“We wholeheartedly believe that Ultimate Team and FUT Packs, which have been part of the game for more than a decade, are a part of FIFA that players love - fans love that the game reflects the real-world excitement and strategy of building and managing a squad. Giving players the choice to spend if they want to is fair,” reads the statement from EA. “It’s worth saying that spending is entirely optional in our game, and we do not encourage spending over earning rewards through game play....

How to activate and use Great Runes with Rune Arcs When you acquire a Great Rune from a boss, it will appear in the Key Items tab of your inventory, uncharged and grey. The item description will list a Divine Tower location, which we’ll detail later. Visit the top of that tower and interact with the Rune there to charge that Great Rune. You will now be able to equip that Great Rune at any site of Grace....

That’s runner “Distortion2”, who has been cutting times massively since breaking the 30-minute mark. The run gets daft from the start, dropping from the starting area down through the world and into Stormveil Castle. A series of glitches rocket the Tarnished across the world to hit Crumbling Farum Azula before even the two-minute mark. And from there, glitches skip actually fighting bosses before a short sprint to the end at 8:57....

Below, we’ll cover everything you need to know about Torrent, including how to summon your horse in Elden Ring, how to heal Torrent, and how to unlock Torrent for those new to the game. It’s a torrent of Torrent information, if you will. How to unlock Torrent in Elden Ring When you first start Elden Ring, you won’t have access to a mount, so you’ll have to do some running around....

It still applies an AA algorithm developed through machine learning, but is intended more for those with one of Nvidia’s best graphics cards: i.e. systems that can already run games at high frame rates without the help of upscaling. Does it work? The comparison video does show one advantage over The Elder Scrolls Online’s alternative TAA option, with less shimmering on objects viewed at a distance. DLAA appears slightly harsher on the frame rate, though, and to my eyes TAA still looks a little sharper in motion....

Odyssey will let players roam around social hubs as well as any old planet, hanging out, doing missions, exploring, scanning things, and shooting faces. You’ll probably need to provide the Bowie soundtrack yourself, though. Resident spaceboy Brendy has played the alpha version. He didn’t think the shooting was very good, and was more interested in having legs to explore than arms to shoot anyway, but did have some good times....

So! The Epic Online Services are now available to everyone in an SDK for free. That’s systems for cross-platform matchmaking, lobbies, friends, leaderboards, analytics, accounts, logins, and more. A bit like Xbox Live or Valve’s Steamworks, but nothing to do with Microsoft or Valve. It’s not only for games using Unreal Engine or the Epic Games Store, mind. They say you can use whichever bits you want, wham it into other game engines like Unity, use it on other stores and platforms like Steam or XBL, use your own account system, and generally go wild....

Now, I’ve never really gotten into intricate conveyor creators like Factorio. Where pals will use Minecraft mods to build valley-spanning alchemy contraptions, the most complication machine I ever made just stuck rocks in the oven until they were smooth. Despite this, Free Lives’ free little trash-hurler has roped me in with some delightfully manageable little supply chains. Created for this month’s Ludum Dare, Everything Is Garbage is very careful to ease you into turning a dump-filled archipelago into an effortless machine....

I’ll not say much, only that this is an excellent example of a type of game I adore. It wants to let you explore somewhere new, feel a big mood, build to a climax, then be done inside ten minutes. It does, and it is. I’ll take a handful of moody little games over one giant sprawling spookfest which drags on and insists upon explicitly answering every question, any day....

In this guide, we’ll explain an easy solution for the FIFA 23 First XI SBC, so that you can open a Rare Players Pack and build an incredible Ultimate Team squad. FIFA 23 First XI SBC requirements The FIFA 23 First XI SBC is part of the Advanced Hybrid Leagues challenge. To complete the First XI SBC, you must build a squad with the following requirements: Your squad must contain players from exactly 11 different leagues....

