Others are suggesting mod support Players of hit vamp ‘em upV Risinghave taken to the game’s Discord server to request an anti-phobia mode to make some of its creatures easier on the eyes. It seems the offending boss in this particular instance is Ungora the Spider Queen, a high-level giant arachnid (the worst kind) who’s set up afetching gothic domicilein the Cursed Forest’s Spider Cave. According to the mission summary for Ungola: “No living creature save for her children has ever entered and lived to tell the tale....

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Its art packs a real punch Chinese indie studio Xiameng are bringing a Wuxia martial arts RPG to the West withCodename: Wandering Sword, which looks like a pixel art version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The game’s graphics riff on the ‘HD-2D’ style of RPG that Square Enix introduced withOctopath Traveler. Have a watch of the trailer below. Codename: Wandering Sword stars a young lad who is promptly poisoned after getting caught up in a feud between sects....

This is not your father’s Dream Daddy Not content with just a foothold in the world of dad-dating visual novels, Game Grumps have decided to team up with Rogue Games to develop a psychological horror game.Homebodywill channel the slasher film aesthetic of the 1980s, a stark tonal shift from the hand-drawn cheesecake colourfulness of Game Grumps and Rogue Games' first collaboration,Dream Daddy. Some of the same team are back for this one though....

It’s taking Level 5’s JRPG series free-to-play Level 5 and Netmarble’s free-to-play massively multiplayer JRPG Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds has finally arrived outside of Japan today. The Studio Ghibli-tinged MMO originally launched in June last year, making $100 million (£80 million) in the first 11 days after launch. That’s more thanPokémon GOandGenshin Impactmanaged. Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds puts you into the position of a beta tester for a fictional online VR game called ‘Soul Divers’....

But DLSS and FSR can at least make it look like an accident As promised,Hitman 3now has ray tracing support, added in a new patch alongsideNvidia DLSSand AMD FSR 1.0 upscaling capabilities. It’s no lightweight implementation either, combining both ray traced reflections and sun shadows that can really spruce up the game’s already-gleaming murder sandboxes. It’ll pleaseshiny floor enthusiast Katharine, put it that way. Less pleasing is ray tracing’s performance cost....

How to find Silver Ore and turn it into Dark Silver Looking to find some Silver Ore in V Rising?Once you’ve tired of baser metal tools and implements inV Rising, you’re going to need to start mining Silver Ore in large quantities to further increase yourGear Score. The downside to this is that Silver Ore is pretty hard to come by, only available in particular high-level areas of Vardoran. In the below guide for V Rising, which has now received the long-awaited1....

Three RPS buds tumble out of the Treehouse and get their skates on So, Ollie, Liam, and I strapped on our skates and jumped into a few games to see how it’s getting on. Ollie had some experience with the game before, while Liam and I went in totally blind. We all emerged from our play sesh glowing with praise albeit with a tinge of worry. Would it get any traction, or quickly succumb to the cheery sports game curse?...

Sniper Elite? More like track athlete Karl Fairburne, the titular SniperElite, is a pro at pinging baddies in the distance. The master of shooting Nazis in the balls across hundreds of metres. It’s a mystery, then, why the French Resistance constantly hand him objectives that require close-quarters combat. “Sneak into this chateau,” or “blow up that radar,” they say, probably with a smirk assuming that he won’t be able to pull it off....

There’ll be a pre-season before the full launch later in the month Free-to-play science fiction PvPvE shooterThe Cycle: Frontierwill begin its ‘pre-season’ phase on June 8th, developers Yager have revealed today. Season one will then launch on June 22nd, bringing the extraction shooter’s full complement of ‘Fortuna’ season pass rewards along with it. Check out the launch trailer below. Action in The Cycle: Frontier happens on the hitherto abandoned planet of Fortuna III, where you’ll have to run about, shoot aliens and other players, and prospect for loot....

Vampires, antisocial? Nah Offline servers are finally arriving for vampiric Steam sensationV Risingas part of a hotfix today. Developers Stunlock announced the changes on the V Rising Discord andTwitterthis morning. It looks fairly straightforward to enable the new mode so I’ll run through that for you. Community manager Jeremy Bearson explained that the changes will come into effect from 11am UTC (4am PDT/12pm BST/1pm CEST), so it should be available right this very second....

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That’s £50 more than the enclosure alone goes for new. A refurbished Lenovo Legion Graphic BoostStation with an RTX 2060 graphics card normally costs £400, but right now you can pick one up on Ebay for £300 with codeCROWN20. That’s a good deal on the entry-level RTX graphics card, giving your laptop access to hardware-accelerated ray tracing, DLSS to boost frame-rates and a solid card for 1080p AAA gaming. External GPU enclosures are a great way to boost the gaming performance of a laptop without a discrete graphics card (or one with a slightly older GPU)....