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For my money, though, the best value CPU deal this Prime Day is definitely the Core i5-10600K. In my Intel Core i5-10600K review benchmarking tests, its everyday desktop performance was a smidge faster than the 9700K, despite having two fewer cores, and its gaming speeds were right up there as well, holding its own against its eight-core cousin. It’s also much better value for money than the similarly discounted Core i5-9600KF as well, which is currently down to $152....

“Pause The Game” is available over on Nexus Mods and lets you, well, pause the game by pressing P on your keyboard. Normally, there’s no option to pause the game at all, even when you go into the main menu screen, so this is – quite literally – a game-changer. I’ve definitely had moments where I’ve needed to answer the doorbell while being assailed by seven bloated rats, for example, and a pause function would have been extremely welcome in those situations....

Get a Zotac RTX 3090 Ti Extreme Holo for £1188 (was £1879) Of course, there’s no telling how fast the rumoured RTX 4090 will be, but I can guess that you’ll be paying a whackton more than £1200 for it - and probably paying again in the form of a higher energy bill if the leaks of its enlarged TDP (potentially 600W) are to be believed. Beyond this kind of speculation though, we do know that the 3090 Ti is the fastest consumer GPU on the market now, operating in the same league as AMD’s RX 6950 XT in rasterised performance but blowing far beyond it in terms of RT performance....

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised to hear Total Warhammer 3 will be available on Xbox Game Pass For PC at launch, seeing as Sega recently did the same with fellow strategy games Humankind and Football Manager 2022, but I am. Microsoft must be paying a huge amount of money to dissuade people from actually buying video games anymore. Makes me concerned about what might happen when they feel less generous....

Below we’ll explain everything you need to know about Frigg ahead of her release in Tower Of Fantasy, from her expected release date to details of her weapon stats, skills, advancement traits, and more. Tower Of Fantasy Frigg release date Frigg will be introduced to Tower Of Fantasy on 1st September 2022. At that time she’ll become the next Tower Of Fantasy banner character, replacing fellow SSR Simulacrum Nemesis. Currently Frigg is only available in the Chinese version of Tower Of Fantasy, but on 1st September she will be added to the Global version for everyone to play....

Get Kingston Fury Beast 16GB DDR4-3200 CL16 for £48.64 (was £60) I’d recommend this kit for anyone building a low to mid-range system, as the performance gains you get from faster RAM level out quite rapidly from here until you hit around DDR4-3600, then evaporate almost completely. As you’ll only see the benefit of faster RAM in CPU-limited scenarios, if you plan to game at 1440p or 4K, then this RAM is also fine even in high-end systems....

According to Bloomberg (watch out, there’s a paywall), the big RPG he was working on was code-named Avalon, and would have been set in a fantasy world involving stories about King Arthur and his Round Table. It even would’ve featured cooperative multiplayer akin the Monster Hunter series. But, alas, it was struck down by Ubisoft’s former chief creative officer, Serge Hascoët. The report says that Hascoët “wasn’t a fan of the fantasy genre”, and told the Avalon team that if they were making a fantasy game, it had to be “better than Tolkien"....

It’s a 33 second video but you’re only getting 13 seconds of games mashed in between Ubisoft’s biggo logo. Each shot is a split between two games though so maybe that makes it 26 seconds. Ah, Maths, here ya go: One of the obvious suspects is of course Assassin’s Creed Valhalla which we saw some almost gameplay of during Microsoft’s Xbox 20/20 showcase in May. I’d hazard a guess that Ubisoft were saving the more in-depth look for their own presentation....

Free co-op carnage was revealed during Nintendo’s Indie Showcase stream today. To their utter disgrace, they haven’t renamed the thing “Untitled Geese Game”. The problem with Untitled Goose Game, really, was that there weren’t enough geese in it. Come the free update on September 23rd, you’ll be able to have a friend jump in as a second bastard bird. It appears none of the puzzles themselves have been changed, and having another beak on hand might help with some pesky checklist-clearing....

If you’re familiar with running dedicated servers for games like Valheim, the process should be fairly straightforward. But if this is your first foray into the world of dedicated servers, you’ve come to the right place. Below I’m going to explain exactly how to set up, configure, launch, and join your own dedicated server. The below walkthrough covers every single step from start to finish, and we’ll even go into detail about the small confusing steps like setting up Port-Forwarding, allowing your server through your Firewall, and turning your existing private game into a dedicated server to enjoy with your friends....

