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- Valorant's new agent Neon breaks the game's pacing, but in a good way
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 delayed into December to try to "live up to the expectations"
- God of War PC performance, recommended specs and the best settings to use
- God Of War review: a fantastic action-adventure epic with beauty, bleakness and heart
- Have you ever played a game for 500 hours?
- Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is now free-to-play
- Call Of Duty gets a cursed Attack On Titan crossover next week
- Absurdle is a Wordle variant that hates you - while Sweardle curses you
- Xbox head says Game Pass isn't about replacing game sales
- Hitman 3's year two including new mode will be revealed Jan 13th
- Halo Infinite hotfix for Big Team Battle mode is coming soon
- Far: Lone Sails sequel Changing Tides sets sail on March 1st
- Run an eldritch plant shop in Strange Horticulture this month
- Don't worry, you can finish Dying Light 2's main story in 20 hours
- Duncan Jones still wants to make a Full Throttle movie
| Valorant's new agent Neon breaks the game's pacing, but in a good way Posted: 12 Jan 2022 08:30 AM PST  Valorant Episode 4 has kicked off, bringing with it new agent Neon who - like that famous blue hedgehog - goes fast. They're able to sprint and slide around maps at blistering speeds, which might seem at odds with the game's tactical pace, but they fit into the roster nicely. Thing is, you've got to be brave enough to get the most out of their move set, which rewards ballsy plays over careful corner turns. It's safe to say I struggled to break out of my tentative shell, but when I did? Hoo boy, what a thrill. |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 delayed into December to try to "live up to the expectations" Posted: 12 Jan 2022 08:13 AM PST  Given that we've still only seen scraps of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 after years of development and with launch supposedly mere months away, I suppose it's not a surprise to hear the game is delayed. The developers, GSC Game World today announced that they've pushed the launch back by seven months, giving the first-person explore-o-shooter a new release date of the 8th of December. It's the usual perfectly sensible reason: they want it to be good, and they think it needs more time to be good. |
| God of War PC performance, recommended specs and the best settings to use Posted: 12 Jan 2022 08:00 AM PST  Fatherly axe-‘em-up God of War is out on PC this week, and I’ve been dragging my disappointing son around the Nine Realms to see how it copes with the jump from PlayStation to Windows. The answer: pretty well! Like previous marquee Sony port Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a game that already looked lovely on console, and the extra muscle of even a modest PC rig can deliver sizeable boosts to both visual quality and frames-per-second. |
| God Of War review: a fantastic action-adventure epic with beauty, bleakness and heart Posted: 12 Jan 2022 08:00 AM PST  In the eight year gap between 2010's more conventional sexy gore fest God Of War 3 and this new and improved action-dadventure God Of War, the angry Ancient Greek warboy Kratos handed in his god-killing badge and gun to live in Norse mythology's woods with his wife Faye and their son Atreus. When Faye dies, Kratos & Son go on a journey to scatter her ashes from the top of a mountain. This becomes a micro rumination on familial relationships, a macro world-saving epic of legendary proportions, and a hack and slash fest that'll have you grinning from ear to ear. On balance, then, I am Team Fridge Faye. I played this God Of War on its previously exclusive release on PlayStation in 2018, and it lived in my memory as a 70 hour poetic battle between gods and monsters. Revisiting it again on PC, it turns out that it's actually only about 20 hours long, but it looms so large as an experience that turning it off at the end feels like stumbling into daylight, having spent many weeks in a firelit, sweaty hunting lodge in a Norwegian pine forest, slamming mead and singing songs about warriors tearing goats in two. There are a lot of big warriors in God Of War. There are a lot of very big things in it in general: statues, dragons, big angry rocks. And a big man, because the titular Kratos, as a yardstick to measure size, is already incongruously big, just so many sacks of salted beef held together by leather armour. |
| Have you ever played a game for 500 hours? Posted: 12 Jan 2022 06:00 AM PST  Much has been made of how long games take to complete this week. After Dying Light 2 developers Techland boasted that it would take 500 hours to fully complete the game over the weekend, the internet's collective groan over the revelation was reportedly heard from the far reaches of space. Personally, I think it's a preposterous figure for a single-player game, but as someone who also maintains an active spreadsheet of all my various playtime stats (yes, really), it also got me thinking. Is 500 hours really so nonsensical in the grand scheme of things? I asked the team what their most played game on Steam is to find out. And as it turns out, Dying Light 2's 500 hour completion time ain't got nothing on some of our favourite time hogs... |
| Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is now free-to-play Posted: 12 Jan 2022 05:12 AM PST  Seminal battle royale shooter Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is now free-to-play, inviting all stag and hen parties to parachute into holiday resorts for paintballing which accidentally uses real guns. Folks who previously paid for PUBG: Battlegrounds (the new-ish official name replacing Plunkbat) have been grandfathered into the new Battlegrounds Plus account tier and receive receive some edgy virtual clothes too. Everyone else, hey, in you come. |
| Call Of Duty gets a cursed Attack On Titan crossover next week Posted: 12 Jan 2022 04:58 AM PST  To celebrate anime series Attack On Titan and its impending final series and Call Of Duty's next big update, they both decided that a totally normal crossover was in order. Soon, Call Of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone will play host to a cursed set of Attack On Titan cosmetics, including gun bits and an Operator skin. They are frightening and confusing. Please avert your eyes. |
| Absurdle is a Wordle variant that hates you - while Sweardle curses you Posted: 11 Jan 2022 04:41 PM PST  Wordle has engrossed me for a couple of weeks, along with much of the rest of the internet. It's also a free, simple word game, meaning it's relatively easy to recreate. Naturally, other developers are building their own twists on its core. Among them, Absurdle is my favourite, an "adversarial version" of the game where the winning word changes as you guess. I'm also fond of Sweardle, however, a version designed for four-letter words. |
| Xbox head says Game Pass isn't about replacing game sales Posted: 11 Jan 2022 04:08 PM PST  Microsoft don't intend to do away with selling individual games anytime soon. That's the takeaway from Xbox head Phil Spencer's recent interview with the New York Times. "The retail market continues to be very strong and grow. So let’s make sure we offer our customers choice between subscriptions and transactions," says Spencer. |
| Hitman 3's year two including new mode will be revealed Jan 13th Posted: 11 Jan 2022 02:00 PM PST |
| Halo Infinite hotfix for Big Team Battle mode is coming soon Posted: 11 Jan 2022 01:19 PM PST  Halo Infinite's Big Team Battle mode has been unplayable for many almost since the shooter's release. 343 Industries tried to address the issue last month without success, and then holidays hit and delayed things further. In an update posted yesterday, 343 say they now have a fix in testing and hope to release it as soon as they can. |
| Far: Lone Sails sequel Changing Tides sets sail on March 1st Posted: 11 Jan 2022 09:03 AM PST  After trundling across the desert with a wee sandskiff in the delightful Far: Lone Sails, developers Okomotive will soon invite us to sail above and below a strange ocean in the sequel. They announced today that Far: Changing Tides will launch on the 1st of March and oh goodness me, it's another anticipated indie that will be available through Game Pass from the start. (Anticipated by us, anyway—it's one of our most anticipated games of 2022.) |
| Run an eldritch plant shop in Strange Horticulture this month Posted: 11 Jan 2022 06:00 AM PST  Ever since Alice Bee first played Strange Horticulture, she's raved about the mysteries and merchandising of running a weird plant shop. Lots of studying and cataloguing plants, serving customers, and feeling proud of your wee business. Plus solving mysteries in ways only an occult plant shop owner can. Not long to wait now, as the makers announced today that the game will launch on the 21st of January. |
| Don't worry, you can finish Dying Light 2's main story in 20 hours Posted: 11 Jan 2022 03:39 AM PST  Over the weekend, Dying Light 2 developers Techland boasted that it would take "500 hours to complete the game". This turned out not to be the exciting selling point they expected for the open-world zombie-mashing parkour-o-shooter. Many found this claim exhausting because oh my god 500 hours is over 20 days, what do you think we do with our lives, and how much of that is busywork? After initially backtracking to clarify that 500 hours is how long it'd take to do absolutely everything, Techland have now explained that you can finish the game's main story in 20 hours, or 80 if you hit every side quest too. |
| Duncan Jones still wants to make a Full Throttle movie Posted: 11 Jan 2022 02:16 AM PST  The director of Moon and Warcraft is still dreaming of making a movie version of Full Throttle, the classic LucasArts adventure game about rough 'n' tough bikers and lovers. A year ago Duncan Jones released a tentative script he banged out in a fit of procrastination, and in 2022 he's still thinking of the smell of asphalt. In a cheeky wee tweet over the weekend, he asked fans to bug LucasOwners Disney to let him do it. |
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