Deathloop First Major Update Fixes Pc Stuttering

A wee hotfix patch in September tried to tackle stuttering, but apparently a secondary issue persisted. Now, I think it’s gone? I see a lot of happy players on forums. As for DLSS, that’s Nvidia’s fancy tech which can run the game in a lower resolution for big performance boosts then use ‘deep learning’ to upscale it with surprisingly little loss in image quality. You need a GeForce RTX 20XX cards or newer, mind....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 221 words · Brett Stovall

Deathloop Is Inheriting Quite A Few Supernatural Powers From Dishonored

“As much as we wanted to do something very original with this game, we also wanted some familiarity,” says game director Dinga Bakaba in an interview with IGN. “We decided to bring back quite a few of the powers that we have in the Dishonored series. I think it’s something that will make players feel right at home.” One you’ve probably spotted already is Blink, which lets you teleport a short distance....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 388 words · Christopher Levesque

Destiny 2 Beyond Light Is A Weird School Reunion

Beyond Light has brought back a lot of the past, giving us two new (old) allies: the Exo Stranger and Variks. The Exo Stranger popped up across Destiny’s original campaign with daft cryptic chat like “I don’t have time to explain why I don’t have time to explain”, while Variks was the warden at the Prison of Elders and oversaw D1’s survival mode. The free update launched alongside the expansion also added the Cosmodrome, the first game’s starter area....

January 2, 2023 · 3 min · 614 words · Regina Snyder

Destiny 2 S Revamped Trials Is Great And Hugely Popular

Overseen by Saint-14, Destiny’s gay robotic Russian, Trials is a weekly 3v3 PvP event mode which runs from Friday until reset on Tuesday. It’s a gauntlet with the grand goal of winning seven matches in a row to go ‘Flawless’ and score unique loot, and matches you against teams at the same point of their gauntlet run. And for over a year, it was miserable. Trials was stingy with rewards, matchmaking felt unfair, cheaters were rampant, and too often it felt like you made no progress towards loot as you got stomped....

January 2, 2023 · 4 min · 793 words · Danny Sandoval

Destiny 2 S Xur Is Worth Visiting Again For Better Rolls

Xur has been selling fixed rolls since the launch of the Armour 2.0 system with Shadowkeep in October 2019. While his random Exotic Engram gives random rolls, his regular stock had the same stats as gear you pull from Collections - about 46-52 points in total. Now he’s selling some good stuff, up in the 60s. It’s not yet clear whether the rolls are random, and gear will have different stats each time he stocks it, or if he just has better fixed rolls....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 386 words · Rolland Witt

Developers Are Sharing Their Game Dev Sins And Some Of Them Are Gleeful

First off, here’s that bottle: a galaxy brain play courtesy of Valheim VFX Artist Andi Jorgensen. In the same vein, here’s Dishonored campaign director Dana Nightingale’s flare launcher. Flawless work. I liked Antoine Henry’s short tale of working to a rushed Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 schedule, where a need for additional mini-games resulted in the creation of one that simply asked players to “Concentrate to score points” then handed them out randomly....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 168 words · Alice Elliott

Diablo 2 Resurrected Players Still Can T Access Some Of Their Characters

First up, the good news: Saturday’s 9.24 patch has fixed a number of crashes and progression issues. The devs have dealt with one crash that was caused by “audio issues”, and another that was caused by using a controller on PC. They’ve also “fixed saves for offline characters that shared the same names as their online characters”, because giving your characters the same names was confusing the game and muddling up offline progression....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 361 words · Betty Weeks

Diablo 4 Previews Its Frantic Cannibal Monsters

Unlike Diablo 3’s classification system, senior encounter designer Candace Thomas explains that Diablo 4’s baddies are categorized as “families” that each have their own combat style. The Drowned, which Blizzard showed off last year, have five enemies each with an archetype—ranged, melee, fast, slow, you know. The cannibals have four types: two-handed melee, halberd melee, bruisers, and swarmers. By design, cannibals have no ranged units, Thomas says. They come at a player fast, “and give the player less time to make thoughtful positioning decisions, thus making combat with these flesh-eaters feel frenetic....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 366 words · Larry Pretti

Did You Know Tunic Has A Secret Musical Language On Top Of Its Cryptic Game Manual

Spilling the beans via a Twitter thread, Regamey delved into how players could discover Tunic’s audio secrets, and how they can be decoded. It’s probably best to be aware there’ll be some spoilers involved, so do take care. “Early in development, we imagined the game having a ‘voice’ of sorts - a voice that the player was not equipped to interpret,” Regamey said. “SO. I designed a musical cipher - heard throughout the entire game, but never acknowledged....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 305 words · Maria Ates

Don T Worry Beyond Good Evil 2 Has Survived Ubisoft S Recent Game Cull

That’s despite the most recent swing of Ubisoft’s game-cancelling scythe, which was brought down on three unannounced games last week due to the company’s underperforming sales. Ubisoft confirmed that yep, they’re still working on it in a statment they gave today to PCGames N. “Beyond Good and Evil 2’s development is underway and the team is hard at work to deliver on its ambitious promise”, they said. Grand. It’s been a funny old ride....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 190 words · Haywood Solis

