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XFX has followed ASRock in ignoring whatever the embargo is for announcing the unannounced AMD RX 5600 XT and listed the new Navi-based card on its site. The full GPU and frequency specs are all there ahead of the expected reveal during AMD’s CES press conference on January 6. I mean, it’s like they’re not even trying anymore. At least ASRock doesn’t seem to have actually had the card listed on its website, but XFX has laid it all out. Well, apart from the price, that’s left off, but considering that it’s rocking the same core configuration as the AMD RX 5700, but with a slower clock speed and weaker memory, you can guess that it’s going to come in around the $250 mark. Basically it just needs to slide in under the price of the GTX 1660 Ti, which it is almost guaranteed to give a swift shoeing to when it comes to the gaming benchmarks. The release date is set for January 2019, which I’m guessing is a bit of an error, because I’m sure we’d have noticed its existence over the last year… According to the listing (via Videocardz) the “Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card is the world’s most technologically advanced card for 1080p gaming. The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT is powered by the highly acclaimed RDNA architecture delivering a boost in gaming performance.” We still don’t 100% know exactly what the GPU is inside the card, whether it really is a Navi 12 GPU with a full 36 CUs in place, or if it’s actually just the same Navi 10 GPU as the RX 5700 but with one of its memory controllers lopped off and some slower GDDR6 attached to it. But the rest of the specs have been laid bare for the world to see. And it looks like the AMD RX 5600 XT is going to be quite the card, and whatever it wants to say about 1080p gaming it looks like it’ll do pretty well at 1440p too. Especially it the More Power Tool allows you to squeeze more juice out of the Navi GPU too. With the card launching this month we should have full benchmarks for you very soon.

At the latest count, there still should be four new examples left in the United States. Now that 2020 is here, automakers are releasing their total deliveries for 2019, and there's a surprise in Lexus' announcement. Somehow, the company moved 50 percent more units of the LFA supercar last year than in 2018. Granted, this meant the company delivered three of them, instead of two. Not bad for a vehicle that ended production in 2012. Gallery: 2010 Lexus LFA: If you're in the market for an LFA, there still should be a few available at Lexus dealers in the United States. In 2017, the company said that there were 12 new examples in showrooms across the country. The automaker delivered three units of the supercar in 2017 and two in 2018. Factoring in the three from 2019, there were still four LFAs left at the beginning of 2020. Lexus began production of the LFA in 2010 and built 500 of them through 2012. Of the total, 50 had the Nürburgring Package with a 10-horsepower (7.4-kilowatt) power boost, gearbox tweaks, and more carbon fiber pieces for the body. Even the standard version packed a 4.8-liter V10 making 553 horsepower (412 kilowatts) and had a redline at 9,000 revs. The body and monocoque made extensive use of carbon fiber. Lexus is now in the early stages of considering a new supercar. At this point, the company is still trying to get support for the model. Even if the car gets a green light for production, don't expect to see it for several years. Customers looking for a performance-focused Lexus have something to anticipate because the company has a twin-turbo V8 on the way. It debuts in the LC race car at the Nürburgring 24 Hours later in 2020 and could be the powerplant for the rumored LC F.

Shoppers are set to spend less on fast fashion brands in this year’s Boxing Day sales, new research by Barclaycard has found. The survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found that 67 per cent of Britons plan to spend less on cheap clothing that they will wear only a handful of times due to concerns about how it may impact the environment. Fears over the climate crisis are expected to drive down sales by £200m overall, with 62 per cent of shoppers intending to make fewer purchases. However, the survey found some shoppers still do intend to make the most of the Boxing Day discounts, with four in 10 expected to spend an average of £186 each. Barclaycard, which processes almost half of all credit and debit card transactions in the UK, says that the decrease in spending could also be down to most Britons having already made the bulk of their discounted purchases on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, both of which took place in November. Rob Cameron, chief executive of Barclaycard Payments, said: “Despite Boxing Day remaining a key moment in the retail calendar, savvy shoppers have been planning their large purchases throughout the entire festive sales period, which begins long before December. “Our data for Black Friday and Cyber Monday revealed a huge jump in transaction volumes this year, so it’s not surprising that consumers expect to have less money to spend after Christmas, so retailers need to take that into account. “What’s more, our research shows that shoppers are increasingly thinking about how their purchases impact the environment. "Forward-thinking retailers should be making a conscious effort to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, in order to boost their appeal – and their revenue.”

