With a free NVMe heatsink to boot - the cheapest price in the UK. The NM790 is a drive that both hardware editor James and I have had the opportunity to test for ourselves, and we’ve been united in our approval for its capabilities. Despite lacking a DRAM cache, instead opting for HMB technology, the NM790 consistently performed in the same echeleon as some of the fastest drives on the market, like Samsung and WD’s flagships mentioned above....

It would be worth your time to catch ‘em all Having spent some time inLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Hawaii, I’ve come to realise that it’s a wonderful place, home to trams that’ll let you see the sights and soak in the warm breeze. But moreso than that, it’s home to the previous game’s Pokémon parody, Sujimon, which has now kicked into overdrive. From what I can tell, Infinite Wealth is as much a Pokémon trainers paradise as it is a game about the Japanese criminal underworld....

Smash trash to attract tourists We got our first look atLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Dondoko Island atlast year’s Xbox Partner showcase. Right as it dropped, I was in New York giving theAnimal Crossing-esque minigame a go myself, albeit for a quickfire half hour of bashing rubbish bags with a baseball bat and plonking a urinal on the dirt to satisfy a tutorial. Still, in that brief time I’ve come away thinking I could lose much of my life to the promise of converting a polluted island into an idyll with the power of abs and friendship....

South Korean commission says company have been rigging the odds in secret Korean publisher Nexon have been fined 11.6 billion won - around $8.9 million - for secretly altering the drop rates of coveted items in free-to-play MMO gacha gameMapleStory. The fine, issued by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, is the largest penalty ever doled out for violation of South Korea’s Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce. “We imposed the largest fine because the Cube is a core product of the game (Maple Story), the period of the violation is long and this is the second violation (by Nexon) following Sudden Attack,” said Kim Jung-ki, director of the market surveillance department of the Korea Fair Trade Commission....

An underappreciated gem Now it’s free via the Epic Games Store. The Epic Games Store has spent the holiday giving away a new free game each day. That is now over, but the weekly free games have resumed. You’ve got until January 11th at 4pm GMT tohead to its store pageand add it to your account forever. It’s worth your time to do so, as Ed explained in hisGuardians Of The Galaxy review:...

This school needs to start doing background checks Well, well, well. Of all the detectives in all the world, she came to me. She was a dame with hair red as communion wine spilled by a bishop looking at a nun’s cleava- oh what, wait, she’s how old? Christ, Philip, get your head out of the gutter for once, this is a family website. I was previouslya snob aboutthe Nancy Drew point and clickpuzzlegames, and then came to regret it when a fan of them (very nicely) emailed me explaining they’re actually really good....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #207 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....

What we’re most excited about playing this year Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Release date:January 18thFrom:Ubisoft Connect,Epic Games Store Jeremy:Every five years Ubisoft quietly drops a surprise project that makes me temporarily ignore all of their sins, and this year, it looks like it’s The Lost Crown. This revitalisation of the classic PoP formula got an unfair degree of vitriol when it was first revealed, and while I can understand not liking a standalone 2D Metroidvania if you were looking forward to The Sands of Time remake (rest in limbo), the number of horrid tweets I saw hating on this game for featuring a Black protagonist drove me nuts....

How do we feel about that? I always feel ambivalent about the increasing number of games released on Steam. I like anything that suggests that video games are growing, because the more people who make them, the more interesting they will become; on the other hand, I’m not sure Steam is the boulevard through which all of these games should be flowing. “The vast majority of these sell 0 copies, many are ‘my first game’-type projects,” commentedTyler Glaiel on X, developer on The End Is Nigh and the upcomingMewgenics....

Ubisoft drops two new trailers I have been bouncing offPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown, partly because the new protagonist design leaves me cold, and partly because it being a 2D affair has me yearning for something closer to the 1989 Apple II original, with its finicky platforming and sword-fighting. Katharine says it’s decent, however, and the latest trailers are intriguing. One is an overview of the new metroidvania’s locations, of which you can read much more inKatharine’s last preview....

The MSI MPG A1000G is a great 80+ Gold unit with 12VHPWR support for RTX 40-series GPUs. Here are some specs for you: 1000W of power. 80+ Gold efficiency. Native 12VHPWR support for PCIe 5.0 graphics cards. £140. That’s the spec sheet and deal price for MSI’s excellent MPG A1000G power supply after a £40 discount at Amazon UK. This spec sheet is ideal for high-end PC builds and supports any consumer graphics card, including the RTX 4090 and RX 7900 XTX....

Stuck on the Wordle word for January 4? 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?...

Rats entertainment Gloriously grimstealth gameA Plague Tale: Innocence- you know, that game with the rats - is currently free to keep over on the Epic Games Store. If you’ve somehow missed it before now, it’s well worth playing in my opinion - especially for the low price of nothing. A Plague Tale: Innocencefollows brother and sister Amicia andHugoas they creep their way through a French countryside decimated by both murderous Inquisition soldiers and gigantic swarms of flesh-eating rats....