It’s not been a great time for upgrading your PC during recent months, as ongoing coronavirus-related delays and supply chain disruptions have pushed up the prices of all sorts of PC components, including our trusty graphics cards. There’s a little bit of good news, though, as Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Super has dropped in price yet again in the UK, taking this excellent 1080p graphics card down to £210.
Everyone in Apex Legends is a treasure hunter now, and Crypto has a moustache. I clearly haven’t been paying enough attention, but this is the backdrop to the “Lost Treasures” event and I’m happy to roll with it – not least because that event adds mobile respawn beacons. It goes live at 4pm BST (8am Pacific), and it’s bringing loadsa new cosmetics along with a new special room that lets you see other squads on the map. There are quite big character rebalances, too
The shotguns ‘n’ sniper rifles only mode has also returned, but this time with a new item that let you summon a one-use respawn station. I’m glad to see those will be added to the main game once the event has run its course. It’s been a while since I stretched my Apelegs but a change like this is a fine way to lure me back.
Now that notE3 is largely done and dusted for the month of June, there have been veritable buckets worth of new PC games announced over the last few weeks, as well as a couple of big delays like Cyberpunk 2077 getting bumped to November. As such, I’ve given our mega list of all the new PC game release dates for 2020 another good old-fashioned tidy-up, adding in all the new PC games announced during EA Play and the Guerrilla Collective and pushing those all-important delays back to the right dates. There will no doubt be more changes to come next month once Ubisoft and Microsoft hold their respective notE3 events, but for now here are all the confirmed new PC game release dates for the rest of the year.
The Acer Predator Z35P currently sits at the top of our list of [cms-block]s for those after a great ultrawide monitor, but in recent weeks and months it’s been pretty darn expensive, often fluctuating between £700 and £800 here in the UK. However, Amazon UK and Ebuyer have both slashed its price to a very tempting £650 right now, which is the cheapest this monitor’s been since Black Friday last November, where it dropped to an all-time low of £550. If you’ve been itching for a fantastic ultrawide monitor, now is a great time to take the plunge.
I never got SpongeBob Squarepants. When he was in his pomp, I was in that awkward pre-teen phase where I thought I was too old to just enjoy it as a cartoon, but not quite old enough to be part of the older folk that watched. Because of that, I never played Battle For Bikini Bottom when it first launched in 2003. I have a vague memory of it coming out, but it just looked like your bog-standard, middle-of-the-road, collect-a-thon 3D platformer to me. And, for the most part, it is.
Most roleplaying games span continents, planets, even galaxies. Persona 4 Golden – the first of Atlus’s celebrated RPGs to make a belated landfall on PC – is set almost entirely inside a single town. It’s not even a very memorable town: neither a wistful Chosen One Village nor a bustling world hub, but a wilting suburb done up in Google Map shades of tarmac and drizzle, full of collapsing businesses, bitter old people and bored children.
Christ, I’m not sure what to make of Griftlands. At first I was close to adoration. It’s an unusually story-focused deckbuilding roguelike – and it’s from Klei, of Oxygen Not Included and Don’t Starve fame. That sounded wild to me even before I learnt that it’s about moseying around as a bounty hunter in an alien city, doing odd jobs for the locals and building up a network of friends and enemies as you work towards pulling off one last big gig. Parts of it are very impressive, and those parts are very impressively tied together. Decisions constantly come back to haunt you in ways that feel seamless.
Thing is, it gets flabby, and the parts where you’re actually playing cards just aren’t that great.
We’ve compiled a list of the absolute best Minecraft shaders for 1.15.2, so you can find exactly the right fit for you. We run the gamut between highly performant, lightweight shaders and glorious trundling behemoths that require beastly rigs to even contemplate using. But all the below shaders are guaranteed to make your Minecraft world look more fantastic than any resource pack could ever make it.
is a very difficult tactical game about managing a mercenary company.
So of course I hired the beggars. I hired the “cripples”, the falsely accused servants, and the oddballs. I gave them decent food and a place to belong. Sure they’d all die horribly, etched with debilitating and ever-mounting physical and emotional scars, mangled and torn by blades and bludgeons, screaming themselves awake from the horror of killing for a living. But until then they were heroes.
Crap heroes, for the most part, admittedly. But still.
Spanish video game development conference Gamelab starts today and, like everything else, it’s gone online-only. Good news: you now don’t need to go all the way to Barcelona to see talks and chats with folks including Cyberpunk tabletop RPG creator Mike Pondsmith, sweet Ken Levine, Xbox boss Phil Spencer, and Magic: The Gathering lead designer Mark Rosewater. Even our own Matthew is there, talking with some Id bods about Doom Eternal. Free to watch, Gamelab runs Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and does have some interesting-sounding sessions.
