Want double the performance of a GTX 1060 or RX 580? Get this. The RTX 3060 is thebest value 1080p graphics card, and recently it’s gotten significantly cheaper as next-gen Nvidia GPUs have been rumoured. Right now, you can pick up a Gigabyte RTX 3060 Eagle 12GB for just £330 at Scan UK, a £61 reduction overthe same card at Amazon UKand some £40 cheaper than the cheapest RTX 3060we spotted last month....
Intel Core i3 12100F or AMD Ryzen 5 3600, you choose! AMD’s Ryzen 3600 is one of the best value gaming CPUs, and now it’s available for just £170 with a Gigabyte B450M motherboard from AWD-IT. That’s a £50 reduction from its normal price, and some £22 cheaper thanthe CPU and cooleron Amazon. This would make an excellent start to a new system, with the 3600’s six cores and twelve threads pairing well with a modern RTX 20-series or Radeon RX 5000-series or later graphics card....
Comparable to the Valve Index for 40% of the price. The HP Reverb G2 issurprisingly similar takeon the Valve Index VR headset, and now it’s going cheap from HP’s American web store. The headset, which has a US MSRP of $599, is now going for $399, which according to my abacus is $200 off. So is the Reverb G2 worth getting? I’d definitely recommend it, given that it’s now less than half the price of the $999 Valve Index -our best VR headset overall- while offering the same general features....
New free update to best strategy game ever Here’s a brief trailer announcing the release: Into The Breach is a turn-based strategy game about wielding mechs to defend Earth from insectoid alien invaders. What makes it compelling is that you get clear warning of any move the enemy is about to make, giving you the opportunity to do something about it. Big mollusc about to knock a skyscraper over? Use a robot to shove it aside so it misses and pushes its own big beetle pal instead....
It’s the next game from the studio that made Alien: Isolation Hyenasis a sci-fi, team-based shooter that is not at all what I was expecting next from the developers who make theTotal Warseries. Set in that most dodgy of times, the future, Hyenas is about pilfering relics of pop culture such as Pez dispensers, Mega Drives andSonic The Hedgehogparaphernalia before tech billionaires who’ve colonised Mars can furnish their homes with it all....
Several tracks were replaced for the Sonic Origins re-release As odd as it might sound, there has long been an urban legend that Michael Jackson was involved in creating part of the soundtrack for Sonic 3. Now Sonic creator and Sonic 3 programmer Yuji Naka has seemed to lend credence to that legend on Twitter, as it relates to the replacement of certain tracks in the recently released remasters inSonic Origins....
Admin! Shadows! Making a friend out of spare bones and organs! I was in LA forSummer Geoff Festand I played a whole bunch of games. No, not lots of blockbusters – mainly because there weren’t too many of those about - but lots of indies, instead. In fact, out of all the games I saw or played or glanced at while I dashed between appointments, it was the indies that really stood out....
Enhanced Edition out now, uglier than the ScummVM version Update: The better ScummVM version, originally only bundled with the GOG release, is nowincluded on Steam too. Nightdive Studios say their Enhanced Edition boasts “reconstruction and upressing” of Westwood’s original video files (it’s built in part on pre-rendered video), as well as taking the framerate of cinematic cutscenes from 15 to 60fps. With original source files lost, they’ve used reverse-engineering and machine learning to rebuild an updated version inside their usual engine, Kex....
Here’s where to go to find Optic Glass in both Cycle: Frontier maps Looking for Optic Glass in The Cycle: Frontier?The maps in Yager’s extraction shooter may be beautiful, but they’re also deadly - filled with hostile creatures and enemy prospectors looking to kill you and scavenge your gear. So it’s important to be as efficient as possible when it comes to collecting the loot you need, which means knowing where to go to find the items you’re after in the highest quantities....
Storm’s comin' in It’s time once again for an episode of The Electronic Wireless Showpodcast. This week Nate returns, but Matthew is away - and since he is the real agent of chaos, Nate and I have a remarkably sensible conversation about different weather and seasons in a lot of games. Who’d have thought? Not me. And in fact there is weather in all sorts of places you wouldn’t expect to look....
I like driving in Eagar I still don’t know whether to describeThe Heroic Legend Of Eagarlniaas “complicated” or “simple”. Before starting a game, it gives an impression of being a complex grand strategy that’s something like a fantasy Total War with a D&D alignment system and a distinctly East Asian focus on characters and dialogue. It’s far simpler than that. There was a period of disappointment, even, when it seemed like there wasn’t much to it at all....
Howl at the moon! Eat raw meat! Pee on your lawn! It’s a whole new world of possibilities. I don’t tend to be biased towards games just because they’re new, so I feel it carries some weight when I say thatThe Sims 4 WerewolvesGame Pack has immediately become one of my favourite add-ons forThe Sims 4. Having been a fan of theVampiresandRealm Of Magic(a.k.a. wizards, basically) game packs since their respective releases, I can safely say that Werewolves has done an excellent job iterating and expanding on what worked from those previous supernatural outings....
Not a Fortnite of deals, that’s Epic So, according to that trailer, we can expect some shavings off the price of games likeGhostwire: Tokyo,Cyberpunk 2077,God Of War,Monster Hunter Rise, andDying Light 2. Probably the stand-out pick of the bunch is current vampiric darlingV Rising, if you’ve not already plunged your fangs into that one. We’ve still a few hours to go until we see how much all these will set you back....
