Samsung's 980 Pro Heatsink 1TB is down to £92 after a 36% price drop

The former flagship still offers excellent PCIe 4.0 performance. Samsung’s high-end 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD has dropped in price on Amazon UK, and now costs £91.82 for a 1TB model with preinstalled heatsink rather than the £125+ it normally costs. This is an awesome price for one of thefastest SSDs on the market, with the advent of theeven faster(but significantly more expensive) 990 Pro pushing the previous flagship to nearly bargain basement territory....

February 21, 2023 · 2 min · 230 words · Cassandra Shah

Sons Of The Forest shows off multiplayer and slimy mutants ahead of its early access release

The survival sequel is coming out this week Survival sequelSons Of The Forestis only a few days away as it launches into early access on February 23rd, and the team is celebrating with a final pre-release trailer, exposing us to some nasty sights. Sons Of The Forest was originally going to launch into a full 1.0 release this month, but the team ultimatelydecided on an early accessrelease since it worked so well for the game’s predecessorThe Forest....

February 21, 2023 · 2 min · 318 words · Brandon Patterson

Soul Hackers 2 and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty included in the next batch of Game Pass additions

Cars, Tetris, and anime demons! Here are the next batch of Game Pass titles: This is my first time hearing ofMerge & Blade, not to be confused withMount & Bladewhich is also on Game Pass. Merge & Blade is a hybrid between puzzle games and auto-battlers. Rounds will start with a Tetris-like mini-game, but instead of shapes, you’re guiding different unit types and merging them together. You then use your completed party to raid castles and kill monsters....

February 21, 2023 · 2 min · 311 words · Thomas Johnson

The production company behind M3GAN and Get Out are going to publish horror games

Blumhouse Games is a new initiative for the company You’ve likely seen Blumhouse’s logo in front of horror films like Halloween and Get Out, and now you’re going to see that blue-tinged dirty wall at the start of some horror games. The film production company is launching Blumhouse Games, a division that will fund, publish, and produce horror games primarily by indie devs. The company say they’re looking for “original” content, so don’t expect any M3GAN spin-offs for a while....

February 21, 2023 · 2 min · 282 words · Terri Frazier

This compact wireless keyboard is the perfect Steam Deck or media center PC companion

Logitech’s K400 Plus is a stone cold classic, available at £25 after a £20 discount. Logitech make some great keyboards and mice, and now you can get their K400 Plus wireless keyboard/trackpad combo for £25. That’s £20 less than its normal price, and a great value for one of the most convenient peripherals for Steam Deck, media PCs, Raspberry Pis and other systems that occasionally need keyboard/mouse input but don’t require a full keyboard and mouse setup....

February 21, 2023 · 2 min · 243 words · Travis Sanchez

What order should you play the Yakuza games?

Follow along with our very own LAD bible WithYakuzagames (orLike A Dragon, as it’s now known) on the rise here in the West, I see more and more people ask the question:“What order should I play the Yakuza games in?”. Not only does it warm my heart, it also gets to me. To experience the series in the richest way possible, there’s an obvious answer. But if you’re someone who hasn’t got all the time in the world, or you’re a bit unsure whetherYakuzais the right fit for you, then there’s another way in....

February 21, 2023 · 11 min · 2181 words · John Moore

Wild Hearts Hunter's Arm: How do you use it?

Here’s why you should be using the Hunter’s Arm in Wild Hearts How do you use the Hunter’s Arm in Wild Hearts?The Hunter’s Arm is an attack that you can use at specific moments during a boss fight in monster-huntingRPGWild Hearts, and it’s a very powerful one. If you’re not yet using it in your fights, consider this guide a good starting point. Below we’ll walk you through what the Hunter’s Arm actually does in Wild Hearts, and how to use it to gain a real advantage in a fight against any Giant Kemono, from the lowly Ragetail to the mighty Amaterasu and beyond....

February 21, 2023 · 3 min · 552 words · Robert Collins

Wild Hearts Ore locations: Where to find Ore

Here’s the easiest, fastest way to get Ore in Wild Hearts Looking for Ore in Wild Hearts?If you want to have a chance at toppling the strongest Kemono inWild Hearts, then a lot of your time will need to be spent upgrading your gear. Weapons and Armour can be crafted and upgraded using a great many materials, one of which is Ore - a seemingly common but surprisingly annoying mineral to try and collect in bulk....

February 21, 2023 · 3 min · 540 words · Michael Simpson

Wild Hearts patch aims to fix performance issues

Although maybe only for some Wild Heartsis apparently a pretty good lower-case monster hunter game, albeit one with somesubstantial performance issuesits developers pledged to fix. Maybe now they have: a performance patch was released earlier today, promising to address frame rates, unintentionally capped high-end CPUs, and more. The patch wasdetailed in a Reddit postby a Wild Hearts developer. Aside from CPU caps and frame rate fixes, it also addresses an “audio stacking” bug that was causing performance issues; changes the default resolution; fixes a rendering issue when using an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX; and fixes an issue that could lead to corrupted save data....

February 21, 2023 · 2 min · 245 words · Christopher Williams

Wordle hint and answer (#612): How to solve the Tuesday February 21 Wordle today

Stuck on the Wordle word for Feb 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?I spend a lot of time thinking aboutWordle’s popularity, but what I’ve only just started to appreciate is how ephemeral a Wordle puzzle is. 24 hours and done, for good, onto the next one. So, if you want to work out today’s Wordle solution, there’s almost never a better time than the present....

February 21, 2023 · 6 min · 1238 words · Stephanie Jones

After a year of tech issues, Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers is getting a performance patch

Square Enix are fixing the port’s botched frame rate After being stranded on the original Playstation for two decades, the time-travelling sequelChrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Editionfinally made its way to PC last year. It should’ve been cause for celebration as the classic Square JRPG had never seen a European release, but technical woes plagued the modern port and dampened the party. Now a year after launch, Square is updating Radical Dreamers with a “wide range of changes” later this month....

February 20, 2023 · 2 min · 297 words · Holly Burgess

Atomic Heart review: a mad science experiment that yields mixed results

Yammer and sickle I’ve played a lot of strange games, but never one that lurches between greatness and bafflement as hard or as fast asAtomic Heart. It’s a fascinatingly chaotic medley of ideas, and a rareFPSthat lacks even the slightest whiff of battle pass-peddling live serfdom, but those ideas so often fail to gel that it can feel like a game made by several different dev teams. For a shooter set within an alternate history Soviet Union, it could perhaps have used some more central planning....

February 20, 2023 · 11 min · 2147 words · Mark Morse

Atomic Heart, ray tracing poster child, won’t support ray tracing for PC on launch

Heavily promoted feature is coming post-release I noticed the lack of ray tracing options in the review build we received last week, and got in touch with the game’s press relations team to check if I was missing something, or if they were due to be added via update. The response confirmed that their absence was not an error, and that “the devs will be looking into implementing this post-launch.” Well then!...

February 20, 2023 · 2 min · 284 words · Dr. Tracy Norris