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Get a great 27-in 1440p 165Hz gaming monitor for £300 today - or even less

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:42 PM PDT

The Dell S2721DGFA is one of my favourite monitors, as it's right in that current 'sweet spot' of price versus performance. 27 inches, 1440p resolution, 165Hz refresh rate and a 'Fast IPS' panel that offers a blend of TN-like motion handling and IPS colours and viewing angles. Alongside LG monitors like the 27GN850, which use the same panel, it's one of the best monitors on the market right now - even though it hasn't been honoured with an RPS review! Today, both the Dell and the LG are discounted to £300 - a big reduction from their usual prices of £380 to £400.

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Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is the perfect place for newcomers to take a vampiric leap into the series

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 09:00 AM PDT

The games industry is a land where mad dreams thrive and die. Oftentimes, they thrive - and then they die. I've not yet met anyone whose job involves chronicling explosive fairy dust incidents at a Lisa Frank factory, but I can't imagine it'd be more wonderful and horrifying than writing about games. That's why it's so easy to appreciate Nihon Falcom. The long-lived studio are happy to stay in their corner and whittle new entries for their decades-old RPG franchises, while the chaos of the industry sloshes around them. Falcom is a purveyor of perfectly pleasant games — and yes, they deserve that bit of whimsical alliteration.

You generally know what you're getting into with a Falcom game (unless you're attempting to untangle the politics behind the Tales Of titles, in which case I'll send your next of kin a consolatory ham). If you pick up Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, for instance, you can expect to enjoy a rock-solid JRPG adventure game alongside the red-haired adventurer Adol Christin. In fact, if you're a fan of action RPGs, I'd say the Ys series is a must-play, and Ys IX is as good a place to start as any.

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Beware's new trailer shows a long, slow drive into Hell

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 08:59 AM PDT

If you took your driving test in Silent Hill, then Beware would be an accurate representation of how you failed. The sur-drive-al horror game is a three-point turn of dread. A lone driver drifts through a foggy night while cars and trucks try to force you off the road. It's been in development since 2014, but if you’re a one-man development team building a map that’s 144km², it’s going to be a long and lonely drive. Happily, there's now a new trailer for it, so let’s see how it’s coming along, shall we?

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EWS podcast episode 146: the best hub areas in games special

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT

This week the Electronic Wireless Show podcast is looking at our favourite hub areas in games, which necessitates a brief discussion as Nate had entirely misunderstood what that meant. That doesn't matter, however, because we still manage to mention at least four video games, and tick off a few boxes on your EWS bingo card.

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Boomerang X is the DOOM game I've always wanted

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT

I just didn't get on with Doom (2016), which surprised me. I'm all for FPS games that have you rocketing around arenas like a squash ball, but I hungered for more speed. Yes it was fast, but I never felt the need to reach for my bucket and hurl after each session.

Enter Boomerang X. It places a hand on your shoulder and a bucket by your feet. It says, "Go get 'em, tiger", then tosses you out of the window. But as you soar outwards, you curve back around and miraculously crash back into your room. "Cool, huh?", it says, looking down on your body sprawled on the floor, before you smile, then hurl.

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s next update will be revealed by a group of LARPers, here's how to watch

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 07:03 AM PDT

The fifth Baldur’s Gate 3 patch is out there. Watching. Waiting. That’s as accurate as I can be right now, but there are more details coming later today in developer Larian Studio's latest livestream. At 7pm BST / 11am PT, Larian will be hosting “The Panel From Hell 3 - Twitch Plays: A Most Noble Sacrifice”. But it's no ordinary stream. They're hosting a "LarPG" in which seven actors will be guided through Gravensteen castle by the viewers. Better than a press release, eh?

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Dota 2’s Championship will be now be held in Romania this October

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:51 AM PDT

Valve’s plans to hold Dota 2’s 'The International' tournament in Stockholm were scuppered last month after the Swedish Sports Federation refused to classify e-sports competitors as ‘elite athletes’. The classification was required to get around the visa restrictions in place during the Covid-19 pandemic. Valve have now moved on and announced that the finals of their competition will now be held in Bucharest, Romania.

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Windows 11 runs on phones, so phones now run Crysis

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:47 AM PDT

Windows is full of phone-based surprises, lately. For example, Windows 11 natively supports Android apps. It also turns out both Windows 10 and Windows 11 can be installed on phones with ARM and Snapdragon chipsets. And we're not talking about the old Windows Phone OS, either. This is proper, desktop Windows. That’s a route that eventually leads down a certain path. A question asked of all PCs since the mid-2000s, and now one we must ask of modern phones: “But can it run Crysis?”

The answer the OnePlus 6T cockily spits back is, “A bit.”

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