The bigger surprise is it’s out now, so you can play it via Game Pass right away. In Hi-Fi Rush, your attacks and combos add layers to the soundtrack. If you fight along to the beat, your attacks do more damage. You use these abilities to bash through robots in a colourful, cel-shaded city filled with corporate robots. There was a lengthy game demonstration at the end of tonight’s livestream, which you can see part of below....

Anyway, HighFleet is out today. Pick a side. If you don’t know it, HighFleet is an action-strategy game. With a bit of roguelike and a bit of RPG thrown in. Oh, let’s be specific: it’s an aerial dogfighting game in which you pilot hulking airships, direct their movements via radar, land them at city states, and negotiate with the factions you meet there. Oh, and manage their loadouts and repairs....

As the more desirable, champion-specific Eternals are only available for real money and cannot be earned through in-game grind, it is easy to be cynical about this entire “highlight your accomplishments” thing. After all, the language of self-expression is often used by video game marketing teams to convince players that the real way they should be expressing themselves is through consumption. Capitalism, ho! It is never about you. It is always about your money....

Read on for a clear set of instructions on all the ways you can unlock the SP-R 208 in Warzone 2 or MW2. How to unlock the SP-R 208 in Warzone 2 The SP-R 208 is the base gun and only weapon on the Bryson Long Rifle Platform, so it’s not a prerequisite for unlocking any other guns, and you ought to pick it up easily enough by simply playing a few matches....

Indeed, HP are calling the Reverb G2 a “no compromise VR headset” that sets “the new standard in VR”, and a big part of that no doubt comes from its whopping 4320x2160 resolution display. That’s 2.5x more pixels than the 2560x1440 display on our current best VR headset, the Oculus Rift S. Heck, even the Valve Index only has a combined resolution of 2880x1600, so it looks like the Reverb G2 will offer quite a substantial jump in overall sharpness and clarity - which will be all the better for gazing at Half-Life: Alyx’s new sloshing wine bottles....

The Twitch channel of Eric “McRaptor” Harper was host to a litany of these moments during the recent “Souls-4-Souls” (SFS) charity tournament that ran in late April. When you think of competitive gaming tournaments, Dark Souls probably doesn’t spring to mind. However, SFS featured 25 challenge runners racing through Soulsborne games as quickly as possible whilst trying to take zero hits. Thousands tuned in to watch. A team of commentators ebbed and flowed between serious play-by-play analysis, in-jokes, puns and profanity....

Blimps is an odd game. At a glance, it looks like an Elite-esque trading game, but it’s more like… well. It’s more like a game from the time before genres. A confusing, poorly explained time that mostly produced rubbish but occasionally produced a strange little gem like this. You run a little airship business, on paper. In practice, your job is to figure out how to make enough money to get out....

I like everything about it apart from the combat. Which is a bit of a problem for a game focused on combat, I suppose. And yet the rest of it is so good, I keep going back for more. I am a big fan of games where you can look at them and know that everyone involved has a good idea of what it is. I like to be able to imagine, you know, a giant mood board taking up one entire wall of the office....

For those of you who aren’t versed in the world of MMOs, a mount is traditionally a mode of transport that’ll get you from A to B quicker than your legs would. Think something like a horse, or in the case of Final Fantasy XIV, a chubby cat that’s described as so wobbly, “the earth and the very firmament tremble as it trundles”. Usually, you’d earn a mount after a few hours breaking in your boots and getting to grips with the MMO’s world....

It’s a story about betrayal, foresight, and knife fights. Also, the industrial production of crack. The devotees of Butoton settled the world of Engo with the intention of doing two things: smoking weed, and eating burgers. Butoton, you see, is a god who first revealed himself to a family of persecuted turtle ranchers on a jungle world long ago. And there are two ways to worship him. The first involves ranching animals and consuming them (except turtles, which are now revered)....

