Phoenix Point was one of the first games to announce it would be an Epic Games store exclusive, causing a lot of frustration from folks who had backed the game on Kickstarter with the promise of a Steam release. At the time, creative director (and former X-COM creator) Julian Gollop apologised to backers. “For those backers who are upset by our switch of delivery platform, we are truly sorry,” he said in a statement to Eurogamer....
The 5/2 weapon gained from a fully Invoked Galakrond acts as another source of damage, and the +4/+4 you obtain through playing Galakrond, the Unbreakable offers the opportunity for devastating burst damage late on. You can finish matches when your enemies aren’t expecting it at all, and the Invoke effect giving your Hero +3 attack means you can chip the enemy down and keep dealing bits of damage to put them more in range of your big Kor’kron Elite and Arcanite Reaper hits....
The reason I bring up my dad and Calvin Coolidge at all is that the screen saver for my dad’s computer (or at least, as I last remember it) is a Calvin Coolidge quote about persistence and always has been. The words bounce back and forth on the screen: “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” And so, I find myself thinking a lot about Coolidge’s perspective on persistence lately; that it will be the only thing to carry us through times of uncertainty and hardship....
Prison Architect: Second Chances will introduce new ways to prepare your population for life after prison, from animal therapy to conflict resolution classes. There’s a trailer below. Man, I hate Prison Architect’s trailers. It’s dicey enough to build a management game about building a prison industrial complex, but every time there’s a cutes-y, joke-y trailer featuring some cheeky crims, I want to run a mile. It’s a far cry from the base game’s uncomfortably stark comic strips....
Not much to go on based on that trailer, or in the press release, which vaguely promises “a twist on traditional puzzle gameplay” and “an intense 1-versus-1 battle system realized in a 3D game world.” Match-3 gets a bad rap, but there’s little more satisfying in games than matching a bunch of gems of the same colour. In Puzzle Quest, different kinds of matches gave your hero different resources which they could then spend on attacks against various fantasy monsters....
Quake 1 modding seemed destined for the same death too. Then a few years ago, a Quake nun started ripping and tearing through the walls. Today, the newly remodeled Quake monastery has thousands of new members keeping the faith alive. This is a short history of the Quake Renaissance, the surprising rebirth of a 25 year old retro game mod community. Early Quake (1996-2000) Upon its 1996 release, Quake mapping and modding focused on multiplayer....
The problem is that “proper” office chairs - your Herman Millers et al - are just so crazy expensive that the idea of paying close to a grand for one just seems outright preposterous. What kind of postural magic could it possibly cast to be worth that kind of money? So I thought Razer’s Iskur would be a good compromise. At £499 / $499, it’s half-way between your entry-level office chairs and your premium posterior palaces, and it’s also got proper built-in lumbar support (as any decent chair should) instead of a terrible pillow....
I’m prepared to admit that my hatred of RP1 is pretty irrational, by which I mean I have perfectly rational and explicable reasons for thinking it is rubbish, but the speed at which I go from at rest to standing on my feet yelling about how much I hate it whenever it is mentioned is… intense. Because, and I will freely admit this also, I am very jealous. It’s about a not-so-distant future where everyone is basically living, working and going to school in a super advanced version of Second Life called OASIS, created by a nerd who loved stuff that was popular when author Ernest Cline was a teenager....
Then Half-Life: Alyx came around, raising the (crow)bar so high that you’d need to be Mr Fantastic or some sort of bird with hands to reach it. Which is partly why Bonelab, the newly released sequel to Boneworks, hasn’t quite gelled with me in the way its older sibling did. Technologically, its still very impressive, and noodling around with its massive interactive potential remains undeniably fun. But it often feels like a lot of good ideas with too little connective tissue between them....
But this week, I was tooling around on The Sims 4 subreddits, as one does, and saw a few posts about some Life Is Strange character hair. And darn it if it wasn’t really good Life Is Strange Character Hair! I don’t know why you want to recreate doomed teenage time-travel-and-romance sim Life Is Strange in your Sims game. Maybe you want Chloe and Max to have a happy ending....
