Here’s a fun computing fact for you: the Linux term root> is derived from the cowboy term rootin’ tootin’>, because the console cowboys who clip-clopped on their mechanical keyboards like a bucking bronco and listened to Fields Of The Nephilim would cry “Yeehaw!” and wave their leather Stetsons when they got system admin rights – a real rootin’ tootin’ time. How fitting, then, that wonderful Wild West squad tactics game Desperados 3 today launched a Linux version. A Mac version arrived too, so even those city slickers might be tempted by the cowboy lifestyle.

The first paid DLC mission is out now too, plus a challenge mission that’s free for all players.

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Back in the old days (10+ years ago), guides weren’t a thing that websites had a dedicated writing team for. Instead, they were written for free by absolute heroes who toiled away for months on end, updating their guides to new versions until they had cleared it to 100% and documented everything, entirely in their spare time. Go to sites like NeoSeeker and GameFAQs and you can still see their work preserved, their beautiful HTML formatting, and their instructions on the precise font and size you should view the guide in (or it would mess up the formatting and ruin all the work they put into the contents lists).

I used to sit up reading these in the 90s and 00s, a little goblin who wasn’t yet good enough to complete these games without help. You reached out to me, guides writers, and you never even knew it. And the true marker of the dedication of these artisans can be seen in one thing: the ASCII art of game titles they put in at the top of their work. A true craft that has died out but deserves to be seen and celebrated.

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The next big Sea Of Thieves update is right around the corner, bringing new four-legged friends, new gold hoarders missions, and loads more good stuff on September 9th. It’s called The Vault Of The Ancients, and, as you may guess from the name, it’s introducing new quests to explore treasure-filled vaults throughout the seas. You’ll be able to uncover these with an excellent dog in tow, and there are some new accessibility and quality-of-life changes coming as well.

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Blood is a powerful tool in the political maneuverings of medieval strategy game Crusader Kings 3, but it’s an even more vital resource when your ruler is an actual vampire. Yup, that’s sure a thing you can do thanks to the Princes Of Darkness mod that lets you scheme, plot, and rule as a vampire from the Vampire: The Masquerade setting. It’s the successor to a Crusader Kings 2 mod of the same name, now bringing your bloody scheming to the newest game.

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Minecraft Bedrock seeds

give players across pretty much every platform the very best Minecraft worlds in which they can start their new adventure. But it can get pretty tedious when you’re looking for a particular kind of start, having to generate world after world until the game finally spits out the exact combination of attributes that you’re after.

Our list of best Minecraft Bedrock seeds is fully up to date with the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition (1.16.20) and covers all bases from Mushroom Islands to glorious Mesa biomes, from gentle village spawns to snow-capped mountain ranges. Take a look!

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After yesterday’s kerfuffle over World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands’ PC requirements listing an SSD as the minimum type of storage supported, Blizzard have now updated the game’s minimum requirements to include good old-fashioned HDDs as well. In their updated support article on the subject, the storage entry for WOW’s Shadowlands expansion now includes both SSDs and HDDs, with the extra clarification that “player experience may be impacted on HDD” depending on the drive’s performance.

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The battle to make Horizon Zero Dawn stop crashing on PC continues with the game’s latest patch, which came out this week. Turns out there are an awful lot of ways for Guerrilla’s cyber dino-hunting adventure to crash, from GPU hangs to AI aiming at weird places. These are amongst the issues solved this week, as is a slightly weirder problem which caused players to get stuck in preteen Aloy’s body long after she should’ve turned into an adult.

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Ubisoft have announced another one of their Ubisoft Forward streams for September 10th, blasting more announcements and trailers. Along with the promise of a few surprises, it’ll bring news on games including Watch Dogs: Legion and the cheery Zelda-lookin’ action-adventure game Gods & Monsters. And yup, as rumoured, Ubisoft have indeed renamed Gods & Monsters with the infinitely-inferior moniker Immortals Fenyx Rising. Oh dear.

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Late last month, Asus announced that their first 360Hz gaming monitor, the ROG Swift PG259QN, was coming this September for £629 / $699, and now it’s going to be joined by a load more from Acer, Alienware and MSI. All of them are going to be full-fat G-Sync monitors, and they’re all going to employ next-gen IPS dual-driver panels from AU Optronics to help deliver the speed, low response time and high colour accuracy demanded by today’s gaming elite. Let’s take a look.

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Superman and his Super Friends slip on their spandex for the launch of Marvel’s Avengers on Friday (though pre-orderers already have access), then after that Square Enix plan to update the action-RPG with new characters and content in that ‘live service’ way. Last night’s ‘War Table’ stream confirmed the first character coming after launch will be Kate Bishop, the other arrow-plinging hero known as Hawkeye. She’s a decent character in the comics, having a fun double-act with the original Hawkeye – who I should stress isn’t a wank like he is in the films. Anyway! Come meet Kate.

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