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- Windows 11 is making the blue screen of death blue again, hooray!
- The new Nvidia Image Scaling is no DLSS, but boosts performance in any game
- Modders are fixing the GTA Trilogy, from better rain to nut-shaped nuts
- Vampire: The Masquerade battle royale ending public testing, delaying launch
- Football Manager 2022 review: a small but notable evolution of one of the finest management sims around
- Moncage review: a square meal of puzzle goodness
- Call Of Duty: Vanguard cheaters could get banned from the entire series
- Outriders launching big update this week, first expansion next year
- Halo Infinite multiplayer launches free multiplayer beta
- Sherlock Holmes Chapter One review: the silliest thing I have ever loved
- The magic of Morse is in its custom telegraph controller
- Survival horror Maid Of Sker's follow-up is a co-op shooter, for some reason
- Mercenary managing RPG Wartales arrives in early access next month
- Back 4 Blood devs planning to dial difficulty back down
- Best Black Friday 2021 PC game deals
- Amazon planning second round of New World server transfers this year
- Rockstar are selling GTA Trilogy Def Ed again, but should bring back the originals
| Windows 11 is making the blue screen of death blue again, hooray! Posted: 16 Nov 2021 06:25 AM PST  Windows has contributed two iconic images to the public consciousness: the default Windows XP wallpaper; and the blue screen of death. But they cut Bliss decades ago, and Windows 11 put the final nail in the coffin of Windows' pop culture relevancy by turning the blue screen of death into a black screen of death. A tragedy. Thankfully, Microsoft have now seen the cerulean light, and are planning to restore the azure annihilator in a future patch. |
| The new Nvidia Image Scaling is no DLSS, but boosts performance in any game Posted: 16 Nov 2021 06:02 AM PST |
| Modders are fixing the GTA Trilogy, from better rain to nut-shaped nuts Posted: 16 Nov 2021 04:31 AM PST  Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition launched last week, and so far it's been a pretty messy affair. And I don't mean the whole removing it from sale fiasco, I mean the game itself is a mess. But fortunately, modders have stepped in, making improvements to the game's rain, fixing typos, adding in lots of nice graphics options and more. One modder has even fixed the nut on the Tuff Nut Donuts sign, which, for some baffling reason, had been rounded out. |
| Vampire: The Masquerade battle royale ending public testing, delaying launch Posted: 16 Nov 2021 03:26 AM PST  After entering early access in September and intending to launch this year, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt has delayed its full launch and is preparing to shut down the servers until it's done. The developers, Sharkomob say they want to focus on improving the battle royale game following feedback, including fighting cheats. While the Vampire: The Masquerade game people really want is mired in unknown development hell, I know some have found comfort in sucking drops of satisfaction from Bloodhunt—what say you, gang? |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2021 03:00 AM PST  Barry Hattrick has just signed a two-year contract with Stockport County FC. The 36-year-old former full-back, a Stockport native and lifelong fan of the Vanarama National League club, has a tactical style best described as 'my dad after three pints'. Route-one, 4-4-2, and no 'larking about'. He thinks a gegenpress is something you use to get the creases out of your trousers. Hattrick is a quintessentially English anachronism, whose ignorance of the modern game represents my own unfamiliarity with modern Football Manager. It's been quite some time since I last sported the greying temples and Fray-Bentos paunch of football's favourite scapegoat, and returning to Football Manager is a bit like meeting up with an old girlfriend after they've had their consciousness uploaded into an all-knowing AI. I vaguely recognise the face behind all the ones and zeroes, but that person I once snuggled up with on winter evenings has ascended into something vast, intimidating, and utterly obsessed with data. |
| Moncage review: a square meal of puzzle goodness Posted: 16 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST  Moncage is one of those puzzle games of intermittent lightbulb moments. One minute you see solutions with perfect clarity. The next you're left scratching your head and wondering how the heck you're meant to proceed. It wouldn't be much of a puzzle game if there weren't a few moments like this, of course, but when you're playing out mechanical riddles across five possible surfaces - in this case, the sides and top of a rotatable cube - Moncage can sometimes veer into giving you a complete cerebral blackout, leaving you at an impasse until you consult its series of timed hints (or, if you're really desperate, an in-game video solution). When the lightbulb pings into bright, brilliant existence, though, Moncage can be truly illuminating. As you rotate, prod and investigate its five little vignettes to line-up matching bits of scenery in one tile to affect the corresponding bit in another, Optillusion's debut game harks back to the best bits from Fireproof Studios' The Room series. It's a beautifully crafted little thing, and it builds on its ideas to create some genuinely standout moments of optical wizardry. If only the story it was trying to tell was half so elegant. |
| Call Of Duty: Vanguard cheaters could get banned from the entire series Posted: 15 Nov 2021 01:12 PM PST  Activision have made a big deal of fighting cheaters with Call Of Duty: Vanguard, bragging about new anti-cheat tech Ricohet, and a new progress report on their anti-cheat efforts makes clear they really want wrong'uns gone. If you get banned for cheating, they'll ban you from the whole Call Of Duty series (well, as much as accounts allow). Eat it, nerks. |
| Outriders launching big update this week, first expansion next year Posted: 15 Nov 2021 12:17 PM PST  Square Enix had said that Outriders was successful enough for them to justify expanding upon it, and so they shall. During a stream today they announced a big free update is coming to People Can Fly's looter-shooter on Tuesday, with a full expansion to follow in 2022. This week's free additions will include new Expeditions and a transmogrification system so you can make your wizards look all fancy. |
