All Forspoken necklaces: Every necklace in Forspoken and its effects when worn

A full list of necklaces available in Forspoken along with the benefits of wearing each one What is the best necklace in Forspoken?Forspokenprotagonist Frey is notable for having unusual gear. Forget helmets and armor, this modern New Yorker gets her nails done when she needs a useful combat buff. Similarly, Frey’s choice of necklace has a surprisingly important role to play in her loadout: far more than just an accessory, these jewels in fact grant Frey a variety of status buffs and other unique benefits when she wears them....

January 26, 2023 · 3 min · 432 words · Kevin Stewart

AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X has dropped to £200 on Amazon UK

As a former owner, I can tell you this CPU rules. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X has dropped again on Amazon UK, this time to £200 when you buy stock from Amazon EU. That’s £20 below the next-best price and a fair deal for a strong eight-core 16-thread CPU for gaming and content creation. I ran the 5800X myself for a while before jumping ship for Intel when 12th-gen arrived. The 5800X is a good CPU, running a little hotter than the 5600X but alsodelivering better performance....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 275 words · Donald Robertson

Cook Serve Forever demo lets you start meal prep ahead of April's early access

Serving meals in a solarpunk city I am fond ofCook, Serve, Delicious!, a trilogy of cooking games which became increasingly ambitious until the third was about operating a food truck on a post-apocalyptic road trip. Cook Serve Foreverlooks more ambitious again. It’s a new game from the same developers with similar combo-tapping food prep at its core, but set in a new solarpunk city. As of today, there’s a demo you can play and an early access release date set for April....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 275 words · Megan Miller

Dead Space remake devs confirm that, yep, there's a secret ending

It’s part of its freshly confirmed New Game Plus mode EA Motive’sDead Spaceremake stalks onto PC tomorrow, nearly a decade and a half after the original made us collectively need to buy new pants. Earlier this week, I reported on the possibility of this new take on Dead Space getting analternate ending. The Reunion ending was leaked by an achievements list for the remake, but now the Dead Space Twitter account has confirmed that the game does indeed feature a secret ending....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 327 words · Debra Carter

Dead Space review: an excellent remake of a horror classic

A little star Well. They certainly remadeDead Space. With some small but welcome exceptions, Dead Space is a one-to-one remake of the 2008 original. Your opinion on whether that is a good thing or not will depend on how you feel about the endeavour of remaking games from fifteen years ago in the first place. As far as I’m concerned, this remake allowed me to replay one of my all-time favourite games in a lavish new form, and in that sense, Dead Space is extraordinary....

January 26, 2023 · 7 min · 1316 words · Molly Singh

Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider will be free to keep from Epic next week

It’s basically Dishonored 2.5 and the end of the series Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider, Arkane’s wonderful standalone expansion following on fromDishonored 2, will be free to keep from the Epic Games Store next week. It could be your chance to complete the series, given that the giveaway follows on fromDishonored1 and its expansions being given away via Epicat the start of the year, and Dishonored 2 being given free to Amazon Prime subscribers at the same time....

January 26, 2023 · 1 min · 177 words · Jasmine Baker

Disney Dreamlight Valley’s roadmap reveals multiplayer is coming this year

Encanto’s Mirabel, Olaf from Frozen, and The Lion King’s Simba will feature in updates A roadmap for what’s coming toAnimal Crossing-alikeDisney Dreamlight Valleyhas revealed the life sim will be going multiplayer this year. Along with the option to drag your mates into bothering popular Disney characters and creating a magical kingdom of your very own, Dreamlight Valley’s roadmap shows that Encanto’s Mirabel, Frozen’s Olaf, and Simba from animated classic The Lion King will be coming to the game in free updates over the next few months....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 373 words · Grace Daniel

Have You Played... Planet Zoo?

Snow leopards. Snow leopards are my absolute favourite animals in the world. I would die happy if I ever got the chance to see one in real life (from a great distance of course, lest it de-grundle me). Alas, the closest that most of us will get in our lives is to playPlanet Zoo- easily the best zoo simulator out there right now. Planet Zoo always seemed like an incredibly dense game, the kind that might take dozens or even hundreds of hours before you get a good handle on how to play it well....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 246 words · Robert Miles

Hitman World Of Assassination is out, combining Hitman 1-3 and adding new roguelike mode

It’s cheaper and on sale Hitman 3’s long-awaitedFreelancermode is finally out, letting you play missions from across the trilogy with randomised objectives and other roguelike elements. Hitman 3 is also now called Hitman: World Of Assassination and its multitude of editions, bundles and DLCs have been combined and simplified. As a result, every Hitman 3 owner now has access to all the levels from Hitman 1 and 2, if they didn’t already....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 407 words · Dylan Evans

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Hot Wheels coming to PC Game Pass soon

Microsoft reveal the fortnight’s comings and goings Some good games there too! You’ve still got time to finish Donut County, a fun and playful puzzle game about a raccoon swallowing a town through technomagical holes (though John Walker’sDonut County reviewwas a little disappointed). Telling Lies is Sam Barlow’s previous woman-watching mystery game. Taiko no Tatsujin is some furious rhythm gaming. And Worms WMD is a Worms game. Do check outMicrosoft’s blog postfor games coming to Game Pass on consoles and the Cloud too, includingGoldenEye 007....

January 26, 2023 · 1 min · 104 words · Lauren Roberts

Morrowind GOTY Edition leads Amazon Prime’s free game offerings for February

Khajiit has wares, if you have Prime February might be the shortest month, but this year it’s jam-packed with free games for anyone with an Amazon Prime membership. There’s nine games up for keepsies over the course of the month, withThe Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Editionstanding out at the front of the pack from February 2nd. Members will also get to claim the bathhouse management gameOnsen Master, futuristic 3D runnerAerial_Knight’s Never Yield, and chibi god-brawlerDivine Knockoutin the first half of the month....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 250 words · Joel Cruz

Naughty Dog are "moving on" from Uncharted, and might be done with The Last Of Us too

Co-president Neil Druckmann doesn’t feel pressured to make any more sequels Sony-owned developer Naughty Dog’s brand of story-packed action is relatively new to the world of PC gaming, but it sounds like we could miss out on more of theirUnchartedandThe Last Of Usgames in the future. Naughty Dog’s co-president Neil Druckmann commented in aBuzzfeedinterview that the company is “moving on” from the Uncharted series, and that they’re not feeling pressured into making The Last Of Us Part III....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 346 words · Susan Kent

Procedural road trip Road 96 is getting a psychadelic rhythm prequel

Releasing this April Road 96was a road trip where your journey was assembled from parts and each attempt to reach the border of a fictional USA-alike played out differently. Now it’s getting a prequel. Road 96: Mile 0 stars Zoe, one of the hitchhikers who could join you in the original, and her best friend Kaito, and features “psychadelic musical rides.” Here’s the announcement trailer: Road 96 had seven different hitchhikers you could pick up, although of the set Zoe was arguably the main character....

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · 235 words · Katelyn Hill