Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War's Zombies Onslaught mode is a 12-month PlayStation exclusive

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  448 words  |  Trudie Dory

Activision has unveiled Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War's co-operative Zombies Onslaught mode, which, in news sure to send eyeballs a-swivelling, is confirmed to be a timed PlayStation exclusive that won't be heading to other platforms for a full year. Zombies Onslaught is separate to this year's main Zombies narrative - Die Maschine, which is still coming to all platforms at launch - and is described as a " [Read More]

Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets an October release date

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  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]

Days Gone tech analysis: Bend Studios' Unreal world under the microscope

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  13 minutes  |  2718 words  |  Fernande Dalal

After more than seven years in development, Days Gone has finally arrived, delivering Bend Studio's take on the zombie apocalypse. It's a large-scale open world experience with a heavy focus on narrative and characters. To boil things down to their essentials, it's basically The Last of Us meets Far Cry and it works. It starts with the environment. Days Gone features an impressive take on the Pacific Northwest, with richly detailed conifer forests and open plains serving as the backdrop. [Read More]

Dust 514 will shut down in May

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  398 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

PlayStation 3 EVE spin-off Dust 514 will shut down on 30th May. Publisher CCP announced it was pulling the plug via a forum post this afternoon. The game's upcoming 1.3 update has been cancelled. The decision comes as no surprise - first-person shooter Dust 514 has failed to find a large playerbase since its launch back in May 2013. Its much-trumpeted hookups to bigger brother EVE Online never impressed, either. [Read More]

Final Fantasy 7 AP farming and sources: How to get AP Up with the Pedometer and other AP sources in the Remake

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  6 minutes  |  1232 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

AP in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake is used to upgrade Materia, orbs of power that are attached to your equipment which you use to perform spells and buff your statistics in battle. Given the importance of Materia in curating your in-game character builds, upgrading them with AP - or Ability Points - is of the highest importance as you push further into the game. By focusing on the best Materia early on, you can fill them with Ability Points and ensure that your build is as strong as possible by the mid to late game. [Read More]

Interest gathers around new Shadowbane-like MMO Crowfall

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  623 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

There's something interesting going down in massively-multiplayer land and it's a game called Crowfall. Often in MMOs you're given content, you don't make your own - you fight where you're told over what you're told. But what if you were fighting to protect your land, or to take someone else's? What if you were playing your own game of thrones? Some games flirt with the idea (Dark Age of Camelot Realm vs. [Read More]

Man builds £3K Elite: Dangerous cockpit

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  414 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Most PC gamers are happy with a mouse and keyboard and a monitor. Not so Markus Boesen. German Boesen constructed a triple-screen, ultra high-resolution cockpit so that he can enjoy space game Elite: Dangerous in all of its intergalactic glory. Here's a look at his rig in action. The core of Markus' epic setup is a cluster of three HD BenQ TH681 projectors, powered by a pair of Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC graphic cards configured in Crossfire mode. [Read More]

Murdered: Soul Suspect review | Eurogamer.net

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  7 minutes  |  1393 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

A curious and offbeat detective adventure that makes up in personality what it lacks in depth and technical polish. I'm over halfway through Murdered: Soul Suspect when I realise something: I've not shot or punched anyone during the whole time I've been playing. Nor, it turns out, will I shoot or punch anyone for the remainder of the game. It's a testament to the game's peculiar strengths that it manages to feel like an action game while cleverly distracting you from the fact you're not actually getting much action. [Read More]

Obi-Wan Kenobi is now in Fortnite, although you can't use his lightsaber

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  403 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Today brings the first two episodes of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show for Disney+, so of course the bearded Jedi has also turned up in Fortnite's item shop. The one downside? You can't use Obi-Wan's trusty lightsaber, which instead hangs limply from his trusty Jedi backpack. Fortnite has previously featured lightsabers as weapons - and very fun they are too. You can strike, block and perform a neat little combat roll while holding them, and players facing off against each other will often like to go one-on-one with you as a proper duel. [Read More]

Raven Software ends QA strike action in light of unionisation

 Posted on June 1, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  389 words  |  Patria Henriques

Raven Software's QA team has ended its strike action. As Matt helpfully summarised for us a couple of days back, the strike began when around a third of the QA team was laid off back in December. The firings - coming after a five-week period of overtime and anticipated end-of-year crunch - occurred despite Activision allegedly promising the team it was working on a pay restructure to increase wages. Now quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard's Wisconsin-based Raven Software studio have announced their intention to form a worker's union, however, the ABK Workers Alliance collective has announced plans to end the strike " [Read More]