Fortnite Haunted Household Furniture explained

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  330 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Destroying haunted household furniture is one of the Fornitemares challenges for 2019. In this challenge you need to hunt down and destroy five pieces of haunted household furniture, which is scattered in houses across the new Fortnite map. If you're completing the Fortnitemares challenge set, then we also have a guide on how to find the haunted forest, ghost town and spooky town. On this page: What is Haunted Household Furniture in Fortnite? [Read More]

G2 Esports launches its first all-female Valorant team

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  375 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

G2 Esports has launched its first ever all-female team for Valorant. G2 Esports is one of the most successful esports organisations in Europe, having won the League of Legends European Championships eight times. This new all-female team, known as G2 Gozen, includes prominent female esports players Juia "Juliano" Kiran, Michaela "Mimi" Lintrup, Zainab "zAAz" Turkie, Petra "Petra" Stoker and Anja "aNNja" Vasalic. G2's aim is to support both men and women in esports to eventually compete in mixed leagues, hiring the best talent irrespective of gender identity. [Read More]

Meet the amputee who cosplayed Apex Legends' Octane at EA Play

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  942 words  |  Trudie Dory

Under a blazingly hot LA sun, by midday on Saturday the EA Play event was in full swing. Fans were whirring, players were seeking shelter under parasols - and with the giant skeletal decorations, it almost felt like stepping into King's Canyon itself. In part, this is because the entire Apex Legends line-up was there too. Nine characters, in full costume and make-up, were busy acting out their roles and smiling for the cameras to the delight of nearby guests. [Read More]

Modern Warfare Gunfight alpha dates, start time, access and everything else you need to know

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  387 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Here's something new - a Call of Duty alpha is on the way, allowing us to sample Modern Warfare's Gunfight mode ahead of release. This Modern Warfare alpha is free for all PS4 players - whether you have a PS4 subscription or not - giving players something to keep them going until the Modern Warfare beta next month. On this page: Modern Warfare alpha start date and start times: When does the Modern Warfare alpha begin? [Read More]

Shenmue 3 money making: How to make money fast by winning and exchanging tokens

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  980 words  |  Trudie Dory

Money making has always been important in Shenmue, but in Shenmue 3 it's more necessary than before thanks to several new systems. One is having to consume food, which you must do to increase your stamina. Even if you're not entering a battle, you'll still run out of energy regularly, and to get food, you need money. Not only that, but fighting is made easier with the use of Snake Power - which costs a pricey 270 yuan - while the funds needed to buy capsules toys adds up, especially if you're participating in side-quests such as Capsule of Love. [Read More]

Tech Analysis: Gran Turismo Sport vs Forza Motorsport 7

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  16 minutes  |  3238 words  |  Trudie Dory

Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo: two franchise juggernauts that push the technical limits of their respective platforms. As console-orientated driving simulators, they share much in common - both hand in state-of-the-art visuals, a remarkable level of fidelity, and they both target a silky-smooth 60 frames per second. With plenty of matching content in terms of cars and tracks, there are many ready-made comparison points for analysing their respective technologies. But while both Forza Motorsport 7 and Gran Turismo Sport set out with very similar objectives, the end results are often very different, underscoring a profound difference in execution - and philosophy. [Read More]

Tekken 7 storms past 7m sales

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  270 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Tekken 7 has sold more than seven million copies, Bandai Namco has announced. The fighting game launched on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2017, although it was available in arcades before that. Since then, Tekken 7 has seen a number of DLC characters released as part of seasons. Guest characters include Geese Howard from Fatal Fury, Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy 15, and Negan from The Walking Dead. [Read More]

This is it, Nintendo kills Super Mario 3D All-Stars in one week

 Posted on October 23, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  311 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

The time has come. If you've been holding off on a purchase of Super Mario 3D All-Stars for Nintendo Switch, you have just one week left to play into Nintendo's artificially-induced FOMO and purchase a copy - or miss out forever. Nintendo will delete its compilation of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy from the Switch eShop servers on 31st March. Physical copies will become harder to find, meanwhile, with no more new shipments apparently due. [Read More]

A closer look at PS5 ray tracing in Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  7 minutes  |  1461 words  |  Fernande Dalal

We're finally getting to see more of the launch wave of PlayStation 5 titles, with Insomniac revealing a first look at hardware accelerated ray tracing effects in Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. A huge improvement is clearly evident in reflections from the tallest skyscraper to the smallest puddle, but bafflingly, the reveal was met with some vitriol on social media. Artefacts and compromises were highlighted, with some even suggesting that we weren't seeing ray tracing at all. [Read More]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players are unsure about the screen turning black and white when you're nearly dead

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  527 words  |  Fernande Dalal

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare alpha is currently live on PlayStation 4 and it's pretty impressive, but one aspect of the game that's sparked a vociferous debate revolves around what happens when you're nearly dead. When you're close to death in Modern Warfare, Infinity Ward's soft reboot of its famous first-person shooter franchise, your screen turns black and white. It's a pretty dramatic switch and, for some, makes it easy to lose a target and fight back. [Read More]