August 2022

Dunno if you’ve noticed by there’s an awful lot of sci-fi games on the way, most of which – these being games – revolve around shooting space creatures to glowing green bits. Deliver Us Mars, the recently delayed sequel to Deliver Us The Moon, takes a more peaceful option, now blending the original’s puzzling with some Tomb Raider reboot-style platforming. Your deadliest enemy here is gravity, and as far as I understand, you can’t shoot that.

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Amazon are intending to announce they’ve made an offer to buy publishing colossus Electronic Arts later today, according to a new report from USA Today’s For The Win, who cite sources from Swedish gaming agency GLHF. No clue yet as to how much they’d be paying, but it’s likely to be ranging in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Maybe just not as many as Microsoft’s $68.7 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard, revealed in January.

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Skully the Skeleton is back for another yearly look at indie horror games at today’s EEK3 showcase. The scares begin at 11pm BST/12am CEST/3pm PST, so particularly spooky if you live on the main European landmass. As one person noted, Friday the 26th is twice as scary as the 13th.

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Disney Dreamlight Valley has a free character creator you can download now ahead of the game's release.

Developed by Gameloft, it's a free-to-play Disney farming sim that has players harvesting crops and meeting a variety of Disney characters.

The character creator is available on Steam and Epic and gives players a chance to fiddle around with their own character. Kingdom Hearts fans will surely be happy.

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Embracer Group has now completed its acquisition of Square Enix's western studios, namely Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, and Square Enix Montréal.

Back in May, Square Enix sold off its western studios and IP (including Tomb Raider and Deus Ex) to Embracer for just $300m.

Now, three months later, the acquisition has been completed, according to a press release from Embracer.

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As part of its latest Treehouse: Live showcase, Nintendo has shared a lengthy look at Square Enix's upcoming fantasy farming sim Harvestella, showing off its story, its world exploration and combat, its farming, fishing, and more.

Harvestella - a sort of blend of Final Fantasy, Harvest Moon, and Rune Factory - begins with players waking up with a bad case of amnesia in a world where the seasons are governed by four giant crystals known as Seaslight. Unfortunately for the locals, something has gone awry and a deadly dust known as the Quietus has started seeping from the crystals, trapping people indoors and causing crops to wither and die.

And that's not the end of their problems; as players settle into a vacant house on the outskirts of Lethe Village, a huge comet falls to the earth nearby, bringing with it the armoured body of an Omen, thought to be the cause of the calamity. We see some of this in Nintendo's showcase, but the bulk of the play-through is focused around Harvestella's second chapter as players start to explore the dungeon-like Higan Canyon, with help from new pal Dianthus.

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Nintendo has joined Microsoft in responding to this week's shock PlayStation 5 price hike, and said it had "no plans" to similarly bump up the Nintendo Switch's cost.

In a statement issued to Eurogamer this morning, Nintendo confirmed it had "no plans to increase the trade price of its hardware".

The response goes further than that of Microsoft's, which last night noted Sony's dramatic decision by simply stating it was keen to "offer our fans great gaming options", before reiterating the Xbox Series X and S's launch price point.

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We're at Gamescom 2022 in Germany, and we've played Planet of Lana, the gorgeous upcoming game that looks straight out of a Studio Ghibli movie. Inspired by 2D platformers like Limbo and Inside, this cozy game promises challenging logic puzzles alongside beautiful scenery.

Watch the video below:

Enjoying our coverage from Gamescom 2022? Read our previews of A Plague Tale: Requiem and Minecraft Legends. Stay tuned for our interview with the developers behind this game in the coming days. 

It’s only been a little under a week since the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, but HBO Max viewers are already once again hooked on the world of Westeros, as the show broke viewership records and has been all people can talk about. With all of this commotion, there are already questions about if there will be a Season 2 of House of the Dragon. Here is everything you need to know.

House of the Dragon Season 2 Release Date

Despite only having one episode out currently, it has already been confirmed that, yes, there will be a Season 2 of House of the Dragon. Obviously, there isn’t much information regarding what the plotline of the second season will be just yet, but we will be sure to keep you posted when it arrives.

