Harmonix, the creators of rhythm games including Rock Band and Dance Central, have announced their new jam. Fuser is its name, and mixing vocal and instrumental tracks of different songs together into a new song is its game. I think that’s what the kids call “mash-ups.” The tracklist actually does include All Star so you should expect Shrek hell to be spattered across more of pop culture. Fuser is coming this year, will indeed be on PC, and no, it does not require any plastic instruments. Have a peek in the announcement trailer below.

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While your PC’s graphics card does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to playing games, having one of today’s best gaming CPUs inside your system can also make a noticeable improvement to your PC’s performance – particularly if you like playing games at 1920×1080. Having a good CPU is also important if you’re a budding streamer, too, as running and streaming a game simultaneously can often be very CPU intensive. The problem, of course, is deciding which kind of CPU is right for you. After all, it’s not as easy as simply plugging in a new graphics card or SSD, as what type of CPU you can buy is entirely dependent on what type of motherboard you have.

To help you in your quest to find the best gaming CPU, I’ve put together this list of all the best processors I’ve tested here at RPS, including all of the latest Intel Coffee Lake and AMD Ryzen processors. I’ve tested everything from entry-level Core i3 and Ryzen 5 CPUs all the way up to the top brass Core i9s and Ryzen 9s, picking the best CPUs for gaming in each price category. Whatever your budget, there’s a best gaming CPU for you.

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Valve have introduced some new features to improve the Steam store search function. It basically boils down to putting a bunch of fields in so you can better filter what you’re looking for. Now whenever you use the search bar, you’ll have some options down the side so you can narrow your searches by price, genre tag, whether it’s single player or multiplayer, and so on. With the sheer number of games on the platform, it’s strange to think Steam never had this sort of feature in the first place.

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Guardians, it’s time to build your sweatiest, most shameful loadout: Trials Of Osiris is coming to Destiny 2 next season. The 3v3 PvP mode is returning from the first Destiny, once again challenging players to run a gauntlet of increasingly tough matchups to claim loot with serious bragging rights. The announcement came overnight after players finally completed the communal challenge to donate 9,777,777,700 Polarized Fractaline to the Empyrean Foundation effort. While Trials will launch with the Season Of The Unworthy in March, they’ll actually be open to all players, which suggests Bungie still have more to reveal. Watch the Trials announcement below.

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We all want our games to look their best, but having them sound their best is important, too – and one of the best ways to do that is to kit your PC out with one of today’s best gaming headsets. Gaming headsets are a great way to improve your PC’s audio, and they’re also handy for chatting with your mates when you’re playing online as well thanks to their built-in microphones. If you want an easy audio setup that doesn’t involve hundreds of different cables, choosing one of our best gaming headset recommendations is the way to do it.

The problem is finding the best gaming headset for you and your budget. After all, there are loads of headsets to choose from these days, and they’re all at various different price points, too. To help you in your quest, I’ve put together a list of all the very best gaming headsets that I’ve tested here at RPS, helping you sort the symphonic wheat from the aural chaff no matter your budget. Here, you’ll find everything from the best budget gaming headset all the way up to the best wireless gaming headset, and everything in between. No matter what you’re looking for, I’ve got a best gaming headset recommendation for you.

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In the streets of a not so distant future, between the public onanism booth, and the bouncer employed ironically by a nightclub’s post-millennial owners, stands an enormous phone display encased in concrete. Squint into the solar flare brightness of its 20-foot screen, and you can just about make out some of the messages as they scroll by. Local youths are voting on whether Ben and Dan, Lair Of The Clockwork God‘s dual protagonists, should be let into the club: #YE or #NA? “@dan total dinosore – upgrad yur vesties,” advises one. “Nice historhythm gramps,” chides another. “Paleofoot much?” The polls are in, and they’re predicting an emphatic #NA.

Lair Of The Clockwork God is a game about getting older: the bewilderment and comedy of being left behind, of becoming less certain and more rigid. It’s the ageing anthem of designer-writers Ben Ward and Dan Marshall, perhaps the first people to star in their own game since Vin Diesel.

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Everyone’s favourite Pok mon-like MMO is getting some brand new additions this year, including 50 new Temtem and two new islands to catch them on. Temtem developers, Crema, have released a short-term roadmap talking about some highly-requested new features coming to the game’s competitive scene, as well as a few other bits like player housing. Soon there’ll be an infinite plot of land where everyone can build a home for their Tem-friends!

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A few evenings back, I had an absolutely superb match of Apex Legends. I was playing the limited-time duos mode with my brother, and we decided that this time we’d play as aggressively as possible. Every shot fired in the distance was a call to arms, and we would drop everything and gambol towards it with the single-mindedness of a pair of delighted truffle hogs following the fruity whiff of their life’s purpose.

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Valve today launched Dota Underlords in full after eight months in early access. You know, Valve’s version of the mega-popular Dota Auto Chess mod – the same autobattler mod which inspired Riot’s Teamfight Tactics. You know, the team-building battle genre which has little do with which chess. That one. Today’s launch has brought a new campaign-ish mode with challenges and puzzles, the start of a new season, a new battle pass, a new look for the board, and more. See the launcher trailer below.

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While some players are griping about Destiny 2‘s weapon balance changes coming next season, Bungie have missed a trick by burying the big news: Fighting Lion, already the game’s best gun, is getting buffed. Is it a huge buff? No. Is it a welcome buff? Absolutely. Alice, is Fighting Lion really Destiny’s strongest gun? Look, I said best, not strongest. Hand on heart, I adore no gun in the MMOFPS more than this scrappy wee grenade launcher.

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