HomeHardwareFeaturesAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: how to get the best performance on PCDon’t let it axe your frame rate Don’t let it axe your frame rate When Ubisoft released theirAssassin’s Creed Valhalla PC requirementslast month, I was worried its high system specs would be a real brute to run on lower-end PCs. After all, whenAssassin’s Creed Odyssey’s 4K spec has been more or less downgraded to what you need to get the game running at 60fps on High at 1080p this time round, Valhalla looked like it was going to send hundreds of ageing PCs to an early afterlife....

HomeNews Destiny 2’s pre-expansion live event might have been nice if I could see it, idkWait, what happened? Wait, what happened? Whoops, sorry, that’s one of my own recordings. Let’s see… Ah no, I’ve done it again. Alright, last try, here’s “Kamino” off YouTube with a video they’ve nicely edited together with dialogue, some of the sights, a little timelapse, then the big finish: To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeHardwareFeatures Fnatic Streak65 reviewThe ultimate ultra compact gaming keyboard The ultimate ultra compact gaming keyboard As its name implies, this 65% gaming keyboard is a fraction larger than the HyperX x Ducky One 2 Mini, and that extra 5% makes all the difference. As well as providing enough space for those all-important arrow keys, you also get another four programmable macro keys that double up as your traditional Del, Ins and Pg Up and Down functions....

HomeNews Fortnite is considering monthly subscriptionsSome of the suggested subs could cost over $200 a year Some of the suggested subs could cost over $200 a year Would you pay a monthly subscription to get extra goodies inFortnite? It looks as though Epic Games are trying to find out. A number of players have received surveys asking about their opinions on a potential monthly subscription for the game, and what they think it should include....

HomeNewsFuser Fuser, that mash-up maker from the creators of Rock Band, is out nowSmash Mouths with The Cranberries? Aye, go on. Smash Mouths with The Cranberries? Aye, go on. Plastic instruments and rock music is out, readers. It’s all about mash-ups now, and while we don’t all have the patience to actually go off and learn audio engineering, theRock Bandand Dance Central buffs at Harmonix are re-mixing things up with their new game,Fuser....

HomeFeaturesDescenders Have you played… Descenders?Pioneering the new Roguebike subgenre Pioneering the new Roguebike subgenre Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I dove intoDescendersfor the first time knowing absolutely nothing about it, assuming it was a racing game with bikes. Imagine my surprised glee when it turned out to be a roguelite. A very solid one.After a two-minute tutorial (which only shows you the most basic controls and leaves you to figure out the rest),Descendersthrusts you into your first run....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 I missed Destiny 2’s coolest reward because I just had to be a scrubThanks, Mountaintop Thanks, Mountaintop To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Prophecy is a playable vision of sort, an attempt to interpret the impending Darkness in a form we daft wizard corpses can understand: a space to shoot stuff and do sick hoverbike tricks. It’s chuffing gorgeous. In a game full of grand sci-fi vistas, Prophecy has been my favourite space this side of The Whisper....

HomeFeaturesDwarf Fortress Meet the 7 weirdest dwarves in the history of Dwarf FortressNothing but contempt for oysters. Nothing but contempt for oysters. Without spoiling anything, I can tell you that things get… quite interesting from here. But before we move on to that, I want to do something I always regretted not doing with the Basement ofCuriosity, which is provide you with a proper profile for each and every founding dwarf....

HomeNews Microsoft are looking to buy Japanese studiosThey simply cannot be stopped They simply cannot be stopped As of late, Microsoft have bought up countless mid-size game studios, culminating recently in the acquisition of big ladZeniMaxin September. Even still, they hungered formore, and now it looks like they’re after a Japanese studio to gobble up. Update: Xbox boss Phil Spencer has since semi-denied this. “I don’t think so… I mean, I’m not in every meeting that every team has, but I’ll say not from me,” hetold GameSpot....

HomeNews So how about that new Xbox, huh?You getting one? You getting one? Merry Xboxmas! Microsoft’s new console launches today and all across the land, good kiddywinkles are waiting to see if Father Xboxmas will deliver one to their door, or whether it’s still stuck bouncing back and forth between post depots in Truro and Cumbernauld. The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are the first of the new console generation, arriving mere days ahead of the PlayStation 5, so: how about it, huh?...

HomeNews Xbox Game Pass adds The Sims and other EA games this DecemberAnd a bunch more goodies hit the service this month And a bunch more goodies hit the service this month As if all the games on offer on Xbox Game Pass for PC weren’t already a pretty good deal, Electronic Arts are adding a big old library of games to the service soon, too. As of December 15th, Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate members will have access to EA Play for no extra cost....

HomeNewsYakuza: Like a Dragon Yakuza: Like A Dragon is out nowTime to catch up with those mobsters with hearts of gold Time to catch up with those mobsters with hearts of gold Those Japanese mobsters with hearts of gold return today for a new adventure inYakuza: Like A Dragon. Sega’s RPG series takes a slightly different turn with this new entry, switching out the beat ‘em up combat for some turn-based action....

HomeHardwareFeatures After seeing the stonking gaming speeds ofAMD’s Ryzen 5 5600Xat the end of last week, the Ryzen 7 5800X was always going to have a difficult mountain to climb if it was going to prove its worth as a top-notch gaming processor - especially after the rather middling gaming performance of the even more expensiveRyzen 9 5900Xdidn’t really leave it much wriggle room to make its mark between that and its mid-range sibling....