HomePodcasts Ultimate Audio Bang podcast: picking apart Geoff’s FestOh, hello again! Oh, hello again! The Ultimate Audio Bang is back! Yes, after a sad albeit festive farewell to Imogen (RPS in peace) I’ve since roped poor Hayden in to chat with me. As it’s his first rodeo, we keep this episode fairly relaxed and get to know a bit more about our new pod bud, then follow it up with our Point Of Interest: Summer Geoff Fest....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest Patch 8 finally lets us rock out as gnome bardsThe ‘Of Valour And Lore’ update tweaks the pace of combat, and hairstyles The ‘Of Valour And Lore’ update tweaks the pace of combat, and hairstyles Image credit:Larian Studios Image credit:Larian Studios Eurovision is always held in May, so it’s a bit random thatBaldur’s Gate 3developers Larian decided to theme today’s Panel From Hell stream after the popular-yet-cringeworthy song contest....

HomeNews E3 is back for 2023, and our corporate dad ReedPop is producing itCalifornia, here we come California, here we come What can you expect from a ReedPop-organised E3 in the second week of June next year? Well, they’re promising to “reunite the global video game industry for a week of titanic AAA reveals, earth-shaking world premieres, and exclusive access to the future of video games”. Crikey. It will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and will be both a business and consumer-oriented event....

HomeNewsGangs Of Sherwood Gangs Of Sherwood is a gritty, dystopian Robin Hood PvE game shooting for 2023Play as the Merry Men in a co-op PvE action game Play as the Merry Men in a co-op PvE action game Today’sNacon Connectevent included gritty antiheroes such as theTerminatorand RoboCop, but I never would’ve expected to see Robin Hood there too. Appeal Studios’Gangs Of Sherwoodis an upcoming third-person PvE co-op action game that puts you in the dainty shoes of the Merry Men....

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HomeNewsHell is Us Hell Is Us' latest update shows neat concept art of post-apocalyptic fieldsAmid tiny scraps of info Amid tiny scraps of info At today’sNacon Connect, we got a little more info on upcoming action adventure gameHell Is Usfrom its creative director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête. In-between agonising jargon like “narrative layers” and “high-level directives”, there’s some neat concept art and info on what we can expect from the story, combat, and exploration....

HomeFeaturesKnights and Bikes Knights And Bikes and the joy of personalising your rideEven adults love making their bicycle look cool Even adults love making their bicycle look cool Afterstarting my Tour De Jeuxwith the official Tour De France game, stage 2 takes me toKnights And Bikes. Foam Sword’s 2019 game evokes childhood joys of zooming around with your pal and tricking out your bicycle with reflectors and Spokey Dokeys. That might seem far from the Tour De France but grown-up cyclists are just as keen on customising their bikes for coolness, and even some Tour bikes are rocking garish decoration this year....

HomeNews The Competition and Markets Authority are on the case The UK government’s competition regulator is to investigate Microsoft’s $68.7 billion (£57 billion) buyout of Activision Blizzard, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced yesterday. A provisional deadline to decide whether the merger will be referred for a more in-depth investigation has been set for September 1st, and the CMA has invited “any interested party” to comment on the merger up until July 20th....

HomeHardwareDeals Pick up an SK Hynix P41 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for $221 after a 15% couponThe SK Hynix Platinum P41 is a performant and great value NVMe SSD - and now it’s even cheaper. The SK Hynix Platinum P41 is a performant and great value NVMe SSD - and now it’s even cheaper. SK Hynix are one of the biggest memory and flash storage manufacturers in the world, and after many years of mostly supplying the ‘raw materials’ like NAND and controllers to other people, they’re now starting to make their own SSDs under their own brand name....

HomeFeaturesSkull and Bones Skull And Bones resurfaces as a Sea Of Thieves-like without the jokesAnd it’s out in November, for now And it’s out in November, for now Back in the mists of time, I actually had a hands on with Ubisoft’s pirate ‘em upSkull And Bonesonce. In my memory of it, I was an adolescent, which was categorically not the case and probably more a product of the booths at Gamescom being very tall, not to mention the hands on taking place so very long ago....

HomeNewsTest Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown’s first footage doesn’t have a lot to show2023’s open world driving sim remains unseen 2023’s open world driving sim remains unseen Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown wasannounced back in 2020as a revival of the luxurious racing sim. Then 2021 broughta CG trailerand the exciting news that the game was set in Hong Kong. Now, in year three, we get the first real footage of the Solar Crown in action… for a few seconds… with stuff laid all over it…...

HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless Show episode 193: our most nostalgic gamesWhen I was a kid we barely had TV When I was a kid we barely had TV Come with us now on a journey to our childhoods, as we on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast talk about the games that make us feel the most nostalgic. The games we played as kids, or spent all-nighters on as teens. It’s a surprisingly diverse list, and Matthew has one anecdote in particular involving the music of Danny Elfman that I think makes this a genuine must-listen episode....

HomeNewsThe Lord of the Rings: Gollum The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum’s sneaky new gameplay trailer still doesn’t convinceMy precious? My precious? A newThe Lord Of The Rings: Gollumtrailer has dropped at today’sNacon Connect, which shows Mr Precious scamper about in some suitably fantastical locations. He hops between some bushes, dodges a dragon, and chucks something at an orc - all the staples of a Hobbit who’s gone goblin mode. I’m still a bit on the fence about it, though....