XPG’s SX8200 Pro 2TB NVMe SSD is down to £118

the RPS review from erstwhile hardware editor Katharine to prove it. Nowadays, PCIe 4.0 drives are becoming more common and PCIe 5.0 is on the horizon, but the SX8200 Pro – in a newer 2TB size – is still an awesome value for the performance on offer. It’s down to £117 at TechNextDay when you use code TND-10, a healthy £35 below the next-lowest price at CCL.

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Pacific Drive is shaping up to be an electric mix of roguelike and driving survival

Pacific Drive was first announced during one of Sony’s State Of Play streams a couple of months ago, my initial thoughts were, ‘Hey, that spooky first-person driving game has some cool sci-fi vibes about it that makes it look like Control on wheels,’ and, ‘Man, I want to find out more immediately.’ Well, thanks to a recent press presentation, I have found out more about Ironwood Studio’s survival roadtrip game, and it’s a lot more roguelike-y than I was expecting. Here’s everything I learned.

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The Settlers original creator returns to city-building with Pioneers Of Pagonia

The Settlers was first released. The series is still going strong at Ubisoft, but its original creator Volker Wertich is returning to the genre with Pioneers Of Pagonia, a similar city-building sim. The game is currently in development at indie studio Envision Entertainment and it’ll be entering early access on Steam by the end of this year.

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Voidtrain is survival sim about navigating a giant steam train through space, and it’s wild

Steam Next Fest. Looking at both the popular upcoming demo list and the most wishlisted list, survival crafting game Voidtrain sits comfortably in second place on both. I decided to download the demo and see what the fuss was about, and wow, is Voidtrain completely wild.

I thought Voidtrain might be relatively new, but it’s actually been knocking around for a couple of years. It’s been in early access on the Epic Games Store since 2021, and after announcing a Steam release for October 2022, the game got indefinitely delayed. Voidtrain’s Steam page currently has a vague release date of sometime in 2023, but the demo is a good reason enough to check it out while the team is still tightening some loose screws.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti review: the first RTX 40 series GPU worth buying

12GB RTX 4080 that wasn’t. “Unlaunching” this GPU, rebranding it, and releasing it for £100 / $100 less may have bruised egos at Nvidia, but at least it’s left us with an intriguing silicone prospect. Finally, there’s a high-end, DLSS 3-capable, Ada Lovelace architecture-based graphics card that doesn’t cost four figures.

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