A minor tweak to Steam will soon let you change the way you download that monstrous 250GB update

Why update today what you can update in three months? If your PC has ever started randomly roaring, and you check Steam only to findSpace Marine 2is panic-installing a 9 billion gigabyte update, then perhaps Valve’s new upcoming feature is for you. For most of us, Steam simply slurps down fresh gigs of installed games automatically when a new update is released (and sometimes schedules the updates according to its own capricious whims)....

December 12, 2024 · 3 min · 469 words · Robert Gonzales

All Path of Exile 2 Act One bosses and where to find them

This list will help you find every Path of Exile 2 boss located in Act 1 Looking for all Act One bosses in Path of Exile 2?There’s certainly no shortage ofPath of Exile 2bosses in the first part of the campaign, but some of them are easy to miss. Although the mandatory bosses won’t let you pass without a fight, the many optional ones are hiding in huts, caves, or dark corners of the map....

December 12, 2024 · 2 min · 356 words · Joseph Stone

All Path of Exile 2 bosses in Act Two

This list will help you find every Path of Exile 2 boss located in Act 2 Looking for Act Two bosses in Path of Exile 2?If you thought Act One was tough, brace yourself for the abominations that await in Act Two. Just like the first act of the campaign, some Act Two bosses are optional and therefore missable. If you want as many rewards as you can get, includingSkill Gemsand extra passive skill points, be sure to pay them a visit....

December 12, 2024 · 2 min · 307 words · Micheal Brown

Band Of Crusaders is a dark fantasy party RPG with heady overtones of XCOM and Diablo

Archdemons mount European package tour in face of local objections And here are some more details from the Steam page. Your Band Of Crusaders can hire up to 20 knights, and you can train, equip and rearm them at an expanding campsite of upgradeable buildings. “Each crusader brings novelty to your camp with their own backgrounds, strengths and weaknesses as well as the ability to synergize with their Brothers,” the developers explain....

December 12, 2024 · 2 min · 268 words · Tanya Waters

Mafia: The Old Country release date shrinks to summer 2025

Leaked trailer makes weary news-writer offer he can’t refuse It’s all set to the sorrowful strains of Madama Butterfly. I was going to comment that Madama Butterfly takes place in Japan and as such, is a bizarre soundtrack for an Italian gangster game, but of course, the opera was composed by Puccini. See, this is the kind of high-quality research I can pack in when I get the details two hours in advance of the Game Awards, rather than writing trailers up like I am trying to catch bullets fired out of an actual Tommy gun....

December 12, 2024 · 2 min · 247 words · Jon Beltran

Marvel Rivals review: it's like Overwatch, if Overwatch was overcomplex and frequented Comic Con

My favourite hero is John Marvel At first I thoughtMarvel Rivalswas basically rebrandedOverwatch, in the way it’s afree-to-playPVP hero shooter. And in some ways, it is. Fights are like if you took a MOBA and forced both teams to bash heads constantly. Success lies in picking off Spider-Man or Squirrel Girl or Marcus Fenix so as they wait to respawn, you hop on the big area that needs capturing. Or you push the cart while tanky Hulk absorbs bullets with his biceps and John Marvel snipes from afar....

December 12, 2024 · 7 min · 1387 words · Marcia Diaz

Marvel Rivals tier list of best characters

Discover the strongest characters in the current meta with our up-to-date Marvel Rivals tier list What are the best characters in Marvel Rivals right now?It’s always a tough question with games likeMarvel Rivals, not only because the roster and hero abilities are ever-changing, but because a tier list of heroes naturally changes over time as you climb higher up the player skill ladder. But will that stop us? Clearly not!...

December 12, 2024 · 24 min · 5110 words · Joseph Walker

Path of Exile 2 best Sorceress build

Here’s a guide on how to channel elemental magic as the Sorceress Looking for the best Sorceress build in Path of Exile 2?The Sorceress is the strongest spellcaster inPath of Exile 2, emphasising elemental magic that sparks, sizzles, and freezes enemies. While relatively vulnerable at the onset of the game, with a little bit of time and care, the Sorceress has the potential to fill the screen with explosive spells of truly magnificent scale....

December 12, 2024 · 7 min · 1302 words · Haley Ruiz

The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part three: the stalker becomes the stalkered

Not the kind of follower I was hoping for After a failure-riddled start,my attemptto turnS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2’s mutants into beasts of war is finally bearing fruit. I’veengineered a Bloodsucker attackthat wiped out the worst of villains – someone who was mean to me – and I’ve progressed far enough to really open up the map, and with it, access to more of the Zone’s fiercest fleshwarps. Also, rats. Buoyed by the successful Bloodsucker siccing, I’m back on the trail of some mysterious anomaly scanners, and word is I might find a lead inside a local maze of wrecked cars....

December 12, 2024 · 6 min · 1106 words · Colleen Beck

The Game Awards 2024 liveblog

From 12:30am GMT / 7:30pm ET Who will need to please wrap it up this time? Which games will be revealed? Will there be a musical number to top last year’sHerald of Darkness performance? (That was fun, actually, fair play on that one.) You can find out right along with us, as we once again fire up the RPS liveblog-o-tron to report all the developments as they happen. Even the ones that happen at 3:45am, when I’ll be desperately trying not to collapse into my keyboard like a felled tree....

December 12, 2024 · 1 min · 185 words · Timothy Russell

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 12th

Open today’s door - then run Today’s advent calendar game is already inside your head, for this is not a game you stop playing, merely one you step away from between rounds. Even after you quit, it lingers on the edge of your awareness like a muffled bassline. It glitters in the air around you like a cloud of spores. It cannot be denied. It can only be… …Balatro! Edwin:As with a lot of games I like, the genius of Balatro is that it’s secretly a horror game....

December 12, 2024 · 3 min · 516 words · Danielle Blackburn

Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Thu, December 12th

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #549. Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 12th December?If you can’t quite link the words together today, this guide will give you some pointers to help you solve your Connections puzzle. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle. Crafted each day by puzzle-maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them together in four sets of four, where each group of four words has a common theme....

December 12, 2024 · 4 min · 664 words · Julia Levy

Today's Wordle hints and answer (#1272): How to solve the Thursday December 12 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 12? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Don’t stare yourself silly, thisWordleguide will help you find today’s solution. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

December 12, 2024 · 6 min · 1200 words · Theresa Mendoza