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I went into Botany Manor thinking I was getting a simple flower-growing cozy game. I left it wanting even more of its clever clue-analyzing puzzles and not expecting a thoughtful tale to be behind it. It’s the perfect length for a puzzle game, just as it has the perfect amount of difficult yet intelligent puzzles to overcome that always left me feeling smart for figuring them out.With each chapter that went on, I got to figure out how to grow more flowers, as well as unlock more spaces within and around the manor. The manor wasn’t just a place built to house these puzzles, it had an intriguing story behind it of a woman who kept studying the art of botany, despite all the hardships that came with it.Screenshot: PC InvasionClue-finding and problem-solvingBotany Manor did a great job at making the clue-finding and problem-solving both satisfying and enjoyable. You first start in a small greenhouse that gives you just a couple of clues to go off of for your fir...View the full article

This year, not even the warm weather might draw League of Legends players out of their den as Riot Games announced the arrival of a PvE game mode. After years of starvation since the last PvE event, high expectations are placed on the upcoming game mode. In the latest Dev Update video, the League team shared news on the development of a new PvE game mode, which is coming for the 2024 Summer event. The game mode will be a “bullet heaven survivor” and is expected to provide a gameplay experience similar to the popular Vampire Survivor game, with players taking on waves of enemies in a battle scenario. View the full article

If you have been playing Once Human, there is a chance you may have heard about the Wish Machine. Look no further; this guide will explain everything you need to know about the Wish Machine in Once Human, including how to unlock it and what it does.Unlocking the Wish Machine in Once HumanOnce Human is currently in its third beta, and there have been changes to tasks. This means that unlocking the Wish Machine is different than how it was in earlier betas. That said, the devs haven’t made it more complicated, so there’s no need to worry.To unlock the Wish Machine in Once Human Beta3, players must complete the Broken Delta main mission and then accept the activation task for the Wish Machine, which is called “Guidance: Concept of Materialization.” After accepting the activation task for the Wish Machine, a waypoint will appear on your map, which you can follow and then complete. Doing so will lead to you unlocking the Wish Machine.How to use the Wi...View the full article

Champion Mastery is a League of Legends system that has been outdated for a long time, at least in the eyes of the majority of players. Riot Games has been teasing changes to it for a few months now, and they’re finally coming in May. League‘s Champion Mastery feature is currently split into seven levels and allows players to showcase their prowess with certain champions by playing them. However, many fans believe the system is too old for the current state of the game. They think the team’s performance shouldn’t be counted in your Champion Mastery score by the end of each game, and the rewards are outdated, too. In Patch 14.10, luckily, this will change as developer Riot is introducing a vital overhaul for it. View the full article

Players, get your training arc going, because Arena is coming back in less than a month, ******* and better than before. ****** double the opponents as before with meaner items of a level never seen before in the Arena, and face your tournament arc while the best League of Legends players of the world go through their own. In a new Dev Update video, Jeremy “Riot Brightmoon” Lee and Andrei “Meddler” van Roon shared several updates coming to the Arena game mode. The League team highlighted the overall success of Arena’s recent run last December despite seeing a decline in play hours over time, prompting their focus on enhancing variety to sustain interest in the game mode. View the full article

Call of Duty: Warzone’s never-ending cycle of broken and overpowered weapons taking over the meta has a new chapter, with many players calling for a nerf as soon as possible. The latest meta offender, according to many, is the JAK Ferocity Carbine Kit for the Renetti, which turns the burst ******* into a full-auto SMG with a massive magazine. It has a lightning-quick time-to-***** along with a 50 Round Drum magazine, making it a must-pick for many. View the full article

The ****** Monk is finally getting an ****, meaning Art and Sustainability Update, which should bring him up-to-scratch aesthetically compared to modern champions. Riot is targeting a release date of May 1 with patch 14.9 for Lee Sin’s ****. Players with the champion and his skins will notice the change reflected in their matches. View the full article

