Fortnite Floating Ring at Pleasant Park explained

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  595 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Finding a Floating Ring within Pleasant Park is one of the challenges for Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3. Like the previous floating ring challenge at Lazy Lake, you simply need to touch these floating rings to obtain them. Completing this challenge will reward you with some XP, which will help you climb through the ranks of the Season 3 Battle Pass and unlock the new skins. Note this particular challenge is no longer able to be completed. [Read More]

Halo Infinite tech previews set for this and next weekend

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  550 words  |  Patria Henriques

343 will run two Halo Infinite technical previews during back-to-back weekends - but matchmaking is only up for a set amount of time each day. Weekend one tests 4v4 Arena. The build becomes available this Thursday, 23rd September (and you can play training mode and weapon drills as soon as it's downloaded), with matchmaking only available during two four-hour periods per day from Friday until Monday. John Linneman, Rich Leadbetter and Alex Battaglia spend the best part of 40 minutes sharing their thoughts on the Halo Infinite technical preview. [Read More]

I like the look of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's fancy new water tech

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1695 words  |  Patria Henriques

Last night I was shown a pre-recorded presentation in which various developers at Infinity Ward spoke enthusiastically about this year's upcoming shooter Modern Warfare 2 and the various changes it makes to 2019's largely successful Modern Warfare soft reboot. I can't bring you hands-on impressions of the multiplayer, unfortunately (with the lifting of this evening's embargo there will be plenty of videos featuring multiplayer impressions for you to check out), but I can write about something Infinity Ward repeatedly discussed during its presentation: its fancy new water tech. [Read More]

Nintendo Miis coming to Mario Kart Tour

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  390 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

The fan favourite Miis from the Nintendo Wii era are not done yet, as the bobble-headed avatars are now coming to Mario Kart Tour. Nintendo released a new trailer for its latest Mario Kart Tour update which shows off the Miis in all their racing glory. Players will have a new selection of racing suits to choose from when this update goes live, including (but not limited to) Peach, Donkey Kong and Mario inspired outfits. [Read More]

Nvidia RTX 3060 review: revisiting the super-performers

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  7 minutes  |  1386 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Previous page Page 2 of 7 Next page Let's start with the games that we call the super-performers, the ones that we saw the biggest generation on generation improvements when we first started testing RTX 30-series graphics cards. Each of the four games in this section are modern titles using advanced graphics APIs, like DirectX 12 and Vulkan, which are able to make better use of high core count processors - like the Core i9 10900K in our test rig. [Read More]

Pikmin 3 Deluxe's new Olimar missions are fun but lightweight

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  643 words  |  Patria Henriques

Pikmin 3 includes a handful of extra side-missions starring original series protagonists Olimar and Louie, showing what they were up to while the game's main campaign takes place elsewhere. But while these are a nice addition, they're not hugely substantial. Each mission essentially acts as another time-limited treasure hunt of the type found in the game's existing Challenge mode. Four of these act as a prologue to the events of the game, and each begins with a brief text message from the President, Olimar and Louie's boss last seen in Pikmin 2, ordering the tiny spacefaring duo to go collect more loot. [Read More]

Pokémon Sun and Moon EVs - the best EV training locations for every stat and EV training in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon explained

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  11 minutes  |  2341 words  |  Patria Henriques

Previous page Page 4 of 5 Next page EV training is back again in Pokémon Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, and is as important as ever for the competitive player. Here on this page, we'll be explaining how EV training works, what EVs are, and most importantly for players who already know the basics, the best EV training locations in Pokémon Sun and Moon. [Read More]

Portal and Portal 2 coming to Nintendo Switch

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  1 minutes  |  142 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Portal: Companion Collection, a compilation of both Portal and Portal 2, will come to Nintendo Switch later this year. Valve's brilliant pair of 3D puzzlers will make their Nintendo debut with the latter game's co-op mode also intact. There's no firm release date yet. This version of the games was developed in collaboration with Nvidia Lightspeed Studios, Valve said. Here's a first look trailer: Will you support Eurogamer? We want to make Eurogamer better, and that means better for our readers - not for algorithms. [Read More]

Putting wheelchairs in D&D, and seeing Witcher Geralt's disability

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  422 words  |  Fernande Dalal

It was during a lecture they probably should have been listening to that Sara Thompson doodled the Dungeons & Dragons Combat Wheelchair on the back of a textbook. They'd been talking about it for a while, the wheelchair, irked by a game that offered players limitless freedom to be whoever they wanted but still struggled to fully represent them. So they did something about it. A few years later, that Combat Wheelchair add-on for Dungeons & Dragons is on a third edition and has reached right around the world. [Read More]

Seagate Firecuda 2TB review: the ultimate PS4 storage upgrade?

 Posted on January 16, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1677 words  |  Fernande Dalal

The Seagate Firecuda is a 2.5-inch 'laptop-size' drive - a 2TB hybrid costing around £115/$130. What makes it stick out? Well for PlayStation users, it ticks a few crucial boxes if you're itching to upgrade the standard hard drive. Until this model came along, we've had 1TB as the maximum size for 2.5-inch hybrid drives. Even with on-board NAND memory to increase speeds, 1TB might still not be quite enough to make an upgrade worthwhile - after all, PS4 Pro ships with the same level of storage out of the box. [Read More]