Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is the best, most expensive demo ever made
Posted on November 26, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
What do you want first: the good news or the bad news? Let's start with the bad, shall we - Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes' main campaign isn't two hours long. For a lot of players it will be even shorter. The good news? After eight hours, it remains fun - if only just.
Let's get the facts out of the way. Ground Zeroes' main campaign is a single mission.
[Read More]Minecraft Dungeons' latest update adds a cut secret level
Posted on November 26, 2022
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| Trudie Dory
There's a new secret level to unlock in Minecraft Dungeons - one that was cut from the game pre-release.
Lower Temple is a fresh procedurally-generated dungeon available for free via the game's latest update. Fans had been aware of its existence for a while, though it was left out of the game at launch. Now, it's unlockable for all - at the same time as the game dropped its first of two paid expansions.
[Read More]Star Citizen developer plans 1000-person Manchester mega studio
Posted on November 26, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
Star Citizen and Squadron 42 developer Cloud Imperium Games plans to open a huge new studio in Manchester, making it one of the UK's largest development houses. The new office is set to open in May 2022 and rehouse the company's current 400-person team based nearby in Wilmslow, before quickly and dramatically expanding. A five-year plan will see 700 people fill the building by 2023, before further growth to an eye-opening team size of 1000 by 2026.
[Read More]Star Citizen hires heavyweight Hollywood cast for Squadron 42
Posted on November 26, 2022
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| Trudie Dory
There's a single-player story module in Star Citizen called Squadron 42, and it will be brought to life by an incredible list of Hollywood actors. Actors include Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Gimli sorry John Rhys Davies, Andy Serkis and Mark Strong. Craig Fairbrass from EastEnders is in there too. Wow! I don't recognise the others but you may.
The Hollywood roster was announced at the weekend at CitizenCon, the third annual celebration of Star Citizen, a sci-fi space game crowdfunded to record levels and then even further - to $92m and beyond (as of today) - by sales of in-game spaceships.
[Read More]This 1TB WD Black SN850 PCIe Gen4 drive is just £119 with a free heatsink
Posted on November 26, 2022
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| Trudie Dory
A fast SSD is one of our favourite upgrades to recommend and this WD Black SN850 is sure to put the fire in your PC's belly. Thanks to the recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts, the SN850's price is now the lowest it has ever been, making it relatively affordable to get into the fast SSD game and massively boost your PC's performance - or more than double the game storage space available on your PS5.
[Read More]This Breath of the Wild mod adds "ray-tracing" and looks glorious
Posted on November 26, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
UPDATE: A previous version of this article stated that it was the Switch version of Breath of the Wild that was being emulated. It's actually the Wii U version. Apologies. Emulation of Nintendo games on PC has given modders the ability to tweak them in a way that enhances them from the original.
Now, German modder Digital Dreams (thanks, Kotaku) has released a showcase of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running at 8K resolution with ray-tracing (path traced global illumination), and it looks absolutely stunning.
[Read More]Animal Crossing clothes: How to change appearance and get new clothing in Pocket Camp
Posted on November 25, 2022
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| Trudie Dory
In a game about customisation, Animal Crossing clothes are one of the most important parts of changing your appearance.
There are several ways to get new clothing in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, and despite a warning during the tutorial, it's thankfully very easy to edit your villager - from their face to hair, eye colour and more - at any time.
If you're interested in other Animal Crossing starter guides, we can explain how to give kudos, , what Calling Cards and Request Tickets do plus troubleshooting Pocket Camp error codes.
[Read More]Bravely Default censors its clothing upon its western release
Posted on November 25, 2022
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A couple of characters in Bravely Default received less skimpy clothing and an increase in age upon their western release.
As spotted by IGN reader BangSilverGang (thanks, Polygon), the Japanese outfits (right) are slightly strappier and more revealing, while the European images from the game (left) are a fraction more sensible - albeit still ridiculous.
A majority of the main cast has also seen an increase in age by three years, according to the Final Fantasy Wiki.
[Read More]Elex review | Eurogamer.net
Posted on November 25, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
Hokey, uneven and janky, Elex is nonetheless a compelling throwback to a time before open worlds became choose your own to-do lists. Without being signed up to work on a big franchise, or having successfully developed one of its own over the course of 20 toilsome years, it can be tough for a studio to launch a new 3D open world RPG in a landscape dominated by Witchers, Mass Effects, Fallouts and Elder Scrolls.
[Read More]For Honor ditches "super-required" split-screen mode
Posted on November 25, 2022
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| Trudie Dory
"You want sit on the couch and beat up your buddy, right?"
That was creative director Jason VandenBerghe's irresistible argument for having split-screen in melee combat game For Honor. He said that to GameSpot when For Honor was announced back at E3 2015. He said split-screen was "absolutely a key feature" and "super-required".
But split-screen has now been removed.
In a statement given to Eurogamer, Ubisoft said: "The For Honor team made the difficult decision to cut split-screen co-op in order to deliver the best experience at launch.
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