Xenoblade Chronicles 2 review | Eurogamer.net

 Posted on January 2, 2023  |  7 minutes  |  1491 words  |  Patria Henriques

The true sequel to the best-loved contemporary JRPG is unrestrained in its ambition, and the result is a chaotic kind of brilliance. Rex is a boy whose virtues are so gleamingly obvious and uncomplicated that they threaten to render him friendless. He spends his days industriously, niggling at sea beds in a Victorian diving costume - all brass and glass curves - salvaging trinkets from wrecks. Only the bare minimum of the profits Rex earns from this work are kept: he dutifully sends the rest home to support his distant, impoverished family. [Read More]

AMD Radeon 7 benchmarks: the new top AMD card tested

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  10 minutes  |  2126 words  |  Trudie Dory

Eighteen months after the launch of the Vega 64, AMD has released another high-end graphics card: the Radeon 7, stylised as the Radeon VII. As the cleverly chosen name reflects, this is the first GPU to be produced on a 7nm manufacturing process and the second take on AMD's Vega architecture, allowing for increased performance and power efficiency. AMD has positioned the Radeon 7 as a competitor to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 at $700/£600, but without feature parity the Radeon card will need to represent a significant improvement from the newly reduced Vega 64 to stand a chance in the competitive graphics card market. [Read More]

Batman: Arkham Origins fans are modding back multiplayer support

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  264 words  |  Patria Henriques

You might have forgotten Batman: Arkham Origins had multiplayer. Heck, it's been so long you might have forgotten Batman: Arkham Origins altogether. But now, eight years after Oranges launched and five years after its multiplayer servers were switched off by WB Games, fans are working to get its team-based mode working again. A new community-made mod, Arkham Origins Revival, restores multiplayer and also unlocks some additional single-player skins like Bruce Wayne's Formal suit. [Read More]

Bloodborne modder releases 60fps patch

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  245 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Celebrated modder Lance McDonald has released his Bloodborne patch that makes the game run at 60 frames per second on PlayStation 4. Back in October 2020, McDonald said he would give Sony a chance to update From Software's masterpiece to run at 60fps first. That hasn't happened, so McDonald has gone ahead and released his own. Last year, McDonald joined forces with Digital Foundry's John Linneman to showcase his Bloodborne work, and amazing the game looks indeed: [Read More]

Civilization 6 Science explained - how to earn Science and how it works

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  7 minutes  |  1380 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Science has always been our personal favourite of the win-condition resources, thanks to that oh-so-satisfying feeling of steaming through the Tech tree towards the late game, and the payoffs that come with it. Amassing Science in Civilization 6 is no different, and will also play a crucial role in any playthrough thanks to some integral technologies that are unlocked as you progress. Just about any civilization can benefit from a strong Science income, regardless of your target victory condition, and so maintaining that income is one of the most important things you can do to secure yourself a healthy late game. [Read More]

Far Cry 6's Vaas: Insanity paid DLC is out next week

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  369 words  |  Patria Henriques

Far Cry 6's first chunk of paid DLC, titled Vaas: Insanity, will launch next Tuesday, 16th November on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, Amazon Luna, and Stadia. As announced previously, Far Cry 6's paid post-launch content will cast players as some of the series' most infamous villains - specifically Far Cry 3's Vaas Montenegro, Far Cry 4's Pagan Min, and Far Cry 5's Joseph Seed - across three roguelite-inspired episodes. Next week's Vaas: Insanity will, unsurprisingly, introduce Vaas Montenegro - voiced by Better Call Saul's Michael Mando - as a playable character. [Read More]

Final Fantasy 14 apologises for its broken housing lottery system

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  384 words  |  Patria Henriques

Final Fantasy 14 producer and director, Naoki Yoshida, has apologised for ongoing issues with the MMORPG's new housing lottery system that's preventing players from winning any land. In a post on the game's official website, Yoshida outlined what the team was doing to address the problem in which players are being told their bids were unsuccessful because there "were no participants in this lottery", or that the winning number is " [Read More]

Halo 5: Guardians review | Eurogamer.net

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  11 minutes  |  2315 words  |  Trudie Dory

A solid campaign and wonderful competitive multiplayer sees 343 finally make its mark on Halo. For developer 343 Industries, the honeymoon period is over. It's been three years since Halo 4 came out for the Xbox 360. Halo 5, built for the more powerful Xbox One, is the studios' second shot at what was once the biggest franchise in gaming. Now, after all the marketing hype, after all the flashy television adverts, after all the fictional investigative audio files on Soundcloud, after all the promoted tweets and the carefully constructed hashtags, has 343 done enough to step out of Bungie's shadow and into the spotlight? [Read More]

Here's the GTA Trilogy remaster's full radio station track listing according to Rockstar

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  13 minutes  |  2611 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Alongside its newly released GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition comparison videos, Rockstar has now detailed the complete radio station soundtrack selection that'll be included across its remasters of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas at tomorrow's launch. All three GTA titles included in the remaster bundle have, of course, been impacted by music licensing issues in the past, leading to a number of tracks being omitted when the games were later re-released for iOS and Android, PS3 and PS4, and PC. [Read More]

Latest Elden Ring patch targets hacker exploit ruining PC players' saves

 Posted on January 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  394 words  |  Patria Henriques

Following last week's big Elden Ring patch, which added the likes of NPC quest markers and expanded NPC quests, FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco have released a smaller update tackling a range of issues on all platforms - which, most importantly for PC players, includes a fix to stop hackers from ruining others' saves. The remedy in question is referenced toward the bottom of the patch notes accompanying today's 1.03.2 release for Elden Ring, explaining the update has " [Read More]