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We’ve already highlighted some of the best deals in the sale elsewhere, but if you’ve been thinking about getting into The Witcher series recently and have yet to take the plunge, then this new Witcher Universe Collection could be just the ticket. In it, you get the enhanced edition of The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings, the Game of the Year edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (which includes its two expansions), plus Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and The Witcher Adventure Game - all for just over £20 / $27....

This is a great pickup for PC gaming, especially if you like platformers, racing games, action titles and the like, of which there are plenty on PC. Get an Xbox Wireless Controller for $39.99 (was $59.99) The Xbox Wireless Adapter has a lot going for it, from its control scheme being the default in basically all recent games with controller support to its simple AA battery power that provides instant recharges (with the option to juggle rechargeable batteries or pick up the Charge & Play adapter for a more environmentally-friendly option....

You can now download a Single Player Beta of the mod - and even if you don’t plan on doing that, it’s worth watching the trailer below. The effort and editing put into this “final cinematic trailer” is impressive all on its own: Graphics mods are no new thing in Grand Theft Auto games, with tools like ENBseries and SweetFX allowing modders to hijack the game’s renderer and tweak its output....

“Halo Infinite will support ray traced shadows across Arena and Big Team Battle Modes,” AMD’s Scott Herkelman said during the stream. Anyone rocking a Radeon RX 7000 card by that point should notice “improved lighting, sharper shadows, and increased performance” in the FPS game when ray tracing’s turned on. During the stream, AMD revealed they were also partnering with developers Striking Distance on upcoming horror game The Callisto Protocol, and Luminous Productions for magical action RPG Forspoken....

This detail came up in a chat with multiplayer assocciate creative director Tom French during the livestream prior to Infinite’s big technical preview at the end of July. “[Assassinations] are not in for launch,” French said. “We actually really love assassinations… but what happens at a lot of levels is people just turn them off because there’s a gameplay disadvantage to it.” French recounts seeing a great assassination play during a tournament match in which they were unintentionally turned on....

Nasty demons walk the Earth, and, as you’d expect, they’re up to no good. So, it’s up to the five members of punk band Charlie Murder to save the world by punching and kicking everything that moves. Granted, none of that is exactly innovative, but what made Charlie Murder stand out when it came out was the inclusion of RPG elements. By getting inked up at one of the tattoo parlours that are dotted about the place, you get special abilities specific to your class....

You can play a digital version using Tabletop Simulator, but obviously that is a bit crap. I don’t mean to be mean, it’s just doomed to be a pale facsimile. So much of the joy of Crokinole stems from its gloriously tactile foundations. Flicking a wooden disk along an ultra-smooth surface is an experience so singularly satisfying, so crisp and pure, that I can summon my memories of it with unusual and alarming clarity....

All it takes is seeing one a single quote from the Ancestor in Darkest Dungeon, and I’ve instantly got his voice booming in the back of my mind. I suppose it’s quite fitting for a roguelike RPG based on lovecraftian horror to still hear voices after you turn it off. The gothic roguelike has some of my favourite ever voice acting, all done by this Ancestor, who acts as the narrator for almost every move you make....

I could go into great detail about all the various ways in which E:ROTMK refined the Impressions formula into something magnificent, with its sweeping progress through thousands of years of Chinese history. But these retrospectives are short, fleeting things, and so I want to focus on one particular facet of nostalgia: the fact that every time I go back to replay Emperor, it makes me really, really hungry. Like most of its ilk, of course, the game tasked you with keeping your citizens fed, by either harvesting or importing din-dins, and then distributing them through housing districts from a market....

Battle Royale may have been built upon the game’s original survival mode with the same slapdash energy as cooking a garlic bread as a side for a roast dinner, but without this base the game would never have found overnight success. For all its flaws, Fortnite’s Save The World campaign was a solid survival shooter that boasted interesting building mechanics and weighty shooting. Battle Royale may have been a last minute addition, but Save The World was in development for the best part of seven years, providing Fortnite with a foundation that was leaps and bounds ahead of any of its competitors at the time....

