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HomeFeaturesDesperados 3 Have You Played… Desperados 3?Cowboy Tactics: Blades Of The Poncho Cowboy Tactics: Blades Of The Poncho If you played Shadow Tactics, you’ll know what to expect here. Set in a wonderfully realised wild west, Desperados III tasks players with carefully guiding a small roster of characters, each with particular skillsets, through missions that are as ingeniously crafted as they are violent and bloody. Each mission is broken down into a series of tense puzzles that reward consideration and timing, while also invariably offering many different paths to success....

HomeNews Koei Tecmo announced Nioh 2’s latest patch over on the game’sSteam page, with the headline fix being “added support for keyboard & mouse input icons”. To turn this setting on, players need to head into “System - Keyboard & Mouse Settings - Control Icons”. And voilá, the correct keyboard and mouse button prompts will appear when using this control scheme, as opposed to PlayStation’s crosses and circles. To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeFeaturesIt Takes Two Preview: It Takes Two is the most co-operative co-op game I’ve ever playedTurns out the title is incredibly accurate Turns out the title is incredibly accurate Here’s something I wasn’t expecting:It Takes Twois pretty difficult. I didn’t think it was going to be a piece of the proverbial, exactly, but considering that Hazelight Studios' last co-op game, the gritty two-lads-escaping-prison split-screen adventureA Way Outwasn’t all that challenging in the end because both players were able to act pretty independently, I assumed It Takes Two would follow in a similar vein....

HomeNewsThe Architect: Paris The Architect: Paris lets you re-design the French capitalIt’s out now, and it’s not a citybuilder It’s out now, and it’s not a citybuilder The Architect: Parisis not a citybuilder. There’s no strategy, or goal, or economy, or traffic simulation underpinning its recreation of the French capital.Instead, it’s a realistic map of the city in which you can edit every building. You can tear down 18th century apartments and replace them with a park or a gaudy skyscrapers, if you wish, then customise every detail....

HomePodcasts The Weekspot podcast: One of us had to play Valheim eventuallyViking and I Viking and I There comes a point, regardless of your interest in a particular video game, where you can’t ignore the popular one.Valheimhas been dominating the charts since it came out last month, so I recently decided to jump in and see what all the fuss was about. And, after a couple of hours, it seems the fuss relates to that sense of accomplishment after you’ve constructed a terrible house....

HomeGuidesValheim Valheim boats: how to make the Raft, Karve, and LongshipLearn how to make a boat and sail the seas in Valheim Learn how to make a boat and sail the seas in Valheim How do you build a boat in Valheim?Valheimgives players an infinite number of gigantic worlds filled with islands both great and small to explore, but to get to most of those islands you’ll need to build a boat and sail there....

HomeHardwareFeatures Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 (2021) reviewAn expensive, but gorgeous RTX 3080 desktop replacement laptop An expensive, but gorgeous RTX 3080 desktop replacement laptop Of all thenew gaming laptops coming out this year, the 2021 edition of the Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 is almost certainly going to be one of the most powerful, high-spec machines you can buy. Not only is its top spec packed with the full 16GB variant of Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 graphics chip and an overclocked model of AMD’s brand-new Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, but it also comes equipped with a 165Hz refresh rate display that has a gorgeous 2560x1440 resolution....

HomeNewsDeep Rock Galactic Deep Rock Galactic is adding new missions, weapons and more this yearThe devs say it might be their “biggest update ever” The devs say it might be their “biggest update ever” Futuristic dwarven mining simulatorDeep Rock Galactichas tons of new stuff arriving this year. Developers Ghost Ship Games revealed a 2021 roadmap over the weekend, detailing some of things to look forward to in the game’s next couple of updates....

HomeNews Destiny 2’s glitch allowing 12-player raids is such wonderful chaosSurely it’s easy with twice as many players? Well… Surely it’s easy with twice as many players? Well… A newly-discoveredDestiny 2glitch lets players cram so many people into a team than officially allowed, and boy howdy it’s been daft. Smooshing two fireteams together for a 12-person raid? Sure! Hell, I’ve even seen 12 people crammed into the three-player Presage mission. The glitch is tricky to pull off, and presumably will soon be patched out, but I had a grand old time joining a 12-player Deep Stone Crypt over the weekend....

HomeNewsElden Ring Elden Ring fans are flipping over an extremely blurry trailer leakThey’re the resident experts at teasing information out of sparse details They’re the resident experts at teasing information out of sparse details Oh,Elden Ring. Perhaps you weren’t a collective hallucination after all. Leaked footage of what’s supposedly a trailer for FromSoftware’s norse-y RPG has been making the rounds online today. Despite being filmed on what might as well be a roll of adhesive tape, fans are thrilled....

HomeNewsThe Sinking City The Sinking City is back on Steam, but the devs don’t want you to buy itFrogwares say they didn’t make the version currently on sale Frogwares say they didn’t make the version currently on sale In August last year,Frogwares released a statementalleging that Nacon withheld payments during the game’s development, owed Frogwares around €1 million in royalties (about £900,000), and wrongly tried to claim copyright of The Sinking City....

HomeNewsValheim This Valheim world generator is super handy for sleuthing good seedsGet the lay of the land for any seed Get the lay of the land for any seed Viking crafting adventureValheimdoesn’t need an introduction anymore, right? Good, on to the fun stuff then. Valheim’s worlds are all procedurally generated, meaning you may have had lovely or lousy luck with the locations of bosses and biomes in your first world. Before you go starting up a new one at random, check out this handy Valheim world generator....

HomeNewsValheim Valheim player discovers that the sea is one big trampolineIt all started with a longboat and a mega-ramp It all started with a longboat and a mega-ramp Valheimis a lovely viking survival game withmysterious treesand carrots that simplyrefuse to be planted. It’s a strange, strange world, and one player has discovered another one of its quirks. Having sent their viking longship down a cloud-touching mega-ramp, soared through the air, and hit the sea, they discovered that water in norse purgatory is actually made of trampoline....