Friday news, the last part:

Borderlands 3 gets partial crossplay, but refuses to play by Sony's rules
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/borderlands-3-gets-partial-crossplay-but-refuses-to-play-by-sonys-rules/
Randy Pitchford, the president and CEO of Borderlands developer Gearbox Software, has announced an upcoming patch will introduce crossplay support "across all platforms." Except, well, it won't be across all platforms.

Creative Assembly is working on a new Romance of the Three Kingdoms project
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/total-war-three-kingdoms-gets-final-update-new-three-kingdoms-game-in-development/
Creative Assembly has wrapped up content releases for Total War: Three Kingdoms, with the team moving onto another project within the Romance of the Three Kingdoms universe.

Hearthstone's 'The Wailing Caverns' mini-set announced, arrives next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/hearthstones-the-wailing-caverns-mini-set-announced-arrives-next-week/
Initial concerns that adding mini-sets between Hearthstone's thrice-annual big card expansions would further inflate the game's already substantial cost to keep up with have so far proved unfounded. That's because Blizzard surprised players by allowing them to buy all the cards for in-game gold or a fixed price, with no random pack opening required.
So I would expect plenty of interest around the second iteration of the mini-set format, which has just been revealed by Blizzard. The Wailing Caverns is a 66-card set coming next Thursday that will include four Legendary cards, one Epic (x2), 14 Rares (x2), and 16 common cards.

Anything is possible: Fortnite teases a Mistborn crossover
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fortnite-mistborn-crossover/
Marvel cinematic universe? Nah. Hip-hop icon? Get out of here. A series of fantasy books I used to sell at Barnes & Noble? I guess so? Burn your bingo cards, because the latest Fortnite crossover appears to be based on the Mistborn novels by Brandon Sanderson.

The free Chivalry 2 open beta has started
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/chivalry-2-open-beta/
I'll get to the point: There's a Chivalry 2 open beta, it's free, and it's live now. You can download it from the Epic Games Store: Just find the Chivalry 2 page in the client, scroll down a bit, and then add the beta to your library. You'll have to "check out" as if you're buying a game, but it's free.

Here's 14 minutes of Horizon Forbidden West, which is probably coming to PC someday
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/heres-14-minutes-of-horizon-forbidden-west-which-is-probably-coming-to-pc-someday/
Sony debuted 14 minutes of Horizon Forbidden West gameplay in its State of Play presentation today, which you can watch above.
Forbidden West has not been announced for PC, but we have good reason to believe it'll eventually land on our favorite platform. Horizon: Zero Dawn was a former PlayStation exclusive that hit PC three years after its console debut, and performed admirably.

Cyberpunk 2077 has a new game director
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/cyberpunk-2077-has-a-new-game-director/
Cyberpunk 2077 has a new game director, according to a GamesIndustry report, which says that Gabriel Amatangelo, who joined the studio in January 2020 as a creative director, has now assumed the role.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's narrative and design directors leave Infinity Ward
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/call-of-duty-modern-warfares-narrative-and-design-directors-leave-infinity-ward/
Infinity Ward studio design director Taylor Kurosaki has left the studio alongside narrative director Jacob Minkoff, the pair announced on their respective Twitter feeds earlier this week.

And these are the GOG and Steam deals during this weekend:

+GOG

• First things first: the game Samorost 1 is free: https://www.gog.com/game/samorost_1
• The Weekly Sale features post-apocalyptic games up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210524_weekly_sale
• The Midweek Sale with its up to 80% discounts will last another 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210526_midweek_sale
• The Ubisoft Sale, with up to 80% discounts, will last another 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210524_ubisoft_sale
• The Good Shepherd Sale, with up to 90% discounts, will also last another 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/good_shepherd_sale
• The Special GOG Zombie GOGalypse Sale is packed with zombie themed games up to 90% off during the next 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/zombie_gogalypse_2021
• The Weekend Sale features games with giant robots up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210528_weekend_sale
• The Electronic Arts Weekend Sale brings up to 75% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210528_ea_weekend
• And there are a couple of new releases:
  • Solasta: Crown of the Magister launches with a 20% discount until June 2: https://www.gog.com/game/solasta_crown_of_the_magister
  • And Dying Light: Platinum Edition will be 75% off until the 10th of June (the base game also has the same discount): https://www.gog.com/game/dying_light_platinum_edition