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness stars Resident Evil 2’s protagonists Claire Redfield and Leon “S” Kennedy, although they barely speak to one another. It’s set in 2006, between Resi 4 (everyone’s favourite) and Resi 5 (nobody’s favourite), so right away you know there are zero stakes here. Leon teams up with Jason, a hulking blonde gorilla, and Shen May, a badass who deserved better that what this show gave her, to investigate possible security attacks on America coming from China....

How to get more Pomegranates in Immortals Fenyx Rising Pomegranates are generally found in two forms: in baskets around statues and other points of interest; and growing on trees on the western side of the map, in Aphrodite’s and Athena’s realms. Certain small areas may have larger than usual concentrations of Pomegranate baskets, but I’ve found by far the best method of obtaining more Pomegranates is to find a particularly rich forest of trees with Pomegranates growing on them....

Get a quick gander at all three of the DLCs in Ubisoft’s new trailer here. The first DLC, A New God, sends Fenyx to Olympos to face some new puzzle-y looking challenges after the main story. Feels a bit like a spoiler there, Ubisoft, but I guess I shouldn’t expect the hero not to defeat Typhon and get invited to sit at the cool gods table. Anyhoo, after that, the next two DLCs will ditch Fenyx to hang out with a couple new up-and-comers....

Point is, I am firmly of the opinion that kiddies are made of sterner stuff than we often give them credit for - and if we’re going to teach them that monsters are real we should then take the next logical step of teaching them that you can kick seven shades out of the monsters, cut them open and get your granny back. All of which is to say that I have played the first four or so hours of Immortals Fenyx Rising, and I think Ubi’s Ancient Greek-themed action adventure (no not that one) might have managed the titanic feat of being something that children and adults can genuinely both enjoy....

Even though the demo was barely an hour long, I was still thinking about it days afterwards, so I got in touch with Martin Greip, creative director at developers Eat Create Sleep, to chat about it. We ended up in a long discussion of how management games can subvert capitalism, conservation in the Baltic region, Star Trek, BioShock, and (of course) crayfish. The best bits are below. And if you want to know more, Among Ripples has is going live with a Kickstarter this Tuesday, so you can join my unreasonable pressure campaign to have eels put in the game....

On this page: Is Dyson Sphere Program multiplayer? Is Dyson Sphere Program multiplayer coming? Is Dyson Sphere Program multiplayer? Currently, Dyson Sphere Program does not have any multiplayer functionality. It is a purely singleplayer experience. This much is to be expected for a game that has only just begun its Early Access journey. So, how about a more intriguing and less straightforward question… Is Dyson Sphere Program multiplayer coming? Considering the number of players who are already clamouring for multiplayer, the topic is conspicuously missing from the Dyson Sphere Program roadmap set out on its Steam page....

The Chowder Man (whose songs are performed by real musician Hot Dad) is a fictional musician within the world of Hynospace Outlaw, whose music and tragic stories are scattered across that weird 90s Internet. This is what I crave in Christmas music, musical maximalism and a raw blast of emotions. Look, The Chowder Man isn’t a poet but his feelings are real. No irony: it is a great song. I adore the wall of festive sound, especially that synth melody and the bonus shredding from Dave Pino....

The first Earthlock game launched in 2014 after a successful Kickstarter campaign. It was pitched as a love letter to classic JRPGs, clearly resonating with fans as the game sold 2.5 million units. Ikonei Island has been in early access since August and it offers an entirely different experience, focused on harvesting materials, crafting resources, and decorating the titular island. Snowcastle have promised to add multiplayer functionality to the game sometime in the future, which seems to be a significant reason for the Jagex partnership....

Kena is a tough game at times, filled with dangerous combat segments, tricky platforming areas, and numerous puzzles you must complete with the help of your spirit friends, the Rot. This beginner’s guide to Kena: Bridge Of Spirits will walk you through some top tips which will help you conquer (and enjoy) every aspect of Kena’s journey. Here are our top Kena: Bridge Of Spirits tips: Make use of all your abilities in combat Learn how the different collectibles work Come back to old locations once you’re stronger Make it a challenge Don’t underestimate the boss battles Follow the white painted arrows Enjoy the story!...