Lost Ark Knowledge Transfer: how to level boost your alts using in-game currency

How level boosting works in Lost Ark, its costs, and whether or not it’s worth doing Will Knowledge Transfer be available from launch in Lost Ark?Lost Arklets you have multiple characters associated with your account, allowing you to experiment with the different classes and subclasses, and build different characters for different activities. The cherry on top of this tasty arrangement is that you don’t have to manually level each of these characters up from nowhere: instead, once you’ve levelled up your main, you can give your alts a boost thanks to the game’s Knowledge Transfer system....

February 8, 2022 · 3 min · 601 words · Nicholas Anderson

Lost Ark review-in-progress: Diablo-like combat clashes with a very grindy MMO

While you’re here, could you grab me ten kobold tongues? In last year’s hands-on with free-to-play action RPG-inspired MMOLost Arklast year, I thought it hadpotential if you could survive the early slow burn. Having since returned to it for a few weeks, my thoughts remain largely the same. For all its flashy combat and fun moments, the sheer grind to reach its promised endgame may prove too much for many....

February 8, 2022 · 6 min · 1129 words · Ana Lamb

Lost Ark system requirements, PC performance and the best settings to use

No flashy tech, but it runs well Lost Ark defaults to DX11 in the release build so you shouldn’t need to change it manually change it. And, because I’ve been seeing near-identical performance gains from lowering quality as I did in the DX9 build, I’m satisfied that this settings guide still applies. Though Amazon, maybe next time let us try out your game at its best, yeah? The original article continues below…...

February 8, 2022 · 5 min · 1006 words · Michael Lopez

Lost Ark Twitch Drops: How to claim items from the Legends of Lost Ark series

All the unique prizes available in the Legends of Lost Ark Twitch Drops series As part of the event, three teams of 20 streamers — representing Lost Ark fans from Europe, North America, and Latin America — will be competing in a series of events to unlock drops for their region. You can check out thefull team rosters, or read on below for details of the goodies you stand to claim for yourself during the series....

February 8, 2022 · 2 min · 312 words · William Heath

Platinum Games' new CEO wants to create "new ways to play" or shut the company

Larger, riskier - and live service - games Platinum Games' new CEO Atsushi Inaba says that he wants the company to “create new games on a larger scale” which “can be enjoyed and loved for a longer period of time.” In an interview withFamitsu, he discussed the need for the studio to move beyond the “one-off” experiences the studio is known for and towards, its implied, live service games. In the interview, astranslated by VGC, Platinum co-founder Inaba spoke aboutProject G....

February 8, 2022 · 3 min · 465 words · Gerald Randall

Semantle is hard mode Wordle, powered by a Google neural network

You’ll need dozens of guesses In many ways,Semantleis hard mode Wordle. Gone is the simplified dictionary and five-letter limit, meaning words can be any type and length, and gone is any indication of correctly guessed letters or positions. Instead, you’ve got two new helpers: the ability to make infinite guesses, and a neural network able to learn word associations telling you how close, conceptually, you are to the correct answer. I’ve yet to find the solution in fewer than 50 guesses....

February 8, 2022 · 4 min · 667 words · Sharon Bush

Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters looks like aggressive space XCOM and I’m here for it

A Bloomin’ good time I was sold from the moment our Justicar sliced off the mutated Apostate Preacher’s tentacle arm. The poor thing was clutching a Vox Stave, and so removing his arm removed the use of his scariest abilities - although in this case the dismemberment proved academic, because it also left him exposed to immediate melee execution. That left our Interceptor free to shoot a nearby statue down on top of a cultist before stabbing him and his friend to death, which in turn gave our Apothecary enough space to chuck a grenade at a bridge and send three Poxwalkers plummeting to their doom....

February 8, 2022 · 6 min · 1159 words · Anthony Miller

Watch 20 minutes of Euro Truck Simulator 2's Heart Of Russia DLC

A relaxing drive I have spent hours watching trucking videos on YouTube. I enjoy watching the scenery roll past the window of people hauling freight while I’m working. It’s just as relaxation when the scenery is virtual. SCS Software have just released 20 minutes of the next expansion forEuro Truck Simulator 2, Heart Of Russia, showing the journey from Vyazma to Kaluga. Here’s the video: No single item in ETS is particularly detailed in terms of polygons....

February 8, 2022 · 2 min · 228 words · Dennis White

"NFTs are a scam," says indie game store Itch.io

“How can you be so dense?” Whether you dislike NFTs, don’t understand them, or think you can make money from them, you can’t escape the NFT discourse. Game stores are no different. Valve havebanned games with NFTs or cryptocurrencies from Steam, theEpic Games Stores welcomes NFTs, and now Itch.io has weighed in. In response to people asking, the folks behind the excellent indie games store have stated their beliefs plainly: “NFTs are a scam....

February 7, 2022 · 2 min · 303 words · William Holland

Dying Light 2 endings: how to get the best ending in Dying Light 2

Here’s how your choices change the ending of Dying Light 2 Want to know how to get the best Dying Light 2 ending?Throughout your playthrough ofDying Light 2, there are a number of fateful moments where you must make hard decisions which can influence the ending you receive in the Epilogue. In Techland’s newest story there is no clear right or wrong a lot of the time, and it’s rarely clear which decisions affect the ending and which do not....

February 7, 2022 · 5 min · 896 words · Courtney Randolph

Dying Light 2 has fixes coming for crashes and other issues

Devs lay out their work plan for the next week Following the launch ofDying Light 2on Friday, developers Techland have been working to fix lingering technical issues. Over the weekend they laid out their plans for patching the open-world zombie-masher, with fixes for a number of crashes, issues blocking progress through the story, issues leading to a “death loop” (not that sort) and more. They haven’t said when exactly PC patches will hit, but sounds like soon?...

February 7, 2022 · 2 min · 237 words · Ryan Fischer

Factorio expansion goal is to feel "as big an addition as the whole vanilla game"

We still don’t know much about what’s in the expansion One year after announcing a paid expansion forFactorio, the developers still haven’t revealed much of what it’ll bring. But they have now confirmed something that might not be big but is large: they plan for the expansion to feel as big as the whole base game all over again. Factorio is not a small game, so that’s an impressive plan....

February 7, 2022 · 2 min · 380 words · Sarah Callahan

How to get Outfits and Wind Gliders in Genshin Impact

Spice up your wardrobe with Genshin Impact’s array of Outfits Tired of staring at your party’s default Outfits in Genshin Impact?We don’t blame you. Luckily, a few of Genshin’s characters have unlockable Outfits that you can switch between for a change of pace. And, alongside Genshin’s Wind Glider options, you can make some pretty cool combinations and turn Teyvat into your personal runway. Here’s how to get every Outfit and Wind Glider inGenshin Impact(and how to equip them)....

February 7, 2022 · 4 min · 700 words · Cheryl Robertson