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- The best Minecraft performance mods
- You can grind with your pals in Skater XL's multiplayer beta
- VVVVVV is about to get its first update in almost seven years
- Dota 2's new wizard is a giant lady with a giant hammer
- A Planet Zoo player has bred an ostrich taller than the Statue of Liberty
- Outriders crossplay is back, but inventory wipes remain
- Outriders is a dopamine-dispensing closed loop for your monkey brain
- Source Engine exploits could let hackers remotely access players' PCs
- WWE 2K22 will resume the wrestling after 2020's royal fumble
- The Sunday Papers
- Soup Pot is a cute-looking cooking game about creativity
- You can now use the best of Yahoo! Answers as a Typing Of The Dead dictionary
| The best Minecraft performance mods Posted: 12 Apr 2021 09:30 AM PDT  When I first read about the Minecraft java mods that could triple the game’s framerate, I took it in the same spirit as those programs that claim you can download more RAM, or various sites telling me about hot singles in my area. That is, I felt lied to. But as downloader and tester, I did just that and discovered that the claims were true. You can boost Minecraft’s performance significantly, even on low-end or old computers. So I’m also downloading a hot single with 2TB of RAM right now, just in case.  |
| You can grind with your pals in Skater XL's multiplayer beta Posted: 12 Apr 2021 09:06 AM PDT  Having fully failed to learn how to skateboard myself, I'm always a little envious when I see groups of skaters hanging out. Maybe they're sitting on some steps, watching one person pop tricks. Maybe they're going down the street together. Ah, they just look like they're having a good time. So I am curious to see that replicated digitaly inside Skater XL, which is preparing to add ten-player multiplayer. The feature's not quite ready to launch yet, but if you're feeling daring you can now try it on the public beta branch.  |
| VVVVVV is about to get its first update in almost seven years Posted: 12 Apr 2021 09:00 AM PDT  Back in January 2020, VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh celebrated the platformer's tenth birthday by making its source code freely available. A nice treat, I thought, but would anything come of it? Shame on me for doubting, because VVVVVV is about to get a major update, the first in almost seven years, with modern niceties and bug fixes. "Virtually all of these fixes and updates are due to source contributions," Cavanagh says. Thanks be to the unstoppable fan contributors.  |
| Dota 2's new wizard is a giant lady with a giant hammer Posted: 12 Apr 2021 06:32 AM PDT  While everyone's still thirsting over Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimitrescu and Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Olympians, Valve have introduced a giant lady of their own as Dota 2's new hero. Dawnbreaker is her name, and clonking enemies with a huge hammer is her game. Personally being too tall to love, I welcome this golden age of Amazons.  |
| A Planet Zoo player has bred an ostrich taller than the Statue of Liberty Posted: 12 Apr 2021 06:00 AM PDT  There was a brief and special period, just after the launch of delightful menagerie management game Planet Zoo, during which the game’s simulated global economy went deeply and deliciously wrong. The theory was beautiful. In order to buy into breeding programmes for high-profile endangered species, players first had to prove their credentials with the husbandry of more mundane beasts. By trading healthy, happy animals with other player zoos, it was supposed, folks could work their way gradually towards the purchase of prestigious creatures like pandas, gorillas and ‘phants. Inevitably, however, players gamed the living crikey out of the market, and - as I documented at the time - the wheels fell off with a resounding clang. Early birds hoarded orangutans and the like in vast sheds from the word go, driving most animals into stratospheric price positions, and trapping the vast majority of the playerbase in a reeking purgatory of ostriches, warthogs and peafowl. The only way out of this monotony was through quite literal brute force: by creating zoos that were little more than sprawling factories, churning out hundreds of inbred, genetically bungled animals in the desperate hope of one day being able to afford a mediocre crocodile.  |
| Outriders crossplay is back, but inventory wipes remain Posted: 12 Apr 2021 04:37 AM PDT |
| Outriders is a dopamine-dispensing closed loop for your monkey brain Posted: 12 Apr 2021 04:36 AM PDT  Outriders is a looter shooter, a type of game in which space-trousers will sometimes come whizzing out of enemies after you kill them and lay there on the floor, glowing seductively, until you pick them up and appraise them. Occasionally these new space-trousers will be rarer than the pair of space-trousers you’re currently wearing, so you put them on and feel marginally happier about your day, until the unavoidable realisation that an even better pair of space-trousers must still exist - swooshier, with better stitching and inscrutable magic abilities - compels you to continue on your merry onslaught.  |
| Source Engine exploits could let hackers remotely access players' PCs Posted: 12 Apr 2021 04:32 AM PDT  Hack-hunting group Secret Club have revealed multiple exploits affecting Source Engine games like CS:GO, which could allow hackers to steal player data via Steam invites and community servers. They claim they reported one of these exploits to Valve two years ago, but not only are the company yet to patch it, but they allegedly prevented Secret Club from publicly disclosing the information too.  |
| WWE 2K22 will resume the wrestling after 2020's royal fumble Posted: 12 Apr 2021 04:32 AM PDT  After taking a year off following the disastrously buggy WWE 2K20, 2K are returning to their wrestling series with WWE 2K22. They announced the new game at WrestleMania over the weekend with a wee trailer starring Rey Mysterio, though didn't have much to say about it. Still, I suppose a bullet point list of new additions wouldn't mean much when the main feature people want from a new 2K WWE game is for it to just not be mega-busted.  |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2021 04:00 AM PDT  Sundays are for plopping eye drops into your eye pouches to prevent that horrible, allergy-driven burning sensation. Before you raise the dropper, let's read this week's best writing about games.  |
| Soup Pot is a cute-looking cooking game about creativity Posted: 10 Apr 2021 02:08 PM PDT  Most cooking games have you following a specific recipe and being judged on your accuracy. Soup Pot aims for something else. Announced during the recent ID@Xbox stream, it's a cooking game in which you can follow the recipe, sure, or you can mess around and experiment.  |
| You can now use the best of Yahoo! Answers as a Typing Of The Dead dictionary Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:06 PM PDT  Yahoo! Answers announced this past week that it was closing down. This is bad news to those who used the question-and-answer website to learn about the world, but doubly bad news for the much larger population of people who liked to laugh at the dumb questions and dumber answers posted there. To mourn the site's approaching closure, the operator of the YahooAnswersTXT Twitter account has created a custom dictionary for Typing Of The Dead: Overkill. So now you can kill zombies by typing, "What does Bigfoot want??".  |
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