Odd Realm is Dwarf Fortress for people who can't keep houseplants alive

 Posted on March 24, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  764 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Odd Realm is an early access colony management game, like Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, in which you play a semi-interventionist deity looming over a square mile of dirt and issuing divine orders to a growing population of simulated people. You have the power to designate tasks for them to complete, tracing out where your villagers should mine, what they should build, choosing which seeds they should plant and which trees should be felled, until they're so self-sufficient you can sit back and observe them, like some omnipotent, hovering pervert. [Read More]

Shadow of the Colossus PS4 review

 Posted on March 24, 2023  |  9 minutes  |  1739 words  |  Trudie Dory

A melancholy masterpiece is reborn in this faithful and breathtakingly beautiful remake. Shadow of the Colossus, like its predecessor Ico and successor The Last Guardian, is an artist's game. Its creative lead, Fumito Ueda, is an artist and animator with an instantly recognisable style: cracked stone, bleached sunlight, smoky shadows, frail limbs and pale, unfocused, unreadable faces. The three games are notable for their minimalist design, and they are no small feats of engineering, but it is the art that makes their worlds of innocence and ruin so indelible. [Read More]

Shin Megami Tensei 5 release date and gameplay details leak ahead of expected appearance at Nintendo Direct

 Posted on March 24, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  302 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Shin Megami Tensei 5's release date and gameplay details have leaked ahead of an expected appearance at Nintendo Direct during E3. PersonaCentral.com spotted the Japanese website for the Nintendo Switch exclusive RPG briefly listed an 11th November 2021 release date, alongside story and gameplay information. This information is expected to be revealed officially during the Nintendo Direct on 15th June, given all previous Shin Megami Tensei 5 information has been announced during Nintendo events. [Read More]

Valheim modders are fleshing out the game's unused biomes

 Posted on March 24, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  651 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

So you've finished all the biomes and bosses currently available in Valheim - what now? Well, you could wait for the next official update from Iron Gate: but the next biome is quite a few updates away, so you may be waiting a while to explore the Mistlands in all their glory. Alternatively, you can just install a bunch of mods. Here's a video of me exploring a rejuvenated Ashlands, and running away performing a tactical retreat when I realised that the enemies are actually quite difficult. [Read More]

Bloodborne: explore Hemwick Charnel Lane, kill the Soot Monsters and find the Witch of Hemwick

 Posted on March 23, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1503 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Previous page Page 13 of 35 Next page This article explains how to explore Hemwick Charnel Lane, kill the Soot Monsters and find the Witch of Hemwick in Bloodborne, following on from Yahar'gul, Unseen Village. If you're interested in more advice, our complete Bloodborne walkthrough and for the DLC our The Old Hunters guide and walkthrough can help. We made a Pungent Blood Cocktail from Bloodborne Once you've finished with Vicar Amelia, and got that Grand Cathedral lamp lit, make your way back to Hunter's Dream. [Read More]

Dataminers discover Hot Coffee code in GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition

 Posted on March 23, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  535 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Dataminers have discovered code relating to the infamous Hot Coffee mini-game from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition. However, dataminers suggest it may be impossible to enable Hot Coffee in the remastered version of San Andreas. Hot Coffee was an inaccessible sex minigame in the original 2004 release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. While it was disabled for the launch of the game, a mod for the PC version enabled access to it. [Read More]

GTA San Andreas gym guide: How to increase stamina, muscle, lung capacity and other fitness stats in GTA San Andreas

 Posted on March 23, 2023  |  6 minutes  |  1110 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Fitness stats in San Andreas is a unique role playing game-style mechanic which features heavily in this Grand Theft Auto game. By eating at restaurants or going to the gym, you can have an impact on CJ's fitness stats. This in turn affects gameplay - allowing you to run faster or swim for longer, or attract different girlfriends based on their tastes. This page explains how the muscle, stamina, fat, and lung capacity stats work, where to find gym locations in San Andreas, and the various gym moves and exercises available. [Read More]

Horizon: Zero Dawn PC version gets August release date

 Posted on March 23, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  266 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Guerrilla Games' previously PlayStation 4 exclusive open-world action adventure Horizon: Zero Dawn will be making its way to PC on 7th August. Horizon: Zero Dawn, which charts the adventures of outcast and hunter Aloy as she journeys across a future Earth where robotic wildlife roams free, comes to PC in its Complete Edition guise. As you might imagine, that includes Horizon: Zero Dawn's base game and Frozen Wilds expansion, but there's also a digital art book and a variety of outfits and weapons (mostly pre-order bonuses from the PS4 version) included too. [Read More]

Mario Kart Live gets new update with split-screen multiplayer, new courses

 Posted on March 23, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  228 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Nintendo has dropped a brand new update for Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, the mixed-reality spinoff from the main Kart series. The standout features for version 2.0.0 are split-screen multiplayer, allowing you to play side-by-side with someone else on the same screen, and a new co-op mode called Relay Race, allowing two to four players to team up, automatically swap characters, and assist each other with items. The update also brings the Luigi Cup to the Grand Prix, which features unlockable course customisations and three new courses: Windmill Meadows, Music Broadway and King Boo's Courtyard. [Read More]

Microsoft's dodgy DRM comes into the limelight, and no-one's smiling

 Posted on March 23, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  663 words  |  Fernande Dalal

If it feels like a long time since the disastrous reveal of the Xbox One, it's because it really has been. Some nine years have passed since those tumultuous months leading up to the launch of Microsoft's troubled console, when the mantra of television, television, television was followed up by some half-hearted concessions to games, and the slow pull into focus of a then novel and unsavoury approach to game ownership that were met with an understandably fiery response. [Read More]