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Out now, Neyasnoe is made by the folks behind It’s Winter What are you doing later? Bit of a night out in a bleak post-Soviet city, maybe? Drink? Dance? Drugs? Pet giant rats? Chat with a back-alley cyborg tech? Catch a poetry reading? Have a blood pressure test? Contemplate your empty existence? Eat a kebab? All this and more awaits you withNeyasnoe, the new first-person explorer from the creators ofIt’s Winter....

Our best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD! Lexar has been making flash storage since 1996 - in fact, their ‘JumpDrive’ USB sticks were synonymous with the format for a decade or more - but over the past few years they’ve switched to producing high-end NVMe SSDs, including our currentbest cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD pick: the Lexar NM790. Today you can pick up the massive 4TB size of this high-end PCIe 4.0 SSD for just £170....

Grind your deck on your Steam Deck The Steam versionhas a 50% launch discount, making it £20 at the time of writing. The Pro Skater games aren’t yet officially Steam Deck Verified, but user reviews seem to suggest it works fine off the bat. Development on the Tony Hawk remasters was led by Activions subsidiary Vicarious Visions. Shortly after Pro Skater 1 + 2’s release, the studio was renamed Blizzard Albany and worked on supporting development ofDiablo 4....

Scan and Cooler Master have you covered. Cooler Master probably aren’t the first people that come to mind when it comes to mechanical keyboard, but they’ve produced a fair few models over the years including some rather lovely ones. Today you can pick up one of my favourites from their collection, the SK652, at a decent £15 discount from Scan in the UK. That brings the price of this low-profile, full-size mechanical keyboard to £35, quite a fair price for a keyboard of this size and quality - especially when you get a free XXL mousepad thrown in for free....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 3? 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....

Big deals, on days, for the UK and US TheAmazon Prime Big Deal Dayssale is into is second and final day, and it’s still rife with PC gaming deals on a scale you won’t see outside ofPrime Dayitself. OrBlack Friday. Or theAmazon Spring Sale, come to think of it. Jeff, mate, sure you’ve got enough of these things? Ecommerce saturation aside, I will say that Prime Big Deal Days – which runs until the end of October 11th – does serve up some respectable price cuts across the usual wide breadth of PC gaming hardware....

All hands on deck In Earthless, our sun has rudely gone supernova billions of years ahead of schedule, and everybody with a rocketship and a starchart is making a beeline for the nearest exoplanet capable of supporting life. Each run sees you moving your ship between nodes grouped into regions, with nodes consisting broadly of resourcing opportunities that bestow new cards, branching story-led progression moments in which you decide which ship systems to upgrade, and grid-based clashes with a peculiar alien race, who look a bit like angry Cornish pasties....

Just in time for more to be added In an accomplishment that truly makes my head and mouse-clicking finger hurt thinking about the sheer time and effort required, someone has become the firstFinal Fantasy 14player to complete every single one of the MMO’s more than 2,700 achievements. The player on Japan’s Garuda server spotted by theFinal Fantasy14 subreddit (and confirmed by achievement-tracking sitesLalachievementsandFFXIVcollect) scooped their final remaining in-game achievement on August 27th, bringing their grand total to 2,751 achievements....

Moon’s haunted Rockstar are about to properly announceGrand Theft Auto VI, going by some hectic speculation surroundinga TwiX imageforGTA Online’s upcoming in-game Red Happy Moon Tee festival. A child in the ways of the internet might glance at said image and merely conclude thatif you play GTA Online at any point this week, you can scoop up a seasonal cosmetic. But look again with unclouded eyes, young one. What does your heart say to you?...

New trailer shows off violent, stealthy and sociable methods Ivar Hill and Slipgate’sCore Decayis aDeus ExandSystem Shock-flavoured immersive sim that’s all about the ABCs. A, of course, stands for Attacking by means of things like energy rifles, electro-batons and shotguns. B is for Back-stabbing, referring to the stealthy player who may stack objects so as to clamber into vents, and whack guards deftly in the noggin to escape detection. And C is for Conversing, referring to the act of wooing civilians - who thus far seem miraculously unbothered by your menacing hooded appearance and sepulchral accent - so as to procure door codes and the location of keycards....

An early look at 11 bit Studio’s ambitious survival sequel In the frozen hellscape ofFrostpunk, you eked out your existence in hours and days, clinging to your heat- and life-giving generator at the centre of your fledgling city like there wasliterally no tomorrow. In 11 bit Studio’s forthcoming sequel,Frostpunk 2, the apocalypse is yesterday’s news. Now you’re dealing with “what happens when you survive the un-survivable,” as the game’s co-director and design director Jakub Stokalski neatly puts it when I sit down for a hands off presentation at this year’s Gamescom....

Shelly you jest Well, assuming you’re not Matt Cox - inour review of the main game, he deemed it an experience in which “old-school decisions too often trump good ones” and “a blast from a past I never lived through”, concluding that “Ion’s tongue might be in its cheek, but I’ve got little interest in what it’s saying.” Ouch. Still, Steam user verdicts are markedly more enthusiastic, and what kind of jaded soul would turn his nose up at a Cluster Shot launcher with bouncing bullets?...

Stars in our eyes A new month means a newRPS Game Clubpick, and since a lot of us are still playing Bethesda’s epic space RPG, albeit to varying degrees of success, I thought I’d anointStarfieldas our selection for October. And yes, that will probably mean morecreepy dadadventures are in the offing. Apologies in advance. How to describeStarfield? It is both a vast and sprawling space adventure withmore planetsto visit than we have hours left in existence, and also one of the most conservative (and one might even sayintensely repetitive) RPGs for quite some time....