Final Fury gives the VR arcade fighter new attacks, more moves, and ranked events in today's Tides of Vygor update.

Following May's early access launch, Kluge Interactive (Synth Riders) is now releasing what it calls the “biggest update yet” for Final Fury. The Tides of Vygor update now allows you to use dive kicks and uppercuts, alongside a “full set of Vygor-powered special attacks” that the studio states will open up new defensive and combo options.

Tides of Vygor also introduces 'Ranked Events,' a series of weekend tournaments that deliver new cosmetics and avatar rewards for competitors. Bonus prizes will also be awarded to top performers. Kluge states December's lineup includes the titular festival and a festive-themed showdown, Festive Fury, to mark the year's end.

Today's update also joins news that Final Fury is now part of the Horizon+ Games Catalog on Quest, a rotating selection of games available to all subscribers. Meta also offers two monthly games that you can keep for as long as you remain subscribed, with December's monthly Horizon+ games being Tactical Assault VR and Smash Drums.

We enjoyed Final Fury in our early access hands-on in May. Though we considered the launch content to be rather slim, we believed it offered “a strong foundation that is approachable to newcomers while having the same kind of mechanical depth that will appeal to traditional fighting game players.”

Final Fury is out now in early access on Steam and the Meta Quest platform.

Final Fury Hands-On: Solid Starting Fundamentals For A VR Arcade Fighting Game

Final Fury sets up a strong foundation that’s newcomer-friendly while appealing to traditional fighting game players, and it’s out today in early access on Quest and Steam.

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This console generation has been a tough one for gamers, as both Sony and Microsoft have had to increase prices on hardware. Thankfully, Best Buy has some solid deals during its Cyber Monday event that makes jumping into the PlayStation 5 ecosystem more affordable. Check out the deals below. PlayStation 5 Pro ($649.99 – 13% off) The PS5

December is preparing to set the stage for one last supermoon and another meteor shower that will test the patience of stargazers. Get ready for the second closest full cold moon in a few days and the Geminids shower on the night of December 13-14. The grand curtain call of 2025's lunar cycle ends with the full cold moon on December 4 (Thursday),

Remember the 'Dude, you're getting a Dell!' pitch guy from commercials of yesteryear? If he were still making advertisements for Dell today, he'd have to slightly alter his pitch to say, 'Dude, you're getting an Alienware!' because there are some seriously good bargains available for Cyber Monday, and they include discounts on both desktop

Computing giant NVIDIA and electronic design automation (EDA) leader Synopsys have forged a multiyear partnership that includes a substantial $2 billion equity investment, in a move to infuse accelerated computing and artificial intelligence into the engineering and chip design process. This major collaboration, announced today, aims to

Retailers have pivoted from promoting Black Friday bargains to shouting about Cyber Monday deals, and while a lot of the discounts are the same, that's not necessarily the case across the board. For example, among the many Apple products that are on sale right now is the newest-generation MacBook Air (2025 model) for a new low price. Apple

Tactical Assault VR and Smash Drums are this December's Horizon+ monthly games on Quest.

With 2025 nearly over, it's time for the last monthly redeemable games on Horizon+ this year. November brought us Moss: Book 2 and UBOAT: The Silent Wolf, and those will continue being accessible in your library if you redeemed them while remaining subscribed. Black Friday sales are still on if you're looking to buy discounted Quest games or a new headset, too.

Here's what you need to know about this December's selection.

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VR rhythm game Smash Drums has seen continuous post-launch support since appearing in 2021, and this month's appearance follows the recent early access launch of its 'God of Drums' campaign mode. PotamWorks added missions where you can choose one of three songs, new in-game rewards, and more.

Smash Drums Celebrates Four Years On Quest With Free Campaign Update

Smash Drums is launching a campaign mode in early access as a free update on Quest today, with the final release “coming soon” to PS VR2.

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Tactical Assault VR

Currently in early access, Tactical Assault VR from HammerFire Interactive is a hardcore FPS military sim where you can play alone or in co-op with up to six players. This comes with various scenarios like bomb defusal, hostage rescue, or high-value target (HVT) eliminations, and this follows the SWAT Expansion launch in September.

