Tear through squads with the best Warzone 2.0 RPK loadout Looking for the best RPK loadout in Warzone 2?By stats alone, the RPK doesn’t set itself apart from the other Light Machine Guns available to players inWarzone 2. In fact, when you compare their default models, the RPK comes up rather short. But that’s not quite the whole story. As it turns out, players are discovering that the RPK has the rather unique ability to turn itself into something more like an Assault Rifle - but with the stopping power and range of an LMG....

Half the price of some RTX 4080 models, and still great for 4K Fellow trackers of GPU prices will note that’s still slightly above the RTX 3080’s RRP/MSRP, but since no other card has been ravaged quite so thoroughly by the recent hellstorm of component shortages and price gouging, £700 / $700 is downright affordable by its own standards. Besides, these sales put the RTX 3080 nearly $1000 less than some versions of its newly launched replacement, theRTX 4080– and it will still comfortably handle anything you throw at it, 1440p and 4K alike....

I can’t wait Dwarf Fortressiscoming to Steam on December 6th, which on its own is fantastic news. Even better news: it will have Steam Workshop support from day one. “If you’ve been following our Update Roadmap, you’ll know that Tarn has been busy prioritizing Steam Workshop integration,” saysthe latest developer update over on Steam. “We are happy to announce that indeed Steam Workshop will be available at launch. This means that you’ll be able to find and install Dwarf Fortress mods with ease....

After years in early access Although Gene Shift Auto’s rounds only last five minutes, it’s not a straightforward shmup. You can progress through a skill tree over the course of a round by doing missions for NPCs, and you’ll progress quicker if you decide to bait and fight the police along the way, assuming you can survive. The latestpost on Steamgoes into detail on recent changes made in the run up to going free-to-play....

Its two massive new add-ons are three times bigger than Bloodmoon Dominions Of Dust chucks in a “sparsely inhabited and dangerous borderland” to the southwest of Morrowind’s island of Vvardfenfell. That’s being fought over by the great houses of Hlaalu and Redoran, although the Hlaalu do have tight hold of a large trading port on the Inner Sea called Andothren. The Embers Of Empire expansion, on the other hand, overhauls the western parts of the Telvanni peninsula that’s east of Vvardenfell....

Cutting the costs of a RAM switch Upgrading to an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X or Ryzen 7 7700X could prove trickier than with an Intel equivalent, as while the latest Core CPUs give you a choice of using DDR4 or DDR5 memory, theRyzen 7000family is only compatible with the newer and more expensive DDR5. There’s no re-using old DDR4 sticks with AMD’s latest and greatest, then, but with this week’sBlack Fridaydeals you could get a brand new DDR5 kit for less....

Erect your own giant Christmas tree on a distant world OneNo Man’s Skyplayer has made a standalone app that lets you construct bases by moving, snapping together, and colouring parts ready to slot straight into the game. Technical artist Charlie Banks has popped the base-building app up on NexusMods, and has used it to create a massive robot that looks a little like the Iron Giant squatting down. Banks compares the base-building app’s simplicity to Oskar Stålberg’s procedurally generated hamlet-crafterTownscaper, although it seems a bit more complicated than that game....

A 30% saving on the NZXT Canvas 27Q and its accessories This year’sBlack Fridayseason is awash withearly deals on gaming monitors, and there’s one I want to highlight before it sells out – which might be imminently, if its stock tracker is accurate. It’s the NZXT Canvas 27Q, which I recently called thebest 1440p gaming monitoryou can buy. And that was before it felt the force of a 30% Black Friday saving, with £116 sliced off the RRP....

Not quite up to the standard of her Ziggy Stardust phase Like many free-to-play live service games these days,Overwatch 2loves its skins. Occasionally though, Blizzard stumble with their cosmetic offerings, rather like they’ve tripped over an invisible dog. Players have been taking to Twitter and Reddit to voice their irritation with support hero Moira’s rather uninspired new legendary skin, based on the classic black and white look of mime artists everywhere....

A comfy gaming headset with miraculous battery life Why is the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless so firmly entrenched among the verybest gaming headsets? It sounds great, for one, with that bass-rich but detailed sound that HyperX so often grant their PC headsets. And it’s light and comfortable enough to wear for hours, even stretched around my larger-than-average cueball of a head. But its greatest strength is its battery life: HyperX claims a class-leading 300 hours per charge, and honestly, I believe them....

The next free Epic Games Store games are RPG In A Box and Fort Triumph It’s that time of the week again, when the Epic Games Store reveal what new games they’ll be giving away for free next Thursday. If you haven’t jumped on it straight away, then you can nab EA Motive’s decent sci-fi dogfighting simStar Wars: Squadronsfor precisely nowt until December 1st. Starting from December 1st, you’ll have the opportunity to claim game creation toolRPG In A Boxand fantasy turn-based strategyFort Triumph....

The game’s season pass will feature extra animations Upcoming sci-fi horror gameThe Callisto Protocolwill have 25 death animations locked behind its season pass, but developers Striking Distance Studios have insisted these aren’t being held back for DLC. Striking Distance CEO Glen A. Schofield took toTwitterto try to reassure players that work hadn’t even begun on the animations yet. You can watch The Callisto Protocol’s slightly early launch trailer below. “To be clear: We’re not holding anything back from the main game for the season pass,” Schofield said....

Matthew The Giant We Hardly Knew Ye Today is a sad occasion on The Electronic Wireless Show, as Matthew is leaving thepodcast, and we take the opportunity to go on a short hiatus while we search for a replacement by making staffers perform tricks for our amusement, reality competition style. But though it be sad, it is an occasion nonetheless, which means Matthew is going out in style as we build the ideal video game character dinner party....