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Damn it, will a cool shape lure me back to the grind? Mere hours after I said “even a return to Titancan’t bring me back toDestiny 2,” Bungie showed something that might just do it: a really big, weird triangle. During last night’s PlayStation Showcase, they revealed a teaser trailer for The Final Shape, the upcoming expansion which will end the MMOFPS’s decade-long main story arc, and a very good big triangle is involved....

My preciouSS I didn’t get as deep intoThe Lord of the Rings: Gollumas ourreviewistRachel, but I do share her view that it is not A Good Game. In fact, I’ve had about as much fun with it as I would on a spa day in the Barad-dûr sulfur pits. Between the soulless platforming, undercooked stealth, tedious storytelling, and framerate stuttering so bad it’s got me killed twice, Gollum is perilously short on likeable qualities....

A modern take on the classic RTS, say Frontier After publishing theexcellent Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunterslast year, Frontier Developments are now making their own Warhammerstrategy gamein the form ofAge Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin. Developed internally at Frontier, it promises to be a modern take on the classic RTS, giving you four unique factions to play with, including the Stormcast Eternals and Orruk Kruleboyz, across a single player campaign and 1v1 and 2v2 competitive multiplayer modes....

This game is going to make me cry, isn’t it? I’m a sucker for any game with a gorgeous art style, so guess which announcement caught my eye at last night’sPlayStation Showcase.Nevais a new puzzle platformer from the creators ofGristhat tells the story of a red-capped swordswoman named Alba and her faithful wolf pup as they “embark on a perilous journey through a once beautiful world as it slowly decays around them....

And what to do when you see “Item Locked” on a 4-star or 5-star Light Cone How do I unlock 4-star Light Cones to Superimpose in Honkai: Star Rail?While every character inHonkai: Star Railcarries a unique cosmetic weapon that they wield impressively as part of their combat animations, Light Cones are theactualweapons in the game from a mechanical perspective. These are the items that you, the player, can equip to a character to influence their combat stats and buffs, and therefore it’s Light Cones you need to think about when putting together a character build....

An incredible price for a graphics card that continues to improve with age. Both Nvidia and AMD’s latest graphics card releases, the RTX 7600 and RTX 4060 Ti, have crashed and burned - so who’s going to actually make a well-priced GPU? If you had Intel on your bingo cards, congrulations - their Arc A750 8GB graphics card is down to £230.98 on Amazon UK, marking a £20 price drop that brings this option way below the £300 RTX 3060 that it comprehensively beats....

I’m still in a dream Along withconfirming a shiny remake of Metal Gear Solid 3at last night’s PlayStation Showcase, Konami announced a collection of ye olde Metal Gears Solid 1-3. These sound like straightforward rereleases of the classic stealth games and I’m cool with that because I am deeply wary of Konami touchingMetal Gearat all. I just want Snake Eater on PC at long last. Konami are vague about platforms, but I’m expecting/hoping we’ll see this collection on PC?...

Speed Freeks crashes onto PC with a F2P alpha today Warhammer’s Orks are the main stars of Speed Freeks, and their scrappy battles in suped up trucks, bikes and cars look like good, chaotic fun. There will be a total of seven classes to pick from in the final game, including some very literal tanks, support wagons and simple ‘damage’ vehicles, and each one will come with their own abilities....

And lightning fast combat I see a game that looks anything remotely Soulslikey and I perk up, it’s like a fight or flight response only I’m not fighting or flying, I’m just staring at a video game trailer in some sweatpants with my fingers curled into a Cadbury’s Milk Tray. Hence whyPhantom Blade Zerohas perked me up to no end, as it’s an action RPG announced at last night’sPlayStation Showcasewhich marries Chinese martial arts with a steampunk aesthetic....

Five of them were announced at yesterday’s PlayStation Showcase, and that’s five too many Not only were they great in number, but none of them felt - as much as CG trailerscanfeel - in any way new and exciting. One, even, was a soulless Splatoon rip-off, while another has managed to arrive on exactly the same idea as Sega’s Hyenas several years too late. A third, still, looked like the blinged up lovechild of Watch_Dogs and the baffingly bad Rockay City....

Ubisoft say we shouldn’t expect more news this year “In terms of the development stage, we’re in conception right now,” said the game’s producer Jean-Francois Naud in aUbisoft news blog. “Now, we’re building up the team, defining the priorities, putting porotypes together, testing elements, and looking at how we can include community feedback in the development as well.” Naud continued to say that the remake is in an “early stage” and that we shouldn’t expect more news for the rest of the year....

Look familiar? The trailer is a sight to behold. The sand-surfing looks incredibly fluid and the possibility of pulling off an epic flip while launching your hoverboard off some gorgeous ancient architecture holds massive appeal. Together with that giant monster tease at the end of the trailer, expect some run-ins with giant leviathans. Giant Squid’s creative director is Matt Nava, who was also the art director on Journey, so that explains all the beautifully rendered sand....

That’s £30 cheaper than it cost earlier this month and a historic low price. Wow, this is a good one. The 1TB WD SN850x, our bestPCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming, is down to £64.99 at Amazon UK - after costing £95 earlier this month! This is by far the cheapest price we’ve ever seen for this model and an incredible deal for the level of performance it provides. The SN850x sits alongside the Samsung 990 Pro as the fastest gaming SSD on the market right now, even beating out early PCIe 5....