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- Sanabi's grappling hook revenge plot elevates a classic formula
- Best early Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals 2022
- DLSS arrives in Monster Hunter Rise, but shaves off everyone's fur
- The 10 best cats in games
- Everyone needs to witness Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak's live action music video
- PAX Rising Showcase 2022 Round-up
- No Man's Sky players have created an in-game cryptocurrency that works because it has no value
- Disco Elysium has added dyslexia-friendly fonts for those million words
- Get the PowerColor RX 6700 XT Red Devil for $470 after a $50 discount
- Watch ragdoll skaters eat asphalt in EA’s ‘pre-pre-pre-alpha’ Skate gameplay video
- WH40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters' devs are still "trying to perfect" their powerful Space Marines
- Get a brand new AMD Ryzen 5 5600X for $176 with this Ebay code
- The Sims 4 is going back to school this month with the High School Years expansion pack
- The arrival of Halo Infinite's co-op campaign preview test means I might finally play it
| Sanabi's grappling hook revenge plot elevates a classic formula Posted: 01 Jul 2022 08:50 AM PDT  There's no rule, but I try to cover things here that haven't already been poached by, for example, Graham last year. Sanabi is far too good to overlook, though. I've nothing against 2D platformers, but to stand out in such a saturated genre you really need to capture something special. Wonder Potion have more or less nailed both the tricky but rewarding platforming, grappling, and baddie smacking parts of their formula, and perhaps more impressively, the story parts as well. This is a game with character, and the storytelling chops to make the most of its relatively simple ideas. |
| Best early Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals 2022 Posted: 01 Jul 2022 07:58 AM PDT  I’m contractually obligated to inform you of the best early Prime Day deals on PC gaming hardware, even though Prime Day 2022 isn’t until July 12th. Aaaaand then continues over until June 13th. Jeff, lad, that’s two Prime Days. Regardless, Amazon’s Prime Day landing page is already a gateway into some decent discounts on peripherals, SSDs, gaming monitors and the like, so take a look if you’re of a more urgent mind. Unlike the bulk of actual Prime Day deals, the ones you’ll find listed here don’t even need an Amazon Prime account to access. Previous Prime Days have driven competing retailers to knock down some of their own prices, and this year looks to be no different, so I’ve included some good sales from non-Amazon retailers as well. For the 12th and 13th we’ll also post a full anti-Prime Day deals guide (like last year's), so you can still make some savings even if you’re avoiding Amazon specifically. |
| DLSS arrives in Monster Hunter Rise, but shaves off everyone's fur Posted: 01 Jul 2022 07:52 AM PDT  The arrival of Monster Hunter Rise's Sunbreak expansion has brought a swathe of quality of life improvements to Capcom's beast-bashing action game, including support for Nvidia's performance-boosting DLSS tech. Announced earlier this week as part of the game's 10.0.2 patch notes, enabling DLSS does bring some welcome frame rate improvements to proceedings, but it also, err... has the rather unexpected side effect of shaving off everyone's hair / fur. And in a game about felling all manner of feathery, scaly lizard animals, that's not exactly ideal. |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2022 07:33 AM PDT  The house cat. Felis destructus. Humankind's absolute best mate and undisputed master. Some upcoming video games are planning to examine the motives behind these enigmatic creatures, whose origins remain unknown. Stray will put you in the paws of a street cat finding their way home in a cyberpunk city. Little Kitty Big City will see you wearing the whiskers of a cat less concerned with going home than it is with wreaking urban havoc. But what if you don't want to wait for these games? Well, you have options. Here are 10 of the best cats in PC games. |
| Everyone needs to witness Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak's live action music video Posted: 01 Jul 2022 07:00 AM PDT  Back in April, Ed advocated that more games should adopt anime-style openers. I come to you today with another proposal. In addition to, or perhaps instead of, anime openers, I put it to you that more games should celebrate their launch days with live action music videos - and after watching Capcom's freshly unveiled "Matsuken Sunbreak" vid for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, I think you'll heartily agree. |
| PAX Rising Showcase 2022 Round-up Posted: 01 Jul 2022 06:19 AM PDT  PAX East 2022 may have taken place all the way back in April, but we still have a few bits and pieces left to talk about from our time in Boston. Namely: the 12 indie games included as part of the event's PAX Rising Showcase, a booth that's been a fixture of PAX for over a decade that allows developers to show off their upcoming projects to those attending the show. |
