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A box - Metal Gear Solid Pioneered by master of infiltration, David Snake, this technique makes the user appear to guards as nothing more than an unusually mobile cardboard box with two adorable feet. What a good box, thinks your adversary. Perhaps it contains organic oranges or maybe some other perfectly reasonable things to store at a nuclear waste disposal facility. “Take care of the box,” philosophises the famous mech murdering protagonist, “and it’ll take care of you....

This guide will show you everything you need to know to make the best Hoffman build in Back 4 Blood, which also happens to be a very powerful shotgun build. However, don’t expect to play as Hoffman straight away. You’ll need to actually unlock all of the cleaners in Back 4 Blood first. Best Hoffman build in Back 4 Blood Hoffman can store extra ammo and grenades, so our Hoffman build is all about putting that firepower to good use....

Best Genshin Impact Dori build for support/healer Best weapon: Favonius Greatsword Alternative: Forest Regalia There’s no need to kit Dori out with a 5-star weapon, since her normal attacks are unlikely to form the cornerstone of any build you’d care to put together for her. The Favonius Greatsword is a stalwart favourite among 4-star weaponry, thanks to its ability to generate elemental orbs that recharge energy with every CRIT its wielder lands, something that’s very useful for element-focussed characters like Dori....

The most premium version of Valve’s handheld PC comes equipped with a 512GB SSD; that’s fast and reasonably spacious, and might suffice on its own if you’re primarily playing little indies and 2D games. But if you’re taking full advantage of the Steam Deck’s power to play, ooh, let’s say, any big game released in the past four years, you’ll find yourself running low on gigabytes in short order. A good microSD card will provide an instant, significant boost to your Steam Deck’s capacity, with a surprisingly negligible performance difference to the SSD....

Below we’ll show you the very best Veltecite farming locations in The Cycle: Frontier across both maps. Further down, we’ll also explore the various things you can craft using different kinds of Veltecite, so that you can understand which types of Veltecite to keep and which to sell to your favourite faction. Where to find Veltecite in The Cycle: Frontier Veltecite is the second ore type you’ll encounter in The Cycle: Frontier, after the ever-present Nickel....

The last of the succession parchments have been signed. The last threats have been sent to the East. In the great hall, beneath the alabaster snarls of Zeus and Demeter, a marsh of sick cools from the near-apocalyptic revels of the emperor’s farewell feast. And now, in the imperial bedchamber, with a wheeze like a ruptured bouncy castle being leaned on by thirty builders, the soul of a god escapes its prison of flesh at last....

“What I think we decided with The Dark Pictures games early on was that the next game in the series would be very different from the last game, because we want to keep it fresh, we want to give the audience new,” Heaton explains. So, after a zombie ghost ship in Man Of Medan, the psychological witch hauntings in Little Hope, and military squad vs. vampire aliens in House Of Ashes, Heaton pitches The Devil In Me as kind of Saw meets The Shining....

There is a very heated bit about cooking sprouts that, if I’m honest, takes up most of the run time, because it devolves into us interrogating Matthew about why he thinks fruit isn’t allowed to be added to the preparation of non-fruit foods. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts. You can find the RSS feed here, and you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat....

You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts. You can find the RSS feed here, and you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat. Music is by Jack de Quidt. Links Nate is the first person to mention Alien: Isolation, the gentleman’s choice. But space-alien games come thick and fast, as we also make time to talk Prey, and Dead Space....

There’s an excellent Cavern Of Lies this week, in which Nate hosts a game-themed episode of Through The Keyhole in character as Lloyd Grossman/a robot version of Matt Berry. We also have some great diversions and some opening chat about the time my friend was a real life suspect in a murder for a few days. Plus: Matthew had an unpleasant experience watching House Of Gucci. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts....

