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Prime Gaming is giving away four extra games in June and July to celebrate Prime Day 2023, on top of the June freebies already announced. Prey (2017) is already available to claim on GOG, and the next three games will drop weekly.
Roblox is launching new regulation in order to allow creators to make content specifically for users aged 17 and above. From what Manuel Bronstein, Roblox’s Chief Product Officer, shared in an official blog post yesterday, it seems that it’ll be on creators to label their experiences as mature, which “may contain more violence, blood, or crude humour” than usual experiences.
The introduction of age appropriate access is not for safety primarily, as Roblox say they want to “simulate and even go beyond what’s possible in the real world”. Bronstein also added that, “We want to replicate that dynamic on Roblox,” referring to the idea of getting older and legally being allowed to enter places such as nightclubs.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the RTX 4060 Ti just came out but you should probably buy the RTX 3060 Ti instead. It’s around 85 to 90 percent of the performance at less than 70 percent of the cost – although you do give up better power efficiency and DLSS 3 on the newer model.
We’ve highlighted a few UK RTX 3060 Ti deals before, but here’s one for the US market courtesy of Best Buy – on a PNY unit with a simple dual-fan design, plenty of cooling potential and a price that makes a lot of sense: $275, down from a previous price of $320 and considerably less than the $399 Nvidia is asking for their 4060 Ti FE.
Dota 2 is moving away from releasing new content via a pattle pass in favour of more varied and regular updates. Valve explained the change on the Dota 2 blog, saying that the heavy focus on the Compendium – the Battle Pass released alongside Dota 2’s yearly esports event, The International – was leaving “the rest of the year feeling barren by comparison.”
Another day, another batch of Game Pass additions, with this selection being spread out across the end of June and beginning of July. The Xbox Wire blog shared this half of the month’s Game Pass additions earlier today, and there seems to be a little something for everyone. First up is Need for Speed Unbound via EA Play, the most recent and incredibly stylish entry in the racing game series, which you’ll be able to play on PC from June 22 – you’ll be able to stream it through the cloud too.
I’ve been meaning to round up the best Steam Deck accessories for a while now – ambushing Liam with homemade Etsy gadgets is one thing but now that there are literally millions of Decks in owners’ hands, quite literally, it’s time to put a serious face on and consider which accessories genuinely are the best buys.
This guide is keeping separate from the best Steam Deck microSD card list, mainly because a good microSD card is less of an accessory and more of a core essential (especially if you’ve gone for the 64GB Steam Deck model). Still, this guide will cover an array of addons, from alternative cases to thumbstick covers and USB-C docking stations.
My Dad likes to tell this story from when I was a teenager. I had grumpily asked if he could pick me and a friend up from a local park one afternoon, and he remembers us bundling into the back of his car all smelly and sweaty and terrible as teenagers so often are. But as he pulled away, he caught a snippet of our conversation that was so unusual it’s the reason this seemingly normal car ride has cemented itself as a core memory. We were talking about the price of eggs. And tomatoes. And the order in which we were planting crops to ensure the greatest yield.
My poor father interrupted us, turning in his seat to ask what the hell we were talking about. “It’s a game we’re both playing called Harvest Moon” I scoffed in his direction. “You wouldn’t understand”.
The Callisto Protocol will be getting its first and only bit of story DLC next week, which Striking Distance are describing as the game’s “heart-pounding final chapter”. Entitled Final Transmission, a short teaser trailer has been released giving us a look at what protagonist Jacob Lee will be getting up to, but it doesn’t really show us all that much. There seems to be some kind of fleshy robot monster that says he’ll “never escape,” but that’s all we’ve got to go off right now.
Ahead of the game’s release in August, Baldur’s Gate 3 has received a prequel murder mystery game that lets you vote on how things unfold. Playable for free in your browser, it’s titled Blood in Baldur’s Gate, and is set 15 years before the events of Baldur’s Gate 3. Developer Larian Studios revealed the project yesterday. In it, you play as a detective tasked with solving a murder, and by you, I quite literally mean all of you, as this one will take a bit of collaboration.
Next month’s open beta for Frontier Developments’ new Warhammer RTS Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin may be focused on testing its 1v1 multiplayer mode, but the Elite Dangerous studio have told me there’s still plenty to look forward to in its single-player story campaign. I got to chat with principal designer Sandro Sammarco last week, and he told me they’ve been hard at work making sure it’s “filled with loads of cool new stuff that people really haven’t seen before”. He also said that their partnership with Games Workshop has allowed them to “really go to town in terms of the visuals, the lore, [and] the story that we’re telling”, and he hopes that the way they’ve characterised the campaign’s principal faction, the Stormcast Eternals, will give players plenty to sink their teeth into when it launches in full.
