Toem review - a photography puzzler and a journey filled with lovely moments
Posted on February 2, 2023
| 6 minutes
| 1235 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Playful challenges and a warm sense of place and character converge in this cheerful modern classic. Toem sent me back to my phone, not for the internet and its hints and tips and workarounds, but for the folder that holds my photographs - back to the last few months of my life and a story I didn't realise I had been writing.
It's an odd kind of story, and fairly dull to an outsider, but squint and a narrative of sorts emerges.
[Read More]Anthem Alliance system: How to join Alliances, rewards and how to check Alliance status
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 5 minutes
| 874 words
| Arica Deslauriers
The Anthem Alliance system is a guild-like system which allows you to earn rewards from playing the game alongside friends.
Unlike guilds in other live games, the good news is you don't have to do anything to get involved - though learning how to maximise your rewards by changing the way you play will see your Alliance rewards increase.
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How Anthem's Alliance system works How do you join an Alliance in Anthem?
[Read More]Cuphead developer confirms Delicious Last Course DLC will no longer launch this year
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 377 words
| Patria Henriques
Studio MDHR has announced another delay for Cuphead's long-in-the-works Delicious Last Course DLC, this time into 2021, citing challenges "amid the global pandemic".
The Delicious Last Course - which sees Cuphead and Mugman joining forces with Ms. Chalice on a brand-new island for more classic-cartoon-inspired adventuring - was initially announced in June 2018, with a projected release of the following year.
However, as July 2019 rolled around, Studio MDHR revealed it had made the decision to push The Delicious Last Course's launch into 2020 so the DLC would meet "
[Read More]Dead by Daylight devs reveal Jurassic World mobile game
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 364 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has revealed its new mobile game Jurassic World Primal Ops. The free-to-play action-adventure game has players as handlers aiming for peace between humans and dinosaurs (will they ever learn?). Players will use their combat skills to save dinosaurs from enemies and then fight alongside them. The trailer below shows plenty of combat, as well as a nice variety of dinosaurs to acquire.
[Read More]FIFA 21 ditches the long-running EA Sports Football Catalogue
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 4 minutes
| 797 words
| Arica Deslauriers
If you've played FIFA for a bit, you've probably amassed millions of EA Sports Football Catalogue credits.
They're in that little widget at the top right hand corner of your screen, the one that includes some numbers hardly anyone bothers with. As you play FIFA, you earn XP and you also earn Football Club Credits (FCC). You spend these credits to unlock items from the catalogue (you have to click in the right stick to get there).
[Read More]Forza Horizon 5 best cars: Our best drift, dirt, S2 class, S1 class, A class and cross country car recommendations
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 9 minutes
| 1860 words
| Trudie Dory
Forza Horizon 5 has over 500 cars in its huge car list, and covers a variety of different driving disciplines, from road racing to cross country, drifting to dirt racing.
Confronted with this huge amount of choice it can be hard to know what the Forza Horizon 5's best car is - and indeed there is no one answer.
In some ways, it doesn't matter. The game allows for a tremendous amount of customisation and upgrading, and part of the fun can be modding a vintage micro-car into a drag race rocket, or a delivery van into an S2-class race c
[Read More]Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles headed to Nintendo Switch Online
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 312 words
| Patria Henriques
Nintendo is set to add Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles to Nintendo Switch Online, Eurogamer sources have confirmed. Word that Nintendo will bulk up its Switch Online back catalogue first broke earlier this week via the Nate the Hate podcast, which discussed various possible handheld games Nintendo could bring to the Switch subscription offering. Nintendo Life sources then offered their own confirmation. Now, Eurogamer has been able to separately corroborate these reports - and we have heard that other retro platforms are also on the cards.
[Read More]Ghost of Tsushima's PS5 upgrade is worthwhile but not a game changer
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 5 minutes
| 1029 words
| Patria Henriques
When PlayStation 5 launched in November last year, two Sony first-party developers - Bend Studio and Sucker Punch - tapped into the early cross-generation SDK, allowing Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima to run at 60 frames per second, dramatically improving the experience. Today, in concert with a Director's Cut edition that includes bonus content, Tsushima has been updated once more - no longer is it running under backwards compatibility, now it's a fully armed and operational PS5 title, able to tap into the full horsepower of the machine.
[Read More]May's PlayStation Now line-up is here, and is the last of its kind
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 427 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Sony has announced its PlayStation Now lineup for May, the final one of its kind ahead of the move to Sony's new-look subscription service next month. The PlayStation Now games for May are PS4 titles Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, Soulcalibur 6 and Blasphemous. These games are available to play through Now from today and appear to be remaining for the foreseeable. So, what can you expect from these new additions?
[Read More]Metro Redux on Switch: just how close to PS4 does it get?
Posted on February 1, 2023
| 11 minutes
| 2218 words
| Trudie Dory
Over the last ten years, 4A Games has built a reputation for pushing technology to new heights - from the original, remarkable Metro 2033 to last year's Metro Exodus - an open world showcase with beautiful ray traced global illumination. However, the firm also enjoyed success with their current-gen Metro Redux remasters, and now those titles are available for Nintendo Switch. Yes, it's another Switch port we're tackling but this time, the original developer has taken point on bringing the games across and as it's 4A you know you're in for something special.
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