Get an RTX 3060 GPU for £279 thanks to this Ebay code

BANK15 gets you £49 off this Gigabyte RTX 3060 Eagle from Ebuyer. Earlier today we looked at a deal on AMD’s top graphics card, the RX 6950 XT, and now it’s time to look at the opposite end of the market: one of Nvidia’s cheapest RTX graphics cards. Ebay is running a promotion today that knocks 15% off the price of brand-new items when you use the codeBANK15at the checkout, and you can use this to pick an RTX 3060 12GB for just £279....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 218 words · Tracey Petersen

Grounded's latest test update adds a new way to share worlds

Like dedicated servers but not Miniaturised survival gameGroundeddoesn’t have dedicated servers, but the latest update offered up for public testing contains a new feature that’ll help. It’s called “Shared Worlds”, and it allows Grounded worlds to be stored in the cloud so that anyone that world is shared with can host the game. Previously, players would create what’s now referred to as a “Standard World”. In a Standard World, the creator of that world is its owner and host, and they invite friends in to play with them....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 302 words · Samuel Davis

Guild Wars 2 rides its dragon onto Steam on August 23rd

Just in time for the MMO’s tenth anniversary This is the first time Guild Wars 2’s been available through a third-party launcher. Don’t worry if you already play on the first-party client though, because you’ll still be able to mingle on the same servers as Steam players. From August 23rd, Guild Wars 2 will start dishing out in-game character rewards such as classic outfits and experience boosters through Twitch Drops too....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 241 words · Dennis Williams

If you like inventory tetris, check out the dungeon crawler Backpack Hero

Arrange your item grid for fiendish synergies in this rad roguelikelike Excellent roguelikelike dungeon crawlerBackpack Herolaunched into early access this week, and it’s absolutely worth a go if you enjoy shuffle items around your inventory grid. Backpack Hero is all about arranging weapons and items inside your massive sack to develop powerful synergies, see. Some items buff items touching them, while others benefit from empty spaces, or some insist upon being in a certain grid row, and some even move around by themselves....

August 16, 2022 · 4 min · 798 words · Stacey Black

Immortals Fenyx Rising, Immortality, and more Zachtronics coming to Game Pass this month

But sadly, Hades and Edith Finch are leaving this month It might initially make you think ofHotline Miami, what with the animal masks and ultraviolence, but Midnight Fight Express seems way more of a 3D brawler. I’m interested! The creator ofHer Storyand Telling Lies returns with another game about watching women who are pretty yet sad. This time, we’re learning the secrets behind a missing actor and the three unreleased films she starred in by watching lost footage....

August 16, 2022 · 1 min · 154 words · Aaron Reed

Qurious Crafting explained: how to unlock and use augments in Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak

Ramp up for Sunbreak’s endgame with powerful new augments Want to know how to unlock and use Qurious Crafting and augments in Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak?Title Update 1 forSunbreakis here, bringing a wealth of new content and powerful upgrades. The biggest piece of the patch is the new Qurious Crafting system, which introduces weapon augments reminiscent of Iceborne’s system. Qurious Crafting also includes brand-new armor augments that shake up Sunbreak builds in unpredictable ways....

August 16, 2022 · 5 min · 1030 words · Tanner Lopez

Sci-fi MMO Dual Universe finally blasts out of beta in September

The single-server sandbox will have a grand reset at the same time Ambitious single-server sandbox MMODual Universeis setting course onto Steam on September 27th, after spending eight years in development hypersleep. For the past two years, the interstellar RPG has been in beta. There’s a two-week free trial planned for people who’ve played the game before, and Steam players will be able to have a go for free too, just on a different server....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 247 words · Steven Anderson

Sidescrolling lost-world adventure Little Orpheus finally lands on PC in September

It was delayed in March due to real-world events Dear EstherandEverybody’s Gone To The Rapturedevs The Chinese Room are bringing their postponed cosmonaut adventureLittle Orpheusto PC on September 13th. The game had originally been due to launch on March 1st but wasdelayed. Little Orpheus stars a Soviet Russian character, and the devs wanted to review its content before release out of sensitivity to the conflict in Ukraine. Check out the trailer below....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 252 words · Alvin Miller

Sony might be planning their own PC game launcher

With blackjack and PSN integration There are references to a “PlayStation PC launcher” within files forMarvel’s Spider-Man Remastered’s PC release, which launched last week. Asspotted by VGC, the mention suggests Sony could launch their own bespoke game launcher on PC and allow players to link PC games to PlayStation Network accounts. The files contain multiple references to of “PSNAccountLinked” and “PSNLinkingEntitlements”, which were found by players poking around in game filesyesterday....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Christine Macias

Spider-Man Remastered mods already let you dress up as Stan Lee, Miles Morales, and lots more

I’m something of a modder myself It’s taken mere days since the release ofMarvel’s Spider-Man Remasteredon PC for players to crack open the game and noodle with its insides. Thus far the result is a slew of reskin mods which let you replace Spidey with other characters and play while looking like Kingpin, Miles Morales, Mary Jane, or - as pictured above - Stan Lee. Note that these really are just reskins, and are designed to replace one of the alternate outfits you can put on Spider-Man in-game....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 262 words · Brenda Barton

Unity rejects AppLovin’s $17.5b takeover offer

The game engine company’s merger with ironSource is going ahead Unity Software have chosen to reject a $17.54 billion (£14.58 billion) all-stock takeover offer from mobile gaming technology company AppLovin to instead pursue their own planned merger with AppLovin’s rival ironSource. Unity’s board of directors unanimously cast aside the AppLovin offer, which hadn’t been sought by the game engine company, after a “thorough financial and strategic evaluation”. The board has recommended that shareholders vote against AppLovin’s offer....

August 16, 2022 · 2 min · 238 words · Megan Harvey

Wordle answer (Tuesday 16 August 2022): Wordle word of the day #423 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Below we’ll help you out with our carefully curated list of Wordle hints and clues. If that’s not enough, we’ve also laid out today’s Wordle answer below, along with an explanation of the word’s meaning for those who want it. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle August 16 hints Everyone needs a bit of help every now and then, particularly when you’re struggling with a Wordle and it’s starting to cast a pall of frustration on your morning....

August 16, 2022 · 5 min · 1026 words · Kimberly Pena

Can turn-based cyberpunk RPG Keylocker unlock its true musical potential?

Rhythm action and robot companions were on show at Bitsummit Keylockeris all about the rhythm. If you’re escaping a dystopian prison system where you can pay to upgrade to invisible handcuffs, your escape may as well have a jamming soundtrack. But you’ll have to bring your own, because the world in Keylocker hates that stuff. Like in Footloose, music is an illegal activity. Coming to fruition aftera successful Kickstarter last year, this rhythm game RPG is inspired by the likes of Nintendo’s Mario & Luigi series....

August 15, 2022 · 3 min · 560 words · James Garcia