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HomeFeaturesvertigo Priceless Play - 2 May 2020Game jams for indoor-types Game jams for indoor-types When you’re cooped up inside all day long (for forty-five days and counting), making a game can make for a good distraction. There have been more than a few quarantine-related game jams, each with their own themes and concepts. Isolation, social-solidarity, and “stay home” are common, and when the historians look back at the prolific game dev output of 2020 it won’t be too hard to sniff out the symbolism....

HomeNewsTeam Fortress 2 Tributes to Soldier voice actor Rick May appear across Team Fortress 2That was a hell of a campaign, son. That was a hell of a campaign, son. Last month, the voice behindTeam Fortress 2’s Soldier, Rick May,passed away at 79, after contracting Covid-19 during rehabilitation from a February stroke. This week, Valve’s vibrant battlefields grew a little sombre, as an update brought official tributes to the voice actor across TF2’s farms, forts and fighting pits....

HomeNewsBPM: Bullets Per Minute BPM: Bullets Per Minute is a beat-based FPS that looks oh so satisfying to playMusic to your thumbs Music to your thumbs Plenty ofFPS gameswill time their trailers so that all the shooting and kabooming happens on the beat (lookin' at you,Borderlands 3), but inBPM: Bullets Per Minutethat’s actually how it plays. I need you to do me a favor and stroll on in here to watch this rockn' trailer that does it more justice than I can with my meager words....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Here’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s female leadGRRRR! GRRRR! While theAssaassin’s Creed Valhalladebut cinematic traileryesterdayfocused on the male option for our Viking lead, Eivor, Ubisoft did give several peeks at the female Eivor. Like with Odyssey before it, Valhalla will give us a choice to play a male or female character and both look quite willing and able to split skulls. The most obvious look at her is the figurine in the Collector’s Edition, but she snuck into some screenshots too....

HomeFeaturesAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla My favourite Viking cowboy YouTuber is working on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla100 cowboy sized vikings or one viking sized cowboy? 100 cowboy sized vikings or one viking sized cowboy? Inhis Twitter bio, Dr. Jackson Crawford describes himself as “like if you crossed a viking and a cowboy, but got all recessive traits”. Being a cross between a cowboy and a Viking makes Dr. Crawford frontrunner in the race to be a real life version of what five-year-olds say they want to be when they grow up....

HomeNewsApex Legends New Apex Legends character Loba will arrive this month with Season 5This master thief is out for revenge This master thief is out for revenge Master thief Loba Andrade is the next character to be making her way toApex Legends. After losing her family to a killer robot, she was drawn to a life of thievery - but now she’s discovered the whereabouts of this murderer, so it’s off to the Apex Games to confront him....

HomeNewsOoblets Ooblets will actually show you where townsfolk are on the map and that is very importantAttack of the map Attack of the map There are lots of things that look quite promising about Glumberland’s cute town simOoblets. There’s fashion, gardening, dance battles, and house decorating, Here’s one more thing to like: a map. More importantly, a map on which you can see the location of the other townsfolk of Badgetown....

HomeGuidesOri and the Will of the Wisps Ori And The Will Of The Wisps boss guide: how to fight the bossesTips to defeat all the bosses Tips to defeat all the bosses Since Ori And The Will Of The Wisps has a lot more focus on combat, there are now proper boss battles in addition to the memorable chase sequences. On the rare occasion, a boss fight will combine both for an epic encounter....

HomeGuidesOri and the Will of the Wisps Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Shriek: how to beat the final bossAvenging Ku Avenging Ku You’ve done everything you can in Ori And The Will Of The Wisps except bringing the Spirits collected up to this point to the Spirit Willow. But there’s a nasty surprise waiting for you when you get there. The giant owl that hurt your friend and who has been hunting you the entire game is now here to stop you from reaching the Spirit Willow....

HomeFeaturesThe Sims 4 Put some Dragon Age in your Sims 4 with these free modsI am indifferent to swooping I am indifferent to swooping It’s been a while since I properly trawled the unmapped, here thar be monsters waters ofThe Sims Resourceforsome new modsforThe Sims 4. I’ve settled into a bit of a routine where I just wait for my favourite makers likeRavasheento put up their new stuff, and Bob (Pancakes) is your mother’s brother....

HomeDealsXCOM: Chimera Squad Reminder: XCOM Chimera Squad’s 50% launch discount ends todayOnly a few hours left! Only a few hours left! If you’re curious aboutXCOM: Chimera Squad, the new spin-off about a swat team of human and alien cops, take note: its half-price launch offer ends today. It’s clearly an experiment the publishers weren’t quite sure people would easily take to, so launched with a 50% discount last Friday. £8 is a good “Ah yeah gwan, I’m curious” price, but it’ll double at 6pm today....

HomeNewsThe Elder Scrolls Online The Elder Scrolls Online shows off magical Indiana Jones activities coming in the Greymoor expansion The WesternSkyrimexpansion toThe Elder Scrolls Onlineis landing later this month, taking players to the darker side of long-ago Nords. Many parts of the new map are striking familiar, but next to Solitude’s Blue Palace is a brand new Antiquarian Guild where you’ll learn the art of scrying for ancient valuables and digging them up....

HomeNewsThe Long Dark The Long Dark developers talk episode four timeline and recommit to modding toolsSnowed in no more Snowed in no more HinterlandStudio’s snowy Canadian survival ‘em up has had a long journey indeed.The Long Darkstarted as a sandbox survival game yonks back in 2014 and has since added a story mode, given the entire story aredux, and continually added other updates. The work’s far from done yet, and Hinterland have published a new developer update to assure players they’re making progress on episodes four and five along with a survival mode update and modding tools....