Rebecca Jones (RPS in peace) really liked 10 ***** Doves when she wrote about it back in 2022, saying it reminded her of why she “loves weird low-budget spooks so much”. Discovering such an interesting project speaks to curiosity and taste on her part, but me? I am simply a pun enjoying buffon who got an email promising that “Dovecraftian horrors await”. The thrust of said electronic mail was that the game now has a release date of this December, but it looked neat, so I doved right in. I coo-dn’t resist. I too love weird low-budget horror. I have been pigeonholed. Read more View the full article
If you had told me at the beginning of 2024 that one of my favorite PC peripherals would come from the Alienware brand, I may have actually laughed out loud. That's not to say that the quality of Alienware's peripherals isn't up to scratch, but it never felt like a leading brand in the space. This all changes with the Alienware Pro Wireless gaming headset. In what has become one of the best gaming headsets in recent memory, the Alienware Pro Wireless gaming headset is the most finely balanced product I've tested since the Astro A50 X. Granted, the Alienware Pro doesn't have the same cross-platform capabilities, but what it does have is incredible sound quality, first-rate active noise cancellations, and a design that doesn't limit it to just being a gaming headset. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Alienware Pro gaming headset looks great, but it's not cheap Dell's Alienware gaming chair just got an awesome price cut Alienware's new 4k gaming monitor can hit 360Hz, but with a twist View the full article
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VALORANT currently has 11 standard maps, and it can be daunting to learn the ins and outs of each one. Luckily, the map rotation that focuses on just seven maps at a time helps players feel less overwhelmed by not having to remember strategies for every map all at the same time. The VALORANT map rotations change over time, keeping the game fresh. Here’s the current map pool and rotation for VALORANT, plus an outline of future or upcoming plans for the pool. View the full article
Sam Lake, the writer behind the original Max Payne game, has revealed how their Photoshop experiment ended up becoming the inspiration for the game's cover art. The veteran game director, who was the face of the titular character in Max Payne, also stars on the 2001 action game's cover. View the full article
Play with miniatures and use powerful magic spells to take over entire kingdoms in the hilarious physics-based RTS Toy Tactics. Toy Tactics is a strategy title with many game modes, including multiple story campaigns where you play as different factions, online multiplayer battles, and even a sandbox arena mode where you design your own battles. […] Source View the full article
How do you open the BO6 Liberty Falls vault? It's a classic trait of all Call of Duty Zombies that there are secrets and Easter eggs hidden in each map, and they're yours for the taking if you can keep the undead off your back for long enough. If you've picked up a ****** Ops 6 safe ******** key in Zombies, you might be wondering what on earth you're supposed to do with it and how to open the vault in the Liberty Falls map, and we've got the answer. You can unlock the ****** Ops 6 bank vault with or without a safe ******** key in your hand - as long as you have the BO6 Liberty Falls vault code. Finding the code is fairly simple but involves looking in some rather unexpected places, and that's never going to be your priority when you're running from a train of monsters in the zombie game. We've done the hard work for you though, so read on to find out exactly where you need to go and how to boost your best BO6 loadout in BO6 Zombies for free. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best ****** Ops 6 Tanto .22 loadout Best ****** Ops 6 C9 loadout How to pull out your ****** in ****** Ops 6 View the full article
If you’re not familiar with the dating app Bumble, solving the “Blurb on a Bumble profile” clue on today’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle might be tough for you. This answer is a lot easier than you might expect, but it’s certainly a purposefully misleading hint. You don’t want to let the “Blurb on a Bumble profile” clue stop you from completing the Oct. 25 NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, so here are some hints and the official answer to help you solve this one. View the full article
Complete Factorio's Space Age DLC and - feelings of acute megalomania aside - you will be able to upload a snapshot of your game to the "Galaxy of Fame", this being a digital night sky from which your cataclysmic industrial exploits shall gaze down eternally, for the instruction and/or disillusionment of tomorrow's factory builders. Read more View the full article
Silent Hill 2, like the rest of the series, features no shortage of tragic characters. In these games, even an antagonist can have a background that garners sympathy, but it might not be enough to absolve them of their actions. It does, however, create a world that's morally gray, and the way that it mirrors the human experience adds to the horror and unsettling elements that make this franchise so memorable. At times, a character can end up feeling too relatable in that nightmare of a universe. View the full article
After a summer of nerfs, review-bombings, and self-inflicted harm, Helldivers 2 is back on the up. It buffed dozens of weapons and strategems as part of its 'buff everything' update, and later released a patch that made Automatons "less frustrating." It was a show of support from the dev team, who, after a stellar start, made a series of near-fatal missteps. View the full article
