Prime Day cuts the speedy SanDisk Ultra 1TB microSD card down to just £85

Perfect for the Steam Deck As far asSteam Deck-compatible microSD cardsgo, the SanDisk Ultra line is already one of the best for balancing value with speed. Now, thanks toAmazon Prime Day, the 1TB model is an even better match for Valve’s handheld PC – though you’ll need to be quick to grab one at just £85. It’s one of Amazon UK’s Lightning Deals, you see, so that price could climb back up at any minute....

July 12, 2023 · 2 min · 224 words · Aaron Henry

Prime Day puts heavy savings on the Logitech G915 Lightspeed Wireless family

The best wireless gaming keyboard, and its tenkeyless version, get a discountin’ Despite it being several years old, there’s still no clear successor to theLogitech G915 Lightspeed Wirelessas the king of cable-freegaming keyboards. The build quality, the feel of the mechanical switches, the complete lack of tangible latency… it’s all justlovely. Historically, its high price has been the sole sore spot, but at least it’s joining inAmazon Prime Daywith big savings on both the full size and more compact tenkeyless versions....

July 12, 2023 · 2 min · 238 words · Brian Wade

Save 25% on the comfy, unnervingly long-lasting HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless Headset on Prime Day

After theLogitech G432 dealfrom earlier, let us now consider a more premium option in theAmazon Prime Daysales: namely, the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless. It’s 25% off in both the UK and US, and in the former’s case, doesn’t even need the usual Prime membership; it just happens to have dropped its price on the final day of Amazon’s big event. No complaints here, of course. The Cloud Alpha Wireless might be expensive ordinarily, but it’s a crackinggaming headset, and the one I use everyday to play games/take meetings/record theEWS podcast/listen to electroswing without my neighbours hearing....

July 12, 2023 · 1 min · 193 words · Kathleen Wade

The Banished Vault's giant space cathedral will be lifting off on July 25th

A new strategy management game from the designer of Sun Dogs The next game fromSun Dogsdesigner Nic Tringali ticks a lot of boxes for me. Like Alice0 wrote whenThe Banished Vaultwas first announced seven months ago, the idea of exploring space in “an interstellar gothic monastery” is obviously aninstant yes, but I’m also drawn to its neat, grid-like maps of its procedurally generated solar systems, as well as the haunting monochrome portraits of your band of exiled survivors....

July 12, 2023 · 4 min · 742 words · Edward Watson

The Logitech G502 Hero, that gaming mouse we all like, is only £29 for Prime Day

July 12, 2023 · 0 min · 0 words · Michael Jackson

There’s a new weirdest way to play Doom: using rat neurons grown in a jar

It’ll be hard to top this, honestly. Teletext.Notepad.Twitter. Atractor. Apregnancy test. There have been few limits to the weird and wonderful ways that enterprisingDoomfans have found to play the seminalFPSover the last 30 years, but this latest one might take the crown for both weirdest and wonderful-est. Someone is teaching a bunch of lab-grown rat neurons to play Doom. Yes, their literal conscious existence is Doom. I told you it was weird....

July 12, 2023 · 3 min · 558 words · Adam Moore

This MSI gaming laptop with an RTX 4070 is just £1140 for Prime Day

Cutting edge at cut pricing Despite the mobile versions of Nvidia’s RTX 40 seriesgraphics cardslaunching months ago, it’s been surprisingly challenging to find compelling gaming laptops with these new GPUs inside – and even harder to find them with discounts. Luckily, this MSI Katana 15 has found its way into theAmazon Prime Daysales, offering an RTX 4070 at below market rates. It’s dropped from £1499 to £1140, a saving of 24%....

July 12, 2023 · 2 min · 216 words · Angela Russell

Vampire Survivors makes its full leap to a new engine next month, bringing better performance and stability

Sink your teeth into that. Vampire Survivorsis getting an engine upgrade! Don’t expect any fancy ray-traced textures likeMinecraftorCyberpunk, but the upcoming switchover for the addictiveBest Game of Last Yearwill bring with it some very welcome improvements to performance and stability when it lands next month. We’ve known that Vampire Survivors devs Poncle have been working on a Unity version of thefangtastic PC gamefor a while now, having already released its Xbox and mobile ports on the popular engine and announcing plans to bring over the PC original late last year....

July 12, 2023 · 2 min · 403 words · Danielle Thomas

What's better: Breech-loading grenade launchers, or creating construction blueprints?

Vote now! Kicking the door in to return after a wee break, I am delighted to discover that last time, you decideddoor violence is better than tagging locations for teamies. Sure, tagging is practical, it’s helpful, it’s kind, but can it really solve problems that wouldn’t be solved by slamming a door into someone’s face? Of course not. This week, I ask you to pick between risky destruction and precise construction....

July 12, 2023 · 4 min · 790 words · Ryan Deleon

Wordle hints and answer (#753): How to solve the Wednesday July 12 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for July 12? Read our hint or find the answer below! 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? 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....

July 12, 2023 · 7 min · 1294 words · Amanda Gould

Worldless is a gorgeous Metroid-like platformer with a turn-based twist

Try its demo for yourself now In the ever-heaving genre that is cool-looking Metroid-likes, it’s always a delight to see one that’s doing something new and surprising.Worldless, which was revealed atlast night’s ID@Xbox Showcase, is one such Metroidy platformer that’s hoping to shake things up with its rhythmic, turn-based battling. I had a sneak peak at its freshly releasedSteam demoback in March at GDC, and I came away impressed by both its abstract visuals and fluid, dance-like scraps with its angular enemies....

July 12, 2023 · 3 min · 597 words · Margaret King

Baldur's Gate 3 is about choices, but when the Dark Urge takes over you can only react

Our final impressions ahead of its full 1.0 release Larian Studios are nothing if not enablers of wild, unspoken desires. InDivinity: Original SinII, they provided the impossible - making each companion character a playable protagonist, and weaving their unique plotlines into the tapestry of the main story. It was one of theRPG’s great innovations - handing you a killer backstory, a tangible motivation, and a set of prompts for how you might go about roleplaying your exiled lizard prince or demon-possessed musician....

July 11, 2023 · 6 min · 1120 words · Maureen Callahan

Cities: Skylines 2's zoning tools allow you to mix architectural styles and zone types

Live above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley When you create a city in Cities: Skylines 2, you can choose either “North American” or “European” as a theme that determines the look of buildings, street markings, roadside vehicles and so on. You can also choose either of these as an architectural theme on a zone-by-zone basis, however, so you can have a European city that contains some North American buildings or vice versa....

July 11, 2023 · 2 min · 335 words · Susan Ramos