If you’ve been watching your mates play Raji: An Ancient Epic on Switch and feeling a bit jealous, fear not, because it’s out on PC today. Inspired by Indian mythology, it’s an action-adventure game where you set out as Raji on a quest to save your brother Golu from some horrible demon hordes attacking Earth.
remains one of the most demanding games you can play on PC right now, but having taken a closer look at Ubisoft’s recently released PC requirements for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, it looks like Eivor and the rest of their Viking pals will be sticking a much heavier boot into our PC’s performance than even Kassandra’s mighty Spartan kick. In short, they’re proper demanding these Valhalla specs, as what once passed for Ubisoft’s recommended 4K spec in Odyssey is now only suitable for High at 1080p in ye olde England.
Yesterday Nate observed that he is increasingly becoming a single issue voter and that single issue is “beasts”. This week, therefore, the podcast is about the best dinosaur games. There is, of course, some haggling over what constitutes a dinosaur (does it include all birds and some robots?).
Expect a lot of discussion of various incarnations of Jurassic Park, as you might expect. There is also a long tangent at the start about toilets because Matthew signed in to the recording as ‘Toilet Lawyer’, which is probably less expected, and a pretty credible impression of the Queen from Nate. Nate also recommends a bunch of early access or indie games that will be of interest to dinofans, although one of them is “I can’t remember what it’s called.”
After 15 years, Age Of Empires 3 returns today with a shiny new expanded version. Like the AOE 2 Def Ed before it, Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition polishes up Ensemble’s historical real-time strategy game to play nice with modern computers, rolls in all the old expansions, and adds a few new things too. Considering we’ve still not got Nate back from AOE2, I dread to imagine what this might to do him. We’ll find asleep in the RPS treehouse in the morning with a mouse in each hand, two keyboards draped over himself like blankets, and two matches still going.
I’ve not posted about Age Of Empires 2 in a while, because there’s been a lot of other things on, but I’m still plugging away with it – I start each day with a quick random match against the AI to keep my hand in, and once a week or so, I dare to enter the adrenaline-soaked APM hell of ranked multiplayer. I lose more than I win, but I’m slowly getting better. This match made me feel particularly good, and it had the plot of a classic farce (only with war elephants), so it seemed like a good one to relate to you. Get your Knight Vision Goggles on, then, and let’s see how it played out.
Genshin Impact’s gacha system allows you to use ‘wishes’ to unlock new characters and weapons. They don’t come as easy as you may want though, and if you’re after that specific new party member or fancy piece of kit, you’ll want to gacha as many wishes as humanly possible. Here’s how to get more wishes in Genshin Impact.
Primogems are one of Genshin Impact’s most valuable currencies. With them, you can purchase all kinds of things, from wishes to refilling your Original Resin, allowing more rewards to be collected. Here’s how to obtain more Primogems in Genshin Impact.
When Airplane Mode was announced, it seemed a fun joke: sit in a virtual aeroplane seat for the full duration of a simulated flight, trying to entertain yourself by watching films, eating plane food, reading the in-flight magazine, staring out the window, and all that. Upon its launch today, it’s something else too, a weird virtual memory of a journey that’s now wholly out of the question. Context, eh? I am just sorry it’s not arrived under its original name, Flight Simulator, though I can imagine why that might’ve needed to be changed.
Three unions that represent Blizzard employees in France called for a strike yesterday, following Activision Blizzard’s decision to shut their office near Versailles. It’s a move that potentially puts hundreds of jobs at risk. The unions claim the company “repeatedly denied” the closure plans, but suspect they’ve actually been planning it for a while.
“In 15 years, many of us left their homes from across Europe and beyond to join the company, people truly invested their whole lives into Blizzard success,” they said. “This comes as a shock for employees who were not expecting that announcement.”
Sega yesterday announced plans to celebrate their 60th birthday by giving away a number of small retro-y games, including a Streets Of Rage-style demake of Yakuza and the prototype of a cancelled Golden Axe reboot. That last one has turned out to be a big surprise for some of the people who worked on it, who do not have good things to say about their experience of trying to resurrect the side-scrolling fantasy stabber. Not quite the pleasant nostalgic jaunt Sega had hoped for, this.
Update: Sega have responded with a statement saying they didn’t mean to “dredge up painful memories” or “appear disrespectful”, and have changed the Steam description. Read it in full below.>
