Engravings are earned in multiple ways. They’re obtained either with level ups, or by completing quests. However, the best ones being reserved for finding the locations described in the Ainigmata Ostraka, found in certain locations in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Having decent equipment is one thing, but with an extra bit of investment, you can effectively upgrade your equipment further with little effort. This guide will go other how to apply engravings to your equipment, as well as locating the best engravings by solving the Ainigmata Ostraka.

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At some point in your adventure in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you’ll encounter a fine specimen of a woman named Xenia. She’s a big muscly lass who’s particularly fond of you as time goes on. She’ll initially ask you for money for information either Alexios or Kassandra needs, but if you saved her brother in one of the game’s many side quests, you’ll be able to hunt for some artefacts for her. Unfortunately the maps she gives you contain a few red herrings (nobody’s perfect after all), so this guide will filter all of the stuff you don’t need to know and instead tell you where to find the five items she seeks.

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After finding a very important person in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you are told of a place you need to visit. Tucked away and hidden from plain sight, there’s one other big thing that is just waiting to be discovered: Atlantis. Yes, that Atlantis. You can actually explore the fabled lost city and it is quite a striking place full of technology from the ancient civilisation. Accessing it is only the beginning though, as this part of your odyssey will ask you to defeat legendary monsters of Greek mythology, as well as discovering the truth behind Atlantis’s creation. So this guide will go over how to get into Atlantis, as well as give tips on how to kill the legendary monsters guarding certain artefacts you need to unlock the secrets within.

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It turned out that the end of the world came with a bang and> a whimper. The bang came from the volcano at the centre of Northgard s map a new feature added to the Viking-themed strategy game as part of its free Ragnarok update.

The whimper was me, realising that the blobs of molten rock that its eruption deposited around my territory would soon turn into angry stone golems and start punching my precious villagers to death. I wasn t ready. (more…)

Sean Bean, perhaps the entertainment industry’s most prestigious dier, is to lend the warm Yorkshire tones of his death gurgle to Hitman 2 too. Beanie baby is to play the murder simulator’s first ‘Elusive Targets’, those hits who appear for a few days in limited-time murder event before vanishing into the ether. His fella is an assassin famed for faking his own death many times, so we might face a challenge as Ian Hitman tries to be the first person to really properly kill Sean Bean. Here, come watch Mr. Bean monologue in a new live-action vid.

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In the last five years alone, there have been four video game adaptations of the Warhammer 40,000 spin-off, Space Hulk. Plenty of chances to get it right, you d think, though the first three attempts suggest otherwise. And here comes Space Hulk: Tactics, once again throwing gruesome Genestealers against stompy Terminators in derelict spaceship corridors. It s not quite a combo-breaker, but it gets very close.

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Demonstrating that they don’t know jack either, Jackbox Games seem to have accidentally released their latest bundle of multiplayer games a few hours earlier than planned. The Jackbox Party Pack 5 packs five new parlour games, including the return of You Don’t Know Jack, and is meant to launch tonight and is still listed on Steam as a pre-order but if you buy it now you can play it now. Alrighty then.

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“All microchips are,” prog rock band Kansas famously almost sang, “is dust in the wind.” Friend, we are gathered today to celebrate the retirement of another generation of hardware. Blizzard have removed support for 32-bit and DirectX 9 from Heroes Of The Storm, saying farewell to hardware that once powered PCs with such ha-ha-hilarious joke names as “Chipster”, “Siri”, “Crunch ALL The Frames”, and “Not Sure If Overclocked Or Just Loud”. Farewell, old friend. Enjoy your retirement in the cloud. Not that Heroes is free from nostalgia, as yesterday’s patch added Warcraft 3 wrong’un Mal’Ganis as a new character.

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The spookening draws near. That hallowed time of year where devs look at each other and go “oh we should do something for Halloween, right?” and people like me battlewrite about the consequences. Battlerite Royale has just finished pulling on its costume, chucking in a couple of creepy consumables as well as trick or treat shrines that may or may not turn you into a cat.

Update 0.2 has also landed alongside the “Curse of the Night” event, introducing private lobbies, a new champion and a sweep of balance changes. (more…)

Walk a mile in someone else s shoes.

It s a common enough idiom, a plea for empathy and understanding. Taken literally, it s also a phrase that rings true for gamers. We walk countless miles in the shoes of our favourite characters, learning to love and feel for them along the way. But despite all the miles we travel, we rarely give our well-worn virtual footwear its due. Virtual shoes are just another one of the many small, mundane details that make the worlds in which we play believable, and most players ignore them. Luckily, one photographer has made it his mission to document the art of virtual shoes.

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