Sea of Thieves' Gold Hoarders faction finally gets some love in next week's update

 Posted on December 28, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  643 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Sea of Thieves' treasure-hungry Gold Hoarders faction is getting some much needed love next Wednesday, 9th September, in the form of a new tomb-raiding puzzle quest type which arrives as part of the multiplayer pirate adventure's newly revealed Vaults of the Ancients update. The Gold Hoarders are the only one of Sea of Thieves' original three Trading Company factions yet to receive a new quest type, with the Merchant Alliance introducing Cargo Runs back in 2018, and the Order of Souls expanding to offer their wonderfully entertaining ghost ship battles earlier this year. [Read More]

What Ubisoft Crying Man did next

 Posted on December 28, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  984 words  |  Trudie Dory

Davide Soliani was the quiet hero of last year's E3. The creator of the now-beloved Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Soliani shot to gaming fame as he wept with pride and relief in the audience of Ubisoft's press conference while his game - a huge gamble for him and his team, after years of behind the scenes work with Nintendo - was unveiled on the world's biggest stage to excitement and applause. [Read More]

Why World Cup runners-up Croatia aren't in FIFA 19

 Posted on December 28, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  574 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

If you watched this summer's World Cup, you'll probably have seen the Croatian national team on their run to the final. Fuelled by superstars such as captain Luka Modrić, who was awarded best player of the tournament, Croatia beat the likes of Argentina and England (it still hurts) before finally capitulating to France. In short, Croatia did a real number on the World Cup, and were a fantastic watch throughout. [Read More]

Zelda: Breath of the Wild update lets you play with Japanese VO, English subtitles

 Posted on December 28, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  240 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been updated to let you choose a separate voice-over language to the on-screen text. This means you can now play with English text and subtitles, but Japanese voice-over. An option to switch the English voice acting to Japanese has been a common request among fans - many of whom have said they prefer the Japanese voice-over. Before today, you could only hear the Japanese (or any other language) voice acting by setting your Switch console to Japanese and dealing with Japanese text in Zelda as well. [Read More]

Assassin's Creed Odyssey gets 60fps support on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S tomorrow

 Posted on December 27, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  280 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Assassin's Creed Odyssey players on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 will soon be able to hurtle across ancient Greece at 60fps, courtesy of a new game update releasing tomorrow, 24th August. In its current form, Odyssey retains the 30fps limit seen on Xbox One X and PS4 Pro when playing on Sony and Microsoft's newest consoles via backward compatibility, meaning players are in for an extremely welcome 100% frame rate boost when the update arrives. [Read More]

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla settlement upgrades, buildings list and how to get supplies and raw materials explained

 Posted on December 27, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  737 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Assassin's Creed Valhalla's settlement is something we haven't seen from Ubisoft's adventure series for some time - a place to call home. Similar to Connor's Homestead and Ezio's Monteriggioni, this is a central location from which your viking adventure resolves around. From planning the moves throughout England's four kingdoms, to using the spoils from your many conquests to add new buildings, there's always a reason to come back to your settlement. [Read More]

BioWare teases Grey Wardens for Dragon Age 4

 Posted on December 27, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  426 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Dragon Age fans will know the Grey Wardens well. The warrior group are the stars of Dragon Age: Origins, fighting the horrible darkspawn throughout the fantasy world of Thedas. It's the Grey Wardens who lead the charge against each Blight, ensuring the survival of the world. In Origins, the player is initiated into the Grey Wardens via a ritual called the Joining, which involves imbibing darkspawn blood. My wife took a fondness to Alistair, a reluctantly heroic Grey Warden and. [Read More]

Destiny 2's Tower compared with Destiny 1's Tower

 Posted on December 27, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  341 words  |  Patria Henriques

Bungie, free from the shackles of the last generation of consoles, has built Destiny 2 for the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. So, fans expect an improvement when it comes to the graphics. With the Destiny 2 beta now live, we're starting to see how much of an improvement Bungie has managed. The video, below, from YouTube channel Candyland gives us our best comparison yet between the graphics of Destiny 1 and the graphics of the Destiny 2 beta. [Read More]

GTA parent company Take-Two is issuing takedown notices to GTA modders

 Posted on December 27, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  672 words  |  Patria Henriques

GTA developer Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, is issuing takedown notices for GTA map mods. "Just to make sure as many people here know as possible, Take-Two have been going heavy with the DMCAs this week, first starting with GTAV map mods like GTA3 Portland, Vice City Overhaul, etc," writes Ash_735 on the official GTA Forums (thanks, PC Gamer). As Ash puts it, an agreement to help the publisher and the modding community peacefully coexist was struck a little while back when Take-Two " [Read More]

Here's how you can help us get the Seinfeld point-and-click game we all deserve

 Posted on December 27, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  403 words  |  Trudie Dory

A couple of indie developers want your help to bring a new point-and-click adventure based in the Seinfield universe to fruition. In a video called Seinfeld Game - The Unofficial Pitch, developers Jacob Janerka and Ivan Dixon "would like to pitch to you a game about nothing, set in the Seinfeld-verse". Whilst the pair have teased "snippets of the concept" to gaming fans before, this time it's a "full pitch rather than a few screenshots" [Read More]