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HomeFeaturesHearthstone 5 near-certain predictions for HearthstoneIt’s good ter see yer agayne It’s good ter see yer agayne 1. Blizzard have finally cracked the problem of playing dialogue recorded in a Scottish accent. Voice actor Terrence Stone, who plays Hearthstone’s jovial innkeeper/announcer, seems a decent enough bloke. And at this point, I can’t really imagine the game without him. But his Scottish accent (which all dwarves have, in the Warcraft continuity), is about as convincing as an anecdote about making model buses out of wine boxes....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends is heading back to old school Kings Canyon this weekendBack to where it all began Back to where it all began From today until Monday,Apex Legendsis taking us back to Kings Canyon. Not just any version of Kings Canyon either, we’re going all the way back to the Season 1 map, before those strange dino creatures started stomping across it.It’s weird to think about playing on that year-old map again - will muscle memory kick in helping us navigate the original layout?...

HomeFeaturesCastle Crashers Have You Played… Castle Crashers?Crikey Crikey It was December 2007. I was 23 and, following what I will just describe as a bit of a mental health catastrophe, I had decided to leave the country for a bit, in the hope of getting my head back together. I had ended up in Melbourne, where a couple of mates were on a temp contract working for an electricity firm. The plan was for me to kill time there for a week or so, and then we’d hire a van and drive about a bit, having fun....

HomeNewsThe Last of Us Part II Sony and Facebook cancel GDC appearances due to coronavirusBoth say they want to protect their workforce Both say they want to protect their workforce Sony and Facebook have cancelled their appearances at theGame Developers Conferencethis year, both citing concerns about the newcoronavirus. The yearly conference for game industry workers is typically a source of new information each year, with presentations about the development of influential games and interviews with studio members....

HomeFeatures The 12 most extravagant lines of dialogue in gamesOne Off The List One Off The List The greasy realm of the videogame is not always the best place to look for good writing. For everyDisco Elysiumthere are roughly 800Detroit: Beyond Humans. But it is a good place to look for wondrous, over-the-top nonsense. I’m talking about character dialogue so flamboyant and exaggerated, you could insert some line breaks and it would instantly become a verse in a glam rock anthem....

HomeNewsPopulation Zero This survival MMO will apparently reset every seven daysCraft or die, explorer Craft or die, explorer Population Zero takes place on the planet Kepler which apparently has large beasties like the one above. Seems to be a horrific nonsensical creature that procedural generation loves and actual nature loves to hate, which is where I’m getting the No Man’s Sky vibes. That and theblue grass. Players will build bases and craft things, as one does, to survive on Kepler....

HomeHardwareNewsHalf-Life: Alyx Valve say coronavirus impacting production of Index VR setsThey’re still out of stock They’re still out of stock Image credit:Valve Image credit:Valve Earlier this week, Valve’sIndex VR set was still sold outalmost entirely around the globe just a month away from their own upcoming VR-onlyHalf-Life: Alyx. No official word had come from Valve on the cause for the short stock or any estimate on when more units would be available....

HomeDeals Humble’s digital tabletop bundle returns with Slay The Spire and more for $10Playing your cards right Playing your cards right Good news, tabletop fans. Humble have brought back theirDigital Tabletop bundlefor another outing, this time offering up such delights as Slay The Spire,Armello,For The Kingand bothReignsgames for just £7.50 / $10. If you play your cards right, you might just bag yourself a bargain. Here’s how it works.Running from now until March 10th,Humble’s second digital tabletop bundleis a lot more card-focused than the first one they did back in 2018 (which lent heavier on the board game side of things and included many of ourbest board gamepicks to boot), making it a great time to update your tabletop collection with some brand-new games....

HomeFeaturesMinecraft I used blocks from the new Minecraft snapshot to make a fungal horror shrineLittle house on the scary Little house on the scary Immediately, I imprisoned the bee. It would be forced to watch, in mute horror, as I constructed my weird nether shrine. The big new stone type introduced in 1.16 is everyone’s favourite mafic extrusive igneous rock, basalt. A bit like Minecraft’s existing logs, the ‘salt is a directional block, with a smoothish outer face on four sides, and cracked ‘ends’ on the other two, so you can make pillars of it that look like they’re jutting out of the ground....

HomeHardwareNews Monitor maker AOC are also making mice and keyboards nowOne hell of a switch One hell of a switch Currently due to land sometime in July 2020, AOC’s AGON mouse and keyboard are actually just one set of peripherals they’re releasing this year, as they’re also going to be launching another mouse and keyboard set that’s geared toward their entry-level AOC Gaming line at the same time. These will be quite a bit cheaper than their AGON counterparts, with the mouse coming in at €28 as opposed to the AGON’s €50, while the keyboard is set for €70 compared to the AGON line’s €150 asking price, but I reckon that even these have the potential to bring some welcome competition to the budget end of ourbest gaming keyboardandbest gaming mouserankings....

HomeFeaturesHades The joy of purposefully losing runs in HadesTo lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose It took me a couple dozen attempts to escape hell in Supergiant Games’ early access rogueliteHades. Once I succeeded I thought I might give it a break; return when there werenew updates. But it absolutely has its claws in me, which is how I found out that mucking about and losing is actually way better than trying to win....

HomeGuidesWolcen: Lords of Mayhem Wolcen Lambach: how to kill the act two bossTips for dodging Lambach’s attacks Tips for dodging Lambach’s attacks Wolcen Lambach guide While you fight Lambach drones constantly, the boss fight is fought over two phases. One is against the figure that has been stalking you, while the other is against its true form. ThisLambach boss guidewill go over all the phases and show you how to beat it....

HomeNews Gothic Remake is going ahead, following a positive response to the public prototype THQ Nordic are going ahead with theirGothic Remake, a do-over of the 2001 fantasy RPG. Theyreleased a public playable prototypein December and, having surveyed players, today announced reactions were positive enough for them to think it worthwhile. They did note that they’re aware that not all theGothic Playable Teaser’s new design decisions and artistic changes were popular, and say they’ll have a think about all that before getting stuck right into the remake....