A Total War Saga: Troy’s upcoming DLC Mythos fills the historical battle sim with fantastical beasts. One of those, Cerberus, is the tri-headed guard dog of Hades. It’s a creature so intimately entwined with death that it draws strength from souls wrenched from their bodies during battle. He can summon shades, filling his army with the walking dead. His roars are known to cause armies to retreat in chaos. But he’s still a good boy, and will roll over and let you pet him.
If there’s any justice in the world, it’ll also have some sort of effect in the game. There are two other incredible beats to hunt down in Mythos, but there’s no yet on whether or not you can boop the Hydra’s snoot, and no information on if you can stroke the Griffin’s beak.
The mythical CX-9 SMG has finally been added to Warzone! This compact Modern Warfare weapon has been in the game files for a while now, and once briefly appeared as floor loot due to a bug. Now, it’s finally available for all players to unlock in Warzone and Modern Warfare multiplayer. If you need help acquiring it, we’ve got you covered with our guide on how to unlock the CX-9 in Warzone.
The WD Black SN850 is our pick for the best PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD for gaming, and today it's been heavily discounted at Amazon UK. Right now you can pick up the 500GB size of this incredibly speedy drive for £86, or the larger 1TB size for £160. The former is a 34% reduction from the drive's RRP of £130, and one of the cheapest prices we've ever seen for this model.
The Acer XF240QS is a well-reviewed 24-in 1080p monitor with an impressive 165Hz refresh rate, now available for £150 at Ebuyer after a £35 discount. I believe it's the best high refresh rate monitor available at this price, and an ideal choice for anyone interested in fast-paced, competitive games like shooters, racing titles or MOBAs.
Get In The Car, Loser! has style to spare. It's a "lesbian road trip RPG" from Christine Love, the creator of Ladykiller In A Bind and Digital: A Love Story, and its description alone communicates more energy than a three minute pop song. It also now has a release date: September 2021.
I've had one eye on Webbed for a while, because if you take your eyes off a spider, that's when it scurries away. Instead, it's scurried closer: the platformer in which you play a web-slinging, skateboarding, top-hat wearing spider now has a September 9th release. There's a new trailer below.
Hades will arrive on Xbox Game Pass on August 13th. That's our favourite game of 2020 for the price of a subscription. It's also just one of a bunch of new games coming to Game Pass in August.
Wreckfest is a racing game that's as much about slamming into scenery as careful cornering, so today's tie-in with Carmageddon is a perfect match. It's a free update which adds two new tracks, Bleak City and Devil's Canyon, from the original zombie-smashing racing game, as well as the Eagle-R car and swarms of pixellated zombies to burst.
The best place to advertise an upcoming game is inside one of your current games, it seems. That’s what Ubisoft are doing with the latest Rainbow Six: Siege event, called “Containment”. The event is inspired by the upcoming Rainbow Six: Extraction, and gleefully messes with Siege’s set-up. It’s a PVP challenge where a team of Rainbow Six operators are pitted against a group of infected alien doppelgangers protecting their nests.
On July 23rd, two of the video game industry’s biggest companies filed a joint lawsuit to take down a cheating ring that allegedly sold services for their top games. According to TorrentFreak, Bungie and Ubisoft filed the suit in the California state district against members of the company known as Ring-1. The defendants named in the suit go by the usernames Krypto (Andrew Thorpe), Overpowered (Jonathan Agueda), and Grizzy (Wesam Mohammed), and the complaints include allegations of copyright and trademark infringement, as well as intentional interference with contractual relations.