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HomeDeals Our best ultrawide gaming monitor is nearly 40% off today in the UKThe Acer Predator Z35P is on sale for £480, well below its normal price of £775 The Acer Predator Z35P is on sale for £480, well below its normal price of £775 Ourbest ultrawide monitor pick, the Predator Z35P, is nearly half-off today. It’s now just £480 at Ebuyer, down from £774, a fantastically low price for a 35-inch monitor of real quality, with a 3440x1440 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate and full-fat G-Sync....

HomeNewsMinecraft Send cows to heaven with this Minecraft physics modCrumble blocks and tumble livestock Crumble blocks and tumble livestock During a very productive lunch break, I noticed that aMinecraftmod I loved had recently been updated. The original Physics Mod turned all your mined blocks into crumbled gibs, which made mining a bit more fun, but caused some lag. The updated version is way better. The lag is gone, and the developer has added configurable physics settings across the whole game....

HomeHardwareDeals The Crucial X8 1TB portable SSD is down to £95 at Amazon UKA great price for our favourite external SSD, with NVMe speeds. A great price for our favourite external SSD, with NVMe speeds. It’s a good day for deals on RPS-recommended products, as the Crucial X8 1TB portable SSD - our favourite external drive - has dropped from £120 just a few weeks ago to a near-historic low price of £95 at Amazon UK....

HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless Show Podcast episode 148: the best heat in games specialI’m meeeeeeltiiiiing I’m meeeeeeltiiiiing Here at the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastwe are struggling with the heat. Yes, I understand that other places in the world are hot, but right now it is hot where I am and we’re not used to it, so we’re going to complain about it and you can just live with that. Okay? Because temperature is consuming all our thoughts today is just the best heat in games....

HomeNews Watch EA Play live with us here todayDead Space? Battlefield? Apex Legends? Dead Space? Battlefield? Apex Legends? Come one, come all! Join us in watching Electronic Arts' NotE3 stream, EA Play Live. Kicking off at 6pm BST (or 10am PT for you folks across the pond), EA will have announcements and footage for games likeBattlefield 2042,Apex Legends,Lost In Randomand potentially evenDead Space, if the rumours are true. EA Play Live 2021Watch on YouTube...

HomeNewsFallout 76 Fallout 76’s custom worlds will let you turn private servers into a playground“Welcome to Craig’s Mothman sanctuary and spa” “Welcome to Craig’s Mothman sanctuary and spa” Fallout 76has always promised proper custom servers, and they’ve just launched the first version of them.FalloutWorlds lets players control a private Fallout 76 instance with its own rules, tweaking settings across every aspect of the game. Players will encounter bespoke building rules, OTT enemies, and more....

HomeHardwareDeals Good deal: Samsung’s 3500MB/s 980 SSD is going cheap in the UKBoth the 500GB and 1TB models have come close to record low prices Both the 500GB and 1TB models have come close to record low prices Samsung’s 980 SSD is confusingly named, but this NVMe PCIe 3.0 drive has it where it counts - performance. It supports read speeds up to 3500MB/s, while also costing far less than the firm’s higher-tier Evo and Pro drives....

HomeNewsLast Stop “It was called Brain Freeze, and it was very dark” “It was called Brain Freeze, and it was very dark,” co-director Terry Kenny tells me. “That was the one I was really attached to, because I’m a bit of a horror buff, and I think it would’ve changed the tone of the game. It would’ve leaned into a much darker horror game. Looking at it now, I still feel bad about not having the chance to have made it, but I can see now that I don’t know how it would’ve sat with the other stories....

HomeReviewsLast Stop Last Stop review: half a really good Doctor Who episodeLondon’s calling London’s calling I was a fan ofVirginia, Variable State’s first-person FBI thriller. It used unusual camera cuts to create a really filmic vibe, something that games are always trying to do but rarely succeed.Last Stopis Variable State’s new story adventure game, and adds two more fully voiced protagonists, three converging storylines, and a bunch of glowy green sci-fi light, while keeping the TV show style....

HomeNewsAgatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The First Cases New Agatha Christie game stars a young Hercule Poirot who is unnecessarily hotCare to join him for a tisane? Care to join him for a tisane? In many ways, reader, I am a simple person with simple pleasures, and one of those pleasures is detective stories. I have a mug with Agatha Christie on it. So imagine my response when I saw the reveal of a detective puzzle game I can only describe as Young Poirot: The Hot Years....

HomeHardwareNewsNew World New World is reportedly overheating and killing RTX 3090 graphics cardsA little too new, for now A little too new, for now The big closed beta for Amazon’s MMONew Worldjust kicked off yesterday and things initially appeared to be going smoother than I’d expected. I started watching a few folks play, as I’d hoped to. Ed seems to have enjoyed it so far according to hisNew World preview. Since yesterday though, things have gotten a bit too hot to handle for some folks using RTX 3090 graphics cards....

HomeHardwareNews The portable PC is having an effect all over Steam The only time I ever used Steam’s Big Picture Mode, the UI Valve designed for when you’re playing your games on a TV from a sofa, was when I accidentally hit the button on Steam that launched it. Or in Steam VR, where it’s forced on the user. I didn’t use it on my living room PC, because it turns Steam into a dungeon that trapped you instead of easily letting you play your games....

HomeFeatures The 25 best horror games on PCUp-to-date with the latest scary releases Up-to-date with the latest scary releases It may not be Halloween for a while, but there’s no reason you can’t celebrate horror as a genre all year round. In fact, it’s one of our favourite genre of games, so we’ve put together our list of the25 best horror gamesto play on PC right now. It really showcases the breadth of horror on PC right now, from visual novels to shooters to survival to weirdo demon games and text adventures, so it’s a real joy to peruse....