Nvidia haven’t formally announced their next-gen RTX 3000 graphics cards yet, but ever since they unveiled their new Ampere GPU architecture back in May, the internet has been rife with rumours about the release date, specs and price of Nvidia’s upcoming GPUs. Thankfully, it would appear we might be finally getting some proper, concrete information about Nvidia’s hotly anticipated RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti and maybe even RTX 3090 cards, as their GeForce Twitter account suggests something big is going down on August 31st.

To help you prepare for the big announcement and to help you separate fact from fiction, I’ve gathered up all the information I can find about Nvidia’s Ampere GPUs to try and make sense of the current online rumours. 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, RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090’s release date, price and specs. For now, though, here’s everything we know so far.

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The next generation of [cms-block] RTX 3000 graphics cards could be revealed on August 31st if a new cryptic tweet from the GPU maker is anything to go by, as they’ve just started the #UltimateCountdown to something big in 21 days time. The tweet itself contains nothing but an ellipsis, the aforementioned hashtag and a short clip of a ‘Big Bang’ style explosion, but Nvidia’s new Twitter header image for their GeForce account adds the phrase “21 days, 21 years,” harking back to the original announcement date of their very first GeForce GPU – the GeForce 256 – on August 31st 1999.

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Fall Guys came out last week and took the world by freak jelly storm. Over two million people have played it on Steam alone, which strikes me as an appropriately silly number for a game where 60 beans must complete ridiculous obstacle courses. As I just said in my Fall Guys review, the first few hours are a treat.

Sadly, I’m nearly ready to stop Falling. The handful of maps and mini-games quickly get repetitive, and I make a big deal about how much a level editor could stave off bean-nui. Good news! The devs have been chatting about adding one. Bad news! It’s a “huge undertaking” that doesn’t seem likely to appear anytime soon.

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The first stream of Crusader Kings 3 started with a classic moment last week. It managed to surprise the developers by revealing their sister as their lover which, hearteningly, shocks them. Any game that can make the creator do a double-take is good by me. The whole 47 minutes is a surprisingly breezy look at the regicide and intrigue at the heart of their upcoming grand strategy sim. Even when they killed their brother with a duck.

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Yoshinori Ono, the executive producer of the Street Fighter series, has announced he’s leaving Capcom after almost thirty years with the company. He plans to split this summer, and doesn’t say what he’s up to next. Ono has become the of public face of pavement punch-ups, hosting video presentations, visiting tournaments, and generally being popular amongst byway brawlers. He’s going out in classic Ono style: with a cry of “SHORYUKEN!”

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If your PC’s in need of some more RAM, then there are some great deals to be had on a number of [cms-block]-approved 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX kits at the moment in both the UK and the US. The UK deals come courtesy of Amazon, where you’ll find a 16GB RAM kit clocked at 3200MHz for £60 right now, as well as a pair of 3600MHz modules for an all-time low of just £65, while US buyers can get another 16GB kit clocked at a still decent 3200MHz for $60 over at Newegg.

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Videogames make me squeal a lot. Most people I’ve lived with have commented on this fact, with varying degrees of approval. Mostly people say it’s nice, because they’re usually squeals of joy, and usually come immediately after a pal has just done something ridiculous in Valorant or something.

Even so, when I tell you that I spent my first half an hour or so with Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout in a near constant vocal and visual display of delight (despite me being entirely alone and intermittently self-conscious about the people walking past my window), you should know that this is still sort of unusual.

Unfettered joy never survives repetition, but I’m reluctant to hold that against Fall Guys. Look at them. How could I?

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You have possibly already heard about the Facebook group called “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony“. Statistically speaking, it is likely that some of you are members. It prompted many slightly bemused articles around May and April of this year, as outlets like Buzzfeed tried to parse what it was and why over a million and a half people were members of it. Really, its aims were and are simple and few, and mostly stated in the title: everyone pretends to be an ant. The group loves ants and ant content. We BITE, LIFT and WORK for the QUEEN.

There are now almost two million members in the group, which has diversified the kind of ant content getting shared, and recently my ant family discovered Grounded, Obsidian’s new early access survival game. You play as a child or team of children who’ve been shranken down to insect size, and must survive in the now dangerous jungle that is a suburban back garden. There is, as Sin pointed out, a lot of good ant content in Grounded. The colony likes this.

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For some time, fans speculated on whether Control‘s mentions of Alan Wake were just fun little easter eggs or hints that Remedy’s two games are meaningfully set in the same spooky fictional world. Now the studio have confirmed not only that Mr. Wake will appear in Control’s next expansion, but that they are already working on a new game set in a little place they’re calling the Remedy Connected Universe.

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The robodinosaur-hunting former PlayStation exclusive, Horizon Zero Dawn came to PC on Friday and: it’s still a great game but it’s marred by technical issues on PC. While it’s fine for some players, others report issues from stuttering framerates to crashes. The developers, Guerrilla Games acknowledged on Saturday that yeah it’s not the best, and said that investigating players’ reports of problems was their “highest priority”. No word of when we might expect to see fixes for any of the problems, mind.

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