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NFTs are out, over 50 Flash games are back in Neopets, the long-running website that featured virtual pets and Flash games, is under brand new management and they’re planning a nostalgic comeback. Yesterday, the newly established owners, World Of Neopia, published a blog post to unveil what’s next for the ‘00s petsite, after the previous owners saddled the franchise with dumb NFT rubbish and then shut down. “For most of the last decade, The Neopets Team has been under the management of JumpStart Games, which, over time, has struggled to find success for Neopets,” says the team’s recentblog post....

The team shooter will land on Valve’s PC behemoth next month Blizzard is going to offer its digital PC games outside of its Battle.net launcher for the first time, starting next month withOverwatch 2- though you’ll still need to sign in through Battle.net to play. The release ofOverwatch 2on Steam on August 10th will mark the first time that Blizzard has stepped outside of its veteran launcher, which was launched in late 1996 ahead of the firstDiablo....

Good luck running this on a potato After zhuzhing upPortalwith ashiny RTX version last year, Nvidia is at it again. This time, it’s ray-traced the cube-shaped edges ofPortal: Prelude, the fan-made mod that serves as a full-length prequel to Valve’s beloved puzzler. You can go and download Portal: Prelude RTX for free now, as long as you’ve got the hardware to run it. Like Portal RTX, Portal: Prelude RTX was remastered using Nvidia’s RTX Remix tech, which up-rezzed the popular 2008 mod’s textures while adding support for ray-traced lighting and reflections....

System requirements released intentionally this time too It looked like theupcoming PC versionofRatchet & Clank: Rift Aparthad already exhausted its supply of glossy, Windows-exclusive features to show off; we already knew it’s coming withDLSS,DLSS 3,FSR 2and ray traced lighting and shadows. Turns out there’s plenty more, as port developers Nixxes Software have used aSony blog postto detail quite a few new tech toys – including Rift Apart’sMicrosoft DirectStorage1.2 support. DirectStorage is simultaneously one of the most exciting recent developments in gaming hardware, and one of the most underutilised: it basically adapts your PC’s process for reading data from anSSDor hard drive in a way that can massively reduce game loading times, but has so far only made it to prime time inForspoken....

Beats, blood and bullet time arrive in September El Paso, Elsewhere follows perpetually horizontal hero James Savage on a sometimes fast, often slo-mo adventure to slay his ex-girlfriend-slash-vampire-lord Draculae before she conducts some kind of terrible ritual to doom the world. On his trip through a very Max Payney motel in the titular Texan town, James will blast a whole bunch of monsters in his way - including the likes of mummies, werewolves and biblically-accurate angels - often with a pistol in each hand (of course), while necking pills for the pain and launching himself sideways into that familiar bullet time pose....

Lisa: Definitive Edition is out now on PC Lisa: The Painfulhas been described to me asUndertalebefore Undertale. Or Earthbound after Earthbound (so, uh, Mother 3?). In other words, Lisa was a bit of a cult classic thanks to its freaky world, absurd humour, and brutal consequences. And when I say brutal consequences, I mean your party members can permanently lose limbs or turn into mounds of saggy flesh. How’s that for a debuff?...

How Interior/Night turned an idea into an award-winning interactive adventure Plotting the story started with nailing the big tentpole choices, the ones that really make you sweat. These moments could be choosing whether certain characters live or die, for example, and sometimes disagreements within the team at Interior/Night would help them settle on the best options. Desodt jokes that these decisions sparked some big arguments. “Caroline killed off my favourite character, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t think I can work on this anymore,'” she laughs....

AMD’s fastest graphics card at a new low price. AMD’s top-flight graphics card, the RX 7900 XTX, is down to £869 when you buy it on Tech Next Day while using codeTND-10. This is the lowest price we’ve spotted for AMD’s fastest GPU since it launched last year and a great deal for a card that originally retailed for north of £999. This particular model is the Asus Tuf Gaming OC design, which has been well-rated for its thermal efficiency and performance....

Numbers go up! Ah, the 1980s. We all remember them. (Note: I was born in 1992.) Those days where you could just spend the day making it big on the stock market, before heading out into town to bet on horses, try your luck at pachinko and take it easy to a soundtrack of smooth city pop. Well, I’m guessing that’s what it was like anyway - and given how chill retro life stocks-slash-life simSTONKS-9800makes it all seem, I’m happy enough to bathe in virtual nostalgia....

Make the chill space game not-so-chill, if you want Space survival explorathons can usually be pretty stressful affairs since, y’know, breathable air can be a finite resource in these environments, and being chomped up by an indescribable horror is never off the table. That’s whyAstroneerwon me over with its more chilled take on the not-so-chill genre. But for those who enjoy the scary parts of space, Astroneer can now be turned into that hardcore survival experience....

Welcome to Hell Diablo 4’sbig Season 1 patchhit yesterday and the response has been rough. Unsure whether it was justified feedback or just general internet outrage, I’ve combed through the patch notes, absorbed the forum chat, and hopped back into the game itself to get a feel for things as we head into Season 1. The result? Yes, the feedback is very negative, but for understandable reasons, I reckon. Perhaps one of the most significant changes that will impact everyone in Season 1 is thatthe grind is getting worse....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatbreech-loading grenade launchers are better than creating construction blueprints. Ruination over creation. Mayhem over order. Destruction over structure. This week, I ask you to choose between joyous trespass and canny preparation. What’s better: going on the roof, or one in the chamber? I could convince you of the tactical merits of going on the roof. You can see farther, you can scout ahead, you can move unseen, you can drop onto people, it’s a great sniping spot, you’re out of range of melee enemies, you’re out of shadow to collect solar energy, you can navigate by the stars, you can gaze at the stars, you can enjoy the city stretching out before you, you can leap from building to building, you can parkour around a city without getting snared in traffic or cops, and you can gather rainwater....

Stuck on the Wordle word for July 19? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Making it to the middle of the work week can be a blessing, a curse, or even a bit of a shock, depending on how you’re feeling about life in general. Luckily, no matter your existential outlook this week,Wordleis here to give your brain a much-needed few minutes' respite....