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A year to the day after releasing its landmark 3rd-gen Ryzen desktop CPUs, AMD has released a trio of new 'XT' processors that take advantage of manufacturing improvements to hit higher clock speeds. Two chips, the Ryzen 5 3600XT and Ryzen 9 3900XT, get a 100MHz frequency boost, while the Ryzen 7 3800XT is 200MHz faster than its 'X' equivalent. Otherwise, the models are more or less identical - the same core counts, cache sizes and overall architecture. We've been testing the Ryzen 7 and 9 models for the past week, and we think that they're a definite boon for anyone planning a Ryzen build - but perhaps not for the reasons you'd expect.

There was one key takeaway from the recent PlayStation 5 games reveal, beyond how good the key titles looked - and that's the fact that the 30fps console video game is clearly not a thing of the past. In actual fact, the evidence suggests that the 30fps performance target underpins the majority of Sony's impressive first-party offerings including Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. It's seemingly a key point of difference between PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X - while stressing that developers can use the console's power as they wish, Microsoft has often talked about 60fps as a design target for next-gen, even mooting the idea of 120fps gaming in some scenarios for the new wave of HDMI 2.1 displays.

UPDATE 8/7/20: Little Hope, the second game in Supermassive's Dark Pictures Anthology, now has a new release date of 30th October.

Earth Defense Force game World Brothers has a confirmed European release of early 2021 for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

UPDATE 8/7/20: Another day, another Ubisoft leak. It's Assassin's Creed Valhalla again this time, with a second big gameplay excerpt from the same early East Anglian area. This leak, however, is of much higher quality.

WWE 2K Battlegrounds comes out 18th September 2020, 2K has announced.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone cheating is once again in the spotlight after a fresh banwave issued by Infinity Ward.

Hot air balloons carrying the villainous Team Rocket have appeared in Pokémon Go.

SNES classic Donkey Kong Country arrives on Nintendo Switch next week via the Nintendo Switch Online app, as part of its 15th July update.

Lifeguards are hunky superheroes, there to keep you safe and rescue helpless children. You'll be hard pressed to find a lifeguard in popular media without a bulging six pack and dashing shades, sprinting across the beach in glorious slow-motion.

Newly-leaked screenshots from Watch Dogs Legion have shown off some of the speciality characters you'll be able to play as, such as a police officer, spy, and... a British football hooligan.

Spiders, the French studio behind gloriously offbeat RPGs such as GreedFall and The Technomacer, has unveiled its latest project - and it could be the craziest one yet.

Kylotonn's eagerly anticipated all-new Test Drive Unlimited finally got an official reveal, with Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown breaking cover during today's Nacon Connnect showcase.

Infinity Ward has quietly removed the OK gesture from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone.

PES has lost its licence for Italian football clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan, Konami has announced.

Mafia: Definitive Edition has been delayed by a month due to coronavirus.

Halo 3 hits the PC via The Master Chief Collection on 14th July 2020, Microsoft has announced.

The previously-leaked remaster of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has now been given an official release date - and that's not all, as a brand new expansion has also been announced.

Rian Johnson, director of the best Star Wars film since Empire Strikes Back, has helmed a new Pokémon Go commercial.

The prow of the transport peels away like the galaxy's biggest slice of layer cake, shorn edges still white-hot from the touch of my laser. A dragon's haul of cosmic junk is revealed: corridors lined with zero-G seats and computer displays; outer hull compartments packed with relay boxes and fat, juicy cannisters of coolant. I set to work with a will, snipping at connecting struts and using my electromagnetic grapple to whip freed components into the hoppers along the flanks of my salvaging bay.

One of the reasons Minecraft is such a relaxing experience - ignoring the creepers - is its beautiful piano soundtrack. But what if piano music was part of the gameplay?

Sega's 60th anniversary celebrations continue with the announcement of another mini console - and this one's likely to have a bit more appeal than the eccentric and diminutive Game Gear Micro that was unveiled earlier this year. The Astro City Mini is a scaled down version of one of Sega's most iconic pieces of arcade hardware, and will feature some 36 of its arcade classics.

Ubisoft will give away Watch Dogs 2 on PC for free during this this weekend's Ubisoft Forward event.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment - owner of studios such as Rocksteady and NetherRealm - has a new suitor in its possible sale: Microsoft.

Microsoft has confirmed the much-rumoured date it will show Xbox Series X games from its own studios.

Devolver Digital has announced Shadow Warrior 3, a sixth game in the long-running ninja shooter series.

Remember hearing some rumblings about a Team Fortress 2 mod that intended to re-create the early days of Team Fortress 2? Mod team Eminoma released a work-in-progress version in 2015, but the project went dark for several years, leading many to believe it had simply died. Not so, however, as the full version released over the weekend - with a special Death & Taxes update to boot.

Horizon: Zero Dawn on Steam just got a surprise price hike.

Naughty Dog has condemned harassment after a weekend in which The Last of Us 2 developers revealed death threats.

After a delay, The Escapists 2 goes free on the Epic Games Store next week.