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But will Geoff’s admiration for Kojima stay as big as ever? Good news! Geoff Keighley’sSummer Game Festmegamix is going to be a much more condensed affair than last year’s months-long relay of game announcements, clocking in at just four days for the core event. Phew. We already knew the event was going to kick offon June 9th, but Keighley has now revealed that the bulk of the announcements will be done and dusted by Sunday June 12th....

In Gunlocked, your guns control themselves If you’ve enjoyed murdering monsters and gathering gems inVampire Survivors, you might fancy a go onGunlocked. It’s an arcade shoot ‘em up where you gather random weapons and upgrades (and so many gems) across a run but attacking is kinda out of your hands. I’m not much of a shmupper but Gunlocked has started scratching that Vampire Survivors itch for me, and it’s less than £3....

Dakka or dywanna? Last week, you decided (barely!) thatdrawbacks are better than a load of lasers. I feel I should’ve defined drawbacks more narrowly but there’ll be chaos if introduce undosies. Onwards! Next, I present a choice between two oft-disliked things. What’s better: controlling a turret, or little inconsequential choices? No, stop booing. You can’t be out here hissing before I’ve even started. I know, it’s widely held that playing turret is awful, that it’s a holdover from the bombastic and brotastic noughties, that it rips you out of the game you were enjoying....

Here’s the answer to Wordle #327 Below you’ll find a short series of clues that should help you on your way to solving Wordle #327, after which you’ll find the solution word itself, and a definition of the word if you’ve never heard it said before. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! If going straight to the answer leaves a sour taste in your mouth, then first why not try to solve today’s Wordle using the below hints to help guide your way:...

Three refreshed GPUs and better upscaling inbound AMD are looking to wring the last few GPUs out of their RDNA 2 architecture, ahead of the RDNA 3-powered Radeon 7000 series launching later this year. They’ve just announced the Radeon RX 6650 XT, the Radeon RX 6750 XT and the Radeon RX 6950 XT: slightly faster, but more expensive and power-hungry refreshes of theRX 6600 XT,RX 6700 XTand RX 6900 XT models....

Plus changes to Apex’s latest map, Storm Point Nothing says “family” more than banding together to slaughter a giant sea creature, then using its corpse as a venue for killing each other repeatedly in your bloodsport tournaments. Yes,Apex Legends' 13th season, Saviors, is now live, bringing with it changes to the Storm Point map, and the newest Legend, Newcastle. Here, have a trailer. Newcastle looks to add a refreshing twist of mobility to the standard defensive character template....

Here’s everything we know about Diablo Immortal, including its release date and classes When is the Diablo Immortal release date?Diablo Immortal, the upcoming MMO-ARPG from NetEase and Blizzard, is almost here. Diablo Immortal is the first new Diablo experience since Diablo 3 launched over a decade ago, but fans can jump back into hell this week. However, Diablo Immortal is set to mix things up as it will bring the Diablo experience to mobile for the first time,alongside the recently announced PC version....

Mostly test levels, but it’s playable “Almost every chapter is present in some form. A huge chunk is playable, a huge chunk is block-outs with no enemies. All of the E3 content is there,” wrote the leaker, posting on the infamous anonymous message board as “x0r”. Most of the game’s weapons are apparently functional. The leaker or leakers apparently released the build, its editor and the full source code. However, when confirming the leak looked real, Broussard also urged people to lower their expectations of what would be available....

It’s in and now on the game. Since the last licensing agreement between EA and FIFA was signed, the series has grown into a microtransaction juggernaut that earns billions of dollars per year. Reports suggested FIFA wanted a larger piece of that pie, with EA reluctant to give it to them - and perhaps reluctant to be associated with an organisation that has frequently beenmired in scandal. EA’s FIFA games have themselves been criticised due to their heavy use of loot boxes, particularly in Ultimate Team mode....

Sidequest: The Game Eiyuden Chronicle: Risingis a bit of a weird one. Originally conceived as a Kickstarter stretch goal forEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, the next JRPG fromSuikodencreator Yoshitaka Murayama, this smaller, more action-focused RPG has become both an official prequel to Hundred Heroes and a kind of intermediate stop-gap designed to tide players over until the main event next year. Focusing on the back stories of just a handful of the titular hundred you’ll be meeting in Rabbit & Bear Studios' spiritual successor to Suikoden (the first of which memorably had a whopping 108 recruitable party members), Rising has the air of almost required reading for players eager to return to the lavish, retro worlds Murayama built his name on....

It’s refurbished, but $60 cheaper than the new version. The Samsung 970 Evo Plus is a strong PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD, offering excellent performance and reliability, but it costs $200 on Amazon for a new 2TB model. That’s a fair bit, so we were excited to see a refurbished option for $140 at Best Buy. That’s considerably cheaper than any other 2TB NVMe SSD on the market, and user reviews on Best Buy paint a rosy picture of barely-used drives whose condition can easily be checked....

Knighty Knight I’m not really a superhero guy, but I’d say Batman is my favourite of the bunch. He’s gruff and edgy and wears a cape well. He’s also dead – in open-world action RPGGotham Knights, at least. “Gah”, was my initial reaction, but that’s changed to “Oh well” having seen 13 minutes of new gameplay footage showing Night Wing and Red Hood stick it to some thugs. What about four-player co-op?...

And many more Humble’sspring saleis underway, with a decent set of discounts on some big games includingSatisfactory,ValheimandDeep Rock Galactic. I am of course going to highlightCyberpunk 2077in particular though, which is 50% off. At this point I can’t tell what the consensus is on Cyberpunk 2077 anymore. Is it the most disappointing game ever, a seven out of ten, or a gem with a few rough edges? These days, I’d strictly answerwith the latter, because I’m in love with its world and characters....