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For a strange while there in the late 1990s, every third game was about piloting a military helicopter to protect America’s oil interests abroad. Novalogic’s Comanche series was one of the most notable of these, employing advanced voxel technology to render foreign landscapes in what was, for the time, mind-smearing fidelity. In an era when most games were set inside a dense yellow fog, Comanche could draw rolling mountainscapes peeling off to a distant horizon, and vast deserts littered with oases and little army bases to blow up....

First, a brief bit of surfing to demonstrate. Because we’re talking about something which grew up in the noughties, we cannot help but run into the Drowning Pool’s bedroom door-slamming anthem, Bodies: Fall a few metres in Counter-Strike and you’ll usually grunt and be near-death. But with careful movement and the right angle, you can find yourself slipping around like greased lightning. It’s a funny old thing, started by mapper Charlie “Mariowned” Joyce after finding a weird slippy roof in a daft murderbox map he made....

The subscription service gives access to 13 expansions, 12 unit packs, 14 music packs, 10 portrait packs, the Ruler Designer, and the Game Converter which exports saves to Europa Universalis IV. Some bits are better than others, and some are just decorative, but it’ll all be there for subs. “With so much additional content available, the cost for new Crusader Kings II players can seem prohibitive or intimidating,” Paradox explain in the announcement....

New players may fall into the trap of playing countless rounds of casual matches in an effort to practice, but this is only half the battle to getting good. In this guide we’re going to take you through the top five training maps that you can use to start working smarter - not harder. If you are learning CS:GO, our training map guide will teach you everything you need to know about the game....

According to Bloomberg, “frustrated and angry staff fired questions at the board during an internal video meeting” on Thursday. Developers asked about crunch, unrealistic deadlines, and overtime during the game’s development. “One employee asked the board why it had said in January that the game was ‘complete and playable’ when that wasn’t true, to which the board answered that it would take responsibility,” Bloomberg reports. Management’s apparent misrepresentation of the state of Cyberpunk 2077 during the announcement of its first delay was only the beginning of a long year for employees....

“We’ve mentioned before that expansions will be coming, and while we’re not ready to talk specifics just yet, we will say that we’ve learned a lot from our work on both Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine. Our planned expansions will take you even deeper into the world of Cyberpunk 2077, offering substantial, story-driven content that’ll give you tough choices to make through impactful narratives that you won’t soon forget,” the hidden message said....

Get the Dell Alienware AW2721D for £550 with code UKMEGAW2721FR It’s a great value for a monitor that uses one of LG’s popular Fast IPS panels to great effect, combining the motion handling of TN screens with the colours and viewing angles of IPS. It also meets the DisplayHDR 600 specification, meaning the monitor actually gets bright enough to make HDR content really look special - unlike so-called ‘HD-Aren’t’ monitors that can accept an HDR signal but look the same or worse with HDR engaged....

That there is Beebz, a tweenage demon (well, tweenage in demon years) who wants to take over Hell so people take her seriously. Conquering is best done by jumping, everyone knows, and she’ll be leaping through the turfs of different gang leaders with the help of abilities like a grappling hook and time-freezing bubbles. Fabraz, who previously made 2017’s 2D jumper Slime-san, say it’ll also have fun bits like a ‘Photo Hunt’ mode to capture hidden and surprising things, which sounds good to me....

Bungie first announced the Destiny Content Vault in June. “The fact is, the game is too large to efficiently update and maintain,” Destiny 2 general manager Mark Noseworthy explained - both as a piece of software they have to maintain, and as something players need to fit on their hard drive. We’ve known that the locations Nessus, Io, Mars, and Mercury will go into the DCV, taking with them their missions and raids....

I thought about it, and replied “Diablo III, but with this energy:” and then sent him that meme image of a guy throwing his hands up and saying “I guess” in a beleaguered way that suggests he accepts the situation but isn’t happy about it. The panels are actually from a larger strip from the webcomic gunshow I do genuinely believe that Diablo III is the game to recommend to new, prospective Diablo players....

