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AMD’s fastest gaming processor for AM4 motherboards, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, has continued to drop in price following the release of newer-generation X3D processors. After initially retailing for £530 on its debut, prices of £300 have become commonplace – and today, we’ve reached a new milestone with the CPU going for just £275 at Amazon UK.
In a twist of serendipity, the Terraria board game was shown at the very same UK Games Expo that Nate himself visited! We couldn’t have planned it better (and indeed, did not) which means this week on The Electronic Wireless Show podcast we talk about not just that board game, but other PC versions of board games, and vice verse, and the games we think should have tabletop versions.
Plus, this week we have once again been playing current video games, and Nate returns with an extremely silly mini-game. In the hardware section James lets us in on the unlikely second wind for VR headsets, most notably Apple’s extremely stupid fake face projection thing. Please, Silicon Valley: stop.
This weekend I spent some time trying out a bunch of games that I meant to try earlier, but didn’t have the time to. I played through all of Superliminal, for example, and really enjoyed it until the very end when I got an inspirational lecture from an invisible scientist living in my ear – and I did not care for it. One game I played for literally half an hour and thought it was great, but I was not good enough to beat the first boss I came across. But I thought to myself, other people are better at Metroidvanias, and at least one of them might appreciate being nudged in the direction of a year old one I think is cute. Thus: Islets.
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I had one question for Mask Of The Rose: Can I smooch the Cthulhu monster? I mean, I assume you can, they’re one of ten characters you’re able to romantically pursue in the delicious depths of this Eldritch dating sim. But in actuality, I simply don’t know, because after ten-plus hours and multiple playthroughs, that all-important question remains unanswered. It’s not something unique to my dashing, tentacled suitor, either. Many of my romantic pursuits in the Neath totally fizzled out. It’s giving Berocca when I wanted Coke and Mentos.
Mask Of The Rose is Failbetter’s visual novel dating sim set in the Fallen London universe, an already established alt-history Victorian London that the studio has been building over a decade as a quite excellent browser game. In this alternative history, London has been dragged through the Earth’s crust by bats and now resides in a vast underground cavern called the Neath. With the economy literally in the pits and Queen Vicky refusing to leave her cushy palace, London has become somewhat unruly, turning into a lasciviously gothic underworld home to a whole parade of monsters, devils, living statues, cloaked beings with red eyes… basically the entire cast of the Goosebumps books.
We rarely cover power supplies when it comes to RPS deals, and when we do they’re almost always massive 800 to 1000W units that are suitable for top-end systems – but not exactly what the average PC gamer needs in their rig. Today we’re righting that (minor) wrong, as we feature a 550W power supply slapped with a healthy $45 Amazon discount – bringing it down to $60.
The PSU in question is the Cooler Master V550 Gold V2, an 80+ Gold rated unit with a semi-modular design that comes in a fetching white colourway. It’s well-rated by reviewers and suitable for mid-range systems, and thanks to this limited time deal it’s way cheaper than anything else similar on the market!
Last time, you decided that an enemy which can’t see you but can sense you is better than one which only moves when you’re not looking. I concede that the former opens so many possibilities in games but god, I hate the latter in a way I enjoyi so much. Perfect terrible beings. But, science has decided and we must move on. This week, I ask you to pick between two forms of movement. What’s better: glowing wings, or slipstreaming?
After three-and-a-bit years in early access, the striking Junji Ito-inspired spook ’em up World Of Horror is committing to a release date for the full game: the 19th of October. This is technically a delay from the previously planned summer launch, but I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to launch a horror game in summer anyway. This is also when it will launch on consoles.
You know what works for me? To do lists. ThroughLine Games should give that a go, because here they are announcing a new game in the same world as 2019’s platforming adventure Forgotton Anne. It’s a parallel universe where forgotten items, known as forgotlings come to life and endeavour to be remembered again. This new game, due out in 2024, is actually called Forgotlings, and you play as one called Fig in a similarly actiony platformy adventure in a 2D “semi open-world Metroidvania”. Fig is, by the way, an artist’s wooden posing doll, and even though he has a head his face is in his torso. I find this greatly distressing and will not stand for it.
The development of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has already been a bumpy ride. Publisher Paradox stated they were “happy with progress” on the game in 2021 following a switch in developers (whoever they may be) and delay after delay, but a new announcement from Paradox today has some a little worried.
“We want to provide the best value to those of you who supported us via digital pre-order,” the publisher said in a statement posted to its official blog. “We are thus offering refunds to anyone who has pre-ordered any edition of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.”
As well as it runs on your average desktop PC, it wasn’t until I began playing Diablo IV on the Steam Deck that its demon-thwacking really clicked for me. Largely because this was my first experience of it with gamepad controls, and using thumbsticks and face buttons to move and toss out spells just feels more… I don’t know, direct? Like I’m actually controlling my Necromancer and her boney bodyguards, not just clicking a unit and watching their animations.
It helps that Diablo IV’s Steam Deck performance is surprisingly spry, with fast 45-60fps framerates within reach even when leaving the majority of graphics settings on Ultra quality. Unlike all of the other best Steam Deck games, there’s no native support for its Battle.net launcher, but with some resourcefulness, that needs only be a temporary barrier.
