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 Posted on October 26, 2022  |  7 minutes  |  1487 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Ninja Theory crafts a highly competent action game and a nuanced, powerful exploration of mental health. Doubt and uncertainty are, I think, very difficult things to accurately portray in video games. We're used to the idea that an encounter, a mission or a shot may not go our way but, in a medium that by design requires us to succeed, the idea that we may not be capable - that we may be innately destined for failure - is a difficult thing to convey. [Read More]

Now you can play a 10-year old version of Minecraft in your browser

 Posted on October 26, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  224 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Cats? Pandas? Notch? Minecraft is a very different game now to the one which launched back in 2009. It's a more complex, customisable beast - and sometimes I yearn for the simplicity of its earlier days. Well, today you can tickle your nostalgia buds and fire up Minecraft as it used to be, via your browser. Just head to classic.minecraft.net and you can play straightaway. It's basic. Very basic. But if you want to place some blocks and remember all the good times before Notch went weird, this is for you. [Read More]

Relic leaves Dawn of War 3 behind as it moves on to new projects

 Posted on October 26, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  352 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Relic Entertainment has left Dawn of War 3 behind to focus on new projects. The RTS / MOBA hybrid launched in April 2017 and struggled to find an audience, with long-standing Dawn of War fans put off by the game's art style and MOBA elements. Conversely, the game's MOBA elements failed to attract fans of the genre. Dawn of War 3's loyal player base was deemed too small to justify further investment in the game, with Relic and Sega chiefs expressing doubt that updates could turn things around. [Read More]

Rockstar details Red Dead Online's Blood Money update with new trailer

 Posted on October 26, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  404 words  |  Patria Henriques

Rockstar has given Red Dead Online players a glimpse of what is to come in next week's Blood Money update. In a new trailer, below, fans are introduced to Guido Martelli in Saint Denis, and can expect to receive new clothing, passes, and robberies when the Blood Money update launches on 13th July. Blood Money offers a new type of work known as Crimes. This ranges from cloak and dagger coach holdups to multi-stage robberies including kidnapping and brutal debt collections. [Read More]

Super Smash Bros is now Marvel Cinematic Universe canon

 Posted on October 26, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  369 words  |  Fernande Dalal

This week's enjoyable first episode of Ms Marvel included a neat gaming nod for Nintendo fans. Dialogue between Kamala Khan and her high school friends revealed they play Super Smash Bros together - meaning Nintendo's all-star fighter is now Marvel Cinematic Universe canon. Kamala herself seemed to be a fan of Smash, though her friend Nakia was less keen. Perhaps understandably, no reference was made to Square Enix's Marvel's Avengers. [Read More]

Beautiful gardening sim The Garden Path is like Animal Crossing without the hustle

 Posted on October 25, 2022  |  7 minutes  |  1474 words  |  Trudie Dory

The first and most frequent question the Garden Path makes me ask is ‘what now'. Left without direction, I'm usually quick to get lost. But lack of direction is this game's whole point. All that's explicitly explained after creating your own gardener is where to find your inventory and how you equip tools. Then you find yourself in the garden. The garden isn't a small tidy pitch of land secured with a picket fence – in the Garden Path, the garden is more like a forest. [Read More]

Bungie warns Destiny 2's new BattlEye anti-cheat may impact game performance

 Posted on October 25, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  347 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Destiny 2 PC players may notice an impact to their game's performance following the recent addition of anti-cheat software, Bungie has warned. BattlEye was added to Destiny 2 last night as part of the game's 3.3.0 update. Alongside this, Bungie published a security update blog detailing its arrival - and what it may mean for performance. "Anti-cheat solutions require some additional system resources to keep watch and you may see some reduction in frames and performance after Update 3. [Read More]

Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets an October release date

 Posted on October 25, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  358 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Crysis Remastered Trilogy - which, as its name suggest, bundles together fancied-up editions of developer Crytek's acclaimed first-person shooters Crysis 1, 2, and 3 - is coming to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC on 15th October. 2007's original Crysis got the remaster treatment last Autumn, bringing various tweaks and enhancements for modern-era machines, and 15th October will see the game's two sequels - or, more specifically, their single-player campaigns - getting a similarly thorough spruce-up. [Read More]

Cyberpunk 2077 Freeing Brick: How to free Brick and disarm the trap in Cyberpunk 2077's The Pickup

 Posted on October 25, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  540 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Freeing Brick in Cyberpunk 2077 is a possible optional objective in Act 1 mission The Pickup. Provided Brick has survived in the mission, there will be a side-mission to find a way to free Brick as you complete the main task of escaping All Foods. Once you have done that, he's not able to flee just yet - with the follow up task of disarming the trap preventing Brick's escape. [Read More]

DICE doubles down on Specialists with response to Battlefield 2042 beta feedback

 Posted on October 25, 2022  |  7 minutes  |  1312 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

DICE is standing firm with its replacement of classes with Specialists in Battlefield 2042 as it shares an extensive list of key takeaways from the open beta. The studio also released a new video revealing the remaining five Specialists for the game's launch. "... we see Specialists as the next evolution of the classic Battlefield class system that will not only enable individual players to have a bigger impact, it will elevate teams that cooperate to newer heights," [Read More]