CDPR is renowned for The Witcher series, and slightly less so for Cyberpunk 2077, so you can expect to hear something about at least the former during today’s livestream. You’ll be able to watch the stream on Twitch at CDPR’s official channel here. It’ll presumably also be viewable on the CD Projekt Red YouTube channel, but no official stream countdown has started yet. It’s worth keeping an eye on CDPR’s 20th anniversary site too....

Finally, we have an answer in the recently released Vive Cosmos Elite and the upcoming Vive Cosmos Play. Fundamentally, both the Play and the Elite are exactly the same headset as the regular Cosmos. The only real difference is how their respective faceplates track your virtual movements. With the Elite, HTC have ditched the (relatively) hassle-free inside-out tracking of the standard Cosmos and opted for external SteamVR base station tracking instead....

Adding three more boards, oriented around four compass-points, makes things a hell of a lot trickier than you’d think. Every new block appears in the centre of Schwerkraftprojektionsgerät charmingly old-fashioned interface, letting you adjust its position and rotation before sending it off. With each block hitting each board from the same starting point, you’re forced to think of each Tetronimo in its entirety - sure, you might have a solid win on the right, but it’ll cost you three lines on the top and bottom later down the road....

I’ve listed a full rundown of Intel’s 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPU family below, but here’s a quick summary of the headline facts. To read more about them, you can either carry on scrolling or click the links to go straight to the section in question. Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPU release date The first 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs are launching on March 30th. They’ll be available to buy as standalone CPUs and as part of whole desktop PCs on this date, and I’ll be rounding up all the best places to buy a Rocket Lake CPU closer to launch....

I’m not hot on Jagged Alliance, but there’s a lot to like in the trailer above. It’s neat that you can spend AP points to increase the accuracy of your shots; I like the sound of an enemy “mishap chance”, because mishaps are always fun; and there generally seems to be a lot of granularity, from how you pose your mercenaries (stand, crouch, prone), to what body parts they target, to what type of shot they’re taking (single, burst, auto, etc....

KeyWe feels like a name that was generated pun first and ask questions later, which is a design method I have immense respect for. In this case, your two little kiwi pals must run a small regional Telepost office that has almost terminal levels of whimsy. The telegram machine is split into separate groups of keys that spin, swap places, and, worst of all, do not follow the standard QWERTY layout....

Several League players lend their faces to characters there. They’re taking over, you know. Worlds 2020 starts on Friday the 25th of September with 24 teams in the Play-In stage. The Main Event will start on October 3rd, ending in the Finals on October 31st. See the Worlds 2020 primer for more. K/DA, the virtual girl group behind Worlds 2018’s rad anthem Pop/Stars, have a whole EP coming later this year....

After being unscrambled and posted to SoundCloud by user Mosaic Horse, an official cleaned-up version of the audio clip was shared by BioWare on Twitter. Liara can be heard chatting to a geth, one of Mass Effect’s multitudinous artificial intelligences. “I can see it… How did we miss this?" Liara said. “Exactly, the Council will be furious… although they should know by now not to underestimate human defiance.” Too right, Liara....

There’s a heart-breaking inevitability that something would go wrong with such an ambitious, internet-dependent game launch, but Microsoft haven’t done themselves any favours. The expectation of a pre-load is to get the game onto your black box so you don’t need to worry about it at launch. Microsoft’s attempt at doing this involved pre-loading the 500MB launcher only. The full Flight Sim download is 91GB. That’s a minimum of two hours added to my start time (I thankfully have a spanking internet connection), all while the installer’s lift music loops over and over....

So, with Monster Hunter Rise netting itself a bestest best badge and its Sunbreak expansion getting some serious praise in our review, I thought it was time to pull up my regular socks in the hopes that I could replace them with a pair woven from a big lizard’s gooch. And I think I’m enjoying it? I think those socks could be mine? I just need to stop my brain from short-circuiting first....

