Apex Legends shelves plans to only charge real money for battle passes, following backlash

“We recognise that we could have handled the Battle Pass changes better” Apex Legendsdevelopers Respawn Entertainment have announced that poorly-received plans to overhaul thebattle royale’s Premium Battle Pass will be partially walked back. Most crucially, the new passes – set to launch alongside the upcoming Season 22 in August – will no longer besold exclusively for real-world cash; as with previous BPs, players will still be able to buy them with accumulated in-game currency....

July 25, 2024 · 2 min · 407 words · Cody Johnson

Elden Ring: Fire Knight Queelign questline walkthrough

Here is everything you need to know about the Fire Knight Queelign questline Looking for a rundown of the Fire Knight Queelign quest in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?Fire Knight Queelign is a newNPCinShadow Of The Erdtreethat you may encounter via an invasion…or two. This pesky fellow will invade yourElden Ringgame two times during a playthrough and in doing so, give you thePrayer Room Key. For details on how to find Fire Knight Queelign, where to use the Prayer Room Key and how to complete his quest for all rewards, see below....

July 25, 2024 · 4 min · 697 words · Margaret Jones

Grit And Valor 1949 is a real-time Into The Breach, or at least vaguely similar enough that I can squeeze a more popular game in this headline

Like, 10% maybe, if I’m being honest Grit And Valor 1949certainly evokes the tactics ofInto The Breach, with its stompy machinery and floating tile battlegrounds. But, despite all appearances, this one isn’t actually turn-based at all. A tiley, tiny real timestrategythen? Aye, and one that’s actually pretty frantic as it happens. Missions are snappy, intense skirmishes. You’ll fight off waves while trying to protect your useless, freeloading command vehicle. This threat, combined with on-the-fly tactical consider-me-do’s like utilising cover and keeping rock-paper-scissors matchups in your favour ends up spawning something quite distinct....

July 25, 2024 · 2 min · 413 words · Mrs. Kathryn Wilson DDS

NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, July 25)

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #410 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

July 25, 2024 · 3 min · 556 words · Wesley Wallace

Over 500 World of Warcraft developers at Blizzard have voted to form Microsoft’s biggest wall-to-wall union

If this is a competition let’s keep it going please Yet again, some good food. Following the news earlier this week that241 Bethesda Games Studios staffershad formed what was at the time the biggest wall-to-wall under Microsoft,The Vergereports that over 500World Of Warcraftdevelopers have voted to form their own union, alongside the Communication Workers of America (CWA). The World Of Warcraft GameMakers Guild consists of workers from every department - hence ‘wall-to-wall’ - including designers, engineers, artists, and producers, across offices in California and Massachusetts....

July 25, 2024 · 1 min · 168 words · Jeremy Snyder

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is delayed again, but a developer deep dive is coming soon

Zoned out until November 20th S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the beautifully grotty sci-fi shooter sequel from Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, has been delayedonce again. It’s a relatively good-spirited delay, though: first off, it’s notthatlong, with the previously planned September 5th launch pushed back just a few weeks to November 20th. There’s also clever little in-universe announcement video (one which gives the fourth wall a study kick on its way out), and an accompanying promise of a meaty “developer deep dive video”, set to reveal much more of the game’s radioactive hellscape on August 12th....

July 25, 2024 · 2 min · 294 words · Laura White

The 10 best immersive sims on PC

We found this list in the ladies restroom The immersive sim has seen a revival in recent years. Not only from larger studios like Arkane, keeping the faith alive with their time loops and space stations, but also froma bunch of smaller developersbravely exploring a typically ambitious genre. RPS has always had an affinity for these systemically luxuriant simulations, historically lauding the likes of the originalDeus Exasthe best game ever made....

July 25, 2024 · 11 min · 2160 words · Diana Farrell

The twisted animals of horror zookeeping sim Zoochosis will be released from their cages in autumn

Do not feed the hippos Animal caretaking simZoochosisis about being an ordinary zookeeper working in an ordinary zoo. What’s that? There are no ordinary zoos? My mistake. Let me start again. Animal caretakinghorror gameZoochosis is about being a stressed-out zookeeper in a hideous zoo where the giraffes have tendrils coming out of their chests and the kangaroos have rows of chattering teeth in their marsupial pouch. There, got it right in the end....

July 25, 2024 · 2 min · 361 words · Tyler White

This web game lets you drag words around a communal fridge door to create poetry

Come back and see what’s changed I’ve never been a poetry guy, not because I don’t like it, I’ve just never gone out of my way to read them over books or whatnot. The poems I’ve engaged with the most are those read out during wedding ceremonies, those that pop-up before the start of a horror game, orThe Tigerby 6-year old Nael that occasionally pops up as I’m doomscrolling. But thanks to the multiplayer web game “fridge poetry”, where you drag words to create poems, I might become a day-to-day poem guy....

July 25, 2024 · 2 min · 349 words · Lucas Williams

Wordle hints and answer (#1132): How to solve the Thursday July 25 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for July 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We have you covered with a list of hints followed by today’s word to help you keep track of your daily streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

July 25, 2024 · 6 min · 1230 words · Bradley Phillips

You can now look forward to spending your weekend playing huge Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London

Following delays, the fan expansion drops today Fallout: London, the massive fan-madeFallout 4mod set in Poundland Prime (No Elephants, Some Castles, Canary Wharfare) has finally got a release date. Happy days, it’s actually today, Thursday 25th July. The news comes fromInverse, who’ve sent their dear alsatian companions sniffing around the mod’s Discord. Yesterday, Team FOLON lead Dean Carter shared the song I Just Can’t Wait (For Tomorrow) then, when sniffed at harder, confirmed that the ‘Tomorrow’ part meant tomorrow (as in, today), “Unless nuclear war happens....

July 25, 2024 · 3 min · 476 words · Christine Delgado

All Cross locations in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree

Where to find all of Miquella’s Crosses in the Elden Ring DLC Looking for the Miquella’s Cross locations in Shadow Of The Erdtree?The Shadow Realm map is home to 13 Crosses that function as landmarks and sources ofScadutree Fragments(one per cross). Miquella’s Crosses are typically found near Sites Of Grace and are often close to important NPCs or hidden areas. ThisElden Ringguide will show you where to find every Miquella’s Cross location inShadow Of The Erdtree....

July 24, 2024 · 6 min · 1243 words · Michelle Miller

All Hefty Cracked Pot locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree

You can find a total of 10 Hefty Cracked Pots in the Elden Ring DLC Looking for Hefty Cracked Pot locations in Shadow Of The Erdtree?There are 10 Hefty Cracked Pots to be found inShadow Of The Erdtree. These key items are used as containers for Hefty Lightning Pots, Hefty Magic Pots, Hefty Fire Pots, and every other type of big, throwable combat pot in the DLC. Since they’re reusable, it’s best to grab as many as you can....

July 24, 2024 · 5 min · 1022 words · Heather James