The Silent Swan is almost exhaustingly slow, but interesting? Dear Esthermeets Amnesia inThe Silent Swan, an open-world walk-o-story set inside a mysterious walled land with two towering empty cities. It has a demo in the Steam Next Fest and I think I want more? I was drawn in by screenshots of vastGothicarchitecture, put off by frustrating slowness, then kept interested by the mysteries of our fella adrift in his former home....

A great deal on one of AMD’s best value GPUs, complete with FSR 2.0. The RX 6700 XT is one of the best value AMD graphics cards, and today sees a price drop on an XFX Speedster model at Amazon.com. This chunky triple-slot card now costs $480, a $80 reduction from its US MSRP and a new low-water mark for this category of GPUs. We recently saw the RX 6700 XT drop to £420 in the UK, so it’s nice to see a similar discount for the American audience....

I can’t believe I had to create a Fallout 5 tag for this Retro-futuristic RPG pentequelFallout 5will be Bethesda’s next project after they complete work onThe Elder Scrolls 6, development leader Todd Howard has confirmed in an interview withIGN. You might have to wait for some years to see anything from it though, as The Elder Scrolls 6 is only in “pre-production”. We’ll all be sporting Methuselah-length beards and have popped all the achievements inStarfield’s umpteenth DLC by then....

Turns out vampires can go out in the sun Technically, V Rising has been lowercase P-playable on the Steam Deck since late May, when these software improvements appeared on the ‘Bleeding Edge’ branch of Proton Experimental. Now, though, the update has graduated to the main, stable Proton branch, so you don’t have to risk the potential wonkiness of a work-in-progress. I’ve given V Rising a try on the Steam Deck and it does indeed work, though it’s quick to show why it only got Playable status and not Verified....

Help me decide the single best thing in video games Last time, you decided thatfriendship is better than interrupting conversations. You must be very good friends, if your friendship is more important than your desire to butt in. And now I know I can butt in and you’ll just accept it. This week, we pick between an unfathomable conception of flesh and a matter of convenience. What’s better, invert mouse or undo?...

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word On this page, we’ll start off with a few gentle pointers to help put you on the right track to solving today’s Wordle puzzle. Further down, expect spoilers for the answer and some fun trivia about the meaning behind today’s word. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! If you just need a nudge in the right direction to begin with, here are a few hints for you before we get too deep into spoiler territory:...

Expect sequel announcements in September Assassin’s Creed: Valhallais getting a second year of post-release support. Included on the roadmap is a new free game mode inspired by roguelites. Called The Forgotten Saga, it has Eivor battling against waves of enemies in Niflheim, and try-die-repeating in order to attain unlocks which persist between runs. You’ll find a trailer for it below. This new mode - and a roadmap which includes a second set of Mastery Challenges, new weapons, and new Tombs Of The Fallen - were revealed as part of the Asssassin’s Creed series' 15 year anniversary celebrations....

A chunky slice of the expansion with four monsters to hunt, out today A free demo of Capcom’s upcoming beastie-slashing action RPG expansionMonster Hunter Rise: Sunbreakis releasing on Steam today. It’s worth putting aside at least 10GB ready for the install if you’re planning to take a crack at it. Hop onto your canine mount and check out the trailer below for a glance in advance. As per usual for aMonster Hunterdemo it’s pretty hefty, with quite a variety of things to be getting on with....

Many robots, some jank It should be a rule that any game which shows a slick, edited trailer at E3 (or not-E3) has to then release a longer, more illustrative piece of footage, too. That way we’ll be able to take our dose of hype, then follow it with a dash of reality. So it is with Outpost, a first-person base-builder with seemingly massive swarmsthat impressed during the Future Games Show....

The Monoprice Zero-G hits the current spec sweet spot and gets good reviews too. How much should a 1440p 144Hz monitor cost, a good one, when it’s on sale? Normally the answer is around $300, but today Monoprice have gone one further. Their Zero-G 27-in 1440p 144Hz curved monitor has dropped from $250 to $190 - mere pocket change*! Exaggerations aside, this is a legitimately good price for a monitor of this spec, especially one that has actually attracted reasonable reviews in its category....

The cheapest RTX and DLSS-capable graphics card for £180 less than a new version. The RTX 2060 isn’t the new hotness that it was a few years ago, but a global pandemic and chip shortage means that the card is still a surprisingly capable option three years later. The cheapest RTX 2060 on Amazoncosts £370, but if you’re willing to go refurbished you pay way less: just £190. That’s a heck of a deal for an RTX and DLSS-capable graphics card, especially given the GPUs come with a six month warranty from the folks at Laptop Outlet....

Demo available now through Steam Next Fest Barbarian-tinged match-3 puzzlerGrindstoneis abandoning its exclusivity to the Epic Games Store and venturing into the untamed wilderness of Steam on June 20th, developers Capybara Games have revealed. All updates to the game that released on other platforms such as Apple Arcade and Nintendo Switch will be included. There’s a helpfully explanatory animated trailer to watch below. If you haven’t played Grindstone then expect to slash your way through very cute, but exceedingly angry, colourful little monsters by lining your barbarian up through as many of one colour as you can....

Deck stacked like the best of them If you playedHypnospace Outlaw, there’s a high chance you’ll remember Zane “Zane_Rocks_14” Lofton. He’s one of the more memorable characters you meet in Tendershoot’s alternate reality web simulator, an angsty teenage boy whose home page is slathered in camouflage textures and GIFS of exploding handguns. Since release, Zane has become one of Hypnospace’s de facto mascots, a beloved dweeb that is abrasive but also kind of painfully relatable?...