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HomeNewsCall of Duty US FTC considering antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft over Activision Blizzard deal, sources claimThe battle over Call Of Duty continues The battle over Call Of Duty continues The United States’ consumer watchdogs, the Federal Trade Commission, are considering filing a lawsuit against Microsoft over the company’s proposed $68.7 billion (£57 billion) buyout of Activision Blizzard. US newspaperPoliticoreport that three anonymous sources with knowledge of the potential antitrust lawsuit have claimed it could happen in December, although any such lawsuit isn’t guaranteed....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Thursday 24 November 2022): Wordle word of the day #523 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 Time’s tight, though, so it’s completely understandable if you don’t want to dedicate a lot of time to quietly contemplating a word puzzle right now. To help speed things along for you, we’ve put together a series of clues pointing towards today’s solution below; or to really skip to the good part, scroll down below the video to see the answer in full....

HomeFeaturesDeliver Us Mars Deliver Us Mars is exactly the kind of sci-fi Tomb Raider I can get behindSpace to breathe Space to breathe Image credit:Frontier Foundry Image credit:Frontier Foundry There’s a good reason for this, though, and it’s one that actually enhanced my experience of the game as opposed to detracting from it. You see, while heroine Kathy might look like an auto-climbing Lara Croft-stronaut, with her pair of pickaxes dangling off her suit, in practice she’s anything but....

HomeNews GTA 5 Heists event wraps up with a $2 trillion challengeSuccess scores players a reward before the end of the year Success scores players a reward before the end of the year GTA Online’s month-long Heists event concludes on November 30th, and Rockstar are setting the game’s community a challenge to steal a total of $2 trillion in-game over the next week. That would be double what GTA Online players managed during the last Heists Challenge two years ago, when the target was set at the much lower amount of $100 billion....

HomeNewsAge of Empires IV Praise be, landmark improvements are coming to Age Of Empires 4Plus a new-ish mode Plus a new-ish mode Age Of Empires 4is the first RTS I’ve taken seriously. I’ve practised build orders, memorised specific civ counters, watched pro matches and agonised over key bindings. I have gone down into the nitty gritty of sheep micro, just to shear off microseconds from early villager gathering times, but I’ve never seen a good reason to build half of the landmarks in the game....

HomeNews The Witcher 3’s free upcoming next gen update is looking snazzyThe gorgeous game gets gorgeouser The gorgeous game gets gorgeouser It’s not out ‘til December 14th, but you can peek at it below while the devs natter in the background. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Skip ahead to 15:30 for the start of the stream, or 16:20 for the start of the footage. I’ll cop to still not understanding what all these terms mean, but the graphics fella mentions that they’ve integrated FSR and DSS support, while adding dynamic resolution scaling and “some very nice SSR which used to just be for water, but is now for everything”....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Wednesday 23 November 2022): Wordle word of the day #522 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 23 November 2022?The sun is shining where I am today, but also, it’s frankly arctic even indoors right now, and what’s more, I know it’ll be dark long before I finish work....

HomeNews Baba Is You gets a mind-boggling free Solitaire spin-offCan someone please tell me what’s going on? Can someone please tell me what’s going on? Baba Is You trailer (2017)Baba Is You is a cute but headscratching puzzle game.Watch on YouTube Baba Is You trailer (2017) Even I can appreciate that Hempuli’s trying to do something a little different with the classic game though, which is very cool indeed. You can see how the card transformation works below:...

HomeNewsDisney Dreamlight Valley Disney Dreamlight Valley’s Toy Story realm launches next monthIntroduce Woody and Buzz to several horrible villains Introduce Woody and Buzz to several horrible villains Disney Dreamlight Valley’s second major update now has a release date. Characters, locations and cosmetic items from Toy Story will be added to the free-to-play life sim on December 6th.The news was announced with atweet, although we’re still reliant on the announcement trailer for what the update contains:Disney Dreamlight Valley – Toy Story Realm RevealWatch on YouTubeThe update adds the “Toy Story realm”, which looks like a version of Andy’s bedroom in which your Dreamlight Valley character will be shrunk to the size of a toy....

HomeHardwareDeals Early Black Friday deals cut £50 / $35 off one of the fastest gaming SSDsThe WD Black SN850X is cheaper than ever in the UK The WD Black SN850X is cheaper than ever in the UK Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun One of my absolute favourite SSDs for gaming PCs is among the highlights of this year’searly Black Friday SSD deals. The WD Black SN850X is the overall second-fastest NVMe SSD in the RPS benchmark books – with the outright fastest write speeds – and its 1TB model has some sizeable savings going for it, across both the UK and US....

HomeHardwareDeals Get a full-size, fully mechanical gaming keyboard for £45 with this early Black Friday dealThe Cooler Master SK652 is less than half price. Much less The Cooler Master SK652 is less than half price. Much less Here’s an earlyBlack Fridaydeal for anyone still prodding at a mushy membrane keyboard: in the UK, you can get the all-mechanical Cooler Master SK652 for just £45. If you go for the black model, that’s a £65 saving off the RRP, and it’s £95 off if you opt for the white version, which is £45 as well....

HomeHardwareDeals Get a giant 4TB Crucial MX500 SATA SSD for $269.90 at B&H PhotoDown from a regular price of $349.99, this is a great Black Friday storage deal. Down from a regular price of $349.99, this is a great Black Friday storage deal. Get a Crucial MX500 4TB SATA SSD for $269.90 (was $400) This is a great deal for a 4TB SATA SSD, with the drive dropping into the same price range as slower QLC-based drives without a DRAM cache like Crucial’s own BX500....

HomeFeaturesLisa: The Painful Have you played… Lisa: The Painful?Oh boy, do I really wanna talk about this game? Oh boy, do I really wanna talk about this game? Lisa: The Painfulis one of those games that’s like… if you know,you know. You know? Like, it’s ruthless, stomach-churning, and soul-destroying. I’m kinda joking but also not joking? I don’t know what it is about RPG maker games, but they just hit different....