As apologies for a rough launch Hitman 3had a rough launch on Steam last week, quickly gathering50% negative user reviews. Many of the complaints related to price and confusion over the various editions on sale. To make amends, Io Interactive are giving anyone who buys Hitman 3 on Steam before February 19th a free upgrade. If you buy the standard edition (£50/$60), you’ll be bumped up to the Deluxe Edition (£75/$90)....
After being a Stadia exclusive? Who knew! Very pretty, that. The sequel will send us once again over the waves of a flooded world, climbing ruined buildings, not doing violence, and cooing at the spectacle and weird pretty wildlife. I’m up for more of that. And in the game. John Walker (RPS in peace) called the first game “unrelentingly lovely” in ourSubmerged review. “To be a little mercenary about it, Submerged is the radio tower climbing of aFar Crygame, set in a very big puddle,” he explained....
Don’t miss out on these important side quests Looking for those extra skill points in PoE?Path of Exile’s10 Act campaign features a number of side quests that reward Books of Skill. These single-use consumables grant players bonus skill points for their passive tree and are an essential part of building out your character. You’ll want to make sure you grab every skill point in the PoE campaign, but don’t stress; whether you are a new player or a veteran in need of a refresher, our guide has you covered with every PoE skill point location....
Heatwaves, lightning storms and rats The latest DLC forPrison Architectwas both announced and released yesterday. It’s called Perfect Storm and it adds ‘Calamities’ to the game - disasters which can befall your prison that you need to build contingencies for and overcome. That includes weather such as lightning storms, heatwaves and snow storms, but also rat infestations. Here’s a trailer which introduces some of the calamities: The prisons you construct are a house of cards, and these disasters can topple them like dominos - checkmate!...
Even a fictional character liking NFTs would be embarrassing With NFTs in games proving unpopular with almost everyone who doesn’t plan to get rich by fleecing other players, even appearing to support them is controversial. This is a situation Riot Games found themselves in after a lighthearted tweet about one of theValorantwizards visiting an art exhibition on a day out. Turns out, the picture seen by Killjoy is an NFT. Cue Riot scrambling to make clear it was unintentional and say, literally, “Whoopsie!...
I’m not mad caddies, I’m just disappointed caddies Anecdotally, the first records of modern golf date back to its banning in 15th century Scotland. “Nay Golf,” said parliament. “It’s turning the soldiers into fiendish, turf-snorting club-strokers who’d rather say shit like ‘Triple Bogey’ than batter the English, and we’re no having it.”RPGolf Legendsis not set in 15th century Scotland, but it does take place in a world where golf has been banned....
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Developer:Frictional GamesPublisher:Frictional GamesWhere can I buy it?Steam,GOG Alice Bee:The pitch: you’ve woken up in a weird castle somewhere in Europe and you can’t remember who you are, or how you got there. The castle is full of lumbering monsters. You have to stay in or near light as much as possible, or your “I’m freaking out!!!” meter starts filling up. Figure out what’s going on, survive the monsters, and ultimately decide the fate of the big weirdo who owns the place....
And free chat stickers! Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale started last night, a huge sidewide discount-o-rama with tens of thousands of games and things going cheap. If you forgot to buy something in Steam’s last huge sidewide discount-o-rama a whole three weeks ago, or have received a new paycheque since then, hey! It’s a big sale! Again! Splendid! Hit Steamand that’s it, those are the games, they’re all there. So. What now?...
Coming out of lockdown and I’ve been doing just fine The games I’ve collected this week for the first TFI Friday of the year are going to ease us gently out of the time loop that we’ve been stuck in the last umpteen months. Accordingly, the first one is a time loop puzzle game. Time Master Who’s it by?MorpheusZWhere can I get it?SteamHow much is it?£11/€12/$15 In this, you, a wizard who looks like a cute lil' cereal mascot, are guided by the disembodied voice of Lloyd Grossman (who seems to be some kind of time god) to save your sister from accidental banishment....
For fans of Attack Of The Friday Monsters I mention all this becauseThe Kids We Wereis probably the only game I’ve played since then that’s even come close to capturing some of that Attack Of The Friday Monsters magic. You won’t find any kaiju here, but this is a similarly nostalgic portrait of pastoral Tokyo, as viewed through the eyes of young Minato on his summer holidays, first in the present day and then in the 1980s when he ends up travelling back in time Back To The Future-style to when his parents first met as kids....
Death from above Unfortunately its drop in popularity was just as sudden, and almost as immediate. Eighteen months later, Ubisoft have announced they’re ending development and shutting the game down on April 28th. “We have made the difficult decision to end development of Hyper Scape and shut the game down as of April 28th,” readsthe extremely brief post. “We set out to create a vertical, close-quarters, and fast-paced shooter experience and we are extremely grateful to our community for joining us on our journey....
Buddy I get ‘em Ubisoft were the first huge games company to excitedlylaunch a line of NFTsthen betold by almost everyoneno, don’t do that, it sucks. Well done, almost everyone! In a new interview, Ubisoft’s blockchain boys have said people “don’t get it”. On Thursday,Finder published an interviewwith Nicolas Pouard, VP at Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovations Lab, and Ubisoft blockchain technical director Didier Genevois. Amidst platitudes like “players are always right. Because they are our players, and we love them....
Discover the best structure deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel Want to know which is the best structure deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel?Getting started withYu-Gi-Oh Master Duelcan feel a little daunting at first, with so many mechanics and cards available to players. Luckily the game is very welcoming to newcomers, and alongside the initialstarter decksoffered when logging in for the first time, the game also offers you a number of pre-made structure decks that allow anyone to jump right into dueling before they have to build decks of their own....
