1000xResist is a time travel story inspired by Star Trek, the pandemic and immigrant trauma

And also, a work of experimental theatre 1000xResist, from Vancouver-based sunset visitor 斜陽過客, is one of those high-concept sci-fi yarns that easily unravels into a million, bewildering threads of ambition and inspiration. Let me try to pack the premise, at least, into a clean paragraph: you are the Watcher, a clone of the immortal ALLMOTHER, who herself is the sole survivor of a disease spread by the arrival of enormous aliens, the Occupants....

April 18, 2024 · 6 min · 1262 words · Matthew Lee

All Sphinx riddle solutions in Dragon's Dogma 2

Here are all ten Sphinx riddle solutions in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Looking for the solutions to all Sphinx riddles in Dragon’s Dogma 2?The Sphinx is an enigmatic beast that, true to her presence in Greek Mythology, will offer the Arisen ten riddles that they must solve for prizes inDragon’s Dogma 2. These riddles are challenging but offer great rewards. In particular, the Eternal Wakestone (that can revive several NPC in an area and offer a good solution to aDragonsplagueattack) and the Unmaking Arrow which will instantly kill all but the toughest of foes....

April 18, 2024 · 10 min · 2087 words · Cheyenne Browning

Arma and DayZ makers’ free-to-play looter-shooter Vigor is coming to PC, half a decade after consoles

Hits early access on Steam next month, with a 1.0 around three months after that Vigor is set in the Scandi-pocalypse of a ruined Norway in an alternate nineties, with its wasteland world of the Outlands now filled with roving groups of survivors (known asOutlanders) affiliated with various military and non-military factions. Those Outlanders are, of course, us players, who can either go it alone, pair up with a pal or form a bigger team to square off against their rival wastelanders....

April 18, 2024 · 2 min · 306 words · Gloria Brown

Balatro ‘95 perfects procrastination by modding the roguelike deckbuilder into classic Windows Solitaire

Wave goodbye to every free moment you have If you somehow haven’t fallen down theBalatrohole just yet, that slope is about to get a whole lot slippier. Themesmerising roguelike spin on pokeris easy enough to lose an entire afternoon to by itself, but now it’s been combined with the granddaddy of all computer-related procrastination: classic Windows Solitaire. Balatro ‘95 is a mod created by Duncan Molloy (who, it must be said, is a truly excellent tabletop and board game designerover at Rebellion Unpluggedby trade) that makes a simple yet deadly - to your free time anyway - change....

April 18, 2024 · 2 min · 291 words · Zachary Parker

Boys will once again be boys in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, revealed today for 2024 release

Warhorse’s next open worlder will be twice original’s size, and yes, there are dick jokes Going by the announcement video, the new game is the same game but with more cash to burn. It’s the work of 250 people, with Jan Valta returning as composer. According to Vávra, “what we are making now is what it was supposed to be in the beginning, but we were not able to do it because we didn’t have enough resources and experience....

April 18, 2024 · 3 min · 472 words · Lauren Jackson

Braid's Anniversary Edition squeezes in one more delay, three years after it was first meant to arrive

Just two weeks, this time - hopefully Braid, Anniversary Edition - because apparently a standard colon wasn’t quite pretentious enough for the maker ofThe Witness- was due to be out on April 30th,as announced last year. That date itself came more than three years afterthe re-release was first revealed, promising an ambitious overhaul with completely repainted backgrounds with additional detail by original illustrator David Hellman. The redone art to suit the sharper resolutions of modern 4K displays combines with more fluid animation for the player character and the refinement of the original’s stock sound effects with a new soundscape, plus new music - both fresh mixes and variants - from soundtrack composers Martin Stig Andersen and Hans Christian Kock, for a fairly comprehensive remake of the seminal indie....

