Age of Mythology: Extended Edition review

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  7 minutes  |  1366 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Age of Empires 2 was one of my very first experiences with the real-time strategy genre. As pre-teens, my friends and I tried to get together for LAN parties as often as possible. After one particularly great night, I traded an old sound card I had for a copy of Age of Empires 2 and its expansion. From that point on, I was hooked on the series. A few years later, Age of Mythology messed with the clean balance, historical detail and polish of its predecessors; it was rougher, more aggressive and more playful all at once. [Read More]

Assassin's Creed Origins - Aya: Blade of the Goddess and The Battle of the Nile

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  6 minutes  |  1079 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Previous page Page 11 of 13 Next page Aya: Blade of the Goddess and The Battle of the Nile are the fifteenth and sixteenth quests you'll encounter in Assassin's Creed Origins, which have you tackle a variety of battles including some chariot-mounted action, and follows on from Ambush at Sea and Way of Gabiniani. We'll cover everything you need to know about completing Aya: Blade of the Goddess below, while you can head back to our main Assassin's Creed Origins walkthrough and guide hub for all the other missions so far, and more. [Read More]

Destiny 2 Outbreak Perfected quest steps: How to start Outbreak Perfected and find all Fallen Transponder locations

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  989 words  |  Patria Henriques

Destiny 2's Outbreak Perfected is an Exotic quest made available during Year 2. It sees the return of original Destiny's Outbreak Prime as the renamed Outbreak Perfected, but thankfully this time the quest is a lot more straightforward to complete. That said, it's not easy. Though the first half of the quest can be completed solo, the second and final half is an intense, lengthy mission that requires a dedicated Fireteam and lots of practice. [Read More]

Dr. Mario World is getting online multiplayer

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  256 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Nintendo has released a new trailer for the upcoming Dr. Mario World mobile game, and unlike some of its other games this one will allow you to play online with your friends. With the game launching next week, Nintendo has announced players will be able to connect through Facebook or LINE to see their friends' progress, send them items and challenge them to real-time matches online. In matches you'll need to clear viruses to build up an attack meter, when the meter is full your rival will get a flood of viruses and you win by completely filling their screen. [Read More]

Fortnite - Infiltrator locations: How to converse with characters to identify an infiltrator explained

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  590 words  |  Patria Henriques

Aliens are impersonating our own. Here's how and where to converse with characters to identify an infiltrator in Fortnite.Converse with characters to identify an infiltrator is the sixth and final of Week 8's legendary quests in Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7. Like many of the past weeks, the first quest in this set involves using one of the payphones found across the Fortnite map, and it's followed with the tasks to collect an access card from an IO guard, plant wiretaps at different key locations, interact with an IO operative's computer and mindwipe Bunker Jonesy, Swamp Stalker or Human Bill. [Read More]

Fortnite Shadow form: How to become a Shadow and Shadow abilities explained

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  693 words  |  Trudie Dory

A Shadow is a special form that you can take on during this year's Fortnitemarers in Fortnite. You'll only be able to play as a Shadow during the Fortnitemarers event, which ends on Tuesday, 3rd November, so make sure you use this time wisely, such as completing the 'Become a Shadow' challenge. Once you are a Shadow, it's a good idea to know what your Shadow abilities are, so that you can take your revenge on the living. [Read More]

Hands-on with a fully ray traced version of Super Mario 64

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  808 words  |  Patria Henriques

The arrival of hardware-accelerated ray tracing has seen developers mostly adopt a hybrid approach, combining standard rasterisation techniques with carefully deployed RT features. Fully ray traced games are few and far between, but revisiting decades-old classics and delivering them with a full RT upgrade is within the power envelope of today's graphics hardware. We've already seen Quake 2 RTX and today we can reveal early work on a fully ray traced version of the N64 classic, Super Mario 64. [Read More]

Hell Let Loose is a hardcore WW2 shooter with an RTS twist, and it's carnage

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1694 words  |  Trudie Dory

There's a lot of chatter these days about how my generation would deal with the Second World War. I can't answer that one for you (and, honestly, I don't really care), but if Hell Let Loose is anything to go by I personally would handle it by climbing into an empty tank, getting lost on the way to the front line and then driving into a tree. Hell Let Loose Publisher: Team 17 Developers: Black Matter Availability: Out now on PC, coming 2021 to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S Hell Let Loose is carnage, and it's brilliant. [Read More]

How Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is improved on Switch

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  6 minutes  |  1129 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Nintendo's strategy of remastering and re-releasing its first party Wii U back catalogue continues to pay off handsomely, with Retro Studios' Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze making the transition across to Switch with some excellent results. It's a game well worth resurrecting - with its potent mix of fantastic controls, great level design and a memorable David Wise soundtrack, it's a personal favourite I've continued to play years on from its initial release - but how does it stack up on Switch and what enhancements and refinements have been made? [Read More]

If Resident Evil Village looks too scary, here's an official puppet version

 Posted on January 25, 2023  |  1 minutes  |  177 words  |  Trudie Dory

Capcom has released a musical puppet show featuring characters from Resident Evil Village. It's meant to be cute, though there's still buckets of blood represented by red cloth, tinsel and streamers. Of course, fan-favourite Lady Dimitrescu is the star of the show. There's no English subtitles yet but, really, I think you'll get the gist: This week, Capcom decided to extend this weekend's stingy final demo window by a week for all platforms - so get downloading that now. [Read More]