I had mixed feelings about Fight Crab, in that I thought the concept was both brilliant and perfectly executed, but also that it was a complete nightmare to play, giving me motion sickness to the point where I barked oats onto a tree. I wouldn’t want to change anything about it, but it’s still not something I’d actually like to play a whole bunch. Still, if there’s one thing my opinions are unambiguous on, it’s crabs....

As with the original, Figment 2 is set inside the human noggin. “Nightmares are spreading chaos and enemies have overrun once-peaceful lands,” Bedtime Digital say. “Join Dusty, The Mind’s courage, as you make your way through puzzles, musical boss fights and unique environments.” The prologue is just a short intro to the game, they say, in which you’ll fight against the Black Hog, representing the fear of the dark, in a musical showdown....

Jacobson knows that Football Manager is a large platform and can make a difference. “We want to be a part of the process that puts women’s football on an equal footing with the men’s game,” he said. “We know that we’re not alone in this – the historic TV deal that Sky and the BBC recently agreed with WSL in England is proof of that – but we intend to do everything we can to get women’s football to where it deserves to be....

You can grab the demo from Steam or from Epic. It requires 42GB of disk space. Forspoken has had mixed reviews this week, with critics lampooning its snarky dialogue, lamenting its empty open world, and la-criticising its story for only becoming engaging near its end. It has also become a big ol’ social media dunk célèbre, leading to ‘Mixed’ Steam reviews even though most of the negative opinions are coming from people with 20 minutes of playtime....

“Zero Build is a pure test of weapon, item, and traversal ability,” says Epic’s post about today’s patch. “Zero Build can be found in the Discover page as Solo, Duos, Trios, and Squads playlists.” While it becoming its own named mode suggests ‘Zero Build’ will stick around, it also suggests the old ‘One Or More Build’ mode will return as well. There’s no official word on that, however. The same update brings a handful of other tweaks, including a rocket launcher for targeting vehicles, and the return of two assault rifles that had previously been vaulted aka removed from the game....

“We have been quiet for a while now, and firstly we just want to apologize for that,” starts the post announcing the shut down. “We have an update for Scavengers but it is one that we share with a heavy heart. We have made the difficult decision to shut the game down on December 16, 2022. The last few months have seen a decline in the playerbase, and whilst we explored many options to reinvigorate server population while the game is in early access, it became clear that it was unsustainable to continue development and live service....

He also talks about Half-life: Alyx, his fondness for Doom, and why he can’t stop playing Dota 2. Here’s the full interview with IGN, though I’ve jumped straight to Matrix chat. Newell does qualify his optimism a little. “It’s not going to be The Matrix”, he says: “The Matrix is a movie and it misses all the interesting technical subtleties and just how weird the post-brain-computer interface world is going to be....

According to this year’s GDC survey, many developers personally feel that they’re doing well working from home. A total of 67% of the more than 3,000 developers surveyed feel that their productivity has been the same or better since working remotely. “How do you feel working from home has affected your creativity and/or productivity?” is the specific question from the GDC survey. The proper breakdown on those numbers is: Compared with the GDC survey focused on Covid-19 impacts from last summer, that’s a pretty decent jump in outlook....

It’s apparently inspired by Assault On Dragon Keep, the Borderlands 2 DLC where the Vault Hunters player through Tina’s tabletop RPG campaign of Bunkers & Badasses. But apparently this here is not officially a Borderlands game. “It actually isn’t, it’s its own standalone game,” she said. “People that love Borderlands are going to find lots of elements to love about Wonderlands, but it’s its own thing–Tiny Tina’s got her own thing going on now....

Further down this page, we’ve also put together a complete list of playable character birthdays, so you need never miss a birthday message (and accompanying special gift) from your pals around Teyvat. Yes, in Genshin Impact your friends send you a gift on their birthday. Just go with it. What happens on your birthday in Genshin Impact? On your birthday, a very special item will become available to you - the Cake for Traveller....