This bundle includes an RX 6800 XT, 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD and Starfield for $486

Thanks, Newegg bundles. Want an RX 6800 XT graphics card? And a Solidigm P41 Plus 512GB SSD? AndStarfield? For $486? Thanks to a Newegg bundle, that offer is open for you right now when you use codeEEGCWA827with these two items in the checkout. Here are the links you’ll need: So hold up, let’s rewind a bit. Why would you want these components anyway? Let’s take a look at the graphics card first…...

September 23, 2023 · 2 min · 317 words · Kimberly Smith

Unity are changing how their heavily criticised "runtime fee" works

“I want to start with this: I am sorry.” The announcement came in an"open letter to our community"on the Unity site. “I want to start with this: I am sorry,” writes Unity’s Marc Whitten. “We should have spoken with more of you and we should have incorporated more of your feedback before announcing our new Runtime Fee policy. Our goal with this policy is to ensure we can continue to support you today and tomorrow, and keep deeply investing in our game engine....

September 23, 2023 · 2 min · 364 words · Monica Moore

Wordle hints and answer (#826): How to solve the Saturday September 23 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 23? Read our hint or find the answer below! 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. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak....

September 23, 2023 · 6 min · 1225 words · Alex Charles

"They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware

How custom and adaptive controllers serve players with disabilities – and how steep costs and bad attitudes threaten the good they can do Malenia, Blade of Miquella, is a menace. Even amongElden Ring’s cast of bastard-hard bosses, the Goddess of Rot distinguishes herself as an ender of lives, a relentless steel tempest that has shredded the most prepared and dextrous of adventurers. She’s also been beaten, rather soundly, by a man using only his mouth....

September 22, 2023 · 21 min · 4373 words · Austin Jenkins

A more powerful Steam Deck won’t arrive before the end of 2025, Valve suggests

Needs to be able to match performance with battery life That’s per Steam Deck dev Pierre-Loup Griffais, who toldThe Vergethat the portable PC would likely remain fixed to its current spec for at least a couple more years. The given reason is to help developers work towards a consistent bar for performance on the machine, rather than making incremental upgrades that risk fragmenting what devs are coding for and confusing players....

September 22, 2023 · 2 min · 306 words · Isaiah Evans

AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D is going for $389 with Starfield Premium Edition

A good price for a blazing-fast gaming CPU. Want to get a powerful Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor for $50 off with a free copy ofStarfieldPremium Edition? B&H Photo in the US have you covered with their latest discount on AMD’s fastest gaming CPU*, which sees the processor drop to $389 after debuting earlier this year at $439. That’s still a hefty chunk of change, but it’s worth it for a gaming CPU that outfights the Core i9 13900K and trades blows with the much more expensive Ryzen 9 7950X3D, coming well ahead in some games and a tiny bit behind in others....

September 22, 2023 · 2 min · 314 words · Christian Savage

Baldur's Gate 3 patch 3 releases today and lets you change your appearance and pronouns

“It’s a big one” Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 3, which was so massive Larian held it back a day to test it properly, will release today, and it’ll add anRPGfeature many of us have been requesting since we stepped clear of the Nautiloid - the ability to change a character’s appearance. Alas, it comes too late for the Wood Elf Druid I rolled during my first try at the 1.0 version....

September 22, 2023 · 2 min · 392 words · Todd Mullins

Cosy Lord of the Rings game Tales of the Shire revealed for PC in 2024

Frodon’t judge a book by its cover

September 22, 2023 · 1 min · 7 words · Beverly Tucker

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty on HDD isn’t ideal, but at least it’s smoother than Starfield

Putting the new SSD requirement to the test The polished-up2.0 updateforCyberpunk 2077is out now, ahead of itsPhantom Libertyexpansion on September 26th. I’ve been trying out both, partly to see if the 2.0newly raised hardware requirementofSSDstorage is a warning worth heeding. Hard lines against hard drive installations are new to PC games, but it was only a couple of weeks ago whenStarfieldshowed thedangers of crossing them. Broken audio, regular freeze-ups, load times so long you could measure them with a calendar… an SSD really is the only way to play Starfield, and it sounded likeCyberpunk 2077would follow suit....

September 22, 2023 · 3 min · 552 words · Jacob Elliott

Honkai: Star Rail predecessor Honkai Impact 3rd is getting a Part 2 update in 2024

A new main character, overhauled combat and the new planet of Mars to explore Honkai Impact 3rd, the hack-and-slash action game that shares its universe and characters with HoYoverse’s more recent and better-knownHonkai: Star Rail, is due to receive a massive update that will take the game to Mars - and seemingly leave one of its heroes behind. It seems that Part 2 might well leave Kiana behind as it takes Honkai Impact 3rd from its Moon-based origins to the new planetary setting of Mars to focus on a brand new main character from the Red Planet....

September 22, 2023 · 2 min · 217 words · Cindy Gutierrez

Payday 3 review: this co-op crime 'em up has lovely levels, but it won't steal your heart

No honour amongst thieves with this matchmaking It’s been a clear decade since the last entry in thisco-opcrimeathonFPSseries, so I was interested to playPayday 3. Payday is exactly the sort of online multiplayer I can get behind: PvE with clear but theoretically malleable goals (theft!). But althoughcompared to Crime Boss: Rockay Cityit’s a crushing 60st monster truck tyre, Payday 3 isn’t really reinventing thePayday 2wheel. In some respects you might think it’s rolling backwards, and while dedicated Payday 2 players may well switch over to the current gen iteration, you get the sense they’ll be complaining about things the whole time....

September 22, 2023 · 5 min · 1035 words · Jeffrey Fox

Punish sinners in Hell from your demonic desktop in new tower defence game Heretic's Fork

Come for the sexy big mouth, stay for the deckbuilding If you enjoy tower defence, video games presented as fake PC desktop environments, and big sexy mouths in Hell, cast your innumerable unblinking eyes overHeretic’s Fork. The deck-building tower defence game casts you as an employee of Hell tasked with punishing sinners by building towers and deploying troops using a demonic computer system. I’ve played a few hours since Heretic’s Fork launched yesterday and while it hasn’t quite enraptured my hellbound heart, I am enjoying figuring it out—and seeing what my paperclip helper will do next....

September 22, 2023 · 6 min · 1108 words · Terri Baldwin

Sea of Thieves will introduce PvP-free servers, 24-player guilds and competitive treasure hunts in Season 10

Rolling out over the next three months Sea of Thievesis lining things up for the launch of its 10th season next month, with a multi-month rollout of new features including guilds, a new world event type and a way to play without being attacked by other players. First for the game will be new player guilds, which can be formed from groups of up to 24 players and are said to be a more meaningful way to party up than temporary ship crews....

September 22, 2023 · 3 min · 505 words · Anne Mack