If there's one design decision that's bound to grab audience attention, it's strong pixel art visuals. Throwback RPG games like Chained Echoes or Sea of Stars, platformers like Celeste or Shovel Knight, and crafting or farming games like Stardew Valley and Terraria all look back to earlier eras for their aesthetics, and owe at least some of their success with players to that choice. It's also part of why the upcoming tactics project Dead Weight caught our attention when it was first announced, and why we're happy to see how the game plays now that it's just put out a Steam demo. Continue reading Chained Echoes meets FTL in new strategy game Dead Weight

GTA 6 is going to dominate 2025. Nobody wants to go up against Rockstar’s crime epic, and it’s easy to see why. Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online are still some of the biggest games of all time, ten years on, and paving the way for GTA 6 to be all anyone thinks about for the next decade as well. While you wait then, this upcoming crime game channels old-school GTA with a twist, and even though it’s just been delayed it’ll still be out well before Rockstar’s magnum opus. Continue reading Before GTA 6, crime game The Precinct is classic Rockstar with a twist MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best crime games, Best police games, Best open-world games

Although AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 CPUs aren’t scheduled to be released until the end of July, one of them has already just appeared for sale on Amazon, possibly giving us an indication of pricing. The new six-core AMD Ryzen 5 9600X is listed for sale on the Canadian version of the site for a price of $475.51 CA, which works out at around $347 if you do a straight currency conversion. This new CPU’s predecessor, the Ryzen 5 7600X, currently has a spot on our guide to the best gaming CPU, but only because it’s had a drop in price. When it first launched, it cost $299, which is a lot of money for a six-core processor. This AMD chip now goes for just $184.99, meaning the 9600X at the Amazon Canada price represents an 87.6% price increase, and we doubt it’s going to be anywhere near 87.6% faster. Continue reading AMD’s new Ryzen 5 9600X CPU just appeared on sale, and it’s not cheap MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 7800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 7800 XT review

AMD has been steadily slightly reducing the price of its current crop of 7000 series CPUs, but Amazon Prime Day has added an extra little discount on the company's top-tier chip. This AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D deal nets you the most powerful X3D chip the company makes for just $459.99, which is $240 cheaper than its MSRP at launch. With features shared by several of the best gaming CPUs you can buy, the Ryzen 9 7950X packs in 16 cores and is boosted - particularly when it comes to gaming performance - by the addition of an extra 64MB of L3 cache that's attached right on top of one of the main chips. That's the part that sets AMD's X3D CPUs apart from its standard chips. Continue reading Grab AMD’s fastest Ryzen X3D gaming CPU for its lowest price ever MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 7800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 7800 XT review

Late last year saw the launch of a remastered version of the 2001 Stronghold in the form of Stronghold Definitive Edition. Though the work that creator FireFly Studios put into making the classic strategy game look and feel much more modern makes it a solid choice for players, the 2013 Stronghold HD is a slightly less overhauled — and more immediately nostalgic — version of the original that's well worth a look as well. Even better, anyone who's looking to pick up a genre standout that rivalled contemporaries like Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Homeworld can do so for very cheap, with Stronghold HD currently discounted to less than $2 on Steam. Continue reading Grab the HD version of strategy classic Stronghold for less than $2

Playing World of Warcraft as a tank is a tough proposition. You’re the lynchpin of the entire group and if you should place an enemy in the wrong position, grab aggro from the wrong thing, or simply die - your team is looking at a wipe. That said, it has become a little easier in recent years with tanks being able to shrug off ever-increasing amounts of damage. Blizzard just announced that this is all about to change, with tanks becoming less tanky and more reliant on support. Continue reading Blizzard will be making WoW tanks much less tanky in The War Within MORE FROM PCGAMESN: WoW The War Within beta sign up, WoW The War Within release date, The best WoW addons

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After all this time, you'd think we would have found everything there is to uncover in The Last of Us, but apparently not. Packed full of hidden gems and cool easter eggs, the Naughty Dog title keeps on surprising us, even after eleven years of its existence. From references to Naughty Dog's prior work, like Uncharted and Jak and Daxter, The Last of Us is a maze of surprises that seemingly keeps unraveling more as time ticks on.

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