For now, House of the Dragon seems like it will mostly be around the internal conflict between the Targaryens, as they vie for the Iron Throne. So far, we’ve also seen a lot of other familiar houses, including the Baratheon and Starks, just to name a few.

Back in 2016, Overwatch revolutionized multiplayer team-based shooters by having a colorful cast of misfits along with intuitive gameplay. Players everywhere gravitated to their favorite heroes and everyone from the damage-dealing Reaper to the lifesaving Mercy had the chance to shine in every match of Overwatch. However, Overwatch wasn’t just a simple flash in the pan for the summer of 2016, this game was a certified phenomenon that slowly revealed interesting lore along with ultra-produced cinematics and comics that bolstered the lore.

Not only that, but the fandom helped secure Overwatch as the most popular game in the world for a time. Sadly this couldn’t last forever and the original game’s popularity slowly diminished over time. But with Overwatch 2 just on the horizon, here are the five changes that Blizzard needs to make to ensure that the sequel can exprience sucess in today’s market.

Sega and Atlus have published details about their attendances at TGS 2022. The companies will hold a joint live stream titled "Sega New" on September 16, 2022. Their booth at the physical venue in Makuhari Messe will also have many playable demos like the Persona 5 Royal ports and Nippon Ichi Software's Disgaea 7.

Sega will feature the upcoming Sonic Frontiers and its latest fighting game Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown, while Atlus will focus on the multiplatform remasters and ports of the Persona series. The latter will place demos of Persona 5 Royal on multiple current-generation platforms.

Atlus will also place life-size statues of Persona 3's Thanatos, Persona 4's Izanagi, and Persona 5's Arsene in the TGS 2022 booth. The company had previously displayed the same statues at the Persona 25th Anniversary Festival, which took place in Tokorozawa Sakuratown in Saitama prefecture from May to July 2022.

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The Japanese webpage has another list of titles from Sega's partner companies that will appear at its booth. One of them is Nippon Ichi Software's newly-announced Disgaea 7, which will have a playable demo build available on the spot.

It seems the Blue Archive calendar is just "built different". Thanks to the complications of launching the global edition of a live game, the next event on the game's schedule is the Blue Archive Valentine's event. According to Nexon's roadmap, it's scheduled to begin in September 2022. This follows after the New Year's event, which launched in August 2022.

Formally titled "Schale's Happy Valentine Patrol - Kosaka Wakamo's Silence and Feast", the event focuses on Wakamo, Chihiro, Sena, and Fubuki, four new playable Students. Things go wrong when Sensei agrees to help Chihiro and the others patrol for rowdiness during Kivotos' Valentine's day celebrations. The scene is put under siege by Wakamo, a notorious criminal.

Check out a trailer from when players of the Japanese edition experienced it (at a more seasonally appropriate time: Late January 2022).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z48QKVIIbA

The Blue Archive Valentine's event also follows an unusual structure, swapping regularly between a Valentine's Day Patrol and an attack by Wakamo. Players will need to alternate between the two "phases" of the event to maximize their rewards. For their trouble they'll gain Pyroxene gems, progression materials, and Eleph for Fubuki, who can be obtained for free through event progress. Wakamo, Chihiro, and Sena will all appear on their own recruitment banners for players to roll for.

Swedish media buyer-uppers Embracer Group have completed their $300 million (£253 million) acquisition of former Square Enix studios, begun in May this year. The deal sees Crystal Dynamics, Eidol Montréal and Square Enix Montréal become part of a 12th operating group within Embracer. Square Enix Montréal will now change their name.

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Minecraft Legends was first announced at Geoff Fest earlier this year, and a smidge more footage dropped again at a Nintendo Direct Mini. But despite both of these events, it's been difficult to ascertain what the game actually, well, is. Aside from being a real-time strategy spin-off, there's been nothing else to scan with our eyeballs for more info.

Colour me intrigued, then, as I sat in a quickfire presentation at this year's Gamescom and bore witness to some mythical gameplay. I can now report that what Minecraft Legends appears to be is as mix of real-time strategy and building, made all the more approachable by being set in Minecraft's colourful cube-verse.

