When Intel declared their 9th Gen Core i9-9900K was the world’s fastest gaming CPU at the end of 2018, it came at an astronomical cost. £600 / $580 was the asking price for the [cms-block] money could buy at the time, which today could get you an entire RTX 2080 Super GPU. Thankfully, Intel have reined in the pricing for their brand-new crop of 10th Gen desktop CPUs, with their flagship Core i9-10900K receiving one of the biggest price cuts across the entire Comet Lake family. It will still set you back a sizeable $488 in the US (UK pricing TBC), but with its closest AMD rival, the Ryzen 9 3900X, coming in just below it at $440 at time of writing, it does at least look more competitive than it was a generation ago.

Indeed, a cursory glance at the i9-10900K’s headline specs – its 10 cores, 20 threads and 14nm manufacturing process – might make it seem like Intel’s latest and greatest is already a bit old hat compared to 12 cores and 24 threads of the 7nm Ryzen 9 3900X. And in some respects it is. AMD still have the fastest CPU for juggling lots of multimedia tasks, but in terms of raw gaming performance, the Core i9-10900K is in a class of its own, blazing past its AMD rival with frames to spare. It is, without doubt, the best gaming CPU you can buy right now.

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In the grim darkness of the near past, there was only war. So maybe it’s not wholly weird that World Of Warships has announced a Warhammer 40,000 crossover. The free-to-play multiplayer shipshooter will get WH40K-themed ships, commanders, camouflages, patches, flags, and such as part of an update coming in June. It is wild to see this and remember that Games Workshop ever seemed protective of licensing 40K to games.

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Graphics card prices haven’t changed much this week regardless of which side of the Atlantic you reside, but it’s still not exactly a golden age for graphics card deals hunters. Still, if you’re in the US, a number of rebates on offer mean it’s also not the worst time to buy a cheap graphics card either.

To help you keep track of all of the top graphics card deals around, we’ve put together this list of all the best prices for the today’s [cms-block]s so you can see exactly how they compare against one another, and whether they’re a good buy or not. Regardless of whether you’re upgrading your PC or building a new PC from scratch, here are the cheapest graphics card deals on offer this week.

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Fed up of being locked down in your home, but don’t want to risk your health by stepping outside? Get yourself an Oculus Quest and trick your eyes into thinking you’re somewhere else, because it’s finally back in stock over in the US.

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There are so many games celebrating birthdays this week! The Witcher 3 turned five, Red Dead Redemption turned 10, and now Overwatch is celebrating its fourth year. For Overwatch it means its Anniversary event has kicked off once more, and from now until June 19th you’ll be able to replay all the old seasonal Brawls and grab a whole host of new cosmetic items. And I have to say, this year’s skins are particularly good.

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When videogames try to return to their ancestral routes, it doesn’t always go well. There are exceptions (hello, XCOM), but you often wind up with overwrought slogfests (hello, Dark Souls). I’m confident that the upcoming Small World Of Warcraft will buck that trend, because it’s basically Small World wearing a World Of Warcraft coat with new ideas stuffed in its pockets.

Small World is pretty good! It’s about stitching complementary abilities together, then choosing the right moment to plunge your chosen people into extinction.

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It just doesn’t make sense. Until you fullscreen the image above and peer closely, noticing the flat tones on the buses and the blocky curve on the roadway, you wouldn’t expect it to have come from a game more commonly used to build eye-hurting failure hovels from ugly cubes of cobblestone. But alas, this is a screenshot from Minecraft, and it is a view over the city of Greenfield, possibly the most impressive build project I’ve seen to date.

Based closely on Los Angeles, and built to 1:1 scale so every block represents a cubic metre in real life, Greenfield has been the work of more than 400 people for the last nine years. There are ports. Skyscrapers. Suburbs. Slums. Chemical plants. Railways. There’s everything, in fact, you might expect to find in the metropolis it’s based on. Managed by a committee of ten people, and built by legions of architects, it’s now grown to a size of 20 million blocks, making it the largest Minecraft city build that exists at present… and it’s only 20% complete. Let’s take a look.

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The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle is the ninth expansion pack to be released for The Sims 4. It introduces many ways for your Sims to live sustainably. A few of us here at RPS are excited for the opportunity to build the eco-houses of our dreams by covering our plots with solar panels and wind turbines.

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Season 5 has brought lots of lovely new things to Apex Legends: the new playable character Loba, huge changes to the Kings Canyon map, and even a rework for everyone’s favourite holographic trickster. The newness doesn’t stop there though, because last night the game’s very first story quest went live. These weekly quests are called “Hunts”, and they’re part of The Broken Ghost, a series of separate PvE missions that will unlock throughout this Season. If you’re into all the lore stuff, you’re in luck, because it follows the Legends as they help Loba search for artifacts that could put an end to Revenant.

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After four years in early access, Golf With Your Friends finally launched in full last night. Blacklight Interactive’s club ’em up offers crazy golf for up to twelve players, on zany courses full of jumps, rolling logs, spinny things, hostile cephalopods, bounce pads, and bombings. It’s pretty silly, and a game I’ve known plenty of folks to have a ball with. Now it’s officially out, with the version 1.0 launch update adding a new course set inside an Escapists prison.

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