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HomeGuidesValorant Valorant Sova guide - 25 tips and tricks, arrow lineups, and moreSearch and destroy Search and destroy Valorant Sova guide Sova abilities overview We’re probably all familiar with Sova’s abilities here, but let’s go over them again one more time just in case: Now that we have a firm grasp of what Sova can do, let’s take a look at how to use these abilities in interesting and unexpected ways to help gain an advantage over the enemy team....

HomeGuidesValorant Valorant Viper guide - 24 tips and tricks every Viper player should knowA guide to being toxic A guide to being toxic Viper sets herself apart from the otherValorantagents in a couple of ways. From her focus on area control and damage-over-time to her reliance on fuel to power her abilities, there’s a lot to wrap your head around if you want to master this particular agent. But ourValorant Viper guideis a great place to start, providing numerous practical tips for each of her four deadly abilities....

HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Turn 3 Having refused to split while jogging through the foot tunnel, all of 1st Squad end up on the ground floor of the storeroom. The position of the Pak 40 means they can’t bring all their weapons to bear, but soon enough Garands and BARs are spitting lead that all return fire ceases. Two of the surprised anti-tankists were definitely hit. The others, invisible at present, are probably taking cover....

HomeNews Diplo headlined the first concert on Fortnite’s new Party Royale islandThe party won’t stop The party won’t stop In-game concerts of course don’t have the physical presence of a live show if that’s what you’re truly missing this summer, but they have all seemed to play to the strengths of Fortnite’s game space. Instead of giant speakers that you can feel thumping in your chest, the Diplo concert featured Fortnite’s jump pads for folks to play around on, a bunch of laser lights, and some big hologram dancers around the various viewing platforms....

HomeNews Evo 2020 is going online-onlyThe fighting will continue The fighting will continue Like everything else, Evo is not going ahead as usual this year. The fighting game championships will not invade a Las Vegas resort for a weekend at the end of July, with that event now cancelled and tickets getting refunded. But Evo 2020 is evolving, and will go online this summer. It surely won’t be the same but, even as a casual spectator, I’m still well up for it....

HomeFeaturesYoku’s Island Express Have You Played… Yoku’s Island Express?Pinball whizzard Pinball whizzard Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.After disappearing from the face of the earth for a few years, metroidvanias are everywhere. If you boot up Steam now and check New Releases, I’ve no doubt you’ll see two or three games that promise a pixelated creature jumping around on a 2D plane, unlocking doors and paths for ten or so hours....

HomeNews Star Wars Day means star-sized sales on Star Wars gamesThese are the deals you are looking for These are the deals you are looking for Oh look, it’sStar Wars Dayand to celebrate of course an entire galaxy of Star Wars games are on sale. There are discounts to be had on all yer old favorites from back in the day and some of the newer laser sword adventures of the decade as well....

HomeNews Valve are cutting off SteamVR support for MacsMac’s been knifed Mac’s been knifed If you bought a VR kit for your Mac and planned on using SteamVR, then you are out of luck. Valve are ending VR support for MacOS, so they can “focus on Windows and Linux”. Mackers can still access legacy builds, but this means no more improvements, and no more bug-quashing. There are ways to jack in without using SteamVR, but still....

HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Turn 2 This turn’s butcher’s bill: 211 mosquitos,104 wood ants,1long-fingered bat,1Italian cave salamander. It was the PONK that almost cost PFC O’Brien his life. The sound caused the startled 2nd Squad soldier to notice the pair of abandoned Carl Zeiss binoculars and reach for them. If Sgt King hadn’t barked a baritone “Don’t you dare!” in his ear, and then, with callused forefinger, pointed out the filament connecting the binos to the Stielhandgranate wedged between the tank’s road wheels, O’Brien might have ended up as dead as the Fledermaus....

HomeNews Half-Life: Alyx’s only melon can’t be eaten without cheatsIllegal lunch Illegal lunch Hard to imagine worse things to eat while in VR. Do you really want sticky fingers clutching your index controllers, melon juice splashing over your expensive electronics? It’s probably for the best, then, that the one watermelon inHalf-Life: Alyxis impossible to find in normal play - a sweet, tantalising snack tucked away only for those brave enough to break out the cheats....

HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Turn 1 I did mention yesterday that Sherman Crabs were horribly vulnerable while mine flailing, didn’t I? I’mfairlysure I probably pointed out that, in order to protect their relatively vulnerable main guns from flying debris, theyreversed their turretsbefore venturing intodevil’s gardens. Between Colonel Croesus' scratch force of Allied reprobates, rugged individualists, and rum customers and several lorry loads of half-inched gold bullion is an unknown number of Axis reprobates, rugged individualists, and rum customers determined not to share/surrender said bullion....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2’s seasonal events will soon stick around all year longA ghost for all seasons. A ghost for all seasons. What the hell is going on inDestiny 2? Is a question I ask myself pretty much every time I jump back into Bungie’s space-wizard adventure. So much has happened since I last played full-time, and worse, so much is locked to the annals of history - seasonal content that’ll never return toDestiny 2....

HomeNews Frontier want to develop a Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar RTSNo dice required No dice required There are a hell of a lot of Warhammer games out there. But while we’ve got grimdark trash and genre-defining classics, there have been very few games set in Games Workshop’s newest setting. TheOld World’s been dead a long time - and with few exceptions, nobody’s taken a real crack at Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar’s multi-dimensional mythos....