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But is VR vital for the proper Alyx experience? Right from the start, modders tried to make Valve’s virtual reality shooterHalf-Life: Alyxwork without needing VR glasses. Now another such mod has reached the point of Alyx being fully playable from start to finish on a regular monitor with keyboard and mouse. This new mod looks more polished than some others, and claims it’s the “easiest to use and most flexible” of the lot....

The Demake acts as more of a demo, rather than a full recreation of the original game. It begins with gaming’s most iconic PSA, the “cut off their limbs” room, and continues for the next 20 minutes roughly. Isaac’s plasma pistol returns and is capable of alien dismemberment, just as you remember it from 15 years (or 3 months) ago. The stasis ability is also intact, but Isaac’s heavy stomp is the only notable omission in the early game....

He’s stepping away from game development For the past several years, American McGee has been crowdfunding efforts to produce a third entry in his series of action-horror games inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Those efforts produced a 414 page design bible for “Alice: Asylum”, which McGee used to pitch the project to rights-holders Electronic Arts. McGee says that Electronic Arts have decided to pass on the project. As such, McGee says he has “reached an endpoint with ‘Alice’ and with game production in general....

It’ll now be bundled with unreleased expansions The developers of Ark have revised their plans for the release ofArk: Survival Ascended, an Unreal Engine 5 enhanced edition of their dinosaur survival sim. It will now cost $60 rather than the previously planned $50, is no longer bundled together withARK 2, and will instead include the remasters ofArk: Survival Evolved’s several expansions - although most won’t be available at launch. Studio Wildcard also went into more detail as to why this upgraded version is no longer a free update, and why they feel it’s necessary to shut down Ark: Survival Evolved’s official servers....

With a post-launch roadmap Cook Serve Foreverlooks a lot like Vertigo Gaming’s previousCook, Serve, Delicious!series, but it puts a new spin on urgent meal prep and has a whole new story and world. It also now has an early access release date, May 8th, and a development roadmap outlining the journey to 1.0. Here’s the early access release date trailer: In CSF, you play as Nori Kaga, a home-taught chef hoping to make it as a famous chef by opening a food cart in a solarpunk city and competing in a televised cooking competition....

And crash bug fixes The Last Of Us Part 1launched on PC a little over a week ago in a less than adequate state. It has beenheavily criticisedfor bugs, crashes and performance issues in the days since, despiteseveralpatches. Now there’s another new patch, 1.0.2.0, which Naughty Dog say “addresses some crashes, improves performance in some areas, and fixes several gameplay and UI issues including some animation, texture, and lighting bugs.”...

Plus a range of other devices from smartphones and Switch to cameras and drones. 512GB Micro SD cards have continued to come down in price, and today we’ve spotted a great deal on a 512GB option from Integral that offers read speeds up to 180MB/s. It’s available for £39.99, down from £48, which is the best price we’ve seen for this spec. That makes this Micro SD a premiere option for Steam Deck owners, who will benefit from faster copying times when transferring game directories from the internal storage to Micro SD or downloading from the internet, and game load times should also be as speedy as anything with this A2-rated drive....

APRIL10 is the name of the game. The best thing about DDR4 RAM is that you really don’t need to spend much at all to get a good-speed kit at almost any capacity. Normally we’ve covered 32GB and 64GB kits in the past, but today it’s time to look at the mainstream, entry-level option: a 16GB dual-channel kit, comprising of two matching 8GB sticks. Normally we’d expect to pay around £50 for these, but now it’s possible to pick up one for just £35 thanks to the Ebay codeAPRIL10....

Muv-what? You might not know whatMuv-Luvis. I hadn’t even heard of it till a few years ago. Which is strange, since Muv-Luv is considered by many to be one of the most greatest visual novels of all time. What begins as a light-hearted slice-of-life high school romantic comedy eventually pulls the rug out from under the player, and transforms into a war epic featuring mechs and aliens with a much darker tone....

Build a Mother Base and retrieve a lost delivery this month Have you ever been waiting for a delivery, only to have it never arrive? Ever wondered where it went? How does the courier even begin to track a lost item?Mr. Sun’s Hatboxanswers all of those questions (very seriously) in a genre-blending comedy. When I say genre-blending, I mean this is a platforming roguelike with extensive base-building, shooting, whacking, stealthing, and a heavy dose ofMetal Gear Solid 5....

Extra bite The Walking Dead: Saints And Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution inhales starts by suggesting that you play the original game’s tutorial. This is included as part of the experience, which, as we’ll get to, says a lot about how this sequel has been designed. Which is what led to me standing on a corrugated iron bridge spanning a vehicle-strewn New Orleans street, surrounded by zombies with no weapon other than my own thick skull....

Wong and Wesker, where? Capcom have added the Mercenaries mode toResident Evil 4’s remakeas a free bit of DLC, alongside some curious microtransactions to the base game. Just like the original Resi4, Mercenaries puts you up against a timer as you race to roundhouse kick foes and chase high scores. You’ll start your wave-based scramble playing as Leon as you score headshots, parry the bloodthirsty villagers, and run toward time boosts in the village level....

Courtesy of the Ghostrunner studio Last August, THQ Nordic and Slipgate Ironworks - the devs behindGhostrunnerandGraven- announced their new retro-inspired real-time strategy gameTempest Rising. It’s an alternate history story about three factions who duke it out over a rare mineral, the titular Tempest, and we hadpreviously seentwo of them in a campaign walkthrough. The third faction is only available in the game’s multiplayer modes, which the team have released footage of today....