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Lighten up Immortals Of Aveumis EA and Ascendant Studio’s upcoming first-person shooter where, instead of propelling metal at high speeds, you’re slinging magic with your hands. We got another good look at said magic slinging at this year’sSummer Game Fest, which has seemingly resulted in several reports of it being like a wizardyCall Of Duty. But having played a 30 minute demo of it this week, I reckon it’s nothing like COD at all, really....

Like Goro Majima, they’re losing an i Fresh info on Intel Meteor Lake, the blue team’s upcoming 14th GenCPUfamily, has arrived from an unlikely yet still very official source. See, Intel haven’t revealed the chips themselves, but have announced a rebranding for future Core processors – one that will start taking effect with Meteor Lake. And, in doing so, they’ve let slip some details on the new range’s design and capabilities....

Lies of B, more like Lies Of Pisn’t even out yet, but a group of modders have already tried turning theSoulslikeintoBloodborne. The mod comes fromGarden of Eyes, a YouTube channel and group of modders that typically work on FromSoftware titles (they’re the ones that made thatlong COVID mod for Elden Ring). Yesterday, though, they showed off a mod forLies of Pthat lets you turn the game’s Timothy Chalamet-looking twink into a hunter from Bloodborne....

Down from a regular price of $160. Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight gaming mouse is perhaps the most popular mouse in esports, offering reliable wireless, a superb lightweight design and high-end components throughout. The G Pro X Superlight is probably overkill for most people, as you can get something like the original G Pro, the HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 Wireless or the SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless for significantly less money that ticks the same basic boxes - lightweight, reliable wireless, decent shape....

Property intellectualised It looks likeBulletstormandOutridersdeveloper People Can Fly are working on a Microsoft IP, but no one knows which one just yet. This comes from People Can Fly themselves via a statement provided toPolish financial site Interia Biznes, where the studio shared that the game currently has the title Project Maverick (viaEurogamer). All of the funding is coming from Microsoft, with a budget ranging from $30-50m. There’s no indication as to what IP Microsoft own that People Can Fly might be working on (it obviously won’t be something like Fable, Forza studio Playground Games arehandling that one)....

Mission impossifle Much as I adored Theme Park, it’s a bit of a weird game to have inspired so many descendants. The latest isPark Beyond, and for the most part it’s exactly what you’d expect. Build rides to attract crowds, shops to fill their stupid mouths, doctors to treat the vomitous and cleaners when the doctors were too late. Punters pay to use any ride, they pay for entry, for toilets and cash machines, and for every item you price in every shop....

Lost Crown director tells me how nervous he was first showing it to series creator I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it several times again. I’m exceedingly pumped forPrince Of Persia: The Lost Crown- and so is Prince Of Persia creator, Jordan Mechner. When I visited Ubisoft Montpellier at the end of May, one of things game director Mounir Radi told me about during my visit was how relieved he felt after showing Mechner a very early prototype....

Each to their own At every single video game thing I’ve flown out to, there’s been a Sonic game. The speedy hog is forever occupying a booth and starring in some new-fangled thing, which oscillates between a 2D sidescroller laser-targeted at old-school fans, or 3D ones like Frontiers that try their utmost to push the series forwards. So, I’ve gone and playedanotherSonic haven’t I? This time I spent around 15-minutes withSonic Superstarsat this year’sSummer Game Fest, a new 2....

Note to self: take notes The latest update for Steam is here, bringing with it a number of quality of life changes and a slightly updated look. Valve announced the desktop updateback in April, where the new version has been in beta for some Steam users to try out. InValve’s postfrom yesterday announcing the update is available for all, it did note that the “most impactful changes in this update aren’t immediately visible,” as a lot of the work put into the update was today with how it “[shares] code across the Steam Desktop Client, Big Picture mode, and Steam Deck....

It’s like Minecraft with even smaller blocks Last week Tuxedo Labs unveiled their snazzy-looking Creative Mode inTeardown, and it’s available for you to play right now. The new mode joins the game as part of its 1.4 update, and looks to be all about what it says on the tin - being creative! Essentially, the big thing it lets you do is build your own unique voxel structures by, essentially, painting them in the air....

Also the best dwarf games, apparently Summer Game Fest, Not-E3, Keigh3… whatever you want to call this festival of hype, its annual takeover of the game industry’s collective headspace meant there was only ever going to be one topic for the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastthis week. Alice even made up for her recording absence by pre-emptively tying Nate to a chair and forcibly making him watch trailers, like that bit in A Clockwork Orange but with “WORLD EXCLUSIVE” flashing up every thirty seconds....

Fallow the leader There are old games that are plain too hard to get into now, even I have to concede. Ancient ruins of a house to be admired and contemplated, but not fit to live in. The ceilings are too low, the stairs too narrow, the pipes an afterthought.Jagged Alliance 2isn’t that far gone, but it’s getting there. It gives lots of options for fine control but using them is largely gated behind esoteric, repetitive keyboard shortcuts, which get doubly cumbersome during its awkward transitional moments between real and turn-based movement....

To get this deal, you’ll need to tick the box on the Amazon product page to get a 7% discount, then use the codeSH4KDU9Zto unlock an extra discount. In terms of raw specs, the Q4 impresses - with up to 5000MB/s sequential reads and 750K IOPS random reads. Writes are a little less impressive at 3200MB/s sequential and 480K IOPS random due to the QLC NAND used, with no DRAM cache to be found, but having used the full-size drive for years in my PlayStation 5 I’m happy to recommend this pint-sized version for Steam Deck too....