Warcraft 2: Tides Of Darkness Remastered apparently leaks ahead of the RTS series’ 30th anniversary direct next week

We’re still a week away from Blizzard’s Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct next Wednesday the 13th of November, but art from an apparent remaster of 1995 real time strategy game Warcraft II: Tides Of Darkness has leaked online, via Xibbly user Stiven. It’s a thin one, as far as leaks go, but does show what looks to be cover, logo art, and a Battle.net icon. Thanks for the spot, Percy Coswald Gamer.

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Commandos Origins looks like a solid and satisfying return for the legendary tactics series

My earliest memory of the Commandos series of tactical stealth games was my dad bringing home a box copy of the original. “The missions take months. Months!” his mate had told him. Get less shit mates, thought I, for I had already played it elsewhere, and knew that the missions took mere minutes if you put the game on easy then rushed your objectives, bonking nazis along the way. I did not rush the new Steam demo for Kalypso’s revival, Commandos: Origins, but it’s still doable inside half an hour. I had expected a little more, but what’s here has certainly given me some optimism that the full game might well be worth sinking – if not months – at least more time than it takes to wildly lunge at a few nazis en route to your objective.

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Intel bets on efficiency with the power-sipping Core Ultra 200S series

Intel have announced their latest batch of desktop CPUs, the Core Ultra 200S series, and it’s got the component giants singing quite a different tune. Instead of trying to stuff in ever more threads, and ever more PC-incinerating clock speeds, the Core Ultra 200S family – spearheaded by the Core Ultra 9 285K when it launches later this year – will dial back certain specs compared the 14th Gen range. Instead, the focus will be on power efficiency and lowering temperatures.

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Ghost of Yotei is the next entry in Sucker Punch’s Ghosts series

At the end of Sony's State of Play presentation, Sucker Punch gave a first look at the next game in its award-winning Ghosts Series. Dubbed Spirit of YoteiPlayers take on the role of a new female protagonist named Atsu, who carries a shamisen in addition to the traditional samurai sword. According to the description in … Read more