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Eight years ago Graham (who used to be to blame for all of this) got hands-on with Dead Island 2, back when the game was being developed by Yager, the folks behind Spec Ops: The Line. Since then, development changed hands like a baton at the Olympic relay; Yager left a year later, to be replaced by Sumo Digital, only for Sumo Digital to leave and be replaced by Dambuster Studios. Usain Bolt hasn't expressed interest yet, but there's time.

So going into a 20-minute hands-on with the game in the year 2022, I was a bit apprehensive. What sort of Frankenstinian horror awaited me behind closed doors? But, far from a shambling mess, what I played was a zombie 'em up that seemed close to what Graham saw in 2014, only polished up to a surprising, bloody gloss.

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Developer Sloclap has detailed Sifu's big summer update - which is set to bring the likes of a new scoring system and gameplay modifiers - ahead of its arrival next Wednesday, 31st August.

Top of the list of new additions for the kung-fu beat-'em-up is the aforementioned new scoring system, which will "take into account every punch, kick, sweep and finisher performed" in order to rank players based on smoothness, efficiency and variety. "Dismantle a group of enemies without getting hit," Sloclap adds, "and players will be greeted with a score worth flaunting."

Elsewhere, next week's update brings a range of modifiers designed to suit all tastes. At one end of the spectrum, struggling players will be able to significantly reduce Sifu's challenge by giving themselves the likes of infinite health, structure, and unbreakable weapons. Those looking to further test their mettle, however, can prevent themselves from picking up weapons and set enemies to ignore guarding, or go even further by reducing their character down to a single hit point and bumping enemy strength up even further.

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After one of the most popular and best gaming mice of the last few years? Logitech's legendary G502 Hero is on sale for a historic low price. Use code BANKHOLIPLAY at checkout to take 30 percent off the G502 Hero, dropping its price from £35 to a ludicrously good value £24. For context, this mouse is still selling for £80 from Logitech direct - and was retailing for £40 on Amazon as recently as two days ago.

The G502 is one of the best-selling gaming mice of all time, and it's for good reason, too. The broad ergonomic shape feels comfortable for hours on end, there are 11 programmable buttons and the dual-mode scroll wheel remains unique, changing between a no-friction glide and a properly chunky tactile steps at the push of a button.

The G502 Hero is also heavier than many mice on the market today, and even features additional weights if you prefer a weightier mouse. The G502 Hero is the latest version of the mouse to debut, alongside the more expensive Lightspeed version, and comes with the titular Hero sensor. It's one of the best optical mouse sensors on the market, and is rated up to 25600 DPI in case you like your mouse to move very fast indeed.

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A new blog post has laid out all of the upcoming accessibility features for The Last of Us Part 1 on the PlayStation 5.

This includes a new feature that will enable players to play dialogue through the console's DualSense controller as haptic feedback.

This new feature, which started off as a prototype, means that "a deaf player can feel the way a line is delivered, can feel the emphasis, along with the subtitles to give some sense of how that line is delivered," explained game director Matthew Gallant.

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Dead by Daylight's Resident Evil chapter will release on 30th August.

Called Project W, it's the second Resident Evil collaboration between developer Behaviour Interactive and Capcom.

Albert Wesker will be the new Killer, while Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers will be new Survivors.

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A new trailer for Team Ninja's Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has been released, showing off gameplay for the first time.

The Soulslike game was announced during the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase in June and will be released in 2023 across Xbox consoles and PC (Game Pass on both), and PlayStation consoles.

It's led by producers Fumihiko Yasuda (Nioh) and Masaaki Yamagiwa (Bloodborne), and judging by the below trailer it certainly looks familiar.

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The long-rumoured white Xbox Elite Series 2 controller - pictured above - has been spotted again online.

Earlier this month, footage of the controller surfaced on YouTube, and pictures of its packaging were posted to Twitter back in March.

Microsoft has not made an official statement regarding the white controller's release, or even acknowledging that it is real, but more solid evidence of its existence has appeared.

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The Nintendo Switch wasn't pushing the envelope in terms of performance when it launched with an modest Tegra X1 chip back in 2017, but its relatively modern graphics meant that the system could run recent titles without a massive development effort. On the flipside, its meagre levels of compute performance - a necessary compromise for a power-limited mobile device - often required big sacrifices to rendering resolution. With the Switch reportedly soon to be replaced by a successor, we thought we'd survey some of these efforts to see just how low-res the most demanding titles got - so just how low can the Nintendo Switch go?

