Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare

is queuing up for season 4 with a teaser video featuring an unnamed “senior operator” in a blurry comms interception. Wait, even I recognize that hat. Looks like yer boy Captain Price is going to play a part in Warfare season 4, possibly as a new operator for Warzone.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Microsoft marked Global Accessibility Awareness Day yesterday by announcing plans for improved accessibility features in Windows 10. The listed changes mainly focus on accessibility features for those with low or no vision, including text cursor customisation and quite a few improvements to the Narrator feature. These changes are scheduled as part of the May update for Windows 10.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)

A few years back I went to a theme park in the UK – I think it was Thorpe Park – and at lunchtime we had a burger at a jungle themed food stand. I think it may even have been I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! themed, somehow. The point is that for whatever reason, each meal came with a portion of dried and cooked insects, of various size. A bunch of worms, a few crickets, and one jumbo sized cricket for everyone. I am in no doubt that the majority of the insects go to waste. They serve mostly as a thing for young men to dare each other to eat, I think. I would not eat the bugs. But ohhhh, I will make a Sim eat bugs.

Up to now, I haven’t played> The Sims 4. I just build stuff in it. My Sims game is a perpetual limbo. What hell must it be to exist there, where suddenly huge houses or weird one room experiments spring up but no one ever experiences life. But the new Eco Lifestyle pack, an expansion to allow your Sim to live lean and green, might actually get me to play again, because it looks like it will make it a much more interesting game to play.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

The in-world cinema of Fortnite will screen a yet-unconfirmed old Christopher Nolan film for free this summer, Epic have revealed after debuting a trailer for his new film, Tenet. It’s going to be Inception they show, isn’t it? Gotta be. Inception turns ten in July, it’s like a big ol’ video game itself, they could add fun in-game effects with folding worlds and slowed time… it’d make sense. I mean, it’s probably not going to be Memento, is it? But first, Tenet.

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Observation - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Observation

, the game that’s akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey if you played the role of HAL 9000, has exited the Epic Games Store airlock after a year of exclusivity. You can find the space thriller over on GOG and Steam now, complete with a tasty debut discount.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alan Martin)

Like Newegg, Best Buy are marking this weekend’s Memorial Day holiday with a good old fashioned jumbo sale jamboree. For PC gamers, the best bargains are to be had in the mouse, keyboard and headset departments, with big savings to be had on the wired version of Logitech’s superb G915 Lightspeed keyboard and our current [cms-block] pick, the Roccat Vulcan to name just two of our top highlights. Read on below for our pick of the bunch.

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Crucible Beta - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Let’s talk about Crucible‘s launch. Amazon’s hero shooter landed on Steam earlier this week, and honestly? It was a bit of a mess. In fairness, a lot of brand new online games face similar issues to what the new third person sci-fi shooter did, with matchmaking and connectivity issues plaguing players as they tried to play their first matches. And though these are fixed now, there are still a couple of pretty obvious features missing from the game that really shouldn’t be. I mean, who launches a team-based shooter with no in-game voice chat?

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Today is the 30th birthday of perhaps the most iconic PC game of all time, Microsoft Solitaire. On this day in 1990, Microsoft launched Windows 3.0, which came with the card game that would grow to be despised by officer managers and IT teachers alike. Microsoft claim that even now, there are “more than 100 million hands played daily around the globe.” So if they’re so proud of it, why is their 30th anniversary merch such ghastly garbage? They’ve missed a huge opportunity to use one of the most striking images in PC gaming history.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

Minecraft Dungeons loot tables

Every level in Minecraft Dungeons has a list of items that are available to find. These item lists for all missions are fixed, though more are unlocked as you complete the main campaign.

Each mission also has various difficulty tiers that affect how tricky the mission is made, and the power level of the gear you can unlock. Most are found within the story missions, but there is also the secret missions that can be unlocked that gives you a randomised dungeon.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

Minecraft Dungeons multiplayer

Minecraft Dungeons is a lot more fun, albeit a lot more challenging, when you’re playing with friends. Teaming up with another player is rather simple to set up, whether you’re playing with friends online or family members in the same household.

You do need to do a few things first in order to set up multiplayer, but once you have, you’ll be exploring levels with family and friends in no time. Just make sure to have each other’s back, as the monsters do get tougher when playing with other people.

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