Caustic has always been a terror to play against in Apex Legends, particularly in indoor spaces thanks to his deadly Nox Gas Traps. But follow our Apex Legends Caustic guide and the tips and tricks within, and you’ll find that he can be a menace anywhere on the battlefield. Learn how to use his abilities to swing an unwinnable encounter in your favour as the Toxic Trapper.
2020 has been a good year for visual novels set in coffee shops and cafes. The excellent and stylish Necrobarista immediately springs to mind, but despite its name (and being set in arguably the best coffee shop in all of video games), it doesn’t actually involve making a single drink. Coffee Talk, on the other hand, is all about the ins and outs of the barista experience, and it’s one of the loveliest and most chilled visual novels I’ve played all year.
They said it couldn’t be done. They said it shouldn’t> be done. But finally, Satisfactory‘s pipes are finally out of the, well, pipeline. After months of pretending otherwise (and a short period on the game’s experimental branch), the 3D factory builder’s long-awaited fluid system has finally arrived, letting you pump all sorts of liquidy nonsense around your contraption without splashing them inefficiently over conveyor belts.
In case you weren’t aware, I’ve started a brand new Dwarf Fortress diary series, which I kicked off with a fortress-founding video featuring Tarn Adams, the game’s lovable dad. This series concerns the fortress of Inkrose: a settlement founded by seven religious fanatics, intent on living by a set of incredibly impractical commandments which I sourced from the capricious dwellers of the Kitfox Dwarf Fortress Discord server. At the end of our first episode, we left our dwarves living in a hovel with no doors, a pitiful pile of weeds to feed themselves with, and seven boisterous, holy beak dogs circling them with ever-more-menacing playfulness.
Without spoiling anything, I can tell you that things get… quite interesting from here. But before we move on to that, I want to do something I always regretted not doing with the Basement of Curiosity, which is provide you with a proper profile for each and every founding dwarf. Come on in, there’s pictures and everything.
Crucial’s excellent MX500 SSD has enjoyed some great deals in the UK in recent weeks, but now it’s finally the turn of our pals in the US to snap up this brilliant SATA drive on the cheap. The 1TB model is down to just $92 over at Amazon US today, matching its Lightning Deal Prime Day price. Hurry, though, the deal only lasts until midnight tonight.
Plastic instruments and rock music is out, readers. It’s all about mash-ups now, and while we don’t all have the patience to actually go off and learn audio engineering, the Rock Band and Dance Central buffs at Harmonix are re-mixing things up with their new game, Fuser. The studio’s new act takes the stage today, with over 100 bangers on the shelf ready for you and your friends to slam together in a do-it-yourself desktop concert.
As I mentioned in my Roccat Vulcan Pro TKL review the other week, I’m a big fan of compact gaming keyboards. I rarely use the number pad that takes up so much room on full-sized keyboards, and I like the extra desk space tenkeyless ones bring with them by chopping it off. Go too small, however, and it starts to become less practical for everything else, as I found with the 60% HyperX x Ducky One 2 Mini. I can happily ditch a keyboard’s number pad, but I cannot abide losing my beloved arrow keys as well.
The new Fnatic Streak65 strikes this balance perfectly. As its name implies, this 65% gaming keyboard is a fraction larger than the HyperX x Ducky One 2 Mini, and that extra 5% makes all the difference. As well as providing enough space for those all-important arrow keys, you also get another four programmable macro keys that double up as your traditional Del, Ins and Pg Up and Down functions. It’s the best of both worlds, giving you an ultra-compact frame without compromising on practicality, and it’s another brilliant addition to Fnatic’s top-notch Streak family.
Would you pay a monthly subscription to get extra goodies in Fortnite? It looks as though Epic Games are trying to find out. A number of players have received surveys asking about their opinions on a potential monthly subscription for the game, and what they think it should include. These surveys come with little mockups of what Epic could offer players on a monthly basis, with prices ranging from $13.99 to $18.99 – the upper end of which would be over $200 a year. Now that’s a lot of money to spend on Fortnite.
In the dying days of Destiny 2‘s latest season, I blew my last shot at its coolest reward by blowing my own face off like a scrub. It’s not a fancy gun or hat that’s so coveted, simply a decoration for your menus. If you dove into the neon tunnels and metaphysical deserts of the Prophecy dungeon and completed the three-player challenge by yourself without dying, you too could claim an emblem with rad-as-hell pink and blue geometric swirls. But Prophecy is going away for a bit with the launch of Destiny’s new expansion today and, welp, I just had to go and use The Mountaintop when I was so close.
The early [cms-block] deals continue apace this week, and those looking to get one of Nvidia’s officially certified [cms-block] with a 2560×1440 resolution and 144Hz refresh rate on the cheap should definitely turn their attention to Currys PC World right now, where they’ve slashed £100 off LG’s well-regarded UltraGear 27GL850-B display. A favourite of our friends over at Digital Foundry, this monitor has been out of stock over on Amazon for absolutely ages, and has historically cost at least £480 or more for most of the year. As a result, today’s price of just £339 is a right old steal for a monitor of this calibre, and is well worth snapping up if you’re in need of a new gaming screen.