How to get to the Golden Apple Archipelago in Genshin Impact Version 2.8

Requirements for taking part in the Summertime Odyssey event What are the requirements to take part in the Summertime Odyssey event? In order to play the Summertime Odyssey event when it launches, you need to have done the following: Last year’s event required you to have reached at least Adventure Rank 21; have completed Act III of the Prologue (a.k.a. Mondstadt storyline) in the game’s main questline; and have playedKlee’s story quest, introduced for the event, called “True Treasure”....

July 13, 2022 · 4 min · 652 words · Joy Meyers

Prime Day deals spotlight: Save nearly £100/$90 on the Logitech G915 Lightspeed Wireless TKL

The tenkeyless version of our favourite wireless keyboard Full disclosure, neither the UK nor US versions of these deal are quite as good as the better-than-half-price saving that the full-size G915 Lightspeed Wireless got during yesterday’s first round of Prime Day discounts. Still, that offer is no longer available, leaving the smaller G915 Lightspeed Wireless as its cheap replacement. It’s like the bit inShadow of the Colossuswhere the demon dies but reincarnates as a tiny baby, only it’s a keyboard, and the keyboard is on sale, and you can buy the keyboard....

July 13, 2022 · 2 min · 268 words · Katherine Mooney

PUBG: Battlegrounds gets first new map since going free-to-play today

Plus a new Workshop to let you craft your own items Chicken-loving battle royalePUBG: Battlegroundsis adding its ninth map today, the near-future and ecologically compromised Deston. There’s plenty of fancy features in the new map such as ascenders to zip you up the side of its skyscrapers, and areas that only drones can get to. Sit back on your favourite airboat and glimpse the only slightly terrifying fate that awaits us all in the trailer below....

July 13, 2022 · 2 min · 367 words · Nathan Myers

RPS is 15 years old today!

Have a slice of Horace cake on us On this day, in the year of our Horace 2007, Rock Paper Shotgun wasborn. Yes, previousbirthday postswill tell you the site’s official birthday is August 20th - the day RPS was fully unveiled to the world - but thosesame postswill also tell you the four RPS founders were mucking about with the site in secret for well over a month before that. It’s also the date that’s been etched into our Wikipedia page, which we all know is the true source of all knowledge....

July 13, 2022 · 3 min · 535 words · Amber Mullen

Take a weird ride with this walking simulator on a bike

Bird Snapper is a nice little free game While the Tour De France is currently zooming about the Alps, the next stage of my own cycling journey through video games leads somewhere far flatter—and weirder.Bird Snapperis a nice little free game that’s just you, an endless grey desert, a bicycle, a howling night, and innumerable antennae and electricity pylons. A walking simulator on two wheels, with a bell. I’ve mentioned Bird Snapper on RPS afewtimesover the years, yet never got around to focusing on it....

July 13, 2022 · 3 min · 539 words · Kevin Torres

The best Genshin Impact Shikanoin Heizou build

Learn how to put together the best possible Heizou build in Genshin Impact Speaking for myself, I’ve always found Catalyst wielders less appealing than the other four weapon user types because of how squishy they can feel in close combat, so I’ve been looking forward to Heizou’s introduction and the opportunity to properly pummel a few fools in between hurling Anemo spells at them. So read on for details of the best build we’ve seen for Shikanoin Heizou, including his best weapons, artifacts, party members, and more....

July 13, 2022 · 7 min · 1390 words · Amanda Bishop

The DioField Chronicle strikes in September, but no demo for PC players

The August demo is only happening on consoles Square Enix’s upcoming fantasy strategy-RPGThe DioField Chronicleis launching September 22nd, and a demo is coming August 10th – just not to PC. The demo will be on PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, leaving us out in the cold. While you weep into your lukewarm beverage, you might as well watch the new trailer below. Some staggering moustaches and British accents are on display there....

July 13, 2022 · 2 min · 292 words · Amber Patterson

The first Steam VR Fest brings a pile of demos directly to your eyeballs next week

Discounts, demos and upcoming games for your bonce Valve are staging their firstSteam VR Feststarting on July 18th. Gabe and friends don’t seem to have made much song and dance about the event yet, with detailsemergingtoday via the company’s Steamworks site. The festival promises discounts, demos and details of upcoming releases from the giddy world of virtual reality. It sounds very much like this is just the virtual reality equivalent of Valve’s regular Steam Next Fest events, then....

July 13, 2022 · 1 min · 153 words · Michael Moore

The joy of being a quadruple agent in The Invisible Guardian

I’m this close to forgetting which side I’m on When a friend introduced the Invisible Guardian to me, I was blown away by the high production values. The game recreates its historical settings in a stunning fashion. But what made me stay up all night to finish it was the clever writing and interactive storyline used to grab the player’s attention. Players take control of Xiao Tu, a Chinese intellectual who has just arrived in war-torn China from the Empire of Japan....

July 13, 2022 · 3 min · 594 words · Alexander Carlson

Two of the best HyperX gaming headsets are on sale this Prime Day

Top performing headsets, between £25 and £70 off While the Cloud II is a few years old now, it’s as timeless as a wired gaming headset can feasibly be, combining high mic quality with balanced, detailed sound output and a brilliantly comfortable fit. I bought and used one as my main headset for probably thousands of hours before switching, just earlier this year, to the Cloud Alpha Wireless. This carries over those same qualities with the bonus of wireless connectivity and, most notably, unbelievably long battery life....

July 13, 2022 · 1 min · 207 words · Morgan Brown

What's better: sex cutscenes or bullet time?

Please vote in our important research mission Last time, you decided thatexplosive barrels are better than hints. I suppose you don’t need hints to know what a red barrel does. While we still have so many more things to assess, let’s next revisit somewhat familiar ground. You previously decidedromance is better than de_dust2and now I want to escalate both things. What’s better: sex cutscenes or bullet time? I try to keep our research project on a path of joy and celebration but I’ll confess: I don’t get these....

July 13, 2022 · 2 min · 381 words · Kevin Rodriguez

Wordle answer (Thursday 14 July 2022): Wordle word of the day #390 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Below we’ll give you some handy hints and clues to help you figure out the solution to today’s Wordle. Further below we’ll reveal the Wordle answer itself for you, along with an explanation of the word’s meaning. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle July 14 hints Some Wordles can be far trickier than others. To help ensure you get the word within six guesses, take a look at our three hints for the Wordle answer today:...

July 13, 2022 · 2 min · 296 words · Douglas Smith

You can still get the excellent WD Blue SN570 SSD for cheap on Prime Day

And you don’t even need a Prime account It’s even more affordable now, of course, especially if you’ve got an Amazon Prime account and are in the UK. The 1TB and 2TB models – both capacious enough to act as your PC’s sole storage drive – have Prime-exclusive savings on Amazon UK, with the 1TB SN570 a few quid cheaper than it was duringlast year’s Black Friday sales. If you want to avoid Amazon entirely, have a read of our fullanti-Prime Day dealsguide: it lists all the best PC hardware and peripheral offers I’ve found from non-Amazon retailers, across the UK and US....

July 13, 2022 · 1 min · 118 words · Gary Walker