Imagine it s 1993. You were up late last night working on your ongoing Dungeons & Dragons campaign. You re sitting behind a DM screen, waiting for your players to show up, miniatures and maps and notes arrayed in front of you. Then they come in, sit down, and all they want to do is play this weird new card game they re suddenly obsessed with.

It s all your players want to talk about or do. One of them mentions how much they spent on several boxes of the stuff, but you re sure you heard the number wrong. It s apparently called Magic: The Gathering. Magic is the ur-trading card game, both originator and most successful example of the genre. But its history with video game adaptations doesn t really match the endurance of the cardboard original.

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Teamfight Tactics has had the 9.15b patch deployed this week and the meta is somewhat settling over a wide variety of comps. Which ones will dominate games over the course of the weekend remains to be seen, but it’s likely that certain staples such as Rangers and Volibear comps will still have a big place in the meta. These are the best comps TFT has to offer that we have found as of the latest update.

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The Teamfight Tactics 9.16 patch introduced some rather big changes to items. Hush got a full rework, while others got big adjustments that either increased or decreased their viability in the current meta. They are also all now vulnerable to Hextech shenanigans since their ability can disable items for a few seconds.

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Streets Of Rogue is a chaotic playground of cunning tricks, slapstick violence, and endless, endless laughter. We’ve been playing it together muchly here lately, in fact you could say we Can’t Stop Playing it.

An important feature we’ve not discussed yet is the custom character creator. This lets you combine the wacky traits and abilities from other characters to make your own little pixel person. It is brilliant. Streets Of Rogue wants you to have fun, to the extent that there’s little to stop you from, oh, I don’t know, recreating characters from your favourite novels and films. Let’s see how that went.

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Final turn! The big-boned diva warbles in precisely sixty seconds’ time. Can the peacekeepers’ rearguard – a rearguard without anti-tank munitions of any kind – survive another minute of MG abuse and high-velocity HE? Let’s find out.

(Quitting Qatab is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 in which NATO forces are orchestrated by commenters while Qatabi units are computer controlled. Each daily turn covers one minute of action. For a scenario outline and summaries of earlier turns, click here)> (more…)

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The Stillness of the Wind looks like it should be the cosiest game in the history of forever. Composed of big, bright primary colours that look like they’ve been stitched together to form a warm, snuggly quilt, this is a game about an old lady and her goats. Yes, there are chickens as well, but really, it’s the goats you’ll come to care for most. They’re your pride and joy on this farm, and you’ll spend a good portion of every day petting them, milking them and turning said milk into delicious wheels of cheese that you can trade with the local pedlar that drops by every now and again at your idyllic ranch.

But then the crows turn up.

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20 seconds in and it s clear to me that Need for Speed Heat is a game that will drift past me at high speed. EA s newest car factory knows its audience. It s for the people that love cars and racing the police through the city streets. Meanwhile, I’m over here flinching at the fake policeman shouting I said right now! out of nowhere. That was pretty much all I could focus on.

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In the apparently endless battle-rap between developers and key reseller marketplace G2A, the shop has lobbed a lyrical bomb back at Unknown Worlds. As we reported yesterday, Subnautica and Natural Selection 2 developer Charlie Cleveland alleged: We paid $30,000 to deal with credit card chargebacks because of G2A.

G2A s fascinating response: Selling keys on a marketplace which was yet to come into existence seems unreasonable at best.

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The countdown for the new Need For Speed has ticked down to zero and it brought with it the reveal of Need For Speed Heat. From what we’ve seen, it’ll feature everything you’d imagine an Need For Speed game to have – fast cars, police chases, and lots and lots of ways to pimp your ride.

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If you want Windows and games to load in a flash, then you should definitely have an SSD as your PC’s primary drive. They’re much faster than traditional hard disk drives, and you’ll not only be able to get to your desktop in double-quick time when you first turn it on, but everything from copying files to loading up games will also feel much, much quicker, so what better place to start than with the very best gaming SSDs you can buy today?

You needn’t spend a fortune on your new gaming SSD, either, as I’ve got a best gaming SSD recommendation for every price bracket across a range of different size capacities. Whether you’re looking for a cheap and cheerful SATA SSD or a brand-spanking new M.2 NVMe SSD, we’ve got you covered.

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