French police have shot and killed a man in a car park near Paris following a knife attack. The incident took place near to the Hautes-Bruyères State Park in Villejuif, according to the Prefecture de Police. At least three people were stabbed in the Paris suburb before police were able to stop the attacker. A local mayor said one person was killed and several injured in the afternoon attack, but police couldn’t immediately confirm the death or the number of injured people. Videos of the attack circulating on social media show armed police shooting the attacker in a Carrefour car park. The footage appears to show the attacker wearing what resembles an explosive vest. Police are advising people to stay away from the area. The two injured victims are being treated in nearby hospitals, Laure Beccuau, the prosecutor whose office is handling the case, told reporters. She said witnesses were being interviewed to establish what happened. She declined to disclose details about the attacker. In the past four years, the French capital has been rocked by major attacks resulting in mass casualties. In October last year, four people were stabbed to death at the Paris police headquarters by Mickael Harpon, an IT specialist working for the police. Prosecutors said that attacker, who was shot dead by police, had come under the sway of radical Islamists. Coordinated bombings and shootings by Islamist militants at the Bataclan theatre and other locations around Paris killed 130 people in November 2015.

Ubisoft gives everyone a free Rainbow Six Siege operator: Good news, Rainbow Six Siege fans – it looks like developer Ubisoft has got some festive treats in store for players this holiday. According to a post on the game’s official Twitter channel, there’s a surprise for each player which can be found in the game’s Holiday 2019 Pack – and from images posted to that tweet and Reddit so far, it looks like free operators (or a hilarious ‘Little Helper’ uniform) are the goodies up for grabs. According to an image of the Holiday 2019 Pack posted to Reddit, it’s a Premium type pack, usually available as part of a tie-in for events and paid-for – though it looks like this one’s free. The description says: “Contains a random Operator you don’t own yet from years one, two, three, and four. Enjoy the holidays!” So, it appears that you’ll have a new operator waiting for you when you fire up the game. Sweet. However, players have also been posting images of what you get if you already own all of the Rainbow Six Siege operators – and it looks like it’s a very full-on festive uniform for attacking operator, Monty (Gilles ‘Montagne’ Touré) called ‘Little Helper.’ Adorned with candy canes, holly, and lovely red shoes, he looks like a combat-ready elf. Get a look at Little Helper Monty below: If you’re keen to find out what your Operator is, or grab your new look for Monty if you have all the ops so far, head to the Pack section in the game’s home screen menu and claim your Holiday 2019 Pack. In the meantime, check our our guides to the best FPS games on PC and best multiplayer games on PC which you might find handy if you’re keen to try something new over the holiday break.

Competitors report breached personal info while signing up for a FIFA 20 tournament: The FIFA 20 Global Series – EA’s annual esports effort for the game – opened registration today, but sign-ups were quickly taken offline after prospective players began to report seeing others’ personal info during the registration process. EA says it’s “aware of a potential issue” and is investigating, but in the meantime, players aren’t happy. When you entered the registration page, you would see the email address, account ID, location, date of birth, and console account name of someone who had previously registered – no tricks or workarounds necessary. That was noted by Australian streamer Crispy (via our sister site, The Loadout). Crispy asks “This has to be illegal right?” That sentiment has broadly been shared by the competitive FIFA community. Kurt Fenech similarly says “before I get to the absolute farce of that competitive bullshit, when you click the link register for verification you get other people’s personal information! WTF, this is a new low even for this joke of a company.” “We’re aware of a potential issue affecting the registration page for the EA Sports FIFA 20 Global Series that went live earlier today,” EA says on Twitter. “We take these matters seriously, and we immediately took down the page while we investigate the matter. We’ll share updates as soon as possible.” Registration for the Global Series was set to last until October 31, and a second window is set to open in January. You can head to the official site for further details on the event – in the meantime, you might want to wait for confirmation of safety before you try to sign up.

