“Legend upgrades” aim to reward fiercer fighting and diminish RNG I’ve playedApex LegendsSeason 20, and it might be the fastest and fiercest that the battle royaleFPShas ever been – while also being the richest in tactical opportunities and metagame theorycrafting. It’s all thanks to a drastically expanded Evo experience system, one that now not only boosts your shield capacity, but unlocks the branches of a MOBA-style skill tree that permanently buffs your character for the duration of a match....

A drizzle of Orcs Must Die and a dash of Fallout Shelter mixed in a wizard’s cauldron Mix the side-on colony management ofFallout Shelterwith the trap-laying tower defence ofOrcs Must Die, stir both together in a wizard’s cauldron, and you’ll end up with something not far fromArtificer’s Tower. Solo developer RodentGames’ debut puts the player in charge of defending the titular tower from waves of attacking monsters and bigger bosses by filling its rooms full of traps and training its mages from amateur magicians to powerful sorcerers....

A $700 savings on what is essentially two 4K 240Hz monitors glued together. I don’t expect anyone to buy this monitor - but I’m absolutely entranced by a $700 discount on a gaming monitor that brings it down to “just” $1800. To be fair, this is essentially two 32-inch 4K 240Hz monitors without the gap in the middle, with a Mini LED backlight that delivers 1000-nit HDR highlights, an absolute beast of a monitor… but I’m guessing that most people that can drop nearly $2000 on a monitor aren’t waiting for a deals post on Rock Paper Shotgun to do so....

Here’s how to get Electric Organs in Palworld Want to know how to get Electric Organs in Palworld?Electric Organs are an important crafting material inPalworldfor building electricity-powered structures and tools. InPalworld’s mid-game, they become absolutely critical for crafting the Power Generator that you need to elevate your base to a higher level. Luckily, it’s not too difficult to obtain Electric Organs, since all you need to do is defeat Electric type Pals in the wild and literally harvest their organs....

Pyrene is another budding deckbuilding obsession Apologies if I’m starting to sound like a broken record these days, but here I am, back with another edition of"Have you heard about this cool new roguelike deckbuilder?“I swear I’ll find a new/another niche one of these days, but listen,Pyreneis very cool indeed, and I lost a good hour to its free demo last week on Steam. On the surface, this might look like your typical fantasy dungeon crawler, but Pyrene has some neat tricks of its own, combining its own blend of resource gathering and roguelike citybuilding withInscryption’s number-crunching battles and a dash ofForetales' card-based exploration....

The Core i5 12400F is a capable performer that comes in £75 less than its 13400F or 14400F successors. One of Intel’s best value CPUs for gaming is even better value than usual this week, as the Core i5 12400F is down to just £125 at Amazon. That’s more than £75 cheaper than the 13th and 14th-gen equivalents, which add on only meagre levels of performance, and a great price for a CPU that can use the same DDR4 or DDR5 motherboards with PCIe 5....

1.0 adds new Boss Run mode, new painting tools and extra characters for your crew Moonbreaker, theunexpected collaborationbetweenSubnauticadevelopers Unknown Worlds and seemingly tireless human book machine Brandon Sanderson, has hit 1.0 after spending the last year in early access. Moonbreaker, if you’d forgotten, is essentially a tabletop miniatures game a la Warhammer, but digitised. Not in the way that, say, theWarhammer 40k video gamesdo away with all pretence of being a tabletop game in favour of aGear of War-a-like/XCOM-a-like/Left 4 Dead-a-like, but something closer to the actual meeples ‘n’ models of Tabletop Simulator - albeit with all the fiddliness of that physics sandbox removed....

But Part 2 would still make “a fine ending point” Naughty Dog’s grand panjandrum (co-president) Neil Druckmann has a concept in mind forThe Last Of Us: Part 3, following on from the original PlayStation 3action-adventure’s tale of parental love and the PS4 game’s theme of “justice at any cost”. This isn’t confirmation that a third single player Last Of Us game is in development, with Druckmannreiterating comments from this time last yearthat Naughty Dog feel no obligation to continue the tale....

“Wait, is this from…? Oh god I can’t believe they made this” Johnsto’s Law states: if a game has a level editor, someone will recreate de_dust2. The iconic Counter-Strike map is,I have argued, “one of the fundamental shapes of video games”. Recreating levels from other games is a mapping tradition as old as creating your house (not to be confused withMyHouse). I am delighted to see this done en masse, with a twist....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #239 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....

Here are our picks for the best Pals for Transporting in Palworld Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Transporting?Transporting doesn’t initially seem like the most exciting Work Suitability skill inPalworld- after all, it’s technically just moving harvested items into storage containers. However, initial impressions are deceiving! Anyone who understands the annoyance of finagling in your inventory to move items manually (especially heavy items, like all wood or ore) knows that at the end of the day, Transporting’s an infinitely useful skill for the Pals at your base....

Here’s how to get Pure Quartz in Palworld Want to know how to get Pure Quartz in Palworld?One of the late game crafting materials inPalworldis Pure Quartz, which is used to build the Circuit Boards that you ultimately need to automate your base. Pure Quartz is elusive and fairly tricky to acquire, and chances are you’ll need to venture into the Astral Mountains,Palworld’s northern snow-covered zone, to mine it. Below, we’ve listed all the details on the locations in the Astral Mountains where you can mine Pure Quartz as well as the few Pals that occasionally drop this potent Palworld crafting material....

Callbacks must be “thoughtful and respectful,” says Apex narrative chief Like manyTitanfallenjoyers, I look at the gleaming success of battle royale spinoffApex Legendswith both a smidge of pride and a gutful of sadness that I haven’t had any wall-running, mech-droppingFPSadventures since. Indeed, anunannounced single-player Titanfall gamewas quietly shelved last year, and if there’s any burning sense of unfinished business among series devs Respawn Entertainment, it wasn’t evident during my recent visit to try outApex Legends’ Season 20 update....