+Steam

• Zen Studios puts its games and DLCs on Sale, up to 70% off during the next 3 days: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/ZenStudios/
• Perfect World Entertainment puts its games between 30 and 80% off until the 31st: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/perfectspringsale
• The Save & Sound Sale comes with up to 80% discounts and will last until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40246264/sale/savesound
• The Open World Sale features up to 90% discounts until Monday 31: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/open_world
• Conan Exiles, that is part of the Open World Sale with a 70% discount, is also free to try during the next 6 days: https://store.steampowered.com/app/440900/Conan_Exiles/
• Solasta: Crown of the Magister launches with a 20% discount until June 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096530/Solasta_Crown_of_the_Magister/
• OUTRIDERS will be 25% off until June 3: https://store.steampowered.com/app/680420/OUTRIDERS/
• The Curve Digital Sale offers up to 88% discounts until June 3: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CurvePublisherSale2021
• The Company of Heroes Sale features up to 91% discounts until June 3: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CompanyOfHeroesSale
• And of course, there's also the weeklong deals.

Nothing else to add. Have a happy and gaming weekend.

AMD Waifu GPU: Yeston RX 6700 XT Sakura Review & Tear-Down

Apperently, they put perfume on the GPU itself that's supposed to last up to 2 years... And it's very strong perfume...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 LHR and RTX 3080 Ti with new crytomining limiter have been tested

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-lhr-and-rtx-3080-ti-with-new-crytomining-limiter-have-been-tested

3060 = 20 MH/s
3080 Ti = 58 MH/s

Honestly even with these mining "limiters," if ETH wasn't moving on to a proof of stake model, I'd still be a happy camper with 58 MH/s thats also really good at playing games. For reference, a 3080 has around 95 MH/s.

That is so me.

I'm currently playing the "Fate of Atlantis" expansion of AC Odyssey... but the title is triggering me so hard that my next game will be "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" on my new PC.

An almost 30 years old game which can run on a toaster.

Yea pretty much. I still play starcraft 2 quite a lot and that thing can run on a potato. Getting 300 frames is quite fap worthy tho!

*** ALERT: FREE GAME ***

Yep, another free game, and it's also from Steam. From now until Sunday's refresh, Little Nightmares is free to keep: https://store.steampowered.com/app/424840/Little_Nightmares/

Count me in to support MSoft on this one.

Intel Xe-HPG DG2 Graphics Card PCB Leaks Out – 4096 Cores, 16 GB VRAM, Gaming Performance Close To NVIDIA RTX 3080

https://wccftech.com/intel-xe-hpg-dg2-graphics-card-pcb-leak-4096-cores-16-gb-vram-gaming-performance-close-to-rtx-3080/

Now this is coming from MLID and his track record so far is 50 50. He was on point with RDNA 2 but was way off with Ampere. So take it with a grain of salt. It rumoured to be price around $500 but it's rumored to release in Q1 2022. Now if that's true, then that's quite a missed opportunity as RDNA 3 is rumored to release around then as well and the current gen GPUs should all be in stock by then.


AMD Ryzen Threadripper “Zen3” now rumored to be available in September

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-threadripper-zen3-now-rumored-to-be-available-in-september


Intel quietly launches 11th Gen Core 10nm Tiger Lake desktop CPUs including Core i9-11900KB?

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-quietly-launches-11th-gen-core-10nm-tiger-lake-desktop-cpus-including-core-i9-11900kb

Well, guess Tiger Lake is officially Intel's first 10nm Desktop CPU. I'll be interested to see how it performs with proper desktop cooling as the boost numbers are still very high for the top end parts. Now these aren't going to be socket-able as far as I can tell as they are soldered in like the mobile chips, just in the desktop form factor.

If Intel manages to launch a card that's on the same ballpark as a 3080 on its first try, I'll be very, very impressed.

Worst So Far: iBUYPOWER Pre-Built Gaming PC Slate MR1004 Review

Poor computer... It's sad to see it in such a state... It's rare to see such a thing be worse than a Dell computer!

Linus is WRONG ? : Explaining MHz vs MT/s

Anandtech iterates the importance of using correct terminology while Linus doesn't care. As usual, Linus is more of an entertainer than anyone that takes their job seriously.

ASUS ROG STRIX G15 (G513QY) the ultimate all-AMD laptop (5900HX/RX6800M) listed at 1950 EUR

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-strix-g15-g513qy-the-ultimate-all-amd-laptop-5900hx-rx6800m-listed-at-1950-eur

An all AMD gaming laptop, it's been how many years? Like sure, you had the 5500M or whatever but those were meh at best. Now this on the other hand, should be interesting!

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition no longer uses Denuvo

https://steamdb.info/app/1295510/history/?changeid=U:23098371

Games shouldn't be using this in the first place but hey... Least they remove it eventually.