Thinking about checking out Prime Video's Fallout show, but don't have a subscription? You'll be able to watch the first episode for free, but only on Twitch. Later this week, on April 12, the Fallout show is finally making its way to Prime Video, with all eight episodes dropping on the streaming service at once. If you're desperate to watch it, though, you'll be able to do so on April 11. As announced by Twitch on Twitter, a selection of streamers will be hosting the first episode so you can watch it before the full series arrives. It's a little unclear how exactly that will work, as Twitch only announced last month that its Prime Video watch parties feature would be shut down on April 2, which has come and gone. It's possible that the selected streamers have been provided an early copy, of course, but several users on Twitter did question the decision considering the removal of the feature. It's also seemingly been a frustrating point for some smaller streamers, who would have liked to host a watch party with their community, but that ability is being limited to the selection of streamers listed by twitch. On top of that, other users also questioned the fact that hardly any of the streamers hosting the first episode are Fallout streamers/ creators, a point that has irked some. If none of this bothers you, though, here's the full list of streamers that will be hosting a watch party for the first episode: Read more View the full article

Exciting news for the future of everyone's favourite co-op shooter that isn't legally an adaptation of Starship Troopers. A few days ago, Helldivers 2 issued a new major order to annihilate the Automatons, who had been pushed back like never before. And annihilate you all did, with players' combined efforts being officially recgonised yesterday on the Helldivers 2 Xitter: Mission Accomplished! The bots have been eradicated! Read more View the full article

The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is introducing a new type of ******* that sounds like it could be a lot of fun, but it also has the potential to legitimately change the game. So far, Warbonds are releasing on a consistent cycle, deploying on the second Thursday of each month. Purchasing a Premium Warbond doesn't have to instill any particular urgency, however, as they're permanently unlocked and can be completed at any time after acquisition. View the full article

The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is introducing a new type of ******* that sounds like it could be a lot of fun, but it also has the potential to legitimately change the game. So far, Warbonds are releasing on a consistent cycle, deploying on the second Thursday of each month. Purchasing a Premium Warbond doesn't have to instill any particular urgency, however, as they're permanently unlocked and can be completed at any time after acquisition. View the full article

If you’re looking to get some sweet loot like Energy Links and Stardust in Once Human, running through the various Securement Silos is one of the best ways. These dungeons in the game don’t pose too much of a challenge and can be completed solo or with a team. Currently, there are 4 of them on the map. Where to find Securement Silo – StigmaThis is one of the first Securement Silos you should head to in Once Human. I would recommend being around level 15 before attempting it. Of course, if you’re heading in with a few friends, you could easily get through it at a lower level. You will find this Securement Silo to the North East of the Broken Delta region on the Once Human map. I found the easiest way to access it is via the High Bank teleportation tower. Head west from there.Image: PC InvasionHow to clear Securement Silo – StigmaAs I mentioned, make sure you’re around level 15 in Once Human before you head into Securement Silo Stig...View the full article

Upcoming Xbox console exclusive game State of Decay 3 could be getting its first major update in four years. State of Decay 3 was first announced in 2020, and was in fact one of the first-ever games revealed for the Xbox Series X/S family of consoles. The CG trailer helped set the tone for what State of Decay 3 may be aiming for thematically, but otherwise didn't reveal anything all that substantial about the game. View the full article

Honkai: Star Rail is in the midst of a first-year anniversary that includes the arrival of Penacony, a new world for the Trailblazer and their ever-growing roster of companions to explore. Version 2.0 officially launched the lavish and spectacular location, which hides some dark secrets that are at the heart of an ongoing main story quest that has ramped up the stakes and created some of Honkai: Star Rail's best moments so far. View the full article

Honkai: Star Rail is in the midst of a first-year anniversary that includes the arrival of Penacony, a new world for the Trailblazer and their ever-growing roster of companions to explore. Version 2.0 officially launched the lavish and spectacular location, which hides some dark secrets that are at the heart of an ongoing main story quest that has ramped up the stakes and created some of Honkai: Star Rail's best moments so far. View the full article

