Hitman 3's PC ray tracing upgrade is beautiful - but comes with a big cost
Posted on January 27, 2023
| 8 minutes
| 1651 words
| Fernande Dalal
Hitman 3's ray tracing update is out, with the brilliant Io Interactive upgrading its hit title with ray traced reflections and shadows, along with Nvidia DLSS AI upscaling - but alas not AMD's freshly minted FSR 2.0. Intel XeSS support is due further on down the line, but for now, it's all about the RT upgrades, their astonishingly large hit to performance and the extent to which DLSS can mitigate that cost.
[Read More]Islanders: Console Edition review - a gloriously dreamy approach to city-building
Posted on January 27, 2023
| 6 minutes
| 1242 words
| Fernande Dalal
This thoughtful spin on strategy is a classic on PC and a delight on Switch. You never just drop a brewery somewhere. No-no-no. Not at first, anyway. At first, you should take it for a walk.
Or rather, you should take it skating. I like to grab a brewery and sort of skim it over the landscape, like a skater describing dreamy arcs on the surface of a frozen pond.
[Read More]Lords of the Fallen review
Posted on January 27, 2023
| 9 minutes
| 1786 words
| Mittie Cheatwood
Before starting Lords of the Fallen, I pondered setting myself the challenge of reviewing it without mentioning Dark Souls once. How naïve I was. This isn't just a game in the style of Dark Souls, it's a game that feels specifically designed to remind you of Dark Souls. You can't talk about Lords of the Fallen without mentioning Dark Souls, because Dark Souls is why Lords of the Fallen exists.
[Read More]Revealing some brand new Magic: The Gathering Strixhaven cards
Posted on January 27, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 500 words
| Mittie Cheatwood
Strixhaven, the brand new Harry Potter-ish card expansion for Magic: The Gathering, is nearly here, and we've been given a small collection of cards to reveal.
Strixhaven launches in Magic: The Gathering - Arena and Magic Online on 15th April, and then a week later in shops, in those nice shiny foil packets, from 23rd April.
It's Harry Potter-ish because Strixhaven is a school for mages, which is also broken into various inner-houses, or colleges in this case.
[Read More]Stellaris' empire-focused Overlord expansion gets May release day
Posted on January 27, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 417 words
| Mittie Cheatwood
Sci-fi grand strategy game Stellaris' new Overlord expansion has been given a release date and will be making its way to PC on 12th May, arriving alongside a free update for all players. Overlord is Stellaris' sixth major expansion (following on from Nemesis, Federations, MegaCorp, Apocalypse, and Utopia), and brings a range of new options for players as they spread their influence among the stars, this time loosely focussed on empire management.
[Read More]XMG Apex 15 review: Ryzen 9 3950X in a laptop - and we're not kidding
Posted on January 27, 2023
| 12 minutes
| 2369 words
| Mittie Cheatwood
The AMD Ryzen 3950X processor has 16 cores and 32 threads, clocking up to a maximum of 4.7GHz. It's the flagship of AMD's super-successful Ryzen 3000 series and a CPU that demolished Intel's high-end desktop processor line-up. And now, as insane and impossible as it might sound, you can run it in a laptop - a 15-inch laptop, no less. So, let's have a moment of hushed awe for the XMG Apex 15, which must surely be the most powerful notebook available right now on the market - certainly in CPU terms.
[Read More]Battlefield 2042's delayed scoreboard UI refresh update arrives tomorrow
Posted on January 26, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 562 words
| Patria Henriques
Battlefield 2042's delayed 3.3 update, which introduces a refreshed Scoreboard UI alongside a number of bug fixes, will launch tomorrow, 8th March - and the previously announced "exclusive bundle" being given to certain players as compensation for the beleaguered FPS' delayed first season, arrives at the same time.
Update 3.3 was initially due to launch in February, but DICE made the decision to delay its release to "improve the quality of our updates, and include additional changes"
[Read More]Bethesda has a "one-pager" for Fallout 5, but it's still a long way off
Posted on January 26, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 400 words
| Trudie Dory
As one of Bethesda's biggest and most beloved series, it's not much of a revelation to hear the company is already mulling over a new Fallout instalment, but studio director Todd Howard has now talked a little about a potential new series entry, confirming that while an idea exists, Fallout 5 is still a long way off.
Speaking to IGN as part of a Skyrim 10th anniversary retrospective, Howard explained that currently the studio has a "
[Read More]Earthbound games available via Switch Online today
Posted on January 26, 2023
| 1 minutes
| 142 words
| Trudie Dory
Cult classics Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings will be available today via the Nintendo Switch Online catalogue.
SNES title Earthbound and its NES predecessor Earthbound Beginnings will join their respective Switch Online apps are some point this evening.
The pair - previously also available on Wii U - were announced during tonight's big Nintendo Direct broadcast. Alas, there was still no sign of Mother 3.
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[Read More]Get Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 SE headphones for 50% off
Posted on January 26, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 566 words
| Fernande Dalal
Sennheiser's HD 598 and 599 series of open-back headphones are legendary for their neutral sound signature, comfy velour earcups and wide sound stage. I've owned a pair of HD 598 SE headphones for six years, and I still use them regularly - whenever I'm not obligated by my job to test out a new set of gaming cans! So I was excited to see a set of HD 599 SEs pop up as an Amazon US lightning deal for $100 in the US, down from a list price of $200 - and even more excited to see these headphones also available at 50 percent off at Amazon UK.
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