There are seven series on offer at the moment: Age Of Wonders, Battletech, Europa Universalis, Hearts Of Iron, Imperator: Rome, Stellaris and Surviving Mars, with both the base games and various expansion and DLC packs on offer. As an extra bonus, if you buy three titles from the same collection (say, Stellaris and two of its upgrade packs, for example), then you’ll also get an additional 10% saving on top of their existing discount prices....

CCP explain that the graphical update is part of their plan to keep Eve beautiful into its 20s. “Deleting the grey colouring,” they say. Good one, CCP. We all know old graphics cannot be deleted, only tightened up. Here are some of what’s changed, according to their announcement: That’s all live as of today over on Eve Online’s test server Singularity, for those interested in a test flight. Otherwise, you can spot some before and after pictures over in their announcement post for the update as well....

If you’ve already mastered those decisions for the stock selection of heroes, here comes Evil Genius 2’s first DLC to mess again with your perfect crimes. The Cabal Pack, out now, adds Espectro, who has a dome-head filled with red mist and the ability to make clones of himself. The Cabal Pack adds Espectro, new lair equipment and henchmen skins, a new interrogation device (a big crotch-advancing laser inspired by James Bond), and some new side story objectives to go alongside....

There are a bunch of bug fixes in the full changelog, but the latency tweaks are the big ones: The top one is the most interesting. The patch notes link to this post on the Factorio forums from 2019. A player spotted that latency was unusually high even on exceptionally good connections; even, in fact, when two instances of the game were running on the same computer. At the time, Factorio’s developers said that, “[latency] could be lowered a bit, and we could probably provide an option to send packets every tick, but solving this isn’t a big priority now, as we have the latency hiding and other problems....

Mediatonic have already been banning cheaters for a while, but now they’ve figured out that disabling Steam Family Sharing stops some of those bad beans from coming back. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings It should massively help with the cheating issues though! — Fall Guys ? (@FallGuysGame) August 25, 2020 This doesn’t seem like a permanent measure, more of a stopgap until the devs figure out a better way to put cheaters down for good....

Fallout 76 diseases guide So you’ll need to take different measures to prevent or cure any disease you may come into contact with. I’ve prepared this Fallout 76 diseases guide that details how to prevent contracting a disease, and how to cure them. Preventing diseases is one important aspect of Fallout 76, but really there’s a lot more to discover about the game itself. Those looking for a beginner’s guide to get started with the game should have a look at our Fallout 76 guide hub....

Set in a post-scarcity future, stylish citizens battle to stay plugged into the cosiness of the Bravery network. As a coach, you’ll bring together a gang of sleek brawlers, and help build up their confidence, teach them new moves, and adorn them with shiny necklaces. You can explore Bravery Network Online’s quirky world through singleplayer stories, but there’s also the option to take your chic squad online and outmuscle folks to prove you’re the most tasteful of them all....

It wasn’t supposed to end like this. The grapes were blocky, yes, but they had a certain charm. Just look at the Low Poly Videogame Foods account which highlights such cubic treats. FFXIV’s grapes shared the same innocence. They were dorky and crystalline until patch 6.01 showed up, which has now fixed an issue that reduced their polygon count to “alleviate system memory usage in the area”. The result is that their hard edges have now been rounded off and players haven’t been the same since....

Here’s the trailer release for the last update, 5.5, which shows a bunch of the Nier content added at the time: From the complete list of changes, a lot of the additions are pretty minor. There are new furnishings for use in player housing, tweaked drop rates, and other typical MMO tweaks. The most interesting is presumably the second part of the main scenario quests added in 5.5, in which Fandaniel and Telophoroi have been scheming to bring about the Final Days....

This year’s edition comes, again as per usual, with a handful of major new features. Those include improved AI managers, new player animations, a new “fan confidence” rating for managers, and and a new “Squad Planner and Experience Matrix” to revamp the recruitment of new players. It’s this last one that seems like the most significant or noticeable change. The squad planner is a new screen in the game where you can rank your players based on their ability to perform in certain positions within your formation....

