Temper your expectations Liam and I have givenOverwatch 2’sPVP beta a whirl and it’s been… interesting. Both of us have come away with mixed feelings, especially around that big “2”. Does it really seem like a sequel? To answer that question, we’ve teamed up in this article like a Müller and its corner to mingle our thoughts in word form. Of course, if you’d rather hear us grumble at each other in glorious video form, you can watch that down below....

We list our favourite games from 2009, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else A bit later than planned, but we’re back once again for another edition ofThe RPS Time Capsule, in which the RPS Treehouse undergoes a collective mind-melting experiment to pick their favourite, bestest best games from a specific year to be preserved and saved until the end of time. This month, we’ve shifted our game preservation gaze to 2009, so read on below to find out which games made the cut, and which have been cast off into the eternal games bin....

How to unlock every playable unit in Vampire Survivors, including secret characters How do you unlock all the playable characters in Vampire Survivors?I’m a sucker for a game with an expanding roster of playable units with unique powers, and that’s just what roguelike fantasy shooterVampire Survivorsprovides. The urge to catch ‘em all is a powerful one, and once you know that there are a total of 24 playable characters in this game, completionists will no doubt be in agony wondering how to fill out their collection....

Details on how to perform every weapon evolution and weapon union in Vampire Survivors How do you evolve your weapons in Vampire Survivors?Not to be confused with upgrading weapons, which is a relatively straightforward case of levelling up for increases to stats and a few bonuses, weapon evolutions inVampire Survivorsrequire you to apply certain ingredients to a base weapon in order to create an entirely new weapon form. In addition to higher stats, evolved weapons often come with unique effects compared to their base version....

Here’s the answer to Wordle #329 With just six guesses to determine each day’s five-letter solution, Wordle can get surprisingly tense. Let us lift some of that weight from your shoulders with this guide that gives you a few hints to today’s Wordle solution; we’ve also included the answer itself further down the page. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! If you just want a few little pointers to today’s Wordle solution, here’s a handful of hints to help you work it out:...

But they’re making progress on the TV show “Everything with Alan Wake 2 development is going really well. We are deep in production, have a lot of material, and a great deal of the game is playable,” says Remedy wordsman Sam Lake. “But we’ve been talking for the past couple of months and have come to the decision here at Remedy, along with our wonderful publisher Epic Games, that we will not be showing anything big this summer....

Photo mode is still coming in June Techland have announced that the first story DLC for their parkour-infused survival horrorDying Light 2: Stay Humanwill slip from its scheduled June launch date to September. The DLC is one of two planned paid story DLCs, with the second not targeted for any specific date outside of Techland’s promised five years of post-launch support for the game. The delay is down to needing a bit more time to achieve the “absolute highest level of polish”, Techland say....

Spice up your life This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of the project. It was reportedby VentureBeatin December last year that Funcom were making a survival game set in the Dune universe with development support from German studio Nukklear. The project was said to take cues from Funcom’sConan Exiles, which is also a multiplayer survival game. The job listings suggest development is continuing and growing, as Funcom are looking for engineers, artists, designers, production staff and more....

Merciless foes in the dark promise a punishing yet satisfying challenge Leave the doormat outside long enough inAge Of Darkness: Final Standand you might not live to see the morning. If the game’s grimdark aesthetic didn’t warn you, here’s another from me directly: this game is brutal. Be mentally prepared to start over, over and over again. The “one more round” syndrome is strong with this mashup of tower defense and strategy....

Nvidia’s newest 4K GPU costs too much for its minor performance gains You could fairly think of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti as a big, stump-necked brute of a graphics card. What better characterisation for the latest tippity-top-of-the-line GPU from Nvidia, who’ve already produced thebest graphics cardfor 4K in theRTX 3080? But rather than be overwhelmed by its power, I personally feel more like the RTX 3090 Ti is trying to trick, tempt and seduce me, Old Testament-style....

Be careful it doesn’t rip or tear According to the book’s blurb, Romero has a condition called hyperthymesia that allows people to remember an unusual amount of detail from their life experiences. The autobiography will go into detail about his childhood, and his disagreement with fellow id Software founder John Carmack. After tweeting about the upcoming book, Romero mentioned that his kids are telling him to follow it up by writing acookbook of family recipesnow he’s an author....

You’ve got until May 19th to claim them This week’s freebies at the Epic Games Store are Arkane Studios’ interplanetary immersive simPreyand Thunder Lotus Games' Viking ‘em upJotun: Valhalla Edition. You’ll be able to nab them for zero currency later on today, but for now there’s still time to grab last week’s complimentary game,Terraforming Mars(which you can dohere). Check the Epic Games Store at around 8am PST / 4pm BST for the changeover....

A behind-the-scenes peek at technical tricks and excessive effort In this job, I expend a lot of effort and care on details no one notices. While this is arguably a poor use of my time, I enjoy the process—and technically it is productive. But perhaps you, reader dear, might enjoy hearing about these small things, or at least find them interesting/weird. So let’s talk about the work which went into producing one (1) screenshot and 43 seconds of video for last week’s post aboutthe Morrowind modder who added the family cat because their kids were afraid of mudcrabs....