-Priest) vs Plague Lord of Death
• Chapter 4: The Halls of Origination – Brann Bronzebeard (Hunter-Warrior) vs Plague Lord of Wrath
• Finale

Making your way through the content will earn you three Saviors of Uldum packs per chapter, plus a card back and Golden Classic pack for completing the story mode. Heroic difficulty will have its own card back as well.

This is the second of three expansions in a planned year-long story for Hearthstone. In the first story, the Arch-Thief Rafaam gathered a band of Hearthstone villains to pull off an ambitious heist: the entire city of Dalaran. This second chapter, Saviors of Uldum, sees the entrance of the League of Explorers to take on the villains.

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A new video gaming and esports entertainment venue is being developed at Emporium Melbourne and will open in early 2020. The facility, which will reportedly be the largest of its type in the Southern Hemisphere, will span 2,700+ square metres across two floors.

“Fortress Melbourne” will boast 160 gaming PCs, console gaming suites, dedicated streamer pods, an RPG and tabletop game play area, function rooms, a restaurant, two bars, and a 200-seat esports arena with production facilities.

“Melbourne has become the epicentre for video gaming and esports culture with major events like Melbourne Esports Open and PAX Australia, so we’re excited to be opening our first flagship venue in Melbourne and offer Australians a unique entertainment space that they can enjoy all year round,“ said Fortress Esports CEO Jon Satterley in a statement.

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Splinter Cell: Blacklist was released seven years ago, and fans of Sam Fisher’s stealth adventures have been clamouring for a new entry in the Ubisoft series ever since. The gruff protagonist made an appearance in a Ghost Recon: Wildlands expansion with voice actor Michael Ironside reprising the role, and Fisher also featured at E3 earlier this year as part of a mobile game called Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad.

Now, GameStop may have just inadvertently revealed a new entry in the Splinter Cell series is on the way. A Reddit user discovered a new listing for Sam Fisher replica goggles available for pre-order on the retailer’s site. The description says, “For the first time since the introduction of Splinter Cell in 2002, after nine top-selling AAA+ titles, and with the 10th release on the horizon, this is your first chance to own Sam Fisher’s signature Ultra High-Frequency Sonar Goggles.”

A 10th release on the horizon? Maybe this is just an honest mistake on GameStop’s part in presuming a new Splinter Cell is on the way, or maybe it’s something much more than that. For what it’s worth, the listing has now been removed with the link redirecting to an “access denied” page. It’s also a curious time to release a new pair of replica goggles–slated for release in November–when Splinter Cell hasn’t been part of the gaming lexicon for a number of years.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot recently explained the wait for a new Splinter Cell game. “When you create a game, you have to make sure you will come with something that will be different enough from what you did before,” Guillemot said. “Last time we did a Splinter Cell, we had lots of pressure from all the fans saying, ‘Don’t change it; don’t do this; don’t do that.’ So some of the teams were more anxious to work on the brand.

“Now there are some things and some people that are now looking at the brand; taking care of the brand. At one point you will see something but I can’t say more than that,” he added. “Also because of Assassin’s Creed and all the other brands taking off, people wanted to work on those brands more. So we have to follow what they like to do.”

In other Tom Clancy related Ubisoft news, the Ghost Recon Breakpoint closed beta kicks off this weekend, and GameSpot has all of the details. The company also launched Uplay+, its new subscription service, but not without its share of teething problems.

Last year we were blown away by Acer’s Thronos gaming cockpit, but its $30,000 price tag made it unapproachable for anyone but the most well-off gamers.

Well, Acer has heard your cries and made a more affordable Acer Predator Thronos Air that only costs $13,000.

Okay, that’s still a lot of money, but it is less than half the price of the original Thronos. To bring the price down to insane levels (rather than inconceivable levels), Acer cut down the motorized features. So now you’ll have to manually adjust the monitor arm and the angle of the gaming chair.

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240Hz gaming monitors and gaming laptop display have been the fastest screens you can get for competitive gaming for a while now. But Acer is amping things up with one of the industry’s first 300Hz gaming laptops with the updated 15-inch Acer Predator Triton 500.

This gaming laptop’s new 300Hz Full HD display isn’t just fast it’s also outpacing every gaming monitor currently available. 240Hz displays could already deliver a constant stream of crisp images completely devoid of motion blur, but adding another 60Hz here makes games look even smoother. Like velvety smooth.

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