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Horizon+ Games Catalog Games

Horizon+ continues offering a Games Catalog of Quest titles that any subscriber can access. Meta can remove and add new games from the catalog at any time, and here is the current Horizon+ Games Catalog in the US:

• Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
• Asgard’s Wrath 2
• Bartender VR Simulator
• Blacktop Hoops
• Cook-Out
• Cubism
• Deisim
• Demeo
• Drop Dead: The Cabin
• Dumb Ways Free For All
• Dungeons of Eternity
• Eleven Table Tennis
• Exploding Kittens VR
• Final Fury
• Fruit Ninja 2
• Fruit Salon
• Ghosts of Tabor
• Grimlord
• Guardians Frontline
• Human Fall Flat VR
• iB Cricket
• I Expect You To Die 3
• In Death: Unchained
• Into the Radius
• Job Simulator
• Kingspray Graffiti
• Les Mills Bodycombat
• Maestro
• Medieval Dynasty New Settlement
• Moss
• Onward
• Pets & Stuff
• Pistol Whip
• Pixel Ripped 1995
• Premium Bowling
• Project Demigod
• Puzzling Places
• Racket Club
• Red Matter
• Red Matter 2
• Starship Home
• Synth Riders
• Tetris Effect: Connected
• The Climb 2
• The Thrill of the Fight
• Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street
• Titans Clinic
• Townsmen VR
• Walkabout Mini Golf
• War of Wizards
• Zero Caliber: Reloaded

Horizon+ Indie Catalog Games

A separate Indie Catalog entered beta testing in October, though it's unclear if access has become more widely available. You can find those games here.

• Alvo
• Battlenauts
• Bocce Time!
• Coffee Quest VR
• Darksword: Battle Eternity
• Disc Frenzy
• Discovery 2
• Elysium Trials
• Espire 1: VR Operative
• Final Overs - VR Cricket
• Galaxy Kart
• Iron Guard
• Laser Thief
• LAX VR
• Make It Stable
• Noun Town Language Learning
• Rogue Ascent VR
• Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon
• Space Elevator
• Taiko Frenzy
• The Pirate Queen
• Tiny Archers
• Underworld Overseer
• Vibe Punch
• The Wizards

MindsEye is easily one of 2025’s biggest fumbles, with the ambitious title from ex-Rockstar president Leslie Benzies and studio Build A Rocket Boy receiving less-than-stellar reviews upon its initial launch earlier this year. Perhaps in an effort to have a bit of a fresh start, MindsEye and its ARCADIA platform have now received a free Starter Pack.

Available on both console and PC, the MindsEye Free Starter Pack allows you to “Unlock the ever-expanding gameplay experience of MindsEye with free content”. As mentioned, this includes both the story-focused MindsEye as well as a slice of their live-service platform ARCADIA.

More specifically, the starter pack gains you access to MindsEye’s campaign mission ‘Robin Hood’ alongside a dozen or so ARCADIA activities, namely:

• Garden Party – Drone Race
• Chase The Sun – Drone Race
• Honor Among Thieves
• Downtown – Goin' Haywire
• Crosstown Traffic – Checkpoint Race
• Rude Interruption
• Turbulence – Race
• Free Bird – Sky Race
• Winging It – Checkpoint Race
• Craz-Eye Taxi – Checkpoint Race
• Friendly Fire
• Cruise Control – Sky Race
• Fractured Echo – Survival Horde
• Road To Hell – Race

While the story-focused MindsEye took the brunt of the limelight, Build A Rocket Boy’s ARCADIA platform serves as their greater long-term project. As such, it will be interesting to see what the response to this free pack is and whether it will help shift opinions on the game somewhat.

KitGuru says: What did you think of MindsEye at launch? Will you give this demo a go? Does ARCADIA have potential as a platform? Let us know your thoughts down below.

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Where Winds Meet is an impressive free-to-play open-world action-adventure RPG from Everstone Studio and NetEase Games. Released just two weeks ago, the title has seen a great deal of praise – with its only sore spot being its use of AI chatbots for certain NPCs. Even so, the game has garnered a strong initial reception, with the PS5 / PC title having now surpassed 9 million players.

Making the announcement on Twitter, the game’s official page shared the following: “Winds rise through the bamboo forest, and with a sword in hand we step into the Jianghu. 9 Million wanderers have set out from our humble abode among the bamboo. Thank you.”

For context, Where Winds Meet managed to achieve a total playerbase of over 2 million within the first 24 hours of its launch on the 15th of November. Since then, the game has continued to see rising interest, peaking at a total of 251,008 concurrent Steam players within its first week.