Destiny 2 had a stumbling start to Crimson Days The return of the PvP event around Valentine’s Day was overshadowed by the return of a bug which emptied some characters’ wallets of spacecash and crafting materials, causing Bungie to take the game offline for hours and roll characters back for the second time in a fortnight. Hunt: Showdown added random teams of three Rather than have to play a threesie with your Steam pals, you can throw yourself into the system to find a team of randos....

Replication will be available from today until May 25th. When a team loads into a match, they’ll get to vote on which character they’ll be playing for that game. Much like Spike Rush, you won’t need to buy abilities as they’ll reset each round, and you’ll gain a point towards your ultimate at the start of each round, too. You’ll also receive a set amount of credits to spend on weapons and armour regardless of whether you win or lose a round....

The Valorant Act 2 Battlepass is filled with gun skins, gun buddies, and other cosmetic items which you’ll unlock as you play the game and earn XP. It’ll cost you 1,000 VP which is roughly £9, so not too dear for what look like some pretty fancy skins. Onto the Glitchpop skins which give off a futuristic, dystopian vibe. The Frenzy, Judge, Bulldog, Odin, and Knife are all undergoing the cybernetic treatment....

Unlike the last time Valve ramped up Steam Deck production, it’s not clear if this speedier shipment schedule was already taken into account when listing the availability estimates. But given the Deck technically launched back in February, the waiting list is indeed a long and arduous one, so anything that helps work through it quicker should be welcomed. Maybe Liam will finally get his? According to another tweet by Valve designer Lawrence Yang, who spoke to Katharine about the Steam Deck just after it was unveiled, emails will continue to go out to reserve order holders in batches – sometimes twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays....

Key technical improvements to SteamVR include multiple crash fixes, smoother controller animations and new extension support for the OpenXR platform; the full patch notes are on Steam. But the update also adds a new SteamVR Home setting that – and I quote, with emphasis Valve’s - “showcases CT scans of actual dead bugs we found lying on the ground outside our office.” See? The Valve Index isn’t just for playing Half-Life Alyx, eh....

When does Warzone Season 2 start? We expect Warzone Season 2 to start on February 14th, 2022, when the current in-game battle pass timer is set to reset. You can find the start time in your time zone below: West Coast US: Wednesday, February 14th, 9pm PST East Coast US: Wednesday, February 15th, 12am EST UK: Wednesday, February 15th, 5am GMT The release date was previously February 2nd, but the teams behind Warzone and Vanguard decided to delay Season 2 so that they can get both titles into a better state....

I do like that technoangelic style. Doom Eternal will launch next Friday, March 20th on Steam and Bethesda.net, priced at £50/€60/$60. Ray tracing jazz is due to be added some time after launch. March 20th will also bring the long-overdue PC release of Doom 64, a 1997 sequel to Doom II from Midway for the Nintendo 64. I hear good things about it! It’s being touched-up by the resurrection men at Nightdive Studios, who are also adding a brand new extra chapter....

In Gamedec’s world, people spend most of their time inside very advanced video games called virtualiums, in expensive chairs and suits that give you all over haptic feedback and suck all your wee out so you can stay in for days. The ideal! Except obviously, other aspects of life have moved online as well, including crime. That’s where you, a gamedec, come in. You’re a game detective. You solve cybercrime....

Random critical hits There you are, happily making numbers happen, when out of nowhere, AN EYECATCHING BIGGER NUMBER happens. This number could be 37, for example. Or perhaps 37! so you know you’re meant to shout it aloud (and I trust you do, every time). It could even be 37. Or god, 37! But what if 37? Or even 37!? I need to sit down for a second, calm my heart, rest my throat from all this shouting....

That got me thinking. What is the best trilogy in PC gaming? There are only a few series which can maintain quality over the course of three consecutive games. Normally because games take so long to make that shifts in technology and game design principles cause series to change a lot along the way. That doesn’t mean there aren’t obvious contenders, though. There’s Mass Effect 1-3, for example, which tells a continuous story and lets you carry your decisions from one game to the next....