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It’s click season, and Amazon’s Spring Sale has some absolute bangers lined up for your next mouse upgrade. Whether you’re grinding out ranked in Valorant or just need something smoother than your office-issued brick, now’s the time to strike. Prices are slashed, specs are stacked, and your K/D ratio is crying out for better gear.
We last wrote about immersive sim sequel System Shock 3 back in 2020, when then-developers Otherside sold the franchise to megapublisher Tencent. Development of the series later passed to remaster specialists Nightdive Studios, who’ve already overhauled the first game and are currently working on a remaster of System Shock 2 for release in June.
Now, Nightdive have popped up with news that the System Shock 3 project survives, in some form, and that we could get clarification as to its status “potentially within a year”. Don’t call it a comeback, do call it a sign of life.
I’ve never trusted anyone who says their keyboard is “just fine.” If your spacebar sounds like a rusty stapler and your RGB barely flickers, it’s time to stop pretending. You deserve better. The Amazon Spring Sale is stacked with gaming keyboards that actually keep up with your reflexes and don’t sound like you’re punching a calculator from 1994.
If your adventures take you from Teyvat to Terminal 5, you’ll want this beast of a power bank riding shotgun. UGREEN has teamed up with Genshin Impact to drop a limited-edition Nexode 20000mAh power bank featuring the radiant Kinich design. It’s cool, powerful, and—thanks to the Amazon Spring Sale — cheaper than ever in both the US and UK.
Is there a Marvel supervillain themed around PC game memory requirements? Let’s assume that there is, and that her name is Dr RAMsbottom. For too long has Dr RAMsbottom – aka the Bottlenecking Belle, aka Zero Sub Sixty – plagued the lives of Marvel Rivals players. For too long has she reduced our superheroic exploits to an unsightly stop-motion parade.
Be of good heart, ye Rivals, for the boffins at NetEase (the ones that weren’t suddenly laid off in February) are devising some countermeasures. Specifically, they’re thinking about adding a box you can tick to somehow cut back the game’s memory usage “significantly” and improve your frame rate.
Horizon: Zero Dawn composer Joris de Man has expressed a tentative interest in the return of Guerrilla’s Killzone shooter series, which was once touted as PlayStation’s answer to Halo, Call Of Duty, and Gears Of War.
Everything is IP, all of the time, everywhere you look now, because big wigs in suits have got it in their heads that original, uniquely appealing content just can’t win over a combination of pixels that resemble something someone already likes. Sea of Thieves is no stranger to crossovers, with big, thematically relevant ones like Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as some smaller ones like Halo and Banjo Kazooie. Today’s crossover is one of the smaller ones, this time with, uh… Destiny. The sci-fi, first-person shooter. Huh.
Well, there you have it folks. After months of uncertainty over share price falls, major game delays and squabbles with investors, Ubisoft have opened up a new subsidiary to look after their biggest-selling Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six, and Far Cry games, with Tencent chucking in a whopping €1.16 billion – meaning that the latter will have a 25% stake in the new spin-off business when all is said and done.
Remember Secret Level, that Amazon show that came out last December? I wouldn’t blame you if you already forgot about it, for the most part it was pretty forgettable considering how much of it could be boiled down to “damn… video games are violent, huh?”, except positioning that as universally cool, actually (let’s leave that whole conversation there). Easily the weirdest of all the episodes was the Pac-Man one, given that it was only Pac-Man in the sense that there was a floating yellow orb thing that kind of looks like the titular, iconic video game character.
When there’s as big a brand as Disney, that has enough money to just kind of throw whatever at the wall and see what sticks, eventually you wind up with something that might make you scratch your head a bit. Today, that thing is Disney Villains Cursed Café, a visual novel where you serve a bevy of potions to various Disney baddies, announced earlier today as part of the final Nintendo Direct for the OG Switch (but yes, it is on PC too – in fact it’s already out on Steam).
