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Elden Ring’s very Soulslike OST will be performed live in the UK for the first time next April, as a “Symphonic Adventure” concert based on the game’s score heads to London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Bloober Team, developers of Layers of Fear, The Medium and the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, have added another notable name to their plans for the next few years. The horror-focused studio is working with the creators of zombie comic book-turned-TV show The Walking Dead on a new video game adaptation.
Embark Studios have released The Finals update 1.4.0, a mixture of balance tweaks, quality-of-life improvements and crash fixes which is going down like the proverbial lead balloon among fans of the free-to-play shooter‘s Heavy class. I’m definitely here for the crash fixes – I can’t get The Finals to run for longer than five minutes, which is a shame, because as Graham tells it, this is the most exciting new multiplayer FPS in years. Specifically, it sounds like a blend of Battlefield and Rainbow Six: Siege with a smashable toytown aesthetic. But enough about me and my computer’s refusal to let me have fun. What’s going on with those Heavies, then?
My Steam Wrapped listed Baldur’s Gate 3 and Vampire Survivors as my top two games of 2023. If Epic Games and my Switch were involved, Fortnite and Persona 5 Royal would’ve absolutely been included in the lineup, too. Motivation has lain mostly in co-op capers with friends, hangs with virtual pals, or in the battle royale-verse. Otherwise, nothing has truly given me the itch.
But I think 2024 could be a big one for me. Not only are a number of upcoming RPGs right up my alley, they align with new and existing motivations: hangs with pals and Japanese language learning. For the first time, I’m excited to embrace the grind both in-game and outside of it.
Last time, in celebration of Doom’s 30th birthday, you decided that Doom 2’s super shotgun is better than Doom’s shotgun (57% vs 43%, statheads). An intellectual brawl between two absolute titans. Whoever won, we’d lose. But whoever won, we won. This week, the calendar also dictates our subject. This being Christmastime, I need to know: what’s better, giving items to other players or throwing grenades back?
Interesting. This door on the Advent Calendar has an instruction scrawled on it in blood: TURN THE DOOR KNOB. There’s a remote recorder on the floor there, and if you press play a voice, coughing itself to death, says “You have to turn the door knob!”. After a few minutes standing there, you think to yourself, “Maybe I should try turning the door knob?”
Blizzard have revealed their approximate update plans for the next year of arthouse oddity World Of Warcraft, which if I remember correctly is a “massively multiple-player” experience of some antiquity that involves Orcs – a kind of always-online Baldur’s Gate, if you will, or a strictly fantasy-themed Fortnite with dungeons instead of forts. Seems far-fetched, but let’s roll with it.
As a reminder, WOW now comes in two broad flavours: classic and modern. In modern World Of Warcraft, you can expect three more updates for the existing Dragonflight expansion before the release of World Of Warcraft: The War Within later in the year. This introduces a new subterranean playspace, the Ringing Deeps, and is the first in a trilogy of expansions called The Worldsoul Saga.
Logitech’s best value FPS mouse, the G Pro Superlight, is down to $60 when you buy it refurbished in the US at the company’s official store. That’s a huge reduction from its launch MSRP of $150 and even the $100 that the refurbished models normally go for.
I love this mouse because it’s extremely comfortable, with a smooth and streamlined symmetric shape that sits easily in the hand, with a lightweight 63g design. This makes it extremely agile for fast-paced games, and this is backed up by bulletproof Lightspeed wireless, a top optical sensor and excellent battery life too. That’s why I ended up with two of them – one in black and one in pink – and I still use them on the regular for Counter-Strike 2, Valorant and Warzone.
Want a standing desk but don’t have the budget to get something ultra-premium like Corsair’s £1000 Platform:6, Ikea’s £475 Bekant or Flexispot’s £200 Essential Standing Desk? Well, no worries – there are even cheaper standing desks available online, and today you can pick one up from Marsail for just £80 using a voucher at Amazon UK, saving you £28.
Gallium Nitride chargers have taken over from their silicon predecessors thanks to their more efficient designs, allowing even physically small chargers to deliver a huge amount of power. One of the best is Ugreen’s Nexode 100W, and now this 4-port USB-C charger is down to £36 at MyMemory in the UK with code 10X25. For context, the same charger cost £42 when it was discounted earlier this year!