The game is structured into four square panels in a two-by-two grid. Players can move around each of the squares to solve puzzles or click inside each square to interact with the scene. This is where it gets cool: Any object you see that has some sort of frame around it - doorways, paintings, windows, photographs - you can actually move through them and discover new areas to explore. And that’s just the beginning....

It’s a pretty similar mysterious hero rises to save nations type fantasy RPG. I remember the opening levels very fondly, which involve your village fayre (I feel sure it would be spelt fayre). The tutorial aspects teach you how things like combat work by making you do bare knuckle fights, archery competitions, and I distinctly remember something involving an enchanted pig. This serves as a really nice comparison to how grim things get when ancient enemies turn up, loads of townsfolk get bad murdered, and you end up forming a party with a chirping tiefling and a grumpy dwarf to kick the shit out of a Necromancer initially, and many things in general thereafter....

The campaign, in hindsight, I could take or leave. It was the talk of the school of course. “In that last mission when you throw the knife into his eye, it’s so cool, woah,” was the vibe, and whilst there are unique and interesting perspectives on what the ultranationalist Russia invading the US represents in the real world, I was a silly kid with no real clue what was going on....

I was never really into flight sims, because like sports and racing games, they were attempts to emulate reality, and thus boring. But SimCopter let me load up cities I’d made in SimCity 2000 and… wait for it… fly around them, like a steel god. That was it, really. The game itself was dull as dust, as I recall, since it was mostly just emergency services busywork. But the ability to take things I’d put together in an isometric world of sprites, and then have them magically turned into a 3D world I could fly around, and occasionally stop from being on fire, was magical....

The subscription service is now live on Steam, costing £3.99/€4.99/$4.99 per month, with small discounts for buying multiple months at once. It offers access to all the expansions plus the Sound Packs and Cosmetic Packs which add new music, speeches, models, and skins for extra flavour. That’s currently £120-odd bought individually, though of course it goes cheaper in sales. Paradox say all upcoming expansions and content will be added to the subscription (as well as still sold normally)....

Help is urgently needed, particularly for Palestinians who make up the overwhelming majority of the casualties. Here we’ve listed some charities that are helping the most affected people in the region - please consider a donation. The UK-based children’s charity has an emergency fund that is currently focusing on the Gaza crisis. Donations are used to purchase such essential items as hygiene kits, first aid kits and LED lighting. Donate here The France-based medical relief team has long had a presence in the region and is operating clinics in Gaza and supporting hospitals in Palestine....

It’s literally just a recording of a dude yelling his head off. If for any reason you’ve decided not to watch this with sound on, here’s a quick snippet of what you’re missing out on: “Evidence of actual nicest man on Earth @TheRealBeano sounding angry! Or pretending to be a little miffed, at least,” Rare tweeted. “We imagine he was channelling the rage he’d feel should someone steal his last @BorderBiscuits Dark Chocolate Ginger (his favourite available biscuit #RobinFacts)....

Valve veteran and level designer Dario Casali told IGN today that a combination of “scope creep”, cautious tech development, and ideas that just weren’t good enough have kept the official third sequel from ever materializing. So far, anyway. Casali recounts how long it took Valve to develop Half-Life 2 alongside the Source engine. You shouldn’t build on shifting sand and, as Valve learned throughout six years of HL2 development, you shouldn’t build a game at the same time as its engine....

The trailer is out now and you can watch it below. In 2013, music critic Matthew Perpetua made the same observation about Justin Timberlake. Perpetua argued that Timberlake was positioning himself as “an upscale pop star”, someone who “emphasized his craft and artistry” and aimed to transcend the charts to become someone who doesn’t “necessarily need hits because they’ve ascended to a realm of quasi-royal celebrity.” Whatever you think of his work, Kojima is as close to a quasi-royal celebrity as exists in this industry....

UPDATE: April 2020 We’ve updated the deck list for the Ashes of Outland expansion and the Standard format rotation - the guide page and deck list will continue to update as the meta develops. Highlander Warlock deck list and strategy Here is the version of Highlander Warlock we’re going for at the opening of Ashes of Outland. Expect further refinements with card reveals and meta shifts, and we’ll be sure to update this page as and when they happen....