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Epic Games has announced that Fortnite’s Playground mode is making a comeback as part of the meme-generating shooter’s one-year anniversary celebrations. Playground returns to Battle Royale on July 25 and now lets you and your buddies set up team battles for honing your skills. Elsewhere, there’s a new weapon up for grabs in Fortnite’s free game mode, namely the Compact SMG. It’s a fast-firing weapon that excels in close quarters combat, apparently....

Following the recent high-octane reveal of Forza Horizon 5, Playground Games also peeled back the curtain on the new open-world arcade racer’s system requirements. And, as it turns out, the requirements may not be as lofty as one might have assumed. Playground Games describes Forza Horizon 5 as being the “largest, most beautiful open-world that we have developed.” It’s a racer that’s “built for next-gen” and will feature vast landscapes created from 12K resolution photogrammetry data....

Microsoft’s Turn 10 Studios has made the somber announcement that support for Forza Motorsport 7 is wrapping up. In only a matter of weeks, the racing sim will be delisted from all digital storefronts — after four years on the market. The delisting will include a takedown of both the full game and all of the additional content that has been released for it over the years. This means that no new buyers will be able to jump in and access the title....

Today Forever Entertainment released a brand new gameplay trailer of the Front Mission remake Front Mission 1st. While the video is fairly brief, it showcases what you can expect from the remake’s gameplay on Nintendo Switch, including plenty of fighting among the series’ mecha, called Wanzer. Of course, the game doesn’t just include renewed graphics, but it also brings forth a fully new game mode and tweaks to the gameplay and mechanics....

The shock of getting a perfect Disney movie again is hard to replicate, impossibly so in the case of a sequel. But that doesn’t mean ambition cannot be raised or even exceeded, and if nothing else, Frozen II has ambition to burn. And burn it often does even with all the dazzlingly icy animation. A sequel intent on growing with its core audience who’ve been singing along with Elsa and Anna since 2013, Frozen II is a bigger movie and, theoretically, a more sophisticated one....

Funcom is gearing up to reveal a new game with the launch of a teaser site. The new site has appeared on countdown2zero.com and features a bar scene and a countdown clock ticking down to four days from now. There are also links to four characters that will be revealed one by one. Right now there are just outlines of the characters at the bar. The main tagline on the bar scene reads, “Booze helps when coming back from the zone, but it does not last”....

Hello and welcome to Geeks Vs Loneliness, our regular spot to drop in, say hello and have a natter. Today let’s steal some time. Not with a Delorean, just the odd hour here and there. For me, it’s usually a day. A step out of the norm, an itching under the skin to do something different. Walk somewhere new. Look at stuff that makes me think WOW! I do this every other month....

Tis the Friday before Christmas, or black-eyed Friday as it’s so charmingly nicknamed. Sequins and Christmas jumpers are hurting our eyes everywhere, waistbands straining from mince pie and shortbread consumption. And this is before at least two Christmas dinners apiece. Whether you plan your time meticulously, or just wing it at the last moment, enjoy whatever you do over the next two weeks. There’s a number of bright spots hitting my diary right now, and I suspect I’m not alone....

During the initial phase of the Shadow of the Ancients event in Genshin Impact, we used a gadget that led to the discovery of altars. Now, it’s time for us to actually activate those altars. Here’s our Genshin Impact Shadow of the Ancients Day 2 guide to help you with the Data Sampling activity and charging Pursina’s Spikes. Note: For more information about the game, check out our Genshin Impact guides and features hub....

Genshin Impact Version 3.1 features a new adventure in the Land of Lower Setekh region. One, in particular, is the ‘Dreams, Emptiness, Deception’ quest that showcases the latest lineup of characters. In this guide, we’ll show you what steps you need to take to finish this Archon mission successfully. How To Complete Dreams, Emptiness, Deception Quest in Genshin Impact The Dreams, Emptiness, Deception quest in Genshin Impact is broken down into three storylines: Like a Triumphant Hero, The Gaze From a Certain God, and The Four at Loggerheads....

