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Redundancies are a nasty business, but strict French labour laws require companies to negotiate good compensation for staff involved in mass layoffs. Bloomberg say the Versailles office handles things like marketing, customer support and localisation for ActiBliz’s games in Europe. The site’s sources claim that the company had originally planned to move half of the office to London, but that plan fell through due to Brexit and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic....

Well, there’s more of it again, now, with the release of the Dynasties Of India DLC. If you want to watch an elephant headbutt a pyramid until it bursts, watch the trailer below. I’ve never seen an elephant bulldoze a building before. I did once see an elephant use its trunk to pluck and eat poop right out of another elephant’s butthole though, so I’m willing to believe those big grey bastards are crazy enough to do it....

Along with new high-res textures, the mod tweaks many 3D models for more detail, remakes the UI in high-res form, redoes pre-rendered cutscenes, fixes some visual glitches Capcom had left in, improves lighting and shadows in places, and does more work to make it look better. The mod brings technical improvements too, such as better widescreen support. It even (optionally) restores visual effects like the depth-of-field blur present in the original release but absent in later versions....

You can fly solo in Blue Protocol or form a team with up to six players to take on dungeons. There’s five skill-based classes to muck about with, all with daft names that I’m quite into. Fancy being a Blade Warden? How about a Keen Strider? I enjoy a good stride. When you’re doing a battle instead of a stride though, you’ll be able to call on some magical fairy things called Echoes to blast enemies with powerful beatdowns....

AMD also confirmed a May 12th launch date for FSR 2.0, the significantly upgraded version of its FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaler. FSR 2.0, which aims to better match Nvidia DLSS on visual quality, will be added to Deathloop on the 12th - with more games to get the tech “in the coming months.” All three of the new GPUs have had their clock speeds tuned up and come equipped with faster GDDR6 memory....

In the meantime, those with both a Ryzen 5000 series CPU and a Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card – those lucky enough to have found one in stock, I should say – can take advantage of Radeon Software 21.9.1’s updated overclocking feature. In previous versions, it was possible to instantly overclock your graphics card with a single click; now you can do the same with both the GPU and CPU at once....

Ryzen 5000 prices, specs and release date You can see the price and specs of each Ryzen 5000 CPU in the table below. All three CPUs will be released on the same day on November 5th, and they’ll be compatible with all of AMD’s existing 500-series motherboards such as the X570 and B550. There will also be a super high-end 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 5950X processor available on the same day for enthusiasts for a whopping $799, but it was the $549 Ryzen 9 5900X that AMD spent most of their time talking about today, calling it “a beast in performance” during their presentation....

If you have any of these games, you can try out FSR right now. Go on, you know you want to. 22 Racing Series Anno 1800 Evil Genius 2 Godfall Kingshunt Terminator: Resistance The Riftbreaker Later in the year, the likes of Dota 2, Far Cry 6 and Resident Evil Village are guaranteed to have FSR, and other upcoming games on AMD’s website include Baldur’s Gate 3, Farming Simulator 22, Edge Of Eternity and upcoming Squeenix game, Forspoken....

While perhaps not quite as good value as previous Raise The Game bundles, this new one is at least a bit simpler to understand than some of their older ones. To get both games for free, for example, you need to buy one of the following graphics cards: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon RX 5700 AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Qualifying desktops with these graphics cards in them, as well as RX 5600M-powered gaming laptops are also eligible to get both games for free, and you’ll have until November 7th to claim your them through AMD’s Rewards portal....

When I think of American landscapes, I think first of cities like New York, and second of wide open spaces found in the likes of Montana. Tall trees, taller mountains, glacial lakes; the sort of unfathomably large terrain where my small bones would eventually be discovered after having been excreted by a bear. It’s a blessing ATS doesn’t let you get out of the truck. Like all American Truck Simulator expansions, the state of Montana comes with new routes to drive, new industries to haul for, new cities and towns to visit, and recreations of several local tourist attractions....

