The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S2 Ep 6: revenge of the sequels

podcast today discusses sequels and serieseseses, in light of some surprise announcements of sequels over the last week (Nate isn’t here today, but maybe he’ll return in the next entry? You’ll have to listen to find out). In games we seem to accept that a series running for decades, over many, many sequels, is just kind of normal. What’s the deal with that? Would games be better without sequels? Who knows? Us. We do. We talk about it today.

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Resident Evil 4 remake’s promised demo might be arriving tonight after Capcom’s Spotlight stream

Resident Evil 4 remake trailer the other week, they promised a playable demo would be coming ahead of the game’s launch on March 24th. At the time, no date was given for when the demo might be arriving, but thanks to some seemingly early Twitch ads doing the rounds today, it would appear that Resi 4 demo will be coming later today – presumably once Capcom’s Spotlight Showcase stream has wrapped up this evening. Here’s hoping it will also be available on PC, and not just PlayStation this time.

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This new management game looks like Theme Hospital meets Startopia

Galacticare has slapped this management game right onto the old radar. An intergalactic radar, in fact, because this is a hospital management game – in spaaaaace! – coming later this year. It’s from a Brighton-based indie studio called Brightrock Games, and it sort of looks like Theme Hospital with a space skin, or Startopia with a hospital sim. Neither option is a bad thing, in my opinion.

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The WD Black SN770 is now £125 for 2TB, £35 off its usual price

WD Black SN770 is one of our top gaming SSD recommendations, so I thought I’d let you know that this high-speed PCIe 4.0 SSD has reached a new low price at Ebuyer in the UK. The 2TB model is now £124.99, a solid £35 below its normal price and a great deal for a drive that can reach up to 5150MB/s sequential reads and 4850MB/s sequential writes.

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Move over Elden Ring, Clash: Artifacts Of Chaos is the new hardest game in town

Clash: Artifacts Of Chaos is nails, mate. And that’s coming from someone who recently reviewed Team Ninja’s Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, a game that’s mighty good at grinding people into paste. I’m not trying brag; I’m being vulnerable with you. I have a case of the Ben Affleck blues, where most sessions of Clash’s third-person action-adventuring have me veering from elation to being slumped against a wall with Affleck’s signature grimace on my face.

Aside from being really difficult, I’m a bit undecided on how I feel about Clash in the portions I’ve played so far. It looks fantastic and puts some brilliant spins on combat, but levelling is a bore and exploration has a confusing edge. It’s at once both a grand time and an annoying one. The surreal lands of Zenozoik, it turns out, aren’t all sunshine and turkey men. There are a lot of turkey men, though.

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Crucial’s legendary MX500 SATA SSD is $103 for 2TB

best gaming SSDs in the SATA category in my books, right alongside the legendary Samsung 870 Evo. That’s because the SSD offers excellent performance while working within the confines of the SATA interface, with straightforward TLC NAND flash and a DRAM-equipped design that ensures strong sustained performance – something lacking in QLC DRAM-less designs.

Today, the Crucial MX500 in its 2TB capacity is down to $102.99 at Amazon US, making it nearly 50% off its MSRP and the lowest price we’ve ever recorded.

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What’s better: ground pound attacks or reloads dumping unspent ammo?

Quake 2’s railgun is better than the currency ‘Gold’. I take this as a solid sign that we can trust in the process, that we know we are on the right path, that we will find our way to the single best thing in video games. This week, I ask you to choose between dropping things in very different ways. What’s better: ground pound attacks or reloads dumping unspent ammo?

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