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Here are all the romance options in Hades 2 Looking for Hades 2 romance options?Like its predecessor,Hades 2offers romance for those who wish to have a reprieve from the Underworld and its legions of enemies. Whilst the game is in early access there is no overt romance, but there are specific characters whom you can pass the time with and unlock unique dialogue with. We’ve listed these below along with the gifts they like and the Incantations you can unlock to improve your romantic relationships inHades 2....

“As we start to harness the power of community, how do we think about advertising as a growth driver?” says EA CEO as apparent reassurance The last few weeks I’ve been watching quite a few YouTube videos (thanks, Evo Japan), and noticing that adverts during videos a) seem to pop up every 30 seconds or so and b) then last for an unskippable 30 to 60 seconds. My frustration with being bombarded by YouTube ads in videos for which I pay nothing to watch - meaning that I understand the necessity for ads of some kind to support creators and pay server bills - came to mind as I read about EA’s plans to explore inserting advertising into games, which I pay up to £70 a pop to play....

How to get the Erudition Gesture to unlock the two Converted Towers Looking for the Erudition Gesture in Elden Ring?While Gestures inElden Ringare usually purely cosmetic, certain areas andquestsin the game contain puzzles that can only be completed by performing a specific Gesture at a specific time and place. One such Gesture is Erudition, which is obtained inLiurniaand can be used to open two Converted Towers on the ourskirts of the region....

Dip into the demo, why don’t you Back in the late 90s when all of you NORMIES were playingDiablo, I was playing a little-known Konami ARPG called Azure Dreams, which has alas never escaped PlayStation prison. It’s a grid-based, upwardly mobile roguelitey dungeon crawler set in a big tower, each floor a semi-randomised maze of monsters (which you can capture), traps and pick-ups, where player and creature actions happen simultaneously....

Expect a somewhat different mix of tragedy and comedy The former lead writer of charming super-fascist simulatorHelldivers 2is working on a strategy and tacticsRPGin the vein of Nintendo and Intelligent System’s Fire Emblem games, which aren’t available on PC and as such, are a complete mystery to you, a lifelong desktop warrior who would sooner cut their hand off than suffer it to brush against one of those filthy Nintendo witches, I mean Switches....

Here’s every item and spell that can help you against the Scarlet Rot status effect Need help curing Scarlet Rot in Elden Ring?Scarlet Rot is a powerful variation of poison which saps your HP much faster than other poison effects inElden Ring. Several key regions in The Lands between feature Scarlet Rot, including the Caelid Wilds, theHaligtree, and the infamousLake Of RotbelowLiurnia. It can be extremely difficult to deal with the fast-acting Scarlet Rot while you’re fighting....

Body horror on more of a budget What ifScorn, but it’s one that your mum got you for Christmas? That’s easy, it’sNecrophosis, baby. Much like Scorn, Necrophosis is also part-inspired by the dystopian surrealist works of Zdzisław Beksiński, which means lots of plucking brains out of sinewy bodies and plopping them into fleshy receptacles. There’s a demo out now and while it’s not outstanding, it tickled my curiosity more than I thought it would....

IDK. FA? This news post leaves me in a quandary, readers, because I will need to write a swear word for the sake of full journalistic transparency, but Google’s algorithms tend to frown on sweary articles. On the other hand, Google’s algorithms don’t like it when you spend whole intros handwringing about Google’s algorithms, either, so let’s stop, er, faffing around and speak of Doom. Id Software parent company Zenimax recentlytrademarked“IDKFA”, a string of letters that will be of deep significance to original Doom players, and which may therefore be evidence of an impending announcement....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #337 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....

Plus some game called “Resident Evil”? Deep in my heart I know that Hall of Fame-type accolades are largely just a way of dressing up a way of marketing your awards show/museum/whatever, but I also like to occasionally cast away the cynic in me and imagine a world in which this industry’s most important games and creators are rightly recognised, celebrated and preserved rather than beinglocked away in the vault of billion-dollar companies and left to rot....

Blast like no-one’s watching ROBOBEATis the third one of these new-fangled rhythmFPS gamesI’ve played - afterBPM: Bullets Per MinuteandMetal: Hellsinger- and the first one I’ve actually clicked with. The concept evidently appeals to me enough to try out those other two, but I guess that I’m simply too much of a rebel-maverick-disruptor to play to the stiflingly enforced rhythms of somebody else’s drum. Something about ROBOBEAT’s roguelike shooting feels different though....

Including Undead Nightmare Almost 14 years to the day after Rockstar’s cowboy epicRed Dead Redemptionreleased on consoles, and coming up on five years afterits sequel beat it to PC, it looks like the original Red Dead might finally get a PC release. That’s going by a recent datamine from Dead-Eyed TwiXXer user and prolific Rockstar tracker TezFunz2, who spotted a new update to the backend of Rockstar’s launcher site released earlier today, May 13th....

This week’s most splendiferous game releases, plus our weekly newsblog Some fresh astral god trivia from my accidental molar expedition a few weeks back: each of the Maw’s teeth is different. Some form a fractal baleen network of crosshatched layers disappearing backward into the vanishing point; others are shaped like lockpicks, raccoon heads and semi-detached houses. This week’s new game releases are no less motley and misshapen, though thankfully not quite as heavily varnished with plaque: there’s something in the shop for everyone, I think....