Want to inspect your weapons in ****** Ops 6? There are moments in every battle where you won't have much to do. Whether that's because you've already ******* everyone in a heated encounter, or you were the first person to get taken out in combat, these moments occur more often than you might think. During this time, you might want to take a moment to appreciate your fancy guns by inspecting your weapons. You've put in all the hard work to earn those ****** Ops 6 camos, and now it's time to reap the benefits in the FPS game. Not only should your opponents see your ******* skins, but using the Call of Duty ****** Ops 6 inspect ******* feature, you too can bask in the glory of your shiny camos. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best ****** Ops 6 Tanto .22 loadout Best ****** Ops 6 C9 loadout How to pull out your ****** in ****** Ops 6 View the full article
If you're playing Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred, there's a very high chance you've picked up the new Spiritborn class. Not only is it fresh and shiny, making it more appealing than the options we've had for the past year of the base RPG, but it also boasts the strongest builds in Season 6 right now. As we near the midseason update, Blizzard stalwart and Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson asks whether some of its more broken aspects should be brought back in line, or if everyone is enjoying themselves too much to stop. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best cross platform games 2024 Diablo 4 Halloween event features free cosmetics and a shrine shakeup Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred hotfix cuts down your resource grinding, again View the full article
It's been a pretty depressing year for the games industry, with more layoffs and cutbacks than anyone can remotely justify, as corporate bigwigs still take home huge compensation packages, or waltz into golden parachutes. As much as they can, developers are trying to ****** back against this tide of misery, but it's a tough task, as the developers at not quite Disco Elysium sucessor studio Summer Eternal know all too well. Read more View the full article
Valve continue expanding their upcoming game Deadlock, the online third-person MOBA shooter. The latest update is quite a big one too. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 will see the return of the popular Zombies game mode. The return to the round-based format looks to improve upon the poorly received change to the open-world Outbreak game mode in the latest iterations of the series. Other changes in ****** Ops 6 include a Guided Mode for the intricate Easter egg questlines, new Zombies characters, brand-new Wonder Weapons, and a return to the GobbleGum upgrade system. A much anticipated new feature is the brand-new Perk-A-Cola called Melee Macchiato. View the full article
A casual city-building sim, Romopolis, is currently free for for PC gamers to grab from the Microsoft Store for a limited time. Occasionally, games are given away for no cost on the Microsoft Store, though perhaps not as frequently as other platforms. And when there is a game to claim at no cost, its not often widely advertised. View the full article
Long-running online FPS games require a lot of tweaking, whether it's balancing how weapons handle in Counter-Strike 2, fixing matchmaking issues in Payday 3, or adjusting rewards in the likes of Call of Duty and Hunt Showdown 1896. Some of these, naturally, are ******* than others. But after 17 years, one particularly bothersome little problem has persisted in Team Fortress 2 - until now. Thanks to the latest TF2 update, Valve has finally corrected an issue that, although superficial, has been bugging players since 2007. Deadlock might be on the way, and, hopefully, Half-Life 3 could still happen, but the Team Fortress 2 Scout has thankfully just been put right. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Team Fortress 2 Halloween update adds seven new community maps Team Fortress 2's 'Save TF2' petition has been delivered to Valve HQ Team Fortress 2 fans beware, new 'version' of Valve petition is a scam View the full article
It's not often you see a really cheap laptop with an actually decent gaming spec, but this gaming laptop deal on Best Buy is a genuine bargain. For just $599.99, this MSI Thin 15 machine not only gives you an Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU, but you also get an eight-core Intel CPU and 16GB RAM, with this offer saving you $300 on the already-reasonable price of $899.99. You wouldn't usually expect to get the best gaming laptop specs on a machine at this price, but the gear in this cut-price MSI machine is surprisingly capable for $599.99. When it comes to gaming, the main draw is that Nvidia GPU, with this budget rig coming equipped with a GeForce RTX 4050, which is based on Nvidia's latest Ada Lovelace architecture and supports all the latest features, including Nvidia DLSS 3, complete with frame generation to boost frame rates. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab Stalker 2 for free, thanks to MSI OLED gaming monitor sales are booming, and these are the ones to buy Grab Metaphor ReFantazio for free, thanks to MSI View the full article
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My favourite top-down arena shooter rogue-lite, Brotato, has a free update and big new DLC out now with Brotato: Abyssal Terrors. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
The creators of "beautifully designed yet imprecise platforming adventure" Tales Of Kenzera: Zau are working on an Afrofuturist gothic-horror RPG with isometric visuals and a body-sharing dual character premise. Currently known as Project Uso - the Swahili word for 'face', 'appearance' or 'surface' - it'll take place in the same world as Kenzera, and will take inspiration from Surgent Studio founder Abubakar Salim's experiences of parenthood. Providing, that is, the developers can find enough money to make it. Read more View the full article
