“Experience an immersive single-player campaign. As a traveler from another world, you will embark on a journey to reunite with your long-lost sibling and unravel the mysteries of Teyvat, and yourself,” the developers Mihoyo say. “Not just another mindless hack and slash. Manipulating the various elements is the key to defeating powerful enemies and solving challenging puzzles.” You can fly, swim, and climb around the world solo or choose to bring friends along in co-op for up to four players, which is exactly why a pal asked me several weeks ago if I’d heard anything about it....

Stardock have changed victory conditions to make the late game less of a foregone conclusion, with Galactic Achievements challenges that earn prestige points necessary for a win, to cut down on grinding and put the emphasis back on story. Citizens, introduced in Galactic Civilizations 3, are also being buffed up with their own approval ratings and can even secede to form their own rival empires if they hate you enough....

Unless you’re in one of those international versions of Big Brother that are still going on, you’ve probably noticed that we’re in the midst of a pandemic of something called the Covid-19 virus. I can tell it’s serious because my dad’s American girlfriend isn’t allowed to visit him, which means he’s bored and phoning me in the middle of the day. Haha, I joke. But he is 70, and has a weak heart, plus he’s immunocompromised on account of catching Lyme disease from a tick once (which is exactly the sort of ridiculous thing that only happens to country dads)....

Get the S70 Blade 1TB for £139 w/ 21% voucher (was £176) So why is the S70 Blade worth getting in the first place? Well, I reckon it’s one of the very fastest SSDs available, alongside the Crucial P5 Plus, Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850. However, all of these either don’t come with a heatsink or cost extra when they come with a heatsink; the S70 Blade just straight up comes with an optional heatsink you can use in the PS5 or most PCs, or leave out if your motherboard or laptop can’t accommodate it....

Get the LG 27GP850 for £200 with code HAVE20 (refurbished, was £250) The seller has a feedback rating of 99.8% positive, and promises ‘fully working’ models with the original box, cables and accessories, just sans serial numbers - so you likely won’t be able to make warranty claims, which is a challenge with used items anyway. Returns are accepted within 14 days, which is nice to see too. Regardless of whether you’re looking at new or refurb models, the 27GP850 and its predecessors remain competitive with the best gaming monitors....

Ghost Recon Breakpoint weapon blueprints and attachments guide Our Ghost Recon Breakpoint weapon blueprints and attachments guide has the blueprint locations and the steps you need to take in order to unlock attachments and weapon blueprints. Contents Intel explained Ghost Recon Breakpoint weapon blueprints and attachments Ghost Recon Breakpoint weapon blueprint locations Weapon blueprints Class unlocks Signature weapons Faction blueprint rewards Behemoth Defence areas Ghost Recon Breakpoint attachment locations Behemoth Defence areas Miscellaneous item locations How to equip attachments in Ghost Recon Breakpoint How to use weapon blueprints in Ghost Recon Breakpoint...

I feel I say this twice a week, but grappling hooks really are the best things in video games, and gibbons are basically nature’s grapple hookers. Their long arms are just short grappling hooks. Described as a “hand-drawn ecological adventure,” Gibbon: Beyond The Trees tells an hour-long story that moves from jungles to cities and incorporates issues such as deforestation, poaching and climate change. The core of the experience is mastering its movement system, whereby you swing from branches to build momentum and can perform special moves like swinging from other gibbon’s in mid-air....

Developer: Sbug Games Publisher: Sbug Games Release: Out now From: Steam, GOG, Humble Price: £7/€8/$10 Playing Webbed seemed inevitable for someone who watches her ceiling spiders when she can’t sleep or finish an article. But within about a minute of playing, it became clear that it’s the kind of game that will bring joy to almost anyone. Webbed is immediately brilliant. I instantly fell for its introduction, as I rapidly learned to make my wee jumping spider (the only spider that even unfans might admit can be cute) dance, jump, and then swing around like I’ve wanted in a game since spiderman 2, then create little webby bridges I could connect in endless combinations, then effortlessly climb up and along....

The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee has published a rating for a Ubisoft game called “Immortals Fenyx Rising”. One of the few things we do know about the game maybe formerly known as Gods & Monsters is that it will star a customisable character named Fenyx. Ubisoft also previously said that they planned to rename the game prior to showing off more about it this summer. So yup, that certainly seems to track....

