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HomeNewsLego 2K Drive Lego 2K Drive looks like a bricky blend of Forza Horizon and Sonic RacingThe open world racer is coming in May The open world racer is coming in May After some early leaks these last few days, publisher 2K have officially announcedLego 2K Drive, an open-world racer that looks surprisingly awesome - if you’ll excuse the low-hanging adjective. The game features co-op, multiplayer modes, and the ability to transform between air and land vehicles, Team Sonic Racing-style....

HomePodcastsDisco Elysium The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S2 Ep 8: what the hap is heckening at Studio ZA/UM?Spoilers: who knows Spoilers: who knows We talk about all that stuff for so long that we end up overrunning and don’t have time for A Good Day To Ware Hard, or Nate’s Tower Of Jocularity - although he promises a titanic one next week. We do get in our what games we’ve been playing this week, and it’s a varied selection....

HomeDeals AMD’s flagship RDNA 2 graphics card, the RX 6950 XT, is down to £700 (RRP £1100)The new 7900 XT is only 7% faster than the 6950 XT at a 20% higher price. The new 7900 XT is only 7% faster than the 6950 XT at a 20% higher price. Today the former AMD graphics card flagship has reached a new low price, as you can now pick up the RX 6950 XT for £700 - that’s considerably less than the new RX 7900 XT that it closely resembles in performance....

HomeGuidesDiablo IV Best Diablo 4 Sorcerer buildsDiscover the three best Diablo 4 Sorcerer builds Discover the three best Diablo 4 Sorcerer builds Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Looking for the best Diablo 4 Sorcerer builds?Sorcerers are one of the best beginner classes inDiablo 4, offering simple spellslinging for new players. It also offers plenty of variety, and we’ve got information on the three best Sorcerer builds - Lightning, Ice, and Fire Sorcerers - right here, which is perfect if you’re just starting D4 now it’sout on Game PassIn this guide, we’ll break down the bestDiablo 4Sorcerer builds, with information on the best skills and Enchantments for the Lightning, Ice, and Fire builds....

HomeNews Dune’s Oscar-nominated screenwriter is penning Netflix’s Gears Of War filmGearing up Gearing up Netflix’s take on chonky soldiers vs. equally chonky underground aliens is, excuse me, gearing up. Last November, the streaming serviceannouncedplans to adaptGears Of War’schainsaw-swinging into an animated series and a live-action film. The latter has now tapped a writer. Jon Spaihts is the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Dune, Prometheus, and Doctor Strange, and he’s now writing the Gears Of War film, Netflixannouncedtoday....

HomeFeaturesHi-Fi Rush How Hi-Fi Rush rediscovers its rhythm with an all-time-great fight sceneInvaders must dine Invaders must dine Hi-Fi Rush, our inauguralRPS Game Clubgame, sets its on-the-beat beatdowns in some pretty interesting places. Glistening sci-fi skyscrapers. An underground volcano lair. A Smaug-pleasing gold hoard, conveniently adjacent to a finance executive’s office. Who’d have guessed, then, that its absolute best fight – not just a thrilling brawl in itself, but the point at which a stumbling adventure plants its feet back in greatness – would take place in a canteen?...

HomeNewsMiasma Chronicles Mutant Year Zero devs' new strategy game Miasma Chronicles arrives in MayMiasma, My Asthma Miasma, My Asthma The studio behindMutant Year Zero: Road To Eden- The Bearded Ladies - have announced a release date for their next game: May 23rd.Miasma Chroniclesis another post-apocalyptic tactical RPG, but this time it replaces the anthropomorphic pigs with a friendly robot - who the trailer refers to as your big brother, I should add....

HomeFeaturesRedfall Redfall may be open world, but it hasn’t defanged Arkane’s magicHave a read of my vampire diary Have a read of my vampire diary Remember when Arkane said their co-op vampire ‘em upRedfallismore akin to Far Cry than Left 4 Dead? I do! I remember a chill ran down my spine as I cast my mind back toFar Cry 6, where the tutorial island itself was longer than anything else I’d played that year....

HomeHardwareDeals The WD Black SN770 1TB is now down to £65.58 at Amazon UKA handy 27% discount on a fast 5150MB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD. A handy 27% discount on a fast 5150MB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD. The WD Black SN770 is one of the best value PCIe 4.0 SSDs on the market, offering high speeds - up to 5150MB/s reads and 4900MB/s writes - while also being surprisingly cheap. Get the WD_BLACK 1TB SN770 for £65....

HomeNewsCart Life After a decade in limbo, indie darling Cart Life returns to SteamIt’s less lonely out there It’s less lonely out there Hurray for game preservation:Cart Lifeis coming back to Steam later this year. You might remember the retail sim as the monochromatic indie from 2010 about three street vendors who struggle to make ends meet. It was a kind of precursor toPapers, Please, and despite critical acclaim andbig wins at IGF, Cart Life’s creator Richard Hofmeierremoved the game from Steamalmost a decade ago - instead opting to release the source code for free....

HomeNewsEVE Online EVE Online’s developers are making a blockchain game in the EVE universeWith $40 million of investment With $40 million of investment Image credit:CCP Image credit:CCP EVE Onlinedevelopers CCP Games are working on a new game set within the EVE universe. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it will use blockchain technology, after CCP received $40 million (around £32.7 million) from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.The project, which is calledProject Awakening, will “leverage smart-contract blockchain technology, focusing on persistence, composability and truly open third-party development to create a new relationship between virtual worlds and players....

HomeHardwareDeals When it comes to SSDs, the brands we probably think about most often are WD, Samsung, Crucial and Kioxia, each of which creates their own flash memory. However, we’re missing thefifth place NAND flash memory manufacturer, another brand that creates their own flash memory and controllers: SK Hynix, or as their consumer brand is labelled, Solidigm (meant to rhyme with paradigm for some reason). I recently upgraded a laptop I’m testing with their P44 Pro 1TB drive, and I’ve been thrilled with its performance - and now, this drive has hit a scorchingly hot price on Amazon US....

HomeDeals Pick up 32GB of Corsair DDR5-6000 CL36 RAM for £120 after a 53% discountIf you don’t need RGB, this is the DDR5 RAM deal to beat. If you don’t need RGB, this is the DDR5 RAM deal to beat. High speed, low latency DDR5 RAM continues to drop in price, and now it’s possible to pick up a high-speed 32GB kit of DDR5-6000 CL36 for just £120, as Corsair’s Vengeance dual-channel kit is down to £119....