Dwarf Fortress S New Mouse Menus Make It So Much Easier To Dig Deeper

During the demonstration, he loads up his fort as wagons arrive to trade. He can access items saved in storage, which takes up dozens of tabs, by using a word search to filter throuigh them all. He can click on each bin and see what’s in there. Easy. Job done. But when he wants to make a trade, his own broker is busy doing other things, and Tarn has to wait for him to return to his table....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 371 words · Shirley Wooton

Ea Officially Ditch Fifa And Will Rename The Series Ea Sports Fc From Next Year

Since the last licensing agreement between EA and FIFA was signed, the series has grown into a microtransaction juggernaut that earns billions of dollars per year. Reports suggested FIFA wanted a larger piece of that pie, with EA reluctant to give it to them - and perhaps reluctant to be associated with an organisation that has frequently been mired in scandal. EA’s FIFA games have themselves been criticised due to their heavy use of loot boxes, particularly in Ultimate Team mode....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 269 words · Doretha Aiello

Elden Ring Boss Locations Where To Find All 238 Elden Ring Bosses

That’s what our Elden Ring boss locations walkthrough is for. Below you’ll find maps covering every region of the Lands Between, and highlighting the exact location of every one of the Elden Ring bosses. We’ve written a little bit on each boss encounter to help you find and tackle each of these major adversaries, and at the bottom we’ve also gone over our recommended boss order for those wishing to tackle all the important bosses in a logical order of progression....

January 2, 2023 · 90 min · 19086 words · Janice Poore

Elden Ring Director Feels Apologetic Toward Anyone Who Finds Fromsoftware Games Too Hard

Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of all of these games, spoke about the subject in a new interview with Simon Parkin in the New Yorker. “We are always looking to improve, but, in our games specifically, hardship is what gives meaning to the experience,” he says. “So it’s not something we’re willing to abandon at the moment. It’s our identity.” “I’ve never been a very skilled player,” Miyazaki says. “I die a lot....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 314 words · Rocco Rightmire

Elden Ring Legendary Armament Locations

Every Legendary Armament in Elden Ring Grafted Blade Greatsword Sword of Night and Flame Ruins Greatsword Marais Executioner’s Sword Dark Moon Greatsword Bolt of Gransax Eclipse Shotel Golden Order Greatsword Devourer’s Scepter Grafted Blade Greatsword location The Grafted Blade Greatsword is the first Legendary Armament most players are likely to find. To earn it, you just need to defeat the Leonine Misbegotten boss in Castle Morne, on the southern tip of the Weeping Peninsula....

January 2, 2023 · 6 min · 1182 words · Anthony Buchanan

Elden Ring Review An Unmissable Journey Through The Most Impressive Open World To Date

But Elden Ring is different. Yes, it’s an action-RPG that retains Souls’ difficulty, but it’s one that expands their labyrinthine worlds with a single offering that’s dizzying in its scope. Perhaps most importantly, it’s a world that encourages you to explore and wants you to win, even if its way of showing it is with a massive rock troll that wants to cave your face in. What Elden Ring provides is an adventure unlike anything else or anyone else’s....

January 2, 2023 · 7 min · 1416 words · Joseph Lewis

English Premier League Players Compete In A Fifa 20 Tourney

EPL players in the ePremier League Invitational include Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold, Man City’s Raheem Sterling, and Chelsea’s Reece James. A few celebrity fans are filling in for their teams too, like singer Tom Grennan representing Man U. Folks are playing single-elimination matches with their regular teams, none of that Fifa Ultimate Team fanciness - though EPL players might be among the few who can actually afford a good FUT team....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 267 words · Telma Diaz

Every Call Of Duty Campaign Ranked The Best And Worst Cod Games

But it needn’t be so. Allow me to help you pick your targets. To drop you back into single-player COD with the very best the series has to offer, both from its noughties heyday and mo-capped modern era. You’ll find every Call Of Duty campaign on PC accounted for below - including its sole expansion, the deafening and demanding United Offensive - and picked over with a detail befitting an SAS mission briefing....

January 2, 2023 · 15 min · 3049 words · Marshall Soares

Everything We Know About The Elder Scrolls 6

Obviously, The Elder Scrolls 6 is still extremely early in development so most of the details currently out are subject to change as the game progresses. The ball is kind of in the court of fans at this point, as Reddit threads teem with speculation based on the little pre-release material that has been shown so far. We aim to gather all of the news and main leaks surrounding the upcoming RPG and we’ll be sure to keep this page updated as we get closer to launch, just be aware that a lot of what we know currently is likely to change....

January 2, 2023 · 9 min · 1715 words · Laura Felton

Evil Genius 2 Reveals A Heinous New Gameplay Trailer

Two years after announcing the supervillain sequel, Rebellion monologued their plans for world domination lair management sequel Evil Genius 2. Dont’cha know that’s just giving the goodie time to foil it, guys? The first Evil Genius, I’m told, was quite good - a campy, spytech take on Dungeon Keeper that put you in the finely-ironed suit of a megalomaniacal supervillain. Tasked with building out a labyrinthine underground lair, you’d fill it with wildly complex traps while hiring all manner of goons and henchmen to patrol its halls....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 252 words · Shawn Kersey