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Crucial’s P5 Plus NVMe SSD is the first high-end PCIe 4.0 drive that I’ve seen crack the $90 barrier for a 2TB model, offering a huge amount of performance and capacity for not that much money. This drive is suitable for both PC and PS5 use (although Sony would like you to use a heatsink, please and thank you) and generally comes highly recommended by those that have tried it, including yours truly.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 had no confirmed release date beyond the vague “2023” still listed on its Steam page. In a business update released today by publishers Focus Entertainment, however, it seems the third-person boltgunner has been delayed into the “second half of 2024”.
I watched a few hours of Worldless being played last night and didn’t really register that it was turn-based. That’s because it’s a Metroidvania platformer and, when it is time for back-and-forth combat, you’re not choosing attacks from a menu. Instead you’re stringing together combos in real-time, then when your alotted attack time is over, you’re parrying enemy assaults with rhythmic flair.
So, turn-based, yes, but with a twist. It’s also out today.
At school I was always being told to listen better and speak more clearly. Perhaps if I’d been able to bring the Logitech G Pro X Wireless headset into Maths class, Mrs Drown wouldn’t have given me such a hard time over my quadratic equations. The wired G Pro X is RPS’ official pick for the best premium gaming headset, and right now you can grab the wireless version for a much more attainable price.
Let’s face it, wires are a necessary evil at best, and we should strive to avoid them as much as possible. They get tangled, they trip you up, and they’re generally a nuisance. No wonder Darth Vader was grumpy all the time. He was full of wires.
Few manufacturers understand this better than Logitech, whose G915 Lightspeed Wireless keyboard has been the ideal way to type without tethers for years. It combines a slim yet robust build quality with wonderfully tactile keys, incredibly fast response times, respectable battery life, and a truly standout volume wheel. Perhaps for that reason, the G915 Lightspeed has also maintained its lofty price point, with an RRP of around £220. But as part of Amazon’s Black Friday sale, you can currently grab the best wireless keyboard for almost half price. It’s currently available for £125 in the UK, and $160 in the US, which is 46% and 36% off respectively.
There’s no shortage of good Black Friday gaming monitor deals this week, but at least among affordable 1080p options, this one stands out: the ViewSonic Omni VX2728J is down from £266 to £140, a £125 saving. And if £266 sounds like a high starting point for Full HD, consider that the Omni VX2728J is no budget monitor, sporting a 27in IPS panel that can overclock its refresh rate up to 180Hz. That’s one speedy screen, yeah?
The Omni VX2728J also supports AMD FreeSync Premium, which Nvidia G-Sync can piggyback on, so there’s anti-tearing tech available regardless of your preferred graphics card. Brightness ain’t great, maxing out at 250cd/m2, but that’s going to be fine unless you have direct sunlight blazing onto the glass. You’ll naturally get good colours from an IPS panel, anyhow, the stand is fully adjustable as well – not always a given, on lower-priced monitors.
27in, 1920×1080, 180Hz, IPS panel, AMD Freesync Premium
WASD to move, mouse cursor to look, space to jump, C to crouch and slide. There, now you know everything you need to play the demo for Blessed Burden, a new first-person “horror adventure” from Podoba Interactive, in which you are “the last surviving priest in a religious apocalypse”. I don’t know many people in the clergy, but I’m pretty sure the job isn’t supposed to involve quite this many swinging blade traps. Here’s a trailer.
As a piece of nostalgia, Flashback 2 didn’t remind me of Delphine’s 1992 Amiga puzzle platforming classic so much as some more infamous fragments of gaming’s past. Like the Attic bug in Jet Set Willy, for example, which made the game impossible to complete, or the unfeasibly strict time limit in a level of Robocop on the Commodore 64, which legend has it was reduced intentionally to hide glitches on the subsequent stage. Indeed, the chances of seeing the final parts of Flashback 2 in its current state seem so remote, you have to wonder what state they’d be in when you got there.
GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games were once working on a zombie survival game set on a Scottish island, which sounds like a mixture of GTA: Vice City and legendary Arma mod DayZ. That’s according to former technical director Obbe Vermeij, who joined Rockstar North in 1995 back when it was called DMA Design, and left in 2009 following the release of GTA 4. In the run-up to the GTA 6 trailer reveal next month, he’s started blogging about the development of several Rockstar games, from GTA through grotty snuff film simulator Manhunt to cancelled projects such as the zombie title and Cold War stealth fest Agent.
Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti is likely one of the hotter properties this Black Friday week; its dual 1080p/1440p capabilities, ray tracing and DLSS 3 support, efficiency, and relatively restrained pricing make it one of the best graphics cards of the current generation. Now, there’s an all-too-rare opportunity to grab one at significantly less than RRP/MSRP, with the triple-fan MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 3X OC falling to £380 in the UK and $370 in the US.
