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More affordable GPUs are a big deal indeed Mega sales events likeAmazon Prime Big Deal Daysshould prick up the ears of anyone wanting a goodgraphics carddeal. As expensive as these slabs of pixel-pushing circuitry can get, even the most luxurious GPUs can find themselves snared in Amazon’s savings net, from which we can pick out solely the best GPU deals of the day. Days, sorry. Until October 11th. Early offers have already slashed the cash off a range of current-gen cards, including arare discount on the RTX 4060 Ti....

Deck out your Deck with savings on microSD cards, docks, and cases Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Dayssale is proving a decent source ofSteam Deck accessorydeals. Last week’s early offers shaved cash off some of my personal favourite cases, docks, andmicroSD cards, and now that the main event is underway, there’s a fresh supply of affordable add-ons for the Valve handheld. Here, we shall catalogue the best. Since Prime Big Deal Days is basically a secondPrime Day, it runs with the same rule of all the biggest savings being limited to Prime members....

Truman Show anxiety and 2.5D platforming collide in American Arcadia We’ve all imagined ourselves as the stars (or the villains) of a reality show, right? What could we say, how could we act, or who could we woo to bag the ultimate prize? Everyman Trevor Hills - with his office getup, dad-sized ‘tache, and lanky build - isn’t quite so lucky in the upcomingAmerican Arcadia. You see, he’s unknowingly stuck in a reality TV show where the penalty for unpopularity is death, and considering he has the personality of a pencil, his only option is to escape in genre-bending fashion....

BioWare declined to continue their contract with support studio Keywords Just last year, QA contractors working onDragon Age: Dreadwolfvoted unanimously tobecome Canada’s first-ever video game industry union. Now, sadly, the Keyword Studios employees working on the RPG have all been laid off after developer BioWare decided not to renew their contract. Keyword Studio’s QA staff were initially contracted to assist with playtesting on the fourth mainlineDragon AgeRPG. All 16 employees then voted “yes” in favour of unionising last summer, making history as Canada’s first video game-related union....

The team are still undecided when it comes to Codename Orion Cyberpunk 2077- nowredeemedand somewhat rebuilt after the car crash that was its initial launch - is looking ahead at the even further future. CD Projekt Red have expressed that they have “no regrets” about switching from a third-person camera to a first-person one in the transition from The Witcher to Cyberpunk, however, for future games in Night City, the studio are still undecided....

Lateral excavations Having hollowed out the Asteroid of Co-Op (Resource) ExtractionFPS, Ghost Ship are sinking their drills into the Planet of Roguelite. The just-announcedDeep Rock Galactic: Rogue Coreis a crafty feat of genre-splicing in which one to four dwarven miners investigate an alien world whose “core has gone rogue”. As in the originalDeep Rock Galactic, whichwe loved, you’ll be tunnelling down and fighting critters (exact species TBA) while harvesting precious ores....

New biome with extra icky fishies out in November Following boldly in the wake of The Thing, The Terror and, errrr,the experimental artist Ellie Ga, who spent months drawing and sketching aboard a drifting icelocked research vessel, Black Salt and Team 17’s Lovecraftian fishing simDredgeis heading to the Arctic in its first DLC pack, The Pale Reach. Batten down the hatches and check out the trailer. The expansion launches on 16th November, and features a new biome with 11 new fish and crab species, plus pricier, abberant varieties of undersea life....

Laika: Aged Through Blood comes out later this month, but I want it right now As the month dedicated to ghouls and goblins and human slashers, October might not be the best month to release a Wild West revenge tale featuring anthropomorphic coyote warriors. But, hear me out.Laika: Aged Through Bloodis a self-described “motorvania” where our “mother coyote reloads her guns doing backflips” on a sick motorcycle. Now that’s something I’d play whatever the weather....

Couch Potat00 I Expect You To Die 3: Cog In the Machine is notable if only for being the third entry in a series on VR games. Most VR titles can consider themselves lucky if they get a sequel, let alone attain the hallowed status of “trilogy”. Then again, few VR games have found a formula that is as dependable and repeatable as Schell Games' collection of spy capers. Much in the same way that the James Bond series has a set structure and tropes, onlyI Expect You To Die’s blueprint involves pastiche andpuzzlesrather than cars, gadgets, and variously objectified women....

Somewhere there is a crime happening Teyon and Nacon’s forthcoming 80s sci-fiFPSRobocop: Rogue Cityhas a demo, allowing those who wouldn’t evenbuy it for a dollarto spend an hour or two in the game’s crime-ridden Old Detroit, fighting crime. Created by the team behind the not-much-enjoyed Terminator: Resistance, Rogue City is set between the events of Robocops 2 and 3, with “iconic locations” and “familiar faces” from the movies, including OG Robocop actor Peter Weller....

The Audeze Mobius headset by any other name still tastes as sweet. HyperX’s Cloud Orbit S is a fascinating wireless gaming headset with planar magnetic drivers. Despite the name, this headset is produced by audio experts Audeze and the Cloud Orbit S is 99% the same as the Audeze Mobius, just with a slightly different colour scheme, simpler microphone and without Bluetooth support. That allows HP to hit a more aggressive price target, making the Cloud Orbit S one of the most affordable ways to try a great planar magnetic gaming headset....

Bubble trouble Hello friend! Have you been suffering from a pronounced lack of domes in your life of late? Are your videogames dispiritingly dome-less? Well, good news - the"small, but perfectly formed tower defence game"Dome Keeperhas just received a big free update, adding two new domes to its roster together with a dome supplements system, that you may dome like you’ve never domed before. Domes! If you’re new to Dome Keeper, it’s another one of those fiendish games of “two halves”, reassuringly kept apart by the sturdy but not imperishable membrane of your dome, which is also the only thing protecting you from the wildlife of the planet beyond, who attack in waves....

Fourth time’s the charm At this year’sEVEFanfest, the annual convention celebrating the 20-year-old spaceMMO, Icelandic developersCCP announced a new game:EVE Vanguard. A shooter set in their gunmetal grey sci-fi universe, Vanguard puts you into the shoes of mercenaries, dropping onto planets to retrieve equipment from wrecked ships, battling it out with AI-controlled pirates and other squads of human players. It’sEscape from Tarkovby way of the galaxy of New Eden. If you’ve followed CCP, you may get a sense of de ja vu....