The job, by the way, was working in the education department for a zoo: we went on school visits where we showed off various small animals, and the hissing cockroaches were my “team”. I named them all after artifacts in the Dwarf Fortress I was playing at the time, and so my star performer was a lass called Chillberry, the Price Of Times. Anyway: the reason I’ve been reminded of all of this, is a splendid, simple browser game Alice0 pointed out to me, called Animal Bastards....

“A good player experience depends on the loot system being extensible and robust, and a lot can go wrong. A lot did go wrong,” says studio director Christian Dailey. “We fell short here and we realized that building something new from the ground up was going to be required.” Most of today’s update focuses on a bunch of high level concepts for the loot system rather than the details. Broadly speaking, BioWare want to increase the frequency of loot drops while also making the experience of finding it feel more exciting....

Arenas is a team deathmatch mode coming as a permanent addition alongside the battle royale. Each round starts with a buy phase to pick up gear and abilities, like in Valorant or CS:GO, then you’re sent into the Arena against one other squad. You can revive downed players, but there’s no respawning if they’re fully dead. They’re short, speedy matches that let you play around with different Legends and focus on one fight at a time, without the fear of getting third-partied by another trio....

Teaser trailer or not, this is more or less all I need. Some dense clusters of buildings, some swarms of citizens rushing about, and a locale I haven’t yet thrown up a digital Cumbernauld. Described as a “survival city building game”, you’ll have more to worry about than the typical SimCity-ish balance of peep needs. You’ll need to “seek out and secure available basic and advanced resources, manufacture what is required for life in the ocean depths and overcome unique dangers” in order to prosper....

Assassinating them all becomes one of Alexios or Kassandra’s main focuses of their odyssey. To work out who the major players are and where to find them, you need to kill their subordinates and gather clues that lead you to the sages, and their leader. This Assassin’s Creed Odyssey cultists guide will show you all of the locations for the Cult of Kosmos. With so many members in their collective fold, it’s going to be hard to track all the cultists down without prior knowledge of how to be an effective assassin....

If you play tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons - heck, if you play a lot of video games like Hitman or XCOM where you rely on a blend of skill and luck - you’ll know that it’s more fun when everything goes wrong but you manage to make it through anyway. Things going according to plan are boring. This is why it was great that, when a handful of journalists were shown a hands-off demo of Baldur’s Gate 3, founder of Larian and director of BG3 Swen Vincke failed almost every dice roll, every passive skill check, and every attempt at sneaking he made....

We’ve seen plenty of changes to specialists since launch, with various abilities and gadgets getting disabled while the team work on balance patches and bug fixes. If a specialist has been temporarily altered, you should see a message above the gamemode button on the Play tab in the main menu. With that in mind, we’ve changed this list frequently to ensure it is up to date for the most recent version of Battlefield 2042....

Except, Beacon Pines is far less choice-driven than I expected. Instead, it’s something far rarer and more ambitious in video games: it is a good story, well written, with strong characters you grow to care for. You control Luka, a twelve-year-old who possesses several main character tragedies. His Dad died six years ago in mysterious circumstances, his Mum has recently gone missing, and he now lives with his inattentive Gran....

I’ve only ever played Halo 1, and that was long enough ago that I’ve forgotten most of the details. If I remember correctly, the series is about a man in a BMX helmet and his absolute best mate, blue Tinker Bell, fighting different sizes of ape. Halo Infinite’s launch trailer seems to confirm that little has changed, except now there’s a King Ape and he has a beard. No, I will not watch your Halo lore video....

That doesn’t make the Necromancer an easy class to pick up and play, though. To wield its immense strength with ease, you’ll need to know the best attributes, skills, gear, and gems for the Necromancer. You’ll also want to know how to spend your Paragon points, which you will earn after reaching level 60. Fortunately, we’ve got all of that below with our best Diablo Immortal Necromancer build. Best Diablo Immortal Necromancer build The Diablo Immortal Necromancer tends to lean one of two ways: you can either go pure DPS or shift slightly into a support role....