A chance to get to know the new 5-star hero ahead of her debut in Version 2.7 next week Genshin Impactwill be back next week with its Version 2.7 update, which hit athree-week delayearlier this month. Among the headline new features anticipated in Phase I of the update is the addition of a new 5-star event-exclusive character, Hydro bow wielder Yelan. You’ll be able to wish for her in the gacha from May 31st, but in the meantime, MiHoYo have set up a web event to let players get to know this mysterious newcomer a little bit better....

Beta-tested SteamOS 3.2 improvements hit the stable branch The refresh rate slider – which lives in the Performance tab of the Steam Deck’s Quick Settings menu – functions pretty much as it did in beta. You can adjust it on the fly, including while a game is running, and is useful for games that don’t run at up to 60fps anyway. Lowering the refresh rate for these won’t lose you any performance, but it will reduce the screen’s power-hungriness....

Learn how to get Cotton and make Cotton Yarn in V Rising Want to know how to get Cotton Yarn in V Rising?If you are trying toraise your Gear ScoreinV Rising, you’ll want to craft better armor. One of the best armor sets for the mid-game is the Hollowfang Battlegear, but you’ll need Cotton Yarn to craft it. Cotton Yarn isn’t a resource you can just find lying around though, so you’ll need to craft that as well....

All it took was two years and a massive mobilisation of TF2’s community For about a week earlier this month, my inbox was absolutely rammed with emails fromTeam Fortress 2players complaining about the game’s bot problem. I’d only just started this job and was still setting up my email signature at the time (sorry, TF2 community), but thankfully all that shouting has finally been heard by the people who matter most....

Here’s the answer to Wordle #343 You probably know the drill by now: every day, you get six chances to guess the five-letter Wordle solution, with each box on the grid filling in grey, yellow, or green to show you incorrect guesses, correct letters, or correct letters in the right place, respectively. But if it’s just too early for you to deal with this yet today, we’ve sorted out a few hints for you down below....

Ratchet & Clank, please Ryan said that PlayStation had restricted themselves to “a rather narrow portion of the gaming market”. He said that PC and mobile offer “the opportunity to move from a situation of being present in a very narrow segment of the overall gaming software market, to being present pretty much everywhere”. Sony are also looking to bring some of their first-party games likeHorizon Zero Dawn, God Of War and, for some reason,Gran Turismoto television....

All the storage space you’ll ever need, surely? Right now, a pair of massive 16TB external hard drives are going ‘cheap’ on Amazon UK. Despite RRPs of over £400, you can get a basic model for £245 or a slightly fancier box for £270. Either way, you’ll have a ton of storage space for backups, video projects, game install directories and other media. My colleagues at Digital Foundry pick these drives up regularly for their video production work, as capturing game footage and creating YouTube videos quickly causes standard hard drive sizes to fill up....

Start hammer time with this Destroyer build guide Looking for the best Destroyer build in Lost Ark?The gravity hammer-wielding Destroyer is now available in the western release ofLost Ark,bringing along a unique, burst-damage-focused playstyle. Destroyer is one of the slowest classes in Lost Ark, with long, chunky animations. The payoff is worth it though, as he slams his hammer down for massive AoE damage that is perfect for any fight. Get everything you need to start hammering away at Lost Ark’s endgame with this Destroyer guide....

All games and add-ons BioShock: The Collectionis the latest freebie on the Epic Games Store. Grab it anytime between now and June 2nd and BioShocks 1, 2 and Infinite are free to keep forever, including all the add-ons such as Minerva’s Den and Burial At Sea. If you’re not familiar withBioShock, I envy you. They’re decent first-person shooters with straight-forward character progression and simplified elements from immersive sims, such as stealth and hacking....

Wordle but stressful Wordle is a puzzle game I play for a few minutes each day in order to relax. WeWordle, by comparison, isn’t relaxing at all. It’s a multiplayer variant where both players take it in turns to guess words on the same board, which means that each helpful guess you make is also helping your opponent. It’s possible to think of WeWordle as a co-operative game, given that you’re both working towards solving the same answer....

As the worldwide events machine begins to whir back up again, we and our corporate uncles at Reedpop need your help. In order to make sure the return of events such as EGX are the best that they can possibly be, we’d be very grateful if you couldfill out a surveyfor us. The aim is to get an idea of what you’re most interested in, and the things you’d like to see most at an in-person event....

Call me space-Ishmael Hello Games’ intergalactic wandering simulatorNo Man’s Skyhas gone roguelike for its seventh free expedition update, Leviathan. With a name like that you’d expect something pretty big and, lo, the space whales have arrived. You’ll be able to recruit these leviathans for your capital ship’s frigate fleet, and even keep a baby version as a pet inside your base. Witness them in the trailer below. This expedition’s roguelike credentials stem from it being a time loop, with the game set to survival mode difficulty....

As per Sony’s plan TheSteamDB listingdoes not have “Returnal” written on it, but it includes several references to elements from the game and its fiction, including its Tower Of Sisyphus DLC, its protagonist’s ship “Helios” and the planet Atropos. Returnal is a third-person shooter roguelike starring a time-looping protagonist battling gribblies on an alien planet. It released as a PlayStation 5 launch game and received broadly positive reviews, while being noted for its difficulty....