After Rockstar launched their new wee store client doodad this week, folks who wanted to play Grand Theft Auto V offline on PC were finding themselves unable to. Did Rockstar sneak in a new DRM measure when wedging the new Rockstar Games Launcher into the game’s guts? Naw, they say it was a bug, and now it’s fixed. The fix does involve going online one last time, mind.
Termie’s quite a busy robot these days. The nonspecific robot skeleton has been popping up in other people’s fights with startling frequency lately. Need someone to help chainswordgun an alien bug in half in Gears 5? Terminator’s there. Bashing interdimensional martial artists in a bloody tournament with cold, metal fists in Mortal Kombat 11? Yeah, sure, a gruffer Arnie-shaped Termie’s there too. It’s probably about time ol’ T got his own game and stopped mooching off others.
Well, cor blimey, they’ve only gone and announced Terminator: Resistance, haven’t they?
Spending over a hundred quid on a keyboard is a big ask at the best of times, which is partly why half the entries currently populating my best gaming keyboard list all come in well below that. Over two hundred quid, though? That’s positively extortionate. But man alive does the 210 / $250 Logitech G915 Lightspeed Wireless make an incredibly strong case for itself.
Like any good hacker, Crypto – not to be confused with Krypto, The Superdog – has been quietly operating behind the scenes for a long time. He’s taken the spotlight before, blowing up the dinosaur-b-gone tower that kicked off Apex Legends’ first season, but we’ve never caught sight of this mysterious bad boy. In the last few days, that’s begun to change. After making fleeting appearances and BSOD’ing terminals all around Kings Canyon, Crypto is ready to take a one-way trip to Apex Legends on October 1st.
I’ve been superintending Saracens, Saladins, and Scouts in the Fulda Gap for the last few days courtesy of Armored Brigade (this column concludes with some thoughts on the current state of the game plus a competition with two expanded copies as prizes). This restricted play diet in combination with some compelling TV documentaries has turned my thoughts to the Troubles, a conflict that my extensive wargame library insists never happened.
The 25 pictures in a cluster foxer are arranged in 5 discretely/discreetly themed clusters. Pictures in a particular cluster must be cardinally contiguous to be valid. For example, A1, B1, C1, D1, D2 is a possible cluster, unlike A2, B2, C2, D2, E3. To fully defox today s enlargeable puzzle identify the themes and constituent images of all five clusters.
The thing about Misfortune Ramirez Hernandez, the titular protagonist of Little Misfortune, is that she only has a few animations, and one of them is falling flat on her face. That s part of the lot she s been handed in life, and as her thematically appropriate name might suggest, the rest of it isn t great either.
But for every time she takes a spill, she also has an animation for getting back up. And for everything else, there is glitter.
If you’ve been bumming about Borderlands 3 with a handful of stuttering frames to your name, I have some underwhelming news. Developers Gearbox have released a hotfix that “does not include issues that the community is immediately concerned with”, along with a statement to say they’re working on those. They’ve also posted a list of (possibly) helpful tips to help with framerates and deal with saves if they’re still not working after Monday’s save-specific hotfix. (Psst. Just turn cloud saves off.)
Eliza is a visual novel about Evelyn, a woman starting work as a ‘proxy’ for the eponymous service. The service is counselling by algorithm. The proxies sit and listen, while clients say whatever they have to say, and the system takes measurements of things like heart rate, vocal stress and such, before analysing keywords used and delivering a reply. You read the script it generates, and nothing more. That’s the job.
The game itself is about everything to do with that. Counselling. Crunch in the tech industry. Ethics and isolation and empathy, and Men In Tech. And it’s about recovery. You get dialogue options here and there, but until the final act there’s not a lot in the way of big decisions. I mulled over those closing decisions for longer than I’ve thought about many I’ve made in real life. Indeed, if it seems I’m sticking to the slightly dry facts in this intro, it’s because if I start talking about how much this game has spoken to me, I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop. It is doing so much. I have lost sleep thinking about it. And I am glad.
That’s the name for this sort of thing, isn’t it? Though it needn’t be confined to just Kevin Bacon. If you’re good with names and faces and you’re after a fun little game to play with a friend or two to pass the time, “Six Degrees” is perfect. Here’s the best> way to play.