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And it’ll be on Game Pass at launch Changing Tides will introduce a new protagonist on a new adventure in new parts of the old Far setting. Toe is their name, and they’ve woken up in a flooded world they’ll need to cross with a weird ship, scavenging for supplies and fixing things along the way. And also a whole lot of, y’know, just drinking in this big mood. “I’ve never played anything quite like Far: Lone Sails, and in this turbulent world of ours its meditative and gentle journey was exactly what I needed,” Sam Greer said....

Not this week, but “not too much further out” Halo Infinite’s Big Team Battle mode has been unplayable for many almost since the shooter’s release. 343 Industries tried to address the issue last month without success, and then holidays hit and delayed things further. In an update posted yesterday, 343 say they now have a fix in testing and hope to release it as soon as they can. Big Team Battle mode pitches two teams of 12 players against each other - or at least it’s meant to....

Plus ray tracing and VR on PC We know a little of what season two ofHitman 3will contain,includingthe PC debut of VR, something called Elusive Target Arcade, and the arrival of one Mr. Ray Tracing. All of this will be revealed in earnest in just two days time though, with a “reveal stream” on January 13th. At 6am PT/9am ET/3pm CET on YouTube, IOI will showall of the above, plus a brand new game mode, “other announcements, surprises and new footage....

The charming mystery starts January 21st Ever since Alice Bee first playedStrange Horticulture, she’s raved about the mysteries and merchandising of running a weird plant shop. Lots of studying and cataloguing plants, serving customers, and feeling proud of your wee business. Plus solving mysteries in ways only an occult plant shop owner can. Not long to wait now, as the makers announced today that the game will launch on the 21st of January....

Quite nice, as raytracing mods go! These days, you can’t shake a stick without bouncing brown beams around the room. Raytracing has been a hot high-end graphics trend for a few years, with new games boasting support for the complex lighting simulators and old games being retrofitted with shine. This year, a newHalf-Lifemod will add raytracing support to Valve’s seminal shooter, and even as someone usually perfectly happy with old games looking old, I think it doesn’t look half-bad....

One-shot your enemies with this top-tier Warzone shotgun Looking for the best Einhorn Revolving loadout in Warzone?The Vanguard shotguns are currently in a precarious state inWarzonethat is out of line with the last two years of balance philosophy. Currently, each of the four shotguns can one-shot enemies under the right conditions. The Einhorn is perhaps the most powerful of them all, with a mix of range, fire rate, and accuracy that dominates close-range fights....

I’m already exhausted Techland have achieved something incredible. With a singleDying Light 2marketing Tweet, they caused the greatest mass exhalation seen, perhaps, ever. Thousands of adults were informed that to “fully complete Dying 2: Stay Human, you’ll need at least 500 hours” and collectively sighed at their desks, heads in hands. Even some hurried backtracking from Techland’s marketing team couldn’t save us from exhaustion. Here’s the fateful Tweet: To fully complete Dying Light 2 Stay Human, you’ll need at least 500 hours—almost as long as it would take to walk from Warsaw to Madrid!...

Don’t make me turn this world around! I briefly posted before the new year aboutWorldBox - God Simulator, and Graham wrote about itover the weekend, too. It is a world simulation game that has no resource costs or goals, just simulated events. You make a world, plop some animals and fantasy races into it (and if you want, a bunch of dragons and wizards) and see what happens. I cannot stop playing it....

Fang-tastic The first of these twists is the wirebug, a giant, luminous firefly-cum-grapple hook that lets hunters launch themselves skyward, recover from brutish pratfalls, and put reins on stunned beasties so you can briefly ride them rodeo-style to dole out some mega hit points. It’s a highly versatile piece of equipment, giving rise (sorry) to not just the game’s moniker, but also what elevates it from the rest of the series....

Beast mode Monster Hunter Riseis about to see a rise in monster hunters, as the PC’s cosiest killing-for-sportRPGis nowavailable on Game Pass. Since this is likely to introduce a few boatloads of curious would-be huntspeople to the world of Palamutes, gunlances, and enchanted dango, now seems like a good time to revisit our guide to Rise’s best settings to use on PC. This is no PC-melter, and its system requirements aren’t exactly aForspoken-styleshopping list of premium components....

Get your application in today The RPS team is expanding! WithImogen’s departureat the end of last year, RPS is now looking for a new News Reporter to join us - and you canapply right here. Reporting on games and their communities – both before and after release – has become an increasingly important focus for us at RPS, and this role will involve researching and writing multiple news stories per day, as well as producing longer-form original reporting that highlights the ambitious and complex stories from the world of PC gaming....

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is coming from a mod team The first-paced first-person face-shooting ofSerious Sam 4will soon spread to Siberia in a standalone expansion, publishers Devolver Digital announced today.Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhemwill launch on the 25th of January, boasting newness including new missions, new monsters, new weapons, new vehicles, and more. See some of the violence in the announcement trailer, below. Devolverteasedon Friday that they planned to both announce and release a newSerious Samgame this month, and here we are....

Planning to make more of their series mobile, and such Zynga, the company whose games made being Facebook friends with your family even more annoying, are selling to Take-Two. The owners of Rockstar and 2K plan to buy up Zynga shares in a deal that’ll value the company at $12.7 billion (£9.4b). Take-Two hope to use Zynga’s social and mobile expertise to make more games based on their games. Sure sure, #business and all, but I’d rather spend that much money on 9....