Here is a full list of God Boons in Hades 2 and our top picks for the best ones Looking for the best Boons in Hades 2?Like its predecessor, Boons play a major role inHades 2. They’re essentially blessings from Gods that give you added perks in and out of combat and can mean life or death on a run in Erebus and beyond. With returning faces as well as some new ones, each God in the Pantheon ofHades 2offers unique Boons and specialities (or Curses)....

Here is what every door and Boon symbol means in Hades 2 Looking for a list of all Boon and door symbols in Hades 2?As you travel through Erebus inHades 2, you’ll be offered a choice of doors leading to different pathways. These doors will usually have a unique symbol which represents the level’s reward. If you’re unfamiliar with Hades, these symbols can be confusing at first as you don’t know which reward you’re agreeing to....

Surprise Steam hit is still stutters galore, even on lowered settings Said hotfix does include some fixes for other widespread problems, including a second attempt at preventing players from becoming headless when rejoining a server (an amusing though resilient glitch, given a previous hotfix had also tried to nix it). But having played a bit of this third patch on a usually reliableRTX 4060, there’s clearly an awful lot of work left to do before Gray Zone Warfare performs acceptably....

Here are our top tips for beginners playing Hades 2 Looking for Hades 2 top tips for beginners?Hades 2can be a bit of a minefield, especially if you haven’t played the first Hades or are unfamiliar with rogue-like dungeon crawlers. It isn’t necessary to play Hades beforeHades 2. In fact, there are many new systems the sequel introduces with a new protagonist, Melinoe. Whether you’re a returning fan looking for tips to tackle the new systems or it’s your first time playing a Hades game, we have you covered with a list of top tips to help you through your first few runs....

Here are the best weapons in Hades 2 and how to unlock them Looking for the best weapons in Hades 2?Hades 2is a gruelling rogue-like dungeon crawler that puts you in the shoes of Melinoe, desperate to avenge her family against the tyrannical Kronos. If you have any hope of even getting to Kronos, you’ll need to have the best weapons possible. Join us as we go through each weapon currently availible via early access, judging the best and whichKeepsakes,Arcana CardsandBoonswe would pair with them for a successful run....

Witch, please A bunch of us at RPS have been blattering our way through the underworld ofHades 2, which came out in early access yesterday. Naturally, our favourite gods and goddesses are emerging from our evenings of hacking and/or slashing. For me, Nemesis provides a lot of chuckles. Not because she’s bright and jokey (she is frownier than a wet bulldog). But because she’s determined to put the player in their place and to beat you at your own roguelike....

Kno Klowning around Upon learning of the existence of asymmetricalmultiplayerhorrorKiller Klowns From Outer Space: The Game, fromFriday the 13thandPredator Hunting Grounds’ Illfonic and Teravision Games, you’d be forgiven for having, well, questions. The first of which, understandably if you don’t happen to carry a burning penchant for cultishly adored but undeniably niche 80’s schlock, is simple: Why? First, why get invested in another asymmetrical multiplayer game from a studio that has abit of a history with limited shelf lives?...

The unmapped mind I’m not sure how to classifyLeila, a hand drawn, sort of point and click, sort ofpuzzleadventure out this summer. I’d say it’s maybe aGorogoa-like, but the demo is also a series of little vignettes that sort of reminded me ofEdith Finch, but way less in depth. It’s about a middle aged woman navigating her past and present by taking a closer at her mind, which means sorting through a load of magical realist meldings of memories....

My excitement only builds A little while back we weregraced by 25-minutesofMetaphor: ReFantaziofootage, from which I gleaned some chunks of info. Honestly, a new press release doesn’t unveil a whole lot of hotness we didn’t catch a glimpse of before, but it does give us a better idea of how the battle system works in Atlus’s upcomingJRPG. Metaphor lets you switch between real time fights and turn-based battles, with those real time fights labelled “Fast”....

Among others Microsoft are shutting down multiple game studios includingRedfalldevelopers Arkane Austin and the creators ofHi-Fi Rush, Tango Gameworks. The news was delivered via an email to staff from Xbox boss Matt Booty which has sincebeen seen by IGN. Booty calls the decision a “consolidation of our Bethesda studio teams, so that we can invest more deeply in our portfolio of games and new IP.” Other studios to be hit are Mighty Dog Studios (makers of mobile Doom spin-off Mighty Doom) and Roundhouse Games, which will have its workforce transferred to Zenimax Online Studios, the developers at work on Elder Scrolls Online....

Fork in the road Heading Outis a driving game not about finishing first or delivering freight. Instead, you’re on a road trip across America’s highways in which your collisions, detours, and police chases shape your story and the characters you meet along the road. It’s out now. Your journey is split into discrete chunks, with the next leg of your journey chosen via a map based on length, fuel usage, and potential encounters on the road....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #331 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Remedy to focus on “existing franchises” Remedy have called it quits on the project codenamed Kestrel. The co-op multiplayer game was an original IP being made with the backing of Tencent, but now Remedy say they’ve cancelled it to allow them to focus on “other games in our portfolio”, all of which are based on “existing franchises”. “Codename Kestrel showed early promise, but the project was still in its early concept stage....