Posts

HomeNews TokTik ColorPick is probably the opposite of watching paint dryWhat’s it gonna be? What’s it gonna be? Take my advice, though - it almost always ends up beige. In case you’re not familiar with Mull’s catalogue of work (and I wasn’t until Alice O dropped this story on my digital desk), you can catch an example under King’s announcement post. It’s important to single out this video, in particular, as it forms the crux of everything King takes into consideration with ColorPick....

HomeFeaturesWatch Dogs Legion Watch Dogs Legion with ray tracing is almost unplayable without DLSSEven on an RTX 3070 Even on an RTX 3070 Watch Dogs Legionis one of this year’s bigray tracing games, utilising ray traced reflections to bring the wet, rainy streets of London to life. It’s also one of the growing number of games to support Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS tech - and based on my initial testing of the game’s ray tracing effects on PC, you’re definitely going to need it if you want to admire the UK’s dystopian capital in all its reflective glory, even if you managed to bag yourself one of Nvidia’s newly-releasedRTX 3070cards....

HomeGuidesWatch Dogs Legion How to play Stormzy’s mission in Watch Dogs: LegionHow to get Stormzy’s mission. How to get Stormzy’s mission. Watch Dogs: Legionfeatures grime star Stormzy, not just as a piece of marketing material but as the star of a mission. He’s been a big part of the hype ofWatch Dogs: Legion, so fans are obviously excited to find and collab with him in-game.Here’s how to start Stormzy’s mission in Watch Dogs: Legion....

HomeReviewsThe Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Little Hope reviewWitch do you prefer? Witch do you prefer? Little Hopeis the second game inThe Dark PicturesAnthology, a series of interactive horror games trying to build on the popularity of 2015’sUntil Dawn. In it, you play as a college field trip group (three teenage students, one mature, and a professor, and I bet some of you already havethatin your search history). After a mysterious bus crash, the group tentatively makes its way through Little Hope, now a deserted ghost town, and encounter monsters and visions from the town’s past....

HomeNewsSkeal Merry Christmas, it’s time to play SkealThe best joke this side of a Christmas cracker The best joke this side of a Christmas cracker While carved pumpkins and turnips have barely begun to rot on windowsills, Christmastime is in full swing as far as the shops are concerned. There’s nowt else on this year so sure, let’s break out the old Christmas traditions already. And where better to start thanSkeal?...

HomeNewsRed Dead Redemption 2 Red Dead Online’s next big update may expand the Bounty Hunter roleNot long to wait, they say Not long to wait, they say Red Dead Onlinewent on a bit of a dry spell earlier this year before its Naturalist role was added this summer. Rockstar have now said players won’t be waiting too long for another update. This time around they’ll be focusing on an action-oriented update to a current role, which sure sounds like Bounty Hunting....

HomeNews Steam’s payment system crashed today as the Halloween sale was endingA terribly spooky trick A terribly spooky trick Steam accidentally cooked up something truly frightening for the end of its Halloween sale. At some point today the store’s payment system appears to have crashed, preventing users from making purchases around the time the sale was scheduled to end. Sorry to you last-minute shoppers. The ability to purchase games through their store seems to currently have mixed results....

HomeNewsOrwell’s Animal Farm The Animal Farm video game is coming in DecemberThis little piggy went to market… This little piggy went to market… Parents of RPS, good news: a lovely-looking game about a funny farm of silly talking animals is coming in time for you to put it on your kid’s Christmas laptop.Orwell’s Animal Farmwill launch on December 10th, the developers announced today, turning Georgie Orwie’s picturebook into a game where you make decisions to determine the fate of the farm....

HomeNews The Dark Pictures Anthology’s next horror story is House Of AshesSumerian spook fest Sumerian spook fest To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Folks have pointed out that the woman up top there looks quite a bit like Ashley Tisdale, former star of many things including High School Musical. Bandai Namco and Supermassive Games haven’t confirmed her involvement, but yeah it sure does look like her, doesn’t it?...

HomeNewsWatch Dogs Legion Watch Dogs Legion used real political podcasters to deliver in-game talk radioPower to the podcasters Power to the podcasters Watch Dogs Legionmay be set in future London but it’s not short on contemporary celebrity cameos. Ubisoft themselves announced before launch that you canfind Stormzy in Watch Dogs Legion, but players have now spotted another cameo collection. Political podcast “Oh God, What Now?” have provided their writing and voices to some political analysis over the radio in Legion....

HomeNewsWeaving Tides Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Orbs, watercolours and a tea-sipping frogYou can’t make me do a horror edition. You can’t make me do a horror edition. Scream-shot Saturday Sundays? Not on your unlife, pal, it’s November. Halloween’s over. I have no contractual obligation to be “spooky” today, so let’s fearlessly dive back into the well of Twitter’s favourite gamedev hashtag. This week: A frog chorus, a living painting, an ominous orb, and a begrudging admission that yes, it’s the scary weekend, fine....

HomeNews Halo 4 gets a few more days of testing, adds crossplay to ReachA slightly longer-haul flight. A slightly longer-haul flight. Testing for Halo 4 kicked off just over a week ago, with 343 once again inviting all registered Insiders in on the pre-release flight. While expected to end on Tuesday, the MCC’s October Update has pushed the end back to next Friday, November 6th. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube...

HomeFeaturesWorld of Horror Have You Played… World Of Horror?OooooooooooooOOOOoOOOoooOooooo OooooooooooooOOOOoOOOoooOooooo World Of Horror is a horror game in an adventure-style format. It’s still in early access at the moment, but even in its current state it’s incredibly well-polished. You’re a teenage detective obsessed with all manner of spooky goings-on in your home town, and there are a selection of cases you can investigate. I made it through the opening tutorial case that sees you wander through an abandoned school in search of a missing mate who’s been dabbling in occult demonic rituals, and I also just about scraped through the mystery of the creepy janitor abducting school girls to turn them into mermaids (because of course)....