The folks behind Scribblenauts have sketched out something a bit different this time around. 5th Cell's new game Castlehold is a competitive strategy game that's just appeared in early access. It's free to play and launched today, so you can jump in and begin scratching your head over its tiny battlefield right now.
Well, here's a nice surprise. Resident Evil Village is getting ray tracing support, AMD announced this evening during their RX 6700 XT reveal event. They only showed off a brief clip of the game's ray tracing in action during their presentation, but from the looks of things we can expect to see beautifully ray traced reflections on its polished mansion floors and maybe some ray traced shadows as well.
The real question, though, is whether the hulking majesty of the game's main villain, the enormous Lady Dimitrescu, will also be treated to some lovely ray traced reflections. After all, big lady vampires aren't meant to have reflections, are they? And if it's not going to give us accurate 9ft 6in reflections of this woman who's taller than an actual ostrich, then really, what is even the point?
Last week, we started our exciting adventure to determine the best thing in video games. Your votes are in and: yes, seeing your legs when you look down in first-person games is officially better than cloud saves. This week, our scientific inquiry continues with a question that's already divided the RPS treehouse. What's better: inventory Tetris, or fishing minigames?
AMD have announced that their nifty Smart Access Memory tech that lets all-AMD PCs get free extra performance is now available on almost all Ryzen 3000 CPUs in addition to their latest Ryzen 5000 chips. AMD say that older Ryzen 3000 CPU owners can now get up to 16% more performance from their PC when paired with one of their new Radeon RX 6000 Big Navi graphics cards - including the newly announced RX 6700 XT - which is definitely a turn up for the books for older CPU owners.
The games groundhog saw his shadow this year, and we all know what that means. There are going to be six more weeks of business season before we can all take off our coats for E3 season. Today's business forecast includes 100% chance of acquisitions. Social games folks Zynga have announced that they've acquired Max Schaefer's Torchlight 3 studio Echtra Games. They'll now be collaborating on an unannounced RPG.
Zynga haven't disclosed the terms of the sale but do let on their plans for Echtra. They'll be working with fellow Zynga studio NaturalMotion on "a new, yet to be announced RPG for cross-platform play."
AMD have just unveiled the next card in their Big Navi RX 6000 family of next-gen graphics cards, the RX 6700 XT. Whether you missed the announcements or just need a refresher of everything that went down, here's everything you need to know about the RX 6700 XT, including when it's coming out, how much it's going to cost and how its specs stack up to Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070.
I respect Outriders, a looter shooter that pushes precisely zero boundaries. In fact, it pushes them backwards. It says, "See all these boundaries?", then points to scuffed copies of Gears Of War for the Xbox 360 and the original Destiny, exclaims "Well get a load of this>!", and slaps the two together.
Having played the demo last night with a couple of friends, I can confirm that I like this reverse direction the devs have taken. I had an okay time. And I was totally okay with that. Not everything needs to be brilliant nowadays, sheesh.
I've been playing a bunch of the new hack and slash roguelike Curse Of The Dead Gods this week, and it's good! It has cool temple exploring, a great Darkest Dungeon-esque aesthetic, and a variety weapons and combos to try out. Except, I haven't really tried out that many, because I've found a favourite and I refuse to put it down. It's a massive electrified hammer which is properly satisfying to whomp enemies with. It makes me feel like Thor, if Thor were a little grunty man running around a cursed temple.
I don't find many CD-Rs in the gutter anymore. Time was, the streets would glitter with home-burned CDs and DVDs that were either lost or thrown away. With the rise of broadband and fall of physical media, now everything's up in a cloud. It is good that we've largely ended one form of litter. But I kinda miss them. For a while, I'd fish these CD-Rs and DVD-Rs out the gutter to see what they held. It wasn't all> porn.
It's the start of a new month, which means I’m back to tell you about ten games you can play over the next four and a half weeks that aren’t Valheim. After initially wrestling with its systems, I started to get why it’s so popular when I built a terrible hovel rustic, ground-floor studio flat.
I’d like to find the hours to do more Vikinging – if only to build a house where the floor isn't grass – but I mightn’t get a chance over the next few weeks. While March is lacking a marquee release, it could prove to be a sleeper month given the amount of decent-looking games on the way.