Age Of Empires II: Definitive Edition is getting controller, crossplay and cloud support

“We knew that bringing the complexity of RTS to Xbox consoles was a massive task and one we had to approach carefully and thoughtfully,” director of customer voice at World’s Edge Emma Bridle wrote on theXbox News Wire. “The team has been working hard to bring an experience that not only feels great using a controller, but also teaches players how to play on Xbox. A new tutorial designed specifically for controller input paired with a new user experience for console will help players get started....

October 25, 2022 · 2 min · 265 words · Michael Myers

AMD's best value gaming CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, is down to $329 at Ebay

A great price for a fast processor that works with inexpensive DDR4 RAM and AM4 motherboards. AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors are brilliant, often beating Intel 12th-gen offerings and drawing close with 13th-gen, while offering support for PCIe 5.0 SSDs, DDR5 RAM and a brand new AM5 socket. For content creation, they’re by far the best CPUs AMD has ever produced - but for gaming, there is another option: the Ryzen 7 5800X3D....

October 25, 2022 · 2 min · 307 words · Jerry Perez

Dark Souls 2: Scholar Of The First Sin's online features have been restored

FromSoftware are still working on the Dark Souls Remastered servers Praise the sun!Dark Souls II’s online features for the Scholar Of The First Sin edition are back up and working after months of being down. Back in January, FromSoftwaredeactivated online featuresfor theDark Soulstrilogy on PC due to the prominence of hackers and security concerns. Recently,Dark Souls IIIservers were reactivated (before being deactivated and reactivated again) and now it’s Dark Souls II’s turn....

October 25, 2022 · 2 min · 341 words · Johnny Rhodes

EA promise to "do better" after their first Sims Summit "did not fairly represent" players

EA responds to claims it ignored black simmers during the Behind The Sims Summit EA held their first BehindThe SimsSummit last week, revealing plenty of Sims updates, including a very early look at the next game in the series,Project Rene.Despite this big news, discussion around the event has focused on EA’s lack of community representation, as they only included one “black simmer” onscreen during a stream full of other content creators....

October 25, 2022 · 3 min · 435 words · Michael Owens

Enjoy biomechanical biker body horror in free interactive fiction Greaser

A great little goopy treat What are you doing for the next ten minutes? Nothing much? Alright, here’s what you’re doing: playing Greaser, a wee free visual novel about riding a Cronenbergian biomechanical motorbike along an endless unreal desert highway. It’s playable in your browser sokick-start on over to Itch.ioright now. I don’t know what else you’re doing this morning that’ll get your engine running more than adventure, self-discovery, and erotic motorbike maintenance....

October 25, 2022 · 2 min · 379 words · Melissa Washington

Get a bona fide 165Hz gaming monitor for £120

The MSI MAG Artymis 242C offers great gaming performance at the same price as a 60Hz monitor. 165Hz gaming monitors are getting so cheap these days, that it doesn’t make much sense to pick up anything less for gaming if you’re buying new. Case in point is this MSI Artymis MAG242C gaming monitor, which offers a 24-in span, 1080p resolution and curved VA panel for £120 after a £30 discount at Currys....

October 25, 2022 · 2 min · 239 words · Arthur Fox

Have You Played... Crystal Caves?

Mining the platformer since 1991 Shareware platformers defined my PC gaming as a kid. Yeah, a cheeky blast on Wolfenstein 3D was okay, butCommander KeenandDuke Nukemwere an amazing discovery for a small person who’d been introduced to games through the NES. One of my all-time favourites is Apogee’sCrystal Caves, a gem of a platformer about an interstellar miner who goes space spelunking in search of alien crystals. Mylo Steamwitz is the little bloke you bound around Crystal Caves’ three episodes as....

October 25, 2022 · 2 min · 256 words · Jordan Fox

Umurangi Generation dev teases new horror game inspired by Metal Gear and Silent Hill

57 seconds of footage of FiveSeven It’s been two years since developer Origame Digital released the beloved photography gameUmurangi Generationand since then, the team have been relatively quiet. That all changed over the weekend when Umurangi’s composer, ThorHighHeels, posted a YouTube video showcasing three obscure horror games.A short teaserfor Origame’sFiveSevenwas mysteriously tucked in the middle of it. It’s in the segment for Vampire Rain, at around the 15:53 timestamp. The surprise teaser was spotted by an eagle-eyed Reddit user andshared by Umurangi Generation developerNaphtali Faulkner....

October 25, 2022 · 1 min · 183 words · David Wise

Wordle answer (Tuesday 25 October 2022): Wordle word of the day #493 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word In this guide, we’ve got three handy hints that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re not in the mood for a puzzle and just want the answer, then keep scrolling to find it a little further down. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle October 25 hints If you’re not sure where to start with the Wordle answer today and need some help, you’ll find three helpful clues below:...

October 25, 2022 · 5 min · 944 words · Cody Nguyen

5 games that make you the monster

Twilight Zone theme music intensifies Horror gamesare great and all that, but what about games that makeyouthe monster? Yeah. Chew on that for a second. I’m not just talking about games that belong to the horror genre, either. In fact, spare those asymmetrical multiplayer games that are all the rage with their worryingly young audiences, there are few actual horror games that let you assume the role of the villain. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a deluge of titles where you play as a creature so vile, so menacing, that the residents of their worlds undoubtly view the player as evil incarnate....

October 24, 2022 · 6 min · 1121 words · Jared Williams

Apex Legends Season 15 will introduce its second-ever largest map Broken Moon

It’ll also feature the largest POIs we’ve seen so far, and the brand new ziprail system Season 15 ofApex Legendsis ziprailing its way towards us at a frightening speed. When it lands at the end of the month, it’ll bring with it a new Legend, just like every new Season - but even more significantly,Apex Legends: Eclipse will introduce the fifth Apex map, a big and beautiful multi-biome arena called Broken Moon....

October 24, 2022 · 3 min · 584 words · David Lopez

Disco Elysium dev files lawsuit against the studio that allegedly kicked him out

The writer will do something Alright folks, bear with me, because it doesn’t look like this one is going to getlessmessy. As reported byTech News Space, it appears that Robert Kurvitz, the lead developer and writer onDisco Elysium, is suing Studio ZA/UM, the development studio of Disco Elysium, via his own companyTelomer.Kotaku AUseem to have corroborated this, finding a record on the Estonian Ministry of Justice’s website showing Telomer has filed an application against ZA/UM Studio to “obtain information and review documents”, which you can see for yourselfhere....

October 24, 2022 · 3 min · 460 words · Kathy Henderson

Fans have uncovered a secret message in Silent Hill: Townfall's announcement trailer

It wouldn’t be Silent Hill without fan theories Silent Hill: Townfall’sannouncement was decidedly cryptic, but fans have since found various secrets hiding in the trailer. Announced duringKonami’s Silent Hill Transmission broadcastlast week, Silent Hill: Townfall is being developed by No Code, the studio behind the spookyObservation. The trailer was light on details, with a speech about crime and judgement playing over footage from a Pocket Television, but some eagle-eyed - or perhaps eared - fans have uncovered messages hidden in the audio that might give us a hint of what Townfall is all about....

October 24, 2022 · 2 min · 330 words · Vernon Murphy