This guide will show you how to create the best Holly build in Back 4 Blood, so you can dive into a session and start punching, stabbing, and smacking Ridden with your choice of melee weapon. Best Holly build in Back 4 Blood If you like melee weapons, then Holly is your gal. She starts with a baseball bat, which is one of the better melee options, but if you really want to excel, you should try to grab a Machete....

It’s an ingenious system, as you’re not only fighting against the hordes of enemies that appear onscreen, but your own ineptitude. The key to averting your friends’ fates is to collect handfuls of meteor dust, which can extend their life force by 24 hours. These are hidden away in chests around Unsighted’s frequently stunning open-world map and five main dungeons, often requiring some nifty footwork and platform puzzling to reach and unlock....

Considering that Diona dislikes her job and harbours a desire to destroy Mondstadt’s wine industry from the inside (and seemingly doesn’t care if she has to take the local economy down with her to do it), you might be doing everyone a favour by adding her to your adventuring party. Diona is suited to a supporting role, and is particularly useful as a healer, so read on below for everything you need to know about putting together the best build for her....

This guide will show you how to create the best Childe build in Genshin Impact. Below we’ll cover everything you need to know about Childe, including wishing, weapons, artifacts, ascension materials, talents, abilities, and constellations. Best Tartaglia build: Weapons Since Childe is a very versatile character, most bows will work well with his kit. However, if you have either of these 5-star bows on hand, we’d recommend using either Thundering Pulse or Skyward Harp....

Technically, Final Fantasy XIV players can’t actually create their own custom clothing in Square Enix’s mega MMO, but items you craft and sell to other players retain the name of the player who made them. As such, the clothing sold by Sakaguchi will have the “sakaGUCCI” label attached to them - and it’s all thanks to his Lv.90 weaver Lalafell character. I’ve included a couple of my favourite designs below, but there are loads more on Sakaguchi’s Twitter if you want to see the entire collection....

This does actually result in some fairly sensible dicussion of bosses and what we think of them as a concept, which I know will come as a great surprise to you all. We were surprised our own selves. There is, however, a lengthly discussion on the 2010 film Wolfman, and an anecdote about pizza from Matthew. We shall circle back to his opinions on cured meats, never you fear. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts....

Hand Physics Lab is a game recently released on Oculus Quest which has no monsters to caress, but it does have a cat to pet and several mini-games and other toys to tinker with. It looks to have hand physics and finger manipulation that are already more impressive than Half-Life’s, but a recent video of a future update suggests it’s going to be even better soon. And utterly obscene. Here’s the video, which contains nothing but a physically-simulated skeletan hand rubbing and holding inanimate objects such as a cup, a crowbar, and a colourful egg....

Developers Petroglyph have gone for historical accuracy in various ways, senior designer Chris Becker and audio director Frank Klepacki explain to me at a hands-off demo in Cologne. The soundtrack will even include licensed music from the era. But something they want to really hammer home is the brutality of the war: territory won’t be won in heroic pushes but slowly and bloodily, while collapsing morale is as much a danger as any advancing army....

I know, theoretically, that life and Hades are both about the journey, not the destination. But I’m impatient and have places to be. (This is maybe why I relate so much to protagonist Zagreus.) So my early runs were narrow things, focusing only on the weapons and upgrades that I could make work with my slapdash, didn’t-actually-bother-to-learn-the-basics playstyle. In other words I was an absolute stuck-in-the-mud sword devotee, basically refusing to avoid attacks and trying to hoover up as much extra health as possible to luck my way through while waling on enemies from right underneath them....

We start Rollerdrome’s tournament with dual pistols, which are flashy and work well with the cinematic potential of reflex time, the game’s instant slow-mo mode. Later we’re gifted a shotgun, powerful and trustworthy; the shotgun can dispatch all enemies, even stronger types, with a well-timed slug shot. After that, a grenade launcher transported me smoothly back to my noobtoobing days in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Finally we get the almighty z-11, a long-range laser that feels like your typical god-tier weapon you receive towards the end of a game....