I get an ***** to put on my gardening gloves and get planting when spring comes around. While practicing patience for the right weather, I’ll read up on books and try to learn new techniques – but this year, Botany Manor has helped satiate my excitement. It’s a cozy, first-person puzzle game that puts a blank herbarium book in your hand and asks you to grow different plants until the pages are full. Botany Manor is a short and sweet story that safely sits surface-level, but its witty mysteries engaging enough to keep me happily digging for more. Botany Manor puts you in the boots of retired botanist Arabella Greene as she returns to her grand, and adorably stylized, English manor in 1890 Somerset. Each “puzzle” is actually a fictional plant waiting to be grown, with clever clues scattered around that help you tend each new seed type. Those can start simple, like the Fulguria needing flashes of lightning to bloom, but clues gradually increase in complexity and quantity in order to bring these whimsical plants to life. Real-world science and the time ******* both inspire unconventional growing methods, such as needing to play the buzzing sound of morse code for a certain seedling. Botany Manor may not teach you much about actual gardening – though I probably read the word “chloroplasts” for the first time in a very long time – but I enjoyed the surreal nature of it. For example, picking up the first packet of seeds at the potting bench reveals an imprint of a fictional plant called Windmill Wort, with slots for three clues waiting to be found nearby. From the start, it was evident that these clues would not only help solve this puzzle, but also string together a much larger story about Arabella and the manor she lives in. Heat and wildflower charts on a chalkboard helped me figure out the right temperature to grow Windmill Wort, which then bloomed into a lovely pink flower that literally spins like a windmill to clear up smog, smartly tying into a newspaper I had found that discussed the issues of the era’s recent industrialization. Some information took an embarrassingly long time to decipher as I ran back and forth from one clue to another while head-scratching theories tested my memory. Chapters in the herbarium tell you what clues you've found and where to find more, but it doesn't save the more specific information from them. So, if you forget what that pamphlet in the attic said, you'll have to walk back to examine it – which makes Botany Manor feel a lot like a walking simulator. My hands were off the keyboard quite often taking physical notes on my discoveries, essentially writing up my own botany book. I also had to tirelessly retrace my steps several times to reread or flip around clues in case I may have missed something, which could get a little tedious. But it helps that icons will pop up when you walk past an item to let you know you can examine it, and musical cues acknowledge that you're on the right track. Between solving plant mysteries, you’ll occasionally visit the front gate to pick up a key or decrypt secret locks to access a new area, which helps cut down on the otherwise repetitive nature of the roughly six-hour campaign. I looked forward to what awaited in each new section of the manor, not only because the clues became progressively more creative, but also because it was always fun to find more pamphlets, bottle labels, advertisements, and other environmental details full of vintage charm. The books about art I stumbled across made the space all the more quaint, too, and were later upstaged by a dreamy painting room that reminded me of my own canvases of houseplants. Botany Manor beckons you with strange ideas and picturesque scenery in every challenge, but Arabella’s story trails behind. Rather than telling her tale through characters and spoken dialogue, it opts for written notes on pretty stationary and significant items that peer into Arabella’s life to tell its overarching story. I liked Arabella, a strong-willed botanist who has suffered unjust rejection in her field, but these notes and letters fail to dig deep into her emotions. Even letters from family, friends, and groundskeepers have the potential to create intimate moments, but are instead easily forgettable in the hunt for clues. The manor is clearly not abandoned, either, as ***** burns beneath the stove in the kitchen, but the space feels as if everyone left at the drop of a hat. It’s a bit odd, but it does work in that it prevents any distractions from the puzzles themselves – and after all, Arabella needs to focus to get this herbarium published and earn her rightful flowers as a woman in STEM. View the full article

Once Human is similar to other survival crafting games on the market, but its PvE and PvP systems are a bit different. This guide will explain how PVP works in Once Human so you can test your skills against other players.Once Human: How does PvP work?The first thing you need to know about PVP in Once Human is that you can’t automatically compete against other players; instead, you must work for it. To activate PVP in Once Human, you have to reach level 10 and enter a Chaos State. This guide discusses how to enter a Chaos state further down.PVP is a lot of fun in Once Human as it’s not mainly about gunfights but a battle to take each other’s resources. On the other hand, PVE is all about dungeon diving and finding your own resources. For example, if you are looking for rare materials, you will have the best chance of finding them in PVP rather than PVE, especially if you are looting from a higher-ranked player. Remember, though, that you could lose some val...View the full article

