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The ghostly Nighthaunt also revealed as the third playable faction Mark your calendars for November 17th, strategy fans, as that’s whenWarhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruinis heading to PC - thesame dayas Atlus’Persona 5 Tactica, don’t you know? Announced at tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night Live show, Frontier Developments also showed off the game’s new single-player Conquest mode, a procedurally generated series of challenges that will pit players against increasingly unpredictable combat scenarios, as well as its third playable faction: the wraith-like Nighthaunt....

Announcements and updates from the two-hour gaming showcase, served fresh Stage host Geoff “No no no, DoorDash” Keighley has already pulled the expectation-setting levers, confirming a show that’smainly focused on known upcoming gamesrather than seismic, Summer Game Fest-style reveals. But it still sounds like there’ll be plenty to see, especially if you’re into yer blockbusters:Assassin’s Creed Mirage,Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, andMortal Kombat 1will all be getting substantial new showings, withAlan Wake 2,Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, andPayday 3also set for appearances....

An awesome processor for the money, especially after this 14% discount. AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the fastest CPU I’ve tested (on average across a nine-game benchmark suite), exceeding even the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and the Intel Core i9 13900K. That makes it an awesome choice for a full-fat gaming PC, and today you can pick up this top performer for just $385 at Amazon USA - with a free copy ofStarfieldincluded....

Will join Portal in the RTX Remix remaster club It’s being developed by a collective of experiencedHL2modders, Orbifold Studios, without direct input from Valve. No release date yet, as Half-Life 2 RTX – or to use its full name, Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project – is still in the early stages. There is a teaser trailer, though. Not gonna lie, I’m quite jazzed about this.Portal with RTXhad its flaws, including a nearly complete lack of rapport with AMD RadeonGPUs, but both it and fellow RTX Remix projectPortal Prelude RTXturned out as respectable (and respectful) remasters....

A slam dunk from Supergiant Out of all of Supergiant’s games, I feel likePyreis the odd duck out.Bastion,Transistor, andHades- all fit nicely into the action-RPG genre (as well as all being absolute bangers) but Pyre is something else entirely. Sure it also has action-RPG elements, but also is a story-rich visual novelandsports game?Andthey not only work together but alsocomplimenteach other?? It’s a magical wizardry mix of genres that still feels fresh today, even though it’s been five years since it released....

Press X to reload (your arm) A challenge: hold your arm at a right angle to your torso, bent at the elbow so you can see your wrist and hand in the corner of your eye. Keep it there for as long as you can. Hurts after a while, huh? This is the default position for Jak, awesome FPS wizard with a magic gun arm, and possessor of a personality so inoffensive that when I am not playing the game I struggle to remember he exists....

Prepare for rough spells Immortals of Aveumis making me wonder whether there’s some kind of gigantic hidden market for floaty magic shooters with overcooked YA dialogue and exceedingly high PC hardware demands. After this andForspokenreleasing within a few months of each other, I’m half expectingCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3to open with Captain Price shootingGPU-smelting laser beams out of his ‘tache. Indeed, this first person sorcery adventure will be hell on your hardware, even if you’ve tooled up with a high-grade graphics card andCPU....

Another sequel for the dosh-slinging shooter Cooperative horror FPS seriesKilling Floorwill return for another monster mash (hopefully it’ll be a graveyard smash) inKilling Floor 3, developers Tripwire Interactive announced today. Sadly they’ve said little about the game and shown even less but yup, once again you and your pals will get to fight through hordes of wacky bioengineered monsters. Honestly, science was a mistake. Isaac Downtown and his pal Harry Stottle owe us all an apology....

Currently in early access, it’s getting a new mage class next month “Every single skill in the game has its own transformative skill tree, and that’s as crazy as it sounds,” Eleventh Hour’s founder, CEO and game director Judd Cobler told me ahead of tonight’s show, and to demonstrate, he pulls up the skill menu for the newly announced Runemaster, a mastery class of the basic starting Mage. The Mage itself had eight spells to its name, plus a further four that can be unlocked by spending points in its passive tree, but the Runemaster adds another five to the mix (as do the Mage’s other two available mastery classes, the Sorceror and the Spellblade)....

This 27-inch Fast IPS 1440p 180Hz monitor is a great pickup. LG’s 27GL850 was a legendary monitor, as this 27-inch model was the first to use the Koreanchaebol’s Fast IPS panels - which combined the extremely fast pixel response times you’d expect to see on TN panels with the wide viewing angles and gorgeous colours of IPS screens. This combination proved popular, and today there’s a deal on the modern successor to the 27GL850 - the 27GP850....

I’m a big fan of the series, which is basically one big creepy platforming metaphor for childhood fears. Though original devs Tarsier aretilling new pastures, Bamco kept hold of the rights toLittle Nightmares, and it’s no surprise they’d want to keep it going. The trailer looks like it’s doing a decent ‘if it ain’t broke’ job, anyway. The two characters, Low and Alone, are trapped in a place called The Spiral, and we solve puzzles, jump around on giant toys, and are chased by a massive baby doll....

Rain, goggles, shooting Over a long beer and some (Ed: very crispy, hotel) cheeseburgers, Katharine and I tuned into this year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live having just arrived at our hotel.Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign reveal happened to be on, and I predicted it would feature three things: darkness, rain, and goggles. I was right! Even though there was mention of more “open ended” COD missions, the one shown certainly seemed like any vintage, largely linear COD level....

Stormgate, an upcoming RTS from former Blizzard devs, has revealed three new units in its Infernal Host faction, one of which lives inside another If you’ve been keeping an eye onStormgate, the upcoming free-to-play RTS beingmade by former Starcraft II and Warcraft III devs, then its big bads, the Infernal Host, will probably be familiar in name, if nothing else. But during tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night Live show, we got our first proper look at this demonic alien faction, as well as three of the units that will be at our disposal on release....