The first and second of Telltale’s three Sam & Max episodic adventures have already been remastered by Skunkape, so The Devil’s Playground completes the set. The original games were released between 2006 and 2010. A remastered version of Sam & Max: Save The World released on Steam and GOG in 2020, with sequel Sam & Max: Beyond Time & Space following along a year later. The whole series of remasters sprang from Skunkape’s initial efforts to get Save The World working better on present-day PCs....

Honestly, I was expecting more of a song and dance for the first dedicated Arc GPU, even if it’s a low-end model. This is the first real challenge to the Nvidia vs. AMD duopoly in pretty much ever, and a sub-£150 price could be a big deal in itself when all the best graphics cards are upwards of £250. Still, the plan is for the rest of the world to get the Arc A380 and other Arc GPUs by the end of summer, and it is nice to get a more solid idea of specs....

Gematsu has spotted that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles has been given a rating on PC by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. The Great Ace Attorney games are spin-offs from the Phoenix Wright detective games. This isn’t a huge surprise, as the existence of the The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles was first revealed as a consequence of the Capcom data breach back in November 2020. Chronicles would bundle together The Great Ace Attorney: The Adventure of Ryūnosuke Naruhodō and its sequel, The Resolve of Ryūnosuke Naruhodō, in much the same way the Ace Attorney Trilogy bundled the first three games together for PC....

Your reward for scooping up all the gunk in any given area is the kind of graphical wizardry video games do best. A burst of light, a shruum of sound, and the world is instantly transformed back to its former glory. Despite its gloopy namesake, The Gunk is frequently stunning, its soft pastels and coral-esque flora showing such an eye for jaw-dropping visuals that it’s hard to believe this is SteamWorld developer Image & Form’s first ever 3D video game....

The release date was announced during this evening’s Thunderful World stream, which was filled with announcements from publisher and developer Thunderful Games. The actual livestream, presented by Mark Hamill and viewable in full here, featured some new Gunk footage narrated by the protagonist’s voice actress. It starts at the 26:26 mark. Thunderful haven’t made that footage available separately however, so here’s the trailer from this year’s Xbox event at Gamescom: It’s a singleplayer game, but The Gunk is about two pals exploring an alien planet “plagued by a corruptive gunk....

You can find the whole bunch over on Humble’s sale page. On the list of appropriately spooky games you may be in the mood for are a whole slew of Resident Evils, including the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 which are both 50% off. Resident Evil 7 is whacked down by 51% while some of the older options have been slashed further. Dead By Daylight and Dying Light have made the list with cuts around 60%....

The RPS 100 Creating big lists like this is always an exciting process for me. As mentioned in the first half of our ranking, The RPS 100 is a celebration of our personal favourite games. It’s not an objective best games list, nor is it a list of what we consider important and influential. They’re all important and influential to each of us individually, sure, but that’s the whole point. These are the games that we as a team love the most, so there’s naturally going to be a fair number of omissions....

Let’s go round again for the powerful boot and powerful assassinating of Deathloop! Brendy Caldwell: Deathloop’s kick is sublime. Colt’s various powers in the timeloop shooter are nice and all, but his powerful hoof grants you free kills all day, every day (same day). It is one of the most cost-effective bootheels this side of a New Rock shoe sale. It also encapsulates everything I love about Arkane’s wackiest outing yet....

EA announced the new pack with a new trailer - a tragedy, really, following the sad tale of a man who loses himself down a spiral of self-obsessed knitwork that alienates himself from his family, his work and, eventually, himself. A real tear-jerker. As per the official Nifty Knitting page, this month’s Stuff Pack lets you pick up a yarn basket and start crafting all manner of hats, scarves, and household doodads....

Paralives has been in quiet development for a while now (I interviewed the project lead a whole two years ago, in fact), and offers small tidbits and updates every few weeks. And when you look at Paralives, it’s basically trying to offer the kind of control and customisation that Simmers have wanted for ages. Curved walls! Modular furniture! Control over colours and patterns on fabric! You can even have modular floors within one room....