Johnson is now with ArenaNet working on Guild Wars 2, but has been recently sharing some memories from his time at Valve over on TikTok. In one video, Johnson quickly talks about titles. He explains that the working title for Half-Life was never going to be its final name, but apparently a few of the other candidates were quite different. “Trip Hammer” was one. That’s alright, I suppose. Not all that memorable but not terrible....

It’s a team that’s geared towards bringing back the good parts of BioWare and steering away from what the studio became, as Karpyshyn says that they ended up so “corporate” they could no longer make the games they wanted. Karpyshyn will take up the role of lead writer at Archetype, under the leadership of James Ohlen, who was once BioWare’s creative director. They’re also joined by Chad Robertson, BioWare Austin’s former studio director, now Archetype’s general manager....

In lieu of a game announcement, Possibility Space focus on their plans for “ethical work environments,” particularly the distributed studio format. Although it’s based in New Orleans, the studio allows members to live anywhere they choose. “We felt this was the right time to create something new–a studio built from the ground up to embrace evolving needs and perspectives for both players and developers,” Strain says of the plan for Possibility Space....

Gamedec’s a single-player isometric RPG that lets you become a private eye who investigates crimes in virtual worlds. It’s set in Warsaw City in the 22nd century, when technology’s progressed to the point that traditional notions of life and death have turned a wee bit fuzzy. The Definitive Edition adds some new quests and storylines to the game. First Class Trouble, meanwhile, is a retro sci-fi party mystery game that pits players against a dangerous AI, with some taking on the role of disguised robot baddies aiming to betray the rest....

Here’s everything you’ll need to know about unlocking and reaching all 6 endings of Noelle’s second Hangout Event, Knightly Exam Prep, in Genshin Impact. How to unlock Noelle’s second Hangout Event Noelle’s Hangout Event, Act II: Knightly Exam Prep, can be unlocked as soon as you’ve completed a few prerequisites. First, you’ll need to wrap up Noelle’s prior Hangout Event by reaching every single ending. It’s definitely a tedious task, but don’t worry — we’ve got your back with our ending guide for Noelle’s first Hangout Event, Chivalric Training....

All of this was broadly planned before, but the date was only an estimate then. Seems official now. Along with the new storyblast, Version 1.1 will start the ‘Unreconciled Stars’ event. That’ll run for a fortnight as players “fight back against a sudden and terrible catastrophe facing Teyvat” in new quests and co-op challenges. As for rep, the devs explain: “A brand new per-city ‘Reputation’ system will also be introduced in this version of Genshin Impact, allowing the Traveler to gradually build up their reputation as they delve into each region and unlock bountiful rewards and brand-new, region-exclusive items and customizations....

“A foreign thunderstorm tears the sky apart, splitting eternity,” Mihoyo say of the new area and its story." Flashes of lightning cut through the darkness, as a god’s will manifests. Overcome endless thunderstorms, set foot on the island of cherry blossoms, and witness the Eternity pursued by Her Excellency, the Almighty Narukami Ogosho." The new trailer for update 2.0 down here introduces some of the backstory of Inazuma and the conflicts you’ll be digging into there with the Elecro Archon....

Razer is one of the most popular PC peripheral makers on the planet, so this sort of bundle makes sense - it’s attractively priced to get people into the Razer ecosystem, with its Chroma lighting and Synapse software, and the company probably makes decent enough margins elsewhere to let these peripherals go for a song - a state of affairs that you can take advantage of! Let’s take a look at each part of the bundle in turn to see what you’re getting for your seventy-ish currency units....

Get the 4TB Samsung 870 Qvo for $323 (was $429) Katharine called the 870 Qvo ’the best that SATA SSDs’ have to offer in her 870 Qvo review, pointing to the drive’s value and identical random performance compared to the higher-end 860 Evo, and I have to agree with that assessment. The capacity that QLC NAND brings is really unparalleled, and with a relatively huge 4GB DRAM cache, you don’t actually lose too much performance using a QLC drive instead of a more expensive TLC drive, such as the 860 Evo or 870 Evo....

Get an extra 30% off used products at checkout There are thousands of products included in the promotion, but for our purposes, I’d suggest checking out the PC & video games or computer & accessories categories as these seemed to turn up the most relevant deals for the average RPS reader. You can also refine the search to just PC stuff but this may rule out some options that are PC-compatible but not listed as such in their product page....