Claim it before the offer ends on December 15th Rodent-starring action RPGGhost Of A Taleis free on GOG for 72 hours to mark the kick off of the storefront’s Winter Sale. The offer runs out on December 15th, although you’ll need to agree to receive marketing emails to nab the game. It’s a story about a music-loving mouse searching for his wife in a medieval world populated by anthropomorphic animals. If you’ve not seen Ghost Of A Tale in action before, or just forgotten in the intervening four and a bit years since its release, have a watch of the trailer below....

Reduce stuttering, boost FPS and eliminate an annoyance in one fell swoop The strategic superheroics ofMarvel’s Midnight Sunsmight make it aBestest Bests winner, but tragically, it does come yoked to the dreadful 2K Launcher. A few monthsbreaking the BioShock series on the Steam Deck, this pernicious piece of software now appears to be a major cause of Midnight Suns' stuttering issues, while seriously hobbling performance more generally. If you’re playing via Steam, I strongly suggest following the lead of the, uh, thousands of people who’ve discovered this before me by disabling the 2K Launcher entirely....

Get ready for some country lovin' in the Wyoming wilderness It’s been 17 years and a week since Brokeback Mountain happened, and indie dev Robert Yang has taken the spirit of the movie and turned it into a free to play romance visual novel.That Lonesome Valleylets you play out the relationship between two young herders working alone together out in the American wilderness. Yang gives a content warning for the game, which contains pixel art nudity and sex sequences....

1TB for £75 or 2TB for £140, a good deal for a PCIe 4.0 drive. The WD Black SN770 is a rather lovely PCIe 4.0 SSD, offering sequential speeds up to 5150MB/s at a surprisingly low price. The drive was dubbed ‘just short of SSD greatness’ on its debut earlier this year, but price drops have brought it increasingly into contention. Today, for example, you can pick up the 1TB model from WD’s official UK web store for £75, down from £91, or the larger 2TB size for £140, down from £181....

Hey! Put that heart back! Today we reach day 13 of the RPS Advent Calendar. This is unlucky for some, but not for a group of cool, fast movin', psyche-battlin' schoolkids, who spend a lot of time on extra curricular activities and not enough time getting their talking cat to shut up. Become not-your-average high-school clique inPersona 5 Royal. Ed: Persona 5 Royal is a JRPG about a guy who moves to Tokyo after he’s involved in a dodgy incident and then joins Shujin Academy as a bit of an outcast....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word If you’re in particular need of help with today’s Wordle puzzle, don’t worry, we’ve got clues aplenty (well, three) for you below to get you started. Or, if you just want the answer, you can scroll down below the video to see today’s solution and definition in full. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December!...

32GB is a pretty big recommendation When I heard timebending roguelike shooterReturnalwas actually, really, definitely coming to PC during The Game Awards last week, I wasn’t quite expecting the recommended system requirements to suggest I set aside 32GB RAM at its disposal. That’s what devs Housemarque and publisher PlayStation have listed for Returnal’s recommended system requirements though. Shush, don’t tell anyone, but I don’t have that much RAM in my machine....

And it’s TeamGroup’s Vulcan Z model, a TLC drive. Teamgroup’s T-Force Vulcan Z SSD isn’t the most well-known drive, but it offers some pretty solid value for money - especially when the capacious 2TB model is reduced to a shade over $100 at Amazon US. That’s a nice $69 reduction from its MSRP and an excellent value for a drive of this size and spec. So what do you need to know about the Vulcan Z?...

AMD strike back against the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 with two cheaper, 4K-ready GPUs TheAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTXhark back to a simpler time – about three months ago – whengraphics cardsresembled graphics cards and not Coca-Cola lorries. I like getting a bajillion frames per second as much as the next PC owner, but good gravy, are theRTX 4080andRTX 4090a pair of oversized, ruinously expensive brutes....

The 5800X’s little brother is a better value. Another week, another great AMD CPU deal on American Ebay. This time it’s on the Ryzen 7 5700X, a powerful eight-core 16-thread processor with the same basic design of the 5800X - at a significantly lower price. This model debuted at $300, but is now available for just $190 when you buy it from Antonline on Ebay. In games and content creation benchmarks, that results in an advantage for the 5800X - but it’s literally a few percentage points in pretty much all CPU-limited games at 1080p, and very few games at higher resolutions....

Three families are seeking damages from Epic Games A class-action lawsuit against Epic Games’Fortniteis going ahead in Quebec, more than three years after it was originally filed.CTV Newsreport that parents of three Canadian children who regularly play Fortnite claim the game was created to be “highly addictive”, and allege the battle royale has caused their kids psychological and physical problems, along with financial issues. Although the families are seeking damages from Epic, no figure has been put on those yet....

Though the combat does sound a bit Sekiro-ey You might have missed it in the Games Awards news-glut, but FromSoftware announced a new game last week.Armored Core 6: Fires Of Rubiconmarks the return of the mechs they used to make beforeDemon’s Soulsset them on a different, swordier path, and IGN have just published a big interview that pokes into what bearing the Soulsbourne lineage might have on a game about flying mechs with guns and missiles....

Wakanda for ever and ever and ever Playing online card battlers can be a lonely life, so I was pleased to spotMarvel Snap’s latest community infographic. No longer are my opponents just names on a screen: they’re now names on a screen who I know have contributed to the 159 million Vibranium cards drawn during the Vibranium Forge event. It’s neat to see some silly stats, even neater to see aBlack Pantherwith a power level that tops 8 million....