places player freedom above nearly everything else, and this freedom most certainly extends to romance opportunities for your protagonist, V. From long-term relationships to one-night stands, our Cyberpunk 2077 romance guide will walk you through how romance works in CD Projekt Red’s enormously ambitious RPG, and which characters can be romanced.
I feel like sometimes I get lost in chasing the new, shiny, high-tech offerings in gaming. This world is larger than ever, you can see individual snowflakes on Sad-Dad’s face, what about this many frames. Every now and then it takes a game like Ding Dong XL, so pure in its gaminess, simple in its mechanics, to realise why you bother playing games in the first place.
Managed to snag yourself one of those fancy new Nvidia 30-series cards? Looking for something to really put it through its paces? Well, lucky for you, graphical powerhouse Minecraft has finally taken its RTX ray-tracing support out of open beta. Now, anyone and everyone can give the block-busting builder a ridiculously shiny makeover, assuming their PC is packing the power to run it.
Now that Iron Lad, The Cap’n and all the other big-name members of Marvel’s Avengers have gotten settled in with each other, it’s time to add a new character to the mix-up. Crystal Dynamics’ first post-launch hero is Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), not to be confused with Hawkeye (Clint Barton), whose incredible superpower is the ability to lodge a sharp stick between your eyes using nothing but a bigger stick and a piece of string.
‘s a lovely thing, isn’t it? But like any creative sandbox, it’s always that much nicer when you can show off your latest project to your mates. Today’s multiplayer update will let you do more than just flaunt your park-building skills, though, with the free patch letting you jump in with up to seven budding park architects (or Parkitects) to bash together a collaborative carnival all of your own.
Next year, it won’t matter if your mates are playing Destiny 2 on PC, or console, or even (should they so fancy) Google bloody Stadia. Bungie today announced that crossplay is coming to their magical moon-wizard shooter sometime next year, tucking that news away at the end of a new blog post alongside seasonal release dates for returning strikes, raids, and the long-awaited arrival of transmog for the fashion-conscious Guardians out there.
Reviews for Cyberpunk 2077 are here (well not here>, because CD Projekt Red didn’t give us it) and everyone agrees: the game is well buggy. It’s put a bit of a dampener on enthusiasm that’s been building for years. Will this be fixed by the time the game comes out on Thursday and we can all play? Various vague statements from CDPR say they’ve fixed some stuff for a launch patch, but it’s not clear if it’s, like, solid. Ah, maybe I’ll wait before starting.
The Oculus Quest 2 is a great VR headset for anyone looking to dip their toes into virtual reality, but if I had one complaint about Oculus’ standalone headset (apart from the mandatory Facebook account requirement), it would be the uncomfortable little knobbly bits on its elasticated head strap. They’re just too painful to use the Quest 2 for any significant length of time, and they always give me a nasty headache for the rest of the day. Happily, I’ve since discovered that the Quest 2’s Elite Strap accessory eliminates this problem entirely, and is well worth getting if, like me, you want to be able to play Half-Life: Alyx without feeling like you’ve got a real-life head crab hugging your skull.
As you found out last week, we here at Rock Paper Shotgun have launched the RPS Podcast Network (two podcasts definitely means we have a network now). While the Electronic Wireless Show offers you some wonderful takes and japes that centre on one particular topic in video games, The PC Gaming Weekspot is your recap of the last seven days in PC gaming.
is very nearly almost here. But while the marketing train is coming to an end, CD Projekt have one last trailer to show us before we dive into Night City proper with Keanu and the gang. Our (probably) final pre-release short gives us a glimpse at leading lad V’s no-good day in cybertown, waking up in the garbage with a rockstar in his head and a city wot needs burning. Can’t say I’ve had many worse hangovers than that.
