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That’s way cheaper than the legendary 5800X3D while delivering nearly as good performance. Do you want to build a PC? Not ready to give up your older Ryzen motherboard but still want great gaming performance? Previously your only option was the (superb) 5800X3D, which uses a 3D V-Cache to massively boost gaming performance, but now the cheaper 5700X3D is also available. Made from silicon that wasn’tquitegood enough to turn into the 5800X3D, these processors boost slightly lower but come with the same complement of extra L3 cache, making them still head and shoulders above models like the 5600X, 5800X, 5900X and even 5950X - not to mention older Ryzen 1000, 2000 and 3000 models....

Odds of saving the world and/or finishing my review are thus diminished The review embargo for fantastical sky-pirates JRPGGranblue Fantasy: Relinkjust lifted, ahead of its release tomorrow, and I was on review duty. Alas, I have no review to lay at your feet, because the game booted once as soon as I got it, then didn’t work for about five days, and for the rest of this week has booted at a ratio of about 1:8 of successful boot to attempts to boot....

Yep, definitely a Ken Levine game The latest taste ofJudas, the spiritual successor toBioShockfrom the former director of BioShock, has confirmed that, yes, this is definitely a game from at least some of the people that made BioShock. That looks to be only a good thing, mind. The latest story trailer shown during Sony’s State of Play tonight continues the clear BioShock inspiration, opening with glimpses of a creepy-looking mannequin (on top of a grand piano straight out of Rapture’s Fort Frolic, no less) and someone trapped in what looks like a transparent iron maiden before cutting to an impassioned speech from a dirt and blood-splattered character telling the viewer - the player themselves, perhaps - that they are “the frog in a pot, boiling” before promising to set them free “whether you like it or not”....

Physint will have the “look, story, theme, cast, acting, fashion and sound” of a film Almost 10 years after Hideo Kojima left theMetal Gear Solidseries behind to start his indie studio, the celebrated developer andInstagram film influenceris planning to return to the genre that made his name with a brand new action-espionage game. And in true Kojima fashion, the video game is said to be just as much a movie as it is a game....

“We have made the save data system more robust” Across the foggy realm ofEnshrouded’s Embervale, innocent Flameborn players have been signing in to find their recent progress unkept, their greatest feats reverted, due toproblems with the save data system. Despair no more, for developers Keen Games have released an update for the fantasysurvival gamethat takes aim at save data stability specifically. Released overnight, the newEnshroudedpatch also tunes up the game’s performance to avoid a stuttering frame-rate....

…which is PS5-only, for the minute Sony have released a new trailer for Konami and Bloober’sSilent Hill 2 remakeat today’sState of Play showcase, showing off a few of the horror reboot’s redesigned environments and enemies. They’ve also surprise-released an all-new free-to-play Silent Hill game,Silent Hill: The Short Message, though it’s only available on PS5 for the minute. TheSilent Hill 2trailer is a montage of locations from across the game, with an emphasis on combat....

Key rebinding, auto-gathering and toggleable sprint available at early access launch Inflexion Games have announced accessibility options forNightingale, the Victorian “gaslamp fantasy"survival gamein which you wander the Fae Realms in bowler hat and ballgown, building houses and murdering eldritch wildlife. Among the wildlife you’ll murder are giant spiders, which might be a dealbreaker for some people, so it’s just as well Nightingale comes with an arachnophobia mode which transforms those spiders into… large, winged balloons with teeth....

This refreshed GPU is better value than the RTX 4080, though not always faster If theRTX 4070 Superwas all about addressing its predecessor’s so-so performance gains, the RTX 4080 Super’s course correction is more deeply rooted in issues of cold, hard coinage. For betterandworse, it turns out – while this Super-fiedGPUknocks hundreds off theRTX 4080’s starting price, any excitement for a potential new4Kchampion is quickly muted by it barely moving the dial on straight FPS output....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #234 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Poke the legally distinct monster nest The greatest compliment I can give toPalworldis that it lights up my brain in the same way a modern Assassin’s Creed game does. It taps into the same checklist clearing compulsion that saw me spend over 100 hours in both Odyssey’s Ancient Greek archipelago and the Vikingopen worldof Valhalla - only instead of chasing map icons that take you down weird sidequest rabbit holes that riff on Fenton the (sheep)dog, or gobbling up story events just so you can makegoogly eyesat every warm-blooded human in a ten mile radius,Palworldhooks you in with its enormous catalogue of base building tasks....

Here are our picks for the best Pals for Medicine Production in Palworld Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Medicine Production?It’s hard work keeping a base going inPalworld, and on some occasions, your Pals might suffer ailments. As their SAN (Sanity) score drops, Pals can become depressed, and they can also catch colds, ulcers, sprains, and all sorts of other conditions as they go about their base jobs....

Developers hard at work on early access bugs Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leaguereleased into early access for owners of the Deluxe preorder edition earlier this week, granting armchair supervillains prepared to shell out £100 or $100 a headstart on players buying the regular edition, which launches this Friday 2nd February. Or at least, that was the idea. Like many an online-required live service game before, Suicide Squad’s premium access release has been marred by technical bugs and glitches, the most severe of which saw players logging in to discover the main storyline already completed....

A new meaning for “sonic x shadow” Sonic Generations, which mixed the series’ old-school 2D and modern 3Dplatforminginto a single game, is returning in a remaster later this year - and Sonic’s edgy cousinShadow the Hedgehogis along for the ride. Shadow also pops up during the trailer, confirming his playable appearance in the game - having previously been a boss fight in the original Generations. The snippets of gameplay show Shadow rollerblading through levels and bouncing between enemies....