The End event began at the small fort built over the past week by Pleasant Park and, as players arrived, they were greeted by the welcome sight of the friendly Blue Cube teleporting into the location too. It was here players would make their last stand against the Cube Queen, head of the alien race which has now plagued Fortnite’s reality for several seasons. Maybe, with the Blue Cube on side, she could be defeated?...
Torchlight, if you’re unfamiliar, was originally the work of now-defunct developer Runic Games, which made two games in the series before its closure in 2017 - the sequel delivering a critically acclaimed chunk of captivating dungeon-crawling and class-based hack-and-slash action. Having disbanded Runic, publisher Perfect World then revived the series just nine months later, handing the reins to developer Echtra Games for 2020’s Torchlight 3. Interestingly, this third outing was initially planned to be a free-to-play title before Perfect World eventually capitulated after a bit of an outcry - but now, following Torchlight 3’s less-than-stellar reception, those free-to-play plans are back for Torchlight: Infinite....
Frostpunk 2 is the first of three current in-house projects to be formally revealed by 11-Bit Studios, and given the success of the first game, perhaps this one doesn’t come as much of a surprise. A brief announcement trailer has been released, showing that the world of Frostpunk has moved on from coal to oil - although it looks just as brutal as before. “In Frostpunk’s successor, players are once again tasked with playing as the leader of a resource-hungry metropolis where the expansion and search for new sources of power is an unavoidable reality....
To take the edge off just a little bit, here’s a quick list of some of our favourite chilly video games. But what makes the ascent so memorably frosty is how, the higher you climb, the atmosphere around you changes, as I suppose it does when you climb a massive mountain in real-life. It doesn’t require an oxygen tank but the wind noticeably picks up and you effectively end up battling against a raging blizzard....
Disney Dreamlight Valley primarily takes place in a cluster of biomes you gradually unlock and tame to your liking, eventually turning each land into a fitting home for the many Disney and Pixar characters you befriend. In the centre of all this sits the game’s castle - a mash-up of the iconic Disneyland centrepiece with the hub experience found in Princess Peach’s home from Mario 64. Inside this castle you’ll find dozens of portal doors leading to each of the Disney and Pixar characters’ worlds, albeit with just a slice of each available to visit - a busy kitchen from Ratatouille, Bonnie’s bedroom from Toy Story 3, the enchanted forest from Frozen 2....
One new character in the 2.8 patch has been hinted at very heavily by social media marketing, but nothing else has been teased or announced, leading to a lot of speculation over potential leaks. We’ll cover the exact Genshin Impact 2.8 livestream date and time below, and also provide all the information we know about upcoming Banners and their characters from official sources and reliable leakers. On this page:...
If you’ve been looking for new games to play but are on a budget, then the latest Humble Bundle offers some amazing value and a variety of games with it. For just £9.19 you can get 12 games which include We Happy Few, Super Meat Boy, and Pine, and you’ll be supporting the charity JDRF who are the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. You have to pay £9....
Gran Turismo 7 looks absolutely stunning, and will of course look the best on the PS5 as the improved hardware will be able to put the game to the limit. If you really want to get immersed in the GT7 experience, you would be best off using a driving wheel and pedals to play the game, and you can get them included as a bundle at Currys right now....
There’s much to discuss here, so where to begin? My first contact with a PC game usually starts with the user interface and God of War holds up well here. The menus are simple, easily navigable, not overly nested, and work well with both mouse/keyboard and a controller. Various aspect ratios such as 16:10 and 21:9 are supported out of the box and the visual options are numerous and genuinely meaningful....
Finding these unique pieces of street art in Gotham Knights will see you travelling the length and breadth of Gotham City as you investigate the different districts. Below we cover where to find all 12 street art locations in Gotham Knights, so you can complete your collection. On this page: Explainers: Street Art locations: When you find one, you need to use AR to scan the mural, which will both add it to your collection and provide you with some interesting information about the painting....
The audio on offer here is well-balanced and warm, with good clarity and imaging, although the main draw of the Pulse 3D actually lies within the name of the product - the powers of its 3D Audio. This is something introduced with the PS5 as a form of spatial audio to offer a more immersive and realistic sound. This is available on a wide range of DF-recommended PS5 headsets, but you can tell that the feature was designed with this headset in mind....
Against all that, GTA5 itself - the base game, its story of post-financial crisis American impotence and ennui, and its peevish, sporadically offensive world - seems oddly static, a stoically flash-frozen slice of time, pickled and jarred and perfectly preserved, waiting for you to return. The temptation, justifiably, is to look at GTA5’s dated, equal-opportunity-roasting approach to humour, the uniquely teenage smugness and simplicity of its worldview - the kind we all probably had at some point, where everyone but you’s a fool or a sheep, especially your parents, your teachers, the politicians, the cops - and reduce the entire game to just that....
Let’s be clear - Gunvein is very much a purebred bullet hell shooter. From the first stage it rarely lets up, bringing an intensity that is evocative of some of the genre’s most demanding works. This is a title openly informed by Cave heavyweights such as Ketsui and DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou; releases where the bullet barrage infrequently quietens between opening frame and final boss form. And yet Gunvein has something of a knack for bringing out the best in your play....
The free event allows you to unlock the Eaglestrike armor and other items over the course of Season 2 by completing Land Grab challenges. Similar to the ‘main’ Halo Infinite battle pass, there is a Fracture Entrenched pass which requires you to unlock a number of tiers in order to get and customise the Eaglestrike armor - however, you only have brief, select periods of time during the season to do so....
The announcement was made during yesterday’s AMD Presents:together we advance_gaming livestream, in which the next generation of AMD GPUs was revealed. The news was dropped by Scott Herkelman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’S Graphics Business Unit. “Halo Infinite will support ray traced shadows across Arena and Big Team Battle Modes,” Herkelman said. Those with one of the newly announced RX 7000 series GPUs can also expect to see “improved lighting, sharper shadows, and increased performance” with ray tracing acceleration....
Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question. If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you’ll break your streak - which is why discovering today’s Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others....
Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question. If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you’ll break your streak - which is why discovering today’s Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others....
Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question. If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you’ll break your streak - which is why discovering today’s Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others....
Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question. If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you’ll break your streak - which is why discovering today’s Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others....
Creating games that are accessible to blind players often requires developers to work their way from the ground up, as with The Last of Us Part 2, or build upon what they have already created, in the way that Sea of Thieves handled its accessibility options. Sometimes, however, players take matters into their own hands. This is the story of Hearthstone Access, the community around it and how it was brought into existence by the work of just one individual, known only as GuideDev....
