Another Horizon: Zero Dawn patch arrived today, promising to fix yet more bugs that caused crashes. Horizon is such a lovely game that it’s a shame the launch was marred for some by technical issues, especially considering this was Sony’s first experiment in releasing PlayStation exclusives on PC. Fingers crossed that this patch lets more folks simply enjoy scampering about hunting robodinosaurs.

I do have a wild dream that Sony’s PlayStation 5 showcase stream tonight will also talk about bringing more games to PC. It won’t, but I want to believe. God, I yearn for Yharnam.

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I don’t like spiders. Ever since I watched a documentary on TV about the leggy nasties lurking in the rainforest when I was but a high-pitched, impressionable Ed, I’ve become one of those people who scrambles for a paper and cup when a spider’s lurking about. So yes, arachnids raise my blood pressure. Every now and again I consider getting one of those cowardly spider catcher sticks, those hairy tweezers that allow you to pluck spiders from afar and deposit them elsewhere.

Kill It With Fire actually came out a couple of weeks ago, but it’s one of a bunch of games that publisher tinyBuild brought to showcase at PAX X EGX, and I decided to push my personal limits by playing it. I was surprised to find my time with Kill It With Fire quite liberating, albeit worryingly so. I wasn’t afraid of the spiders at all. Instead I’d become a virtual eradicator of the eight legged kind. Cold, ruthless, a bit Terminator. And I kind of – who am I kidding? I enjoyed it immensely.

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Turkeys are the most basic mount available in Spelunky 2. They’ll be kicking about in the dungeons from world 1, and have a series of handy uses. From increasing your health and double jumping to taking a bullet secret-service style, these poultry pals will be extremely handy early on in the game.

You can also gift them to Yang, an NPC who exchanges fancy treasure for turkeys. No idea what he does with them but hey, loot is loot.

Here’s what you need to know about turkeys in Spelunky 2, and how to tame and use them to your advantage.

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Spelunky 2’s shortcuts offer you the opportunity to skip through levels if you complete them enough. This is done by meeting Terra, who’ll be there and waiting for you once you’ve beaten a world.

You’ll need to fulfil certain requirements to unlock the shortcuts though – here’s what you need to hold onto.

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Valorant

can be a pretty tense game. Not that that’s a bad thing – the tension in competitive games is what brings most of the excitement, but it usually comes hand in hand with a fair amount of stress. Now, Riot’s tactical FPS has already got a couple of slightly less competitive modes if you aren’t feeling up to a full match, but it would still be nice if there were more options for those of us who fancy a more chilled out Valo experience.

It’s a good thing, then, that game director Joe Ziegler says they’d like to add in some modes where players can have a bit of “social downtime”.

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Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 comes out tomorrow, and reviews are starting to hit the internet. Ours isn’t quite ready yet – it still needs a little more time in the benchmarking oven – but so far the praise has all been very glowing. And why wouldn’t it? When your initial pitch is twice the performance of the RTX 2080 for the same amount of money, it’s effectively a slam dunk for Nvidia’s PR and marketing teams.

And yes, I’m sure the whole 2% of Steam users who actually own 4K displays are well up for the RTX 3080. But what about the folk who already own an RTX card? I’d be feeling pretty annoyed if I’d spent £700-odd on an RTX 2080 card in the last year or so only for this to come along now, and I feel particularly bad for the people who bought RTX 2080 Tis, whose £1000 / $1000+ graphics cards are soon going to be shown up by the RTX 3070 when it launches for literally half that amount next month.

So, RPS asks: are all these RTX 3080 reviews giving you buyer’s remorse?

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Crytek have released a new 8K tech trailer for Crysis Remastered, comparing the game’s 2007 visuals with all of its new graphical bells and whistles at a whopping 7680×4320 resolution. It’s effectively a fuller version of the tech preview trailer they showed off last month, giving us a closer look at their software-driven ray tracing effects, pretty real-time reflections and its aptly-named “Can It Run Crysis?” 8K graphics setting.

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Razer, the hardware company known for keyboards and mice lit up like Borg Cubes, have accidentally exposed personal information for an estimated 100,000 customers. Names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, billing addresses, shipping addresses, and details on what people bought were all leaked, in a way that even search engines picked up. That’s bad. Credit card numbers and account passwords were thankfully kept safe, but the information that did leak can still be used for a lot of harm.

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I think that I owe myself an apology. I have always thought that I was no good at these sorts of spatially-based push-em-up puzzles. But A Monster’s Expedition, which is entirely made up of them, has challenged that assumption purely through the power of great teaching. It’s all well and good when these brainteasers are tossed context-free into other games as Pokémon gyms or Professor Layton stepping stones, but they’ve got nothing on A Monster’s Expedition’s gentle coaxing of understanding.

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It’s been five years since Toby Fox graced our lives with Undertale, so let’s watch a concert to celebrate. Streamed last night, Undertale’s Fifth Anniversary concert saw the Music Engine orchestra perform songs from the soundtrack for over two hours, as well as piano performances from Toby Fox himself.

Fox also took the anniversary as an opportunity to provide an update on second chapter of Deltarune, the next part of his quirky, twisty RPG series.

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