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Useful tips for beginners just getting started in Monster Hunter Rise What are some of the top tips for beginners in Monster Hunter Rise?Monster Hunter Risehas its quirks, and whether you’re a complete newbie to theMonster Hunterseries or you’ve played every single other title in the franchise, there’s bound to be a few things that take you by surprise. That’s likely to be doubly true if you’ve just jumped in with the release of the Sunbreak DLC, either after a few months' downtime following the launch of the base game on PC, or as a brand-new player starting the whole production from the very beginning....

Learn how to track a specific target and lock the camera in Monster Hunter Rise on PC How do I lock on in Monster Hunter Rise for PC?InMonster Hunter Rise, you’ll frequently find that your prey runs away from you at various points during the fight. Large (boss) monsters in particular are inclined to try to flee once you’ve landed a certain amount of damage on them. Keeping track of them at these points can be tricky, particularly if there are multiple large monsters showing on the map....

A playable exhibition Lockpicking is a frequently maligned component of many games, but as FPS minigames go I’ve always had a soft spot for it. I’d rather pick a thousand more locks in Oblivion than hack another Pipemania computer terminal inBioShock. EnterMuseum Of Mechanics: Lockpicking, a curated, playable exhibition of lockpicking minigames throughout the history of videogames. It’s now available via Steam, with a bunch of new additions sincewe last wrote about it....

Discover our top tips for surviving in Project Zomboid Looking for a Project Zomboid beginners guide?You might tell yourself “Oh, I could survive in a zombie apocalypse.” Some might even occasionally wish for one.Project Zomboidis a hardcore zombie survival sim that lets you live the apocalypse in extreme detail, and you’ll quickly realise how difficult it would really be. One cut is all it takes to start the downward spiral towards death....

Arcane and beyond Riot Games have outlined their strategy for their next five years, saying they think of themselves “not as a games company but as a gamer’s company.” Thelengthy post, credited to Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent, outlines not what they specifically intend to make, but the kinds of things they want to make and the internal changes designed to make it happen. “As we shared with Rioters, three years ago, Riot was at the heart of what became a reckoning in our industry....

The whirling skirmishes It’s probably more trouble than it’s worth to sidestep around comparisons toMount & BladewithSands Of Salzaar. It’s mostly the structure. Sands Of Salzaar drops you into a world of dynamically warring factions. You can join or compete with them by founding your own, or ignore them to beat up roving bandits, clear out combined dungeon/random encounter sites, and do odd jobs for named NPCs. Some of those figures are powerful, unkillable, and recruitable, although you may have to win them over with favours or gifts....

A fine offering Roguelike platformerSpelunky 2is out now on PC Game Pass. I’m less excited and more angry, actually. This is because it’s my nemesis, a game I know is good but I’m absolutely shocking at. Alongside it, the newLeft 4 Dead-like co-op shooterThe Anacrusisenters early access later today and will be on Game Pass from the start. Can’t wait to fall into a pit of spikes with one, then blub about my misfortunes in the other as I pew pew aliens....

The new co-op shooter from ex-Valve and Riot devs is daft, gooey fun The studio co-founded by former Valve writer Chet Faliszek and former Riot designer Kimberly Voll have releasedThe Anacrusisinto early access today, aLeft 4 Dead-like set in 70s space. Much like its undead predecessor, this is a game where four players team up and pew pew through waves of alien nasties. But it’s not as despairing as its zombified brethren....

Dan Douglas captures England’s oddities in Duke Smoochem 3D Douglas started out simple, recreating the office wherehealth secretary Matt Hancock broke Covid restrictions while cheating on his wife. From there, he has recreated more and more aspects and events of English culture, scattering across them one big level now known as Duke Smoochem 3D. He has a great eye for the mundanities as well as the bits which feel surreal even if you witnessed at the time....

We’ve been hands on with the upcoming closed beta ahead of its release in March First things first. The raw, beating production heart of The Settlers is very much intact. As in The Settlers games of yore, if you want your blooming township to eat, you’re going to have to build a farm to produce the wheat, a windmill to grind that wheat into flour, and then a bakery to pound said flour into delicious loaves of bread....

March 4th to 6th EGX is returning to Birmingham this year, March 4th-6th, andtickets are on sale now. The three-day event takes the place of EGX Rezzed, which was formerly held in London, and runs from Friday until Sunday. Right now there’s little information about what games, panels or other activities are available at the show.The EGX sitedoes outline thehealth & safety measuresbeing taken in light of Covid-19. EGX returned to physical events last October in London after a Covid-caused hiatus....

Spins in the popular word game Wordle hasengrossed me for a couple of weeks, along with much of the rest of the internet. It’s also a free, simple word game, meaning it’s relatively easy to recreate. Naturally, other developers are building their own twists on its core. Among them,Absurdleis my favourite, an “adversarial version” of the game where the winning word changes as you guess. I’m also fond ofSweardle, however, a version designed for four-letter words....

I feel attacked To celebrate anime series Attack On Titan and its impending final series and Call Of Duty’s next big update, they both decided that a totally normal crossover was in order. Soon,Call Of Duty: VanguardandWarzonewill play host to a cursed set of Attack On Titan cosmetics, including gun bits and an Operator skin. They are frightening and confusing. Please avert your eyes. As part of Call Of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone’smidseason updatebeginning on 20th January, the game is getting a new Operator, a new weapon, and new Zombies things....