Given they share all but three of the same letters, you’d think the AOC G2460VQ6 would be pretty similar to the G2460PF I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. To some extent, they are – both share an almost identical outward appearance with an understated red stripe down the lower bezel, and each has a 24in TN panel that supports AMD’s adaptive frame-rate technology, FreeSync, which makes your games appear smoother if your graphics card happens to be struggling a bit.

The main difference comes down to refresh rate. Whereas the PF went all the way up to 144Hz, the VQ6 maxes out at 75Hz. The VQ6 also comes with a slightly different set of ports, offering VGA, HDMI and DisplayPort, but no USB hub or DVI-D, and has a fixed, tilt-only stand. Essentially, it’s a stripped down version of its PF sibling, and comes with a price to match, the lowest I’ve seen being 135 compared to the 210 now demanded by its superior stablemate (alas, the G2460PF’s previous price of 170 was only available in the run-up to Black Friday). Is it worth considering, though?

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Winter is not coming. Winter has come. It’s here, it’s cold and it shows no signs of letting up. Perhaps the contents of door number six will warm us..

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I make references to old movies, because I am an old man who only thinks about the past. In this case, the reference is to 80s ‘teen hacker almost accidentally nukes the world’ thriller Wargames. Y’know, the one that no-one remembers anything about other than “shall we play a game?” But don’t we all feel like best friends when we quote it together?

We already knew that Sam Barlow, the fella behind FMV detective game Her Story, was working on an interactivery movie sorta thing using the license, but now we get the teaser trailer, and a sense of how cold war nuclear terror has been updated for a new age of electronic disquiet. The fact that this is called #Wargames, rather than simply Wargames, probably provides some clues to this. (more…)

The Atom, DC s shrinking scientist, is coming to Injustice 2 this month. It s Ryan Choi, the character created by Grant Morrison, rather than the probably better known Ray Palmer version. That version is currently being played by Superman actor Brandon Routh on Legends of Tomorrow, a show that I love, despite knowing it’s bad for my health. Becoming really tiny never sounds like a great superpower, but as the trailer below shows, it s actually the best power.

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Europe s lovely leg has been given a makeover in Euro Truck Simulator 2. Italy has been expanded and fleshed out in the new Italia expansion (and a bit in the base game), so if you ve ever dreamed of spending your days transporting grapes and marbles up and down winding roads, you ve got no more excuses for putting it off. It s out now.

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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.>

It feels as if game developers have spent the past ten years learning how to efficiently build the design ideas conceived in the ten years before that. As a result, where the original Deus Ex’s commitment to systemic design offered player’s options which surprised, Deus Ex Mankind Divided has boiled those systems down to a tight, repeatable loop. (more…)

Super-whot?!! A standalone expansion for ace ‘time moves when you do’ shooter, Superhot, is releasing on Steam early access tomorrow. Superhot: Mind Control Delete is free if you already own the original, and introduces a roguelike twist to the time-bending FPS. There’s a reveal trailer below, which I’m going to cleverly describe as a supercut even if that’s not technically accurate.

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Here s an odd fusion. Portal is being mixed with the Bridge Constructor series to create a spin-off game about making fragile bridges that transport forklifts from one side of the Aperture Science facility to the other. In Bridge Constructor Portal we’ll see GLaDOS, the robot marm of the passive aggressive puzzler, return to torment the player with what I presume will be a characteristically snide voiceover, provided by Ellen McLain. Here s a brief teaser. (more…)

After months of teases and screenshots, the curtain has finally been pulled back on Playerunknown s Battlegrounds desert map, which will be joining the island when Plunkbat leaves early access. It will be in the 1.0 test servers before that, however. It s got a name now, too! I mean, we re all going to keep calling it the desert map, probably, but its proper name is Miramar, which means sea-view . Lovely!

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Moira landed on the Overwatch servers last month, finally bringing an end to the era of Mercy misery. She s just the hit that the game needed: an interesting, easy to play support character that s (very almost) as viable in competitive play as Mercy. She s managed to lure me away from my usual spot as Genji, which is no small feat when cyber-ninjaring is the main reason I keep coming back to Overwatch.

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