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A great choice for PC - and PS5. The WD SN850x is something of a favourite around these parts, capturing our ‘best PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming’ crown, and today it’s also one of the bestvalueSSDs thanks to a heavy discount as part ofAmazon’s Spring Sale. The long and short of it is that this drive hits much the same notes as the Samsung 990 Pro, recording some rec-rd-quick times when it comes to game loads and OS boots, while coming in cheaper than the Samsung option....

Does not appear to feature Cary Elwes though Waking up in a room you don’t recognise with a camera trained on you: the result of a heavy Saturday night, or the opening salvo in an inexplicable kidnapping? InThe Tartarus Key, a PS1-style thriller/puzzle/horror game, it’s definitely the latter. The free demo is out now, and throws you into the first couple of puzzles for the game as Alex, whose last memory is of being at home in her apartment....

Perhaps the best monitor deal we’ve seen in Amazon’s Spring Sale. Normally we expect to pay around £200 for a mid-range gaming monitor, but today you can pick one up for just £149 after a significant discount in Amazon’s Spring Sale. This is a great price for the Samsung Odyssey G3, a 27-in flat VA panel monitor that boasts a 165Hz refresh rate, 1080p resolution and excellent adjustability. The G3 is a strong option at this price point, as it offers a lot of premium-grade features that are left out of ~£150 gaming monitors....

Nearly all of them were made by student dev teams, too Alt.Ctrl.GDC is aregularfixtureat the Game Developers Conference, and this year I spotted some properly incredible creations from its largely student-led group of exhibitors. There was a big focus onco-op gamesand time trial demos in this year’s cohort, with nearly every stand having some sort of whiteboard pinned up that was constantly being scrubbed out with new fastest lap times and corresponding visitor names....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatground pound attacks are better than reloads dumping unspent ammo. 60% against 40%, that one, which is a satisfying outcome. Chunky disagreement but a clear outcome. This week, I ask you to think carefully about two quite different cycles, one repeating and one resuming. What’s better: time loops, or resuming interrupted reloads? Part of what I like so much about roguelikelikes is building my knowledge across runs....

After a year of Epic exclusivty After a year or so spent fighting down the long Epic Games Store corridor in a single continuous take, kung fu brawlerSifuhas finally reached Steam. It also comes bearing a fourth and free expansion which adds an Arenas mode. Arenas mode features 45 new challenges spread across nine locations, completely separate from the existing singleplayer mode. It also adds new modifiers, moves and outfits to the third-person brawler....

Old-timers win After weeks of teases and rumours,Counter-Strike 2invaded the internet to confirm that, yes, it was areal thingand not a figment of the community’s shared imagination. It’s fully launching this summer, and Valve have been holding a limited access test since the pseudo-sequel’s announcement. They’ve been inviting select players based on factors that are important to the dev team, such as trust factor, Steam account standing, and recent playtime on Valve servers....

Plus daily and weekly challenges Company Of Heroes 3had rough beach landing, garnering mostly positive reviews from critics (like us) and mixed-to-negative reviews from players on Steam. Today’s release of its first major update, titled Operation Sapphire Jackal, may help address that disparity given that it promises to fix “hundreds” of bugs in the base game. On the other hand, it also adds cosmetics - both those that can be unlocked for free and via spending real money....

Please, let’s end 90s nostalgia now I was trying to explain the vibe ofCrime Boss: Rockay City- a new Payday-like whose main USP is it’s full of aging 90s-era-ish stars whose unifying trait is that they should not have been hired to do voice work for this game - to Graham as I was playing over the weekend. “You know how police procedurals all have at least one episode that’s about gamers, so they have to make up a game for it?...

Available to all Standard Edition owners for a limited time From now until May 8th, Square Enix are giving awayFinal Fantasy 14’sStormblood expansion for free to all new and existing owners of the MMORPG’s Standard Edition. The offer ends at 7am PDT/ 3pm BST, so you still have over a month to grab and keep the second expansion on Steam, the PlayStation store, or any other storefront that’s participating in the promotion....

Come chat with us in real-time about Hi-Fi Rush on March 30th Come one, come all to our very firstRPS Game Clubliveblog session about this month’s chosen pick,Hi-Fi Rush. We’ll be piling into a liveblog onThursday March 30th at 4pm BST (that’s 8am PDT / 11am EDT), so please do come and join us to talk about what you loved most about Tango Gameworks' infectious rhythm action brawler. We’ll be chatting about our favourite moments, best characters, the backing track that made us most feel like we’re 100 years old, and maybe even what kind of robotic implantwe’dbe signing ourselves up for if we were second in line behind Chai and his broken arm....

Balsa Model Flight Sim is now Kitbash Model Club Balsa Model Flight Simulatorlaunched into Steam Early Access last year, to positive reviews and few sales. It is, like its developer’s previous gameKerbal Space Program, about building a machine designed to fly, crashing it back to earth, then constructing something better. Now its developer has announced they’re doing something similar with the game itself. Balsa Model Flight Sim will relaunch later this year with a new name,Kitbash Model Club, a more ambitious physics construction sandbox, and a plan to release as a complete game rather than into early access....

It’s also waving goodbye to storefronts in April MultiVersus, and its premium currency Gleamium, will be removed from digital storefronts on April 4th, although if you’ve installed the fighter before then, you’ll be able to re-download it after that date and after online services sunset in June. Season 2 is also being extended until that June 25th date, letting you grind through the latest battle pass and complete daily missions....