Of course, 9 million in two weeks is far from the biggest launch ever, with the likes of other free-to-play games such as Genshin Impact managing to surpass 10 million players during its pre-registration period alone and Apex Legends exceeding 25 million players within a week of its surprise announcement / launch.

Still, being a new game from an unknown studio, Where Winds Meet has managed to achieve a solid foundational base with which to continue growing from.

KitGuru says: Have you checked out Where Winds Meet? How does it compare to other free-to-play offerings? Let us know down below.

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Today we are reviewing the Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 motherboard that Sapphire first showed at Computex 2025. The timing seems curious as AMD launched Socket AM5 back in 2022, but you could also argue Sapphire is getting ready nice and early for Zen 6 which will likely launch in 2027. Whatever their thinking might be, this budget B850 motherboard is rather decent.

Time stamps

00:00 Start
01:05 Accessories
01:35 The Board
02:22 Rear I/O and connectors
03:16 VRM Configuration
04:16 M.2 and Expansion Slots
06:05 SATA
06:16 Board Layout
07:03 Test PC Config
07:33 BIOS and Software
08:23 Processor Analysis / Power
09:39 Cinebench 2024 Multi Core
10:03 Cinebench 2024 Single Core
10:17 Geekbench 6 Multi Core
10:29 Far Cry 6
11:15 Assassins Creed Mirage
11:40 Total War Pharaoh
12:20 Leo’s Thoughts
12:55 Worth buying?

 

Specification:

• Chipset: AMD B850
• CPU Support: AMD Ryzen 9000/8000/7000 desktop processors.
• VRMs:
  • 12+2+1 x55A Smart Power Stages
  • Richtek RT3678 controller
  • AOS (Alpha and Omega Semi) AOZ5510Q1 DrMOS
• Memory support:
  • 4 DIMMs, Dual Channel DDR5, Maximum Memory Capacity 256GB up to 8000MT/sec
• Expansion slots:
  • 1x PCIe Gen 5 x16 slot (from CPU)
  • 1x PCIe Gen 4 x4 slot (from chipset, shared with one M.2 slot))
  • 1x PCIe Gen 4 x2 slot (from chipset)
• Storage:
  • 1x M.2 Gen 5 x4
  • 1x M.2 Gen 4 x4
  • 1x M.2 Gen 4 x4 (shared with PCIe Gen 4 x4 slot)
  • 4x SATA 6Gbps
• USB support:
  • 1x USB 5Gbps Type-C (Front)
  • 1x USB 10Gbps Type-C (Rear)
  • 3x USB 10Gbps Type-A (Rear)
  • 2x USB 5Gbps Type-A (Front)
  • 4x USB 2.0 (Rear)
  • 2x USB 2.0 (Front)
• Ethernet: Realtek 8125BG 2.5Gbps LAN
• Wireless: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3
• Audio: Realtek ALC897 7.1-Channel Audio
• Form Factor: ATX 305mm x 244mm

Testing and Performance

Test system

• Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• Memory: 32GB ADATA XPG Lancer RGB DDR5-6000
• CPU Cooler: Phanteks Glacier One 360MPH
• Graphics card: MSI GeForce 4090 Ventux 3X 24GB
• Power supply: Seasonic Vertex GX-1200 ATX 3
• SSD: 1TB Crucial T700 M.2 NVMe
• OS: Windows 11

Cinebench 2024 Multicore

In Cinebench 2024 Multicore the Sapphire does reasonably well but falls behind the other AMD AM5 motherboards we have used in the past few months The margin is small but tells against the Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7.

Geekbench 6 Multicore

It is a similar story in Geekbench 6 Multicore where the Sapphire performs OK but lags behind the competition by a fraction of a percent.

Far Cry 6 at 1080p

We see the same small gap in performance in Far Cry 6 at 1080p. It is a minor consideration when you factor in the low price of the Sapphire but it shows you rarely get a free ride with PC technology.

Closing Thoughts

When we first saw the new range of Sapphire motherboards at Computex we were taken aback. After all, Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI appear to have the entire spectrum of motherboards covered with a vast array of products, however it seems that Sapphire has found a niche.

This Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 is the top model they have released to date, yet it is priced under £160. We have to assume the Nitro+ X870E PhantomLink will cost rather more, however we have hopes it will sneak in around £300 and won't head beyond £400.

In this light it seems Sapphire is aiming for the ‘Perfectly Reasonable' sector of the market, and we applaud this move. The Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 includes all the features you require, and while it omits a few things such as fast USB-C this seems like a perfectly reasonable move when you consider the price.

