Deals for today: iBUYPOWER Element Pro RTX 9070XT gaming PC Drops to $1,499 Big performance, little spend plus fresh deals on SSDs and GPUs Image credit:iBUYPOWER and PNY Image credit: iBUYPOWER iBUYPOWER Element Pro (Ryzen 9 7900X, RX 9070 XT) $1,499.00 See here At $1,499, this prebuilt honestly looks like a bit of a steal. Ryzen 9 and RX 9070 XT in a setup that’s already water-cooled—if I didn’t want to faff about building my own right now, I’d probably just go for this....

Death Stranding 2 will let you skip bossfights and peruse them “like a novel”, according to reports Kojima experimenting with the cinematic possibilities of books Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kojima Productions I cannot remember any of Death Stranding ’s bosses, so it’s perhaps for the best that Death Stranding 2 : On The Beach will let us skip right past them – skip right past them like children who think video games are just Instagram montages and that the Power of Choice is a Christian rock band....

Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands’ greatest trick is making me enjoy turn-based combat Rock ’n’ roll for initiative Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Five Houses LLC I may have winced a bit, initially, at Alice Bee’s choice of RPS Game Club game for this month. Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands looked funny and all, but it’s a turn-based RPG , a subgenre that usually elicits the same amount of enthusiasm from me as the phrase “by Ernest Cline” does from Alice ....

Diablo 4 Altar Of Lilith statue map locations Find all the Altar Of Lilith statues with this interactive map Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Looking to clean up every last Altar Of Lilith in Diablo 4? There are a lot of collectibles strewn about the gigantic open world of Sanctuary in Blizzard’s flagship dungeon crawler Diablo 4 . Some of the most useful to find are the Altars Of Lilith - statue effigies of the Daughter Of Hatred, which give you stat bonuses for all your existing and future characters at once....

Disco Elysium studio bosses humiliated the cancelled expansion’s lead writer for speaking to journalists, claims report “They made him apologize to people for what he said in the (People Make Games) interview." Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/ZA/UM Back in February, Graham wrote about potential redundancies at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM following the cancellation of a standalone expansion to that game, codenamed X7. Now, PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield has spoken to 12 current and former employees about the circumstances surrounding the cancellation, notably the details of the layoffs, the expansion, and the “humiliation campaign” suffered by writer Argo Tuulik as apparent retaliation for his participation in last year’s extensive People Make Games documentary ....

Disco Elysium writer was told “people covet these items more than they care” when pushing back against ridiculous merch “Headfuck panopticon” Image credit:ZAUM/Atelier. Earlier this week, a plastic bag blowing in the wind made me question all I knew about the world, but in whatever way the opposite of life-affirming is. Less blowing, actually. More taunting me from my screen maddeningly like a middle finger salute from a man with no hands....

Do crimes and save floating New York City in this alternate-1930s RPG Grand Theft Aether Image credit:Seismic Squirrel New York, New York, it’s a helluva town! The Bronx is up but the Battery’s also up because they both run on anti-gravity now! Haha, oh my sides. Please excuse my very whimsical Broadway introduction to Aether & Iron , a sci-fantasy RPG from an alternate 1930s in which New York has taken a turn for the Bioshock Infinite, soaring through the clouds care of fancy “aether” technology....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Best Thief skills and augments Best Thief skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Interested in the best Thief skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2? The Thief in Dragon’s Dogma 2 perfectly fills the niche of the agile rogue with short blades at the ready, always capable of stabbing you in the dark and running off with a bit of your coin. They might be more vulnerable than other melee vocations and feature a trickier skillset, but a good Thief will pack a punch that won’t soon be forgotten....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: The Guardian Gigantus quest walkthrough Learn how to tackle a giant statue from the deep in The Guardian Gigantus Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for a walkthrough for the main quest The Guardian Gigantus in Dragon’s Dogma 2? There’s a behemoth statue lurking in the depths of the ocean in Dragon’s Dogma 2 , and this quest sees it rising to the surface and causing extreme havoc. If climbing the backs of ogres, minotaurs, and griffins wasn’t enough, try this massive fellow on for size!...