In this guide, we’ll explain every type of robbery in Red Dead Redemption 2 and show you how to rob a stagecoach, house, shop, trains, and banks. How to rob a stagecoach You can rob any coach you come across in the game, but you shouldn’t expect to reap many rewards until after you’ve completed “The Spines of America” mission in Chapter 2. From this point forward you can take any coach you’ve robbed and sell it to the wagon fence in Emerald Ranch for some tidy profit....
Redout 2 doubles down on the speed element, that’s for sure. But there’s definitely an added air of approachability to this anti-grav racer, making the transition from Geforce to g-force a little less bruising than before. AI presets, added customisation, and more generous modes help make this a racing game you should keep up with. I played around an hour or so of Redout 2 and was immediately dropped into the deep end....
You can read more about what we thought of the game over in our Resident Evil Village review, and you can also find out more about how it runs with its fancy ray tracing effects over in my dedicated Resident Evil Village ray tracing guide. In this article, though, I’m going to give you a detailed rundown of the game’s general graphics settings and how to make the most of them, as well as which settings you can tweak to help improve your frame rate....
Below, I’ll take you through how to solve the Treasure Map puzzle in Resident Evil Village. Resident Evil Village: How to solve the Treasure Map puzzle Let’s start from the Castle’s main lobby with the spiral staircase to your left. Ignore these stairs and head through the double doors straight ahead. Once you’re inside, head through the door on your left and turn right at the end of the corridor....
The real question, though, is whether the hulking majesty of the game’s main villain, the enormous Lady Dimitrescu, will also be treated to some lovely ray traced reflections. After all, big lady vampires aren’t meant to have reflections, are they? And if it’s not going to give us accurate 9ft 6in reflections of this woman who’s taller than an actual ostrich, then really, what is even the point? I’ve asked AMD for more details on this important conumdrum, but in the meantime, here’s the clip in question so you can see for yourself just how shiny those ray traced mansion floors are going to be when the game launches on May 7th....
“From the very start, I felt compelled by Ethan Winters’ predicament, and this never changed. Even when everything was on fire and in disarray, I still thought the end, when it came, concluded things quite nicely,” Ed wrote in his Resident Evil Village review. “Yes, it was a bit messy, but it surprised me, tied things up, and opened up the floor for more questions, which is tough to do in a series that’s been going this long....
In familiar party game ways, RiffTrax: The Game will pit you and your pals against each other, building off prompts to try to make each other laugh. Here, it’s about bad movies. Players will have to crack jokes over 250-odd clips, either by writing their own gags for text-to-speech to read aloud or picking from over 2000 lines from the RiffTrax fellas themselves. Clips are cribbed from films RiffTrax have riffed on, including Rollergator and Ed Wood’s infamous Plan 9 From Outer Space....
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. I banged on about Arcanum, because it is my way. It’s one of our best PC RPGs. Matthew banged on about Baldur’s Gate 3, because it is his way....
In truth, there were some announcements. As you may have seen earlier today, CJ covered the return of Tales Of The Borderlands, which we also talk about in the video below. But there were two more games announced at PAX East from Gearbox’s publishing arm that caught our attention as well: Eyes In The Dark, a monochrome roguelite platforming game, and Relic Hunters Legends, a cartoonish, top-down, multiplayer looter shooter that sounds suspiciously like another of Gearbox’s famous games....
Now, Samsung are back with the 870 Qvo, which uses their second generation 4-bit MLC tech and a new MKX controller that allows for capacities all the way up to 8TB in its slim 7mm chassis. Said 8TB SSD will still cost you a relative arm and a leg - £796 in the UK and a massive $900 in the US - but it’s the entry-level 1TB model I’ve got on test here today, which comes in at a much more affordable £111 / $130....
