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HomeNews Mass Effect remaster will bring first game more in line with its sequelsBioWare outline slicker action, a tweaked Mako and more BioWare outline slicker action, a tweaked Mako and more I’ve twice tried to get into theMass Effectseries and both times I’ve given up a few hours into the first game. ‘That’s where it starts to get good!’ my friends tell me, while also saying thatMass Effect 2fixed a lot of the first game’s problems....

HomeGuidesOutriders Outriders No HUD bug fix: how to fix the missing HUD and Crosshair glitchHow to fix the no HUD bug in Outriders How to fix the no HUD bug in Outriders Outridersand its playerbase is suffering from more than a few server issues, glitches, and other irritations - not least of which is the infamous “no HUD” bug which is confusing a great many new players. If your HUD or crosshair is missing onOutridersPC, don’t fret....

HomeNews Prison Architect’s developers almost made a 3D Factorio in 2017Or Satisfactory but not in first-person Or Satisfactory but not in first-person Introversion Software, the makers ofPrison Architect, have been making a video series about all the prototypes they’ve created and scrapped over the past several years. This month’s prototype is ‘Minecraft Factory’ or ‘Voxel Factory’, an attempt in 2017 to make aFactorio-like game out of Minecraft-style blocks. You can watch a video where they demonstrate the prototype and why they binned the idea - and then you can buy and play it, if you like, with all the money going to charity....

HomeNews Totally Accurate Battle Simulator added multiplayer and left early accessReady to rhumble Ready to rhumble Directing armies in battles can be such a chore—‘go here,’ ‘kill that’, ‘retreat there’—when sometimes I just want to see a big daft rumble. That’sTotally Accurate Battle Simulator, the game about building armies and just seeing what happens. It gets a touch silly, between the ragdoll physics and a roster of units which includes vikings, cavemen, Roman legionaries, pirates, wooly mammoths, tanks, dragons, skeletons, and angels....

HomeNewsTurbo Overkill Turbo Overkill is an FPS where you have a chainsaw for a legI’m glad I saw this I’m glad I saw this Ever since I carved up aliens in Gears Of War with my gun-that-also-has-a-chainsaw-built-into-it, I’ve always thought more video games could use inventive saw contraptions. That’s whyTurbo Overkillhas me very excited, as it’s an FPS where the protagonist has a chainsaw for a leg. And the gifs which show it off?...

HomeNewsWarhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Storm Ground coming in MayIn the grim darkness of the near future… In the grim darkness of the near future… Across the squillion Warhammer games we get these days, we don’t see much in Age Of Sigmar, the setting which semi-replaced Warhammer Fantasy Battle in 2015. Hey, look, here comes Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Storm Ground, with a freshly-announced release date of May 27th....

HomeNews Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.5 trailer shows Nier: Automata crossover2P or Not 2B 2P or Not 2B Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion is Endwalker, which will conclude the story that’s been running through the massively multiplayer game since A Realm Reborn launched in 2013. Before that will come update 5.5, which will bridge the gap between Endwalker and the previous expansion, Shadowbringers, and there’s a new trailer for it below....

HomeNewsIcarus Icarus, from the creator of DayZ, sets the scene with new live action trailerThough it hasn’t yet provided a reason to care Though it hasn’t yet provided a reason to care There are dozens of survival games now, butDayZstill feels like lightning in a bottle. No game before or since has done such a good job of creating tension among players, where the occasional sighting of another human seemed filled with possibility and threat....

There was a time when the video game playing public didn’t question silent protagonists. It was just accepted that the person you were controlling wouldn’t say a word. These days, though, you can’t shut them up. But, we’re not discussing the talkative lot on this edition ofMystery Steam Reviews. We’re highlighting the strong and silent types, this week. We’ve run another poll on theRock Paper Shotgun YouTube channelfor the next edition of Mystery Steam Reviews, so go and vote if you want to have a say in what the next MSR is all about....

HomePodcastsCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Warzone Audio Bang podcast episode three: the Captain Price Is rightAll that and a brand new crossbow All that and a brand new crossbow Warzone Audio Bangis RPS' fortnightly Call Of Duty: Warzone podcast that looks at everything happening in Verdansk.Ed and I have continued to pop into Verdansk for post-work shenanigans despite the wish for more wild events in our favourite danger zone. The zombies have moved to the bank vault, because as we all know, the undead much prefer cash-in-hand for tax purposes....

HomeGuidesMinecraft Best Minecraft Texture Packs: the best stylised, realistic, and PvP texture packsThe very best Minecraft Texture Packs for 2024 The very best Minecraft Texture Packs for 2024 Want to know where to download the best Minecraft texture packs?Minecrafthas a very familiar and distinctive default look. Every single face of every single block in the game is made up of 256 pixels of varying colours, and over 10 years of mining and exploring, we players can get very used to those textures....

HomeNewsOverwatch Chinese police shut down “world’s biggest” cheat sellerThe cheaty whack-a-mole continues The cheaty whack-a-mole continues Chinese police have reportedly shut down a cheat seller in collaboration with publishers Tencent, arresting 10 people and seizing sports cars in the process. The operation, named Chicken Drumstick, sold subscriptions to cheats for games includingOverwatchand Call Of Duty Mobile. The police claim this was the “world’s biggest” cheat operation, though that’s a tough one to quantify or verify....

HomeNews Elite Dangerous Odyssey’s alpha will address taxi rides and player killersBut don’t expect fast travel But don’t expect fast travel Elite Dangerous: Odysseylaunchedthe first step of its alphaonly a few days ago, and developers Frontier have shared a response to some common complaints from its earliest adopters. Firstly: no, space taxis aren’t going to get any faster.Frontier’sSteam news postaddressed two areas: the game’s Apex Interstellar taxi system, and murderous on-foot players....