The wacky Pick URF mode returns to League Of Legends tonight for another few weeks, once again turbocharging wizards’ abilities for intense MOBA murders. It’s pretty popular. Today’s also the start of Pulsefire 2020, a timecop-themed event with missions, cosmetic rewards, new paid skins, and a messy blast of other loot.
Paradox Interactive today announced a release date for Crusader Kings III: September 1st. It’s been eight years since CK2 launched and Paradox have stretched the medieval dynasty-building strat-o-RPG to breaking point with expansions and updates, so here comes a clean slate with some solid changes. Our Nate recently got to play a preview version and came away dead impressed.
is coming on September 1st, and after having access to an early build for a few days, I’m seriously impatient to get back to scheming, disinheriting, and declaring myself the new pope. It’s got that terrible magic that leads to all-day-and-half-the-night sessions, and that’s largely because, secretly, it’s two games at once. It’s a strategy game, obviously. But it’s also a roleplaying game, and a really good one at that. So was 2012’s Crusader Kings 2, of course. But developers Paradox have been shrewd in identifying what made that weird hybrid work as it evolved through fifteen expansions, and have put it front and centre in CK3 from day one.
As it stands, CK3 is one of the few RPGs I’ve played that genuinely compelled me to try thinking like my character would, rather than just pushing for optimal outcomes. And it swiftly achieved what CK2 only managed at its best, in making me feel more invested in my pretend family of medieval gits, than I did in the nation they were ruling. And on top of all that, CK3 simply does a much better job of explaining itself than most of Paradox’s historical titles do. I think it’ll succeed in bringing previously reticent newcomers into the subgenre, but not by sacrificing complexity or depth. It is, quite straightforwardly, a well-designed game.
As expected, the Epic Games Store is giving away Grand Theft Auto V for free this week. Unexpectedly, this attention-grabbing act was to kick off another Mega Sale with some big discounts and more coupons. And perhaps predictably, the offer of free GTA apparently raised enough interest for Epic’s Store and client to fall flat on their cyberfaces. The sale does sound well worth a look once the Store does stand up, with discounts including 50% off Control, 35% off The Outer Worlds, and 40% off Red Dead Redemption 2.
It continues to be a bad time for gaming monitor deals, but in the interests of bringing you the [cms-block]s at the best prices, we’ve done our best to find all the gaming monitor deals we possibly can that are worth shouting about. Below, you’ll find several of my own best gaming monitor recommendations, as well as a few of other great monitor deals that I’m confident will offer impressive performance and excellent colour accuracy. Whether you’re looking for the best G-Sync monitor deals or the best cheap ultrawide monitor deals, here are the best gaming monitor deals of the week.
has a cheating problem. That much is clear. And like many other free-to-play games, part of that problem is that bans don’t mean much when you can fire up a new account in seconds. To stop these particular miscreants from popping up again and again, Warzone has introduced mandatory 2FA on all new free accounts on PC.
Nvidia didn’t announce the hotly rumoured RTX 3080 Ti today, but they did reveal where their new Ampere GPU architecture will be landing first – and that’s in their new A100 data centre GPU. The A100 system board is that giant graphics card Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s had stashed away in his oven the past couple of days, and features eight GPUs connected by NV Link, over 30,000 components and weighs a whopping 50lbs. Still, while we didn’t get to see any of Nvidia’s RTX 3000 GPUs, there was plenty of good Ampere chat that followed, and it could mean big things for your next GeForce RTX card. Here’s everything you need to know.
I’ll admit it’s hard for me to ever get excited about a mouse and keyboard. But if I were the kind of person to go bananas for peripherals then this Logitech bundle at Currys would have me impatiently staring out the window, waiting for the post to arrive. And I’d like to pass that gift on to you, especially when the mouse is RPS Reader favourite, the Logitech G502.
The heavily Fallout-inspired ATOM RPG has been on my “play more” list for almost a year, since I enjoyed a few hours of it but was distracted by something else. It is my fault. I am very distractable. Happily its developers, AtomTeam, have just released a standalone expansion called Trudograd. It entered Steam Early Access on Monday (or you can get it on GOG, if you prefer).If you’ve not played ATOM, Trudograd is a surprisingly welcoming place to start, but my advice is to give it a while longer in the oven. I have a feeling it’ll be worth the wait.
The setup of ATOM, and in fact an awful lot of what it does, will be familiar to anyone who’s played the original Fallout games. America and the USSR nuked each other, and the remnant of a semi-legitimate military/scientific organisation sends you out into the wasteland many years later to explore. You’ll wander a dusty geigerworld fighting mutants and grumpy men in makeshift armour, visiting settlements and talking to many people, discovering a sinister plot along the way. Character levelling works similarly, with a high emphasis on core attributes like strength and intelligence, which are directly tested in dialogue, and skills like medicine, lockpicking, and crafting having a drastic effect on what your options are when it comes to resolving fights and subplots. (more…)
Despite the fact that SSDs have been around for absolutely yonks for us PC folk, you may have noticed that one of the big talking points about Sony and Microsoft’s upcoming console boxes is how the transition from ancient internal HDDs to an SSD is going to revolutionise, nay, completely eliminate loading screens. Indeed, according to Epic’s Tim Sweeney, “The world of loading screens is over,” as he proclaimed in yesterday’s Unreal Engine 5 demo running on a PS5. If that’s the case, though, Tim, then why is your not-Lara Croft demo lady still squeezing herself through a bunch of rocks so it can load in all those billions of triangles you keep nattering on about?
