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HomeNews Mass Effect modders have been unofficially remastering the trilogy for years"Our mods will always be there if BioWare’s improvements to the trilogy can’t quite surpass ours" “Our mods will always be there if BioWare’s improvements to the trilogy can’t quite surpass ours” It’s been seven years since the originalMass Effecttrilogy ended, and even now modders are working on all kinds of additions and improvements to Commander Shepard’s adventures. During the N7 Day celebrations on Saturday, BioWare announcedthe official Mass Effect remasters, but the modding community also took it as a chance to show some of the unofficial upgrades they’ve been working on over the last year....

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Rainbow Six: Siege’s next operator Aruni deploys shocking laser gatesNeon and lasers just work Neon and lasers just work Rainbow Six: Siegeis gearing up for its next season Neon Dawn and calling up a new operator for defense. Ubisoft have shown off Aruni and her tricky shock gates that will throw a wrench in attacker’s plans while letting fellow defenders pass through. You can catch an overview of her abilities and a bit about the rework for the Skyscraper map in a new video....

HomeNewsCounter-Strike Remembering Counter-Strike’s forgotten beta mapsA tour of the past, with jeeps A tour of the past, with jeeps I didn’t play CS intently so I have a fair few gaps, but I did enjoy going back and seeing maps from betas I hadn’t seen. More maps were removed between v1.0 and 1.6, mind, but these are the babies which never made it past beta. Let’s start with the maps most recently removed, and work backwards to Beta 1....

HomeNewsAlba: A Wildlife Adventure Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Songbirds, troubled frogs, and unintended dreamscapesDo Twitter bots dream of electric sheep? Do Twitter bots dream of electric sheep? Screenshot Saturday Sundays! This past week might’ve been the longest one of our lives, but it looks like we’ve made it out the other side largely unscathed - so let’s all take a moment to cool off and relax with some screenshots, shall we? This week: Bopping birds, Source mod demakes, a crime-fighting frog and AI-generated broken dreamworlds....

HomeNewsUmurangi Generation From graffiti to giant robots, Umurangi Generation’s Macro DLC isn’t messing aroundRPS finally has a Gundam. RPS finally has a Gundam. I didn’t thinkUmurangi Generationcould find a way to be moreentirely my jam. And yet, with a heaping serving of skates, spraypaint and giant killer robots, today’s Macro DLC has managed just that. But alongside a new set of maps, lenses, and a toolset thatcloses the gap with Jet Set Radioeven further, this week’s drop is also brazenly radical in capturing our current political hellscape on 35mm film....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends has improved battle pass progression, barelyThis season is looking like a helluva grind This season is looking like a helluva grind Apex Legends' seventh season dropped this week, and with it came a load of fun new things -a map, a character and even a vehicle. But it also brought some big changes to how the battle pass works. Unfortunately, these changes made the battle pass a whole lot more difficult to level up, making players need to do about twice the amount of work to get half the amount of progression....

HomeGuidesApex Legends Apex Legends tips and tricks [Season 11]: a beginner’s guide to Apex LegendsReal, practical Apex Legends tips to help you win more fights Real, practical Apex Legends tips to help you win more fights Looking for some practical, top-tier Apex Legends tips and tricks?This beginner’s guide toApex Legendsis about as comprehensive a list of tips and tricks as you’ll find online. I’ve sunk over a thousand hours into Apex Legends since its release, and I can tell you there’s no better time to start than right now, in Season 11 - also known as Apex Legends Escape....

HomeNewsDIRT 5 Dirt 5 will address PC performance and crashing issues in a patch next weekFlying the yellow flag Flying the yellow flag Dirt 5hit the track yesterday but these race-y cars are dodging a few potholes, especially on PC. Codemasters published one batch of fixes on launch day and say they’re planning another patch to address issues that PC players are having with poor performance and crashing. The game, that is....

HomeNews LoL’s virtual girl group K/DA have an EP outIt’s pretty decent! It’s pretty decent! The best thingLeague Of Legendshas done in years is create a virtual girl group, who now have a whole EP out. After years of ha-ha-hilariously cheesy promotional songs likeWarriors with Imagine Dragons, Riot’s music team unexpectedly hit the big time in 2018 with K/DA, a group with real singers in the digital bodies of pop-ified alternate reality versions of League characters....

HomeHardwareFeatures Roccat Elo X Stereo reviewA great budget headset, but is it better than Roccat’s Elo 7.1 USB? A great budget headset, but is it better than Roccat’s Elo 7.1 USB? There are three headsets in Roccat’s new Elo family. At the bottom, there’s the entry-level Elo X Stereo, a simple, lightweight stereo gaming headset that costs just£40/$50. Then there’s the£60/$70Elo 7.1 USB, which, as its name implies, adds a USB connection and 7....

HomeFeatures The 50 best strategy games to play on PCFrom tiny robot battles to grand historical warfare From tiny robot battles to grand historical warfare Strategy games is an enormous genre in PC gaming, with real-time, turn-based, 4X and tactics games all flying the same flag to stake their claim as the one true best strategy game. Our list of the best strategy games on PC covers the lot of them....

HomeNewsWatch Dogs Legion Watch Dogs Legion is booting a journalist off its fictional radioHelen Lewis is going off the fictional air Helen Lewis is going off the fictional air For the fictional futuristic radio inWatch Dogs Legion,Ubisoft used some actual journalistsin the UK to provide voice talent. Seemed like a neat idea until Ubisoft (and I) learned that one of the hosts whose voice appears in game has published some pretty ugly opinions about transgender people....

HomeNewsWorms Rumble Worms Rumble open beta is battling royale this weekendThe side-on shooter spin-off The side-on shooter spin-off What happens when the turn-based tactical violence of Worms becomes a real-time shooter? See for yourself in the freeWorms Rumbleopen beta weekend, which started today. This latest Worms spin-off is a 32-player side-on shooter with all the usual wacky weapons, throwing down in deathmatch and battle royale modes. I like Worms because of the game it is, not the brand, but Rumble could be good in its own right....