Want to get into Fallout on the cheap- This $800 RTX 4060 system is the perfect start-
If you’ve been following the new Fallout TV show and wanted to get into the games on a gaming PC, you may have been put off by the prices of the best systems you can get. The thing is, you don’t need to spend thousands of dollars to enjoy a quality 1080p gaming experience—this $800 Yeiyan Yumi is proof of that.
Kicking things off is the Core i5 12400F processor. Yes, it’s three generations old now but its six cores and 12 threads are more than enough for most games, and the motherboard inside the PC supports more recent CPUs if you feel like upgrading at some point. As we discovered in our 12400F review, it’s fast, cool, and a great little processor.
It’s been sensibly paired with a GeForce RTX 4060. This graphics card has 3,072 shaders and a boost clock of 2,460 MHz, though it will often run faster than that. This is because Nvidia’s latest chips use relatively little energy and the RTX 4060 often uses far less power than its 115 W limit. Best of all, it supports …
Warhammer and stamp-collecting collide in Royal Mail’s latest collection-
Have you ever worried that your correspondence isn’t grimdark enough? Feared that your pen pal doesn’t understand how much you love Space Marines? Despaired that the birthday card you’re sending your mum includes no reminders of how good the art on the original Rogue Trader rulebook looked? Buddy, let me free you from your torment: Royal Mail is releasing a full set of Warhammer stamps.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the venerable franchise (counting from the first release of the original fantasy wargame, simply dubbed Warhammer, in 1983), the collection features primarily recent art and miniatures from Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. That includes portraits of Space Marine Primarch Roboute Guilliman and Daemon Prince Be’lakor, photography of Stormcast Eternal and Ork miniatures, and more.
But there’s some classic art in there too, to tickle the nostalgia glands of any long-standing fan—including the aforementioned Rogue Trader artwork (th…
Ubisoft is stripping people’s licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is-
The downside of digital ownership has reared its ugly head for enjoyers of Ubisoft’s open-world multiplayer racer The Crew. The publisher has revoked its licence for those who owned it on Ubisoft Connect, almost destroying fan ambitions to revive the game in both an offline and online format.
The Crew was pulled from sale back in December, with Ubisoft revealing that the servers would be shut down at the beginning of April. Frustratingly, despite a large portion of the game being doable in singleplayer, The Crew remained an online-only endeavour throughout its decade-long lifespan. That had already rendered the game unplayable, but it seems Ubisoft is determined to take things one step further to stamp out any attempts to continue playing it past its expiry date.
Fans began to notice earlier in the week that the licence to the game had been snatched away from them. A message at the top of the game’s library page reads, “You no longer have access to this game. Why not che…
Elden Ring’s creator says he’s been checking out Escape from Tarkov for a little multiplayer inspiration-
Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki sat down for a chat with IGN recently, in the build-up to today’s much-anticipated announcement of an expansion to our 2022 game of the year. In the short conversation, Miyazaki spoke about working on Elden Ring, whether the game’s success would influence FromSoft’s future projects, and the kind of games he looks to for inspiration. And guess what? Turns out Miyazaki’s been paying special attention to Escape from Tarkov recently.
When he was asked what trends, ideas, or tech he finds inspiring, Miyazaki said that he’s been keeping an eye on how other developers have been “updating multiplayer network functionality and the game design” in ways that change how “the players are involved in the gameplay”, and even how “players are used as one of the resources for the gameplay”. In particular, he’s been watching Tarkov, where he’s been observing changes as both “a creator and fan of the game”.
It makes sense that Miyazaki would be pa…
World-leaping adventure Cocoon will come out this September-
The new game from the studio of Limbo and Inside gameplay designer Jeppe Carlsen, Cocoon, has a release date: September 29th, 2023. The adventure game where you can carry a world on your back was first revealed last year, though at the time the trailer was deliberately mysterious.
Cocoon promises to be a game of intricate puzzles and platforming exploration. Geometric Interactive describes it as “a mind-bending sci-fi puzzle adventure inspired by The Legend of Zelda and Portal.”
Geometric describes Cocoon as a puzzle adventure game that has a new mechanic: “each world exists within an orb that you can carry on your back. Wrap your head around the core mechanic of leaping between worlds—and combine, manipulate, and rearrange them to solve intricate puzzles,” says the description.
Each orb then has powers that can be further unlocked to make it into a tool that does something like uncover secrets, fire projectiles, and the like. Those secrets and world-orbs all…
Wordle today- Hint and answer #910 for Saturday, December 16-
Keep on scrolling to find a hint for today’s Wordle, as well as a selection of helpful tips you can use in your general daily puzzle-ing. Need something a little more to the point? You’ve got it. The answer to the December 16 (910) game is only a quick click away.
With really nothing but grey letters to work with this morning, I had no choice but to try and see what I kept on missing as I worked my way down the board. A carefully considered guess using these “leftovers” soon turned today’s Wordle around after that terrible start, but I wouldn’t have minded seeing some greens a little earlier than I did.
Today’s Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, December 16
This word might refer to anything spherical, from the earth itself to a smaller rotatable map of it. Today’s answer is also the name of a theatre famous for its association with Shakespeare.
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Is there a double letter in Wordle today?
No …