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HomeNewsHalf-Life: Alyx Watch this Half-Life: Alyx player’s excellent juggling tricksWhat a balls up! What a balls up! You’ve all sat through yourHalf-Life: AlyxVRmaths lesson, right? Good. Time for a treat.YouTuber “ChrisQuitsReality” has put together an impressive performance of bottle-tossing, plate-flipping, grenade-groping and chair-chucking, with the occasional use of Alyx’s gravity gloves for added flair. He is a juggling wizard, and you will appreciate him. Unless you really want to avoid mild environment spoilers....

HomeReviewsBleeding Edge Wot I Think: Bleeding EdgeBlunted Blunted Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£25, $30, €30 Bleeding Edgeis a third-person 4v4 brawler with a line-up that includes a woman who turns into a motorcycle, a snake who inhabits a zombie, and - soon to be introduced - a dolphin in a mechsuit. There’s a feathery, mechanical raptor-lady. There’s a fire-breathing goth. There’s a grandma, who is also a witch, leashed to a mini hot air balloon....

HomeNewsOverwatch A cat picked this week’s hero pools for the Overwatch LeagueYou’ve got to be kitten me! You’ve got to be kitten me! TheOverwatchLeague casters, hosts and players alike are all holed up at home for the time being, withmatches taking place onlinewhile the world waits for the Covid-19 pandemic to run its course. It seems like cabin fever is starting to set in though, as this week they’ve adopted a cat into the analyst’s panel to decide on the hero pools....

HomeNews Epic Games offer one million dollars for proof that their Houseparty video chat app is being smeared2020, you’ve done it again 2020, you’ve done it again As well as creating the Unreal Engine, making Fortnite, running their own games store, andpublishing games, Epic Games apparently also own a group video chat programme named Houseparty? I too had missed their purchase announcement last year, until current events dragged it into headlines....

HomeNewsGTFO GTFO got new enemies and missions with today’s Infection updateOut with the old, in with the new Out with the old, in with the new GTFO’sbig free Infection update is out today, bringing new maps, weapons, enemies and objectives to the tense tactical survival-horror shooter. It’s brought a whole new Rundown with it too, wiping away the old one to make room for a bunch of new levels.If you’ve not had the chance to playGTFOyet, it’s a super tense co-op experience where you and four friends play as prisoners dropped into a mysterious underground complex....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Lord Shaxx’s Destiny 2 exercise mixtape is here to pump you upPain leads to perfection, Guardian - embrace it! Pain leads to perfection, Guardian - embrace it! If you too are trying to do home workouts with bottles of water and bags of sugar for weights, this might get you pumped up: a mixtape fromDestiny 2combining throbbing beats with the motivational words of Lord Shaxx. The Shaxxercize tape is a wee Easter egg in one quest from the new season, hidden on a shelf in the office of Commander Zavala, and now Bungie have put it on YouTube for everyone to enjoy....

HomeFeaturesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade 2 is promising, but its performance issues are too serious to review it yetCount & Wait Count & Wait Mount & Bladepredates RPS. That’s how long we’ve been waiting for its sequel,Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, which released yesterday afternoon. This isn’t a review, because to review it in this state would short change both its developers, Taleworlds, and everyone reading. Crucially, Bannerlord went into early access yesterday, not a final release....

HomeHardwareFeaturesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord performance - how to get the best settingsBanner performance Banner performance We’ll likely have to wait until TaleWorlds Entertainment issue a patch before Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord’s loading and crashing issues get fixed, but in the mean time, here’s how to get the game as smoothly as possible using its Performance menu. Below, you’ll see exactly what the game looks like on its five graphics quality settings, as well where you can cut corners to try and improve your frame rate....

HomeGuidesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord bugs: fixes and workaround for crashes and known issuesThere are ways around a lot of the problems There are ways around a lot of the problems Some workarounds have been found, as well as causes for critical errors, so we’ll list the most troublesome ones here for your convenience. Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord bug fixes and workarounds There are other bugs and issues that have been reported elsewhere,including one that is utterly hilarious....

HomeReviewsFor The Warp Premature Evaluation: For The WarpAll hands on deck All hands on deck Developer:Massive Galaxy StudiosPublisher:Massive Galaxy StudiosRelease:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£11.99, $15, €13.50 Yes, cards. Because while the top-level game is cut from the same space-cloth as FTL, the combat itself departs entirely from the real-time crew management and ship subsystems of that game. Instead you play cards from your hand to perform a series of actions per turn, building up your shield’s defences, attacking with guns and lasers and missiles, launching attack drones or boosting the number of action points available to you next turn, at which point your hand is discarded and you draw again....

HomeHardwareFeatures The Fnatic React is a great, all-round gaming headsetChain reaction Chain reaction Fnatic may be better known as an esports company, but as their excellentFnatic Streakkeyboards have shown, they’re quite the dab hand at making top-notch gaming peripherals as well. The Streak and its compact tenkeyless miniStreak companion have been sitting atop mybest gaming keyboardlist ever since they came out, and theirFlick 2andClutch 2mice aren’t half bad either. Now, Fnatic are completing the set with their React gaming headset....

HomeReviewsIn Other Waters Wot I Think: In Other WatersSea to shining sea Sea to shining sea Release:April 3rd, 2020On:Windows, Mac OS XFrom:SteamFor:£11.40, $15, €12.50 In Other Watersis a little game about a xenobiologist named Ellery Vas exploring an alien sea, and finding it (unexpectedly) teeming with life. You don’t play the biologist, you play an artificial intelligence powering and controlling her advanced diving suit, but you are essential in helping Ellery to observe and classify these new species, to collect specimens, and to navigate the seabed....

HomeNewsSoldat 2 Fight in silly jetpack shootouts with the free Soldat 2 demoSend foes packing Send foes packing It’s quite bare-bones, at the moment. There’s an endless survival mode and team-based capture the flag, but the AI is so easy to walk over that it’s only really worth bothering with the first one. The best part is the “Superman” button, which lets you zoom through the air horizontally. Or, if you are bad at jetpacks, roleplay as a mediocre worm....