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Embark Studios’ The Finals is one of the most interesting multiplayers to come along for a while. It’s also a brand new game from a new studio, and it unsurprisingly has some issues at launch. Alongside its underwhelming AI-assisted voiceovers, weird bugs, and questionable balance at the start of Season 1, as Morgan has pointed out, it’s a sweaty beast, placing major emphasis on multi-way competitive shooting that can overly rely on being the twitchiest trigger finger, and neglecting the tactical potential of its fantastic destruction tech.

Last week, Embark released an update aimed at improving the game’s skill-based matchmaking, and what followed was a cavalcade of complaints from players on Reddit, claiming that the SBMM changes had ruined the game. Par for the course, then. Mo…

It’s May 4th and those Star Wars themed SSDs from Seagate announced last month have made it into a stunning PC from EKWB to mark the occasion. I’d love this build even without the subtle lightsaber theme, the blacked out case and components with the red and blue lighting is, uh, so good. 

But damn if it doesn’t make me wish there was a newer version of those Star Wars-themed Nvidia graphics cards to go with it.

Remember those graphics cards? I do, all too well. Mostly because we were handed one to giveaway back at my last haunt. A Titan Xp Galactic Empire edition. Oof, it was gorgeous. 

We did end up sending it off to one lucky winner, but not before prying it from Dave James’ hands. To this day he’s still horribly bitter about it.

There were t…

66 members of The Game Awards Future Class, a program intended to honor people “who represent the bright, bold, and inclusive future for video games,” and hundreds of others involved with the videogame industry have signed an open letter calling for a statement acknowledging the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza during The Game Awards show in December.

Gaza has been under siege since mid-October, following an attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants that reportedly resulted in 1,200 deaths, mainly civilians, and more than 240 people taken hostage. In response, Israel unleashed an attack on Gaza that has thus far killed more than 15,000 people, according to Gaza health authorities, roughly 6,000 of whom were children. Alongside the military assault, Israel also cut off food, …

A closed network test for Tekken 8 was held in July, with an initial run that was exclusively available to Playstation 5 owners followed by a broader test that included players on Steam. Letting PC gamers near Tekken 8 meant that someone fired up Cheat Engine because of course they did, at which point they managed to find a partial roster in the game’s files that includes six previously unannounced characters.

Those characters are Alisa, Raven, Shaheen, Steve, Yoshimitsu, and Zafina. By Raven they presumably mean the popular Blade-looking fighter added in Tekken 5, rather than Master Raven, his widely disliked replacement from Tekken 7. 

As a former Yoshimitsu main I’m pleased to see his return, though not surprised. He’s been in every mainline Tekken game since the ori…

Brazil’s gaming scene doesn’t get enough attention, Wes said in his feature on Brazilian gamers and developers last year, but it will get a big publicity bump soon thanks to Steam’s first-ever Made in Brazil Sale, which will kick off tomorrow with more than 500 games made by Brazilian teams.

The sale was the brainchild of BitCake Studio founder Eduardo Lamhut, who tweeted about his plan for the sale back in September 2022. From there, BitCake coordinated the development and approval of the sale, which has attracted more than 250 game companies and a range of genres “from action and adventure to strategy and simulation.”

“Talking to other developers, we suddenly realized that there was never a Steam sale just for Brazilian games,” Lamhut said. “We’ve already seen sales focuse…

It increasingly feels like I need a full alignment chart matrix to accurately describe the intersection of cozy games and farm sims. Were I to build such a chart then Grave Seasons would be in the “lawful evil” category. It’s got those cute pixel visuals that immediately get clocked as cozy and it’s got farming and romantic entanglement with townsfolk except wait, it’s actually about catching a serial killer. And if you aren’t careful you might romance the culprit before you figure out who it is.

Grave Seasons is currently in development by indie studio Perfect Garbage and has been having a bit of a moment over on the cozy games corner of TikTok. Studio director Son M made a pretty compelling pitch for it on Twitter back in 2021, saying:

“I want to make a farming simulator m…

Update: There are now six, not five, 1440p gaming monitor deals we think are well worth their salt in the sub-$200 bracket, thanks to the Gigabyte G27Q being on sale for a cent shy of $200. This adds another IPS monitor to the list, too.

Prime Day is as good as here, and monitor vendors seem to be going a little ham in the sub-$200 1440p department, offering these five cracking discounts for what were, until pretty recently, some of the best gaming monitors on the market. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill sub-100 Hz displays, either, because each of them features a refresh rate of 165Hz or higher.

• We’re curating the best Prime Day PC gaming deals right here.

Display technology seems to b…

Don’t panic if the June 13 (1090) Wordle’s giving you a heap of trouble, because we’ve got today’s answer right here, ready to help you win. A bit too much? Then why not take a look at a helpful hint for today’s game instead? However you want to win, we can help.

What a fun game that was. I loved seeing the Wordle answer build up just that little bit more with each guess, seeing one more yellow turn green and fresh clues pop up as I went. I won’t win any speed records for that one, but I had a great time with it.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, June 13

You might use this word when describing a personal feeling of sadness or anxiety, a strong fear or worry. The sensation is often more existential than caused by something spe…

Turn your Wordle around in an instant with a quick click through to today’s answer, or make sure you start off on the right track with our freshly-written clue for the April 6 (1022) game. However you want to play today, we’ve got the help you need.

“Yep, yep, nope, oh heck, save me, I think I’ve got this” is pretty much how today’s Wordle went for me. It took five goes before I found a green letter that made the few clues I’d gathered fall into place, and even though I did manage to find today’s answer just in time I can see that it still could’ve gone very badly for me on that last row. Let’s hope tomorrow’s game is a little less stressful.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, April 6

You’ll need a bird brain to solve today’s …

There’s no getting around it: if you’re looking to pick up an RTX 4080 graphics card this holiday, the deals aren’t that impressive. Of the best GPU deals we’ve gathered, most sites are only cutting prices by $50-$100 bucks, the most elusive among them being the RTX 4080.

Good RTX 4080 deals are so rare that we’ve already seen one sell out—a $140-off deal for a Gigabyte card at Best Buy. Rest in peace, but the good news is there’s a Newegg deal that’s nearly as good still in stock: the MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 4080 16GB can currently be snagged for $1,080 at Newegg.

Just 20 bucks shy of the sold-out Best Buy card. Not too shabby, but be aware that’s only after going through Newegg’s $30 rebate process and punching in the $20 discount code BFCCY2Z36 at ch…