Dear Simon, Your Dad sounds like a chap after my own heart. It’s quite possible we were both in the Kerovian Republic at the same time. We might even have shared the same aviodyne gondola or stood atop the same stinking jagiphant carcass! In answer to your birthday present recommendations question, as it happens I have recent play experience of both of the titles you are considering. Steam tells me I played Winter War (£15) for ten hours before putting it aside disappointed.>(more…)
Razer’s super thin Blade laptops are often quite a bit more expensive than your typical portable gaming machines, mostly because they’re much slimmer than their chonky competition, but also because Razer stuff generally demands a bit of a premium anyway. Thankfully, Amazon have chopped a massive £550 off one of Razer’s Blade 15 laptops from 2019 today, taking this normally £1649 GTX 1660 Ti-powered laptop down to a much more appealing £1099.
Struggling to get started in Factorio?
Have your friends told you time and time again about the joys of building factories, but you find yourself completely lost when it comes to starting your own? Or perhaps you just want a few pointers on how you can get set up even quicker in your next world?
Whichever of the above, this Factorio early game walkthrough is here to help. I’ll take you along for the ride as I play through my first hour or so of a new Factorio world; and in that time, I’ll show you how to be productive with your first steps, so you can create a solid foundation which you can then turn into a glorious, pollution-chugging factory.
will probably be here next month, and it’s still unclear where it will land on the critical issue of a level cap.
Developers Larian previously stated in a Reddit AMA that their upcoming sequel will cover levels one to ten, but in our recent interview, lead systems designer Nick Pechenin said that this isn’t certain, as they’re still weighing it up.
Vikings are cowards. Same goes for knights and samurai. If you’re a competent fighter in For Honor, then you might have clocked that defensive moves often beat out aggressive ones. Right now you can merrily block away until your opponent exhausts themselves, then go at ’em as they wheeze. This may have had something to do with my skill level, but counter-attacks seem a tad over-strong, too.
Great news! All of that will be worse soon! The upcoming Core Combat update revolves around emboldening players, introducing a load of tweaks that incentivise aggression. It’s not out ’til August 6th, but come watch this vid and and do some thinking about swords with me.
At a specific point in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you’ll come across a nasty group of people that call themselves the Cult of Kosmos. Their collective goal is to bend the world to their whims by prolonging the Peloponnesian war, terrorising the local populace, and causing widespread chaos.
Assassinating them all becomes one of Alexios or Kassandra’s main focuses of their odyssey. To work out who the major players are and where to find them, you need to kill their subordinates and gather clues that lead you to the sages, and their leader.
Rejoice, people who like hugely popular farming life-sim games and things they can hold and put on shelves: Stardew Valley is getting a physical PC edition, at last! After four entire years since release! And the goodies it comes with are pretty special, too.
When I reviewed all the major cloud gaming services earlier in the year, one of my biggest frustrations with Nvidia’s GeForce Now platform was that it was a real faff to work out what you could actually play on it. Thankfully, Nvidia have finally rectified this issue by introducing a new feature that lets you sync your Steam library to your GeForce Now account, making it much easier to see which of your many hundreds of games are actually supported by the streaming service.
It’s just getting silly now, isn’t it? Not content with giving us the best of Paradox and an indie pick ‘n’ mix courtesy of Raw Fury, those bundle fiends at Humble have arguably come up with one of their best bundles yet in the form of their new Double Fine 20th Anniversary celebration. For just £7 / $9, you can get 23 games from the publisher’s extensive back catalogue, including Psychonauts (for 79p / $1, no less!), Broken Age, Brutal Legend, Gnog, Rad, Everything, Gang Beasts, Kids… The list goes on. Here’s how it works.
