I’ve been a fan of Sparth’s since 2001, when he made a handful of Quake 3 maps under the handle ’nunuk’ that look more like works of sculpture than deathmatch arenas. These include Platypus in 2001, and 2002’s exquisite Sparth. If I created something that looked as good as this, I’d name myself after it as well. Both these maps use colour and lighting in ways that are entirely unlike any other user made levels at the time....
If you’re set on using the Combat Shotgun, then you’re in the right place. We’ve got two of the best Combat Shotgun loadouts in Vanguard. One focuses on high damage, while the other tries to make the Combat Shotgun a little quicker, even if it still falls short compared to other Vanguard Shotguns. Either way, the Combat Shotgun’s extremely high damage and remarkable range make it one of the best guns in Vanguard....
Missions aren’t Warzone’s only new idea, but they might be its best. They’re dotted around the vast, meticulously detailed map, and come in three flavours. Scavenger Contracts send you off in search of juicy, loot-containing crates, while Recon Contracts have your squad go and capture a point. These are good and useful ways to earn money, which you can spend on huge advantages like self-reviving syringes or respawning a dead friend....
Read on for an explainer on the key differences between all three types of XP, and the best methods for levelling up in each. How to earn Player XP and rank up in Call Of Duty: Vanguard Player XP is the closest of Vanguard’s three XP systems to classic COD character levelling, and is the main factor in getting the edge on your competition in Multiplayer. It increases your overall rank, which in turn unlocks more and more Weapons, Field Upgrades, Killstreaks, Perks, Lethals, and Tacticals....
In Chessplosion you control a cute duck who hefts chess piece-shaped bombs onto its head. The aim of the game is simple: drop these pieces onto the board, create explosive chain reactions, and toast your opponents. But crucially - don’t toast yourself in the process. Each chess piece-bomb explodes in a manner similar to how they’d move. For example, drop a Rook and it’ll explode in a cross shape, while a Bishop explodes outwards diagonally....
Hit the link above, select a region, and you’ll be presented with a video taken by a pedestrian walking through a city. There’s a “Start Guessing” button you can use to select where you think you are on a map. After you’ve submitted a guess, it’ll tell you how close you were, and then it’s on to the next video. City Guesser is often substantially easier than GeoGuessr. Sometimes you start a video and, immediately, there’s a license plate with “California” written across the top, or a sign that says “Tottenham Court Road Station”....
The free update goes live on February 25th, adding the optional Barbarian Clans game mode. This introduces six clans into the world, each specialising in a different type of unit, and they can all eventually evolve into a city-state with a little help from the player. Here’s a dev update from Firaxis going into a bit more detail: You can just demolish a Barbarian Clan as usual, and that will make them gone forever....
In case you are unaware, Welcome To Raccoon City is a Resi reboot film (Fs in the chat for the old canon of Mila Jovovich films) based on the first and second Resident Evil games, and it’s coming out at the end of next month. Those too ravenous to wait can feast their eyes on how some of the cast look right now, including Avan Jogia and Kaya Scodelario as Leon “Leon S” S....
On Friday, EA slammed the songs up on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and… more services? I only have Spotify so you’ll need to dig in iTunes and that yourself. The C&C Remastered Collection contains the original C&C and the first Red Alert, both fancied up with new art, support for modern screen resolutions, and such, while still being the same games at heart. “It’s as close to a perfect restoration of two genre-defining real-time strategy games as you’ll get,” our Command & Conquer Remastered Collection review said, “but the soporific effects of nostalgia do eventually begin to wear thin....
“With Control 2, we’ll take another leap into the unknown. It’ll be an unexpected journey. It’ll take a while, but to put it mildly, this is the most exciting project I’ve ever worked on,” said Control 2’s game director Mikael Kasurinen. There’s no word of when we’ll see the game yet. Development’s still in the concept phase, and Kasurinen clarified it’s “early days”. The idea of a sequel to Control isn’t new, having been bandied around since June last year....
