With very rare exceptions, EA have long been shy about bringing their games to Steam. But over the last year or so, the two massive firms have slowly shown signs of making amends. It started with last year’s Jedi: Fallen Order, and this week saw the fruits of that partnership properly come to pass as a ton of EA games, old and new, made their way over to the house of Valve – alongside some hefty discounts and hints at a Steam debut for subscription service EA Access.

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Last month, Nvidia announced their next-gen Ampere GPU architecture, which is set to form the foundation of their next generation graphics cards, currently being dubbed the RTX 3000 series. While the RTX 3000 series GPUs haven’t been formally announced just yet, it’s only a matter of time before Nvidia lift the lid on their next-gen graphics cards such as the hotly-anticipated RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti, so I thought I’d round up everything we know so far about Nvidia’s Ampere GPU architecture and what it might mean for the RTX 3000 series.

I will, of course, be updating this article on a regular basis as and when more information about Nvidia’s RTX 3000 GPUs gets announced, so watch this space for more details on the RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti’s release date, price and specs. For now, though, here’s everything we know so far.

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For Battlefield V, the war is finally over. Oh, internet strangers will be blasting each other for months to come, don’t worry about that. But today’s final major update marks the last new front in Dice’s World War 2 campaign with two new maps and a warehouse of new vehicles, guns, gadgets and grenades. Make ’em last, because from here on out that’s all you’re getting – at least, until the next game rolls around.

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Each fifteen seconds of a match of competitive FPS Quantum League repeats, creating its own timeline of player actions which persist until the end of the third run, or until that timeline is interrupted by the actions of a player in a subsequent run. It’s Clock Blockers, basically. Sometimes, you pull off supremely tactical synchronized plays with versions of your past self. Sometimes, you have to spend your third run killing your second run to stop yourself accidentally blowing up your first run with a grenade launcher. I like it a lot, even if I’m not sure I can adequately explain it.

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AMD’s Navi GPUs are hands down some of the [cms-block]s you can buy today, and the good news is that more of them are on the way. Specifically, their Big Navi (also known as Navi 2X) GPUs, which are set to be their 4K rivals to Nvidia’s flagship RTX cards. We don’t know too much about Big Navi’s price, specs or exact release date just yet. We just know that they’re coming before the end of 2020. But thanks to new information from an investor webcast, AMD have reaffirmed that Big Navi will definitely arrive on PC later this year, and that we’ll also likely see it before the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X this Holiday season. So to help keep you up to date on all things Big Navi, here’s a round-up of everything we know about AMD’s Big Navi GPUs so far.

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It seems a listing on the Microsoft Store went up a little earlier than intended yesterday, as it’s revealed that a remaster of Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning is on the way. The hack and slash RPG originally came out in 2012, and despite having a pretty adoring fanbase, it didn’t quite reach the level of success players thought it would. Perhaps it’ll do a little better this time around, though, when the remaster releases August 18th.

Oh, and it’s named Kingdoms Of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, because of course it is.

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There have been game and hardware delays left right and centre over the last few months, but AMD have confirmed that their upcoming Big Navi GPUs are still due to launch before the end of 2020. Speaking at Bank Of America’s Global Technology Conference webcast, AMD’s chief financial officer Devinder Kumar said, “We remain on track to launch our next generation of Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs in late 2020,” and he also stated that we’ll see these [cms-block] graphics cards before the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X. Will these 4K-capable cards be going head to head with Nvidia’s upcoming Ampere GPUs sometime this autumn? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Hidden Folks

never needed instruments to be musical. This week, the hidden object sketchbook goes On Tour, bringing its quirky vocals to muddy festivals, basement discos and the studio floor. It’s free, too, along with all of Hidden Folks’ previously-released DLC – at the cost of making the charming monochrome pixel-hunt a little pricier for newcomers.

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Total War Saga: Troy

is out on August 13th and will be free at launch, and having played a demo battle which pitted Achilles’ Acheans against Hector’s Trojans, I’m intrigued to play more. I’ve chosen the word “intrigued” deliberately, here. Because while the tactical depth of what I played was impressive, and rooted itself emphatically in its semi-mythical setting, its multi-skilled infantry and attention-demanding heroes required a lot of micromanagement, and punished any forgetfulness on my part with a rapid spiral towards defeat. There was a lot to enjoy, in short, but I had to work for it.

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Oh, Valorant. If you read my Valorant review, you’ll know that the main emotion I associate with it is anguish. Playing in a group is grand, but playing by yourself is miserable, because of the internet. I think that feeling is crystallised in this video, where a bug fuses two players together and they get cross rather than becoming debilitated by laughter.

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