Portal 2 co-op, story, gameplay details

Portal 2 features a separate two-player co-operative campaign, playable over the internet, and new gameplay features include physics-changing paint. That's according to various reports and scans that have popped up since Friday's confirmation that Portal 2 is due out this year on PC and Xbox 360. According to Game Informer's latest preview, it's also heading to Mac. A GameStop product page filled in some of the blanks. " [Read More]

PUBG thinks it's found a way to stop players camping in the middle of the safe zone

Over the last three days, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been testing a new feature to prevent players from camping in the middle of the safe zone without engaging competitors. "Land, loot, and camp in the circle for the rest of the match no more," the team stated in a recent blog post. "Circle squatters that felt safe not to engage the enemy will now be forced to keep it moving as a second blue zone is being added to the existing circle. [Read More]

Spellbreak is Battle Royale but everyone's a wizard

Spellbreak has a pretty appealing pitch: it's Battle Royale but everyone's a wizard. This means that in traversal you can loft yourself into the air for a short period, which meshes well with your surprisingly brisk running speed. It means that you have a huge fantasy isle of Hyrulian hills and honeyed stone to gad about. And it means that when you reach the last two minutes of every Battle Royale game where people emerge into the same tiny patch of ground everyone's a wizard. [Read More]

There are now 2400 playable games on Valve's Steam Deck

Valve now has almost 2400 games playable on its Steam Deck handheld. Of that total, 1261 are Verified and 1145 are at least Playable - according to data recorded by Boiling Steam. Verified games are those that run flawlessly. At the time of launch, only 399 games were Verified; then at the start of March we reported 1000 games were Verified. It means the number of playable games on the Steam Deck has rapidly increased since the launch of the device. [Read More]

Valheim's community-made VR mod now has motion controls

After being interrupted during mining in the Black Forest for the thousandth time, you could be forgiven for wanting to beat up a Greydwarf with your bare hands - and thanks to the work of Valheim's modding community, you now can. Well, while holding VR controllers, I guess. VHVR is a community-made VR mod for Valheim that was first released back in April, and did a pretty good job of translating Valehim's Viking world into VR (even if players could only move using a standard gamepad or mouse and keyboard). [Read More]

Warzone new map release time: Pacific map Caldera release date, size in Warzone explained

It's finally time for a new map in Call of Duty: Warzone. Here's when the Pacific map arrives, and how you can play it early.Caldara is Warzone's new map coming later this year. Based in the Pacific, the map will launch in the weeks following the release of Call of Duty: Vanguard. Though Warzone's new map will be free for all players, those playing Vanguard will have 24 hours early access. [Read More]

Borderlands 3 delivers solid performance on PS4 and Xbox One

We should have tested the base consoles first. Instead, we kicked off our Borderlands 3 coverage with a look at how the game ran on Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro, where the results were something of a mixed bag, to say the least. Happily, the story is significantly more positive when checking out Borderlands 3 on the standard consoles - it's by no means perfect, there are some frustrating issues, but the fundamentals are sound and the game is fine. [Read More]

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider review

A morbid, potent epilogue for Dishonored 2 equipped with new powers, some great locations and some overdue tweaks.Deicide is one of gaming's more popular pastimes - not quite as popular as smashing pots for herbs but easily on par with say, fishing or amateur photography. Pretty much every JRPG worth its salt concludes with the party nobbling either a vengeful god or somebody who's on the verge of becoming one. [Read More]

Face-Off: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception on PS4

As a culmination of Naughty Dog's work over the course of the PlayStation 3 generation, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception delivers a level of visual quality few games on the platform could hope to match. First released in 2011, Uncharted 3 remains the most divisive of Naughty Dog's PlayStation 3 games. In the wake of the spectacular Among Thieves, the hype surrounding the release of Drake's Deception was immense and in the eyes of certain fans, the game didn't entirely live up to those expectations. [Read More]

Final Fantasy 12 Elite Hunts and Marks - list of Elite Marks, locations and strategies

Page 1 of 23 Next page Final Fantasy 12 Hunts, otherwise referred to as Marks, become available pretty early on. You'll come across them during your playthrough of the main story, and are a decent way of earning some fairly significant rewards, but as you progress towards the more challenging ones - the Rank VII Marks and the Elite Marks - it's more about the pride. Here on this page, we'll give you a quick introduction to what Mark Hunts are and how they work, before diving into a list of Marks and Elite Marks strategies and locations for each of the most challenging ones. [Read More]