Perhaps it’s the late January release date, but Sunless Skies puts me in mind of The Polar Express. In the standout scene from Robert Zemeckis’ Christmas fairy tale, the titular train steams out across a new lake that has frozen over its tracks, setting the engine loose from its predetermined route. As the Express careens across the ice, its coaches jackknifing uncontrollably, Tom Hanks shouts down instructions to the engineers (“LLLLLEFT! RRRRRIGHT!”), who steer hundreds of tonnes of screaming steel back on course to connect with the rails on the other side – like astronauts docking with the ISS, just louder. There is nothing more terrifying, little more exhilarating, than a train free of its tracks – and in Sunless Skies your locomotive only meets the rails when it reaches the engine yard of a friendly port. For the majority of your playtime, your wheels spin above countless fathoms of air as you set your own course through the unmapped heavens, one bulging eye on your fuel counter. You might have noticed that I’m skipping back and forth between the language of the railway, the stars, and the sea, and that’s because no one of them entirely encapsulates the premise of Sunless Skies. You captain what is unmistakably a steam engine, leading a crew of not-quite-cosmonauts, not-quite-pirates in a series of mercenary acts – transporting settlers to new homes, trading weapons for flowers, shooting down enemies of Her Renewed Majesty and harvesting their nameplates like scalps. By making increasingly bold trips through the sky to distant ports, you might just pull together enough coins – not only to patch over the holes in your locomotive and replace the crew you’ve lost, FTL-style, but to buy bigger locomotives, and maybe even keep your crew alive long enough to make the return trip. Maybe. Baby steps. This is life on the frontier, but not in the American model. Upon reaching the High Wilderness, Londoners colonised it the only way they knew: building cramped dens of industrialism, recreating class division among the stars, and continuing to compete for Best Kept Village on floating islands. This might be the only vision of space in which the pioneers prioritised cricket pitches and apple orchards over mining stations. In short, it’s the wildest bit of worldbuilding this side of Torment: Tides of Numenera. The Sunless series is often bunched in with roguelikes, but it’s only optionally that way – you can pick to reload from your last port after a death, rather than start over. Better to think of this game as a great novel stowed away in the hold of Sid Meier’s Pirates!, or an RPG reconfigured entirely around the writing – though not one that shrinks the scale, as Subsurface Circular did. Sunless Skies developer Failbetter cut its teeth in the choose-your-own-adventure revival that washed over phones and browsers. That perspective shows in every aspect of its new game. Where conventional RPGs have often struggled to squeeze meaningful choice and storytelling around the perennial gameplay loops of the genre, Failbetter solves the issue by transforming every part of that loop into an opportunity for further storytelling. Leveling up alters your stats, but its primary allure is the chance to add another paragraph to your backstory – perhaps one informed by a recent brush with gravity, or a run-in with temporary madness. Combat, a simple yet tense naval-esque affair about charging and dodging in real-time, is more often than not a prompt for a new quest. Scuttle a marauding ship and it might yield a sky-frazzled pilot who needs taking directly to Magdalene’s house of comforting lies, or perhaps Carillon, the demonic spa for the soul. Stories? They’re quite literally the objects in your inventory – Sky-Stories and Tales of Terror you can trade at port. Perhaps Sunless Skies’ best trick, inherited from Failbetter’s Fallen London, is to turn practically everything into currency. Anything can be normalised if it can be bought and sold, lending the game a surrealistic air in which you might take extra risks on behalf of your crew, knowing that the resulting anecdote might prove valuable someday. There are bugs, however – and I don’t just mean the singing Chorister Bees poised to invade the bohemian retreat of Titania (in fairness to the musical insects, the place is nestled inside a flower the size of the Sydney Opera House). On a few occasions, the music cuts out entirely – a shame when such great efforts have been made to give ports distinctive motifs, adding to the sense of relief when a familiar theme kicks in just as you load up your last fuel tank. More than once, the game stops registering half the buttons on a controller, too – trapping me in menu navigation until I resolved to quit out entirely. The game does warn that untreated terror could lead to Nightmares, but I presumed they’d stay in-game. I am only really upset, though, when those bugs mean I don’t get to see the end of one of Sunless Skies’ interactive short stories, which are quite simply the best in the business. Each port is a book with a tone unto itself – there’s Port Avon, the satirically comedic Little English idyll where locals are impeccably polite but soon harden to outsiders, and Traitor’s Wood, a creeping, gothic mystery where a three-headed fox in a Giggling Cave speaks to me in the voices of my crew. Yup, still working on the ‘keeping crew alive’ thing. It feels trite to say that Sunless Skies has really good writing – the game is its writing, removing as many obstacles as it can between you and the prose, letting you see the scene unfiltered by camerawork, animation, and voice acting. Just to be really clear: that means a lot of reading, but it’s worth it. The things you’ll see in your mind’s eye here will outstrip anything you watch in cutscenes this year. The stories of Sunless Skies are droll, profound, and capable of causing you to laugh in shock – as when, upon seeing your first officer, the Incognito Princess, a bystander calmy removes a spoon from his pocket and scoops out his eyes (“After such radiance, all else is tawdry!”). They are terrifying and exhilarating. Failbetter has left the rails of storytelling, and PC gaming in 2019 is better for it.

