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Perfect for builders, peaceful strollers, and hardcore survivors As one of the verybest survival gameson PC (according to usandRPS readers),Valheimis getting even more ways to play around in its Norse sandbox. Developer Jonathan Smårs took to Twitter yesterday to tease a bunch of difficulty presets and customisable sliders, letting you modify the Viking experience to your liking. The options include both a creative mode (a là Minecraft) and a more ‘immersive’ option....

That’s 5p per gigabyte for one of the biggest available SSDs. The Samsung 870 Qvo is one of the best large-capacity SATA SSDs, offering up to 8TB of storage in a classic 2.5-inch form factor. It normally retails for around £452, but now it’s 10% off, bringing it to the lowest price we’ve seen on Amazon UK: £408. That’s a great price for a tonne of game and media storage....

Juggling the wholesome life sims Fans have likely spent endless seasons in the comfort ofStardew Valley, and now the chill life sim is getting even bigger. Stardew Valley’s creator Eric Barone (otherwise known as ConcernedApe) is “taking a break” from working on his highly-anticipatedHaunted Chocolatier. Barone will instead work on Stardew Valley’s upcoming 1.6 update, which focuses on improvements for modders, alongside some new content as well. “There is going to be a Stardew 1....

The trip to Hell-A finally begins this week Looking for the Dead Island 2 release date?After nine, count ‘em, NINE years since the initial reveal,Dead Island 2is finally almost here. Shifting from the island of Banoi to the streets of LA,Dead Island 2puts you back in control of a kickass zombie slayer who must hack and slash their way through the undead hordes. If you’re counting down the days until you can split zombie skulls in Hell-A, then you’re in the right place....

Dark And Darker was pulled from Steam last month Publisher Nexon have filed a lawsuit against Ironmace Games, the developers behind the multiplayer looterDark And Darker, accusing the studio and two individual developers of copyright infringement. The two Korean companies recently went public with their dispute, but now their beef has extended to the US legal system where Nexon is demanding a trial by jury. YouTuber Onepeg - who has been actively following the extraction looter - paid for the lawsuit’s documents and uploaded a30-minute videodelving into the text....

Take a bite, for free When I think of quintessentially British games, a few highlights come to mind.Fable’s fairytale world of stocky goblins and poverty-stricken orphans with Victorian-era voices is definitely very British, as is Banjo-Kazooie’s dry wit and sarcasm. A decent bucket of contenders, but the crown has to go to theGreggs Simulator, afreeshop sim that tasks you with managing a Greggs pasty shop that’s a staple of every UK high street....

£630 makes this only a shade more than the brand new RTX 4070 12GB. We recently covered the RX 6950 XThitting a new low price point in the USin the wake of the RTX 4070’s release - and thankfully UK buyers have an even better deal available. The ultra-fancy Sapphire Nitro+ OC model of the RX 6950 XT is now selling for £630, making it just £30 more expensive than Nvidia’s latest graphics cards - a great deal if you look at specs like rasterised performance (where 6950 XT is around 20% faster) and VRAM allocation (where 6950 XT has 16GB compared to 12GB on the 4070)....

Next-gen interface unlocks blazing transfer speeds, but games won’t always benefit However, the latterarecoming soon, and I’ve been testing out an engineering sample of the Crucial T700 to see how PCIe 5.0 – also known as PCIe Gen5 – drives could perform in an honest-to-goodness gaming PC. The short version: with maximum read and write speeds that tower over the current generation’sbest SSDs, albeit with less impact on game load times than such explosive pace would suggest....

Let me tell you how to play Ultima 0 1979’s Akalabeth: World Of Doom, eventually renamedUltima0, is the first commercial game by Richard Garriott (himself aka’d Lord British), and one of the very first roleplaying video games to enter the market. It’s also a precursor to Garriott’sUltimaseries, introducing many elements that formed the core of the following games. But everything that Akalabeth invented would eventually be abandoned, first by its sequels and then the entire RPG genre....

PlayStation’s overdue answer to Halo Wonky launch woes aside,The Last Of Us Part 1’sPC release is a net positive. A new audience can now experience one of PlayStation’s best exclusives, but even better, modders can get their hands on Joel and Ellie’s trek, rejigging a familiar story in new ways. There aren’t too many exciting ones available to download just yet, but one “in-progress” mod reimagines the game in first-person, and it’s stunning....

Left out in the rain I honestly thought I was good at detective games until I started playing the early access build forShadows of Doubt. I mean, I’ve riddled throughThe Case Of The Golden Idol’s intuitive fill-the-blanks whodunnits, wrestled withReturn Of The Obra Dinn’s sixty missing persons, grappled with the mysteries of the very gods themselves inParadise Killer, and don’t get me started onDanganronpa’s ridiculous mind-bending, patience-testing murder mysteries. That being said, ColePowered Games' detective immersive sim has really left me stumped, forcing me to hang my deer stalker on a hat peg in shame and sling my detective’s notebook out a window....

The next game from the Witcher Remake and Seven: The Days Long Gone devs When The Witcher Remake devs Fool’s Theory and 11 bit studios announced their new RPGThe Thaumaturgeat the very end of February, I’ll admit that the premise didn’t immediately grab me. Theannouncement trailerwas little more than an enigmatic pan through the streets of historic Warsaw, and its climactic reveal of a shadowy man performing some Naruto finger magic to conjure a Soulsian monster from the gloom made it seem like yet another supernatural yarn in the vein of Frogwares’The Sinking Cityand Cyanide’sCall Of Cthulhu....

Out in early access now Occasionally I wonder if the market for wholesome town builders has reached saturation, but then a trailer pops up for another one and I’m never less than intrigued. The latest isFabledom, which promises the pastoral fields and castle wall construction I adore, then adds a twist by being set within a fairytale kingdom. It’s in early access now. Here’s the launch trailer: The FabledomSteam pagedescribes it as a “laid back city builder” set in a “wholesome fairytale world....