SilverStone SST-TD02-Slim

SilverStone’s new TD02-Slim sports a similar waterblock and design to the company’s other all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers but, as its name suggests, its fans are halfheight 120mm models that are just 15mm thick, instead of the usual 25mm. The radiator is only 22mm thick too – a good 8mm thinner than many other half-height radiators. The total thickness of just 37mm is around 20mm slimmer than most double 120mm AIO liquid coolers.

Turn your Raspberry Pi into an internet radio

Coupled with an onboard display, the Raspberry Pi makes a great choice for an internet radio receiver. Follow our guide to start streaming stations

The radio, a remarkable invention, was all but supplanted as the centre of home entertainment by the television, and as a source of up-to-the-minute news by the internet. Its biggest drawback, aside from sometimes questionable audio quality, is its limited range. Even today, with the rise of digital radio, channels are typically national rather than international in their reach.

Eclipse Sky-Cube i5

We’ve seen quite a few compact PCs over the past couple of issues, and the race for a spot in your living room is hotting up with every release. The latest, Eclipse’s Sky-Cube i5, is among the smallest PCs we’ve seen, with an Antec ISK600 case that’s just 195mm tall and has a footprint of 260x369mm.

It’s one of the cheapest mini-ITX cases you can buy, retailing for around £30. It’s no design icon, with square edges and a boxy shape, but at least it won’t draw attention to itself if you’re after a more subtle kind of PC.

The Souls Still Burn

Years on, Dark Souls continues to resonate throughout videogames. Here, players, designers and famous fans unpick its influence

It’s understandable that games such as Super Mario 64 and The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time would prove enormously influential, because they set the standard for different types of 3D worlds back when 3D worlds were new. It’s understandable that games such as Doom and Wolfenstein would be cited so often as foundational works in the videogame form, because they wrote so many of the early rules of the firstperson shooter. When it comes to Dark Souls’ influence on game design, though, it didn’t invent new rules, or set new technological standards, or change the conception of what a videogame could be. What it did was make people think differently about how a game could be, and what players would appreciate.

Old Souls

Hidetaka Miyazaki rekindles the flame in a return to the series that made his name

Even from a distance, he is unmistakable. We turn into a corridor and hear his repetitive, metallic clank. We see his sprawling grey mane and, below that, a burly, hairless torso. This near-final build of Dark Souls III has just arrived in Bandai Namco’s UK office, and we are the first to play it. The PR rep looking over our shoulder gasps. We just about keep our cool. We approach Andre the blacksmith and his west country lilt is every bit as calming, yet motivating, as it was in 2011’s Dark Souls. “Prithee, be careful,” he ooh-arrs when our business is done. “Wouldn’t want to see m’work squandered.” For you, Andre, anything.