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HomeFeatures Portal 2 was released a decade ago, so here are 10 facts about Valve’s classic puzzle gameOur boy Wheatley really did make it into orbit Our boy Wheatley really did make it into orbit Portal 2 originally didn’t have any Portals in it Valve’s initial experiments into a Portal follow-up jettisoned everything but Aperture Science. No Chell, no GLaDOS, no portals. No way! The game was initially going to be set in the mid-’80s and based around a mechanic called “F-Stop”, which involved using a camera to grab sections of the game’s scenery to solve puzzles....

HomeNewsSkin Deep Skin Deep, the next game from the creator of Quadrilateral Cowboy, has resurfacedIt has a mech now It has a mech now SKIN DEEP | Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube SKIN DEEP | Announcement Trailer The original impression of Skin Deep was that it was ‘Die Hard in space’. You’d spend time crawling around in vents, dust might make you sneeze and set off systemic chain reactions, you could cut your feet on broken glass - all good stuff....

HomeHardwareNews Watch out, crypto-mining SSDs are on the way now, tooA global SSD shortage could follow as a result A global SSD shortage could follow as a result Buying an new SSD could be about to become as difficult as buying a new, next-gen graphics card in the coming months thanks to the rise of a new cryptocurrency known as Chia. According to a new report fromHKEPC(thanksHexus), storage prices in Hong Kong have soared in recent days as miners snap up high capacity drives in anticipation of Chia being the next big thing, causing several models to go out of stock....

HomeHardwareFeatures Asus ROG Flow X13 reviewA pint-sized RTX 3080 powerhouse, with a twist A pint-sized RTX 3080 powerhouse, with a twist Diddy 13in laptops are all well and good for taking on the road, but their compact shape and super svelte innards rarely leave much room for powerful gaming components. Indeed, the best graphics chip you’ll often find on ‘gaming’ laptops like these is the humble Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 GPU, as we saw onRazer’s Blade Stealth 13at the end of last year....

HomeFeaturesMass Effect Andromeda Mass Effect Andromeda would be way better if it had more treesA vegetative state A vegetative state Recently I have been hoofing throughMass Effect Andromedain my spare time. Like, properly hoofing - 10 hours at a time, like I’m back to being an adolescent with nothing to do except play video games and eat huge quantities of the short-lived early-noughties crisp spinoff Wotsits Wafflers. If anyone knows where I can source Wafflers, please get in touch....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Midrange Demon Hunter deck list guide - Forged in the Barrens - Hearthstone (April 2021)Illidan’s minions are getting bigger. Illidan’s minions are getting bigger. This Midrange Demon Hunter deck is a really nice, simple deck to play, and you can get strong results if you play it well. With a great balance of board control and burst damage, you’ll hopefully be able to take your enemies out with relentless efficiency and even have a few tricks up your sleeve if stuff goes wrong....

HomeGuidesOutriders Outriders Legendary weapons list: all the best Legendary weapons in OutridersA full list of all Legendary weapons in Outriders A full list of all Legendary weapons in Outriders Outriders, like many looter shooters, saves its true potential for overpowered builds for the rarest pieces of loot. If you want the best guns in the game, you should look no further than theOutriders Legendary weapons, which each sport a unique and often devastatingly powerful weapon mod....

HomeNewsMinecraft This Minecraft fan’s concept video for a ‘River Update’ is coolCome watch their pitch, and how they made it Come watch their pitch, and how they made it WhileMinecraftdevs Mojang aresplitting the Caves & Cliffs Update in two, one fan has been dreaming of a whole other update. A Minecraft builder known as “Disruptive Builds” has created a video demonstrating their concept for a hypothetical River Update, with new types of rivers, creeks, and waterfalls rolling across the land....

HomeNewsBoomerang X Boomerang X’s demo offers Devil Daggers-style delights with a sense of progressAnd a weapon like Krull’s glaive And a weapon like Krull’s glaive RPS fell hard forDevil Daggers, naming it our game of the year back when, but one of the most common criticisms from the “not for me” crowd was that it lacks a sense of progress.Try Boomberang X, then. It’s a first-person arena shooter with escalating waves of greebly enemies and a focus on a single weapon, but you unlock new abilities and move to new areas in between fights....

HomeNews What game has the best melee combat?Swing and a hit Swing and a hit Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega When done poorly, swinging your arms in a videogame feels like nothing at all. Fists phase through opponents, swords smack like dull sticks, and it’s all a little too much like making a health points withdrawl at the NPC ATM. Thankfully there are lots of games which do it wonderfully - so, which game does it best?...

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3’s new hotfix makes loaded dice odds be ever in your favorLifting the curse of the RNG Lifting the curse of the RNG Over in theirhotfix 10 patch notes, Larian explain how initial reactions to the loaded dice indicate that they actually weren’t scummyenough. “Even with this change, we noticed in your feedback that the RNG wasn’t feeling fun for you. We’ve seen the dice described as being harsh, cursed, rigged and someone said the RNG was downright evil....

HomeNews Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is now letting alpha players scan space plantsSample the local flora when you land Sample the local flora when you land Greetings, Commanders. Here’s your regular status report on theElite Dangerous: Odysseyalpha. After gradually expanding the capabilitties of alpha players from their initial walkabouts to some FPS games, Frontier Developments are now sending players off to explore new planets again. The latest alpha phase, focused on exploration, turns players into exobiologists with genetic scanners....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Face Hunter deck list guide - Forged in the Barrens - Hearthstone (April 2021)Hit the enemy in the face until they die. Hit the enemy in the face until they die. Hunter has always been a class that excels in combining its resources and Hero Power to play aggressively. With so many aggro tools available to the Hunter class, we’ll be seeing a fair bit more aggression from Hunters in the future....