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Botany Manor is a game that seems calculated to make me sit up on alert like a meerkat, or ****** through a wall yelling like that sentient jug mascot (I am not from America, I just know he exists). It's a puzzle game about growing plants. Holy Strange Horticulture, Batman! But Botany Manor is much less eldritch, and much more gentle historical feel-good movie starring Emma Thompson in the lead role. That role - which in this case is played by you in first person rather than La Thompson - is of Arabella Greene, a retired botanist who, thank ****, is the childless inheritor of a huge manor and ancestral wealth, and so is able to spend the sunny days of 1890 pottering around the house and grounds researching weird, slightly fantastical plants almost wholly untroubled. So in this respect it is also a fantasy game. It's quite delightful, which is the sort of phrase I am confident Arabella would use. Read more View the full article

Acer surprised many of us when it decided to enter the discrete graphics card market a few years ago. However, its first offerings were based on Intel GPUs that, with the best will in the world, weren't the most in-demand options. Since then it's added the entry-level AMD Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 GRE but has otherwise maintained a modest selection. Now, though, the company has really ramped up its offerings, by bringing out Acer Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT cards. While the RX 7700 XT isn't our absolute favorite GPU, that's only because its slightly more powerful sibling the RX 7800 XT is the better choice of these AMD GPUs, and our pick for the best graphics card under $500. With this card in particular, Acer could finally make some major inroads into the discrete graphics card space. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You can save over $200 in this Nvidia RTX 4050 gaming laptop deal Bag this Acer Nitro gaming monitor now for its lowest ever price Get this Acer Predator RTX 4070 laptop at its lowest ever price View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Now is a great time to build a budget gaming rig based on AMD's latest Zen 4 hardware, as the price of the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X has just dropped to its lowest ever level of just $179. This six-core gaming CPU started out costing $299 when it launched just over a year ago, meaning this current CPU deal saves you a massive 40% off the original price. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Acer graphics cards finally got interesting, thanks to two new GPUs New AMD Radeon ***** suggests RDNA 4 GPUs may be just what we need This cherry blossom AMD graphics card is ideal for a Sakura PC build View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The first major Balatro patch is here, as 1.0.1 comes to PC in an experimental form for everyone who owns the game to test, if they want to. With plenty to sink your teeth into, the biggest changes in 1.0.1 come in the form of reduced antes making the game a bit easier, alongside some big changes to the later Orange and Gold difficulty stakes. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: A physical Balatro deck exists, and now I want one for myself The year's biggest indie hit just got a rare discount on Steam The indie breakout hit of 2024 has now sold over a million copies View the full article

Once a rival to ***** By Daylight and precursor to the likes of Evil ***** of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th is unavailable to purchase on Steam and its official servers will be closed at the end of 2024. Attempting to keep the multiplayer horror game alive, a free-to-play fan remake was originally poised for a release date reveal in April. Now, however, the owners of various Friday the 13th copyrights have intervened and issued a cease and desist order. If you were hoping for an unofficial return for Friday the 13th, the online slasher, which to this day boasts a 'mostly positive' rating on Steam, appears to be ***** for good. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: After being pulled from Steam, one horror game classic is finally back You won't be able to buy Friday the 13th next year Friday the 13th: The Game will shut down dedicated servers this month View the full article

Acer surprised many of us when it decided to enter the discrete graphics card market a few years ago. However, its first offerings were based on Intel GPUs that, with the best will in the world, weren't the most in-demand options. Since then it's added the entry-level AMD Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 GRE but has otherwise maintained a modest selection. Now, though, the company has really ramped up its offerings, by bringing out Acer Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT cards. While the RX 7700 XT isn't our absolute favorite GPU, that's only because its slightly more powerful sibling the RX 7800 XT is the better choice of these AMD GPUs, and our pick for the best graphics card under $500. With this card in particular, Acer could finally make some major inroads into the discrete graphics card space. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You can save over $200 in this Nvidia RTX 4050 gaming laptop deal Bag this Acer Nitro gaming monitor now for its lowest ever price Get this Acer Predator RTX 4070 laptop at its lowest ever price View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]