EA today revealed Star Wars: Squadrons as a first-person spacehip dogfighting game, coming in October. It’s set after Return of the Jedi, will let you fly both Rebel Alliance and Empire, and yes, it will have a singleplayer campaign as well as 5v5 multiplayer. Three pleasant surprises: it’ll have cross-platformer multiplayer between PC and consoles; it’ll support VR; and it will be on Steam at launch.
is one of our [cms-block] picks you can buy right now, which makes this deal from Amazon a real eye-opener. For weeks now, the Ryzen 7 3700X has cost around £280, but today you can snap it up for just £250.
We all loved playing as the horrible goose in Untitled Goose Game last year, but Sam Person’s Desktop Goose companion has now given me a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that terrible honking machine. The goose is, as you’d expect, a monster, slapping his tiny feet all across your monitor, dragging in goose-related pictures and notepad messages that he’s apparently typed with his own feet, and if you try and shut them down he’ll come after you and bite your mouse cursor.
Desktop Goose has been out for a while, but it’s one of the many hundreds of games now available as part of the stupendously good value Itch Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality, which has just ticked over an incredible $7 million. But the goose isn’t all bad. Occasionally he’ll bring you notes of encouragement saying you’re doing a good job, and it actually made my heart swell to one hundred times its normal size. Thank you, desktop goose, you’re all right.
I’d love to say we got a new trailer for eerie, top-down cowboy purgatory Weird West during the PC Gaming Show, but alas we did not. We did, however, get a short interview with its dad, Raphaël Colantonio, who managed to squeeze out a few sentences about how character-switching and death works in the game, before the juggernaut of not-quite-reveals rolled over him and the show moved on to other previously-seen trailers. Still, for all that its nuts and bolts remain fairly opaque ahead of its 2021 release, there’s something really enticing about Weird West.
If last few days of notE3 have made you wonder whether it’s time to upgrade your PC, then you’ll want to make sure you’ve got one of today’s best graphics cards inside it. I should warn you, Nvidia are prepping for the launching of their high-end [cms-block] RTX 3000 graphics cards at the moment, and we know AMD are going to release their new [cms-block] cards before the end of the year as well. As such, if you’re looking to buy a 4K graphics card, you’ll probably want to hang tight.
If you’re in the market for a new graphics card for playing games at 1080p or 1440p, though, then there’s no need to wait. We aren’t likely to see next-gen versions of Nvidia and AMD’s lower-end graphics cards for quite some time yet, making it a good time to buy our current best graphics card recommendation, the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT. Having tested all of today’s graphics cards, the RX 5600 XT is the one that, in our eyes, represents the best value for money, and you can find out more about why we’ve chosen the RX 5600 XT below. All prices are correct at time of writing, but make sure you also check our regularly updated [cms-block] hub for all the best prices.
Klei Entertainment’s fast-talking, hard-stabbing Griftlands is now available on Steam too, after almost a year exclusive to the Epic Games Store. Griftlands is a roguelikelike deckbuilding RPG about mercenaries on a backwater alien planet. You’ll take quests, build friendships and rivalries, and settle differences with separate decks you build for speech and combat. It is: pretty neat. It also has: a demo.
So many are the dignities heaped upon Beyond Blue, that it’s somewhat hard to get at the game beneath. When I began playing, I knew that it had been made in association with the filmmakers behind the Blue Planet II series, and in consultation with a host of marine scientists. I knew that it promised a sober and ultra-realistic exploration of the oceans, and that the Flaming Lips were on the soundtrack. I knew that it would feature whales in some capacity.
I didn’t actually know what it was, you know, as a game. That was fine, though. The sea and its contents are possibly the most potent preoccupation in my overly-preoccupied life, and so I was open to whatever these people wanted to sprinkle on me. The answer, it transpires, was a very simple diving simulator, about swimming up to a range of extremely realistic marine animals and clicking on them.
I’m pretty sure I skipped over Combat Core on release, and forgot to slip it into the “up to 3 friends” section of the “this looks good but” pile. I am a fool.
Turns out it’s pretty great. I’ve not played a Smash Brothers game since the gamecube, despite the daily racket as everyone played it outside the RPS treehouse over the last year. So I may not be the best person to judge, and the famously level-headed fans of that series might politely object, but it hit me in a similar place. Constantly, right in the face. It is frantic>.
Like an excitable tiger with a lisp, critically-acclaimed horror game Devotion bounced off Steam before I got to play it. It’s a shame because I was really looking forward to seeing what developer Red Candle Games was going to do after I was scared pantsless by the studio’s first game.
Squirrels: they’re hiding something. No matter how cute they look, they’re keeping something from us and maybe it’s more than just food. Perhaps you’ll see some of their secrets in the new demo for Nuts, a game about surveilling the goings-on of squirrels. By day, carefully place your cameras. By night, sit back to watch where the blighters go. It’s a first-person puzzle game of sorts, about the daily cycle of tweaking camera locations to follow the furry fiends, but also has a story about squirrely secrets. I’m interested.
