Hearthstone Ashes Of Outland guide - all the info you need With an entirely new class coming to the game, the Year of the Phoenix might be the most significant update since the game’s launch. Here’s a rundown on all the new stuff. Contents When does Ashes Of Outland release? Demon Hunter - new class Returning player bonuses Leeroy Jenkins is going to the Hall Of Fame The Priest class is changing New ranked system...

Less usual is how you get to play as either the goodies or the baddies, who are intent on waking up “the progenitor of all dragons”. The first mission for team E.V.I.L is free. You’ll be playing as heroes or villains that have cropped up over the past year, using premade decks to biff people in the name of good or evil. I haven’t been playing them but Blizzard assure me I’ll “see more of the side characters (I’ve) grown to love”, “including George and Karl”....

There are lots of novelisations of videogames, but it’s rare for games to be as well-written as Heaven’s Vault, and it’s rare for the novelisations to be written by the same people as the game. Ingold has a great track record, but if you need to know more, Katharine has copies and should have a write-up soon enough. If you haven’t played the games, here’s the publisher’s blurb about the book: If you did love translating the Ancient language in Heaven’s Vault, there’s a bit of that in the novel, too, including “two full-page inscriptions for the reader to translate themselves....

We’ve all been there. Mass Effect 3’s ending was a little, well, you know. We all cope in our own ways, and writing a bit of fanfic to change what happened in your head is a totally valid plan. There he is, getting his hair and makeup done while showing off his blurry bit of reading. Some detectives over at Gamepressure ran Cavill’s pic through Focus Magic - software that handily removes blur from images - and managed to make out words like “Cerberus”, “Reaper”, “Geth” and “Tali’Zorah”....

When you accuse Emma of being the killer, you start by revealing that Emma is not only Alexa’s daughter-in-law, but also her illegitimate niece. Wild. Turns out Emma is the daughter of Montgomery, Alexa’s older brother, who Alexa and Zachary killed 46 years prior. She starts denying it, but 47 smoothly gets her to let him finish. Emma’s mother, a local girl named Jane, was the fiancé of Montgomery when he died....

Don Yates’ house Get to the basement Open the safe Talk to Yates’ wife Mendoza Domestic Disturbance mariticide challenge It’s tough to pull off the first time around, but if you want to eliminate Don Yates without anyone suspecting you, a great way is to get someone else to do the dirty work for you! In Domestic Disturbance, Yates’ own wife kills him. Here’s how. Go to Don Yates’ house This is an easy step if you start at the shrine, but gets a whole lot tougher when you’re entering from a different location....

Although IO say Freelancer mode is “almost ready”, they’re looking to trial it before a wider release. That’s where the closed technical tests come in. The devs will selectively contact a small batch of players on Steam to invite them to try out Freelancer ahead of launch. That almost sounds like something that’d happen to an actual hitman. The closed technical tests will let IO check how much Freelancer stresses the servers, and balance the mode’s economy and XP....

Yet, as the entire mainline series is finally available on PC, Yakuza has become an international hit for Sega, and I’m thrilled that many new converts and some of the most vocal cheerleaders are women. Coming to the latest entry, Yakuza: Like A Dragon (LAD for short), there are a lot of drastic changes to the formula, from new protagonist Ichiban to a turn-based JRPG battle system - but one notable shift is its relationship with women....

Below, we’ll cover everything you need to know to find the Divine Tower of Limgrave in Elden Ring, so that you can unlock the power hidden inside Godrick’s Great Rune. How to find the Divine Tower of Limgrave in Elden Ring To activate Godrick’s Great Rune, you need to find the Divine Tower of Limgrave. To reach the Divine Tower, head back to Castle Stormveil and fast travel to the Liftside Chamber Site of Grace....

How to unlock Barbara’s Hangout Event Barbara’s Hangout Event, Act I: Wellspring of Healing, can be unlocked at Adventure Rank 26. You’ll also have to finish Prologue: Act III - Song of the Dragon and Freedom, which is a part of the Archon Quests. Once you’ve hit the required level and caught up on all your quests, you’ll also need 2 Story Keys, which can be claimed through the Story Quests menu....

Below, you’ll find everything you need to get started with Sea Of Thieves, including the game’s PC requirements and which settings you can turn off to help keep that frame rate hoisted nice and high. After all, as one of the best pirate games on PC, not to mention one of the best PC games to play in ultrawide, it would be a shame not to see this game at its very best....

In this guide, we’ll explain exactly how to level up in Elden Ring. We’ll also cover which attributes are the most important for new players, so that you can get an early advantage during your adventure through the Lands Between. How to level up in Elden Ring To level up in Elden Ring, you first need to trigger a visit from the NPC Melina. We cover this at the start of our Elden Ring walkthrough, but we’ll also briefly explain it below....

This guide will also show you where to find your screenshots once you’ve taken them, and how to upload them so that your friends and other Steam users can admire your Deck photography. Only if you’re in a sharing mood, obviously; there’s nothing stopping you from snapping your Steam Deck games and uploading them privately. How to take screenshots on the Steam Deck Hold down the Steam button, then tap R1....

On top of that, streaming from a PC will help you save on the Deck’s storage space – useful if you’ve yet to pick up one of the best microSD cards for the Steam Deck – and you can even use Remote Play to wrangle the Steam Deck into acting as a controller for your desktop. It’s all worth learning, just as it’s worth knowing how to stream your PC Game Pass games to the Steam Deck....

After feedback from the latest playtest demo for pre-orderers, Amplitude say they have a few areas they want to focus on: “Accessibility, Onboarding, Pacing, Balancing, Diplomacy and AI”. For more info, see their announcement. “It’s been exciting to see the community get their hands on the game during the last few OpenDev sessions, and to hear all the positive (and constructive!) feedback,” studio head Romain de Waubert de Genlis explained....

I had a chance to chat with the devs about Solar Ash, and they told me a bit about why they decided to go for something so different, and about the challenges of making such a speedy character. “We like to say it’s like a mix of Mario Galaxy, meets Shadow Of The Colossus, meets Jet Set Radio. It’s a very different genre to Hyper Light Drifter,” game director Chelsea Hash tells me....

This is how the Sin Collector Colon Repentless starts. I am enjoying it a great deal.

But anyway. ANYWAY. Crusader Kings III is out now, and while it couldn’t possibly incorporate eight years of add-ons, I wanted to see how it compares to vanilla CK2. Does a non-feudal ruler play any differently? Is it possible to thrive outside the default setting of kingly Europe? What’s it like to start out as an obscure chief at the distant edge of the enormous world map? Let’s find out....

Last week, though, I picked up the Switch, saw that Tangle Tower was on sale, and played it through in one go. “This is great!”, I thought, marvelling at how I could play a game while sitting on the sofa, but leaving the TV free for my partner to watch whatever stupid TV show he wanted. I went to look for other cool indie games that might be on sale on the Switch, and that’s when I discovered that the Switch eshop is hot garbage unless you know specifically what you’re looking for....

The IGF has been running for years and does better than most videogame awards at highlighting interesting, exceptional work. As always, this year’s ultimate winners will be selected by a jury of game developers and announced during the Game Developers Conference, which runs March 20th-24th. The awards ceremony is on Wednesday, March 22nd and will also be broadcast on Twitch. Here’s the full list of nominees: Seumas McNally Grand Prize...