Epic is back at it again this week with another solid lineup of free games. This week, Remnant: From the Ashes and The Alto Collection are featured titles with no strings attached. Most people should know how the offer works by now. All you need is an Epic account to claim the Epic Games Store free games. Once you do so, they’re yours to keep forever and you can download them at any time of your choosing....
The first Toejam & Earl game really stuck out when it released. While most kid-friendly games at the time were platformers meant for broad appeal, this title was an isometric, randomly-generated game with a quirky, hip-hop aesthetic. It was a sleeper hit due to just how different and creative it was. However, its sequel was a more generic experience. The franchise had another game released in the early ’00s, but it’s lain dormant since then....
Heart Container – The Legend of Zelda The more heart containers you’ve collected, the more damage Link can absorb. We figure most damage will be sustained falling from deadly heights rather than threatening enemy forces, so maybe replace these health upgrades with Knee Braces in future titles, Nintendo? Estus Flask – Dark Souls In theory, one swig from this from this flask will restore some easily depleted health. In reality, however, expect to consume all available charges in a feverish craze as you postpone your impending death....
Total War games have had a brush with technical issues early on in their lifespan. One need only look at Total War: Rome 2 to see how unoptimized it was during launch, or the woes experienced by Total War: Warhammer. So, yes, it pays to be wary when a new title comes around. Then, here comes Total War: Three Kingdoms, which throws all past problems out the window, so much so that I thoroughly enjoyed my 67 hours of playing, as you can see in our official review....
The important thing you need to know about True Detective Season 3‘s timelines is that they’re not designed to screw with you. Seriously. While presenting one case over three different timelines, decades apart, isn’t the most straightforward way of telling a story, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto is adamant that the timelines don’t exist to trip the viewer up or obscure the truth. “I wanted to sort of be like, ‘no tricks up my sleeve,’” Pizzolatto told Den of Geek....
A bulk of your time in Tunic is spent seeking out the three colored gems, or keys as the game calls them, that are seemingly missing from the large artifact-like structure in the center of the hall with the golden doors, which you’ll have opened by ringing the East and West Belltowers. However, once you’ve got these, you’re probably wondering what you’re supposed to do with them, and then where you’re supposed to go after that....
Twitch streamer Forsale18 gets a three-day ban on the streaming service for what some are saying is a silly reason. Fans of the streamer, who broadcasts variety and gaming content, have also criticized Twitch for handing out a ban to Forsale18 while allowing others who have done more serious terms of service violations off the hook. Forsale18 says that the day after doing his first Minecraft stream, he discovered that his Twitch channel had been suspended....
Long ago, I was a muso. At school I was the kid who never had a lunchtime or afterschool spare between choirs, orchestras, and jazz bands. At university I spent as much time with the musical theatre society as I did studying for my actual music degree. And with Two Point Campus, this gives me one ultimate objective: to create the ultimate fantasy music school. Before that though, the basics. To those who’ve played spiritual predecessor Two Point Hospital, Two Point Campus will be very familiar....
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 becomes the biggest launch in 2012 on its way to claiming the UK No.1 spot. However, the blockbuster sequel is only the fourth biggest opener of all time in the UK. Prior to the launch of Black Ops 2, only four games had sold a million or more copies in the UK: Call of Duty Black Ops, Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warfare 3 and FIFA 13....
Clever Endeavour has announced that it intends to bring its popular PC party platformer Ultimate Chicken Horse to consoles, with a PlayStation 4 version ready to launch on December 12. In case you weren’t aware, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a game that sees players take turns to reach a goal in what starts as a blank level, but between each round players must place components and traps in said level and then race against their opponents to finish the resultant Frankenstein’s monster of a stage....
The nominees are in for the 10th annual Game Developers Conference Awards and… they really aren’t all that surprising. All of the big players are there: Uncharted 2 with seven nominations, Assassin’s Creed II with four, and other recognizable titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Borderlands also receiving nominations. One surprise, however, is the downloadable title Flower from thatgamecompany getting the second most nominations with five....
Uncharted 4’s first multiplayer DLC is arriving on PS4 this Wednesday, June 29, Naughty Dog has announced. The pack includes a host of content, including the game’s first free map, plus new guns, skins, taunts and boosters, while the patch rolling out alongside will also introduce custom matches, custom loadout names and a “revamp to Ranked Team Deathmatch”. Another new feature, “likely the most requested new feature” by the Uncharted 4 community, will be implemented too, Naughty Dog says, although it hasn’t yet revealed what it will be....
There are multiple bosses in Valheim that you will encounter throughout the game. Eikthyr is the first one and defeating him will give you a useful item tool Pickaxe. Once you have acquired your first Pickaxe in Valheim, it is time to get your hands on more advanced weapons but they require Tin and Copper Ore to get crafted. Unlike other items, finding Tin and Copper Ore is not easy too easy....
Publisher Coffee Stain and developer Iron Gate Studio have today announced that their Viking epic Valheim has surpassed 10m sales. In a joint press release, the companies wrote: “[We are] pleased to reveal that Valheim has surpassed ten million copies sold just over one year since its Steam Early Access release.” In addition to this, the companies also revealed that Valheim had an all-time player peak of 502,000 – not too mead-iocre at all....
Despite being locked down in a frustratingly limited beta, online shooter Valorant is one of the most anticipated games of the year. Finally, after months of speculation, Riot games has revealed that Valorant will launch on June 2. Valorant executive producer Anna Donlon and director Joe Ziegler made the launch date announcement in a very cute video on Twitter. Together the pair talked about the goal of launching the game in summer of 2020....
The Grammy Awards has added five new categories, including Video Game Score. All five will be included from next year’s awards. That includes awards for songwriting, song for social change, and poetry. The Grammy Awards, America’s most prestigious music award ceremony, aims to encapsulate all elements of the music industry, so the Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games And Other Interactive Media should fit in neatly. Specifically, the award “recognises excellence in score soundtrack albums comprised predominately of original scores and created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current video game or other interactive media released within the qualification period”....
Warhammer 40K: Darktide has several mission types, with primary objectives that can be seen in various maps. One of these takes you to a facility that requires a bit of fixing before it can become active once more. Here’s our Warhammer 40K: Darktide Power Matrix Repair mission guide to help you with what you can encounter in this particular level. Note: We’ll have a Warhammer 40K: Darktide guides and features hub soon, so stay tuned....
After it emerged last week that Bethesda were taking legal action against Warner Bros for the similarties between their new Westworld mobile game and Bethesda’s own Fallout Shelter, this week Warner Bros have released a statement to defend themselves. In the statment issued to GamesIndustry.biz, Warner Bros claimed that they had been ‘assured by the game developer, Behaviour Interactive, that Bethesda’s allegations are untrue and that none of Bethesda’s code was used in the Westworld game....
It’s fair to say that Mass Effect 2 is well-known for its romantic branching storylines. In fact, there are a staggering nine different characters that you can woo in BioWare’s critically acclaimed sophomore outing. But did you know that there’s a secret alternate ending that was created as an in-joke by one of the members of the development team behind closed doors? Well, today we can finally witness the wonder that is undoubtedly and officially the canonical ending of Mass Effect 2....
If you’re sick and tired of reading news stories about how difficult it is to find graphics cards and the ongoing supply chain issues for the associated components, this report offers a glimmer of hope. Restock for the Nvidia RTX 30 Series and even the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series is still coming in regularly at Micro Center retail locations, and we found plenty of graphics cards on shelves today....
