HomeHardwareDeals These Ryzen CPU, motherboard and cooler bundles are great valueRyzens to be cheerful Ryzens to be cheerful The CPUs in question are theAMD Ryzen 5 3600and3600Xprocessors. They’re both strong performers, falling slightly short of theIntel Core i5-9600Kon gaming performance but undercutting it on price. The cheapest deal is on the Ryzen 5 3600, which can be had for£300(down from its usual price of £360). This comes with the MSI X470 Gaming Pro Max motherboard, and AWD-IT are also throwing in a free Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition cooler with it, too (pictured above), which is a bit beefier than the standard AMD Wraith Spire cooler you’d normally get in the Ryzen 5 3600’s box....

HomeNewsDesperados 3 This Desperados 3 choose your own trailer has you decide between stealth and strengthHow do you do? How do you do? The first video in the sequence of gameplay trailers lets you choose to break into a guarded fort the loud or quiet way. Try it for yourself now if you like, before I just go on and tell you what happens. To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeNewsA Total War Saga: Troy Total War: Troy will be free at launch on Epic in AugustCor! Cor! Creative Assembly have announced a release date of August 13th forA Total War Saga: Troy, with a surprise: they’ll give it away free to keep on the Epic Games Store at launch. It’s becoming an Epic timed exclusive, see, and how! The giveaway is only for one day, mind. In the usual Epixclusive way, it’ll be on Steam after one year - and Creative Assembly do say this exclusive is a one-off....

HomeHardwareFeaturesValorant Valorant PC requirements and how to get the best performanceHow to hit 144fps even on an ancient graphics card How to hit 144fps even on an ancient graphics card After months in closed beta,Valoranthas finally arrived on PC, and to help you get the best performance from Riot’s new 5v5 tactical shooter, I’ve been testing the game to see how it runs. The good news is that you don’t need a super high-powered PC to get smooth frame rates inValorant, but just in case your PCisgetting on a bit, here’s how to get the best performance from Valorant no matter what type of PC you have....

HomeReviews Valorant reviewSad shooty wizards Sad shooty wizards Valorantis Riot’s newfangled hybrid ofCS:GOandOverwatch, where teams of five run around shooting very deadly weapons while deploying character-based abilities. It’s very, very similar to CS:GO, right down to the round structure and individual weapons. If you’ve ever defused a bomb in Counter-Strike, there’s a good chance you’ll already be a crack shot here. It’s basically the same, but with more mind games and novel situations thanks to those abilities....

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HomeFeaturesTerraria Best Terraria modsTerraria Firmer Terraria Firmer Terraria’sfinal update, Journey’s End, is just the beginning. Developers Re-Logic have pulled off one final trick for their huge fanbase, making popular community mod manager tModloader officially supported. It’s a lovely gesture that means the players will have easy access to the bewildering amount of fan-made items, monsters, total conversions, and more, even if development has ceased. I had to editorialise a lot when looking around for mods forTerraria: there’s a bewildering amount....

HomeNewsGang Beasts Gang Beasts is going it alone and self-publishing future updatesThe Gang leaves the nest The Gang leaves the nest Image credit:Boneloaf Image credit:Boneloaf To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Currently, Boneloaf say they’re planning to release Gang Beasts update 1.13 as a beta branchon Steamsometime next month. They plan to include “a modified version of the wheel stage with support for online game modes and a series of optimisations and fixes for UI, audio, costumes, gameplay, and achievements....

HomeNewsThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Get a Fus from the past in this Skyrim fan video and its 2012 SFXBut which bow is that? But which bow is that? Truly,Skyrimnever dies. Its memes, one liners, and in-jokes are probably destined to plague our vocabulary until the end of time. Here’s a deep cut for you all the way back from the annals of 2012. It’s beenreshared on Redditonce again because you can’t really beat the silly friends reenact video games vibe....

HomeFeaturesMutazione Have You Played… Mutazione?Deep roots Deep roots Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Despite my grand plans to get more, right now I still only have one houseplant. But I do love it. I move it around to give it different amounts of light and carefully check the soil. Growing plants seems to have both a creative and a protective element to it....

HomeFeaturesEscape Rosecliff Island I don’t think my dad could ever Escape Rosecliff IslandThe Hidden Curse The Hidden Curse I have a mystery that will likely never be solved. After mydad diedin 2016, one of the more peculiar things I had to do was go through his computer, log him out of everything, and close down various accounts. Which included Steam. Looking in his library on there, there were three games that sat atop his “most played” list, with hundreds of hours clocked up for each....

HomeNews Madden NFL 21 announcement postponed as EA decry “unjust treatment and systemic bias"Surprising! Surprising! Electronic Arts had planned to today announceMadden NFL 21, the latest annual sequel in their American football series. But in light ofthe protests, unrest, and violencein America right now after Minneapolis police killed unarmed Black man George Floyd, it didn’t seem the time. “Our immediate attention is on actions we can take to drive change against the unjust treatment and systemic bias that is plaguing the nation and our world,” EA Sports said in a surprising statement....

HomeNewsMinecraft: Dungeons Minecraft Dungeons is getting cross-platform multiplayerAs well as a bunch of free stuff As well as a bunch of free stuff I’m really enjoyingMinecraft Dungeons, and my only real criticism of it right now is that there just aren’t enough levels to explore. That won’t be the case as of next month, however, because the game’s first DLC, Jungle Awakens is dropping in July. On top of that, Mojang have announced they’re working on bringing cross-platform multiplayer to Minecraft Dungeons, as well as a bunch of other content in a free future update....