Starting off our spine-tingling sequel giveaway, Costume Quest 2 is the sequel to Double Fine’s adorable adventure-puzzler - one where kids find their home-made costumes turn ’em into proper super-powered robots ’n’ werewolves and such. If you thought “hey, that premise sounds like a decent kids cartoon, especially if you got the Adventure Time folks to run the show”, then… that sure did happen, yeah. Alec (RPS-in-peace) had a tough time loving the game in his Costume Quest 2 review....
The Crucial MX500 has long been one of our favourite budget SATA drives here at RPS, offering great read and write speeds for usually a lot less than our current SATA champion in our best SSDs for gaming list, the Samsung 860 Evo. Indeed, today’s deal on the 1TB model of the MX500 strengthens that position even further, as its new all-time low price of £67 makes it quite a bit cheaper than its £100 Samsung rival....
Here’s how to do the North Korea strategy in Crusader Kings 3 and become supreme leader. How to do the North Korea strategy in CK3 There are a few steps you’ll have to take to pull off this strategy, and full credit to YouTube channel Reman’s Paradox for an excellent video run-through of how it all works. So what is the ‘North Korea’ strategy? Basically, you ignore the existence of vassals, titles, and everything the game wants you to care about, instead directly holding everything yourself....
CD Projekt and Netflix revealed they were working together on an animated series called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners set in the game’s universe all the way back in that most jacked-in of years, 2020. The show is being created by Studio Trigger, which you might recognise from anime hits such as Kill La Kill and Little Witch Academia. You can tell it’s definitely Cyberpunk because of that jacket with the weird collar....
Cyberpunk 2077 was in a sorry state when it launched in December 2020, riddled with a great many obvious bugs and underbaked systems. CDPR fixed some of the most intrusive bugs with but even today the game feels unfinished. I’m glad to see Update 1.5 will address some of those areas. So! NPC combat AI is improved to make them smarter and more active, as well as making members of different factions behave differently....
So I have. After last week’s patch 1.5 promised more fixes, a refreshed perk tree and improved AI, I wondered if I might finally be able to champion the first-person RPG without caveats. The answer is not a simple yes or no - but the list of caveats is definitely a lot shorter. This isn’t Cyberpunk’s first update since launch, obviously. Patch 1.2 already brought several hundred fixes, wiping away the most egregious launch errors - including fixing quests which, on my original playthrough, simply couldn’t be finished....
I tried to avoid Deadly Premonition 2 when it debuted on Nintendo Switch in 2020, holding out hope for a PC release, so all I knew was it had terrible framerate problems. I assumed it had big non-technical problems too, because it is a Deadly Premonition game, but I hoped for better than this. Let’s step back. Deadly Premonition 2 is both a sequel and a prequel to the first game....
Get discount laptops, monitors and more in Dell’s Black Friday in July sale Before you tear up your dictionaries and wail in despair at the erosion of word meanings, let me console you by saying that there are actually some good deals to be had here, even if the name is a bit silly. If you’re in the market for a gaming laptop for instance, you can get the Dell G3 Gaming Laptop, one of the best budget options, for £584 with code SAVE14 (normally £789)....
It’s a classic format: framed as just another Destiny vid, a player sees something weird (on the Moon, in the Plaguelands, on Venus…), investigates, and is drawn into a troupe of dancing wizards. All the moves and theatrics are performed live in the game using emotes, character abilities, weapons, and spacebikes. It’s dead impressive, especially considering parts are in live zones with other players and enemies potentially around - you can see a whole lot of enemy bodyparts in places....
Respawn have spoken outwardly about addressing crunch, both before Covid-19, after its onset, and in direct response to this Glassdoor review. The central issue is that while the Apex team do seem to have been encouraged to speak up if they feel they can’t meet deadlines, their release schedule hasn’t been adjusted to accommodate for a decrease in productivity that should be expected by default. A recent industry-wide survey found that developers were experiencing significant stress and “a deterioration of work-life balance” amid the pandemic, with 39% of devs reporting working longer hours than usual....
