The official Forza Twitter account posted the image of the sprawling new map below. I’m really intrigued by that volcano, and it looks like there are some lovely coastal trails too. In their latest video showcasing parts of Forza Horizon 5, the developers go through the map explaining a little bit about each area. This map is supposed to be 50% larger than Forza Horizon 4’s UK map, and honestly, it looks like it has more interesting landmarks too....
It’s an open world racer of humongous scale, dressed up in beautiful, destructible environments that are nothing like the dioramas of old. Foliage flattens under your car, seasons change, and water splashes look the best they’ve ever looked in any racing game. The festival format at this point feels like a beloved real-life event like Glastonbury or Burning Man. The marquees, grandstands and confetti guns have now rolled into Mexico and brought with them a delicious, licensed soundtrack to pump through your TV speakers....
Foxhole is one of the few to do it successfully: a single, massive World War 2 battlefield in which players don’t just fight at the frontlines, but form supply routes, build defenses, and otherwise take the reigns of the logistics of war. After five years in early access, Foxhole released version 1.0 today. Titled “Inferno”, the 1.0 update comes with several major additions. Those include new tools for logistics players, including the ability to build factories that can operate as production centers and shipping ports....
Probably the standout here is the baseball bat weapon modelled after Hotline Miami. Who doesn’t want to don a rooster mask and Letterman jacket so they can go wild on some of Dead Cells’ slimy enemies with one? I do like the sound of the Slay The Spire inspired diverse deck too, though. That contains four cards with a draw, passive, and discard effect, with the passive working permanently. Chuck away a card by pressing the power button and you’ll draw the next card, triggering its effects....
This follows Gearbox’s 2014 suit that (supposedly?) established their full ownership of the franchise, and is the result of another ongoing lawsuit by musician Bobby Prince against Gearbox (as well as Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and Valve Software), where he’s claiming that he merely licensed his tracks to them rather than outright selling. Basically, Gearbox are trying to ensure they don’t suffer legal costs because of 3D Realms’ alleged cock-up....
And there’s a good reason for that: food items in the game can be used to increase your characters’ health and grant them various useful buffs. A lot of the time you can simply snack on whatever you forage during your adventures around Teyvat. But for the biggest and best benefits, you need to learn recipes, gather ingredients, and get cooking. On this page: How to cook in Genshin Impact Manual cooking vs automatic cooking Where to find cooking ingredients in Genshin Impact Where to get new recipes in Genshin Impact...
In order to nab some fancy new duds for the one and only Prinzessin der Verurteilung, you simply need to locate 16 Phantasmal Conches from around the Golden Apple Archipelago and piece together the tale they tell. This year they come in two varieties — Echoing Conches and Imaging Conches — but both count towards your Phantasmal Conch collection goal. There are 20 in total and you get some extra goodies for every four you collect....
There are also discounts on more affordable Dell gaming and content creation laptops, but let’s cover the Alienware models first! See Dell’s gaming deals, including 38% off selected Alienware laptops The Area-51m R2 isn’t a cheap laptop by any means, but the level of horsepower provided is pretty outstanding. The specs on both machines include a 10th-gen Core i9 10900K desktop processor, an Nvidia RTX 2080 Super graphics card, 1TB of SSD blazing fast RAID0 SSD storage and a secondary 1TB SSD or HDD, with the SSD model costing £150 more than its all-flash counterpart....
Indeed, the 1TB model is currently a much better buy than some of the 860 Evo’s other size capacities right now. For example, the 500GB 860 Evo is still stuck at £60 at time of writing, while the 2TB model still goes for a whopping £220. In fact, if it’s a cheap 2TB SATA drive you’re after, then you should take a look at the newer Samsung 870 Evo, whose 1TB and 2TB capacities are also on sale this week....
Get the Razer Book 13 for £1329 (was £1644, RRP £1999) The first thing I noticed when researching the Razer Book 13 for this piece was the reviews for it. They’re seriously glowing, a rarity for what is ostensibly a ‘work laptop’. Of course, the secret is that Intel’s Iris Xe graphics built into its 11th-gen Core i7 processors are actually surprisingly good, capable of running esports games and classic titles at great frame-rates....
