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I’m even more grateful it won’t take as long as Valhalla to beat. Assassin’s Creed Miragewill release a week earlier thanoriginally announced, bringing its release date to the very beginning of October and giving it some extra breathing room ahead of Alan Wake 2,Lords of the Fallenand theMetal Gear SolidMaster Collection. Christ, it’s still a busy month though, isn’t it? Publishers Ubisoft Montreal announced the release date change from October 12th to October 5th as they confirmed that Mirage had gone gold and was “now ready to go”....

Fishing minigame? Check. Evil Aibo? Er, check. If you can believe it, we first wrote aboutSmall Saga, the retro-flavoured turn-based RPG filled with penknife-wielding rodents and fireballs cast from cigarette lighters,a little over four years ago. Clearly inspired by the likes ofFinal Fantasy- albeit crossed with the ‘small animals on a big adventure’ feel of Brian Jacques' Redwall novels - it looked absolutely brilliant. That sentiment was only solidified by its Steam Next Fest demo last year, which left Katharineimpressed by its compelling combat and rodent fantasy setting....

Where’s that Calm Emotions spellslot Little-CRPG-that-couldBaldur’s Gate 3has solved the Labyrinth, outwitted the Sphinx and ascended to the rank ofMetacritic’s highest-rated PC game of all time, knocking ZA/UM’sDisco Elysiuminto second place. (OK, so technically they’re both on 97, but I’m guessing the “score distillation” arithmetic behind-the-scenes putsBaldur’s Gate 3ahead - their positions were reversed last time I checked.) This follows a busy weekend for Larian’s new game, which exceeded its own online player activity record on Sunday to the tune of around 875,000 players....

Lost Epics Game designer, sometimeGears of Warfrontman and nowadays, comic book author Cliff Bleszinski would very much like Epic to make anotherJazz Jackrabbit. In case you’re unfamiliar, or disgracefully young, Jazz Jackrabbit was aplatform gameforMS-DOS, published in 1994 - it was Bleszinski’s first project as a designer for then-named Epic MegaGames. He worked on the game alongside coder Arjan Brussee, who would later found Guerrilla Games before moving to Visceral Studios and finally, reuniting with Bleszinski to launch Bosskey Productions, the ill-fated creator of the generally rather decentLawbreakers....

Newegg’s bundle deal combines combo savings of $170 with a further $70 discount. Building a new PC? Newegg have specced out a great high-end combo that bundles a Core i7 12700K processor, MSI Pro Z690-A WiFi DDR4 motherboard and DDR4-3200 RAM for $347 with codeBTS343A, a $230 savings over buying the same items individually. That’s a surprisingly awesome deal and would make the perfect beginnings of a high-end rig, with just a GPU, CPU cooler, SSD, PSU and case needed for a complete build - many of which you may want to bring over from your existing PC....

Jamie Brittain has switched tracks to embrace videogames at Maverick Games One of the new things Maverick is backing is Jamie Brittain, lead writer on the studio’s unannounced open world game. Brittain has never worked on a videogame before. Yet any millennial who grew up in the UK will undoubtedly be familiar with Skins, the epochal teen drama he co-created with his dad, Bryan Elsley. Born in Edinburgh, Brittain grew up poor for the first decade of his life - his dad a “perennially stressed” theatre director and sometimes television writer....

A smart pickup, especially for larger Ryzen 7000 and Intel 12th/13th-gen CPUs. Just bought anawesome new CPUafter a friendly RPS deals writer found a great deal on one? Worried about covering that massive IHS with thermal paste? Don’t worry - you can pick up Arctic’s popular MX-4 compound thermal paste for $5.56 today and it comes with a tiny spatula, perfect for ensuring full coverage even on modern extra-large processors like Intel’s 12th/13th-gen chips, AMD’s Ryzen 7000 chips and even workstation-class products like ThreadRipper....

Making a fantasy RPG after Hitman is a “fun challenge” Most “commercial or even proprietary engines”, Vega told the site, focus on the GPU when making optimisations, whereas the mega NPC headcounts and vast crowds of bystanders encountered inHitman World of Assassinationlevels put the emphasis on the CPU. “We are very CPU bound and we hit it hard,” Vega said, adding that “the last Hitman series would not have been possible in some other commercial engines out there....

“Things are being cooked” If you, like me, immediately regret any decision you’ve ever made - well, at least in terms of video games - and have found yourself longing for a different face to stare at for hours and hours of conversations inBaldur’s Gate 3, there might be good news on the way. Larian has teased that it’s working on a future way to change your appearance in its hugely popular D&D game....

Once again, DLSS and efficiency hoist a so-so Nvidia GPU For all the big-budget GeForcegraphics cards, it’s the firmly mainstream XX60 models that must surely keep the lights on at Nvidia HQ. A glimpse at thecurrent Steam hardware surveyreveals that theRTX 3060,RTX 2060, andGTX 1060are all within the top four most-used GPUs – with the RTX 3060’s laptop version at number five. These are important cards, and messing up the next one would be a disaster....

Guns and Clicks What do you get if you combine someone unwilling to throw away their shot, and a video game unwilling to pass up the chance to add yet another pop-culture staple to its collection? A lite RPG based on historical rap-musical Hamilton you can play viaRoblox, that’s what. Hamilton Simulatortakes a number of songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed Broadway show about the frenemyship between 18th-century politicians Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr and uses them to create a series of 10 levels that loosely follow Hamilton and his fellow Founding Fathers’ travails during the American War of Independence....

Come admire these indie games! Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, I return to oggle cars on alien worlds and cars in big fights, even more immersive sims, and a game described uncertainly as perhaps “Sekiro with a gun?” or “Killer7souls?” Check out these attractive and interesting indie games! This city would have blown my mind if it had appeared in the 90s real-time strategy games which inspiredD....

What’s Golarion the horizon this September The premise of Gallowspire Survivors: you’re a hero - the options include fighter, rogue and wizard, each with their signature ability such as time control - trying to seal away Tar-Baphon, aka the Whispering Tyrant, aka an upstart skeleton git, who resides in the titular tower of Gallowspire. You’ll descend through the latter, harvesting gold and XP with which to acquire new abilities and equipment, as well as undead essences that confer special powers, limited to the duration of each run....