£110 versus £160 for a recently released PCIe 5.0 1000W 80+ Gold power supply. Corsair’s RM1000x Shift power supply is quite a tempting one for any PC build, providing 1000W of power at 80+ Gold efficiency - but the best feature here is its conveniently reachable side-mounted connector placement. Corsair charges a premium for this feature, with the PSU normally going for £160, but today you can pick up a refurbished unit from Scan in the UK for just £110....

It adds an egg Cult Of The Lamb’s Sins Of The Flesh update promised to allow your followers to breed, in a way, by finding an egg that would hatch and produce new potential cult members. Players of the action-RPG/management hybrid on social media quickly did what people on social media do:demanded that they add sex. Its developers said they would and now we get to see what that means when the update launches on January 16th....

Now seeking funding Some of the makers of planet-tossing real-time strategy gamePlanetary Annihilationare working on a sequel, calledIndustrial Annihilation, which aims to blend together RTS combat with factory building. It’s now in its last week of investment funding and is aiming to release into early access sometime this spring. Here’s a “pre-alpha visualisation” from a couple months ago, which we completely missed at the time: It’s not uncommon for strategy games to feature base building, obviously, but Industrial Annihilation seems to take a leaf out ofFactorio’s book by having your base be a system of extractors and conveyor belts....

Out now in early access I have a sneaking affection for slightly jarring genre hybrids - games like the relatively recentDisintegrationand the much olderBattlezone 2, which smush action mechanics together with real-time strategy, or the rather more elegantPuzzle Quest, in which you roll around a parchment landscape fighting wizards using the power of match-3. New open worldRPGArchaelund, which launched in early access this week, and was brought to my attention by RPS supporter cpt_freakout, has something of that curious enchantment to it....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #212 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Why make Pokémon fight when they could paint your house The odd mashup of Pokémon-like monsters, crafting, and machineguns, has made each new trailer forPalworlda delight over the past couple of years. Now it’s taking the bold step of moving beyond meme by becoming a playable video game, when it launches on January 19th. Of course, that release date announcement came with one last trailer: I said “Pokémon-like” in the first paragraph, but that might be generous....

From one Dark Place to another I will not lie to you, reader, I used up about 95% of today’s remaining creative energy/caffeine on that headline joke, but let’s charge our flashlights, sharpen our hooks and struggle on through the body copy anyway. Remedy’sAlan Wakeis joining Behaviour Interactive’sDead By Daylightas a playable Survivor, having been conjured from his writing desk by the latter game’s villainous Entity. Slated for release on 30th January, the Dead By Daylight version of Wake is performed once again by actors Ilkka Villi and Matthew Porretta, and features brand-new voice lines....

Keep a watchful eye If you’ve ever been to Shinjuku station in Japan, you know what it’s like to be transported to a dizzying realm of limbs and tickets and signage with myriad squiggly lines that make about as much sense as rainbow spaghetti that’s been hurled at a white rectangle. You, quite literally, need to plunge yourself into an entire city within a city to get from one place to another....

16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 3 power. That makes the 5950X a tempting upgrade option for anyone using an older Ryzen processor that wants to keep using their existing motherboard and RAM, and today this CPU has breached a new low-water mark: £360 on Amazon UK, 52% off its original recommended retail price. (It’s also a nearly-as-good 50% off at the US.) That’s a great deal for a 32-thread CPU that still crushes through any multi-threaded, easily parallelisable task, like code compilation, scientific computing, video production or 3D rendering - and of course given Zen 3’s strides in single-core performance, it performs great in PC games too, only losing out to the 5800X3D in terms of raw gaming performance amongst Zen 3 designs....

Approximately 25% of workforce laid off The quest to appease the immortal share price continues as game engine provider Unity announce that they’re laying off another 1,800 people, or around 25% of their current workforce, in a bid to “position” the company “for long-term and profitable growth”. The news comes from aSecurities and Exchange Commission filingscooped up by theVerge, which also has an official press statement from Unity’s PR director Kelly Ekins....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 9? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Plus Avowed and Hellblade 2 On January 18th, the Xbox Developer Direct will offer updates on games from some of the studios the behemoth have swallowed over the past several years. Most excitingly, that’ll include an update from MachineGames on their in-development Indiana Jones game. Other games to feature include Ninja Theory’sHellblade2: Senua’s Saga, Obsidian’s Elder Scrolls-alikeAvowed, and Oxide’s strategy game,Ara: History Untold. The stream will take place at 12pm PT/8pm GMT on Thursday, January 18th at Xbox’sTwitchandYouTubechannels....

Fight Nazis with fiddly controls in Neural Parasite If you enjoy the novelty and challenge of fiddly first-person shooter controls, do check out the free new “experimental survival horror game"Neural Parasite. Can you fight your way out of a Nazi bunker when everything is controlled by clicking? Even simply moving involves clicking on pictures of your left and right shoes, moving faster as you alternate shoes faster. Neural Parasite is short and it’s free, so hop to it!...