Valheim's Mistlands update now lets you wield magic in the fog

I know fog and mist are different don’t @ me To the mists with ye:Valheim’s Mistlands update has landed, bringing a new endgame biome, heaps of new crafting materials, a new type of dungeon and, notably, magic. Certain foods now grant you Eitr, which is Norse for snake poison, but never mind that because it lets you wield staves and develop skills in Elemental and Blood magic. Also chickens! You can raise chickens now!...

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 339 words · Gary Brennan

What's better: randomised item stats or saving everyone?

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatmantling is better than cool swearing, and by a considerable ‘flipping’ margin. I can’t say I disagree but ooh, hark at you, aren’t you practical. You’d be lost in cool conversations behind the school bike sheds. We must move on. This week, I ask you to being tossed to the winds of fate or telling fate to do one. What’s better: randomised item stats and perks, or saving everyone?...

December 7, 2022 · 4 min · 684 words · Joanna Williams

Wordle answer (Wednesday 7 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #536 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word In this guide, you’ll find three helpful hints that you can use to guess the Wordle answer today. If you’re still struggling and just want to skip the puzzle altogether, then keep scrolling to find the Wordle answer itself. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle December 7 hints The Wordle answer today is tough, which might leave those with a high streak feeling pretty nervous....

December 7, 2022 · 5 min · 993 words · Austin Dawson

Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000 is free to keep right now

Grab ye olde grudge match over on Rebellion’s storefront UK publisher Rebellion is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary. As part of that, the company is giving away one of its most notable games –Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000.This is the updated version of Rebellion’s best stab at AvP, which originally released in 1999, and was published by Fox Interactive. You can grab the game by heading over toRebellion’s storefront, where the offer is displayed proudly on the front page....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 227 words · William Williams

Dead Island 2's showcase was mostly just a bad live action short film

But the actual game trailer at its centre was alright Early in tonight’sDead Island 2’s showcase, a character in a live action segment makes a self-referential joke that live action trailers set unreasonable expectations for video games. Let me tell you now: that is not true. I’d wager the writing and acting will be more believable in the game than in this live action short. At the showcase’s centre of those wasted 15 minutes was, at least, a new viscera-slick trailer of the actualDead Island 2....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 271 words · Andrew Ball

Dwarf Fortress is available on Steam right now

Play Bay 12 Games' magnum opus with overhauled visuals and mouse support The primary goal of the Steam release is to address these long-running accessibility issues. The Steam version replaces those inscrutable ASCII visuals with hand-drawn, sprite-based tiles designed by Bay 12’s resident pixel artist Jacob Bowman. It also adds the revolutionary feature of mouse support, dragging Dwarf Fortress' control scheme firmly into the rad new era of the late nineties....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 235 words · Wendy Hale

Elden Ring is opening PvP colosseums in a free update tomorrow

Duels, free-for-alls and team fights Elden Ring’s Colosseums are about to get a lot busier. A free update being released tomorrow, Wednesday 7th December, is opening them up and filling them with new PvP modes. Players will be able to fight in “duels, free-for-alls and team fights,” and there’s a trailer below showing a little of them in action. This is a nice trailer, even for me who does not has not will not playElden Ring:...

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 219 words · Kaitlyn Francis

Here are the Witcher 3 mods supported by the next gen update

It’s bad news for fans of Ultra Gore 2 The Witcher 3’s hotly anticipated next gen update arrives in just over a week, like an early Christmas present from a man who has a white beard and is often covered in red, but you definitely wouldn’t describe as jolly. As part of the lead-up to the PC version’s update, CD Projekt Red has issued a breakdown of how the update will affect the game’s most popular mods....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 344 words · Mr. Daniel Larson Jr.

QA workers at ZeniMax are also organising a union

If successful, it would become the largest games industry union in the US Around 300 workers at ZeniMax, Bethesda’s former parent company before both were acquired by Microsoft, are in the process of forming a union,GI.Biz reports. The effort by ZeniMax workers comes in collaboration with CODE-CWA, the same organisation which assisted in the creation of the recently formed Activision Blizzard unions. In apost on Twitter, the union, which goes by the name ZeniMax Workers United, said: “Today we, a majority of QA workers at ZeniMax, are proud to announce the launch of our union,” adding “We are empowered to advocate for ourselves & build a future where we can thrive alongside the company....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 327 words · Troy Wilson MD

Satisfactory now lets you create blueprints and play in peaceful mode

Thank goodness Satisfactorynow has game modes and blueprints as of Update 7, which is now available in the main Early Access release of the survival builder. If you’re a hardcore factory builder, these are a big deal: blueprints make it easy to replicate structure layouts quickly, and game modes let you make Satisfactory’s alien fauna harmless. Here’s the new update video covering all the major features: The update adds a new building, the Blueprint Designer, through which you can plan structures that you can then build via a single click....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 298 words · April Hall

The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 6th

Pen to paper Today’s game on the RPS Advent Calendar is a story that spans generations, but you’ll need plenty of ink and paper to get it down. How’s your handwriting? Good, is it? Can you read Latin? What else could it be butPentiment! Rachel:I don’t know how Obsidian made a detective game set in ye olde medieval times, but the result of their efforts is one of the best mystery games of the year....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 426 words · Tony Dean

This 1TB Kioxia NVMe SSD is down to £54.99

A rather low price for a TLC SSD with DRAM. Normally when we see discounted SSDs, it’s often on the cheapest models with loads of storage but the cheapest type of NAND flash, QLC, and with no DRAM caches. The Kioxia Exceria is one of those discounted SSDs, dropping to £55, but it’s actually a fairly high-end SSD with TLC NAND and a DRAM cache. This ensures that performance remains high even in scenarios where you’re writing data fairly continuously....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 274 words · Kelly Beasley

This Core i9 Dell gaming laptop is down to $1169.99 after a $1030 discount

RTX 3070 Ti, 32GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe SSD and a 1440p 165Hz 16-in display. I’ll be quick with this one because there are just a few units available - but this top-tier Dell G16 gaming laptop is more than $1000 cheaper than it was before. This 16-in G16 gaming laptop is equipped with an RTX 3070 Ti, 12th-gen Core i9 processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD. It normally costs $2200, but now it costs $1169....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 179 words · David Smith