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Still not entirely ship-shape, though The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Editionlaunched to entirely deserved incredulity over itsdire performance problems, PC version included. Low framerates, stuttering, lighting glitches, texture popping, wonky shaders… if you could think of a technical woe, it was probably already undermining this remaster’s efforts to rework and enhance the originalRPG’s visuals. Publishers Private Division have since promised a series of updates to get the Spacer’s Choice Edition up to code, with the first of these –v1....

A handy 27% discount on a fast 5150MB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD. The WD Black SN770 is one of the best value PCIe 4.0 SSDs on the market, offering high speeds - up to 5150MB/s reads and 4900MB/s writes - while also being surprisingly cheap. It normally costs around £90 for a 1TB unit, but now you can pick one up from Amazon UK for only £65.58, a 27% discount that brings it down to just 6....

Ghostwriter’s the name Ubisoft revealed Ghostwriter yesterday, marketed as an AI development tool (really just machine learning) that generates first drafts of NPC barks, which are the offhand remarks you might hear when running past NPCs.Skyrim’s“I used to be an adventurer like you” is probably the most famous example of a bark. Ubisoft Ghostwriter has been met with passionately negative responses from some narrative designers, while others have been arguing for its use cases....

“In order to run our business sustainably.” After laying off more than 18,000 people in January, Amazon is shrinking its workforce again, this time by cutting 9,000 jobs in their cloud service, human resources, and advertising divisions. A further 400 Twitch employees will be affected, according to abrief memofrom Twitch’s new CEO Dan Clancy. Polygon reportsthat Twitch employees have no idea who’s being impacted, and they won’t learn until “no later than early next week,” according to an email sent by Clancy to all staff, and which Polygon had read....

It’s less lonely out there At the time, Hofmeier said he no longer wanted to maintain and update the game, and thought it was unfair to charge people for a game with unresolved bugs. In a recent interview withWired, however, Hofmeier elaborates on his reasons a little more. “The most interesting art, to me, comes from outsiders,” he says. “I was a little bit scared of becoming an insider myself.” Hofmeier released a couple of games - likeType Dreams- in the years that followed, but he eventually left the industry for a while....

Online modes will end in December Of the three, only Bad Company 2 was released on PC, which is fine because it was the best one. EA announced the newsvia the Battlefield site, taking a moment to reflect on each game. And they do mean “a moment”, given that they’ve written just a scant few sentences describing each game, like I do when I round out a news story by paraphrasing from a Wikipedia article about a game I’ve never played....

With $40 million of investment EVE Onlinedevelopers CCP Games are working on a new game set within the EVE universe. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it will use blockchain technology, after CCP received $40 million (around £32.7 million) from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The project, which is calledProject Awakening, will “leverage smart-contract blockchain technology, focusing on persistence, composability and truly open third-party development to create a new relationship between virtual worlds and players....

Worth it for the Joe Hisaishi score alone As of today,Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdomand all its DLC are available via Xbox Game Pass. Level-5’s JRPG is set long after the events of the first game, has a new cast of characters, changes up combat a lot, and adds a sizeable kingdom management element to the game. I know people who like it and people who hate it, which in itself makes it interesting....

An incredibly low price for a 7000MB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD made by SK Hynix. When it comes to SSDs, the brands we probably think about most often are WD, Samsung, Crucial and Kioxia, each of which creates their own flash memory. However, we’re missing thefifth place NAND flash memory manufacturer, another brand that creates their own flash memory and controllers: SK Hynix, or as their consumer brand is labelled, Solidigm (meant to rhyme with paradigm for some reason)....

If you don’t need RGB, this is the DDR5 RAM deal to beat. High speed, low latency DDR5 RAM continues to drop in price, and now it’s possible to pick up a high-speed 32GB kit of DDR5-6000 CL36 for just £120, as Corsair’s Vengeance dual-channel kit is down to £119.99 at Amazon UK. This is less than half the price that this DDR5 kit launched at in October last year, especially given that the RAM still cost £173 in February!...

What’s the most useful fauna in Tchia? Looking for all the animals in Tchia?Awaceb’s delightful New Caledonia-inspired open-world adventure game places you in the role of the titularTchia- a 12-year-old girl with the ability to “Soul Jump” into any object or animal she desires and inherit their abilities and traits for a short time. The devs have filled their gorgeous world with 38 different species of animal, many of which have their own unique abilities that you can use to your advantage....

Grab your sunnies After playing a short snippet ofTchiaback in January for apreview, I had complete faith that developers Awaceb would deliver on their promises for their open-world adventure. Tchia’s island is a marvel to behold. Not only is it gorgeous, but it’s bursting with things to do: sailing, climbing, totem carving, gliding, pearl diving, sharpshooting, tree hopping, treasure hunting - the list goes on and on. Not only that, but there’s a 10-hour story to follow, quests to complete, and baddies to tussle with....

Hunt down every last Treasure Chest in Tchia Are you stuck trying to find one of the many Treasure Chests in Tchia?A short way into the story of Awaceb’s delightful open-world adventure gameTchia, Gaby will give you a treasure map and an old key. Oh goody, a side-quest, you may think - not realising that the next several hours are likely to be spent trying to track down every last one of the whopping 21 Treasure Chests hidden about the land ofTchia....