In an early version provided by Capcom, the Monster Hunter Rise PC demo lets you tackle three of the series most iconic beasties. For ‘beginners’, there’s the Great Izuchi, a vicious raptor-like monster with a very sharp scythe tail. Meanwhile, for ‘intermediate’ hunters, there’s the Mizutsune, a feisty and ferocious dragon that can fire stamina-crippling bubbles and water beams. Finally, for ‘advanced’ players, there’s the game’s signature monster, the Magnamalo, a giant armoured brutus who spits hellfire and death at every opportunity....

Priced at an identical £399 / $400 at time of writing, the only real difference between the MSI Optix MAG272CQR and AOC’s AG273QX is its lack of HDR support. That, and its 27in VA panel is curved rather than flat (although its curvature radius of 1500R is so subtle I was barely able to tell from a normal viewing distance). Otherwise, you’ve got an equally great looking screen (more on that in a bit) with the same high refresh rate of 165Hz....

As we know, fighting games like MultiVersus live and die by their roster of characters and their movesets. Thankfully, Player First games have done a commendable job of making all 19 characters in the game viable in both 1v1 and 2v2 matchups. But there’s always a meta which arises after every major update. Below we’ll walk you through our MultiVersus tier list for both 1v1 and 2v2 play, along with our opinion on each of the characters in the game, their strengths and drawbacks, and our reasoning behind their position in our tier list....

So I come to you with an important question today, Picross fans, because it’s something that’s been bothering me all week. Should you, or should you not, be able to tell what a Picross picture actually is in the moments leading up to a puzzle’s completion?

You can watch a clip of the dismantling below. WoWHead report that the drinks served at the end of the video were green tea, a reference to a Chinese insult for a person who appears innocent but is in reality manipulative. In recent days, Blizzard China released a statement saying that they had offered a six-month contract extension to NetEase, but that the Chinese publisher had refused. Today, NetEase issued a response of their own via Chinese social media site WeChat “For unknowable reasons, last week Blizzard re-sought NetEase with an offer of a so-called six-month extension of the game service and other conditions, and made it clear that it would not stop continuing negotiations with other potential partners during the contract extension,” reads the statement....

There are plenty of reasons for wanting to change server, whether it’s to finally meet up with friends who ended up elsewhere during the initial launch-week stampede, or to beat wait times and lag in your current homeworld. Whatever your reason for wanting to switch, read on below for instructions on how to transfer your character to another server in New World. How to transfer your character in New World Here’s a quick run-down on how to complete the character transfer process; we’ve included more details below if you need them:...

If you’re unfamiliar with Screamer 1 and 2, I don’t blame you. They’re old arcade style racing games from the 90’s which ran on MS-DOS. I never played the first, but I have fond memories of the second. It came in this white and orange Sold-Out Software sleeve, the sort of one where you’d need to really dig into the cardboard with your fingers and prize it out of there....

Right, here’s where I admit that Oblivion is my least favourite of the past three Elder Scrolls games. Even I’m stoked for Skyblivion after watching that trailer, though. Skyblivion is being worked on by a separate team to the Skywind mod, which aims to bring The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind into Skyrim and shouldn’t be confused with the long-running Tamriel Rebuilt modding effort. If you’re interested in seeing more of what the modders over at The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project are getting up to as they work on Skyblivion, then you can tune in to their Twitch channel to see the volunteer devs playing the mod....

From the streams I’ve watched, the experience of playing it seems to be a traditional mixture of combat, light dialogue choices, and small puzzles. The combat pits you and your pals against a menagerie of nightmare creatures, but while the Steam page is covered in content warnings, I’ve not seen anything gruesome or indulgently dark. It’s serious about its serious themes, and lighthearted in abundance to balance it out. What’s intriguing to me is the particular details of its world, and the lovely characters within it....

If you want more info, you can watch the devs launch into an appropriately deep dive in their latest update video. As they discuss, to trigger a battle, you’ll have to walk up to the new hourglass on your captain’s table and tell it which side you’re on. That sends you beneath the waves, speeding towards a crew from the opposing faction whose crew skill (based on previous wins and losses) matches yours....