Get Crucial Ballistix (16GB DDR4-3200) for £46.79 (was £68.39) So why is this the sweet spot? Well, from my own RAM testing, you lose a lot of performance from memory below ~3000MT/s. From 3000MT/s to 3600MT/s, you get a nice batch of extra performance, and after this diminishing returns kick in and you start to pay more and more for each extra scrap of horsepower. So DDR4-3200 is comfortably in the middle of that bang-for-buck zone....
Normally this costs $15/£13 per month, but until June 22nd your first month of the service has been reduced by 60%. This makes it one of the cheapest ways to “rent” new Ubisoft games like Assassins Creed Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising, letting you try these games for a month for just $6/£5.20. Get 60% off the first month of your Ubisoft+ subscription As well as the games, their expansions and DLC season passes, Ubisoft+ also comes with a new raft of in-game items and whatnot each month, so there are some benefits to sticking around if you’re a massive fan of, say, Rainbow Six or Watch Dogs....
Starting from today (January 17th) until January 30th, customers who take out either BT’s Superfast Fibre 2, Ultrafast Fibre 100 or Ultrafast Fibre 250 package will have the option to get a free Google Stadia Premiere Edition as part of their new internet deal. The Premiere Edition includes a Stadia controller, a Chromecast Ultra device and three months of Stadia Pro, the subscription part of Stadia that lets you play games in 4K HDR and 5....
Get the Ryzen 5 5500 at Ebay for £88 w/ code BAG20OFF In terms of performance, the 5500 does fall behind the 5600 due to its smaller cache allocation and lack of PCIe 4.0 support, a consequence of the chip using a Cezanne APU design rather than the Vermeer design found in the rest of the Ryzen 5000 CPU lineup. (Basically, this is a Ryzen 5600G with the integrated graphics deactivated....
Running from now until March 24th, the Stellaris Discovery Bundle is a great jumping in point for Stellaris newcomers. As well as the base game, there’s a mix of expansions, story packs and extra species packs to be had here, and you can see the full list below. Normally, this would all set you back a whopping $137 if you bought them all at normal price, but for the next two weeks you can grab them all for just £10 / $15....
Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds puts you into the position of a beta tester for a fictional online VR game called ‘Soul Divers’. Except it’s not really a game in the game, it’s the world of Ni No Kuni. It is really a game IRL though, so don’t fret. You’ll need to rebuild your ravaged kingdom and save both of the worlds that have been crossed. I get it now!...
Gigabyte say they’ve managed to achieve this temperature drop by increasing the Aorus 15P’s airflow intake by up to 37% compared to other thin and light gaming laptops (although exactly which models they didn’t specify). Still, I’m all for lower temperatures, especially if it means the laptop doesn’t sound like a jet engine when playing games. Gigabyte’s newly redesigned Windforce Infinity cooling system should also help in this respect, as it now has dual fans and five heat pipes that are made of copper to dispel heat more effectively....
Pointed out by the folks over at RPS fanzine PC Gamer, Pig Rider isn’t being coy with its name. The work of modder JulioNIB - who’d previously modded Grand Theft Auto V to let you lark about as The Hulk, Iron Man, or a bleedin’ Shark - Pig Rider lets you romp about RDR2’s frontier on a range of comically supersized brutes. Despite the name, Pig Rider has ambitions for more mountable beasts beyond those horse-sized piglets....
This game should not be confused with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, another DC-verse adventure game from Warner Bros due out in the near future and starring four secondary characters from the comics whose stars are on the rise thanks in part to the DCEU. If it helps at all, just remember that Gotham Knights is a stand-alone, while Suicide Squad is officially in-universe with the Arkham games. Read on for everything you need to know about Gotham Knights, from the latest release date info to details on characters, setting, plot, multiplayer, and more....
Running until Tuesday December 1st, the bundle contains nine games total – plus one soundtrack. As per usual, it’s split into three tiers, so you can pay as much or as little as you like to get the games you want. Get the Humble Sweet Farm Fall Bundle starting from 76p / $1 The first and cheapest tier takes a minimum payment of 76p / $1, and nets you the following:...
