Our Ooblets locations guide has all of the Ooblets we’ve found so far in the game and how to encounter them. It will also have all of the items required to initiate a dance battle and everything you need to know about the elusive “gleamy” Ooblets. Ooblets locations How to get gleamy Ooblets How to fight Ooblets in dance battles Ooblets locations Ooblets are most commonly found in Badgetown. They do not evolve, but they do get bigger as their levels increase....

The Lunar New Year-themed content will have us exercising our culinary muscles in five new kitchens, dodging a Chinese dragon that looks like he accidentally wandered in from a local parade. In Overcooked 2 you work alone or with up to four people in co-op to cook and serve food in increasingly chaotic kitchens. It’s a great way to make and break friendships, and as Jay describes in her Overcooked 2 review, it’s “fast-paced, hilarious, and just the right amount of stressful....

The issue is that there’s a difference between a player’s rank - the public tiers that rate players from Bronze to Grand Master - and the hidden rating actually used in matchmaking. The result is that players are regularly matchmade with other players who appear to be much higher or lower ranked, even if their actual skill level makes them comparable. “The new Ranked mode suffered from poor comprehension,” says a new blog post by Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller....

Clearly, there was a time where I adored Overwatch, though. A time when I’d grind solo-queue most evenings until 3am, in a bid to climb the ranks ever higher. To what end? My own personal satisfaction, I suppose. I’d eventually hit Master (let me brag just once, okay) and then a few months later, I applied for a job at Gamer Network writing guides about Overwatch’s intricacies. I moved to Brighton for my first proper job....

“At the start of the season the team and the organization’s spirits were at an all-time high,” they wrote. “The team was ready to avenge their Grand Finals loss and contend once again for an Overwatch League championship.” As the coronavirus situation worsened, however, rather than keep the Titans in their training facility in Vancouver, they were sent back home to South Korea to be with their families. From then, the plan was to get them to play in the Asian division, but it appears that led to even more problems....

This update was supposed to also to introduce a Mac version of Path Of Exile, though that has been slightly delayed by last-minute technical problems. As the video and expansion page explain, players will buy their way into the Rogue Harbour, a heisthub where you’ll set about recruiting NPCs, doing jobs, and training up your crew and acquiring info to ultimately pull a Grand Heist. Crew members have classic heist skills like lockpicking, dancing through lasers, and brute strength that can all help in a job....

As you’d expect, Katharine and I were keen to try out this year’s selection for ourselves, gravitating towards the booth whenever we had a spare moment. What we found were 12 unique titles that ranged from heavy metal deckbuilding roguelites to cyberpunk samurai sidescrollers. No matter your interests, there was something here for everyone to enjoy. In the video above we run through every game included as part of this year’s showcase, letting you know why each of these upcoming releases deserves to be on your radar....

Here’s the 1.0 release date trailer: If you don’t know it: Phantom Brigade is a tactical RPG in which you travel a dynamic campaign map and deploy squads of mechs into battle. Combat is a mixture of turn-based and real-time, with move-and-shoot commands carried out simultaneously, Frozen Synapse-style. Once you’re done stomping through cities ands suburbs to wipe out your opponent, you retire to your base - which is a big train - for repairs and re-tooling....

The new medium-sized map is Maple Lodge Campsite, home to tents, picnic sites, a log cabin, and a haunted lake. Developers Kinetic Games boast/haunt that it has “more unique objects, higher object density and more visual detail” compared to other maps, which might cause problems for really slow computer (though they say it should be fine if you’re at minimum spec). They plan to refresh other maps with “more detail and more unique objects at a later date”....

Get the Ryzen 5 5500 - £98 w/ shipping (was £107) The Ryzen 5 5500 is also a cracking CPU, offering solid single-core speeds, a six-core 12-thread design and modest power consumption. And best of all, it’s compatible with a wide range of cheap AM4 motherboards and DDR4 RAM, making it a very inexpensive way to build a new system. The Ryzen 5 5500 comes with a stock CPU cooler, the AMD Wraith Stealth, which is perfectly adequate for a 65W CPU like this one - it should keep things cool, even if it’s a tad noisier than third-party alternatives with more complex designs....

Back in January, Ndemic found an unexpected upside to the growing pandemic. As it happened, the outbreak was causing sales of the viral simulation to skyrocket on Steam, to the point that developers had to warn players against using the game as a “scientific model”. While it’s not clear if this was the cause, Plague Inc would even find itself removed from sale in China in March. The Cure is still a game, of course....

Platinum first announced Sol Cresta in a video on April 1st, 2020, then turned and said it was a joke. Now they’ve announced Sol Cresta again, and this time it looks more real? Backing it up is the fact that Hamster apparently trademarked Sol Cresta in February. Platinum’s website talks about introducing “the Neo-Classic Arcade Series”. Sol Cresta is apparently/supposedly/maybe launching this year for PC via Steam, as well as PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch....

In a recent interview with Marketplace, Josué Cardona, the president of the Association For Play Therapy, spoke about how these popular video games can help with talking about problems. “They want to keep coming because you’re willing to not only talk to them about Minecraft, but also play the game in session. It’s definitely opened a lot of doors for a lot of families to come into the mental health space....

Meanwhile, I sit quietly in chat. Sure, murder is very exciting, but my mind is elsewhere, on the oh-so-satisfying rewiring that needs doing. It’s not that I don’t feel the tension, I do! Among Us is one of those rare multiplayer games where I find it’s more fun being an innocent member of the crew, a hunk of meat waddling around a space facility than an apex predator with all the power....

The download comes to a grand total of 42.80GB, so it’s one you’ll want to get going before the big day arrives. To do so: open the Battle.net launcher, select Call Of Duty: BOCW from the panel on the left, close any pre-order pop-up ads you might see, click Install, point it to a folder, then select Confirm Install. While there’s been no official word on a start time, going by the pre-order betas which started at 6pm BST (10am Pacific), I can only assume it’ll be the same on Saturday....

Here are games about growth for your new decade. Endless Scroll from Cecile Richard When I was in high school (back in my day!) it was AIM – AOL Instant Messenger – that kept the teens in communication. Late nights talking online, the sound of a creaking door to signal that a friend was available to chat, and lyrics-as-away messages were de rigueur. I don’t use AIM to keep in touch with folks anymore (I wonder what happened to all those chat logs?...

Below, we’ll cover everything you need to know to find gas in Project Zomboid, including how to siphon gas from other cars and how to use a fuel pump. How to find gas in Project Zomboid There are two ways to find gas for your car in Project Zomboid: Siphon gas from another car Find and use a functional fuel pump We’ll go into detail on both of these methods below, explaining everything you need to know to find plenty of gas for your car....

If you’re looking for new gear, you’ll be able to find the MG3 light machine gun in care packages on all maps and the Decoy Grenade as a rare spawn on Sanhok. The Decoy Grenade sounds like a particularly sneaky tool in the right hands. It emits gunshot sounds for ten seconds with shell casings to really sell the effect. It can be used as sound cover to hide your movements from someone lurking nearby but it can also be a psychological weapon I imagine....

The new game mode, “Nest Destruction”, starts today and ends Aug. 24. Attackers will try to reclaim the Consulate map from the “chimera parasites” of extraction. The aliens have no weapons, but they have higher health and are much speedier than the standard operators. They basically run and flail as they try to protect their nests. Ubisoft are really enjoying asset mashing these days, eh? Getting their operators to cosplay as aliens is actually a smart way to take the current assets and make something new with them....