Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will launch in October

As revealed via cargo ship It’s been a while since I’ve seen a developer or publisher blow a bunch of money on a big, dumb videogame announcement, but then here comes Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The remake of Infinity Ward’s famous (and infamous?) first-person shooter will release on October 28th, and Activision Blizzard decided to reveal some of its character art via the medium of a real world cargo ship....

May 24, 2022 · 1 min · 160 words · Jeffrey Leonard

Destiny 2's Season 17 begins today, and it's haunted

The trailer for ‘Season Of The Haunted’ had already leaked online Destiny 2’s seventeenth season starts today and will be the Season Of The Haunted, Bungie have revealed. This time around your Hunter, Warlock or Titan will get to become an ‘eater of fear’. Sounds tasty? “Where once we banished the nightmares,” the trailer says, “a new terror rouses them from their slumber.” Watch the video below and try not to check over your shoulder....

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 269 words · Jennifer Taylor

Evil Dead: The Game tier list: Best characters and abilities for Survivors and Demons

The best Survivor and Demon characters in Evil Dead: The Game and their abilities Whether you’re an Evil Dead old-timer or a complete newcomer to the franchise drawn in by the game’s premise, this tier list of the best characters in Evil Dead: The Game will help you to choose the best Survivors and Demons to win matches and suit your playstyle. On this page: The best Survivor characters in Evil Dead: The Game...

May 24, 2022 · 13 min · 2576 words · Mackenzie Phillips

Geoff Keighley predicts a more traditional not-E3 this year, with fewer showcases from third parties

Publishers learned their lesson from last year, he says One-man games industry Geoff Keighley has revealed that third-party publishers won’t be staging as many showcases of their own this summer. Keighley made the comments in aTwitter Spacescast over the weekend, probably to everyone’s great relief. Of course, he immediately followed up by explaining that the publishers with fewer games to show will be rolling their presentations into Keighley’s own Summer Game Fest, as well as first-party shows such as theXbox and Bethesda Games Showcase....

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 381 words · Tanya Robinson

Hardspace: Shipbreaker now has a finished campaign and has left early access

Shipped Here’s the launch trailer: It’s worth checking out the development team’spost on Steam about hitting 1.0. Not only for the patch notes about the new release, but also for discussion (and GIFs) of a couple of early prototypes - including one where you were carving up derelict spaceships as they plummeted towards earth. The final reality of Hardspace: Shipbreaker is considerably more sedate. If you haven’t played it: Hardspace casts you as a downtrodden, indebted worker in an orbital salvage yard....

May 24, 2022 · 1 min · 213 words · David Mccormick

I, The Inquisitor is a dark fantasy RPG that marries big Witcher vibes with mean Jesus

You won’t like him when He’s angry (Christ, that is) Just imagine for a moment what the world would’ve been like if Jesus, rather than forgiving us for our sins on the cross, had rolled out of the tomb with a proper nark on instead. That’s the basis of Polish author Jacek Piekara’s series of novels, now set to become third-person action adventureI, The Inquisitor, from developers The Dust. Somebody probably ought to consult the Archbishop of Canterbury for the PEGI rating, like....

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 302 words · Richard Edwards

Melatonin looks like the Rhythm Heaven game of your dreams

Lofi beats to tap to There are a handful of rhythm games on PC, but a lot of them are ultra-hard, anime-drenched tests of reflexes and memorisation. I like my rhythm games on the other end of the scale, containing playful minigames with silly concepts and stories. Think Rhythm Heaven. Think Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. Think, perhaps,Melatonin. It’s an in-development rhythm game about dreams merging with reality, and looks like exactly my thing....

May 24, 2022 · 1 min · 174 words · Joseph Baker

Raven Software QA testers vote in favour of unionising in first for US

Don your cheese-hats, it’s collective action time Quality assurance testers working for Activision Blizzard at Raven Software have voted to unionise within theCommunication Workers of America, the first notable such union at a US-based studio. Three members of the Game Workers Alliance (GWA) group voted against, while 19 voted in favour. The vote means legal recognition for the group at theCall Of Duty: Warzonedevelopers, whichfirst organisedin January in response to layoffs at the end of last year....

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 279 words · Derek Kirby

Razer's excellent Basilisk Ultimate wireless mouse is £86 off today

That’s a 51% discount for the snake-y company’s flagship peripherals - complete with charging dock. There’s a rather fetching deal on the Razer Basilisk Ultimate going at Amazon UK today, where you can pick up a mouse with 11 programmable buttons, high-end components, RGB lighting throughout and a handy charging dock for £84, down from a UK RRP of £170. Hardware luminary James checked out the Basilisk V3, a wired successor to the Basilisk Ultimate, late last year....

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 343 words · Jessica Blair

Temtem, a Pokémon-like MMO, will leave early access this September

It’s almost Timetime ‘Monster taming’ is a genre larger than just Pokémon, such that I always feel a little bad drawing comparisons to the genre’s dominant force when talking about other games inspired by it. But then, just look atTemtem. It’s not exactly hiding its inspirations. Temtem is undoubtedly like Pokémon, but set in a world populated by other players. After a couple of years in early access, the developers announced today that they’re aiming for to hit 1....

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 254 words · Garrett Shepherd

The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum may miss a precious opportunity

Middling Earth I recently got a hands-off look atThe Lord Of The Rings: Gollum, Daedalic’s upcoming third-person stealth game which sees Mr Precious himself take centre stage. Flanked by devs and squidged between other journos, I saw two short demos, one right at the start of his adventure, and the other much further in. I saw him clamber around Mordor (I think; it was mountainous at the very least) and then stealth around an Elven king’s abode....

May 24, 2022 · 5 min · 954 words · Jacob Kramer

V Rising best settings guide: early access performance tested

It’s a Vlad, Vlad situation Vampiric survival sandboxV Risinghas, according to Steam’s player counts, entranced itself quite a following. That includes RPS’ own Ed, whose otherwise glowingpreviewmentioned some performance issues on Nvidia GPUs. I’m duty-bound to investigate any potential hardware hitches, though since V Rising is only in early access, this isn’t going to be the usual appraisal of how it performs on various PC hardware. That can wait until it’s had more of the spit ‘n’ polish treatment that typically comes with the status of actually being finished....

May 24, 2022 · 5 min · 992 words · Melinda Schroeder

V Rising dedicated server setup and settings: How to set up your own V Rising server

A comprehensive guide to setting up your own V Rising dedicated server Want to know how to set up your own V Rising server?There are a few very big benefits to running a dedicated server forV Rising, and thankfully the devs at Stunlock Studios have supplied us with a variety of options and tools when it comes to setting up our own multiplayer spaces. If you’re familiar with hosting dedicated servers for games likeValheim, the process should be fairly straightforward....

May 24, 2022 · 8 min · 1568 words · Corey Jackson