Get the NZXT H510 Elite for $79.99 (was $159.99) The H510 Elite is also a case that I happened to have used for many years and even reviewed for my own hobbyist website back in 2019. Building in this case is really straightforward, with plenty of space and straps for your cables on the back side, well-positioned holes for routing wires and a shroud that covers your PSU. I/O is a little disappointing - just one USB-C, one USB-A and a combo 3....
Head on over to this Ubipage to get the Trilogy free. You have until Friday the 12th at 10am (your local time) to claim a copy, then it’ll be yours for keepsies. Miss it and you’ll miss out. Released across 2015 and 2016, the three games star different murderers from various spin-off novels and comics and things, but you needn’t worry about that. Basically, they have to do stabbing, because of aliens....
Looking for more free games? Check out our round up of the best free PC games that you can download and play right now. In their dates and times post for the show, Ubisoft lay out the details for snagging a copy of Watch Dogs the second. “Log in with your Uplay account anytime after Trackmania and before the end of the main show to claim a free copy of Watch Dogs 2 on PC,” they say....
“Due to extremely high player volumes, we are currently experiencing issues with access to Rockstar Games Services including the Rockstar Games Launcher and GTAV for PC,” Rockstar Support tweeted over the weekend. They only acknowledged the issue on Sunday but it really was busted all weekend. Some people apparently did manage to get in, but it seems connections were hardly stable even then. Trying to play GTA Online would likely you see stuck staring at the clouds of the loading screen, regularly getting prompts to give up or retry....
“I refuse to believe that is what Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. wants, because that would be an extremely anti-customer and anti-gamer move on their part,” Ross said. “But I am not getting in a legal battle with them. If what they want is to assert their corporate dominance with gamers’ interests as collateral damage, I have no power to stop them.” The Flat2VR modding community has tweeted in support of Ross’s work....
About nine months ago, Guinness put together a video profile on Super Mario Bros speedrunner Kosmic including footage from his record-breaking warpless run. Now, Kosmic’s own video of the record and tons of other SMB speedrunners have had copyright claims made on their similar videos. Guinness have now released those claims saying “sorry for causing concern, we know how distressing it can be to get these notifications,” signed by Dan....
Right, disclaimers up front for this one. I’ve known Tom Francis, developer of Gunpoint, for at least fifteen years. I remember when he was hired as Disc Editor (“What’s a ‘disc’, grandpa?”) for PC Gamer, I’ve eaten homemade pizza round his house, and felt cool because I already knew him when he was all super-famous at GDC in 2014. I can in no sensible way be expected to be objective about his creations....
All fully registered Halo Insider profiles as of September 13th are eligible to participate, so if you’re not registered yet then what are you waiting for? 343 have also released a video to help users fully register, including the extra steps for PC players. Check it out here: 343 held their first technical preview earlier this summer, featuring 4v4 Arena maps with players facing AI-controlled bots. This upcoming preview will now include PvP for Arena maps and Big Team Battle - the first time players will get their hands on Infinite’s 12v12, vehicular multiplayer mode....
As it stands, CK3 is one of the few RPGs I’ve played that genuinely compelled me to try thinking like my character would, rather than just pushing for optimal outcomes. And it swiftly achieved what CK2 only managed at its best, in making me feel more invested in my pretend family of medieval gits, than I did in the nation they were ruling. And on top of all that, CK3 simply does a much better job of explaining itself than most of Paradox’s historical titles do....
Have a quick listen-a-roo of the theme here if you like. Could you imagine a better piece of music to get you in the mood to delve into a twisted, brooding Wonderland, with nothing but your bloodstained dress, a wicked-looking kitchen knife, and the most evil-looking Cheshire Cat ever conceived to keep you company? It gets even better when you discover that much of the music in American McGee’s Alice was created with the help of children’s toys, clocks, music boxes, doors, and other wonderfully unusual makeshift instruments....
