The lowest price we’ve ever seen on AMD’s flagship Ryzen 5000 CPU. Ebay is offering 15% off on a range of a products, allowing you to get the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core processor for a historic low price: £342. To get the discount, use codeBIG15at the checkout. This deal is for a new boxed CPU from… Box, a relatively well-known British tech retailer. The same CPU costs£369 at Amazon,£400 at Ebuyerand£390 at Overclockers, so this is the cheapest price by some margin....

Min-maxers one, Terra Nil Yesterday I wrote about eco-strategy gameTerra Nil’s demo, which went gangbusters during last week’s Steam Next Fest and shot up into the top 50 most played games on Valve’s storefront. Well, turns out that might be at least partly down to a practice called badge-farming. That’s according to industry pundit Simon Carless’ latestGameDiscoverCo newsletter, anyway. What’s happening here? Is it weird, or just an immediate flurry of interest after Steam Next Fest began last week?...

The AM2R team reunites Here’s a trailer, which shows plenty of its lovely art style: The list of features on the BōSteam pagereally do make it sound like the quintessential Metroidvania. You’ll explore the game’s “open and interconnected” world, unlock new abilities, and return to previous zones to access previously inaccessible areas. There are platforming challenges, boss battles, and the videos and GIFs suggest the physics of its character movement aren’t a million miles away from something likeHollow Knight....

From the makers of The Hunter The Hunter: Call Of The Wild took Avalanche’s technical expertise in creating open worlds, gained by making theJust Causeseries, and employed it instead to create an open world hunting sim. Well, now Call Of The Wild: The Angler is intending to do it again, with an open world fishing game in which you walk or drive in search of the perfect spot to cast your line....

Blizzard say the game will now launch in Asia on July 7th Blizzard have confirmed they’re delaying the launch of gem-wrangling time sinkDiablo Immortalin the Asia Pacific region until July 7th, so they can complete “optimization”. The delay was originally announced on Sunday by the game’s regional publisher in China, NetEase, and was picked up on by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad onTwitter. The decision to delay came a few days after Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibobannedthe Diablo Immortal account due to unspecified “violation of related laws and regulations”....

People of Arrakis, spice up your social life Sci-fi 4X strategyDune: Spice Warshas finally brought multiplayer to the desert planet of Arrakis with its latest update. Players can now jump into the futuristic space shoes of one of the game’s factions in paired matches, or free-for-alls for four against other players or bots. Try not to get sand in your eyes while you watch the trailer below. Spice Warslaunchedinto Early Access at the end of April with four factions: the vaguely heroic by default House Atreides, creepy lads House Harkonnen, the always cool Fremen, and sneaky sorts the Smugglers....

Two Point Corp? Capitalism Architect? I am continually on the lookout for the nextmanagement gameto obsess me, andGood Companylooks like a good candidate. It’s a tycoon factory builder about forming a technology company and leading it, from product design through hiring staff and all the way to replacing those staff with robots. It looks cute and, as of its departure from Steam Early Access today, robust. Here’s the launch trailer:...

It’s already been removed from sale on Steam Wacky battle royaleFall Guysis going free to play from today, so you no longer have any excuses not to try it other than an inability to decide on an outfit for your bean to wear. I’m partial to the giant foam hand costume myself. However, Fall Guys has also been removed from sale on Steam so it can become an Epic Games Store exclusive....

Try to keep up So, you went and flubbed a Reservoir Dogs type of deal, and now you’re a dead’un. As if that wasn’t bad enough, it turns out that Heaven is a corrupt bureaucracy that’s absolutely stuffed with shadowy demons and talking cats. Those demons become your problem when god decides to give you a chance to earn your place in Heaven by committing murder - stylish, speedrunning, parkouring demon murder....

Demystifying Intel’s Arc quick start guide Last week Intel published a “quick start guide” for their upcomingArc A-series graphics cards, including a “Supported Hardware Configurations” section that only specifically namechecked their own 10th, 11th and 12th Gen Core CPUs. Cue a heady mix of confusion and perturbation – surely Intel weren’t suggesting that Arc GPUs would only function when paired with an Intel CPU, and a relatively new one at that?...

Survival on a raft, with co-op support The launch updatealone is huge. It adds: the end of the story; a rewriting of the old story with voice acting for notes; sunken towers that failed to save the rich; an icy land with a remote research back; a lovely land of geodesic domes; new foes in the form of anglerfish, bitey beetles, polar bears, hyenas, and more; new playable characters; automated trading posts; new devices including a juicer, electric grill, and wind turbine; new weapons; new survival tools; a new type of pillar to prop up a second floor without obscuring your view with loads of pillars; more; more; more....

A new vibe for a classic series I love the name “SpellForce”, mid-word capital letter and all. It conjures a mental image of a kid’s TV show where some, possibly sentai-style, superheroes learn about the importance of spelling and grammar. Maybe a little punctuation, as a treat.SpellForcethe video game series isn’t that; it’s a trio of RPG-RTS hybrids which, by the time you read this, will have had a new entry announced in the form ofSpellForce: Conquest Of Eo....

A comprehensive beginner’s guide to The Cycle: Frontier Do you want to get better at The Cycle: Frontier?It’s a slow but glorious journey on which you’ve chosen to embark, fellow prospector. The latest in a burgeoning line of multiplayer extraction shooters,The Cycle: Frontierdrops its players into the gorgeous world of Fortuna III, where they must fend against both the fauna and rival prospectors while attempting to gather precious materials and extract with their lives and gear intact....