Get a Crucial P2 500GB SSD for £36 So: why the Crucial P2? Basically, if you can fit one in your PC or laptop, there’s little reason to get a SATA SSD anymore - NVMe SSDs have now gotten incredibly cheap, while offering upwards of 4x the sequential read and write performance. This P2 is able to hit 2300MB/s reads and slightly slower writes, which makes it considerably faster than the likes of the Crucial MX500, the same company’s premiere SATA drive, which is limited to the 560MB/s of the SATA interface....
Get the HP X24ih for £129.97 with code FNDDGAMING (was £189) As well as being a good deal in terms of the raw specs - 24-in 1080p 144Hz monitors normally cost closer to £150 - the HP X24ih in particular is one of the best available thanks to a deep feature set and a great IPS panel. Let’s cover the features first. The HP monitor has FreeSync support for variable refresh rate gaming on PCs with AMD or Nvidia graphics cards (plus consoles like the Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One); this eliminates screen tearing and judder without the input lag penalty of traditional v-sync....
That performance normally comes at a steep premium, but today an MSI Ventus 3X RTX 3080 12GB model is going for a low price over at Newegg. They’re asking $810 for the graphics card after a $30 rebate, some $450 below the GPU’s ludicrously high MSRP. That makes this model actually cheaper than almost all RTX 3080 10GB cards on the market, and a worthy deal for our hallowed deal archives....
The Naga Trinity’s UK RRP is £110, but it normally goes for about £70 or £80. Today, it’s down to £55 - a nice discount! Get the Razer Naga Trinity for £55 (RRP £110) Former Hardware Boss (and current Big Boss) Katharine reviewed the Naga Trinity back in 2018, and she found it an entirely agreeable prospect - in fact, the subtitle of the review was ’the holy trinity of gaming mice’....
Our review of the RX 6700 XT (conducted by the erstwhile Hardware Editor Katharine) reveals a graphics cards with plenty of strengths, and a few weaknesses too. Chief among the negative points is the price - now handily solved by this discount - and second is RT performance. Put simply, AMD’s first-gen RT solution isn’t as strong as Nvidia’s second-gen equivalent, so you can expect frame-rates in RT titles that are equivalent to Nvidia cards a few rungs down the ladder....
It’s normally £200, but it’s down to £167 on AWD-IT which is a pretty decent deal if you want to build a powerful gaming PC on a budget. Get the Intel Core i5 12400F from AWD-IT for £167 (was £200) The 12400F is an RPS favourite, with James’ 12400F review stating that “even without E-cores, the Core i5 12400F is a gaming CPU bargain”. It outperforms the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X in games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Total Warhammer 2 (yes that’s the real name of that game), Total Warthreekingdoms (also correct), Forza Horizon 4, Metro Exodus, AC Odyssey, AC Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion....
As of today, it’s a year old, and 40% off on Steam. Half-Life: Alyx takes place in City 17 before Gordon returns in Half-Life 2. Instead of the silent scientist, you play as a young Alyx Vance, who wields a pair of gravity gloves that let you interact with the world from a distance. They’re a fun toy to play with and an ingenious solution to many virtual reality FPS design problems....
Now the Twitch peaks are below 10k and dropping, with the averages even lower. Lynch says February was his worst month views-wise in over a year. You’d expect some tail off after launch for any game, but every content creator I’ve spoken to echoes this sentiment: engagement for Infinite is abnormally low for a live service-game at the beginning of its multi-year journey, especially for a franchise as big as this....
Microsoft explain that as well as cross-platform play, “your multiplayer customisation and progress will follow you across all platforms.” Handy for people who play on both, I guess? They add that they want Hinfinite to offer “a premier PC experience, including highly desired features such as support for ultrawide and super ultrawide screens, triple keybinds, a wide variety of advanced graphics options and more.” Yeah yeah, but will you relax that Microsoft Store security to enable modding?...
I played Halo: Reach’s singleplayer on Xbox 360 way back when and didn’t like it enough to look any further, so this is probably the first Halo I’ll give a real try. My download is still going but I have enjoyed seeing clips people posted of their Grecian 2000 soldiers swinging around on grappling hooks. Has Halo always had a grappling hook? I would’ve played sooner if I’d known about grappling hooks....
