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So: a high stakes game. But it is as it ever was. Well, will be. With much finger pointing and yelling of “Objection!”, Ryunosuke shows the same propensity for winging it as his great-great-great grandson. The difference? A superstar sidekick in the form of one of literature’s greatest analytical minds, and with it a shift in tone towards the good old-fashioned logic and deduction that had begun to wane in the modern Ace Attorney series....

“Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but the games share characters and story elements. The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible,” Valve explained in last night’s announcement. So from now until Alyx’s launch sometime in March, everyone can play Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two....

fy_iceworld quickly became one of the most popular and divisive CS maps at my school. I was, of course, one of the haters. I tried to convince my friends to vote against fy_iceworld on our local internet cafe’s CS server, but they argued that I was just salty about being bad at it (which was partly true) and they forced the mapchange anyway. Similar conversations played out across countless clan servers, cyber cafes, PC bangs, and LAN parties around the entire world....

Hinterland say that the team have been hard at work on episode four of The Long Dark’s story mode but they’ve hit a snag in production thanks to social distancing during the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. “We don’t currently have a good way to create our story content, like cinematic sequences or dialogue mode, as these depend on being able to get into the studio with our actors, record their performances, and then process those performances into data that we can then apply to the 3D characters,” they say....

To mark the announcement, The Medium got a new trailer showing off some of its environments. The big conceit of The Medium is that your player character can explore both the real world and spirit world simultaneously. In the video above, you can spot a few areas in both their real and spirit versions. An abandoned building becomes a creepy spirit fort thing and a trashed office becomes a sea-looking cavern of sorts....

Alright, so this new Image Scaling feature – an updated and upgraded take on the Image Scaling tool that’s been nestled within Nvidia Control Panel since 2019 – isn’t quite DLSS Lite, as it lacks any kind of AI/machine learning smarts. With its new upscaling algorithm, though, it is a lot like AMD’s rival FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR): a spatial upscaler that applies an adjustable sharpening filter in the same pass....

It’s the connected planets of Slipways! Matt Cox: I suspect that most humans, in the right context, enjoy organising stuff. That pleasure of hammering order out of chaos, of puzzling out an object’s optimum positioning, strikes me as something of a universal. It’s a wonderful way of exerting your influence on the world, of proving you can demonstrate that needful ability to take something and make it better. Slipways is about growing and organising an increasingly interconnected empire of space marbles, and it is glorious....

That’s right, it’s date weapons ’em up Boyfriend Dungeon! Rebecca: I may have two hands, but alas I only have the one brain, so realistically I can only play one video game at a time. Ordinarily I’m forced to choose between two of my favourite gameplay styles: bludgeoning my enemies in close-quarters melee combat, or falling hopelessly in love with fictional characters. Enter Boyfriend Dungeon, which actively encourages you to do both those things at once!...

Let’s start with a nice big obvious one: the tale that defines the entire opening act of the game, the story of Amaterasu, Susano and Orochi. The game feeds off several different versions of this myth, but also gives it a few neat twists of its own. The legend goes that both Amaterasu and Susano were brought into being by Izanagi, the god of creation, when he went to rescue his wife, Izanami, from the underworld....

A variety of clothing options are available for the residents of your barnyard — chickens, cows, and llamas — as well as for a couple of the wild animals in the area, namely rabbits and foxes. All five species have several sets of clothing specially designed to suit their number of limbs and general aesthetic. On this page: How to buy animal clothing from the Creature Keeper in The Sims 4: Cottage Living How to make your own animal clothing How to dress animals in animal clothing in The Sims 4: Cottage Living List of all animal clothing items in The Sims 4: Cottage Living...

Nevertheless, the update has caused a kerfuffle in the community. Most significantly, many people are reporting crashes on specific save files. Some households are failing to load, and there is anguish and gnashing of teeth as people have lost access to massive mansion builds they’ve spent hours on, despite attempting to restore saves or reverting to older ones. Most hilariously, multiple people are reporting that their Sims are peeing fire....

Now, time to enjoy your nice joke! Q: Which regimen was set up specifically to help vacuum cleaners overcome their worries and insecurities? A: Dyson’s Fear Program

The Streak65 impressed Katharine when she reviewed it late last year, with its 65% size providing a good balance between maximising desk space while ensuring that all of the most keys are present and accounted for, including the all-important arrow keys (that are missing on 60% size keebs like the Ducky One2 Mini); there are also four macro keys on the right side. Get the Fnatic Streak65 for £87.99 (20% off)...

Thank god for the update of the old game, because we didn’t have tons to discuss for Headlines & Hot Takes on this episode of The Weekspot. However, the announcement of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles did get Matthew all excited, and rumours have been floating around about a Metal Gear Solid remake, and I got to talk to my co-host about my new drum kit, so it’s not like we didn’t have things to discuss....

In this guide, we’ll explain why you should simulate a Witcher 2 save, and break down each of the choices you will make and their outcomes. Should you simulate a Witcher 2 save in The Witcher 3? Yes, you should choose to simulate a Witcher 2 save. If you choose not to simulate a save, decisions will automatically be made for you. These default options opt for the negative outcomes, and will lock you out of a side quest....

Redditor “NarutoUA1337” pulled this off by porting the FSR files from another unmentioned game. In the video, you can see a number of modes running with each implementation. 0.5x (running at half-res and scaling up) is “performance mode”, and 0.75x (running at three-quarter resolution and scaling up) is “quality mode”. It does take a few seconds for your eyes to adjust, but there is a noticeably sharper image in FSR mode....

Roots Of Yggdrasil is, of course, a very different kind of game to Okami. As well as being a turn-based citybuilder, it’s also a roguelike, tasking you with building lots of little settlements on floating hexagonal islands to power up the titular roots of its mythical world tree so you can find a way back home. Building houses increases your population, and kitting out clusters of them with equipment posts raises your village’s might level, which you’ll need to unlock new tile masses to get closer to that biome’s Yggdrasil root....

We’ve got two Samsung drives here, the PCIe 3.0 Samsung 980 and the PCIe 4.0 Samsung 980 Pro, as well as another strong PCIe 4.0 option, the Crucial P5 Plus. All three offer great value for money at their reduced price point, so let’s cover each in turn! Let’s start with the cheapest option. The Samsung 980 is a surprisingly quick DRAM-less SSD that uses TLC memory. The 1TB size comes with a large 160GB SLC cache that helps keep performance up even during sustained read/write operations, and performance is generally on-par with older (but more expensive) PCIe 3....

After varying periods of PlayStation exclusivity, all three came to PC via the Epic Games Store last year - which meant we finally got our shot at reviewing the lot of ’em. Here’s what the gang had to say about each of them as they arrived on our home computers. The most recent of the bunch, Detroit: Become Human is still the most technically impressive, and actor Bryan Dechart puts in one hell of a performance as robot detective Connor....

Following a brief tease earlier in the week, Hello Guest was properly debuted during TinyBuild’s not-E3 non-press conference yesterday. Hello Guest is a follow-up to Hello Neighbor, a 2017 stealth-horror game about sneaking into someone’s basement by outwitting the AI next door. The schtick was that the neighbour in question would learn from your actions - figuring out routes and tactics you trended towards and using that intel to foil your plans....