Like many others - and you too, if you’ve got a PS5 - I’ve been able to play the free Forspoken demo, which plops you into the game after the opening bumf, and presumably the cutscene where Frey establishes her modern girl “lemme get this straight?!” credentials. And you know what? I don’t hate it! I say that because the conventional wisdom has become that everyone will and that it’s going to be shit....
Try Hard Guides say the footage shows Qualley in a blue dress, walking through dark corridors from a third-person perspective and using a torch to guide herself. The video ends with a jump scare, followed by a game over message and the words “A Hideo Kojima Game”… “OVERDOSE”. Kojima Productions have apparently approached Try Hard Guides to request their article be taken down, which they’ve refused to do. Seems like an odd thing to do if there’s no weight to it....
Jeff “from the Overwatch team” Kaplan’s latest developer update dives into Blizzard’s latest attempts to fix their competitive woes. Let’s start with Kaplan’s first point: Overwatch will soon feature an “Experimental Card” to the game’s play menu. Sitting alongside Casual, Competitive and Arcade, Experimental will sit as a sort of middle ground between Overwatch and its Public Test Realm. Kaplan hopes that putting Experimental balances changes in the main client “should drive a lot more players towards helping [Blizzard] test out changes,” stressing that the PTR will still be a place for stability and bug-testing....
Coming to Steam and the Epic Games Store later this year, Pacific Drive is all about exploring the strange landscape of an area known as the Olympic Exclusion Zone in the Pacific Northwest from behind the wheel of your trusty old station wagon. You have a garage that acts as your base of operations, and during each run you’ll be plotting your route, collecting special energy cores along the way, and then using those cores to create a portal to beam yourself back to the safety of your body shop to collect your spoils and prepare for the next drive....
The Atlas Of Worlds is Path Of Exiles expansive endgame, which has been refreshed every three months for years with new twists on its levelling and looting. Siege Of The Atlas lets you pick elements from those previous leagues as you play to construct your own experience. It also, as always, introduces some new big bads to destroy. This time there are two new eldritch horrors: The Searing Exarch, who wants to watch the world burn; and the Eater Of Worlds, who I guess wants to put the world in its tummy....
Here’s last week’s trailer: It’s called the endgame, but really PoE’s Atlas Of Worlds is the game and the campaign that comes before it is just preamble. The Atlas is refreshed every three months (with characters reset at the same time), and this time the change lets you construct your own endgame by pulling together elements from previous expansions, which PoE calls leagues. Siege Of The Atlas adds The Searing Exarch and the Eater Of Worlds, who sound like chef and dinner guest respectively....
The preview build I checked out (provided by Traynor) starts predictably enough. Regular old block-puzzles, pushing cubes around a small maze. “Yup,” I thought. “That’s Sokoban.” But you don’t win an IGF by simply copying a time-worn puzzle concept. So once you’re accustomed to the very basics, Patrick introduces the star of the show - hollow boxes that, when pushed against a wall, will swallow you into their own micro-puzzle....
Sin quite liked Pendula Swing’s earliest episodes when they first launched, calling it “an original concept, executed well.” Brialynne finds herself embroiled in modern politics after centuries of isolation, learning about a goblin suffrage movement and looking for new love after mourning the death of her wife. “The tone isn’t flippant, nor as heavy as the themes suggest, and it resists the temptation to write out a Black liberation or feminist story and clumsily paste goblins into it,” Sin says....
A potential price hike for Game Pass isn’t too unexpected. Similar subscriptions in the entertainment industry, like Netflix and Disney+, have recently increased their monthly prices over ballooning user retention costs and an expected global recession. But, this news comes amidst what Spencer calls “incredible growth on PC.” Microsoft’s most recent quarterly report reveals that PC Game Pass subscribers grew by 159% year-over-year. However, Spencer does admit that he’s seen “growth slow down” on console subscriptions....
It really is the same formula. You pick one of three starting Temtems, then head out and explore three floating islands (six once the game’s done) while taming wild Temtems and picking fights with other tamers. There are ostentatious baddies up to something nefarious, too. It’s an MMO, so you’ll have other players jogging around in the background. You can also bring a pal along to fight in dual battles, where your Temtems fight side by side....
With Earth a complete wreck, the rich have abandoned it to live on Mars, and only return for a round of golf. As someone who has been to St Andrews, the “home of golf” (and home to some of my family), more times than I can count… yeah, that tracks. You’d only need to rename the Earth “The Old Course 2” and a queue of super-rich men with tucked in shirts would start to form....
That’s when I killed him, peeled off his skin, and boarded in his stead. I’ve revelled in every other murder I’ve committed in Project Winter, but this one just felt sad.
First of all: we don’t like this change either. We have resisted introducing autoplay videos for years, but we’ve reached the point where that’s no longer possible. Advertisers are telling us that they need “pre-roll” video ads - adverts that play before the video begins - as part of their advertising campaigns. We are unable to fulfill that need without autoplaying video. Rock Paper Shotgun has always been dependent on advertising to fund our work, and that’s still true now....
It’s conceptually novel, for one. You’re the AI director of an orbital mining station that crashlanded on Earth when some idiot humans opened an interdimensional portal and aliens poured through. They swiftly conquered the planet and are ravaging and terraforming its surface while you… retooled your mechs. Your job is to explore the ruined surface, locating and then clearing a path to the facility you can use to take your refugee humans off the planet....
If it sounds like something you want to try, our Resurrect Priest guide is on hand to teach you everything you need to know about the archetype. To begin, we’ve dug up the best deck list that has the best chance of sending your opponent to the grave. You can also find some Mulligan advice, an outline of the general strategy involved in playing the deck and a look at some of the core combos it contains....
Note that if you order this online, you’ll need to pay $8 shipping if you’re not a Sam’s Club Plus member, but you’ll still end up well ahead compared to buying these three items separately! Get the Razer Mobile Gear Bundle for $49.91 at Sam’s Club If you’re in the market for both a mouse and some in-ear headphones, this Razer combo is well-reviewed and the price definitely seems to be right....
I’ve spent a bit of time playing Rec Room, and it’s a fun time. There are a lot of VR games aiming to provide a hangout space or an easy way of playing minigames with pals, but Rec Room is slicker than most. I particularly like its art style, which needs to be simple so folks can build stuff with it, but which is a lot cuter than most of its blocky peers....
In this guide, we’ll show you various Blackjack locations in Red Dead Redemption 2, so that you can quickly jump into a gambling minigame and earn some money. Red Dead Redemption 2 Blackjack locations So without further ado, here’s where you can sit down for a game of Blackjack in Red Dead Redemption 2: Rhodes: In the Saloon at the south end of town. Head in, go up the stairs and you’ll spot three gentlemen ready for a game....
I’ll start with something dull, but crucial: the inventory system. It’s simple, easy to manage, and extremely satisfying in its limitations. Crafting items isn’t just busywork, here, but a vital way of freeing up limited item slots by combining things, and you’re forever thinking about what to cache where, in order to free up space. The scarcity of items and ammunition is perfectly calibrated to leave you counting bullets for most of the game, and it makes looting (which I usually find well boring) both rewarding and necessary....
Resident Evil Village: How to get the Maestro’s Collection Once the village itself opens up, you’ll notice the Maestro’s Collection will be up for grabs. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as cracking open the door and nabbing the treasure. Instead, you’ll need to find a key to unlock it first. Here’s what to do: Where to find Luthier’s Key The first step involves finding Luthier’s Key. To access it, you’ll need to have beaten the Beneviento Mansion portion of the game....
