Some things are just meant to be. Romeo and Juliet (RIP), white chocolate and raspberry, Astarion and my Baldur's Gate 3 character. The most perfect combination of all, however, is of course cats and pirates - and that's what new action RPG Cat Quest 3 is all about. With rave reviews and an average Metacritic score of 82% on PC, this sequel is well worth sinking your claws into - and we've got a slew of free Steam keys to help you do just that. Continue reading Grab a Steam key for Cat Quest 3, which is basically Diablo with cats MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best open-world games, Games like Diablo, Best RPG games

All the ingredients were there. Directed by the creator of Dead Space, inspired, partly, by the Resident Evil remakes, and boasting a novel combat system, The Callisto Protocol also had great visuals and supremely atmospheric setting. But when it launched in 2022, the reception, though mostly warm, was less than the explosive fanfare which we all perhaps expected. I think, in time, The Callisto Protocol will earn a reputation as an underappreciated gem - the first half of Striking Distance’s horror game is especially effective. But now director Glen Schofield, whose credits also include Call of Duty, details problems with The Callisto Protocol’s publisher, Krafton, and the content that had to be cut. Continue reading Callisto Protocol was forced to ship early, content was cut, dev says MORE FROM PCGAMESN: The Callisto Protocol review, Best horror games, Best survival games

The lid has just been lifted on all the AMD Ryzen 9000 prices, with the CPU maker officially confirming how much you’ll have to pay for each one of its new Zen 5 CPUs. All of them are lower than the Ryzen 7000 prices for the equivalent chips when they first launched, but they’re also a fair bit higher than the cost of these Zen 4 chips now. Indeed, with Intel CPU instability issues still raging on, arguably the main competition for these new Ryzen 9000 chips will come from the last-gen AMD Zen 4 lineup. That’s particularly the case when it comes to the battle for the best gaming CPU title, as none of the first Zen 5 CPUs out the door will be X3D chips with AMD’s 3D V-cache. Some of the prices are exactly the same as the ones we saw in the Best Buy AMD price leak, but a couple of them are a bit higher. Continue reading AMD just revealed its Ryzen 9000 CPU prices, and they’re disappointing MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 7800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 7800 XT review

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Image: Ford Ford announced today that it would be working with bike company N plus to introduce two new e-bikes inspired by the automaker’s most iconic brands, the Bronco and Mustang. There’s nothing new about car companies working with bike manufacturers to co-develop e-bikes in the hopes of exciting gear heads. GM, Porsche, Jeep, Polestar, and others have tried to do the same, with varying degrees of success. But Ford says its bikes will be unique insofar as they are directly tied to two of the company’s most storied models. G.O.A.T. = “Goes Over Any Type of Terrain” The Bronco e-bike will, of course, be very rugged and designed to handle rough terrain. The company says that the bike will come with a 750W hub motor that generates 85 Nm of torque... Continue reading…

Image: AMD AMD has finally revealed the launch prices for its new range of Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs, and it’s pricing them slightly lower than the Ryzen 7000 launch prices. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X with 16 cores will be priced at $649, which is $50 less than the $699 Ryzen 9 7950X that launched nearly two years ago. The rest of the lineup are priced between $20 and $50 less than equivalent Ryzen 7000 CPUs. After a delay to the launch of its Ryzen 9000 CPUs “out of an abundance of caution,” the Ryzen 7 9700X ($359) and Ryzen 5 9600X ($279) will both launch on August 8th, followed by the Ryzen 9 9950X ($649) and Ryzen 9 9900X ($499) on August 15th. Image: AMD AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series pricing. AMD is promising around a 16... Continue reading…