The Rally Point: Timberborn breaks the boring "village vs winter" mould

I want to le beave I think I’m tired of winter. It’s not the cold. It’s not even the lack of anything to do. It’s that when your main threat is starvation and hypothermia, and your only real tool is stockpiling, it often feels like your fate is already sealed come October, and waiting around to see if you survived or not carries the same sense of slow inevitability that the average RTS or 4X game does past the opening act....

February 17, 2022 · 8 min · 1624 words · Julie Gutierrez

Total War Warhammer 3 Kislev faction guide: how to win with Kislev in campaign and on the battlefield

Bear arms against Kislev’s enemies with our faction focus guide Looking for a Total War: Warhammer 3 Kislev Guide?Slavic bear-buds Kislev are one of the most versatile factions inTotal War: Warhammer 3, offering powerful hybrid units, magic, and some of the best archers in the game. Kislev, like most factions inTotal War: Warhammer3, have more nuance than you might expect from their ‘Empire with Bears’ aesthetic. As such, we’ve put together a list of helpful pointers so you can get the most out of Kislev both on the battlefield and in campaign....

February 17, 2022 · 9 min · 1831 words · Karla Padilla

Total Warhammer 3 is out now, but performance is a problem

It’s on Game Pass too Almost six years after the historical strategy action of Total War crashed into Games Workshop’s wacky fantasy world of Warhammer, the trilogy wraps up today withTotal War: Warhammer 3. Oh I’m sure expansions will follow, and the game-joining Mortal Empires campaign is still to come, but Total Warhammer 3 is here now. Sadly, the launch is somewhat blighted by many players suffering serious performance problems....

February 17, 2022 · 3 min · 474 words · Hannah Powers

Wordle answer for February 17th, 2022

Watch out for spoilers Wordle isn’t always difficult to solve, but if you’re playing it regularly you’ll probably fail to come to its answer at least some of the time. That’s what this post is for. Didn’t find the solution yourself? Check this post and we’ll tell you what the Wordle answer is for today.Houston, We Have A Quiz | Mystery Steam Reviews (Video Games That Go To The Moon)Watch on YouTube...

February 17, 2022 · 2 min · 272 words · Shane Marks

Best Lost Ark Gunlancer build: recommended skill levelling, engravings, and awakening skills

Blow your foes away with this Gunlancer build Need the best Gunlancer build in Lost Ark?Anothertier listtopper, Gunlancer is one of the fastest-clearing classes inLost Ark. Packing huge AoE damage, powerful team buffs, and the best defensive utility in the game, Gunlancers have a place in every party. The class has some unusual quirks, but once you get the hang of it you’ll be blasting through mobs with ease. This guide will equip you with everything you need to level to 50 and start tackling Lost Ark’s endgame as the Gunlancer....

February 16, 2022 · 5 min · 913 words · Crystal Martin

Cyberpunk 2077 ending support for Windows 7 and GeForce 700 cards

Microsoft and Nvidia already ended support for their own products Thehuge new patchreleased forCyberpunk 2077yesterday is mostly a good’un, bringing the dystopian RPG closer to the game it should have been 14 months ago. But Update 1.5 might be bad news for players with older PCs. CD Projekt Red have officially ended support for Nvidia GeForce 700 series graphics cards, and announced plans to end Windows 7 support later this year....

February 16, 2022 · 2 min · 313 words · Eric Castro

Homeworld 3 and Hardspace studio switching to four-day working week

One team say their trial period “saved us” Blackbird Interactive, the makers ofHomeworld 3andHardspace: Shipbreaker, have announced plans to switch to a four-day work week for all employees. They join a small but growing number of game studios aiming to actively combat burnout by giving employees more time to themselves. Like many others who’ve tried a four-day week, they say that not only were people happier, productivity was not harmed. Cool....

February 16, 2022 · 4 min · 680 words · Michael Wallace

Lost Ark is the MMO equivalent of grey carpet

I don’t think it’s for me Grey isin. Don’t take it from me, take it from the Carpet Man. I had to buy new carpet recently, and Carpet Man told me that the only shade of carpet anyone wants nowadays is grey, resting one hand on his hip and the other on a pile of pile. He seemed weary, but livened up as I picked through some beige. Eventually I decided on corn, a warm yellow to keep things light and breezy....

February 16, 2022 · 5 min · 871 words · Mark Davis

No Man's Sky now lets you build your own new robot friends

Build a wee drone, or put an AI in your Minotaur mech! Sandbox space simNo Man’s Skytoday launched yet another huge free update, this time focused on expanding and overhauling violence in numerous ways. Codenamed Sentinel, update 1.8 adds plenty of new types of Sentinel enemies to bash and adds new weapons and such. But more importantly, it lets you have new robot friends of your own by putting AI into your mech or even building your own wee drone buddy....

February 16, 2022 · 2 min · 353 words · Joseph Lopez

Out There's sequel isn't a roguelike anymore, but it's "much more approachable"

We chat with the game’s creative director about Oceans Of Time’s switch in genre and new exploration tools It’s a “much more approachable game,” he tells me, and having played a preview build of the first few hours earlier this week, I can tell you he’s definitely on the money about that. For one, you’re no longer alone in this big wide universe. You play as Commander Nyx in this latest adventure, a character from Out There’s interactive graphic novel spin-offOut There: Chronicles....

February 16, 2022 · 6 min · 1240 words · Robert Lee

The best Project Zomboid mods

Defenestrating zombie corpses Like a lot of people over Christmas, New Year, and the following months, I chose to ignore everything and everyone to playProject Zomboid. The early access zombie survival game received a huge update just in time for the holidays, transforming the game. But for some people, it might not be enough. For those who want more, Zomboid has been in early access on Steam for over nine years now, and it has a healthy mod scene thriving amidst the undead....

February 16, 2022 · 7 min · 1318 words · Daniel Russell

The Witcher 3 director forms new studio with CDPR veterans making a dark fantasy RPG

Their mystery game might involve at least one vampire? A group of former CD Projekt Red folks have formed a new studio, announcing plans to make their own “AAA” “story-driven” “dark fantasy RPG”. The studio are named Rebel Wolves, and they’re founded by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who was director ofThe Witcher 3and secondary game director onCyberpunk 2077. Their RPG is largely a mystery for now, though a wee bit of artwork suggests at least one vampire is involved?...

February 16, 2022 · 3 min · 452 words · Kyle Wilson

Wordle answer for February 16th, 2022

Spoilers ahead If you’re playingWordle, the puzzle sensation, you might occasionally fail to find a day’s single solution. That’s where this post comes in. While Wordle’s own ubiquitous green squares ingeniously dodge spoilers, spoiling the solution to the puzzle is exactly what we’re going to do here. Therefore, if you intend to play today’s Wordle, don’t click ahead or read down! This post is for if you miss a day, fail a day, or are trying to remember the solution from some point in the distant future....

February 16, 2022 · 2 min · 286 words · Jeffrey Diaz