May the 64s be with you Star Wars: Empire At Warwasn’t a great game, but it did fulfill a simple fantasy: it was a real-time strategy game with original trilogy Star Wars units. If what you wanted was to fling swarms of AT-ATs against swarms of X-Wings then, yeah, you could do that. Darth Vader versus entire platoons of rebel soldiers? That too. Why am I talking about a 2006 RTS?...
This is the best Lockwood Mk2 build in Modern Warfare 3 right now Looking for the best Lockwood Mk2 loadout in Modern Warfare 3?The Lockwood Mk2 is just one of many guns that have been introduced toCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, thanks to the ‘carry forward’ system. Boasting the one-shot capabilities of a sniper rifle, the Lockwood Mk2 maintains a lightweight mobility that rewards players with a smooth, streamlined experience....
This is the best Minibak build in Modern Warfare 3 right now Looking for the best Minibak loadout in Modern Warfare 3?Although the Minibak doesn’t rank too highly on our list of thebest SMGs in Modern Warfare 3, it does have some redeemable features that can be elevated once paired with the right attachments and equipment. Despite its lacklustre rate of fire, the Minibak has excellent recoil control and accuracy which can be further fine-tuned....
Save £40 / $35 on the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 3X OC Nvidia’sRTX 4060 Tiis likely one of the hotter properties thisBlack Fridayweek; its dual 1080p/1440p capabilities,ray tracingandDLSS 3support, efficiency, andrelativelyrestrained pricing make it one of thebest graphics cardsof the current generation. Now, there’s an all-too-rare opportunity to grab one at significantly less than RRP/MSRP, with the triple-fan MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 3X OC falling to £380 in the UK and $370 in the US....
I do love a good deathtrap WASD to move, mouse cursor to look, space to jump, C to crouch and slide. There, now you know everything you need to play the demo forBlessed Burden, a new first-person “horror adventure” from Podoba Interactive, in which you are “the last surviving priest in a religious apocalypse”. I don’t know many people in the clergy, but I’m pretty sure the job isn’t supposed to involvequitethis many swinging blade traps....
Cyber punked As a piece of nostalgia,Flashback 2didn’t remind me of Delphine’s 1992 Amiga puzzle platforming classic so much as some more infamous fragments of gaming’s past. Like the Attic bug in Jet Set Willy, for example, which made the game impossible to complete, or the unfeasibly strict time limit in a level of Robocop on the Commodore 64, which legend has it was reduced intentionally to hide glitches on the subsequent stage....
And has reverted to a one-time fee for commercial use Good news, then: GameMaker is now “free for non-commercial purposes on all non-console platforms” - such as PC. This is, to some degree, a reversion. When I first started using Game Maker around ten years ago, it was a one-time purchase to buy the software for commercial use. The difference is that at that point, it was also a one-time fee to buy the necessary tools to export for a particular console platform....
Grab the best wireless keyboard at a serious discount. Let’s face it, wires are a necessary evil at best, and we should strive to avoid them as much as possible. They get tangled, they trip you up, and they’re generally a nuisance. No wonder Darth Vader was grumpy all the time. He was full of wires. Few manufacturers understand this better than Logitech, whose G915 Lightspeed Wireless keyboard has been the ideal way to type without tethers for years....
Widely embraced/feared search engine business Google - hello, Google! Please top-rank our Best Of features, if you’d be so kind - considered buying outFortniteand Unreal Engine creator Epic in partnership with Tencent, according to documents revealed as part of Epic and Google’son-going legal battle over whether Epic should be able to sell stuff within the Android version of Fortnite. Another line from the unredacted Project Elektra docs notes that Epic “may be open to a second large strategic investor as a counterweight to Tencent” but that “Tencent may not be willing to sell shares, or may seek to block another strategic investor (investor rights unknown)”....
The wireless version of the best premium gaming headset is 50% off. At school I was always being told to listen better and speak more clearly. Perhaps if I’d been able to bring the Logitech G Pro X Wireless headset into Maths class, Mrs Drown wouldn’t have given me such a hard time over my quadratic equations. The wired G Pro X is RPS' official pick for thebest premium gaming headset, and right now you can grab the wireless version for a much more attainable price....
Works on PC, Linux, Chrome and Mac - and more besides. Logitech’s MX Keys S is a nice low-profile keyboard for folks that have tried mechanical keyboards and don’t want none of that clicking and clacking in their quiet corner of the home/office, no thank you sirree. The MX Keys S basically feels like the best laptop keyboard you’ve ever tried, with quiet scissor switches that are quick to operate with precision....
At the time of writing, SMGs are in trouble Anyway, the discussion is interesting because it touches on the fact that the evolution of an FPS competitive meta is an artful balance of prediction and reaction, imposing new directions on players at times, taking direction from them at others. The developers want the Modern Warfare 3 meta to change “from season to season” - the question, of course, is how to do this without alienating fans of certain weapons and strategies....
Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #163 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....
