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The EPOS Sennheiser GSP 600 is down to $54.99 in the US

EPOS make some of the best gaming headsets in the business, so it's great to see a deep discount on one of their best Sennheiser co-creations. The GSP 600 offers extremely good build quality, great audio and incredible noise isolation too. Its list price is a faintly ridiculous $219, but ...
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Assassin’s Creed VR Gets New Title, Teases Full Reveal at Ubisoft Forward

Assassin's Creed VR has been renamed Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, and it will launch later this year for Meta Quest VR headsets.Announced at the Meta Quest Games Showcase, Assassin's Creed Nexus VR is the first game in the Assassin's Creed franchise to be playable in virtual reality. Originally announced in ...
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Intel’s Core i5 13400F is down to $165 after a $50 Best Buy discount

Intel's mid-range Core i5 processors have long been some of the best choices for gaming PCs, versus Core i7 and Core i9 models that require much more cooling while not providing much more performance in GPU-limited scenarios. Their 13th-gen models are a particular favourite, and today we have a US ...
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Soapbox: Returning To The Great Plateau In Zelda: TOTK Felt Like Coming Home

A truly GREAT plateau.Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Jim argues that Breath of the Wild's starting area is still fantastic in Tears of the Kingdom...There are a lot of fantastic places that ...
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Free Play Days – Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Farming Simulator 22: Platinum Edition, and Ghostrunner

Choose from dozens of highly trained operators in a tactical team-based shooter, create a lush vineyard or an olive orchard in the Mediterranean, or become the most advanced blade fighter ever this weekend with Free Play Days! Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Farming Simulator 22: Platinum Edition, and Ghostrunner are ...
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Amnesia: The Bunker launches June 6 

When we first started with game creation at Frictional Games, we knew we wanted to make immersive horror experiences. We threw in everything we could think of: puzzles, physics, combat, creepy dream sequences – you name it. Those of you who played Penumbra: Overture will remember these elements well. Now, ...
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AEW: Fight Forever – The Final Preview

When it launched in 2019, All Elite Wrestling emerged as an alternative to the mainstream of Professional Wrestling – a genre of sports entertainment that had mostly run without substantial competition in the US for decades. Its upcoming game, AEW Fight Forever, largely finds itself in the same position. It’s ...
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RPS GOTY Revisited: 2013’s Kentucky Route Zero goes nowhere fast, and that’s why we love it

When RPS awarded Kentucky Route Zero the title of Game Of The Year in 2013, only two episodes out of an eventual five had been released. If this sounds like a bland statement of fact, just think about it for a second. I can't recall any other time an episodic ...
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Spider-Man 2: How Insomniac Set Out to Create a ‘Borderline Brutal’ Venom Suit

In 1982, then Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter purchased the idea of a black costume for Spider-man from a 22-year-old fan named Randy Schueller for $220 dollars. After rejecting Schueller’s story ideas, Shooter came up with the suit being made of an alien material, the Symbiote that would alter Peter’s powers ...
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Steam Deck vs Asus ROG Ally: a handheld head-to-head

Mere spec sheets? Old news, friend. This Steam Deck vs Asus ROG Ally comparison is new and improved with actual testing results, both hard data (I may even borrow some benchmark graphs from the ROG Ally review) and those of the observational/anecdotal/downright take-y variety. Hopefully, by the end of it, ...
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