Amid the excitement for Half-Life: Alyx, spare a thought for Team Fortress 2

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  620 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Half-Life is back, and that's all anyone is talking about. But spare a thought for that other old Valve game, Team Fortress 2. A cursory glance at the Team Fortress 2 community reveals it's resigned to defeat after a recent report confirmed Valve has pretty much downed tools on the team-based shooter. In the video below, Valve News Network reports on an interview with veteran Valve employee Greg Coomer, who said " [Read More]

Assassin's Creed Valhalla review - a saga for the ages

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  16 minutes  |  3255 words  |  Patria Henriques

Valhalla is another enormous Assassin's Creed saga, lavishly designed, with its sights set on story direction over narrative choice. There's a Viking belief that the paths we walk are predetermined, and that the threads of our lives are already woven like strands in a collective tapestry. Where your own thread encounters others, even where it ends, are points in history already sewn together by the Fates. But the Vikings also believed in an idea of free will, in the possibility to see the path prophecy might have chosen and the ability to resist it, to fight for your own destiny and the destinies of those whose lives you might touch. [Read More]

CoD: Black Ops 3's Zombie Mode stars Jeff Goldblum and Ron Perlman

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  350 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 has announced its Zombie Mode, Shadows of Evil. It stars Jeff Goldblum, Heather Graham, Neal McDonough, Ron Perlman, and Robert Picardo as super powered slicksters fighting the undead in a jazzy 1940s film noir-inspired world. Revealed today at San Diego Comic-Con, Shadows of Evil looks a little something like this: The short blurb about the plot Activision provided noted that players assume the roles of four characters - The Magician, The Femme-Fatale, The Cop and The Boxer - as they investigate the nefarious Shadow Man who is ostensibly behind all the undead shenanigans. [Read More]

Control - What a Mess Plant locations, Mold locations and how to unlock the Janitor's Assistant Uniform

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  6 minutes  |  1150 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

What a Mess: Talk to the Plants, What a Mess: Clear the Mold and What a Mess: Even more Mold are the last three missions Ahti the Janitor will ask you complete in Control. Ahti's not a hard task master, however, and once you complete these missions, he'll let you take a break. What a Mess: Take a Break involves doing just that and will reward you with the Janitor's Assistant Uniform. [Read More]

Greyhat: A Digital Detective Adventure review - a bumpy hacker thriller

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  8 minutes  |  1499 words  |  Patria Henriques

There's witty and satisfying puzzling here but it takes patience to get through it. I have doctored someone's school grades to make sure they fail and I have exposed a cheating politician. I have taken down a company like Nestle, ended a cult and landed aeroplanes. I have destroyed chemical weapons, I have stopped a nuke. I've done all this and more in Greyhat because I'm the hacker everyone turns to when they need something done. [Read More]

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain - GMP, S Ranks, mission scores, bonuses, penalties

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  719 words  |  Trudie Dory

For the vast majority of the missions in Metal Gear Solid 5, you'll receive a score rating which provides a rough overview of your overall performance. When you first attempt each mission, you'll probably score a bit on the low side, but repeat attempts should see you climbing the ranks quite quickly as you master each element of the job at hand Here's the low-down on how to increase your bonus rewards for finishing up missions, crawl up the rankings slowly but surely, and bag those elusive S Ranks. [Read More]

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 review: the cheapest RTX card yet impresses

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  6 minutes  |  1122 words  |  Trudie Dory

Page 1 of 6 Next page The £239/$249 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 is the long-awaited desktop equivalent of the RTX 3050 that debuted in laptops last year, bringing with it a massively expanded power envelope and double the VRAM of the mobile version. That ought to allow for much better performance on the desktop, but how much can Nvidia wring out of the GA106 die? To find out, we've paired the new GPU with a high-end PC system and tested it in all of our favourite games. [Read More]

PlayStation 4 party chat, online apps won't require Plus subscription

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  1 minutes  |  205 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Sony has today revealed a number of new tidbits surrounding PlayStation 4 - primarily that its party chat functions will be free to use, meaning you won't need a PlayStation Plus subscription. Unlike Xbox 360 or Xbox One, PS4 owners won't need to pay to chat online, or to use online-based apps such as streaming service Netflix. PS4 does need you to be a Plus subscriber to play online games, but Sony has today clarified that this charge does not apply to free-to-play games - another thing Xbox charges for. [Read More]

PS3 games are now on the PS store, fuelling rumours backwards compatibility is on its way to PS5

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  409 words  |  Patria Henriques

PS3 games have started popping up on the PlayStation 5's store. Up until now, PS3 games on the PS Store would typically redirect you to Sony's on-demand streaming service, PlayStation Now - which is, in fact, what happened when I checked the store myself this morning when preparing this story. Others, however, were able to see PS3 games on the store complete with a price tag, adding credence to unconfirmed rumours that Sony may be preparing a backwards compatibility service to rival Microsoft's long-standing one (thanks, VGC). [Read More]

Surgeon Simulator 2013 reveals secret alien surgery

 Posted on October 5, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  446 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Surgeon Simulator 2013's alternate-reality game Codename: Trisha has been cracked. The reward: alien surgery. That's right. You perform surgery on an extra terrestrial. Because why not? Unlocking this secret content is a herculean task that took the best and brightest of the human population - and a little brute force - to uncover. Luckily, YouTube user MattShea369 walks us through this insane process. It begins with a diagram on the back of comically clumsy surgeon Nigel Burke's degree. [Read More]