“It wasn’t an easy choice to make, but one made due to the Covid-19 situation in Poland, as well as the current schedule of other games on the market,” Bloober Team say. “Bloober Team remains committed to delivering our biggest, most ambitious, fear-inducing experience to date.” They say that the additional time will let them add additional polish to the game. If you’ve not seen Bloober’s next horror game, here’s a trailer showing off its two parallel worlds that’ll have you solving puzzles between them....

So, off we go into this weird nightclub, another place filled with delightful garish bricolage. This time, our covert mission is “inspired by short, punchy, independent zine RPGs,” Cosmo D says, and “evokes the feel of a one-off tabletop session”. And it is an RPG, with seven stats: Athletics, Cooking, Deception, Music, Observation, Wisdom, and Wit. A great selection of stats. We’ll roll dice to use these, and upgrade our skills by upgrading faces of these dice....

“It is your last day, it’s time to clock out and head home. But where is home? What is home? Is someone watching Solo? Get lost in a time-and-mind bending adventure game, set in a dystopian future,” say the creators. The announcement trailer for The Plane Effect is just above and it certainly does have a particular look to it. I assume it will be tough for the low color and low poly aesthetic to dodge inevitable comparissons to the likes of Limbo and Inside, but if it’s anywhere near as unsettling as Playdead’s games, perhaps that’ll work in its favor....

Can you tell what it is yet? Of course you can! It’s Valheim! Ollie: I really didn’t expect to like Valheim. In fact, when I describe my experience playing it to my friends, I always say that never have I done such a 180 on a game. When I first started playing, I could see that it was a survival and crafting game like so many others, and the textures were a bit blurry and the combat was a bit janky, and I couldn’t really see what had captured everyone’s attention....

“With its story set one year before the very first installment, warriors and combatants from various backgrounds and with their own goals are about to battle to fulfill their destinies,” say SNK. The bakers dozen of blade dancers are joined by three characters who are new to the story. SNK say that the new Shodown will also include “a revolutionary feature that learns from players game actions and patterns in order to create CPU-controlled ‘ghost’ characters....

Get your butt over to Steam to see the good stuff. Once we’ve had a chance to browse the Summer Sale ourselves, I’m sure we’ll have some recommendations to fire your way. As always, Valve are gamifying the buying of games this year. Rather than just the typical points system, however, this year they say Steam users will be able to “Forge Your Fate though fourteen themed pages featuring destiny-defining micro-adventures”....

Apart from The Siege Of Paris launch, the past seven days have been relatively quiet, all things considered. There has been rumblings of a few things – and we love to speculate as much as the next person working in games media – but it’s all been a little wishy-washy. So, this week, the line between info snack and headline meal prepared by Huw is effectively transparent. We chat a bit about Alan Wake 2, Stringer Bell as Knuckles, the GTA remasters, and more....

With this in mind, a chunk of Headlines & Hot Takes is dedicated to discussing some games that have suffered COVID delays, and there’s some speculation on what games may see their launch dates moved into next year and beyond. Also, we recap a relatively mediocre Square Enix Presents that gave us a look at Life Is Strange: True Colors and Forspoken. Also, in Tech Corner, we chat about paying for things after they’ve increased in price....

In this guide, we’ll break down how to play the Netflix DLC in The Witcher 3, explaining how to find, start, and complete the new quest. Then, we’ll break down where to get the Netflix armor and weapons, so that you can kit Geralt out with Cavill’s gear. The Witcher 3 Netflix quest: In The Eternal Fire’s Shadow To get The Witcher 3 Netflix armor, you must complete a quest called In The Eternal Fire’s Shadow....

Marvel also said that Motive’s Iron Man would take place in its own universe, and be an original story. No Armor Wars tie-in for Disney Plus to look forward to then. There had been rumblings online that we might see something of Motive’s Iron Man game during the Disney & Marvel Games Showcase earlier this month. That didn’t happen, and Skydance New Media’s untitled Captain America and Black Panther project was teased instead....