Fortnite has been a masterclass in exceeding expectations in many ways, not least because of its deceptively high skill ceiling. This beast of a Battle Royale not only has a great deal of weapons and locations with which to familiarise yourself, but also a whole host of systems such as building and editing, the Storm, healing and shield items, piloting land and air vehicles, and much more besides.

So we’ve put together the below Fortnite guides series, packed with all the most up-to-date information on how to get set up, how to build properly, weapon stats, best locations to drop, in-depth explanations of items and weekly challenges… All with the ultimate goal of equipping you with the knowledge to improve your game ten times over.

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As you may have seen in my Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 review yesterday, Nvidia’s latest graphics card is really quite powerful. Despite being around 100 / $100 more expensive than its immediate predecessor, the GTX 1060, the boost in speed you get from the RTX 2060 is absolutely worth it in my books, especially if you’re looking for a capable 2560×1440 card that can do pretty much everything at max settings without breaking a sweat. And to show you just how nippy it is, I’ve gone and made some nice, lovely graphs for you.

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A now-fixed security hole in the account system of Fortnite devs Epic Games could let scoundrels log in as other folks and even buy things, just by getting them to click on a dodgy link. Unlike many phishing schemes, this worked by hijacking the user’s authentication token – not even needing to trick them into entering their username and password. Epic say they’ve now fixed it but oof, that’s a bad’un. On the bright side, hey kids, you now have a great excuse for why your dad’s credit card bill shows someone spent 50 on virtuadances.

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YIIK: A Postmodern RPG ought to be a mixed experience. There are elements of the game, particularly the music, that are excellent. There are those, like the combat, that are not so good. I expected to be talking here about how I am a child who was born in 1994, and whether that affected my enjoyment of the game s pervasive nostalgia bait, and other such interesting questions.

Unfortunately, it has a fundamental problem, and his name is Alex.

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Resident Evil HD Remaster is a three-year-old shine-job of a 17-year-old remake of a 23-year-old console game that I d have little problem believing was a modern release if those corridor dogs weren t seared into my memory and stained into my underoos. That those corridor dogs are stained into our collective underoos (the vast interconnected underoo network that binds us all) suggests that Resident Evil is best remembered as a scripted spookfest: a one-and-done ghost train ride.

You d be wrong, though, to make that hypothetical assumption I just invented to give my next point gravitas, you big wrong strawberry.

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Remember Sea of Thieves, Rare’s piratical, sandbox sorta-MMO? I do, what with reviewing it and all, but only as if a dream. Emotive, fragmentary scenes of waves and sunset and accordions. A blissful boredom. Actual detail of the things I did, found or fought? Not a bit of it. Maybe there were some skeletons once?

I think often of going back, part in curiosity about whether its many updates have added meaningful #content, and mostly because standing on the prow of a lonely boat, staring at the quiet horizon, is deeply appealing in These Times. I usually make it about half way through the long 50GB download before the impulse fades, or life gets in the way. Now that it’s suddenly been slimmed down to ‘just’ 27GB, I reckon it could well be a sailor’s life for me once more.

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I hope the rest of the internet is paying attention, because Blizzard just showed how to use cats as a force for good. They’ve commissioned an animated Overwatch short from Dillon Gu that ties in with “Ana’s Bastet Challenge“, a cosmetic-grabbing event about how Ana used to fight crime dressed as a cat. I’m going to stop typing now so you can see it sooner.

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*Click*, went my gun. Not the good, Richard Beymer kind of click. The “you’re out of ammo and definitely dead” kind of click. The survivor in my sights had shrugged off my first few shotgun blasts, leaving me at the mercy of his assault rifle. He turned, shouted, and aimed. Then his gun clicked too, and I charged him with my tomahawk.

It was a glorious moment, but nothing else in Escape From Tarkov has lived up to it.

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A lie. That s what this detailed 1990 golf simulation means to me. A great, stinking, 256-colour lie.

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Never you mind that leaks confirmed it last week – Bethesda have announced that The Elder Scrolls Online‘s next major expansion is Elsweyr, desert homeland of the feline Khajiit. It’s a part of the Elder Scrolls world that I’ve always wanted to take a ramble around, though it seems have a dragon problem at this point in the timeline. On the plus side, that means big fights against huge scaly mega-reptiles. On the down-side, fur probably burns pretty hot. The expansion lands on June 4th, sandwiched between several dragon-themed bits of smaller DLC. Check out the fancy story trailer below.

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