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A great option for 1080p gaming in the wake of disappointing next-gen releases. It’s no secret that last-gen graphics cards are getting huge discounts at the moment, as pent-up demand has been sated and next-generation models are starting to be released from both Nvidia and AMD’s lineups. We’ve covered more mid-range models before, but today we have something a bit different: a truly mainstream graphics card that delivers excellent 1080p performance at less than £200, plus nice extras like ray-tracing hardware, FSR 2 image upscaling and a modern media encoder for streaming and recording gameplay....

Includes Dual Destinies and Spirit Of Justice The trilogy of games are the fourth, fifth and sixth in the main Phoenix Wright series, and offer a similar mix of visual novel and puzzle gaming as their predecessors. The key difference is the introduction of a new series protagonist, Apollo Justice, an up-and-coming lawyer to whom Phoenix Wright is a mentor in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. Dual Destinies and Spirit Of Justice feature both as protagonists, while mostly returning the focus to Wright....

Comfortingly familiar Award for theSummer Game Festdemo with the quickest pace goes toAssassin’s Creed: Mirage, the upcoming ‘Creed that promises to take the series back to its stealthier roots. I saw roughly 20 minutes of gameplay in a hands-off presentation, where our boy Basim does some stabbing and somestealthingin what strikes me as a game that’ll honour its promises. When they describe combat as the “backup option”, you know they’re onto something....

I’m blue I may not have seen Avatar or its sequel, but I like to think that means I’m numb to any preconceptions or bias. I am a man who understands only that there are lanky Smurfs who live in a world you’d get if you mashed Halo and Viva Piñata together. So, having seen roughly 30 minutes ofAvatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, I can give you the unfettered lowdown of a person who’s analysed it with a cold, hard stare....

Plus a chunky new gameplay trailer that sure looks like Avatar: Far Cry After several years missing in action, Ubisoft have put a date on their open world first-person Avatar game.Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandorawill arrive on PC on December 7th later this year, tonight’s Ubisoft Forward showcase confirmed, and cor, it sure is cribbing hard on a lot of scenes from the first film, isn’t it? Come have a watch of the new six-minute gameplay trailer below....

Work, work, working on heaven’s door Friends, I have a new obsession. A sparkling dopamine oasis l that I simply cannot tear myself away from for more than a few agonising minutes at a time. Oh,Diablo 4? It’s alright, yeah. Quite fun. But it’s recently taken a backseat to something far more illustrious. His name, the subtitles inform me, is Denysov, and he lives inDiablo IV’s world of Sanctuary. He is a lone man, with a lone hammer, who, despite nightmare and terror unfolding all around him, come hell or harsh splinters, just works on his lovely door all darn day....

WORLD PREMIERE Let me tell you, being at anXbox Games Showcasein-person is quite theexperience. I’d got my pass, got seated in the theatre and finally had a chance to take in my surroundings. There were lots of folks, obviously, either excitedly chatting or awkwardly swivelling their legs to let people pass. Many wore Xbox jerseys. One man had an Xbox logo shaved into his head. A photographer asked our section to smile, so I managed the pained grin of a British person who encounters a stranger on a walk, the bunching of my cheeks pulling my lips into a curl....

Up yours, Blade I gave up on the very last misssion ofMarvel’s Midnight Sunsbecause I found the finale too gruelling, but all you clever eggs who finished it might be interested in today’s update. Along with some fixes and quality of life updates that apply to the whole game, you can now tweak your New Game+ settings to customise what progress you bring into your next stab at Lilith. Want to not be friends with anyone anymore?...

Story time Blizzard may haveabandoned their plansfor a fully-fledgedOverwatch 2PvE mode, but they do still want to tell us some stories. They’ve just announced Overwatch 2: Invasion, a big update that’ll include three story missions, a new PVP game mode, a new Support hero and a handful of hero-specific training missions. It’ll land on August 10th. Watch on YouTube I do think it’s a shame that the team has stepped back from their PvE ambitions, though less because I’m interested in playing and more because I’m up for more shiny cinematics likethe original trailer....

Sure, let’s see someone else do Wurm I can think of a few questions that might entice you into upcoming social sandbox MMOPax Dei. What ifEVE Onlinetook place in medieval europe, except all the fairies the peasants believed in were real? What if you and your pals could make your own village from scratch, spreading then politicking among other settlements and nations? In other words: what if you could playWurm, but prettier?...

Seriously, why has no one thought of this before? I don’t know about you, but the number of times I’ve combed the map of aMetroidvania gamelooking for the next path I can go down, only to discover that, ‘Nope, still can’t go down this road!’ after hauling myself all the there is, simply too many to count. If only there was a way to get my brain to remember which obstacles were where… Happily,Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crownhas an ingenious solution....

Return of the king After itsbig reveal at Summer Game Feston Thursday, the internet has not taken kindly to Ubisoft’s new Prince Of Persia game. There have beenreportsthatThe Lost Crown’s gameplay reveal trailer (which currently sits across five separate YouTube channels) is continuing to rack up significantly higher dislikes than likes since it got announced, and many seem to have taken issue with the trailer’s accompanying rap song and that it doesn’t look like a “true” Prince Of Persia game, whatever the heck that means....

“Only our first”, Arkane say Redfalltook a beating at launch for its bugs, its lackluster AI, and its bare open world. There were swiftapologiesfrom its developers and pledges to improve the experience, a process which started today with the release of Redfall’s 1.1 patch. It offers “incremental improvements” to combat, AI and visuals across the open world vampire shooter, alongside a commitment that there will be more updates to come....