After the release of the RTX 4090, we expected Nvidia to eventually follow up with a Ti model unleashing the full capabilities of the AD102 GPU. Though the RTX 4090 Ti was never confirmed, pictures of a large and unique quad slot cooler appeared as far back as October 2022, indicating Nvidia was at least preparing for the eventuality that a mammoth cooler was required for some kind of GPU.

The since-deleted picture comes from a Reddit poster (via Videocardz). I mean, just look at it. That’s the kind of cooler that looks like it could handle a 600W TDP. And it appears to be a complete card. Given the previously leaked design of the cooling baseplate with its unique perpendicular PCB, surely most of the design and engineering work has been done?

The RTX 4090 Ti was re…

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the Overwatch community as hyped about a new hero as much as Juno. Her trailer has over 2 million views on YouTube—more than the Overwatch 2 launch trailer—and my X feed is filled with posts from accounts dedicated to counting down the days until she’s out. Everyone wants the space girl to come home, and she will next week when season 12 begins on Aug 20.

Although the season is titled “New Frontiers”, it won’t actually be themed around space or Juno’s home planet Mars. Most of the new skins and cosmetics will be based around ancient Egyptian gods. Fittingly, Reaper will get a Mythic skin based on Anubis, the god of death.

But the real reason to log in is Juno, a support hero who brings a little Overwatch 1 back to Overwatch 2…

Rejoice, all ye mere mortal PC gamers, for your Diablo 4 hour approacheth.  The Diablo 4 beta has been announced, and the hardware requirements are mercifully modest. It’s likely they may increase when we get to June’s launch, but for now they make for great reading.

At rock bottom, Blizzard says you’ll need an Intel Core i5 2500K or AMD FX 8100 CPU on the CPU side and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 280 for graphics. Oh, and 8GB of RAM and 45GB of available storage. That’ll buy you a 720p low graphics settings experience at 30 fps. 

As for the recommended specs, Blizzard doesn’t specify the targeted resolution, quality and frame rate. But it’s looking in the region of 1080p, medium and hopefully 60 fps.

Whatever, you’ll need an Intel Core i5-4670K or…

The life simulation game in development by Rod Humble and team at Paradox Tectonic, Life By You, is sliding back a few months in the release calendar of new 2024 games. Previously planned for early access in March, it will now launch on June 4. 

In a video message to fans alongside the announcement, Humble says, “As a team, we are so stoked for this date change,” which is definitely unlike the apologetic tone that delays are usually couched in. “It gives us a little bit of extra time to really focus on a quality player experience and a fun game right from the start of early access.”

In the blog post announcing the delay, Paradox outlines quite a few areas for improvement from player feedback that it wants to spend the extra few months addressing. As…

The reboot of the mid-’90s cult classic Little Big Adventure games that was announced in early 2022 has been cancelled. Ben Limare, CEO of developer 2.21, said work on the game was halted after the studio was unable to come up with a publishing deal for the new game.

Limare said there were three big reasons for the studio’s failure to find a publisher: A general lack of interest in standalone action-adventure games, the cost of maintaining a relatively large development team, and—apologies to all the Twinsen diehards out there—the simple fact that Little Big Adventure is not really a widely-recognized brand.

As a result, 2.21 has “halted our work on the reboot and, for the moment, regard the project as canceled.” The studio will instead focus on the remastered ve…

I liked Vampire Survivors, a lot. Indeed, we all liked it so much that it inspired a wave of imitators, some with genuinely bright ideas and clever twists. Picayune Dreams, though, which recently got a beefy free demo on Steam, is the first one to take that horde mode, bullet hell gameplay in a new direction, to repurpose it instead of just following the leader (credit to Alpha Beta Gamer for the spot).

The Vampire Survivors basics are here: you’re dropped in a big, repeating play field where more and more dangerous enemies stream in as time goes on. Beating them drops experience pickups you use to level up, with a choice of three randomly selected upgrades and new weapons to pick from demanding improvisational build crafting.

Instead of Vampire Survivors’ singular 30 minute…

Win Wordle your way with our wide range of hints, tips, guides, and more, designed to assist players of all skill levels and none. Whether you want to understand how to create a great opener, read a clue for the January 19 (579) puzzle, or would like today’s Wordle answer on a plate, we’ve got you covered.

The answer to today’s Wordle came at me pretty fast, one good early guess giving me a solid foundation of three greens that thankfully made sure the only sensible response was today’s answer.

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A Wordle hint for Thursday, January 19

The answer you’re looking for today is another way of describing something that’s dirty, grimy, or soiled. It may help to think of the name of a certain classic sludge-type Pokemon. You only need to find o…

This week brought our first serious look at Shadow of the Erdtree, the major Elden Ring expansion set for release in June, and it certainly looks like FromSoftware is pushing the boat out. FromSoftware CEO and game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has gone on the interview circuit to accompany the trailer and, as well as being maddeningly vague about Bloodborne and re-claiming Dark Souls 2, has been musing on the secrets of Elden Ring’s appeal. 

It turns out first of all that Miyazaki prefers the term “Souls-ish” to Soulslike, though that seems unlikely to stick, and in an interview with IGN went into some detail about FromSoft’s principles for building an open world without all the hand-holding typical of the genre.

“What I want to stress is that we didn’t set o…

If the Nier series does one thing exceptionally well, it’s getting its fanbase to meticulously observe every minute detail for hidden secrets. That’s still very much the case for Nier Automata Ver1.1a, the new anime adaptation that hit Crunchyroll earlier this month. In typical Yoko Taro fashion, there are already strange clues and cryptic messages buried within its first two episodes and of course, fans are already at work deciphering them.

As spotted by Kotaku, secret and seemingly nonsense messages have been hidden within the episodes’ eyecatches. If you’ve ever seen an episode of anime you’ll be familiar with an eyecatch—small transitional images or clips that act as a small intermission between the episode. Nier Automata Ver1.1a’s eyecatches are seemingly very basic at …