| Halo Infinite multiplayer launches free multiplayer beta Posted: 15 Nov 2021 11:15 AM PST  While Halo Infinite doesn't officially launch until December, surprise! The FPS's full multiplayer launched today into open beta, though it has all the maps and modes, it is the official start of the first season, and all progress will carry over, so basically it's out now, just might be a bit wonky. Hinfinite's multiplayer side is free-to-play so all are invited. |
| Sherlock Holmes Chapter One review: the silliest thing I have ever loved Posted: 15 Nov 2021 09:00 AM PST  The simple explanation of Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is a game where you embody the nascent consulting detective, aged 21, returning to Cordona, the Mediterranean island where he spent time as a child. It's a third-person puzzle adventure. You gather the evidence, cross reference it all, and then come to a conclusion on the case. Young Holmes returned to Cordona to find out how his mum died a decade ago, and is helped by his best mate Jon, this season's Creepy Watson. Boy, do they get in some scrapes along the way! Bingo, bango, there's yer preamble. But the complex explanation is that this game, ironically, defies explanation. As I played, I oscillated wildly between thinking, "This is Frogwares' world and we're all just living in it!" and, "What is even happening, what is this, I need a ten-part documentary series that just follows the developers around because they really have a lot of explaining to do." |
| The magic of Morse is in its custom telegraph controller Posted: 15 Nov 2021 08:00 AM PST  Morse, the strategy game that teaches you real morse code to win a war, has come a long way since we first wrote about it in 2015. What started out as a free flash game (and a makeshift telegraph key made out of a clothes peg) now has proper 3D graphics and quite possibly the most impressive custom controller setup I've ever seen. When I played the demo at EGX 2021 last month, not only had creator AlexVSCoding made an entire telegraph machine for the occasion, but he'd also managed to source a pair of headphones from the 1930s to really hammer home the idea of being a wartime telegraph operator. Obviously, you don't need a pair of 90-year-old headphones to enjoy playing Morse. A modern headset will do just as well. You also don't technically need the telegraph machine either, as there's an onscreen button interface you can click with your mouse. But let me tell you, pressing those morse code buttons in-game wasn't half as immersive as tapping out the commands on a proper dedicated machine, and I wish there was some way Morse could give everyone that experience when it finally launches in full. |
| Survival horror Maid Of Sker's follow-up is a co-op shooter, for some reason Posted: 15 Nov 2021 07:37 AM PST  Last year, Wales Interactive released Maid Of Sker, a first-person survival horror set in a creepy hotel. It's your typical kinda horror experience - a singleplayer romp making you solve puzzles and linger in horrible places while trying to avoid spooks. You might expect that a second Sker-y game would follow a similar formula. Nope. This weekend, the developers announced Sker Ritual, a co-op shooter in which you'll need to survive an onslaught of ghouls. |
| Mercenary managing RPG Wartales arrives in early access next month Posted: 15 Nov 2021 06:25 AM PST  Wartales, the next game from Northgard developers Shiro Games, is coming to early access on December 1st. It's an open-world RPG set in a plague-ravaged medieval world, where you'll lead a pack of mercenaries as you all try to survive. I played the demo this summer, and it's good! It's a simple ye olde setting, no magic or wizards, but also has no main quests to bog you down. You're free to follow little story threads as you please, or just exist in the harsh world with your merc pals. |
| Back 4 Blood devs planning to dial difficulty back down Posted: 15 Nov 2021 06:03 AM PST  "Sometimes a bit of difficulty can add a lot of replayability, but as of right now there are issues and bugs we've encountered in development that are making it far more difficult than intended," Back 4 Blood developers Turtle Rock Studios have said. The Left 4 Dead-style monster-mashing has become notably more difficult following the big November update, with undesireable consequences, and they laid out plans to remedy it. |
| Best Black Friday 2021 PC game deals Posted: 15 Nov 2021 05:36 AM PST  Did you know that Black Friday isn’t, as any reasonable person would assume, a celebration of West Midlands coal mining country? It’s actually a big annual sales event that Americans love so much they spend a whole day giving thanks for it. They have shiny buckle hats and go on pilgrimages to the shops. With so many deals flying about on both sides of the Atlantic, some guidance is called for, so I’m here to be your canary in the coalmine of bargains and help you avoid any turkeys. |
| Amazon planning second round of New World server transfers this year Posted: 15 Nov 2021 03:56 AM PST  Server transfers were introduced to New World last month, letting players boot their characters to a new world. It was implemented as a way to ease queue times in the popular MMORPG, but didn't work completely to plan - it caused a gold duping glitch, and some players have been blocked from transferring altogether. Amazon Games say they're currently working on resolving these blockages, and are planning a second round of server transfers before the year's end, so everyone has a chance to jump worlds. |
| Rockstar are selling GTA Trilogy Def Ed again, but should bring back the originals Posted: 15 Nov 2021 02:56 AM PST  After pulling Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition's PC edition from sale soon after its Thursday launch, Rockstar returned it to their store overnight. The remastered collection of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas looks a right mess but apparently the reason for its vanishing was they had accidentally left in files they shouldn't have, which include songs that weren't meant to be in the game. Well, it's back on sale now, and it still looks a mess. Hey Rockstar, maybe now consider putting the original versions back on sale too. |
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