Resurrected’s server issues over the past couple of weeks have seemed to get worse. This culminated in several instances of downtime in the past week, where a global outage was caused, Blizzard say, by a surge in traffic. “This was a new threshold that our servers had not experienced at all, not even at launch,” reads the post on the Blizzard forums. “This was exacerbated by an update we had rolled out the previous day intended to enhance performance around game creation–these two factors combined overloaded our global database, causing it to time out....

How to create or join a Clan in Diablo Immortal To create a Clan, you will need to pay 100,000 Gold, which you will find by defeating monsters and completing quests throughout the campaign. Once you have enough, you can go to the Clans tab of the options menu and create a Clan. As a Clan leader, you can invite members, set ranks, and create goals for your Clan. If you wish to join an existing Clan, you can browse open ones from the same tab....

According to a report by Variety, ZA/UM have partnered with production company Dj2 Entertainment. “We’re so gratified at the response Disco Elysium has received, and very happy to be teaming with Dj2 to expand the franchise for other media and new audiences,” ZA/UM’s lead writer Helen Hindpere tells Variety. “No writer is currently attached, nor is a network or streaming service,” says Variety’s report. “Dj2 is now meeting writers in anticipation of pitching the property later this year....

Gosh, it’s like watching someone throw an Action Man into a washing machine full of meat. Like many hacked-together third-person modes, it’s pretty rudimentary - shifting the camera back and killing first-person viewmodels. Honestly, it reminds me of toggling +thirdperson in Source games like Garry’s Mod or Left 4 Dead - a neat little trick, but you wouldn’t actually play a game like this, right? But that’s never stopped the Doomguy....

The first teaser for Dragon Age 4 was revealed at The Game Awards in 2018, so I admit I’d already been anticipating this year’s show thinking BioWare might arrange for a follow up. No more wondering necessary, since they’ve now tipped us off in a press release indicating that “the next reveal” for the future of Dragon Age will be happening during the event. As for what they’ll show or announce, heck, I don’t know....

Dream Cycle takes a roguelite approach to adventuring. You’ve got this massive map, from which you’re free to select a tile. Once you’ve done so, you’ll be sucked into a procedurally generated level filled with enemies, loot, and story beats. Of course it depends on how you like to play, but these levels take roughly 20 to 30 minutes to complete. The setup can be a little tricky to get your head round, but you’re effectively a magical apprentice called Morgan who’s trapped in a weird dimension....

Bay 12 Games call update 0.47.01 the “villains release” or the “first villains release” or “the guilds and temples and adventurer parties and pets release which also has artifact heists and extensive historical villainy, with lots of new mostly evil magical stuff.” Okay so there’s a lot here and part of it is villainy and also there’s more evil to come, got it. As for what’s in today, the update log says that what you’ll most often encounter in fortress mode are petitions from your dwarves to build them temples or guild halls....

There hasn’t been a whole lot to know about Gaia, though sources “familiar with the matter” who spoke to Bloomberg mention that it had been in the works for nearly six years. It’s likely the same open-world action game that EA hinted at back in 2015, not long after Motive was formed. Last summer’s EA Play down below included a few seconds from one of Motive’s in-development projects, which may have been Gaia....

But it wasn’t just New World facing these issues. The same problems were being reported by players trying to open a bunch of other EAC games on Steam, including Apex Legends, Rust, Fall Guys, and Dead By Daylight. Some encountered a pop-up when trying to launch that said Easy Anti-Cheat doesn’t trust their files, while others were unable to go online once the game was open. Turns out, EAC was working a bit too hard thanks to a recent Steam client update....

Below we’ll show you how to easily beat the Stonedigger Troll boss in Elden Ring. You can watch through how I did it below, and read our top tips on how to make victory against this dangerous creature an assurance, rather than a sliver of hope. Elden Ring Stonedigger Troll boss fight walkthrough The Stonedigger Troll haunts the Limgrave Tunnels to the north of Agheel Lake. It’s one of the first dungeons - and therefore bosses - that you’re likely to encounter in Elden Ring - which isn’t to say that the Stonedigger Troll is necessarily a pushover....