The Perilous Trail event is now available in Genshin Impact. It’s the main activity that you’ll undertake as part of the version 2.7 update. It’s got a quest chain and a separate battle scenario, too. Here’s our Genshin Impact Perilous Trail event guide to help you with the Lurking Peril quest chain, Realms of Guile and War, and event shop rewards. Note: For more information about the game, check out our Genshin Impact guides and features hub....

The Genshin Impact 2.8 banner and event schedule for the Summer Fantasia update has been revealed. As always, there are two Banner phases and new time-limited events in the latest patch, with the Genshin Impact 2.8 Banners featuring a new Anemo character, and some returning favourites. Below, you can find out who the new and returning characters are, and details on all the current and upcoming events, including Summertime Odyssey and Resonating Visions....

We’ve got a giveaway tonight — take a free Closed Beta key for Steambirds Alliance! Not much pomp and circumstance here: PC Invasion and Destructoid have 200 Closed Beta keys for self-professed free-to-play co-op bullet hell MMO RPG shooter (WHEW) Steambirds Alliance. Do you want to play it? Good! Take one of our keys. If I get rid of them all, developer Spry Fox told me they’d take me to get ice cream....

GOG’s Connect service, which let users grab a free copy of a game they already owned on Steam to add their GOG library, is officially no more. Launched in 2016, GOG Connect was a neat proposition on paper, allowing users to link their GOG and Steam accounts and then get a duplicate, DRM-free version of a game they’d already purchased on Valve’s platform over on GOG. In practice, though, it was all a bit restrictive, with GOG only offering a very limited selection of eligible games - and even those could only be added to a user’s GOG library within a very strict timeframe for contractual reasons....

Gold-Plated vs. Standard Keyboard Switch Springs: Must-Know Facts Gold-plated springs can be reinforced with several types of gold. 18K gold is standard, but 24K can also be used.Gold-plated springs are typically around 30% more expensive than standard springs on average.JWK’s switches come pre-outfitted with gold-plated springs.Gold plating was used in springs to help them resist corrosion.Gold-plated springs are often incompatible with certain switches because of their relative rarity. Gold-Plated vs. Standard Keyboard Switch Springs: Full Comparison Mechanical keyboards have many moving parts, and one part of the keyboard switch that we rarely think of when upgrading is the springs....

Google Stadia’s 4K streaming subscription is going to struggle to coexist with modern American internet service data caps, claims a recent study. BroadbandNow, an internet availability tracking firm, recently published its findings regarding Google Stadia’s impact on US households. Needless to say, its findings were astonishing. According to BroadbandNow’s report, nearly 6 million video game players would crush their data caps if they used Google Stadia’s service regularly. The study uses the NPD’s official numbers for how many people are playing games and how often....

Gotham season two recently started on UK TV, proving once again that Batman’s newest show is utterly bonkers in every sense. The dialogue is rubbish. The plot is rubbish. The characters, for the most part, are rubbish. And yet despite all this, it makes for a great piece of entertainment. It’s hard to explain, but Simon Miller does his best right here:

Bungie has announced that PC owners will be able to snag a free copy of Destiny 2 this month, providing you download it between now and November 18. The freebie comes in light of Destiny 2’s first anniversary on the platform, and to be fair, there’s probably no better time to pick it up. After all, the game now has plenty of post-launch content to dip into, so once you’re done with the base game you can snap up Curse of Osiris, Warmind, and Forsaken to continue your Engram-farming exploits....

There are a lot of discounts on SSDs as of late, thanks to a new Ebay discount code. Our pick of the litter is this Adata XPG Gammix S50 Lite 1TB drive, a PCIe 4.0 drive capable of 3900MB/s reads. It normally costs £91, but today it’s down to £77. To get your cheeky discount, use the code CHECKOUT15 at the, um, checkout. Get the XPG Gammix S50 Lite 1TB for £77 w/ code CHECKOUT15 (was £91) So why this drive in particular?...

Half-Life: Alyx - the upcoming addition to the Half-Life series - will be set between the events of the first and second games in the series. The developers at Valve Software are notoriously bad at counting to three, so instead of starting off where the second episode of the second game ended, they’ve opted to fill in the blanks of the story leading up to it. Considering Half-Life has one of the most intricate plots in gaming to date, this is actually a good thing since there certainly are lots of blanks needing to be filled....