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Microsoft voluntarily recognised the union As per QA staff atRaven SoftwareandBlizzard Albanybefore them, ZeniMax Workers United have partnered with the umbrella Communication Workers Of America (CWA) union. Unlike those unions, ZeniMax staff did not have to take their fight for a union to the US National Labor Relations Board. Activision Blizzard, owners of Raven Software and Blizzard Albany, refused to voluntarily recognise staff unionisation efforts, prompting a legal fight which ultimately the workers won....

This price is for a refurbished model, sold from WD’s official UK store. WD’s D10 game drive, available in a massive 12TB capacity, is on sale at the official WD UK store. To get the discounted price, use codeEXTRA10to get this refurbished WD_Black D10 Game Drive for £180 - more than £200 off its UK RRP. This is an awesome amount of storage for the money, and WD’s refurbished drives come with a one year warranty which is nice to have....

The Samsung 990 Pro is a spec monster, and that’s backed up by real-world performance. The Samsung 990 Pro is the fastest SSD we’ve ever tested - and now the 2TB model is discounted. This debuted at £284, but now has dropped to £240, a historic low price for this record-setting drive that pushes to the limits of the PCIe 4.0 spec. The Samsung 990 Pro is our current top ‘fastest SSD’ pick, offering the shortest loading times of any drive we’ve tested....

The problem with being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness Oh. OK. I guess it’s time for me to publicly confess which games I voted for in this year’s advent calendar but that didn’t get it, and without the usual protection of anonymity granted by group lists. Listen: please don’t judge me. I just want to say that up top before you find out where I live and start sending me pizzas or something....

Hints and the answer to Wordle #562 If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle, below you’ll find three canny clues that’ll help you ferret out the solution. If you’re simply looking to maintain a streak, you’ll find the answer to today’s Wordle’s puzzle a little further down the page. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle January 2 hints The Wordle answer today isn’t the toughest we’ve seen recently, although you could easily find yourself circling around the answer without actually pinning it down....

At least they’re over quick this year, huh? A little known fact is that all of the RPS staff are complex clockwork automata, designed and built by a little gnome with the kind of inch-thick glasses that make your eyes look comically large. We’re each powered by a spell that lasts but 12 months, so every Christmas we fall over like sad marionettes. The gnome has to spend a couple of weeks trekking up a mountain to see the fairy who can recast the spells on us....

The Advent Calendar had a BOGOF deal, so have some extra choccies As Dusk Falls As Dusk Fallsis an interactive adventure that follows two families in the worst of situations, as a small town motel hold-up quickly escalates into something much worse. It might stand out due to its pretty graphic novel art style, with each scene presented as a painting, but As Dusk Falls plays similarly to a Telltale adventure or Supermassive’sDark Pictures Anthology- just without the parts where you walk around....

Hints and the answer to Wordle #561 Below you’ll find three hints that will shepherd you gently toward unveiling the Wordle answer today. If you’re simply looking to maintain a streak, scroll further down the page to find the solution. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle January 1 hints Don’t expect the Wordle answer today to spare you just because you were up late celebrating the new year....

Plus revisions to difficulty, accessibility and quality of life “Along with fixes and improvements, we have been working on adding more depth to the game. Based on your feedback, this major content update will focus on combat and dungeon gameplay,” says the latestdevelopment update from Massive Monster. To that end, you’ll be able to press and hold the attack button for each weapon in order to perform a new “heavy attack”....

Nearly £100 off their UK RRP. The Sennheiser HD 599 SE has been one of my favourite pairs of headphones for a long time, with its open-back design, neutral sound signature and comfy velour earpads combining into one of the best affordable headsets for critical listening and gaming in my book. These headphones normally hover around £100 to £180, but today they’ve dropped to a near-all-time-low: £87 at Amazon UK....

Crime doesn’t pay, but it’ll be cheap The event will focus on games about “the spirit of investigation and solving mysteries”, and will include not only discounts but new demos on “current and upcoming games”. Valveannounced the fest earlier this week, inviting game developers to submit their eligible games for inclusion. Mystery games - particularly those about detectives solving crimes - have traditionally been in short supply. That’s unusual given the prevalence of crime shows, movies and novels, although more understandable given the challenges of designing a mystery that players themselves can solve....

I hate writing the word eighth A little known fact is that all of the RPS staff are complex clockwork automata, designed and built by a little gnome with the kind of inch-thick glasses that make your eyes look comically large. We’re each powered by a spell that lasts but 12 months, so every Christmas we fall over like sad marionettes. The gnome has to spend a couple of weeks trekking up a mountain to see the fairy who can recast the spells on us....

Creepy, cosy, puzzling I didn’t play as many games as I wanted to this year - but then I say that every single year and will probably continue to do so until the end of time (I assume at some point my consciousness will be uploaded into an immortal robot that will exist until the heat death of the universe, and that robot will still be doing previews). Like everyone else who has written their selection box, my top picks made it onto the Advent Calendar this year....