A great price for a 2560x1440 240Hz DisplayHDR 600 VA QLED panel. The Samsung Odyssey G7 is one of my favourite monitors, and I picked one up from Amazon the last time it was discounted. This week the 32-in model has been discounted to a similar price, so I thought I should let you all know about it! So: why is this monitor so good? For me, it’s all about the panel: you get a 32-inch curved VA QLED panel, big enough that you feel suitably immersed without running into the compatibility issues endemic to ultrawide aspect ratios and with excellent contrast, so dark scenes look properly black instead of grey....

Frogwares are crowdfunding due to the invasion of Ukraine My first encounter with Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes games was theConsolevania drubbing of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, but the series has come a long way since.Alice loved last year’s Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, which stars a young, hot Holmes. As CJreported last week, Frogwares now intend to close the circle by pitting hot Holmes against (hot?) Cthulhu creatures in a remake of 2007’s The Awakened....

The Chinese company met with the Guillemots in May about buying more shares Representatives of Tencent are reported to have flown to France in May to discuss the investment with members of the Guillemot family. According to sources, Tencent are also seeking to buy up publicly owned shares to help in their efforts to become majority shareholder. Public shareholders currently own 80% of Ubisoft’s shares, with another 15% held by the Guillemots and the remaining 5% at Tencent....

[Lego Batman voice] First try! I’m back from my holidays to record The Electronic Wireless Showpodcastonce again, and I’ve brought a reader email and a new tattoo of Murray from Monkey Island with me. These are both relevant, because the email from James suggests that we talk about the games that we’d like to play for the first time again - just erase them from our heads and encounter them anew....

As well as some other bugs As Rebecca explained, The Sims 4 has had an on-again, off-again “incest glitch” for a long time, and the recent High School Years expansion was just its latest appearance. This update has reportedly now fixed the problem. It’s also fixed a couple of other substantial glitches, including Sims aging or de-aging when leaving Create A Sim and, erk, adult sims tagging teens in “flirtatious Social Bunny posts....

Microsoft detailed more games coming this month too Though I coined the officially sanctioned genre name ‘Zachlike’, I have never finished one of their puzzle games and likely never will. I do not have the brain/patience for these but I respect the hell out of them. I know big-brain boy Brendy was a fan of Shenzhen I/O,calling it"a polished and compelling puzzler". This is the second Zachtronics game to hit Game Pass, after the studio’s final game (which might be a hazy term) debuted on the service at launch in July....

I predict a strong turnout on Open Day Two Point Campustrades the operating rooms of its predecessorTwo Point Hospitalfor lecture theatres and decrepit dorms. But its foundations remain the same: you’re a manager with a budget and you’ve got to turn the fortunes of increasingly prestigious – and in some cases, bonkers – institutions around. Of course, this time you’re not dealing with injured mummies and lazy surgeons, you’re in charge of running university campuses (campi?...

You spin my UI round baby, right round, like a vampire, baby Vampire Survivorsupdates to 0.10.0 today, dubbed the Not One patch, and there’s a secret new unlockable menu that can really trick the game out. Your survivor can kick it old school with a whole bunch of cheat codes to enter, styled as “spells”. Get a glimpse of the cheating potential in the teaser trailer below. Coming in the update are two new achievements, two characters, a new arcana, a fresh weapon to wield, and more bug fixes....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Below, you’ll find three handy hints for today’s Wordle answer. If you just need to know the solution, then keep scrolling to find today’s Wordle answer further down. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle August 4 hints There’s no harm in asking for a little bit of help, and our clues will push you in the right direction without spoiling today’s Wordle outright....

It’s the new game from the Dead By Daylight devs Freshly announced looter-shooterMeet Your Makerlets you tear the post-apocalypse down with extreme prejudice - but you’ll have to build up your own walls first. It combines building futuristic fortresses with raiding them for life-giving genetic material, either solo or in two-player online co-op. Revealed during today’s Behaviour Beyond stream, Meet Your Maker is the next game from the devs behind survival horrorDead By Daylight....

Daring Deck owners can try out Preview software builds too The latestSteam Decksoftware update, comprised of both a client update and SteamOS 3.3, is out now. It’s a fat stack of improvements and fixes, too, including a handful of brand new features. You canread the full patch notes on Steam, but I’ll give you the highlights, which include a new warning that pops up when the Steam Deck’s temperature “goes outside the safe operating range”....

Four killers to romance on Murderer’s Island Pulling killers isn’t something a lot of people dream about in real-life, but someDead By Daylightfans are thirsty indeed for that game’s many murderous characters. Good news for them today then, because visual novelHooked On You: A Dead By Daylight Dating Simjust surprise-launched exclusively on Steam. Watch the trailer below to see a more playful side to four of DBD’s serial killers, which isn’t something I ever thought I’d type....

A good-looking gaming monitor that overdoes it on speed and price Even if you’re not “into” PC gaming hardware, spend enough time in its orbit and you’ll eventually develop a healthy scepticism for a specific type of electro-trickery. The kind that promises, naturally with the right purchases, to help you shoot better or drive cars faster or generally be a more PRO ELITE WINNER in competitive games. For me, there have been two such technologies I’ve never really bought into: ultra-high 360Hz monitor refresh rates, and Nvidia Reflex, a kind of setup-wide latency reduction system....