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The new survival game announced today Watching the trailer for upcoming craft-o-survival gameForever Skies, I now understand how people who fear the ocean must feel aboutSubnautica. While I’m at my happiest in water, I know depths and strange sealife give many others the heebie-jeebies. However, heights make me pray for death. So a game about exploring the skies and skyscrapers above the ruins of human civilisation in a customisable airship, ah yes, I would like to die now, thank you very much....

All Gungnirs blazing Fatherly axe-‘em-upGod of Waris out on PC this week, and I’ve been dragging my disappointing son around the Nine Realms to see how it copes with the jump from PlayStation to Windows. The answer: pretty well! Like previous marquee Sony portHorizon Zero Dawn, this is a game that already looked lovely on console, and the extra muscle of even a modest PC rig can deliver sizeable boosts to both visual quality and frames-per-second....

Dad’s back The whole time you are beset by giant wolves, fiery beasts, and, yes, boss fights with gods. Atreus, though he be small (especially in comparison to, for example, giant world-circling snakes; his dad) does not turn God Of War into a 20-hour escort mission. Indeed, he operates as a sort of attack drone during combat. You can order him to fire arrows at the press of a button, but otherwise he’ll hover around, attacking whichever enemy you’re not focused on, or choking them out with his bow when he’s feeling bold....

We share our biggest time sinks Much has been made of how long games take to complete this week. AfterDying Light 2developers Techland boasted that it would take500 hours to fully complete the gameover the weekend, the internet’s collective groan over the revelation was reportedly heard from the far reaches of space. Personally, I think it’s a preposterous figure for a single-player game, but as someone who also maintains an active spreadsheet of all my various playtime stats (yes, really), it also got me thinking....

Tips on picking your starting weapon from the line-up of 14 possibilities in Monster Hunter Rise What is the best weapon in Monster Hunter Rise?Monster Hunter Risefeatures 14 weapon types, all of which you have access to from the very start of the game. Within each weapon type there are multiple model sets and variants, however, including some new ones added with the Sunbreak DLC; so in truth, you’ll have dozens if not hundreds of weapons to choose from by the end of the game....

Some players are unable to, well, play Nine months after its debut on Nintendo Switch,Monster Hunter Risetoday launched on PC. Capcom’s latest lizard-skinning simulator is a good’un, and what we played of it pre-release seemed like a solid PC port. However, now the game is out in the world, some would-be players are being blocked out by a bug which doesn’t let them even start a new save. Still, the majority of folks seem to be quite happily hollowing out dogs to make slippers....

How to play Monster Hunter Rise in multiplayer, and what quests can be played with friends Which Monster Hunter Rise quests can you play in multiplayer?Monster Hunter Risefeatures two main types of quests: Village Quests and Hub Quests. Broadly speaking, these respectively represent single-player and multiplayer quests, but there’s actually a little more to it than that. ReturningMonster Hunterplayers might also notice a few differences between this iteration’s multiplayer compared to older games in the franchise....

Everyone invited to the deadly stag party Seminal battle royale shooterPlayerunknown’s Battlegroundsis now free-to-play, inviting all stag and hen parties to parachute into holiday resorts for paintballing which accidentally uses real guns. Folks who previously paid for PUBG: Battlegrounds (the new-ish official name replacingPlunkbat) have been grandfathered into the new Battlegrounds Plus account tier and receive receive some edgy virtual clothes too. Everyone else, hey, in you come. Free-to-players don’t get everything, mind....

After a decade of waiting, sure, take your time Given that we’ve still only seen scraps ofStalker 2: Heart Of Chornobylafter years of development and with launch supposedly mere months away, I suppose it’s not a surprise to hear the game is delayed. The developers, GSC Game World today announced that they’ve pushed the launch back by seven months, giving the first-person explore-o-shooter a new release date of the 8th of December....

Gotta go fast ValorantEpisode 4 has kicked off, bringing with it new agent Neon who - like that famous blue hedgehog - goes fast. They’re able to sprint and slide around maps at blistering speeds, which might seem at odds with the game’s tactical pace, but they fit into the roster nicely. Thing is, you’ve got to be brave enough to get the most out of their move set, which rewards ballsy plays over careful corner turns....

Both are growing, says Phil Spencer Xbox Game Pass - or PC Game Pass, now - is great value for money. There are lots of games I want to play but will like drop after just a few hours, meaning I can’t justify buying them at full price. Game Pass let’s me sample them. I’m ambivalent however about the growing importance of digital landlords, and I don’t relish a world where I give money to Microsoft rather than the actual makers of games....

Devs clarify after saying it takes 500 hours to complete Over the weekend,Dying Light 2developers Techland boasted that it would take “500 hours to complete the game”. This turned out not to be the exciting selling point they expected for the open-world zombie-mashing parkour-o-shooter. Many found this claim exhausting because oh my god 500 hours is over 20 days, what do you think we do with our lives, and how much of that is busywork?...

The director of Moon loves the LucasArts adventure game “If you loved the original, this is worth buying for the improved sound alone,” John Walker (RPS in peace) said in ourFull Throttle Remasteredreview. “If you never played it, then oh my goodness, hurry up!” Game’s good. And one known celebrity fan is Duncan Jones, the director of Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, and Mute. Enough of a fan to want to make a movie....