| No Man's Sky players have created an in-game cryptocurrency that works because it has no value Posted: 01 Jul 2022 06:15 AM PDT  Yesterday tech journalist Alex Hern, who has been making comparatively gentle fun of the crypto crash, pointed out that he didn't Tweet about bitcoin in the boom times "because it wasn't funny then." So, after we posted yesterday about a crypto fan who very shoddily stole Itch and for some reason tagged Itch's founder in a tweet about it, allow me to bring you the news that some No Man's Sky players have come up with what I think is the most useful application of a crypto currency I've seen. And it works because it is deliberately valueless. |
| Disco Elysium has added dyslexia-friendly fonts for those million words Posted: 01 Jul 2022 04:31 AM PDT  Detective RPG Disco Elysium is not short on words, and now that text is a little more inviting. A free update yesterday added the option to display text in fonts which are intended to be easier to read for some people with dyslexia. The popular OpenDyslexic typeface is used for many languages, while Russian and Korean have their own fonts. I have a touch of the ol' dyslexia myself and do find this font helps me a bit. |
| Get the PowerColor RX 6700 XT Red Devil for $470 after a $50 discount Posted: 01 Jul 2022 04:19 AM PDT  GameStop are offering an RX 6700 XT graphics card for $470, a price drop that's since been matched by Amazon. We've linked to both retailers below, as the price is $50 below the US MSRP and hundreds of dollars cheaper than these cards cost earlier this year. This is a PowerColor Red Devil model too, a critically acclaimed design that offers excellent thermals with a triple-fan cooler. |
| Watch ragdoll skaters eat asphalt in EA’s ‘pre-pre-pre-alpha’ Skate gameplay video Posted: 01 Jul 2022 04:06 AM PDT  Get your knee and elbow pads ready, EA have finally rolled out some more information about its upcoming open-world skateboarding game, Skate. This is the first bit of news we've had since last year's incredibly brief announcement and it’s in the form of a shin-shredding “pre-pre-pre-alpha” gameplay trailer. |
| WH40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters' devs are still "trying to perfect" their powerful Space Marines Posted: 01 Jul 2022 04:00 AM PDT  Adapting an established property in any medium has got to be a pretty tricky proposition. Satisfying the long term fans while keeping things approachable for newcomers on top of, well, making a good game. Add in the complexities of making a turn-based game based on an existing turn-based game and it’s surprising that developers don’t just collapse into gibbering, tentacle-waving Chaos Spawn. Complex Games, the developers of recent XCOM-like Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters not only managed to resist the mutating power of the Warp, but produced an absolute cracker of a game. Suspecting pacts with Dark Powers were behind it, I put on my big Inquisitorial hat and set off to question Noah Decter-Jackson, the game’s Creative Director. |
| Get a brand new AMD Ryzen 5 5600X for $176 with this Ebay code Posted: 01 Jul 2022 03:31 AM PDT  Want an efficient yet powerful processor for gaming? Right now you can pick up a Ryzen 5600X for $176 w/ code JULYSAVINGS over at Antonline's Ebay. That's an awesome price for AMD's six-core 12-thread Ryzen 5000 CPU, especially given how affordable compatible AM4 motherboards and DDR4 RAM is right now! |
| The Sims 4 is going back to school this month with the High School Years expansion pack Posted: 01 Jul 2022 03:28 AM PDT  It turns out that school won't be out for summer this year, because The Sims 4's next expansion pack High School Years is set to release on July 28th. The first full expansion since Cottage Living launched a year ago, High School Years is set to do exactly what it says on the tin, massively expanding gameplay options for Sims in their teens. The pack promises to introduce staples of high school life like attending classes, getting detention, going to prom, and graduating, all as on-screen activities that the player can guide their Sims through. While there's a fair bit of overlap with the series' established college-themed expansion packs like The Sims 4 Discover University, giving this treatment to high school-aged characters is a franchise first, and something that's been on the fandom's collective wish list for a very long time. |
| The arrival of Halo Infinite's co-op campaign preview test means I might finally play it Posted: 01 Jul 2022 02:37 AM PDT  Last month, 343 Industries announced that Halo Infinite's long-awaited co-op campaign would begin its public testing phase in July. Now, we finally have a date. The Campaign Network Co-op test for Halo Infinite is due to start on the week of July 11th, 343 Industries announced last night, and will support up to four players with any combination of PCs, Xboxes and Xbox Cloud Gaming players. Thanks, crossplay. |
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