Maserati’s roadmap to the future includes new models and electrification throughout its lineup. Strangely, it omits a much-needed – essential – single-seat speedster. We know Maserati will launch an all-new sports car next year, which will feature an electrified variant and usher in a new electrified ear for the brand. It will replace the GranTurismo for a year, though Maserati should go bigger. Competition is fierce as more and more automakers vie for the eyes – and dollars – of EV enthusiasts, and what better way to make a statement than a radically designed halo car like the rendering above? t’s called the Maserati MilleMiglia and comes from artist Luca Serafini, who used the open-wheeled Maserati 250F and 6CM as inspiration for his creation. The MilleMiglia rendering lacks the open-wheeled design of yesteryear’s race cars – safety regulations be damned – however, the wheels are pushed to the four corners of the low-slung speedster. The MilleMiglia rendering features a [CENSORED]ceous body with swooping lines cascading across the car’s sheet metal. Finished in Italian Avio, the halo car pairs classic Maserati styling with modern design cues. The LED daytime running lights are stunning, as are the rear taillights and unique third brake light that runs vertically up the rear. Small details like the side mirror stalks look great as do the doors that have a hinge at the rear and open upward. Gallery: Maserati MilleMiglia Concept Rendering: Inside, the Maserati MilleMiglia is just as detailed with sand beige throughout. There’s exposed carbon fiber, including the pentagon-shaped steering wheel, and other high-end materials inside the driver-focused interior. The driver sits in the middle of the car in a carbon-fiber tub, which has what appear to be small infotainment screens embedded in them. A five-point racing harness provides safety. Maserati has big plans for the next few years with refreshed and new models bolstering the lineup. Would it be nice to see an electrified Maserati halo car? There’s no doubt it would garner plenty of press, but headlines don’t translate into sales, making such a car is unlikely.