Overall we are very happy with the Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 and feel a sense of relief that Sapphire has managed to deliver on what looked like a bold promise.

You can buy the Sapphire Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 for £157.99 from Overclockers UK HERE.

Pros:

• Priced towards the budget end of the market
• Understated styling with zero RGB
• Sapphire TRIXX-M software does a decent job

Cons:

• A single USB-C on the rear panel and no USB4 ports
• Access to M.2 slots is laborious
• M.2 support is effectively limited to two SSDs

KitGuru says: Sapphire has delivered a range of budget AMD motherboards and the Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 does a fine job at a low price.

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The Cougar CFV235 is a unique looking chassis that breaks the mold of the classic mid-tower by physically separating the PSU and storage from the rest of the system. Cougar did not stop there, making sure that everything still feels functional with lots of attention to detail.

AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which up to this point has only been a rumored upcoming addition to the company's 3D V-Cache chip family. It's a quiet launch without a press release, blog post, or even a blip on AMD's social media accounts, and the only reason we know it's real is because there is a dedicated support document

Since pretty much the beginning, Fortnite has gone all-out for its end-of-chapter finales. Though not quite as massive as its previous peaks, the game’s recent Zero Hour event managed to draw in more than 10 million players in total.

Taking to Twitter to confirm the figure, the official Fortnite page revealed that “10.5M of you joined us in-game for Zero Hour, and 3M+ tuned in across livestream platforms!”

Of course, 10 million players for a single – relatively short – event is a big deal and proves that Fortnite still has the juice so many years on from its viral arrival. Still, the live-service title has yet to surpass its peak player count of almost 14 and half million during last November’s Chapter-ending event.

In terms of single-day figures instead of concurrents, Fortnite hit a staggering 44 million players on the launch day of OG Fortnite back in November of 2023.

The tail-end of the year has always been a pretty big time for Fortnite, not only in terms of content released, but the number of people playing. Whether the live-service title will ever re-enter the center of the zeitgeist as it did during the early years, we will have to wait and see – but regardless Fortnite continues to be a certified success for Epic Games.

KitGuru says: Did you take part in the event live? How did it compare to last year’s chapter conclusion? Let us know down below.

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4 years on from Forza Horizon 5’s initial release, the team at Playground Games finally unveiled its successor back during Tokyo Game Show 2025. While we have so far only seen a brief teaser trailer confirming that the game will be set in Japan, notable insiders have claimed that Forza Horizon 6 is planned to release during the first half of 2026.

Responding to a post on Twitter in which one user asked the insider whether a “H1 2026 release window” was likely for Forza Horizon 6, leaker NateTheHate affirmed that “First half 2026 has been the target and remains as such.”

Given the fact that all we have seen from the game so far is a glorified logo reveal, it is a pleasant surprise to learn that the sequel will be arriving ‘soon’.

That said, even with a first half of 2026 release, the time between two Forza Horizon titles has never been wider, with the series previously having a consistent two-year cycle between all of its entries (aside from FH4 to 5 which took three years).

Seeing as how it will have been around 5 years by the time Horizon 6 is released, here’s to hoping that the sequel manages to live up to expectations. We may not have to wait too long to find out.

KitGuru says: What do you think of this target release window? Will the team manage to hit it? What issues (if any) did you have with Forza Horizon 5 that you’d like to see improved upon? Let us know down below.

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For Day 1 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we are kicking things off with Philips. Today's prize is a Philips Evnia 27M2N3501PA gaming monitor, offering QHD resolution and up to a 260Hz refresh rate!

We reviewed this monitor earlier in the year and came away impressed by its low latency, motion clarity and wide colour gamut. Overall, it scored a 9/10, so we are confident one of you will greatly appreciate it as an upgrade.

How to Enter:

To enter this giveaway, all you have to do is head over to our competition announcement post on Facebook, HERE. In the comments, leave an answer to the following question – What was your most played game this year?

This competition is open in the UK and EU.

The winner will be picked randomly shortly after 11AM GMT December 2nd, and a new competition will be announced for Day 2. The chosen winner has 48 hours to respond, if we do not hear from them, a new winner will be picked.

