Bind is one of three Valorant maps included with the tactical shooter’s closed beta, and it works hard to stand out against the crowd with its unique one-way teleporters, which help make up for a curious lack of a mid lane. Our Valorant Bind map guide will walk you through the map and all its callouts, before diving into specific tips and strategies for winning on this map.
Split is one of the three Valorant maps included with the launch of the game’s closed beta. Like the others, it’s a painstakingly crafted and wonderfully designed battlefield, in this case dominated by lots of harsh right-angles, a large mid-section, and numerous interesting ways to get from point to point. Our Valorant Split guide will walk you through the entire map and all its callouts, >along with tips and tactics to help your team come out on top.
Apex Legends’ Old Ways event has begun, bringing with it Bloodhound’s Town Takeover on the World’s Edge map, as well as the addition of a permanent map rotation and duos. This will be good news to a lot of Apex fans who like dropping into a match with a trusty partner, but unfortunately it’s bad news to those who were hoping for a solos mode. It’s even worse news for you lone wolves actually, as Respawn said that solos “negatively impacted the game, especially when it came to new player retention” when they tried it out as a limited-time game mode.
The organisers of E3 are not planning to host an official online replacement this year after all, though I don’t think that will be much of a problem. When the Entertainment Software Association announced E3 2020’s cancellation in March, due to the ongoing sitch, they did say they were considering arranging an “online experience” to fill in with announcements and that. Well, now they’ve confirmed that they decided not to. They’ve also this week reportedly confirmed dates for the E3 2021, when they do plan to return to sweaty meatspace.
War never changes, but the number of people who are allowed to participate occasionally increases. Call Of Duty: Warzone is upping squad sizes to four. You can still queue separately for the version with three, if you like, and new weapons and modes are planned for later on.
This is part of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s Season 3, which means that we’ve also got a couple new guns, three new regular multiplayer maps, and a truckload of cosmetic nonsense attached to the new battle pass.
Doom Eternal doesn’t have a Deathmatch mode. The multiplayer not a place where marines chase other marines: it’s a place where one character gets to be the Slayer from the singleplayer, and two other players gang up on them as chunky demons. The idea was to capture the same feeling as the campaign, and yep, that it does. Grappling up to a jetpack monster is all the sweeter when there’s a human lurking behind that demon’s eyes.
What I like best about it, though, are the moments where you flip from fleeing to eviscerating.
In The Red Strings Club, a corporation believes it holds the keys to happiness, and it’s preparing to slip them down the throats of everyone in the world. It’s a chemical end: to discrimination, to suffering, and to freedom.
So what. A little brainwashing never hurt anyone.
It’s not all just battles in Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord. You’re also be able to take on the role of ruler in your own kingdom. This means managing the many settlements that you’ll be conquering along the way. Taking over the settlements is rather difficult, but keeping control and developing them further is also a big challenge.
Sea Of Thieves’ Ships Of Fortune update is just around the corner, inviting players to join up with their favourite trading companies to earn loads of extra gold and reputation. For the more “traditional pirates” amongst us, a brand new trader has emerged that I think you’re going to like – The Reaper’s Bones. These are the evil-looking folks that have been hanging out on Reaper’s Hideout, and joining up with them will task you with robbing your rival sailors for all they’re worth.
But that’s not even the best bit! Get out of the way parrots and monkeys, because when the update drops on April 22nd we’ll finally be able to have cats as pets!
The Xbox controller long ago became the de facto standard for playing PC games with a pad, but Sony’s DualShock 4 also got PC support a long time ago via Steam or a piece of software called DS4Windows. The DS4 a fine controller and I’ve used it every so often on PC, particularly when dabbling with PlayStation Now, Sony’s remote play service on PC.
Sony have today released the first images and information about the “DualSense”, the new controller that will ship with the PlayStation 5. There’s no confirmation yet but the assumption is that it will follow its predecessor by working on PC as well. So: would you give up your Xbox controller for Sony’s latest?