Dune: Awakening’s new trailer details how its map changes every week, which sounds awful for cartographers Clean slate Image credit:Funcom I get that in-world the whole appeal of Dune’s Arrakis is all of that spice it harbours, but to be honest the giant sandworms are a bit of a dealbreaker for me. Even still, I have to admit that Dune: Awakening looks pretty neat even with that ever present threat, and a new trailer all about exploring the desert planet that dropped this week has helped pique my interest a little further....

Duskers is getting a ship-building sequel years after the sci-fi roguelike scared us to bits Quickly! Open the door and let it in! Image credit:Misfits Attic The creators of sci-fi corridor explorer Duskers are making a “spiritual successor” to the 2016 space game . The studio revealed their plans in a video showing three prototypes they’re currently working on. The working title for this one is “Humanity 2.0” and it’ll see you carving up derelict ships to build your own vessel and sometimes defending that ship from pirates trying to take it over....

Edmund McMillen says the “big important bits” of Mewgenics are done, shows off 50 minutes of weird cat roguelikery You can also submit your own moggy’s name to be included Image credit:Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s funky cat breeder Mewgenics has meandered back into the kitchen and emitted the first in a series of informative meows that’ll build up to its release next year. McMillen has revealed that “all the big important bits” are now sorted, and to celebrate, has released a 50 minute-long video playthrough....

Elden Ring Nightreign’s evil Deep Of Night mode gets a release date, but some people are already playing it It’s officially out 11th September Image credit:Bandai Namco Elden Ring Nightreign will get a new rock-hard Expedition mode called Deep of Night on 11th September. “Rock-hard” is a cliché worn to uselessness, of course: to be more specific, this is at least tungsten-carbide-hard, possibly even as hard as stishovite, though the exact degree of toughness is variable....

Elder Scrolls: Legends has been removed from sale and will become unplayable in January 2025 I guess sometimes legends do die Image credit:Bethesda Softworks The Elder Scrolls: Legends , the free-to-play card game set in Bethesda’s fantasy world, has been removed from sale on Steam. Its servers will shut down for good on January 30th, 2025, after which it will no longer be playable. The closure comes five years after the game was last updated....

Erosion is a voxel open world shooter in which deaths cost decades, and you can win the Wild West with armies of cats Save your daughter before she gets old enough to be your mother Image credit:Lyrical Games “And then one day you find ten years have got behind you - no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun,” sing David Gilmour and Richard Wright in Pink Floyd’s “Time” ....

Fable’s evil landlords won’t grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery The RPG’s “more about the subjectivity of morality that honestly we see in the world today” than straight-up goodies or baddies Image credit:Playground Games The character morphing system which has facilitated many a dickhead protagonist sprout devil horns and red eyes in the classic Fable s isn’t in Playground Games reboot, which is set to arrive this autumn....

Failbetter’s next game will be “gentler” than Sunless Skies: “you won’t go mad or eat your crew” Developers drop hints while discussing sustainability and Fallen London’s on-going success Fallen London and Sunless Skies developers Failbetter Games have blogged about the dark art of running a sustainable business , while sharing a tiny bit more about their next, unannounced game. Said game is apparently a change of genre from Failbetter’s previous, exceedingly narrative-driven open world titles and free-to-play RPGs ....

Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishing Hook, line, and sinker Image credit:Bethesda Fishing! It’s a feature that’s been included in many games over the years, one that varies in quality from game to game. Sega Bass Fishing? Probably top of the line, as long as you have that unique fishing rod controller. Stardew Valley ? I like it, but I know plenty of people that hate it....

FFXIV’s 7.0 patch gears up for Dawntrail by polishing its graphics, hiding quest-giver crowds and making stealth quests less annoying Some welcome quality-of-life changes as the new expansion approaches early access Image credit:Square Enix We’re only a couple of days away from the early access launch of Dawntrail , Final Fantasy XIV ’s latest expansion and first in over two years since the climactic Endwalker. As the summery story expansion prepares to drop, Square Enix have run down everything else arriving in the MMO ’s 7....

Final Fantasy XVI is an uneven PC port with performance to match Upscaling to the rescue, again Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix Fifteen months on from its PS5 release, Final Fantasy XVI – that actiony RPG of emo-fringed hack ‘n’ slashing and disquietingly sexy Ralph Ineson characters – is now on PC. Enough time, you’d think, to do a proper job of rejigging it with Windows spanners, especially after Final Fantasy XV ’s port got so much stick for its lack of features and performance issues ....