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4TB SSDs are a rarity – particularly models with the high-speed flash memory and PCIe 4.0 connection necessary to hit reads of 7300MB/s and writes of 6900MB/s. Today you can pick up just such a drive from Newegg for $253.62, as long as you’re OK with a lesser-known brand: Nextorage.
For context, this SSD cost $359 as recently as March, making this a tidy discount for a PC or PS5-compatible high-speed drive that originally retailed for $650.
On the day of our interview, Exo Rally Championship programmer and composer Rhys Lindsay was preparing for a race on a hostile alien planet, and feeling pretty good about his chances. He spent a full three minutes surveying the pockmarked, potentially lethal landscape from above with a drone, marking the most dangerous terrain in advance and picking out a relatively safe route between the checkpoints. “Alright,” he thought. “I’m going to smash this stage.”
Of course, it’s just as they say: no plan survives contact with unroaded planets wracked by extreme temperatures, meteor showers and atmospheric pressure unlike anything ever experienced on Earth. On the corner of the first checkpoint, Lindsay flipped his rover, snagging the vehicle on a rock that immediately broke his scanning systems and left him driving blind. By the time of our chat, though, he’s laughing. Exo Rally Championship is a racer for those who like to roll with the punches, quite literally – an anecdote generator for players who adore the challenge of preparing for the worst, and then adapting to changing circumstances on the fly.
Sweltering summer heats are alright and all, but subscription service Game Pass is still adding new games for those of us who would rather stay inside. Microsoft have announced the next batch of games coming to the service in July, headlined by the likes of dino-shooter Exoprimal and other-player-shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm.
This Friday on July 7th, Frontier Development’s Warhammer RTS Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin is holding its first open beta test for its 1v1 multiplayer mode. Players will be able to go head to head with two of the game’s four factions – the golden fantasy knights of the Stormcast Eternals and the sneaky green stink lads of the Orruk Kruleboyz – giving us our first taste of how they’ll handle in battle, and the kinds of powerplays we’ll be making with their respective (and rather handsome) tabletop miniature recreations.
And having played four rounds of its 1v1 matches already at a press event last week, it’s quite the thrill – and I say that as someone with no real attachment to Warhammer or Age Of Sigmar’s specific lore legacy. The Stormcast Eternals and their flying hammer brutes are just as devastating as you’d imagine, while the lads lads lads and their Killaboss Kruleboyz are challenging late-game bloomers that will give even hardened strategy game veterans plenty to sink their teeth into. Both factions are great fun, and I’m very much looking forward to jumping back in this weekend.
One recent Fallout: New Vegas mod adds a murderous psychic tumbleweed called Windy to your party, further cementing the game as the best in the series. ‘Wait a second, that doesn’t make any sense,’ you might be saying about a game where people don’t use bedsheets to sleep. But the mod is only accessible with the Wild Wasteland trait turned on, which allows all manner of silly and unrealistic things to happen in-game.
Ubisoft have started to dish out two-week suspensions to players in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 over an XP exploit. Players were apparently joining the game’s roguelike Descent mode partway through matches via a loophole in Ubisoft Connect’s interface. The team says the bug yielded an “unfair amount of XP and SHD levels,” hence the penalties.
Pale Court is an ambitious mod for Hollow Knight that adds five new boss fights, as well as new art, music, dialogue, voice acting and more. If you’re one of the bajillion people who yell “where’s Hollow Knight: Silksong” during every video game livestream, maybe it’ll tide you over. There’s a trailer and download instructions below.
Persona 3 Reload intends to be the classic, 2006 JRPG “faithfully remade with cutting-edge graphics, modernized quality-of-life features, and signature stylish UI.” It was announced – or rather, leaked – just before not-E3 last month, but now there’s a new trailer that shows the game’s combat for the first time.
Thrilling as it may be to swing a lightsaber or shoot a headcrab in stereoscopic 3D, the VR experiences I crave most are those which use the tech to fold my brain into entirely new shapes. 2019’s A Fisherman’s Tale was one of those. An unassuming first-person puzzler about a puppet fisherman living in a lighthouse, it dazzled with its incredible deployment of VR’s unique sense of perspective and scale. It’s the kind of game that, if it featured a psychotic AI and some cake memes instead of a beard in a yellow anorak, would have been heralded as a revolution in play.
It would have been easy to follow-up A Fisherman’s Tale in the same way, make a bigger game with a few new gimmicks and a comedy lobster voiced by Stephen Merchant. But that isn’t what developer InnerspaceVR has done. Instead, Another Fisherman’s Tale bends your neural pathways in entirely new forms, offering a completely different kind of puzzling. The results are equally innovative and almost as interactively satisfying – although a lack of refinement in the latter category is a deflating puncture in the game’s dinghy.
Grid-based strategy spin-off Persona 5 Tactica’s latest trailer introduces a new member to The Phantom Thieves: Erina. Or maybe she’s just a temporary friend. Atlus describe her as a “mysterious revolutionary with a strong sense of justice,” although it’s not yet clear what we’re revolting against, aside from vaguely-French demons. Check out the new gameplay trailer.
