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EA "didn't fully consider" decision to delist classics from GOG
This 2TB PCIe 4.0 drive is $239.99 at Newegg (was $499.99)
Patron is a survival city-builder in the vein of Banished
This Dell 240Hz monitor is down to £234 after a handy code
Fortnite now has its own Among Us-style mode
Xbox Game Pass lines up more games for August
The Weekspot podcast #051: joy Parisian
Humankind's launch trailer is willing to murder for the Moon
Genshin Impact: how to gain Adventure EXP and increase Adventure Rank
I am showered with the viscera of a dying mousepad
Mortal Shell's roguelike expansion will be free at launch this week
Genshin Impact: how to process cooking ingredients
The best Genshin Impact Sayu build
3D Realms announce explosive retro shooter Cultic and its demo

EA "didn't fully consider" decision to delist classics from GOG

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 02:43 PM PDT

Back in June, Syndicate and Ultima Underworld I & II disappeared from GOG.com at EA's request. Then they returned to the digital storefront earlier this month without much explanation, and are being given away for free for a period of four weeks by way of apology.

Now EA have said they'll have a "process in place" in future so things like this don't happen.

This 2TB PCIe 4.0 drive is $239.99 at Newegg (was $499.99)

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 02:28 PM PDT

Whoa, this is kind of crazy. Normally we see sales on older, more budget NVMe SSDs, but today we have a scorching hot deal on one of the very fastest drives on the market. The XPG Gammix Gaming S70 is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, capable of ludicrous sequential speeds - up to 7000MB/s reads and 6400MB/s writes. The 2TB model is down from $499.99 to $269.99 on Newegg right now - and it comes with a free $30 gift card, bringing the effective price to $239.99. That's an incredible value for a drive of this size and speed.

Patron is a survival city-builder in the vein of Banished

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 02:16 PM PDT

Patron looks to me like The Settlers: a peaceful medieval citybuilder about laying down paths and watching your peeps trundle between farmstead and market. It is, according to its Steam reviews, more akin to Banished: a survival citybuilder about both outlasting winter and appeasing the social simulation of your town.

In either case, Patron feels worthy of further patronage. It came out a week ago and there's a demo available.

This Dell 240Hz monitor is down to £234 after a handy code

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 02:02 PM PDT

The Dell S2522HG is a solid 240Hz gaming monitor based around a 25-in IPS panel, making it an ideal choice for both competitive gaming and content creation - and now it's reached a new low price thanks to a code available at Dell's UK store. Use code DELLNJMON103 to knock £26 off the listed sale price, dropping the monitor from £260 to £234 - a great value.

Fortnite now has its own Among Us-style mode

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 01:40 PM PDT

Fortnite now has a new mode called Fortnite Impostors. I'll give you two guesses as to what it is, and if you get the first one wrong I'm going to assume you're the impostor. I mean, it's in the headline.

The mode is Among Us, more or less, and there's a trailer for the backstab royale below.

Xbox Game Pass lines up more games for August

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 01:12 PM PDT

Last week I wrote that best-game-of-last-year Hades was coming to Xbox Game Pass in August, alongside some other fine games such as Curse Of The Dead Gods and Katamari Damacy.

This was apparently insufficient, since Microsoft have just laid out more games coming to their game subscription service in the Month Of Aug, including Humankind, 12 Minutes and Psychonauts 2.

The Weekspot podcast #051: joy Parisian

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 09:00 AM PDT

Yes, another Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla DLC has been released. And, again, it’s a tad like the base game. But, not totally, because Ubisoft have remembered to put some sneaking in this one. It still has a pebble-stacking minigame, though. You can’t have it all, I guess.

Humankind's launch trailer is willing to murder for the Moon

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 07:21 AM PDT

Today has brought the launch of a new 4X strategy game from Amplitude Studios, the makers of the Endless Space and Endless Legend games, and it's a good'un. Humankind is their take on a Civilization-sorta historical strategy game, growing a nation and its culture across the aeons - with inevitable conflict. This is demonstrated in the launch trailer, where a jaunt to the Moon turns frankly very illustrative of humankind.

Genshin Impact: how to gain Adventure EXP and increase Adventure Rank

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 07:02 AM PDT

Wondering how Adventure Rank works in Genshin Impact? Adventure Rank is Genshin Impact's main levelling system. Your Adventure Rank spans your entire account and determines how high you can increase the World Level and level up your individual characters and weapons, as well as giving you access to rank-locked quests and events.

I am showered with the viscera of a dying mousepad

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 06:29 AM PDT

One nice thing about a computer rather than, say, a dog, is that it doesn't rot. No secretions, no shedding, no decay. A computer will still happily sit in a corner of a room, chirping and whirring and bringing you joy as you play with it (look, I don't know much about dogs?), but ultimately it's an entity of silicon and copper and plastic and electricity and almost no goo. How fascinatingly horrible, then, to find myself being showered with goop from an orifice opening in my dying gel mousepad.

Mortal Shell's roguelike expansion will be free at launch this week

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 04:13 AM PDT

The year of Epixclusivity for Mortal Shell ends on Thursday, bringing the Dark Souls-inspired action-RPG to Steam and GOG. The developers are jazzing it up too, releasing an expansion with a new roguelikelike mode - and it'll be free to keep, at first. Launching alongside the Steam and GOG releases on August 18th, The Virtuous Cycle will be free if you grab it by August 23rd. So, do that? Game's fairly deece.

Genshin Impact: how to process cooking ingredients

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 03:18 AM PDT

Looking to learn how to process ingredients in Genshin Impact? The world of Teyvat is, in many ways, a dream of self-sufficient living: it seems like you can't take half a dozen steps outdoors without seeing the telltale gleam of a collectible and receiving a button prompt to forage some tasty-sounding ingredients. While some of what you pick up can be snacked on raw and the rest can be put to use in some simple recipes, some higher-quality ingredients require processing before you can cook them up into a full meal.

The best Genshin Impact Sayu build

Posted: 17 Aug 2021 02:48 AM PDT

Want to learn how to create the best Sayu build in Genshin Impact? The tiny Sayu is a ninja that tends to spend her days sleeping high up in Inazuma’s trees. Despite her laziness, she’s able to curl up into a ball and deal damage by rolling into opponents, giving her one of Genshin’s most unique movesets to date. Sayu best serves as a combination between a healer and an Anemo support character.

This guide will show you how to create the best Sayu build in Genshin Impact. Below we'll cover everything you need to know about Sayu, including wishing, weapons, artifacts, ascension materials, talents, abilities, and constellations.

3D Realms announce explosive retro shooter Cultic and its demo

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 04:22 PM PDT

If you're hungry for throwback shooters, don't you worry. We aren't done here yet. 3D Realms announced another retro FPS during their Realms Deep showcase called Cultic. Developed by Jasozz Games, Cultic is styled as a shooter of yore about fighting your way through a cult with your arsenal of guns, traps, and excellent dodging skills. Better than just getting announced, Cultic has also dropped a demo for you to load up right now.

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