Keep your CPU temps under control. Arctic does a really nice line of CPU coolers, including this 240mm AiO that’s discounted by 23% on Amazon US today. That brings it down to $75, a great price for the renowned Liquid Freezer II 240, one of the best-performing all-in-one liquid coolers on the market and a fine complement to any high-end or mid-range gaming CPU. To get this deal, just tick the 23% off coupon on the product page....

“Gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games.” “One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games,” he went on. “That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That’s a transformation that’s been a bit slower to happen [in games]....

It’s out on March 26th Afterteasing a 3D sequelwhenPrison Architectreceived its final update last May, developers Double Eleven and publishers Paradox Interactive have announced that, yep,Prison Architect 2is indeed a thing that is happening - and in 3D, no less. Prisons will now have multiple floors to police, as well as a whole new inmate behaviour system to navigate along the way that will feed into gang warfare, escapes and other buddingmanagementproblems....

Mod support on console, too Prison Architect 2wasannounced earlier this eveningand will switch the carceral management sim to 3D when it releases on March 26th. It’ll also have robust mod support, with “a mod editor built-in for PC players”, according to game director Gaz Wright. “[Mod support will be] built into the game for the first time,” Wright told Katharine at Gamescom last year. “Prison Architect1 was really, really big for the modding community, and we’ve worked very closely with some of the top modders and asked them to become ambassadors for the game....

New shooter still needs “more time in the oven”, say GSC Game World The developers had hoped to release the game early this year, but according to the release date press bulletin, it became apparent over December that more time was needed. “Two key points emerged from that. The first one was: it absolutely felt and played like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, which basically summed up both the key intention and the main inspiration for the project from the very beginning....

Remedy changed their logo to an R that’s apparently too much like another R Alright, alright, they’re in a disupte over the letter R as used for a logo for a video game company. As spotted byRespawn First, Remedy (they of theAlan Wake) revealed their new logo last year, a big letter R, and Take-Two (they of the owning Rockstar Games) contest it. Rockstar’s logo is also a big letter R, although I think they’re pretty different Rs....

Good news, everyone! One of the best PC gaming handhelds, the Asus ROG Ally, is done to just £599 at Currys in the UK for the higher-powered Z1 Extreme edition. This represents a £100 discount over its launch price and is a good value for a premium handheld that outperforms the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED while having a higher-res and higher refresh rate 1080p 120Hz display. The big difference between the ROG Ally and the Steam Deck is that the former runs Windows 11, while the Steam Deck runs a custom Valve-made distribution of Linux called SteamOS....

The Zephyrus G14 is a phenomenal portable performer. Asus' Zephyrus G14 is one of the nicest gaming laptop designs I’ve ever tested, and now this high-end RTX 4070 and Ryzen 9 7940HS equipped model is $450 off at Best Buy in the US. This spec also includes 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD, making for a powerful machine that is still portable thanks to its 14-inch frame with a 2560x1600 165Hz IPS display....

I couldn’t contain myself Here’s a pitch for you: a spec ops shooter, except it’s haunted. Well, that’s exactly what early accessco-opFPSContainis going for, where four of you gear up in tactical clobber and clear corners of military chumps and anomalous… rumps? It’s a mixture of Rainbow Six, a bit of Stalker, and maybe a touch of Control, with gameplay showing real promise. It’s also got me thinking about unexpectedly scary moments in shooters, too....

Smashing TopSpin 2K25 is being developed by Hangar 13, the 2K subsidiary previously known forMafia 3andMafia: Definitive Edition. Not much else is known about the game other than that, other than thatits official sitesays that it’s “coming soon”. I’ll be honest, while a competitor, I always preferred Virtua Tennis to Top Spin, but it’s been a long time since there has been any blockbuster tennis game to play, so I’m excited all the same....

As per Creative Assembly’s earlier apology for messing up Total War Back in December, Creative Assembly posteda lengthy apology to playersfor their recent handling of the Total Warstrategyseries, in particularTotal War: Warhammer3 and Total War: Pharoah. Seeking to smooth down feathers ruffled by overpricing and buggy launches, to pick out two of the biggest fan complaints, the developers offered to - amongst other things - make Pharoah’s first paid DLC pack a free update....

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Out end of this month Do you like trapping innocent, extinct animals in diabolical, broken worlds of your own devising, miring them in a purgatory of genre comparisions from which they may never escape? BecauseArk: Survival Ascendeddevelopers Studio Wildcard and Grove Street Games are promising/threatening to “put the power of unbridled game creation directly in your hands” with the game’s next major dev kit update, which will release by the end of January....