First, some ground rules. We've evaluated these games by their lowest typical resolution, in portable mode, with full 3D graphics - but note that this is meant to be a sampling rather than a definitive list.

The first game I looked at is firmly in standard definition territory. Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled renders at 854x480 in portable play, with no anti-aliasing. When you're at a resolution this low, AA sometimes hurts more than it helps, so you will notice that several of these titles drop the technique entirely. In practice, Crash Team Racing looks quite messy in motion on the Switch - the screen is flooded with jagged edges. On the plus side it does look fairly sharp, but it certainly does distract from what is otherwise a solid version of the kart racing remake.

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Team Ninja’s dark fantasy action title Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty impresses in a new gameplay trailer that captures the fast-paced thrills you'd expect from the minds behind Nioh and Ninja Gaiden. 

Fans of the studio's previous action titles should find plenty to love with Wo Long if this video is any indication. Set during the Three Kingdoms era of China, you'll battle invading demons as a soldier using a blend of graceful swordplay and Chinese martial arts based on the Five Phases philosophy. The trailer shows off the many demonic foes awaiting your blade, including a bipedal tiger that is swiftly kicked out of the way by the protagonist. 

Next month, those attending Tokyo Game Show will be the first to play Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty via a show floor demo. Everyone else will have to wait until early 2023 to experience the game on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It will also be available on Xbox Game Pass at launch.

Yesterday, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced it will increase the price of PlayStation 5 consoles in various non-U.S. territories due to global economic conditions such as inflation. Microsoft then declared later that day that it will not be doing the same with the Xbox Series X/S. Now, Nintendo has chimed in on the matter. 

In a statement to Eurogamer, Nintendo reiterates a quote from president Shuntaro Furukawa, made in June, in which he stated the company has "no plans to increase the trade price of its hardware.” Furukawa made this statement during the 82nd Annual General Meeting Shareholders that month, in which he also said: 

"While we cannot comment on pricing strategies, we currently do not have any plans to change the price of our hardware due to inflation or increased procurement costs in each country. We will determine our future pricing strategies through careful and continued deliberations.”

Although the PlayStation 5's price will remain unchanged in the U.S. (for now), both versions of the console have become more expensive in Canada, Europe, the UK, Mexico, Japan, and Australia. The price hikes have already gone into effect in those regions except Japan, which occurs on September 15. 

Developer miHoYo’s latest Update 3.0 has added new questlines and characters to the world of Teyvat. That includes one mercenary who is especially skilled with Pyro and features prominently throughout some of Sumeru’s new storylines. If you’re wondering who the Dehya voice actor is in Genshin Impact, here’s your answer.

Dehya Japenese Voice Actor

For Genshin Impact’s Japanese translation, Ayaka Fukuhara voices Dehya. The actress has a wealth of experience voicing characters in the video game industry, having starred in games such as Sakura Wars, Nier Replication, and Granblue Fantasy. If you’re familiar with Japanese anime then you might also recognize her voice from such shows as Captain Tsubasa and Extreme Hearts, in which she played Tarō Misaki and Yukino Tachibana respectively.

As promised yesterday, a trailer for Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World has been released. This story serves as a spin-off and prequel to the main Konosuba series and will largely take place a year before Kazuma Sato arrived in Axel. This time around we will get a story focused almost entirely on everyone’s favorite Crimson Magic Clan magician, Megumin. Yunyun will also be along for the ride.

The trailer itself (fully in Japanese without subtitles) teases the reason why Megumin is so obsessed with Explosion magic. This bit of a tease absolutely goes with the story Megumin tells in the light novels that she witnessed Explosion magic for the first time as a young girl and that was the start of her fascination.

This spin-off will be coming sometime in 2023 from Drive.

You can watch the adorable trailer below, and get ready for an anime full of nothing but explosions.

Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World was first announced to be in production back in May of this year, and unveiled a very brief teaser trailer last month.

Sifu developer Sloclap has just announced that the end of August will bring a brand new, free update for the game, introducing gameplay modifiers, a new scoring system, and some nifty cosmetics.