Look up major events in 2011 and there's some world-changing stuff... and some not so world-changing stuff. Shadows Of The Damned's Xbox 360/PS3 release may slip into either camp, depending on whether you liked it back in the day or not. It's a third-person action adventure where two famous video game folks joined forces: No More Heroes' Suda51 and Resident Evil's Shinji Mikami. And to my knowledge, it's considered a bit of a cult classic. So, having played Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered after never experiencing the original, do I think it's any good? If you were a fan of the OG, there's no doubt you'll like it. If you're coming in as a newbie, I think it's refreshing in the sense it's a trim throwback with some interesting ideas and middling-to-good **********. But its whole schtick isn't only a product of its time - it's actually downright yucky. Read more View the full article
Valve has finally fixed a problem with Team Fortress 2 that’s been in the game since it launched 17 years ago. Ever since the influential hero shooter came out on October 10, 2007, the Scout’s pants on the blue side were the wrong ******. Now, among patch notes for a recently released Team Fortress 2 update, Valve ******* the big news: Scout’s pants are now fixed. Here’s the rather innocuous line from the patch notes: Fixed BLU Scout using the incorrect team ****** pants In typical Valve fashion, it made the change without explanation or fanfare. No explanation for why it’s taken 17 years to change the ****** of Scout’s pants, and no reason for why it’s done so only now. Ever mysterious, Valve is. It’s fair to say the reaction from the Team Fortress 2 community has been a mix of shock and excitement. “They changed a character design 17 years later! What!” X/Twitter user @heavyfortres asked. THEY MADE BLU SCOUT’S PANTS BLUE THEY CHANGED A CHARACTER DESIGN 17 YEARS LATER WHAT [Hidden Content] — heavy team fortres 2 (@heavyfortres) October 24, 2024 “Honestly I can't believe they did it,” redditor KyleTheWalrus added. “BLU Scout had gray pants and blue belt loops for 17 years, and he has several cosmetics that require the gray pants ****** to work correctly. “If they fixed anything, I was sure they would just make the belt loops gray because it's easier. But those crazy bastards took the hard route. “Now we wait another 17 years for the rest of Scout's pants cosmetics to become the correct shade of blue. Hooray!” Valve’s relationship with the Team Fortress 2 community has certainly had its ups and downs over the years. The game’s had an awful **** problem for some time, and exacerbated players often call for Valve to do more to clamp down. They’ve also asked for more support and content for Team Fortress 2 from Valve, which, some say, is more focused on its other, more popular games. Team Fortress 2 ******** incredibly popular, though, and is among one of Steam’s most played games ahead of the likes of Warframe, Overwatch 2, and Destiny 2. Last month, Team Fortress 2 players got creative in the ****** against the shooter's rampant **** problem by turning a 340,000 signature strong petition into an actual book and delivering it to Valve headquarters. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article
It took a crew of more than 100 talented modders and another hundred voice actors nearly five years to make Fallout: London. Just as they planned to release it, Bethesda came out with a "next-gen upgrade" of the mod's base game, Fallout 4, forcing the team to scramble and ultimately find a way to downgrade the game. When they finally released London, they then dealt with game-stopping bugs and quality issues that their small QA team could not have caught. It's been a long, maybe even post-apocalyptic road for these modders. A few updates later, Fallout: London is in much better shape. I've been able to put about 12 hours into it, and that, in itself, is essentially my review: it is worth that kind of time and more. If you can still enjoy Fallout 4, of course. Any Fallout fan waits a long time between official releases, so it can be tempting to go easy on any new offering, however *****-and-bailing-wire it may seem. But Fallout: London is a game in its own right, with a distinct look, vision, and stories to tell. You can find evidence of its unofficial mod-ness if you look around, but you're better off doing the Fallout thing: wandering, wondering, fighting, and occasionally talking to some messed-up weirdo. Read full article Comments View the full article
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If you've been playing EA Sports FC 25 and the Silent Hill 2 Remake over the past couple of months, an indie game looks like it could be right up your alley. It's called ***** FA 98 and it's a "horror arcade soccer simulator" that's just launched a Kickstarter. Read more View the full article
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Rebecca Jones (RPS in peace) really liked 10 ***** Doves when she wrote about it back in 2022, saying it reminded her of why she “loves weird low-budget spooks so much”. Discovering such an interesting project speaks to curiosity and taste on her part, but me? I am simply a pun enjoying buffon who got an email promising that “Dovecraftian horrors await”. The thrust of said electronic mail was that the game now has a release date of this December, but it looked neat, so I doved right in. I coo-dn’t resist. I too love weird low-budget horror. I have been pigeonholed. Read more View the full article