Endnight’s delay announcement included a vid showing some nice wee first-person animations: I really do appreciate those animations. The ravenous bite of a raw fish. The careful unfolding of a paper target. The weird finger fumbling. The building animation which actually builds. That’s the good stuff. I’m always delighted when a game animates a detail which often just pops into place. Please use these extra five months of development time to add some first-person origami, thanks....

In this guide, we explain how the new FIFA 23 chemistry system works, breaking down the changes from previous games, how to earn chemistry in FIFA 23, and how Icons, Heroes, and substitutes affect your team chemistry. We’ll also provide a full list of Chemistry Styles, along with the buffs they grant to a player with a maximum chemistry rating. On this page: How does chemistry work in FIFA 23?...

But the Tales series’ low-key existence is seemingly coming to an end thanks to the recently released Tales Of Arise. With its bright, eye-catching visuals and its uniquely frantic battle system, it turns monster slaying from a chore into an addiction, and has won the hearts of many curious newcomers in the process (including yours truly). With this influx of new blood, Tales might stand a chance of grabbing a throne at the heart of the JRPG genre....

What are Tech Points in Watch Dogs: Legion? Extra Tech Points What are Tech Points in Watch Dogs: Legion? Tech Points help you upgrade your tech and gadgets. For the best upgrades to choose, check out our guide for Watch Dogs: Legion’s best tech upgrades - there’s a load of gear to choose from, including new guns and hackable drones. Tech Points are accessible from the Tech menu, and can be used to upgrade your kit if you have enough....

Below, we’ll cover everything you need to know about Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel secret packs, including what they are and how to unlock more of them. What are secret packs in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel? When you get a Super Rare or Ultra Rare card in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, you get a key that unlocks a secret pack that you can buy in the store. These secret packs are special packs that are related to the SR or UR card’s archetype....

First, though, a word of warning. Although the Steam Beta client itself is nicely stable, I have experienced a non-zero level of jank while trying out Joy-Cons on PC for myself. Their wireless range, for instance, seems shorter than every other Bluetooth device I’ve paired to my PC, and even holding them above my wooden desk (with the PC on the floor below) seemingly caused too much signal interference for the connection to handle....

I’m sad to report that the Independent Games Festival has delivered only two out of three in 2021. The nominations for this year’s IGF Awards were announced yesterday, but they have left me little to gripe about. Sure, there’s some changes I’d make, but there’s no glaring omissions in my eyes. The panel of jurists have correctly identified that Teardown was one of the best games released last year, for example, and so it is nominated for both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence In Design....

Ubisoft’s new Q&A on Fenyx covers expected territory: changes to the game since its initial delay, aerial combat, and the characteristics of each of the main regions. What jumped out at me though, was the specific shout that you can’t just run off to fight final boss Typhon immediately. It’s as if someone at Ubisoft looked up at the generously overlapped Venn Diagram of Immortals Fenyx Rising and Breath Of The Wild, spotted this bit, and thought “we’d better mention that....

About time, too – while AMD has been stuffing the ranks of the best gaming CPUs with its Ryzen chips, previous Intel generations have been mere incremental updates. Hopefully the 12th Gen Alder Lake lineup’s ambition can drive the kind of meaningful performance gains that previous generations often lacked, but for now here’s everything we know about the new CPUs so far. Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPU specs...

That’s nothing compared to what Intel are working on, however. In a video called “Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement,” embedded below, Intel show Grand Theft Auto 5 after it has been run through a neural net to make the streets of Los Santos look more photorealistic. It works. You can see the work of researchers Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu AlHaija, and Vladlen Koltun below: In layman’s terms, the process looks at frames of Grand Theft Auto, breaks the scene down into different elements, and then matches them with photos of a real city....

