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AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D has hit a historic low with some nice freebies. What comes with free Gunnar blue light glasses and a copy ofStarfield? Yup, it’s the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D when you buy it from Scan, and no I didn’t expect that either. Still, these freebies are on top of the lowest price we’ve ever seen for thefastest gaming CPUon the market, making this a deal that’s well worth your time if you’re considering a new gaming rig....

Damn fine coffee! I can feel all my Cool Culture Critic points dribbling out of my ears as I type this, but I’ve never actually watched Twin Peaks, David Lynch’s acclaimed paranormal smalltown TV show. The nearest I’ve come to doing so isthat one episode of the Simpsons. The major things I am given to understand about it are that it is very confusing, sexy in a ghoulish way, and 100% comprised of memes in the same way that Hamlet has retrospectively become a book’s worth of quotations....

A “vast amount” of content will carry forward In keeping with stodgy seasonal content strategums at large, the carry-forward thing has a few ifs and buts. Activision have publishedan exhaustive Q&Awhich makes me yearn for the blessed relief of Gun Game, that recurring Call of Duty mode where you get a new gun every time you kill something, and don’t have to think so much about managing your arsenal. Some key takeaways from that Q&A: 1) you’ll get access to Modern Warfare 2’s guns in Modern Warfare 3 even if you don’t own the former game, though you’ll need to complete the relevant challenges to get at them....

A realm-hopping premise with a whole lot of promise Having spent roughly 90-minutes with the game, I’d say it has strongDark Souls 2energy mixed with a realm-hopping gimmick that’s surprisingly impressive. While it’s definitely too early to make big claims, I could see LOTF as a genuine competitor in the saturated Soulslike arena. Let’s hopscotch through all theSoulslikethings LOTF does. It is a difficult third-person action RPG that you inch through....

A big reduction on one of the best-looking SFF cases. Asus has some of the best industrial designers in the PC space, and that’s normally best appreciated on their laptops and motherboards. However, the Taiwanese company also produces some great PC cases, such as the subject of today’s deals post: the ROG Z11 Mini ITX. This small form factor case comes in a beautiful tower style with impressive front I/O and a tilted motherboard tray that enhances airflow....

StrOGg Gangster Surprising fewbut delighting many, id Software and Bethesda have released aQuake2 remaster to inaugurate this year’s Quakecon. An enhanced edition of the 1997 game, it includes the mission packs The Reckoning and Ground Zero alongside a PC version of Quake 2 on N64. All that for £8 or $10, plus a brand new expansion titled Call of the Machine, developed by Wolfenstein: The New Order studio MachineGames. While not as beloved or enduring as its predecessor or successor, Quake 2 is one of the Grand Old Shooters....

And Todd Howard is being a tease about it I’ve been bolting together some ideas for a longerStarfieldfeature and while plying the sliplanes of Reddit, stumbled onthis conversationabout the game’s handling of time. As many of you will know/be very weary of hearing,Starfieldfeatures hundreds of planets, together with moons and space stations, scattered around the galaxy in different solar systems. Real-life planets, of course, aren’t fixed points: they rotate and orbit their stars at different speeds, depending on their mass and distance, which means that days, nights and seasons have different durations....

Would ‘vintage’ be better? Welcome once again to The Electronic Wireless Show podcast. We’re discussing current things about old things this week, asBayonettaman Hideki Kamiya reveals he’snot super fond of the term ‘retro’when applied to games. We discuss his comments, and what retro even means anyway, as well as what kind of games count as retro. Who even knows? Definitions are a jail, man. James brings good tidings regarding the Steamdeck in two different ways, and has a grim beans metaphor to clarify it, while the what we’re playing section allows for another opportunity to talk aboutBaldur’s Gate 3, which is the thing everyone is talking about (it’s so hot right now)....

Divine art Had you asked me yesterday about the bestBaldur’s Gate 3 class, I might have picked Bard - versatile, swish, a solid support both in and out of combat - but that was before I discovered the ancient and honourable Larian discipline of barrelmancy. As the name suggests, it’s all about doing mildly game-breaking things with barrels, crates and other heavy containers, by taking advantage of high strength, the Throw command, and the fact that LarianRPGcharacters can somehow fit items as big as they are into their inventories, without bursting apart like rotten haggis....

Toke the nitrous Having given retro-styled, cyberpunk FPSTurbo Overkilla Bestest Best badgeback when it first launched in early access, it’s been nice to polish off the chainsaw leg again now it’s hit 1.0 and get back to grinding mutant flesh like I’m Terminator Hawk, Skynet’s latest sports scholar. In this full release, there are now three episodes in total, all with new guns, enemies and the like. There’s also a multiplayer mode and mod support to round things off....

Yes, I know we just had The RPS 100, but our Bestest Best: Reader Edition lists must continue! After a brief hiatus to accommodate important voting head space for this year’sRPS 100, our Bestest Best: Reader Edition lists are back on track. This time, we’re asking you to vote for your favourite RPGs of all time, mostly in celebration of the RPG juggernaut that isBaldur’s Gate 3coming out, but also because RPGs made up practically one third of your aforementioned RPS 100 list....

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 10? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?As my time writing RPSWordleguides draws to a close, I can’t help but look back on my 170-odd total days of composing clues for this simple little word game with some fondness. I will be gone soon, but Wordle will remain constant. Really makes you think. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Publisher Take-Two say “It depends on the vision that the creative teams have” Rockstar’s originalRed Dead Redemptioncan seem rather humble next tothe rootin' tootin' excellence of Red Dead Redemption 2, but it looms larger in my memory, albeit not for the best reasons. The original Xbox 360/PS3 game launched with a tidal wave of bugs, some of them game-ending. One particular collection of technical gremlins trapped me on a farm during the prologue....