Get Kingston Fury Beast 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM for £77 (was £105) So why is 3200MT/s CL16 a sweet spot? Basically, it offers a noticeable performance advantage over the base 2133MHz and 2400MHz DDR4 specs, which were commonplace when this generation of RAM was first introduced, but costs about the same - this is the new ‘base spec’ for 2023. You do see some performance advantages to going for even faster DDR4, but after DDR4-3600 you start seeing diminishing returns, making this 3200MT/s to 3600MT/s window the one you should largely consider....

Here’s a trailer to introduce the update: Jorja seems to be a cosmetic change, and is able to equip any unlocked gear you’ve earned as original playable character, her grandson Jorj. Personally, I will be playing with Jorja from now on. Boss Blitz is a new daily challenge mode with a permanent leaderboard. You have to smash your way through seven-levels of previously defeated bosses without the ability to refill or heal in between....

It turns out, though, that Aspects weren’t originally going to be in the game. One of the game’s developers took to Twitter over the weekend to talk through their development, and even give a little peek at an early iteration of one of the Aspects that didn’t make it to the final game. “In the middle of early access, we were looking for a way to extend the endgame as well as mix up the combat flow a little bit for players who felt like they had already mastered the base weapons,” says Alice L (or “@alonkulous”) at the start of a Twitter thread....

That person, as it happens, was modder AmbientDruth, whos recreation of PT was given airtime by YouTuber William McMahon (cheers, PC Gamer). PT, in case you’re new here, was a notorious “Playable Teaser” from Konami and Hideo Kojima meant to build up a Silent Hill revival that never came. You (or, ideally, some poor fool you got to play it for you) would loop around the same corridor over and over, solving vague puzzles by looking at objects or listening for audio cues while occasionally having the soul scared outta you....

Whether you’re staying in for a quiet one, pelting fun-size chocolate bars from your upstairs window at the neighbour children with vicious force, or you’re having a heavy weekend and will need to recover come Sunday morning, have a look at the Halloween 2021 for some dark delights. Or read on in this article! I myself will not be seeing any Halloween action this year, living as I do on a bit of an out-of-the-way street, and in a third floor flat (the entrance to which is directly opposite a community bin that is currently overflowing)....

Harmony is a cute witch with both a cat and yer traditional wand that’s a stick with a star on the end - the kind of job you could unearth from a regional panto prop basket. The wand’s chief (possibly only) ability is dividing the world into equal square portions and then mixing them up. The wisdom of this is not heavily interrogated, nor does it need to be. When Harmony’s cat runs off with the wand, the pair cause chaos across several different themed areas (sometimes accidentally, but often on purpose) to escape from all the people who are now cross at them....

When Alice Bee demoed Unpacking last year, she said it was “a very satisfying and sweet game of Tetris-with-stuff” that was good enough to make you enjoy moving house. It sounds like quite an intimate thing too. On the website, developers Witch Beam (who previously made Assault Android Cactus) explain there’s sort of a story here, but you’re never explicitly told what it is. As you play, you’ll go through eight house moves learning about a character you never see, purely from the stuff they have and the places they live....

Nevertheless, there are occasions when I find myself tackling just such a challenge. And when I do end up puzzling over whichever Burgerlungs Sir Hammerthingy showed up in, or which one had the big yellow robots, I’ve found a foolproof method of getting to the right answer quickly: I think about what room I was in at the time. It seems bizarre, now, that the original Girderloins came out in 2009....

My memories are hazy, but they radiate a sort of chaotic happiness. This is a game where you drive a wedge of a car at blistering speeds around a racetrack and bash into other cars. As you’d expect, the graphics are old and mushy, but I’m fond of the way rocks resemble golden, crinkled Ferrero Rocher packages and debris chips off bumpers in a way that reminds me of those empty crisp packets folded into triangles you’d find in the hands of that one kid in your class....

Post Void is extremely impressive with how it manages to throw just so much at your face in such a short amount of time as each run takes. I’ve played the first level countless times where it feels like I’ve been on a genuine odyssey. Then I find out after I die that I was alive for less than a minute. It’s the opposite of a game like Loop Hero, where I can sit down, blink, and have time skip forward into the future....

Without giving too much away, When The Past Was Around is quite a sad game. It is also never explained why Owl seems to be the only animal-human hybrid creature in all of creation. In the end, though, I think it’s also a very hopeful and optimistic one, as the puzzles you solve and the time you spend with Owl and Eda are all about luxuriating in the objects, rituals and places two people hold dear together....