Ant-agonising requirements Earth Defense Force 6players on Steam aren’t happy about having to sign into the Epic Games Store, it seems. The latest entry in theco-opant-control shooter launched yesterday, and critics reckon it’s a decent time. Still, it’s currently sitting at an angry red ‘mostly negative’ on Steam. In response, D3PUBLISHER have put out anapology statement, reassuring players that this third-party log in will only be required once. “For this game, to enhance cross play and online functionality....

Plus a “hard” mode In a recent interview, the director ofThe Elder Scrolls Onlinesaid that if you madeMorrowindtoday, it would struggle to find an audience. “If you play that right now,” he said, “there is no compass, no map, literally the quests are like ‘go to the third tree on the right and walk 50 paces west’… And if you did that now, no one would play it. Very few people would play it....

Here’s how to clear Lamenter’s Gaol in Shadow Of the Erdtree Looking for a full rundown of Lamenter’s Gaol in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?Like the other gaol mini-dungeons inElden Ring’s DLCShadow Of The Erdtree, Lamenter’s Gaol is full of chains, disturbing shadows, jars, and lots of creepy innards emerging from those jars. As its namesake might indicate, however, this gaol stands out fromBelurat GaolandBonny Gaolwith ominous moans that echo from the walls and threaten to wreck your Tarnished’s conviction....

Don’t Kain on my parade It looks like theLegacy Of Kain: Soul Reavergames could be getting the remaster treatment. An attendee at San Diego Comic-Con was looking at a set of figures based on characters from the series when they saw that the plaque accompanying the figures was labelled with the words “Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered” alongside the logo for Crystal Dynamics. I suppose if you throw a coin enough times, one day it will land on the side with the head of a jawless vampire on it....

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No mention of all the other wrong calls Paradox Interactive appear from the outside to be a company run by dice roll. That was the case earlier this year when theycancelled Sims competitor Life By You and closed its developers, weeks after it had missed a project release date. “It is clear that we have made the wrong calls in several projects, especially outside of our core, and this must change,” writes CEO Fredrik Wester in an interim financial report, released today....

Demos were once a cornerstone of PC gaming and they arguably will be again thanks to events like Steam Next Fest. The latest update to Steam seeks to make those free slices of potential delight easier to find for players, and easier to promote for developers. The Great Steam Demo Update, asthe announcement calls it, makes several changes. Demos will now behave differently in your library: you can add them without immediately installing them; they can now be installed even if you already own the full game; and they can be manually removed from your library, or will be automatically removed when uninstalled....

With hints at what’s next for the MS-owned studio If you have any interest in video game development at all, you owe it to yourself towatch the documentary from the beginning. Even if you don’t care about development or video games, I think it would be compelling to watch a team of sincere, talented people collaborate to make something complicated and joyful. Its to Double Fine’s great credit that the documentary frankly depicts several of the things that went wrong on the project, too, from staff disagreements, departures, crunch, and much more....

I’m thinking of asking out my kitchen sponge I keep seeing those adverts for that Ray-Ban and Meta collaboration, where like, they’re smart glasses that let you browse the web with your eyes? Anyway, yeah, they don’t appeal to me at all. Not as much as “Dateviator” glasses, which come courtesy of Sassy Chap Games and their upcoming dating simDate Everything!As the title suggests: you date everything, from kitchen sponges to lampshades, as they morph into absolute fitties once you’ve donned the special specs....

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Unboard the windows The 1.0 release comes out today and brings “more optimizations, polish, quality-of-life improvements, new content, new features, and new gameplay systems than ever before,” say developers The Fun Pimps, who must surely be tired. Their summary is also putting it somewhat mildly. Thefull patch notesare enormous. The world generation has been beefed up, making it faster and, theoretically, resulting in more interesting worlds. A bunch of new “points of interest” will now appear, including new theatres, high schools and hotels....

Here are all the new Elden Ring DLC Talismans and how to get them Looking for all of the new Talismans in Shadow Of The Erdtree?Elden Ring’s DLC,Shadow Of The Erdtree, adds a wide variety of Talismans to the already robust collection in the base game, letting you boost your Tarnished’s loadout for all of the challenges that the Shadow Realm has to offer. In total, there are 39 new Talismans that will do everything from upping your damage output to enhancing your attacks if you maintain the same stance....

Ryzen 5 9600X and pals pushed back to August In a certifiably not-great week for gaming CPUs, AMD have announced that the newRyzen 9000series is being delayed for a few days. That’s thanks to initial production units not being up to standards, an AMD executive admitted, and comes shortly after rivals Intel copped to apotentially chip-killing faultin their latest Core processors. Ah well, there’s always – oh, wait. No. Those are the only two....