Not much has been revealed about this Dead Space reboot yet, short of the fact it actually exists. However, on the official Dead Space Twitter account they have confirmed it’s a remake. “Dismember your worst nightmare - limb by limb,” they say. “Revisit the first Dead Space, rebuilt from the ground up by Motive Studio.” In a press release, EA say: “Fans will experience an improved story, characters, gameplay mechanics and more as they fight to survive a living nightmare aboard the desolate mining starship, the USG Ishimura, all while uncovering the dreadful mystery of what happened to the slaughtered crew and ship....

Then my husband and RPS vidbud Matthew suggested we play it at Christmas to try to entertain his family one night, and it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had playing something as a group. And now, thanks to a combination of Discord streaming and Steam’s Remote Play feature, it’s quickly becoming the highlight of life under lockdown at RPS as well. So I humbly apologise, Mr Jackbox. I will never again besmirch your good name, as you’re one of the few things keeping us all sane right now....

The main thrust of Blackley’s pitch is immediately recognisable as the foundation of the Jurassic World movies: humans having to live with dinosaurs outside of the controlled theme park environment. Blackley was prodded into working on a pitch by legendary movie director and bloke who mixed The Shining with Mobile Suit Gundam in Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg. Blackley says the team he put together “made a game design, an art design, and a story Bible”....

Originally announced in 2019, the game has been delayed several times. Last we heard was nearly a year ago, when the game was intended to see release during 2022. Kerbal Space Program 2 had already been postponed twice before that, in late 2019 and in 2020. While things were starting to seem like a real space launch, repeatedly scrubbed, it emerged that rights owners Take-Two had poached many of developer Star Theory’s staff after an unsuccessful buyout attempt....

Ingredients Locations There are 59 different ingredients to find in Kingdom Hearts 3, which can be used in different combinations to cook recipes. The resulting dishes are used to boost certain stats, and can really make the difference later on in the game. You’ll find everything you need to know below. Ingredients List Before we break down where to get each ingredient in Kingdom Hearts 3, we’re going to list all of them....

Kingdoms Of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is a retouched version of the 2012 RPG from 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, which was published by Electronic Arts. 38 Studios went bankrupt shortly after launch, leading to a years-long legal fight over funds it received from the state of Rhode Island. THQ Nordic bought the rights in 2018. But it wasn’t a terrible game. Our former John (RPS in peace) has declared a love for Kingdoms Of Amalur, calling it “WoW for misanthropes, a massive open world RPG with dungeons and fetch quests and level chasing without the awful bother of dreadful other people....

Don’t get me wrong. Some of that packaging is really quite nice. Wintery snowscapes. Marble courtrooms with intricate, stained glass murals. Opulently textured facial hair flowing from the chins of impeccably groomed pig farmers. It just feels like King’s Bounty II lacks confidence in itself. Or at least confidence in an audience to give it a second look if it doesn’t at least try to cosplay as a Bioware game....

While it may perhaps be reductive to make a Studio Ghibli comparison to the game’s opening moments, the familiarity many have with those films compared to Japanese folklore makes the equivalence an easy one. My time with the demo was from a moment early in the game, when you’ve already set foot into this new world but don’t have much knowledge about the yokai-infested supernatural surprises that await you. Getting off the boat at the port of a lantern-lit town in the midst of a festival - street vendors meeting the occasion with Japanese food stalls stuffed with tasty delights, and creatures of various sizes serving as their customers and staff - is reminiscent of the moment of Spirited Away when the abandoned theme park turns into the onsen district....

But which champions will give you the best chance of ranking up? Well, we’ve put together ten of the best solo queue champions in League of Legends for a variety of skill levels, across a variety of roles. We hope this will give you a decent selection to choose from when it’s your turn to lock in a champion. Again, we’d like to reiterate - by no means is this a definitive list....

Get a load of those monsters. You’ve got loads of different zombo types in there - regular shamblers, big lads that puke on you, bigger lads that will pick up and wollop you, and some freakier things like four-armed zombie monkeys. Back 4 Blood will have four player online co-op, as well as 4v4 online PvP. It was first announced last year, and back in July the devs showed a cheeky teaser image of a big old fortified base....