Co-op has announced a new range of vegan food for 2020, describing the launch as what is “believed to be the largest ever product rollout of own-brand vegan products by a supermarket”. This month, to coincide with the annual observance of Veganuary, the supermarket is launching a new vegan food range called Gro. The full range features more than 35 meat-free products, which will be made available in 300 Co-op stores across the UK. From Wednesday 8 January, selected Gro items will be on offer in 2,000 Co-op stores and up to 4,000 independent retailers across the country. The range features a variety of dishes, including the Kashmiri Spice Pizza, a stonebaked pizza garnished with spiced cauliflower and red chillies; Chilli Con Nachos; Spicy Squash and Mexican Bean Salad and the Vegan Steak Bake, which is due to be launched on 22 January. According to research conducted for Co-op’s Ethical Consumerism report, published in June 2018, the vegetarian and plant-based food market recently topped £1bn, more than doubling over the past two decades. In addition to the launch of its new vegan food range, in 2020 Co-op is also offering same-day online city-centre deliveries in 650 stores. “We have to provide fantastic products and services with strong ethics and a purposeful focus on convenience,” said Jo Whitfield, CEO of Co-op Food. “Our new vegan range taps into the latest consumer trends and our online services meet the growing appetite for fast home deliveries.” Greggs is one of several food retailers to have already announced new vegan food for 2020. Following weeks of speculation, Greggs finally confirmed the launch of its new Vegan Steak Bake, which is available from some stores on Thursday. The dish is made using 96 layers of puff pastry, diced onions, a gravy filling and Quorn pieces instead of meat. Greggs said the vegan steak bake has been in development for months, with the company recruiting a panel of vegan and non-vegan taste testers to perfect the flavour. The baked good costs £1.55 and will initially be rolled out across 1,300 shops from 2 January before expanding to a further 700 shops on 16 January.

Interpol has issued an international wanted notice for former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who audaciously skipped bail in Japan and escaped to Lebanon concealed in a musical instrument case. Lebanon’s justice minister Albert Serhan said he had received one of Interpol’s so-called Red Notices for Mr Ghosn on Thursday. The notices request that police forces worldwide arrest and detain fugitives so that they can be brought to justice. However, Lebanon does not have an extradition treaty with Japan so, while the former car industry executive may be brought in for questioning, he is unlikely to be handed over to face financial misconduct charges. Lebanon has said Mr Ghosn entered the country legally with a French passport and Lebanese identification documents, and there was no reason to take action against him. The latest development adds further drama to a story that has rocked the global automotive industry and shone a harsh light on the Japanese criminal justice system; a system which achieves a 99.9 per cent conviction rate, frequently through the use of long detentions and confessions secured under duress. Announcing his escape, Mr Ghosn said he refused to be “held hostage” by a “rigged” process in which “guilt is presumed, discrimination is rampant, and basic human rights are denied”. He added: “I have not fled justice – I have escaped injustice and political persecution. I can now finally communicate freely with the media, and look forward to starting next week.” Mr Ghosn, with the help of a team of ex-special forces officers, managed to evade 24-hour camera surveillance on his Tokyo residence, enforced as part of strict bail conditions. The fugitive, who has joint Lebanese, French and Brazilian nationality, was smuggled in a case belonging to a Gregorian band who had attended his house ostensibly to play music at a party. He was then reportedly flown in a private plane to Turkey and then on another flight under a different name to Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport. Japanese prosecutors on Thursday raided his Tokyo home, more than a year after he was first arrested for allegedly understating his income from Nissan by tens of millions of dollars. Further charges have since been added by Japanese authorities and the US Securities and Exchange Commission has also filed fraud charges. Tokyo prosecutors and police did not immediately comment on Mr Ghosn’s escape. Government offices in Japan are closed this week for the new year holidays. Mr Ghosn’s lawyers in Japan said they had no knowledge of the escape and that they were in possession of all of his passports. Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV, without identifying sources, reported on Thursday that Mr Ghosn had two French passports. Earlier, Japanese reports said there were no official records in Japan of Mr Ghosn’s departure, but a private jet had left from a regional airport to Turkey. Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency reported that Turkish authorities had detained seven people as part of an investigation into how Mr Ghosn fled to Lebanon via Istanbul. The private DHA news agency reported that those detained are four pilots, a cargo company manager and two airport workers. The Turkish Hurriyet newspaper said the plane carrying Mr Ghosn landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport at 5.30am on 29 December. Mr Ghosn was not registered upon landing and was smuggled on board another plane that left for Lebanon, the paper reported. Mr Ghosn, who was charged in Japan with under-reporting his future compensation and breach of trust, has repeatedly asserted his innocence, saying authorities trumped up charges to prevent a possible fuller merger between Nissan and alliance partner Renault SA. The 1.5 billion yen (£10m) bail that Mr Ghosn posted on two separate instances to get out of detention is being revoked.

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