As the latest expansion for Blizzard’s unstoppable MMORPG, World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands seems to have gone down quite well. So well, in fact, that the publishers have declared it the fastest-selling PC game ever released with 3.7 million first day sales, beating out the company’s own previous record-holder, Diablo 3, beating out its 3.5 million day one sales high set all the way back in 2012.

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It looks like those Persona 5 boys and girls (and cat?) will be making another dramatic appearance on PC next year – it’s not Persona 5, though, sorry. It’s Persona 5 Strikers! The spinoff hack ‘n’ slash RPG came out in Japan this February, and now it’s set to launch around the rest of the world on February 23rd, 2021.

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After one Cyberpunk 2077 reviewer suffered a seizure during a particularly visually-intense section of the game, an epilepsy charity have called for CD Projekt Red to consider updating the game in response. It’s perhaps not surprising that the dystopian RPG has garish nightclubs and computer glitches, but one particular gadget bears flashing lights with a dangerously striking resemblance to medical devices used to intentionally trigger seizures. Yeah, this might be a problem, Epilepsy Action say.

Update: CDPR say they’re working on it, with both an extra warning and tentative plans for “a more permanent solution”. More info below.>

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Ah, the sounds of the Great British countryside. Birds chirping, streams rushing, and the terrifying roar of a Ferarri hurled skyward by a mountain-sized ramp. Forza Horizon 4‘s free Super7 update brings a little bit of Trackmania to the fields and valleys of Playground Games’ open-world racer, letting you obliterate the scenic tranquillity of pastoral England by laying down honking great vehicular bobsled tracks later today.

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There’s no way a game can be named something like “Call Of The Sea” and not >have some sort of weird Cthulhu-y creature in it right? Or some sort of watery cult, perhaps? At least I’ll be able to find out today, because the mysterious Call Of The Sea has launched. It’s a first-person adventure puzzler where you play as a lady looking for her husband on an idyllic little island.

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Unto The End is a 2D sword fighting game about a little beardy man trying to find his way back home after getting lost hunting a deer. You’ll guide him through gloomy, cramped caves, climbing and exploring and gathering scraps of leather, bone, and healing herbs. And you’ll fight. Lord, you’ll fight.

It’s very much a game about sword fights, but rather than a hack and slash where you cut down monsters by the dozen, 2 Ton Studios emphasise that Unto The End is about fewer, harder fights. Fights that are deliberate and careful, and reward observation and a cool head rather than sheer aggression or strength. It’s a strong concept, gorgeously realised, with some great ideas and a lot of personality.

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Fashion brand Balenciaga have released a video game to showcase their new autumn collection and, as a lot of things will be this week, it’s very cyberpunk. With an edgy name like Afterworld: The Age Of Tomorrow, I expected nothing less, really. The free browser game drops you into an industrial complex in the year 2031, where neon yellow trainers are sold on every street corner (seriously, why so many ugly trainers?), and a suspicious number of people seem to be wearing suits of armour under their jeans.

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Released all the way back in 2011 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron was an anime-style action adventure game that seemed lost to time. It’s come as a pleasant surprise, then, that Japanese studio Crim have announced they’re working on bringing it to PC.

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You’re just about to open this door on the advent calendar, when a man with a torso like a butcher’s nightmare bursts through it from the other side, revving a chainsaw larger than you are. “Hrrrnnnh”, he gurns, before looking wistfully at a photo of a dead family member. What game can this vast murderer possibly be from?

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With new consoles comes a new range of gaming headsets, which is good news for us on PC, as it means we’ve now got a lot more choice when it comes to getting great game audio. Case in point: Corsair’s HX75 XB Wireless is technically a wireless Xbox headset, but it also works with PC if you’ve got an Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows – the same device you might use for your wireless Xbox controller. You’ll need to buy this separately if you don’t already have one, but if you want a headset that can pull double duties with your PC and Xbox Series X, for example, the HS75 XB Wireless is a great way to do it.

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