The final set of challenges for Season 7 of Fortnite have now dropped, meaning that we now know all of the objectives you need to complete in order to complete your Battle Pass. Season 7 featured a wide range of tasks to complete, some of which require a little bit more intel to locate the exact positions on the map. So this guide hub will have all the details for both free and Battle Pass challenges.
With the next generation of Nvidia RTX cards almost fully established, AMD’s Radeon 7 has a lot to prove. It’s neither one of AMD’s own next-gen Navi GPUs, nor does it have any special reflection/performance boosting tech hidden away inside its second gen Vega architecture. There are improvements to be found over AMD’s existing Vega 56 and Vega 64 cards, sure, but I think you’ll probably agree that a reduction in latency times and improved memory bandwidth isn’t nearly as sexy as ‘Hey, look at these crazy frame rate boosts’, or, ‘Hot damn, doesn’t this light look amazing?’
It may be the world’s first consumer graphics card to use a 7nm (nanometer) manufacturing process, but it is, in almost every sense, a very workmanlike graphics card. It’s got buckets of power at its disposal thanks to its ludicrous 16GB of HBM2 memory (which is twice that of the Vega 64), 3840 stream processors and 1TB/s memory bandwidth, but on the surface I’d argue there isn’t really a huge> amount to get excited about. Until, that is, you realise you can get almost RTX 2080 levels of speed for around 40-100 less. Almost>.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege’s latest balance update has been out for a little while now and it dramatically changed a few of the operators. Each one has unique abilities they offer, essentially being their own class, as well as their own gadgets and weapons. We’ll be looking at all the various operators to see how they stack up today in this guide hub. We’ll be making recommendations about who to use if you’re new, as well as detailing which operators they have advantages over, and the latest updates within the affected operators. (more…)
Good news, friends: you will get to go outside and see the sun this summer, because Phoenix Point has been delayed again. The new turn-based tactics ’em up directed by Julian Gollop, the co-creator of ye olde original X-COM games, was previously delayed to June 2019 and now Gollop says it’ll be here in September. The delay is for the usual reason: because they want to make it better. And hey, this means we can escape the siren song of battling terrors from the deep this summer, then Phoenix Point will be waiting for us when the weather turns.
I spent a couple of evenings with Theme Hospital spiritual sequel Two Point Hospital last summer, and it was more or less what I expected: the calming pleasantry of a cruise ship full of ambiently holidaying retirees, as opposed to the wilderness backpacking experience of modern-day management sims (yer Banisheds and RimWorlds and Frostpunks). Nowt wrong with that, of course: choice is king.
After a successful launch, now the focus is on the long game, something its Bullfroggy predecessor didn’t really have to think about. The new, free Interior Designer update feels like an important step there. With it, you can plaster walls and floors with any nightmarish design of your choice, and then share it with the Steam Workshop. I demand an image of Charlie from Casualty on every available surface, stat.
Command & Conquer will go down in history as a real-time strategy giant. Earth 2140 will be half-remembered as an imitator, a game that took as much of its lifeforce from Terminator 2 as it did from Westwood s soldier-bossing. But I got to play this on a demo disc for PC Zone or something, and that makes it special, OK?
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a peek at Deep Rock Galactic, a compelling blend of Minecraft and Left 4 Dead starring a gang of surly space-dwarves. I was starting to worry that like so many early access multiplayer games, it had fizzled out – I’m happy Ghost Ship Games have proven me wrong. Today’s update brings a new top-tier difficulty setting and some new beasties to battle underground, including grenade-spraying robots. I’m also happy to report that there’s plenty of players around; the past few updates have done the game good. Check out the patch video below.
Someone is clearly confident in historical city-builder Anno 1800, as Blue Byte are throwing open the doors for everyone in the weekend before its launch. The game recently slipped to an April 16th release but anyone curious will be able to poke around its gorgeous Victorian-era architecture and smoke-belching factories from April 12th to the 14th. There’ll be no sign-up necessary, just turn up in time, download the game from Uplay (it is a Ubisoft-published game, after all) and start exploiting the working class for fun and (ideally) profit.
We now know where all the golden haze went from the Director’s Cut of Deus Ex: Human Revolution – it was pilfered for use in Assassin’s Creed 3 Remastered. Ubisoft have released a trailer for the upcoming polished-up version of arguably the wonkiest of the numbered main Creed games, and while I can’t deny it looks nice, it’s conspicuously> golden. Every before and after shot is a deluge of gilded sunsets and aurous haze. The game launches on March 29th and is included with the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey season pass as well as sold separately. See for yourself if it looks good as gold below.
After a rough first year, Sea Of Thieves – the piratical MMO-lite – is on the up and up. Interest in the game (and all things piratical) is high, and its latest big update brought a swathe of new PvE activities to its previously competitive-focused seas. Rare reckon that now would be a good time to show the game to your friends, so if you own the game (or play it via an Xbox Game Pass subscription) you can invite up to three pals to join in free for the next week. If you play the game, you can find your invite codes here. The free rum runs dry on February 14th, 9am GMT.