The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review
Posted on March 13, 2023
| 11 minutes
| 2262 words
| Patria Henriques
A majestic, earthy open-world adventure with great integrity and personality, this is the best role-playing game in years. The Witcher 3 has been released in a new Game of the Year edition, which includes its two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. To mark the occasion, here's our review of this remarkable game, first published on 18th May 2015. Below you'll also find links to our reviews of the two expansions.
[Read More]This Xbox Series S bundle includes free Fortnite and Rocket League content
Posted on March 13, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 466 words
| Patria Henriques
If you don't have an Xbox Series X or S already but all of the hype around Halo Infinite multiplayer footage is making you reconsider, there's a new Xbox Series S bundle available in the run-up to Christmas that includes downloadable content for Rocket League and Fortnite for £249.99/$299.99
Yes, Rocket League and Fortnite are both free to play, but this console bundle includes an exclusive cosmetics pack for Rocket League (Midnight Drive pack), 1000 Rocket League credits and 1000 V-Bucks.
[Read More]Watch Dogs 2's new paintball rifle is just the kind of non-lethal weapon the game needs
Posted on March 13, 2023
| 8 minutes
| 1676 words
| Patria Henriques
I enjoyed Watch Dogs 2, but one of the things about it that rubbed me up the wrong way was how the game's plucky hacker crew could use deadly weapons to murder a bucketload of people.
For a game with such a silly tone, it always felt off to me that I could make DedSec's likeable Marcus Holloway shoot to kill. Killing cops and pedestrians and even the "bad guys"
[Read More]Battlefield 1 Support Class loadouts and strategies - LMGs, Mortars, Ammo Crates and more
Posted on March 12, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 621 words
| Trudie Dory
The heavy-hitter of the series, the Battlefield 1 Support class sees few changes this year, instead staying true to what you can expect of LMG-bearing bruisers.
Playing Support is all about setting up shop in the right place, with an emphasis on positioning and awareness of where the battle is shifting to on the field. It's also about holding down the trigger and spraying entire clips into the air in front of you.
[Read More]Battlefield 2042 is free to try this weekend on Xbox
Posted on March 12, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 248 words
| Arica Deslauriers
The beleaguered Battlefield 2042 is free to play this weekend on Xbox.
The offer is part of the platform's regular Free Play Days scheme open to anyone with an Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
You can start playing now, and keep playing until Monday, 10th January at 8am UK time. If you like what you've played, there are also discounts on Battlefield 2042's four editions - with a third off a Standard Edition copy.
[Read More]Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer review - Zelda fans rejoice because this is the real thing
Posted on March 12, 2023
| 7 minutes
| 1353 words
| Trudie Dory
Two designs collide gloriously in a Zelda variation that rivals the greatness of the core games themselves. Consider it for a second: cadence. What a perfect Zelda-ish word. Cadence! This word is a song and a river and a waterfall. It is cascading and it is radiance. It says there is a hidden order in nature and this order is beautiful - elegant and taut and melancholic and not to be messed with.
[Read More]Code Name: STEAM review | Eurogamer.net
Posted on March 12, 2023
| 14 minutes
| 2927 words
| Patria Henriques
This is the strangest, most wilful game Intelligent Systems has ever made - and that's part of its greatness. Given its antic plundering of creaky old books, it should not be surprising that Code Name: STEAM finds its soul in a library. And not just any library. This is the great library at Miskatonic University, the starting point for so many excursions into the weird, the deathless, the unthinkable. More on that stuff in a bit.
[Read More]Cyberpunk 2077 mod reveals true horror of V's sleeping position
Posted on March 12, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 478 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Do you sleep sideways on your bed? Like, deliberately? It turns out Cyberpunk 2077 protagonist V does.
Ever since Cyberpunk 2077 came out in December players have wondered about V's odd sleeping position. From the first-person perspective we see V flop down in such a way as to suggest half their body hangs off the bed - sideways.
This has become something of a meme within the Cyberpunk community, with various sketches from players who imagined what V looks like when asleep going viral.
[Read More]Here's why Claptrap's voice actor has changed in Borderlands 3
Posted on March 12, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 615 words
| Patria Henriques
Claptrap voice actor David Eddings is reportedly not reprising his role in Borderlands 3 because development studio Gearbox "all of a sudden [...] couldn't afford [him]".
While Eddings has voiced Claptrap in all prior Borderlands games, he did so whilst also employed as a full-time employee of Gearbox, so he played Claptrap without drawing down additional payment for his voice work. But as Eddings left his position as vice president of licensing and business development to move to Rooster Teeth in March 2017, he reports he asked to be paid "
[Read More]How Red Dead Redemption 2 uses the power of PS4 Pro
Posted on March 12, 2023
| 8 minutes
| 1700 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Last week's Red Dead Redemption 2 reveal turned out to offer more than a look at gameplay alone - it was our first chance to check out Rockstar's first work on the enhanced consoles, the entire trailer captured in-game from the PlayStation 4 Pro build. So how is the developer using the console's hardware and based on our findings here, what should we expect from Xbox One X?
Rockstar provided us with a pristine, 68mbps version of the trailer to take a look at - and there's no doubt that those vast landscapes are flattered by the 4K output, but there's more to the story here.
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