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It’s no secert that pixel art games are getting lovelier by the day - just look at the incredible Backbone that came out the other day - but Replaced is on another level entirely, with gorgeous effects, lighting and some incredibly swish animations. Take a look at the trailer below and see if you don’t fall instantly in love with it. In Replaced, you play as R.E.A.C.H, an AI trapped inside a human body against its will, in an alternate 1980s America....

You see, Eastshade does one thing very, very well. In fact, it does it so well that most players probably won’t even have noticed until they look back and really think on it. Eastshade teaches mindfulness, a keen and acute awareness of oneself and one’s surroundings in the present moment. And that, my friends, is where the appeal comes from. When I first played Eastshade, I was in a bad way....

But a weekend of gaming means different things to different people. Does it mean you can blitz through Kena: Bridge Of Spirits in only a few hours, or will it take a solid 20 hours to complete? And does this take into account the many side activities and collectibles, or were Ember Lab simply talking about how quickly you can rush through the main story? Find out exactly how long it takes to complete Kena: Bridge Of Spirits below....

In Grounded you play as a child, or group of children working together, who has been mysteriously shrunk down so that a normal suburban garden becomes a huge jungle. It’s a great idea, but I’m curious where Grounded came from conceptually. Did they set out to make a survival game that eventually became about being tiny and encountering giant ants and spiders, or was there a particular idea or concept that came before that?...

Keep track of events Every six weeks, Genshin Impact typically undergoes a significant update, which always brings a few temporary events to the game. Although this pattern hasn’t been officially recognized by Mihoyo, players have noticed that one event every two updates will typically grant players a free four-star character. In the past, these free four-star characters have included Fischl with the 1.1 update, any four-star Liyue character of the player’s choice with the 1....

Learn how to travel through hazard zones in Biomutant below. We’ll cover the five different hazard zones and resistance types, and how to improve your resistances. How to get through harzard zones in Biomutant There are five different types of hazard zone in Biomutant, and they all work in very much the same way. When you enter a hazard zone, a notification will pop up in the top-right corner with a percentage that slowly ticks up (or down, if you’re in the so-called Deadzone)....

How to make Potions in Minecraft To make a Potion in Minecraft, you need these things: A Brewing Stand for brewing potions. Blaze Powder for fuelling your Brewing Stand. Glass Bottles to contain your Potions. A Water source nearby (Cauldron or Water block). Every potion starts with a Water Bottle. To make a Water Bottle, just right-click on a water source with a Glass Bottle in your hand. There are three steps to making a Potion: Steps 2 and 3 can be done in reverse order if you like, but step 1 always comes first (except when making a Potion of Weakness, which doesn’t need an Awkward Potion)....

In this guide, we’ll explain how to respec in Elden Ring, so that you can rework your character and grow ever stronger. We’ve also gone into detail about where to find Larval Tears - you’ll need these to respec. How to respec in Elden Ring To unlock the ability to respec in Elden Ring, you need to venture to the Academy of Raya Lucaria and defeat Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon....

However, chronological bragging rights aren’t as immediately curious as how these mice resist spillages when the internal circuitry is so readily exposed by their hole-punched, lightweight frames. The answer is what SteelSeries call AquaBarrier, which appears to be a sort of hydrophobic coating applied to both the outer casing and the components exposed within. This isn’t the only reason why the Aerox 3 and Aerox 3 Wireless are two of the best gaming mice you can buy, but I was curious: how much liquid punishment could one of these rodents actually take?...

The HTC Vive Cosmos attempts to rectify that problem with its modular faceplate design. Instead of having to chuck out the entire headset when a new one comes along, all you need to do with the Vive Cosmos is buy a new tracking faceplate and snap it onto the front. It’s a brilliant idea in theory, and one that’s just beginning to come to fruition with the upcoming release of the even cheaper Vive Cosmos Play and the more advanced Vive Cosmos Elite headsets....

The list of games on offer is pretty superhero-heavy, with almost all of them stemming from Traveller’s Tales’ plentiful supply of Marvel and DC Lego games. However, there’s still the procedurally generated delights of Lego Worlds to be found here, as well as the Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game as well to spice things up a bit (the latter of which is meant to be surprisingly decent judging by its Very Positive Steam reviews)....

I have not built a star destroyer. I have not built a scale model of the Burj Khalifa. I have not built a functional robot city sustained by a perpetual motion generator. I have dug a haphazard mine shaft with a ladder all the way down to a vein of cobalt. I have built a long tube across all three axes that hoovers up iron ore as I drill it and sends it to my refinery....

I’ve mostly been using the restrictions provided by the Tiny Living Stuff pack which came out at the start of the year (a length of time which might as well mean “a literal decade ago” at this current stage of the year of our lord, 2020). It turns out that being restricted to “just” 100 tiles in The Sims still allows you to build a home larger than the one most average real families live in, albeit smaller than the huge McMansions of most average Sims families....

Other grand prize contenders include AI and sadness visual novel Eliza, uplifting flap-about A Short Hike, irresistible card-pusher Slay The Spire, and irritable waterfowl punter Untitled Goose Game. Also in the running is Anodyne 2: Return To Dust, the only game on the list that someone at RPS hasn’t thrown lavish praise at. Soz, Anodyne. You’ll find most of those games in our picks for the best games of 2019, which non-coincidentally also includes some of the best writing of 2019....

In their ‘behind the scenes’ presentation at BlizzConline, Blizzard delved into how they want to “change the tank role entirely” in Overwatch 2, and “try to make them more toe-to-toe brawlers, and less characters that just stand back and protect other people”. Blizzard turned to hammer-swinging Reinhardt as one big example of how they’re experimenting with this role tweak. They’ve given him two charges of Fire Strike, which lets him chuck damaging fireballs far more often....

Today, the cheaper of the two cards, the Arc A750, is available for £250 plus shipping at Overclockers UK, a steep £80 reduction from their £330 launch price. Get the Intel Arc A750 8GB GPU for £250 + £8 shipping (was £330) Both Arc GPUs are strong 1080p and 1440p contenders, although they perform at their best in DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles, with older DirectX versions running through a compatibility layer that diminishes performance....

I’m one of those relative newcomers who was able to experience Kentucky Route Zero for the first time in its entirety, all its acts and intermissions as one complete package. But not everyone has as much time to invest themselves in something without knowing for sure if it’ll be their jam. So, I wanted my video review for the Rock Paper Shotgun YouTube channel to showcase both the surface-level and the subliminal of Kentucky Route Zero, in a way that might act as a good first step for those who are curious but unsure about all it has to offer....

In Microsoft Flight Simulator, obviously, but this honking great console of handles, buttons, joysticks and levers definitely looked like the right tool for the job. A simple flight stick this is not: there’s a full 180-degree yoke handle, an integrated display that can data like flight times, and a modular (but included as standard) throttle quadrant. The kind of thing you might own if your PC resembles a bisected turbine....