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HomeNewsTeardown This Teardown modder wants to help you smash up the real worldHow often do I get to drive a truck into the office? How often do I get to drive a truck into the office? Outside ofTeardown, most of us will never know the thrill of bombing industrial lots or driving a dump-truck into a billionaire’s mansion. But while I won’t be taking a sledgehammer to my office anytime soon, I can rest easy in the knowledge that I may soon be breaking it down on my desktop - with one programmer showing off a delightfully destructive montage of real-world wreckage inside Tuxedo Labs' digital smashing yards....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s next update fixes a memory leak and a dog leakBuggy mutts begone Buggy mutts begone As Ubisoft had planned,Assassin’s Creed Valhallais getting another update this month with more bug fixes and adjustments that they’ve now announced is dropping tomorrow. There are of course some serious technical fixes being made but there are some goofs too. Everyone loves a good patch notes goof. Title update 1....

HomeFeaturesGodfall At last, a game that is 100% about the aestheticGodfall is impressively dedicated to the look Godfall is impressively dedicated to the look Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Here are some Valorplates, I think the one on the right is a peakcock and the one on the left is, like, a beetle? You are on an escalating mission to murder your brother, who thinks he is a god or is trying to become one - I forget which, and it doesn’t matter - and have already failed once in this task....

HomeNews Black Mesa’s Definitive Edition update makes it just about finishedPerformance improvements and extra prettiness Performance improvements and extra prettiness After over a decade of work (and nine months after actually releasing the game), theBlack Mesagang are finally just about finished remakingHalf-Life. Today they launch a big update they’re calling the ‘Definitive Edition’, with changes including a visual refresh of many areas, performance improvements, extra polishing, and a redo of one level from the bit with all the trains....

HomeNewsMonster Hunter: World Milla Jovovich joins Monster Hunter: World in movie crossoverI will watch the film, and I’m sorry I will watch the film, and I’m sorry A Monster Hunter movie from the director ofResident Evilcould never actually be like Monster Hunter the game… unless Capcom made the game like the movie. Which they are. They’ve announced a crossover event betweenMonster Hunter World: Iceborneand the upcoming movie, where we’ll get to play as Milla Jovovich’s character from the Paul W....

HomeNews Square Enix to make working from home permanentIs working from home just a pandemic precaution? Square Enix thinks it’s worth sticking with Is working from home just a pandemic precaution? Square Enix thinks it’s worth sticking with The pandemic has forced many companies to challenge their ideas about how they make games, especially about having everyone together in offices.Final Fantasymakers Square Enix shifted to working from home this year, and it’s gone so well that they’re choosing to open this up as a permanent option for many....

HomeNewsWatch Dogs Legion Watch Dogs Legion delays online modes to early 2021Ubisoft are still tackling singleplayer technical issues Ubisoft are still tackling singleplayer technical issues Watch Dogs Legionhas been out for nearly a month now, so perhaps some of you have already called it a wrap on the game’s main campaign. If you were looking forward to the addition of multiplayer modes and other online London-ing in December, you’ll have a bit longer to wait than planned....

HomeNews Fortnite subscription service will give skins and store cash for £10/monthFortnite Crew launches next week Fortnite Crew launches next week If your nieces and nephews are not yet pestering you with Christmas lists of page and item numbers from the Argos catalogue, here’s something else you’ll likely have demanded: aFortnitesubscription. Epic Games today announced the Fortnite Crew, a £10/month optional subscription service offering exclusive outfits plus pocket money for the item store....

HomeNews World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands level cap was smashed in a brisk three hoursQuests? What quests? Quests? What quests? Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube It’s conventional wisdom that running dungeons is a much faster way to grind levels in World Of Warcraft. For Monkeylool, that meant running the Necrotic Wake instance inBastionover and over, getting through it at a brisk 5-6 minutes a pop. But dungeons are usually level-gated, and won’t let you queue for them if you’re above or below their recommended level range....

HomeNews BioWare and Ubisoft veterans open Yellow Brick Games in QuebecThey’re off the see the wizard They’re off the see the wizard Image credit:EA Image credit:EA As they do, a group of developers with past experience at bigtime studios BioWare and Ubisoft have shrugged off the corporate chains and gotten together to create a new game studio. Mike Laidlaw, Jeff Skalski, Frédéric St-Laurent B., and Thomas Giroux have teamed up to create Yellow Brick Games, a new studio in Quebec City....

HomeNewsDoom Of course someone got Doom running on a Nintendo Game & WatchGood old hardware rip and tear Good old hardware rip and tear Oldfangled is newfangled again and that goes double for this inevitable feat of hardware hackery. That’s right, it’sDoom. Of course it’s Doom. More specifically, it’s Doom running on one of Nintendo’s old-but-new Game & Watch handheld toys that was created to run Super Mario Bros. Throw Mario in the bin though because after rip and tearing into this retro-styled device someone has taken it on a tour of hell instead....

HomeHardwareDeals Razer’s best gaming mice get big Black Friday price cutsRazer’s Black Friday sale shaves several pounds off their top mice. Razer’s Black Friday sale shaves several pounds off their top mice. The Basilisk V2 is effectively Razer’s answer to theRPS readers’ favouriteLogitech G502 series, with multiple programmable buttons, a thumb rest and RGB lighting. Right now it’s 53% off – might that be enough to swing the next vote?...

HomeNews In the PC gaming spirit of trying to run software on the daftest hardware you can put together, I present to you: a DOS boot disk that’s actually a vinyl record. With a record player hooked up to a PC and data encoded as a soundwave inscribed on custom-made 10" vinyl, software developer Jozef Bogin has made a hip and wildly impractical storage medium to run DOS off. Why? Because he could, I guess....