Terms and Conditions: This competition is open in the UK and EU, starting at 11AM GMT on December 1st and ending at 10:59AM GMT on December 2nd. Due to the busy Christmas season, prize deliveries could take longer than usual, and some prizes may not ship until January. In compliance with GDPR, we will not collect or store any personal information as part of this competition. Once the winner has been contacted and their prize received, personal details will be deleted from our email servers. Your details will not be shared, we respect your privacy.

KitGuru Says: Good luck to all who enter, we'll be back tomorrow morning to announce a winner and turn the calendar over to Day 2!

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The Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold are Google’s best flagship phones yet with a more efficient SoC, brighter displays, bountiful camera tweaks, larger batteries, faster charging, and Qi2 magnetic accessory support. Add Google’s outstanding software and AI features to the mix, and you have all the ingredients for a winning

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked will update the Hirelings system so they can also level up during campaigns.

Recently launched on most major VR platforms, Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is a co-op tabletop experience that we praised as a “natural crossover and a fitting evolution” of the original Demeo. Following two smaller updates, Resolution Games confirmed it's planning a wider overhaul for Hirelings - additional characters used to fill out your party if you don't have four players.

Currently, you can't level up Hirelings alongside your main character during campaigns, something we criticized in our review. Stating it's addressing player feedback across two phases, Resolution will begin with single-player campaigns by letting you use customized heroes who can gather XP and level up, stating Phase 1 “will be prioritized for release as quickly as possible.”

Phase 2 will bring this to Battlemarked's multiplayer, though the studio calls this “much more complex” to implement because of how other players can join, leave, and rejoin campaigns. Calling this a “much larger task” from both a technical perspective and for the user interface design, this will arrive in a later update.

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is out now on Steam, PlayStation VR2, Quest, and flatscreen platforms.

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked Review

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is a mostly natural crossover and a fitting evolution for the VR tabletop RPG.

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Valve has taken steps over the years to make releasing games on Steam easier. This has led to a massive influx of new titles launching on the platform, with the numbers growing each year. In 2025, around 18,000 new games released on Steam, although only a small handful made an impact. 

As shown by SteamDB, 18,000 games joined the Steam platform between the 1st of January 2025 and now. However, when we look at the number of reviews, it becomes quite clear that many of these titles didn't find a wide audience.

As pointed out by MP1st, around 6,600 of these titles garnered less than 10 user reviews on the store. A further 2,174 have no user reviews at all. In all, around 8,782 titles appeared to go completely unnoticed. That is close to half of all the games released this year.

While a majority of these titles are likely to be shovel ware, something that Steam gamers have become quite used to seeing over the years, there could well be a few hidden gems in there that just didn't find an audience.

It will become increasingly difficult for those hidden gems to find their footing on Steam as well, as more and more titles flood the store each year. In 2020, more than 10,000 games launched on Steam for the first time and now just five years later, that number has almost doubled.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says:  Have you spotted any hidden gem titles on Steam in the past year? Perhaps a game that has just a handful of reviews but deserves a bit more attention? 

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Capcom's Dead Rising series has been on ice for a while. We did get a ‘Deluxe Remaster' of the first game back in 2024, but prior to that, the last new game in the series was Dead Rising 4 all the way back in 2016. As it turns out, Capcom may be planning a new game after all these years. 

According to MP1st, Capcom is currently working on a brand-new Dead Rising game, rather than another remaster or remake. While the game would be new, it would also bring original main character, Frank West, out of retirement.

Apparently, the game is in development under the codename ‘Rec' and has been planned since at least 2023. It is speculated that the game would be a direct sequel to the first game, rather than tying into any of the follow-ups. In fact, it may take place prior to the events of Dead Rising 2, which launched all the way back in 2010.

The Dead Rising games were a defining part of the Xbox 360-era, but popularity waned over the Xbox One / PS4 generation. It sounds like sales for the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster were promising, allowing a new entry to be greenlit after so many years.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: Would you like to see a new Dead Rising game? Did you play the Deluxe Remaster when it came out last year? 

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This year, Konami finally released the remake for Metal Gear Solid 3. However, there does not currently appear to be any new remakes on the horizon. According to the series' producer, Noriaki Okamura, that could change but certain titles will prove to be a major challenge.

In a recent interview with Real Sound (via VGC), Okamura says that Konami is still deciding whether or not to pursue another Metal Gear Solid remake: “Right now, we’re still in the stage of thinking about what to make next. Since Metal Gear has given us a chance to reach a new audience, I’d like to keep building on that momentum. That said, the actual content of what we’ll make is still undecided. It could be another remake, or we might take on something entirely new.”

