HomeDeals Grab the excellent Intel Core i5 12400F six-core CPU for £167That’s £33 less than it is on Amazon UK. That’s £33 less than it is on Amazon UK. The Core i5 12400F is a surprisingly excellent gaming CPU, offering the power of Intel’s new Alder Lake architecture in a simple six-core twelve-thread configuration. The CPU supports PCIe 5.0 and DDR5, but it also works with cheaper DDR4- and PCIe 4....
HomeReviewsMarvel’s Midnight Suns Marvel’s Midnight Suns review: the best Marvel game yetProfessor XCOM Professor XCOM For the last ten years, theXCOMdesigners at Firaxis have traded in ‘if’s and ‘maybe’s. If this shot lands, then maybe I can pull off this carefully calculated plan I’m brewing. It’s exactly the kind of taut, knife-edge tension we’ve come to love and expect from their turn-basedstrategy games, butMarvel’s Midnight Sunstakes a different approach. As the titular demon hunters join forces with some famous Avengers faces to take down the evil sorceress Lilith and Marvel mega villain Chthon, there’s never any question about whether your moves will or won’t work here....
HomeNewsMinecraft Minecraft Bedrock Edition now has seven more default skinsWe thank you for your service, Steve and Alex We thank you for your service, Steve and Alex MinecraftBedrock Edition has been updated to 1.19.50, bringing seven brand new default skins into that particular version of the survival crafting game. These newbies are more diverse than stalwarts Steve and Alex, and Mojang intend for them to be more representative of Minecraft’s global player base....
HomeFeatures Half-Life just works in VR Reality Bitesis a new monthly feature all about Virtual Reality. This week, Rick Lane goes back to the future in Half-Life 2: VR Mod.Half-Life 2was the first game I ever played in VR. Back in the primordial days of 2013, I was lucky enough to get my ungainly sausage-mitts on an Oculus Developer’s Kit – the prototype headset that eventually led to the Oculus Rift....
HomeNewsSable Sable update sends you fishing in the desertPop what you catch in the new vivarium Pop what you catch in the new vivarium In a game about someone navigating the competing pressures and existential angst inherent to choosing a career, it seems appropriate that an update would let them sack it all off and go fishing.Sablehasn’t quite done that, because yesterday’s update sends you hover-biking off after enough fish to earn the right to don the new, professional mask of a desert angler....
HomeNews Todd Howard says Starfield will let you get into “more complex relationships"One of many tidbits from a 3 hour interview One of many tidbits from a 3 hour interview Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Romance has never been Bethesda’s strong suit, fromSkyrim’s barebones marriage system toFallout 4’s bonus-XP-granting fade-to-black cutscenes.Starfieldwill be a little more nuanced than that, suggests executive producer Todd Howard, offering more complexromance optionsthanFallout’s....
HomeFeatures What’s better: mantling or cool swearing?Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thatdakka is better than overwatch (not Overwatch). It wasn’t the most overwhelming victory of this scientific process so far, but it certainly was the loudest. More dakka indeed. This week, I ask you to pick between a cool form of human movement and some cool human speech....
HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Wednesday 30 November 2022): Wordle word of the day #529 and hintsHints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for the Wordle answer for Wednesday 30 November 2022?It’s the last day of November and honestly, I’ll be glad to see the back of it. November’s such a nothing month. (Apologies to all the November babies out there, I hope you had a nice birthday but I called it how I see it....
HomeGuidesCall of Duty: Warzone Best Warzone 2 Lachmann-556 loadout: The best Lachmann-556 class setup and attachmentsHere’s the best Lachmann-556 loadout in Warzone 2 Here’s the best Lachmann-556 loadout in Warzone 2 Looking for the best Lachmann-556 loadout in Warzone 2?There are more than a few familiar faces hiding behind the unfamiliar weapon names ofWarzone 2. The Lachmann-556 may not seem particularly special at first, but when you realise that it is Warzone 2’s version of the Grau - one of the most infamously powerful rifles from the original Warzone - you might want to pay a bit more attention to its capabilities....
HomeGuidesCall of Duty: Warzone Best Warzone 2 PDSW 528 loadout: The best PDSW 528 class setup and attachmentsTurn the PDSW 528 into a hard-hitting close range monster Turn the PDSW 528 into a hard-hitting close range monster Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Looking for the best PDSW 528 loadout in Warzone 2?SMGs aren’tquiteas prevalent in the loadouts and class setups ofWarzone 2as they are in the closer-quarters fights ofCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but they’re still very much part of the meta....
HomeFeatures Copyright, cost, and ageing code: why some games disappear from SteamDevs with delisted games talk about the process Devs with delisted games talk about the process But removed isn’t always the same as gone, and exploring Steam’s deleted items is an adventure through modern gaming history. I spoke to some developers of delisted games to find out more. What’s It Like To Start World Of Warcraft From Scratch?Watch on YouTube...
HomeFeaturesMahokenshi Deckbuilding and Japanese myth combine in this gorgeous tabletop strategy gameA hex on both your houses A hex on both your houses Card-basedstrategy gamesseem to have really found their feet over the last 12 months. Now that we’re a few years clear of Slay TheSpire’s chokehold over the genre, deckbuilders are starting to come thick and fast in a variety of exciting mash-ups. This year alone, I’ve sunk a hefty number of hours into the deckbuilding tower defence ‘em upORX, got lost in the tabletop plots ofForetales, and later this week we’ll see the launch ofMarvel’s Midnight Suns, the new card-based strategy RPG from XCOM makers Firaxis....
HomeFeaturesWorld of Warcraft Has World Of Warcraft become too big for its own good?Know your history Know your history What’s It Like To Start World Of Warcraft From Scratch? I know, I know. I could play WoW Classic for that delicious vanilla flavour, or choose Elwynn Forest as my starting area instead of Exile’s Reach. Even still, I think that normal, retail WoW has become a disjointed experience that’s concerned more with shuttling me towards max-level daily quests, than embedding me in its storied history....
