A great deal on Razer’s flagship wireless mouse, with 11 programmable buttons. The Basilisk Ultimate is a good shout if you want a mouse that remains comfortable all day, and the super-slick scroll wheel makes it easy to jet around the web or get to where you’re going in long documents. The buttons are pleasantly clicky, and with 11 in total you can bind a bunch of macros or in-game actions....
Dodging death in pursuit of frame rates SinceThe Cycle: Frontieris having itssecond (???) launch tomorrow, June 22nd, I thought I’d knock together a performance and settings guide to mark the occasion. This would involve, as they always do, a bunch of benchmark tests: repeatable runs through a specific area or sequence that would give an accurate indication of how different settings and hardware affect performance. In most games these are either quick and easy or time-consuming and easy, but not The Cycle: Frontier....
Potentially long-rumoured wireless headset A new patent filing might offer the first look at designs for Valve’s next VR headset, a rumoured standalone device codenamed “Deckard”. Thefiling, made last year and published this past week, describes a head-mounted display with a rear housing, and the mechanisms by which that display could be adjusted. It’s not thrilling stuff - but it is further confirmation that Valve continue to work on designs for VR hardware....
Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle June 22 hints If you’re really struggling to solve the Wordle answer today, then allow us to give you a nudge in the right direction with our selection of Wordle hints: Today’s Wordle answer is:AWFUL. Awful - a common, flexible, and powerful denunciation of something bad. For example: “that performance was simply awful”....
That’s $2000 per download of the infringing software Bungie and Canadian companyEliteBoss Tech, the creators of cheating software forDestiny 2, have reached an agreement in a copyright infringement lawsuit that Bungie brought. Elite Boss Tech have agreed to pay Bungie $13.5 million (£11 million). The agreement includes a permanent injunction against Elite Boss Tech that prohibits them from making more software that infringes on Bungie’s. Details of the stipulated consent judgement between the two companies, which has yet to be signed off by the court, were reported byTorrentfreak....
Please, please let there be enough content in the full release I realised earlier that today was the last day of Steam Next Fest, and I panicked. I remembered seeing one particular demo on Steam which made my ears prick up and my eyes expand to thrice their usual size, and until now I hadn’t the time to try it out. So today I carved out a small portion of the day to download and play the demo forDome Keeper, a wave-based survival game about protecting your glass dome home from alien invaders using a gigantic laser....
A good deal for this spec, which includes 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM and a 360Hz screen. The Acter Nitro 5 is a strong if unremarkable gaming laptop, offering excellent performance for the money in a rather typical gamer-y design. It doesn’t look quite as cool as a Razer Blade or as beautifully thick as an XMG Apex 15, but it’s got it where it counts: inside. Right now, you can pick up a Nitro 5 laptop with an RTX 3080 graphics card, Ryzen 7 5800H processor, 1TB NVMe SSD and 1080p 360Hz screen for just £1499 at Ebuyer - a nearly £400 reduction from its original UK RRP....
An unbeatable price on already great value, no-RGB fans. The Arctic P12 is one of the best value high-performance case fans - and now you can get five for £23, some 20% off their usual (already good!) price. These fans come in black without RGB for a stealthy look, can be daisy-chained to make cable management easier and can be controlled via PWM from 200 to 1800RPM. In terms of performance, every review I’ve found mentions their great value, but they also detail whisper-quiet performance at low RPMs....
Admiring more upcoming indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This time, come admire some rotoscoping, Ponging, and two very different metroidvanias. I do appreciate a behind-the-scenes peek at rotoscoping: Rotoscoping WIPs for my cinematic platformer LUNARK✨https://t.co/NHTV7eIoif#screenshotsaturday#pixelart#animationpic.twitter.com/7RShoSJkNz A bold look to roguelikelike first-person action gameMortal Sin: Playing with the lighting a bit and forgot how much of a difference it can make!...
It’s way more fun than it looks, trust me The blue hedgehog is back! He goes very fast in his latest instalment,Sonic Frontiers! And lots of fans – naturally – think it looks terrible! The scepticism is understandable. But having gone hands-on with it atSummer Geoff Fest, I’d like to pose a counter argument: the gameneedsto be played. Just seeing it with your eyeballs doesn’t do it justice. Yes, it’s a weird departure for Sonic, but I am here for it....
Coming to Steam and your nightmares this year Dinosaurs are cool and scary right? Spiders aren’t so great but they’re definitely biologically intimidating to humans too. Combine the two and you getShantaedevelopers WayForward’sSpidersaurs, which describes itself as a 2D co-op run’n’gun action game. It’s coming to Steam soon, say WayForward. Try not to get the theme tune stuck in your head when you watch the trailer below. Spidersaurs is due for release onSteamsometime this year....
The environmentally friendly ‘reverse city-builder’ is a relief to play Of all the demos featured in this past week’sSteam Next Fest, indie environmental ‘reverse city-builder’Terra Nilhas performed exceedingly well for itself. The demo has cropped up among the top 50 on the most-played games on Steam over the weekend, and is currently nestled betweenMount & Blade II: BannerlordandVampire Survivors. Not bad for a chill game about rewilding a barren planet....
See Night City from a new perspective One of the best parts ofCyberpunk 2077is Night City itself, a loud and colourful place full of interesting details and decorations. I explored loads on foot, I explored more withthe mod adding trains V can ride, and today I’ve explored even more with a mod adding hovercars. It’s very cool, and I have only crashed about a hundred times. In regular CP2077, NPC hovercars are zipping about but V is stuck on the ground with wheeled transport....