Specifically, when it comes to remakes, Okamura says that the Metal Gear series is “a history of video games in itself”, which means that the ‘best way' to reinterpret each title “differs greatly”. Konami has “no intention” of applying the same methodology used for Metal Gear Solid Delta to every game. In particular, Metal Gear Solid 4 would present “a real challenge”, as the game made use of “unconventional” code to get the game running well on the PS3.

With that in mind, it doesn't seem like Metal Gear Solid will be going down a similar route to Resident Evil, where we get a new remake every few years to bring the entire series up to modern standards. Instead, Metal Gear Solid will be handled on a case-by-case basis and the team may just decide to make something new entirely, rather than revisit an older entry again.

In the meantime, fans can still expect the MGS Master Collection Vol 2, which aim to get all of the classic games in the series running on modern hardware. Volume 1 included Meta Gear, Metal Gear 2 and the first three MGS games. Volume 2 would target MGS 4, which has never been playable outside of the PlayStation 3 platform, as well as MGS 5 and its small prequel title, Ground Zero. Potentially, games like Peace Walker and Portable Ops could also be included.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: There has a huge lack of 3D stealth games on the market presently. Metal Gear could fill that gap perfectly, whether its through new titles or by remakes of older games.

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There has been a lot of speculation around the cost of Valve's upcoming hardware devices, with most of it centred on the Steam Machine after learning that it will be priced . As it turns out, the device might be a bit more competitive with current console pricing than initially thought. 

After a couple of price hikes in recent years, the PS5 Standard edition now costs $549.99 and an Xbox Series X costs a bit more at $649.99. The PS5 Pro goes a step further and is currently priced at $749.99 outside of holiday sales periods like Black Friday.

In a new video, LinusTechTips crunches the numbers and discovers that building a comparable PC to the Steam Machine could cost as little as $600, however, when taking into account recent rises in retail costs for components like RAM and SSDs, the current price falls between $800 and $900, as the AI boom has caused a supply and demand issue impacting even consumer electronics.

When taking into account the cost, Valve's direct-to-consumer model and lack of need for significant profit margins on the device, due to the company's cut of every sale on the Steam Store, they estimate that the Steam Machine will target a $699.99 introductory price point. This is a lot closer to current console prices than initially thought.

Of course, this price point assumes there are no further changes in the market. Right now, the fluctuation in the memory and SSD markets is believed to be the primary reason Valve has not yet announced a finalised price tag for the Steam Machine. It is hard to finalise a price on something when the goal posts are being moved on a day-to-day basis.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: If the Steam Machine can beat the PS5 Pro in price, then it stands a much better chance of appealing to an enthusiast gaming audience.

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We've known for quite some time that Ubisoft is working with Netflix on a new live-action adaptation of Assassin's Creed. Since then, little about the cast or production plans has been revealed. According to recent leaks though, we now know which time period this new Assassin's Creed series will be set in. 

Each of the Assassin's Creed games have targeted a different period of history. We've seen Ancient Egypt, 1800s London, Civil War-era America and many more. For the new Netflix series, it looks like the writers will be targeting a time period never featured before in the games.

According to Nexus Point News (via IG), the Netflix Assassin's Creed series will be taking place in Ancient Rome, during the same time period that Emperor Nero ruled. This means we will be getting a very different look at Italy compared to Assassin's Creed 2, which was set during the Renaissance era.

It is still unclear when the Netflix Assassin's Creed series will release but filming is due to begin in Italy next year, so we should get more news over the next 12 months.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: Are you looking forward to the Netflix Assassin's Creed series? 

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Despite originally being announced in 2020, Ubisoft was forced to take its remake of The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time back to the drawing board after fans lambasted the artistic direction shown in the reveal trailer. Now all these years later, it looks like the wait for the new and improved version is finally ending. 

According to Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming, the Prince of Persia remake is set to launch in mid-January. The re-reveal of the game is said to be one of the major announcements planned for The Game Awards this year.

Ubisoft has been very quiet publicly about the remake and considering how much time has passed since the original announcement, it seems likely that they throughout the original version entirely and started over from scratch, explaining the five-year gap.

The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake was co-developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Toronto. If this information is all accurate, then we should finally see the new version of the remake during The Game Awards on December 11th.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: The original reveal was a disaster so hopefully Ubisoft managed to get things right this time around.

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