April 18, 2024 · 2 min · 292 words · Lori Reese

Dragon's Dogma 2: A Scholarly Pursuit quest walkthrough

Here’s how to kill off a draconic jar in A Scholarly Pursuit Looking for a walkthrough for the main quest A Scholarly Pursuit in Dragon’s Dogma 2?As you take on the Purgener Dragons in the endgame ofDragon’s Dogma 2, you might notice that Bakbattahl doesn’t have a true dragon threatening it. As befitting a nation that conducts somewhat shady experiments in its Forbidden Magick Research Lab, Bakbattahl is instead attacked by a draconic jar that summons monsters throughout the city....

April 18, 2024 · 3 min · 490 words · Victoria Cruz

Dragon's Dogma 2: Halls of the First Dawn quest walkthrough

Evacuating cities and killing Purgener Dragons awaits in Halls of the First Dawn Looking for a walkthrough for the main quest Halls of the First Dawn in Dragon’s Dogma 2?Welcome to the longest quest of the Unmoored World inDragon’s Dogma 2. Halls of the First Dawn is actually more of a branching path connecting several sidequests, and along the way you’ll have plenty of chances to battle the deadly Purgener Dragons that lurk in the skies at the top of each eerie red beacon....

April 18, 2024 · 9 min · 1755 words · Debra Sawyer

Dragon's Dogma 2: When Wills Collide quest walkthrough

The time has come to finally complete Dragon’s Dogma 2, in When Wills Collide Looking for a walkthrough for the main quest When Wills Collide in Dragon’s Dogma 2?It’s been a long, winding road from waking up in a labour camp at the start ofDragon’s Dogma 2to defying fate and bringing forth the Unmoored World. If you’ve been following our walkthroughs from the start, that road is finally about to come to an end in this quest, which is the last major mission you’ll complete in the secret endgame ofDragon’s Dogma 2....

April 18, 2024 · 3 min · 563 words · Tammy Delgado

Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut brings PlayStation trophies and friends to PC for the first time

Cross-play multiplayer support’s here, but not platform-level chat (yet, anyway) Former PS4 hitGhost of Tsushimais the next big PlayStation exclusive to make the leap to PC, and it’s bringing some extra PS-shaped features with it. The game’s Director’s Cut - representing the fact this re-release will include its Iki Island expansion and co-op mode - will be the first game that lets you earn PlayStation trophies from your PC, if you so wish....

April 18, 2024 · 2 min · 418 words · Molly Davis

Homeworld 3 DLC plans revealed alongside collector’s edition with model spaceships

Expect a mix of free and paid updates aimed at its ‘War Games’ multiplayer mode Blackbird Interactive, the team behind upcomingstrategy gameHomeworld 3, have released details on both the planned roadmap and the game’s chunky-looking collector’s edition, ahead of the game’s release next month, 13th May. Alongside some updated PC specs,the postalso shows offHomeworld 3’s collector’s edition. This big box of toys includes the ‘year one pass’ bundle of all the content mentioned above, art lithographs, an OST, some multiplayer cosmetics, and several model ships of various sizes from thespace game....

April 18, 2024 · 2 min · 323 words · Stacy Wiley

How you sign in to this site is changing slightly

ReedPop ID is now Gamer Network ID. As you may know, the network this site belongs tois for sale. To help us with our impending separation from the ReedPop business we are detaching some systems and services from the ReedPop brand. We are taking the dramatic step of renaming our account system from “ReedPop ID” to… “Gamer Network ID”. What this means for you: We hope you enjoy the new brand name for our accounts system....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 89 words · Theresa Wang

I spoke to an Nvidia AI NPC, and he mainly wanted to get me bladdered

In conversation with the cocktail-obsessed gamepeople of our supposed future If the purpose of a tech demo is to induce a flash of thinking “Hey that’s neat,” then I’d be lying if I said Nvidia’s Covert Protocol – a playable showcase for theirAINPC tool, Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) – hadn’t worked on me. If, on the other hand, it’s to develop that thought into “Hey, I want this in games right now,” it’s going to take more than a slightly stilted natter with an aspiring bartender....

April 18, 2024 · 7 min · 1361 words · Kyle Roach