Project Zomboid mechanics: how to repair cars in Project Zomboid

Learn how to repair cars in Project Zomboid Want to know how to repair cars in Project Zomboid?Many cars are ruined inProject Zomboid, with broken components making them impossible to drive. Fortunately, the mechanics skill lets you tinker with vehicles, allowing you to repair cars and change parts to get them running again. Below, we’ll cover everything you need to know about repairing cars in Project Zomboid, including how to replace parts and how to level up your mechanics skill....

February 1, 2022 · 4 min · 823 words · Holly Bradley

Steam will run two sales a month through till the summer

Summer sale dates announced Valve have announced the dates for a number of upcoming Steam sales and events. That includes the demo-laden Next Fest on February 21st-28th, the Steam Summer Sale on June 23rd-July 7th, and several themed sales around specific genres such as JRPG, racing, and survival. These dates were announced alongside changes to how Steam manage sales. The changes are developer-focused, but significant. For one, the cooling-off period between sales, during which a game needs to be set at its normal price, has been reduced from 6 weeks to 4....

February 1, 2022 · 2 min · 215 words · Brett Bryant

The Waylanders review: a classic RPG that's as endearing as it is janky

Woad betide I keep trying to figure out how to describeThe Waylanders’ unique blend of endearment and jank. Unfortunately I am cursed with chronic writer’s brain so all I can come up with is this: it feels like a really good first draft. The Waylanders is a party-based RPG, and it opens on character creation, with a hint of the fantasy world to come. Instead of dwarves and elves, the game offers Werewolves, Mourians, and Formorians, the latter two being big underground-living folks and bigger, deeper underground-living folks respectively....

February 1, 2022 · 5 min · 903 words · Amanda Humphrey

Wordle bought by the New York Times for a seven-figure sum

It won’t go immediately behind the paywall, at least? Oh sure,Sony buying Bungiewas big buyout business news yesterday, but the real mega-acquisition of the day wasWordle. The New York Times, a hardcopy blog, are buying the viral hit word puzzle game for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.” They say it will be free when it moves under their banner, though it’s not clear if it will stay that way....

February 1, 2022 · 3 min · 483 words · Christina Serrano

World Of Warcraft will let Horde and Alliance players team up for raids and dungeons

World Of Craft? World Of Warcraft is downplaying the “War” bit and planning to let Alliance and Horde players play together. It’ll be an opt-in feature for those who want it, but it’ll let you form cross-faction parties for running dungeons, raids and rated PvP when it launches. Ion Hazzikostas, game director of World Of Warcraft, outlined the changes in adetailed blog post. It sounds like it’s not a simple change, however....

February 1, 2022 · 2 min · 310 words · Donna Carr

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel best cards: what are the best staple cards in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel?

Find the best cards for every deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel What are the best staple cards all players should own in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel?While every deck has its own specific strategies you need to use in order to win, there are a number of cards that can be used in almost every deck that are crucial for victory. The best staple cards inYu-Gi-Oh Master Duelare cards that are designed to counter your opponent’s strategies, assisting you in building a powerful board in order to win....

February 1, 2022 · 10 min · 1986 words · Peter Bruce

Apex Legends Season 12 gameplay trailer reveals Sabotaged Olympus

And shows off Mad Maggie’s fiery abilities The newApex LegendsSeason 12 gameplay trailer gives us a better look at Mad Maggie’s fiery abilities, and they seem perfect for flushing campers out of their hiding spots. This latest trailer, delivered as a piece of Silva Pharmaceuticals propaganda, also reveals the Sabotaged Olympus map update and Control mode coming inSeason 12. After warping to a new location, Olympus is looking rather messy. Displaced objects and buildings litter the futuristic city, which should come as a welcome addition to those who dislike the Olympus of old for its large open areas....

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · 373 words · Stephanie Smith

Austin Powers is back in Mass Effect, yeah baby!

Another daft green screen mashup video The wag behind videos editingAustin Powers into Mass EffectandMr Bean into Cyberpunk 2077has returned to the shagadelic font. Just as Shepherd was reborn forMass Effect 2, Powers rises again in the new video retelling BioWare’s sci-fi RPG sequel with England’s greatest secret agent. It remains funny and silly and an unexpectedly good fit. That’s the latest tomfoolery from “eli_handle_b․wav”, who smooshes all sorts of inappropriate media together in ways that actually work....

January 31, 2022 · 1 min · 205 words · William Myers

Intel “working hard” to sort out graphics card shortages with Arc GPUs

“Millions” of new cards are the goal, though the way there is unclear Intel’s Arc graphics cardsare, despite apparent delays, likely to launch this year. And not just with the expectation of being good GPUs, but with the hope that they can fix one of the biggest vexations in PC gaming: a years-long component shortage that’s made all of thebest graphics cardsnearly impossible to buy at fair prices. Intel graphics chief Raja Koduri is at least well aware of the pressure,tweetingthat the company is “working hard to find a path towards the mission - getting millions of Arc GPUs into the hands of PC gamers every year....

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · 272 words · Matthew Perez

Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting DLSS this year

Have a smooth flight Even with a bunch of post-launch performance improvements,Microsoft Flight Simulatoris still the kind of game that canmake most PCs sweat. Good news, then, for frequent flyers who happen to own an Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card: Flight Sim is getting DLSS support this year. Unlike AMD FSR, or Intel’s upcoming XeSS, Nvidia’s upscaling tech is very picky about which GPUs it associates with. You basically need one thebest graphics cardsfrom Nvidia’s own stable (i....

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · 274 words · Barbara Williams

Sony are buying Destiny devs Bungie for $3.6 billion

Bungie will remain multiplatform and have the option to self-publish Just when you thought all the big movers and shakers had done their multi-billion dollar acquisition deals for the year, Sony have just announced they’re buying Bungie for $3.6 billion. A small sum, perhaps, in the face of the$69 billion Microsoft are currently shelling outfor Activision Blizzard, but rather than simply subsuming the Destiny developer into the PlayStation mothership, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan has said that Bungie will “remain an independent and multi-platform studio and publisher....

January 31, 2022 · 3 min · 616 words · Lisa Klein

Square Enix tease "even more new FFVII projects"

Are we talking spin-offs or Sephiroth body pillows? Square Enix first launchedFinal Fantasy VII25 years ago today, introducing a new generation to big-sword bishies. In celebration, both the director of the original JRPG and the creative director of the recentFF7 Remakehave posted messages looking back and forward. Along with several FF7 mobile games kicking about, they tease that more new FF7 things we don’t know about are coming. Hopefully this means we’ll hear more about efforts to complete the remake, but I guess they could also be talking about merch or new movies....

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · 314 words · Christopher Harris

The Witcher 3's Gwent is spawning another singleplayer standalone game

And that’s about all we know A new standalone singleplayer game ofGwentis coming this year, telling a new tale with the card game spun off from The Witcher 3. It’s codenamed Project Golden Nekker and… that’s about all we know for know. It’s not another ‘Witcher Tales’ like the previous singleplayer Gwent game, likeThronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and it is confirmed to have at least two (2) monsters. Possibly three (3) if you consider that man is the real monster....

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · 282 words · Frank Wilson