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AMD has confirmed that new drivers for RX 6000-series and older graphics cards are on the way within the next two weeks. It’s a strange scenario, in that I wouldn’t usually be reporting on an upcoming and unspectacular driver package, but a lack of drivers for AMD’s older GPUs as of late has made this surprisingly noteworthy.

A tweet by AMD’s Frank Azor confirms that new drivers for previous generation and older graphics cards are coming very soon.

This is important, as AMD hasn’t released a new driver package for its RX 6000-series and older GPUs since December 8, 2022. That’s quite a long time for a leading graphics card company to go without new drivers for a heap of its products, but the delay is made all that more apparent by new driver releases for AMD’s RX 7900-series since that time.

AMD has released a few driver packages for the RX 7900-series this year. There was one back on January 11, 2023, and another on January 25. Weirdly the most recent package, which offers improvements for Forspoken and Vulkan, comes and goes from AMD’s driver downloads page. I’m not able to see it today, for example, but it was released.

This two-pronged driver approach…

More than a year after its disastrous original release, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition—which going forward we will refer to as simply the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy—is now available on Steam. And it’s on sale, too.

The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy was a full-on mess when it launched in late 2021, to the extent that Rockstar not only apologized, it re-released the old versions of the games it includes—Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas—and gave them to everyone who purchased the updated GTA trilogy.

The situation slowly got better as patches and updates followed, but one persistent complaint is that it was only available on PC via the Rockstar Games Launcher. That was more than a minor quibble for a lot of PC gamers, especially since virtually all of Rockstar’s other games (except Midnight Club 2, which remains MIA, probably due to music or other licensing reasons) can be had on Steam. 

That shortcoming is now rectified: The GTA Trilogy is now available for purchase on Steam, complete with Steam achievements and verification that it’s “playable” on the Steam Deck. It’s also on sale for $30/£2…

Survival city builder Frostpunk 2 takes place 30 years after the massive blizzard that capped off the original game’s campaign, but even though humanity has somehow survived the frozen planet for decades, things haven’t gotten any easier. If anything, the situation looks more bleak, dire, and desperate than ever.

And speaking of bleak news: despite crossing our frozen fingers that Frostpunk 2 would release this year, it’s actually coming out in 2024. Darn it! I was really hoping we’d get to dive back into the snowy world this year.

In the new Frostpunk 2 cinematic trailer (above) shown at today’s PC Gaming Show we’re given a look at the city, now powered by oil instead of coal, as it grows and evolves over the years. But that evolution is a violent one, and just like the original Frostpunk there’s much more to worry about than just the frigid temperatures and blinding snow. The true threat is coming from inside the city’s walls.

“The City is growing its potential, but be aware that all great civilizations fell under the conflicts between people, and that someone’s utopia can become a dystopia for others,” Jakub Stokalski, Frostpunk 2’s co-director, told PC Game…

Space Marine 2 is coming this winter, and as revealed in its Summer Game Fest trailer you won’t have to fight the gruesome tyranids alone—you’ll be able to jet pack stomp xenos with two of your space marine pals. You’re gonna be creating so much bug juice.

I didn’t gel with Relic’s original, as I just found it too prescriptive, but watching the new trailer from Saber Interactive it’s hard not to get pumped as three burly blokes march through corpses and slaughter hordes of ferocious alien nasties while showing their love for the Emperor.

The battlefields certainly look impressive, from claustrophobic industrial hellscapes to large monster-infested wildernesses. And while I will always love 40K’s orks, watching tyranids covering the walls and pouring out of every crevice is just a bit more intimidating.

Interestingly, the co-op campaign can also be played solo, with the other two space marines controlled by the AI—so even if you can’t tempt any of your mates to join you, you’ll still be able to bring the Emperor’s wrath to the xeno hordes in a squad of space marines.

A multiplayer campaign might also scratch an itch for those who bounced off Da…

All this week, up to Sunday 28th May, is Gaming Week at Amazon. And that means discounts on all kinds of gaming goodies, from the best gaming headsets, to gaming laptops, SSDs, peripherals, and even gaming PCs.

And graphics cards. But please don’t buy one, the discounts don’t make what Amazon is offering any more tempting. 

Honestly Amazon is very rarely the best place to buy a graphics card, more so since the supply chain and GPU mining crises. You will often find better offers elsewhere and you’re also more likely to find old graphics cards being sold for ridiculously high prices within the often murky realms of its sellers.

But it doesn’t just have to be unscrupulous GPU sellers you need to be careful of as Amazon’s own Gaming Week graphics card deals are well worth avoiding. They’re mostly the result of an overstock of last-gen cards, and they’re being discounted to a price that is more or less the price of the new cards either launching this week or in July.

So, you can buy one of these slower, discounted cards or, for effectively the same money, buy a brand new card with all the latest features, and get higher gaming performance. Yes, you too c…

Palworld is Pokémon with guns. So much so, in fact, that in its four days on the market it’s already been accused of straight-up ripping off the Nintendo franchise by various internet detectives, a claim the developer called “slanderous.”

But it’s not just internet commenters who have taken notice of Palworld and its gajillions of sales. The former head of The Pokémon Company’s legal team, Don McGowan, isn’t mincing words about the game either. In a chat with Game File, McGowan straightforwardly said Palworld “looks like the usual ripoff nonsense that I would see a thousand times a year when I was chief legal officer of Pokémon.”

In fact, McGowan—who headed Pikachu’s legal defence force between 2008 and 2020—seems to think it’s a shock Palworld wasn’t snuffed out some time ago. “I’m just surprised it got this far,” he said.

It’s an accusation that Palworld developer Pocketpair must be used to hearing by now. For its part, the developer has said that it has “no intention of infringing upon the intellectual property of other companies,” and Nintendo itself—which is always game to send out cease and desist letters when it cat…

I can’t quite say I called it, because Keanu Reeves was only second on my list of likely Hollywood heavyweights to be cast as Shadow the Hedgehog. But boy was I close. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that Mr. Wick himself is playing the big bad in the third Sonic the Hedgehog film, according to “multiple sources.”

Shadow the Hedgehog is famous for several things, most of them hilariously bad lines of dialogue being delivered badly in Sonic Adventure 2 and his own starring game, 2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog. We’ll see if Reeves can dig deep to deliver the anti-hero’s most famous expression “This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me.” It’s a tougher sell than Keanu’s trademark “whoa,” but hey, he did Shakespeare too back in the ’90s. Surely he can swing it. 

Shadow’s solo outing remains an infamous example of ’00s “edginess” pervading once cartoony games, as exhibited by Shadow holding a gun on its cover. I can only hope that the upcoming Sonic threequel gives this moment a nod with a John Wick-style gun-fu action scene. Go for the hard R, Sega & Paramount. The fanbase is ready for it. 

While I don’t have my finger dir…