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Mixed opinions Meta may have spent the last couple of years tumbling down a metaverse rabbit hole, but the company is still responsible for creating thebest VR hardwarearound. TheMeta Quest 2was the ideal gaming VR package: powerful and accessible enough to provide easy, convincing immersion, while also staying highly affordable. Nonetheless, Meta’s sudden fixation on creating a legless version ofSecond Lifedid have me worried about the future trajectory of its VR hardware....

Here’s how to upgrade your ship or acquire a new one to complete the Final Glimpses mission How do you upgrade, buy, or earn a new ship to complete the Final Glimpses main mission?TheStarfieldFinal Glimpses mission is the final step to completing theUnearthedmission. It also acts as a prequel to another mission,Entangled, which marks the last objective of Final Glimpses. But, to successfully build this bridge between missions, you’ll need to acquire a new ship or upgrade your current one to travel further than ever before....

Search for rules continues One thing that keeps luring me back toStarfield- other than the idea ofbuilding space stations out of onions- is a mysterious game within the game. Titled “Symbol Game”, it consists of chunky, etched, sloping pieces and a 4x6 grid mat adorned with stars, dots and lines. You may have pocketed a few sets, during your journeys across the Settled Systems. They’re not hard to find. But as far as I can tell, nobody has discovered the rules, though there are plenty of theories....

Get a 512GB Samsung Pro Plus for £36 I like theSteam Deckbut its storage options don’t really reflect the grand-scale gigabyte munching that modern PC games indulge in. An addedmicroSD cardfeels very much like a necessity, and in the UK,Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Dayssale is knocking 50% off one of the best. Thebest, in many ways. The Samsung Pro Plus was never the most costly prospect in expandable storage, but even so, it aced my game loading benchmarks when I began group-testing microSDs....

Fly like a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Ti… Eagle TheAmazon Prime Big Deal Dayssale is proving to be the first of its kind – that’s right,Prime Day, apply yourself – to make notable cuts on the very latest and greatestGPUs. You can find all of the highlights in ourPrime Big Deal Days graphics card dealsguide, but I wanted to draw special attention to a couple ofNvidia GeForce RTX 4060andRTX 4060 Tilistings; the most attainable members of the infamously pricey RTX 40 series, now even lighter on the old wallet....

An incredibly good price for a 3440x1440 160Hz VA monitor. LG makes a ton of monitors, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that I wasn’t familiar with their 34WP60C-B ultrawide model. This unassuming choice normally retails for $450, but does offer a higher-than-average 160Hz refresh rate to go along with a 34-inch VA panel and 3440x1440 resolution. Today though, this monitor crashes into new relevance as it’s been discounted to just $200 at LG’s US store, an incredible price that makes it almost an impulse buy pickup for anyone that wants to try out the majesty of an ultrawide monitor....

The Lexar NM790 is our top value PCIe 4.0 SSD pick. Lexar’s NM790 4TB NVMe SSD thrums at the heart of my most beautiful , functional computer, the Digital Foundry CPU test bed. And now it can thrum at the heart of your PC too, as this capacious drive has dropped in price from $210 to $177 at Amazon US. The Lexar NM790 is an interesting drive, as it delivers similar performance to the very fastest gaming SSDs on the market, yet lacks the DRAM cache that those drives rely on for sustained performance....

The seventh.3.0.2 wonder of the ancient world Sometimes, when I’m winning aTotal Warbattle handily, I like to pick an absolutely haggard group of low-tier hopelesses and spend the rest of the fight zoomed in on them, narrativising their high-stakes struggles in a rich and velvety internal monologue that monopolises my attention so fully that I more or less ignore the rest of the battle. That these are among my absolute favourite Total War moments may say something about the level of satisfaction to be found elsewhere in the series’ strategy sandboxes, at times as robust as ancient oaks, others as stale as ancient wotsits....

Two thumbs up Here’s a little stocking stuffer of anAmazon Prime Big Deal Daysdeal: Jsaux’s Steam Deck thumbstick covers, tried-and-testing members of thebest Steam Deck accessoriesclub, are one sale for even less money than usual. Technically, the stick covers are but one component of what you’d actually get. This is, arguably, more of a skin stickers set that happens to throw in some thumb grips as a bonus. Nonetheless,I’m here to tell you that Jsaux have that the wrong way around....

DirectX 9 and 32-bit PC support also canned Are you a Mac player who’s been hungrily looking forward to the eventual Mac port ofCounter-Strike 2, released last month, after sinking many hours and much pocket money into the precedingCounter-Strike: Global Offensive? Fantastic news, it’s been binned off! In the course of making what they’re calling “the largest technical leap in CS history”, Valve have decided to discontinue support for MacOS. They’re also doing away with support for older PCs, including DirectX 9 and 32-bit operating systems - in future, the game will be exclusive to 64-bit Windows and Linux systems....

A licensed sports game with an actual sense of fun? I don’t have much time for American football, but speaking as somebody who regularly got flattened playing rugby at school, Idohave time for sports games in which you can super-size your player and hoof a path through the opposition like you’re Godzilla trashing Tokyo. The game in question is Saber Interactive’sWild Card Football, an arcade sporting sim in the spirit of the developer’s previousNBA Playgroundsseries, which is out today and attracting some buzz on Steam....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 10? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

Less is more for the Asus ROG Strix G16 Good morning, American friends, and welcome to anAmazon Prime Big Deal Dayshighlight just for you. See, I was rifling through the available deals on gaming laptops, and nothing caught my eye quite like this high-spec, current-gen Asus ROG Strix G16 – with a chunky $320 sliced off the MSRP. That’s $1680 for an essentially spanking new,RTX 4070-powered laptop, complete with a beefy, 24-thread Intel Core i9-13980HX and 1TB of NVMeSSDstorage....