Check out the trailer below.

In a brief trailer, Sloclap details what fans can expect when the Summer Content Update hits their action beat ’em up game on Aug. 31. Owners of the base version of the game will get access to the “Master Hand” outfit which boasts a fancy hat that stays on until you are hit. On the other hand, owners of the Deluxe Edition will be granted access to the “Enforcer Armor” as well as the “Master Hand” outfit which are accessed through the Wuguan.

Following the new cosmetic display, the trailer focuses on the new gameplay modifiers the Summer Content Update will introduce. Players can challenge themselves or make themselves all-powerful with gameplay modifiers that will change the way the game is played. Make the game as hard as possible by limiting the use of weapons or enemies ignoring your guard. Make it easier by turning on invincibility and giving weapons infinite durability as well, the choice is yours.

That’s right, the Fortnite Crew subscriber bundle for September has been revealed and it’s looking like a pretty stacked offering.

Subscribers will get their hands on:

• Loveless Outfit
• Calling Card Back Bling
• Stylus Edge Pickaxe
• Shooting Shuffle Wrap
• The Loveless Bandit Lobby Track

There are several cool things about the items in this bundle. The mask Loveless wears can be changed to a different style bearing each of the three playing card suits: hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The Calling Card Back Bling has a “Diamond King” and “Heart Queen” style and spins when you open a chest. The Shooting Shuffle Wrap will change suit per elimination.

It doesn’t appear the September Crew Pack will once again include Save the World access like the packs from July and August did.

Here is the official image so you can see the items for yourself before they go live next week.

Below, you’ll find the minimum and recommended specs for playing Valorant on PC at 30 frames-per-second. Keep in mind that while this is fine, as is the case with most shooters, the higher your framerate, the better your experience is going to be, and possibly the bigger advantage you’ll have over other players. Ideally, you want to be aiming for a consistent 60 FPS as an absolute minimum.

That’s because Valorant is a tactical shooter that rewards precision, and smoother framerates help you to react faster and see enemies with more clarity. Put simply, the faster and silkier your framerate, the more fluid your movements will be, which can have an impact on the accuracy of your shots.

Valorant Minimum PC Requirements (30 FPS)

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, AMD Athlon 200GE
• Graphics Card: Intel HD 4000, Radeon R5 200
• RAM: 4 GB
• VRAM: 1GB
• Storage Space: At least 10GB
• Operating System:  Windows 7/8/10 64-Bit

Valorant Recommended Specs (30 FPS)

• Processor: Intel i3-4150, AMD Ryzen 3 1200
• Graphics Card: Geforce GT 730, Radeon R7 240
• RAM: 4 GB
• VRAM: 1GB
• Storage Space: At least 10GB
• Operating System: Windows 7/8/10 64-Bit

If you’re wanting to give yourself the competitive edge in Valorant, then you’ll want to try and aim for a 144 FPS framerate. Of course, you’ll only be able to get the full benefit of this if you have a compatible display/ monitor, so keep this in mind.

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed on PS5

2005 introduced sixth-generation gamers to Destroy All Humans!, a parody of Cold War-era films centered around alien invasion. The franchise saw moderate success until it was put on ice indefinitely after publisher THQ went bankrupt, leaving protagonist Cryptosporidium and Orthropox floating in a space of nothingness for 12 years. Nordic Games came along and purchased the rights to the franchise, rebranded to THQ Nordic, and gave the series new life with developer Black Forest Games at the helm of a remake of the first title, Destroy All Humans!

You’re probably wondering what the long backstory has to do with any of this, and if you’re a fan of the alien invader parody, you kind of know where this is headed. A solid showing from two remakes most certainly means gamers could see a much-needed revival and a possibility of a brand new entry, right? Well, before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s take a trip to the past in the swinging 60s.

Set 10 years after the first title, Crypto has replaced the US government and is enjoying the peace, love, and positivity of the 1960s. However, it isn’t very long before this utopia is disturbed by the KGB, and our hero discovers a sinister plot unfolding under his very eyes. Crypto sets out on a globe-trotting adventure to stop the Soviets while spreading his own proper form of alien peace, love, and positivity. The story itself is pretty wonky, but for these games, it’s par for the course as it intends to parody the period it’s set in.

HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series has hit the ground running with quite a lot of positive buzz surrounding it. Not only did it debut well with critics and audiences (it currently holds an 83 percent Critical Rating and an 86 percent Audience Rating over on Rotten Tomatoes), but it also managed to net record-breaking viewing figures with almost 10 million viewers for its first episode. Pretty impressive, no?

As you can imagine, following this incredibly positive news, it was always looking pretty likely that a follow-up season was going to get the greenlight. Now, we have official word that a season 2 is formally in the works.

The intel comes by way of a tweet from House of the Dragon‘s official twitter account, which you can see for yourself down below:

Another year, another Madden. This time around, however, EA devs promised the “most polished version” in years. The reality appears to be much different as negative reviews pour in on Steam and Metacritic. In fact, even some NFL pros featured in the game are trashing it. “First game out on Madden 23 hung 50 on a…

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Gamescom 2022's reveals may still be filtering out to the wider public, but companies are already looking forward to the next big event: The Tokyo Game Show. Koei Tecmo announced its own TGS 2022 lineup and headlined it with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. First announced in June and developed by Ninja Gaiden developers Team Ninja, Wo Long will be playable for the first time at the show.

Check out Wo Long's first gameplay trailer, uploaded to the company's official YouTube channel on August 26, 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79tDXWwAbPY

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is an action-adventure title set in China. Taking place in a Three Kingdoms-era setting plagued by supernatural threats and demons, the game is inspired by Chinese mythology and martial arts. The game will be playable at the Koei Tecmo TGS 2022 booth, and players who spend some time with it will receive prizes. All who play the demo will receive a special button badge, and those who manage to clear the demo get a t-shirt.

Check out the designs of the swag below.

One surprise from Gamescom's Future Games Show, held on August 24, 2022, was Snaccoon, a new game that casts players as a hungry raccoon. It's being developed by Christian Sparks. Otherwise a member of Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash developer Heart Machine, Sparks originally began the project as a hobby to occupy his time amid disruptions to work from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the game has entered fuller development and debuted with its first teaser trailer. Commentators online drew comparisons to BlueTwelve's Stray, a cyberpunk cat game.

Check it out below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez2KhbJpux4

In Snaccoon, players play as a hungry raccoon born with the misfortune to live in a city that has banned all snack foods. Of course, prohibition tends to drive that which is prohibited underground rather than stop it, and the raccoon stumbles on a black market of cake and chip sales. Possessed of "above-average intelligence" and an iron resolve, the raccoon must enter the black market to obtain the delectable goods. But the market demands goods for trade, and the raccoon will need to change from "trash panda" to "bandit vermin", stealing items of value to trade in an elaborate series of deals. The final prize? A box of its favorite treats.

Rollerdrome is an all-action skater/shooter set in a dystopian, but near, future. Protagonist Kara Hassan is the newest competitor in Matterhorn’s games, hosted by the corrupt International Rollerdrome Federation. Your job is to skate through 12 intense arena maps battling both the house players and yourself, dodging attacks as you replenish your ammo with sick tricks to stay in the fight. With enough combo multipliers and top completion times, you might come out as the champion.

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It's been a hot minute since I last crossed paths with JRPG series Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts, but today the key creators behind both of these late 90s and early 00s RPGs have announced they're making two brand-new JRPGs that are inspired by their previous works - and they're launching a 'double Kickstarter' campaign to help fund them. The games are called Penny Blood and Armed Fantasia (no points for guessing who's making what), and based on what I've seen so far, I'm intrigued.

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The WD Black SN770 is a good middle-of-the-road PCIe 4.0 SSD, outperforming PCIe 3.0 SSDs while costing less than the very fastest PCIe 4.0 models. It launched at £125 for a 1TB size earlier this year, but now it's down to £84 where it's rather more fetching. The 2TB size has also been reduced and is even better value at £152. Here's why we rate these SSDs - and where to find them at the lowest price.

Let's do the 'where to find them' bit first. It's quite simple: WD's UK store is offering the 1TB at the best price right now, while Ebuyer is the place to go if you'd prefer the larger 2TB model.

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