Knowing when and how to check your PC’s CPU temperature is one of the less glamorous aspects of PC ownership, but it’s worthwhile – especially if you’ve got a brand new system, or have just built a rig yourself. Excess heat is the PC’s natural enemy, and if you’ve gone too far with an overclock or haven’t installed the cooler correctly, you can expect overheating, automatic shutdowns and even permanent damage to your processor.
Xbox Game Pass is a cracking deal isn't it? You pay a tenner a month and you've got this ever-growing catalogue of games. Games everywhere! They're on your screen and in your eyes as fast as your internet's top speed can deliver them. But can you fully appreciate them with a lightning fast connection? For me at least, it's the total opposite. Now that my megabits have plummeted, Game Pass seems even sweeter a deal.
Looking for the best RAAL loadout in Warzone?The RAAL LMG has finally arrived! This heavy-hitter once appeared alongside the CX-9 as floor loot due to a bug. Now, it’s finally available to unlock, customize, and use as part of your Warzone loadout. However, it’s an unusual weapon with several unique attachments, so the builds aren’t at all copy-paste. With the right loadout though, it just might be one of the best guns in Warzone.
Want to learn how to create the best build for Beidou in Genshin Impact? Beidou is an Electro Claymore wielder who's been a part of Genshin Impact since the game launched in September 2020. She's a fairly common pull from the gacha, so if you're engaging with that aspect of the game at all, chances are good that you'll end up with Beidou in your party sooner rather than later.
Want to learn how to create the best build for Chongyun in Genshin Impact? Genshin Impact's original Cryo Claymore user, Chongyun is a young man with a colourful history. Born into a family of powerful exorcists, Chongyun's cool appearance belies the fact that he's really a figurative sunbeam of pure positive energy — which in turn makes him more volatile than he might seem.
The Electronic Wireless Show podcast is playing with a full hand today, as Matthew rejoins us! Inspired by the reveal of new games like theme park sim Park Beyond, which uses a resource currently earmarked as Amazement, and Strange Horticulture's Will To Explore, episode 153 is all about weird currencies and resources in games.
We do have a decent discussion about games, and what constitutes a resource (answer: possibly everything). But because Matthew is back, we grill him about how much ice cream he at at a wedding, and also discuss what mineral we would most like to keep in a vault in our home in place of gold. Unfortunately, a lot of time is taken up by making fun of Matthew for not using salt, like, at all, but there is a decent Cavern of Lies that's all about the most expensive digital things people have bought with real money.
For some people their acts of wanton cruelty as children were burning ants. Others built rollercoasters to nowhere in theme park management games, launching their visitors to violent and abrupt death. I already have your money, you tiny fool. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!>.
So when I learned that the developers who did Tropico 6 are working on a theme park management game, I think I'd be forgiven for expecting a similar, tyrannical approach. But that's not the vibe for Park Beyond, announced yesterday at Gamescom's Opening Night Live and set for release next year. At least, it's mostly> not that kind of vibe. Stephan Winter, CEO at Limbic Entertainment does say that you can charge people for using the toilets, and could set the price at a pretty despotic level if you wanted to. Johannes Reithmann, the creative director, is just very excited to talk about rollercoasters and Park Beyond's core theme: "impossification".
I downloaded space adventure game Jett: The Far Shore like a dog waiting to lick clean a planet. Man, I was excited to explore some uncharted lands in a little spaceship and survey some interstellar wildlife. But mainly, I was excited to shove aside the satellites and see what it is you actually get up to. Jett is a game that's been shrouded in mystery ever since Sword & Sworcery EP devs Superbrothers and fellow collaborators Pine Scented Software first announced it, and with ten years having now passed since their first video game outing, I was eager to see where their next journey would take me. From what I've played so far, though, I'm still unsure whether this new alien taste in my mouth is one I want to keep eating when it comes out in full on October 5th.
Like a steady trickle of water from a clothesline, details on Viking survival sim Valheim's Hearth & Home update have been drip-fed to us for a good while now. But developers Iron Gate have kept its release date securely locked in their cupboard. That is, until they cracked it open at last night's Geoffscom to reveal that it arrives in three weeks.
Look, I know part of what makes cults insidious is that they can seem so friendly and welcoming, but you have to admit that Cult Of The Lamb looks adorable. Announced last night at Gamescom by publisher Devolver Digital, it's about ascending to divinity by growing your flock, building your base, defeating rival cult leaders, and performing rituals. And it looks adorable! Surely this is one of the good cults. Check out the trailer below.