Souls Week: Nioh 2 is a Soulslike to savour
Posted on February 17, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Next up in Souls Week is another game that takes inspiration from the series. Sam Greer makes the case for Nioh 2.
Elden Ring is almost upon us. Excitement is fever pitch. It's impressive that there remains so much anticipation given From Software have actually released a pretty steady number of titles over the last decade. Yet people crave more.
While there's always perhaps an unhealthy degree of entitlement and embellished hype at work, I do think it speaks to how well the team at From Software have carved out their particular niche.
[Read More]Spider-Man Miles Morales Bodega Cat Suit location: How to complete the Looters!!! and Cat's Pyjamas side missions to unlock the Bodega Cat Suit explained
Posted on February 17, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
The Bodega Cat Suit is one of the special Spider-Man suits that you can unlock in Spider-Man Miles Morales. This suit is quite special because, while it doesn't give you any new mods, it does allow you to fight crime alongside a cat.
If you want to wear this special suit, and gain a cat friend, then you need to complete two side missions - Looters!!! and Cat's Pyjamas.
[Read More]The Grand Tour Game is a bad game, but an interesting vision for interactive TV
Posted on February 17, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
Just a few weeks after Netflix released the Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch - Charlie Brooker's slick, game-literate hybrid of high-end drama and choose-your-own-adventure - its great rival in streaming video, Amazon, is here with a very different vision of the intersection of video games and television.
It's The Grand Tour Game, an episodic, casual racing game spun off from the expensive antics of three elderly boors. It's not very good - at all - but as an expression of how Amazon views video games, it is quite interesting.
[Read More]The Limited Animal Crossing Edition of the Nintendo Switch is back in stock
Posted on February 17, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
After disappearing early on and being almost permanently out of stock ever since, the Limited Edition Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch is back, with preorders now live on the Nintendo Store for people to claim their copy.
The actual consoles themselves will be sent out on 9th December 2020, but considering the high demand Nintendo clearly decided to start preorders now, with limits of 1-2 orders per customer depending on what bundle you buy.
[Read More]The question that must be answered: Steam Deck - can it run Crysis?
Posted on February 17, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
The baptismal fires are waiting. Steam Deck, like countless initiate PCs before it, must be christened: as with every new piece of hardware, one question must be answered. Can it run Crysis? The answer is no, it cannot. The original 2007 release locks up with a black screen. Crysis Remastered though? It boots, it runs, it plays - and with handheld-optimised settings you can get a great experience that almost sustains 60 frames per second.
[Read More]Titanfall 2's buddy story is a very human kind of tragedy
Posted on February 17, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
We're going to be talking about the entire story of Titanfall 2 here, so be warned - there will be spoilers for the whole game, up to and including the ending.
It's been a good year for companions in games - different kinds of companions. Watching colleagues play The Last Guardian a few weeks back, I was prepared for Trico to behave like a pet. He seemed stubborn, unwilling to follow directions the first time he heard them, but with enough give to suggest that eventually he'd get there.
[Read More]Under fire Activision Blizzard exec Frances Townsend steps down from company's women's network
Posted on February 17, 2023
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| 660 words
| Mittie Cheatwood
Under fire Activision Blizzard chief compliance officer Frances Townsend has stepped down from the company's women's network.
Townsend stepped down from the position of executive sponsor of Activision-Blizzard-King Women's Network on 23rd July, the company confirmed to The Washington Post.
That's the same day Townsend held a listening session on a recorded Zoom call with the women at Blizzard to hear their stories, following her heavily-criticised internal email that called the claims made by the State of California's discrimination lawsuit "
[Read More]Accidentally-released Happy Wars Xbox One version breaks game on Xbox 360
Posted on February 16, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
UPDATE 22/4/15 10.05am Free-to-play online battler Happy Wars will officially launch for Xbox One this Friday, 24th April.
Developer Toylogic announced the date via a new post on its Facebook page. There's no word for those affected by the previous early launch bug.
UPDATE 10/4/15 11.40am Happy Wars developer Toylogic has warned fans not to play the Xbox One version of its free-to-play battler, after accidentally setting it live, then pulling it, earlier today.
[Read More]Bravely Default 2 review - a heady serving of nostalgia, and a theorycrafter's dream
Posted on February 16, 2023
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| 1238 words
| Mittie Cheatwood
Square Enix's line of retro JRPGs continues with an all-new world and tale for Bravely Default, though some of the old problems persist. Sometimes, there's nothing quite so reassuring as a good old JRPG. This is a comfort blanket of a genre for players of a certain age, games that happily consume entire lazy afternoons curled up on a sofa as you slowly push numbers ever upwards. They don't come much more comforting than those producer Tomoya Asano and his team have made an art of in recent years; dipping into Square Enix's remarkable history of evocative greats, they've given us modern takes on the classic JRPG formula such as 2018's Octopath Traveler and 2012's Bravely Default.
[Read More]Control - Upgrading Abilities explained, including Milestone Rewards and Ability Points
Posted on February 16, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Abilities in Control refers to both your supernatural powers, like Seize, and important stats, such as Health. You can upgrade your Abilities by spending Ability Points, which you receive from completing Missions.
As you spend Ability Points, you'll be able to unlock Milestone Rewards, such as additional Personal Mods Slots, and new features for certain Abilities.
On this page you'll find our in-progress lists of the various skill trees and Milestone Rewards unlocks in Control.
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