V Rising players are calling for an arachnophobia mode to deal with its horrible spiders

Others are suggesting mod support Players of hit vamp ‘em upV Risinghave taken to the game’s Discord server to request an anti-phobia mode to make some of its creatures easier on the eyes. It seems the offending boss in this particular instance is Ungora the Spider Queen, a high-level giant arachnid (the worst kind) who’s set up afetching gothic domicilein the Cursed Forest’s Spider Cave. According to the mission summary for Ungola: “No living creature save for her children has ever entered and lived to tell the tale....

May 26, 2022 · 2 min · 342 words · Robert Miller

Wordle answer (Friday 27 May 2022): Wordle #342 solution and hints

Here’s the answer to Wordle #342 Below we’ll give you a handful of well-selected clues to help you in case you’re stuck on today’s Wordle, and further down we’ll reveal today’s Wordle answer and the meaning behind the word in case you’ve never heard it before in your life, and are convinced it’s been made up on the spot purely to mess with your day. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead!...

May 26, 2022 · 2 min · 317 words · Brian Duffy DVM

Codename: Wandering Sword is a Wuxia RPG with a blend of real-time and turn-based battles

Its art packs a real punch Chinese indie studio Xiameng are bringing a Wuxia martial arts RPG to the West withCodename: Wandering Sword, which looks like a pixel art version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The game’s graphics riff on the ‘HD-2D’ style of RPG that Square Enix introduced withOctopath Traveler. Have a watch of the trailer below. Codename: Wandering Sword stars a young lad who is promptly poisoned after getting caught up in a feud between sects....

May 25, 2022 · 2 min · 277 words · Jesse Costa

Game Grumps are overseeing Homebody, a psychological horror game

This is not your father’s Dream Daddy Not content with just a foothold in the world of dad-dating visual novels, Game Grumps have decided to team up with Rogue Games to develop a psychological horror game.Homebodywill channel the slasher film aesthetic of the 1980s, a stark tonal shift from the hand-drawn cheesecake colourfulness of Game Grumps and Rogue Games' first collaboration,Dream Daddy. Some of the same team are back for this one though....

May 25, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Steve Cummings

Ghibli-esque MMO Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds has launched on PC

It’s taking Level 5’s JRPG series free-to-play Level 5 and Netmarble’s free-to-play massively multiplayer JRPG Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds has finally arrived outside of Japan today. The Studio Ghibli-tinged MMO originally launched in June last year, making $100 million (£80 million) in the first 11 days after launch. That’s more thanPokémon GOandGenshin Impactmanaged. Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds puts you into the position of a beta tester for a fictional online VR game called ‘Soul Divers’....

May 25, 2022 · 2 min · 282 words · James Henry

Hitman 3 ray tracing arrives, kills performance, escapes in nice suit

But DLSS and FSR can at least make it look like an accident As promised,Hitman 3now has ray tracing support, added in a new patch alongsideNvidia DLSSand AMD FSR 1.0 upscaling capabilities. It’s no lightweight implementation either, combining both ray traced reflections and sun shadows that can really spruce up the game’s already-gleaming murder sandboxes. It’ll pleaseshiny floor enthusiast Katharine, put it that way. Less pleasing is ray tracing’s performance cost....

May 25, 2022 · 3 min · 465 words · Melissa Orr

How to get Silver Ore in V Rising and the Sacred Mines location

How to find Silver Ore and turn it into Dark Silver Looking to find some Silver Ore in V Rising?Once you’ve tired of baser metal tools and implements inV Rising, you’re going to need to start mining Silver Ore in large quantities to further increase yourGear Score. The downside to this is that Silver Ore is pretty hard to come by, only available in particular high-level areas of Vardoran. In the below guide for V Rising, which has now received the long-awaited1....

May 25, 2022 · 4 min · 791 words · Andrea Lawson

Roller Champions is a wheely good time but may stumble at the start line

Three RPS buds tumble out of the Treehouse and get their skates on So, Ollie, Liam, and I strapped on our skates and jumped into a few games to see how it’s getting on. Ollie had some experience with the game before, while Liam and I went in totally blind. We all emerged from our play sesh glowing with praise albeit with a tinge of worry. Would it get any traction, or quickly succumb to the cheery sports game curse?...

May 25, 2022 · 9 min · 1727 words · Eric Hull

Sniper Elite 5 review: too much sprinting, not enough sharpshooting

Sniper Elite? More like track athlete Karl Fairburne, the titular SniperElite, is a pro at pinging baddies in the distance. The master of shooting Nazis in the balls across hundreds of metres. It’s a mystery, then, why the French Resistance constantly hand him objectives that require close-quarters combat. “Sneak into this chateau,” or “blow up that radar,” they say, probably with a smirk assuming that he won’t be able to pull it off....

May 25, 2022 · 8 min · 1586 words · Reginald Le

The Cycle: Frontier touches down on Steam and Epic Games Store in June

There’ll be a pre-season before the full launch later in the month Free-to-play science fiction PvPvE shooterThe Cycle: Frontierwill begin its ‘pre-season’ phase on June 8th, developers Yager have revealed today. Season one will then launch on June 22nd, bringing the extraction shooter’s full complement of ‘Fortuna’ season pass rewards along with it. Check out the launch trailer below. Action in The Cycle: Frontier happens on the hitherto abandoned planet of Fortuna III, where you’ll have to run about, shoot aliens and other players, and prospect for loot....

May 25, 2022 · 2 min · 340 words · Karen Evans

V Rising sinks its teeth into offline mode with a hotfix today

Vampires, antisocial? Nah Offline servers are finally arriving for vampiric Steam sensationV Risingas part of a hotfix today. Developers Stunlock announced the changes on the V Rising Discord andTwitterthis morning. It looks fairly straightforward to enable the new mode so I’ll run through that for you. Community manager Jeremy Bearson explained that the changes will come into effect from 11am UTC (4am PDT/12pm BST/1pm CEST), so it should be available right this very second....

May 25, 2022 · 2 min · 388 words · Annette Jones

Wordle answer (Thursday 26 May): Wordle #341 solution and hints

Here’s the answer to Wordle #341 If today’s Wordle is threatening to best you, don’t despair. Below you’ll find several useful clues that may guide you towards the solution; and if that doesn’t help, check further below for today’s Wordle answer. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! If you’re finding today’s Wordle to be a bit of a struggle but you’re not yet ready to throw in the towel, consult the below clues to give yourself an edge:...

May 25, 2022 · 2 min · 263 words · Lisa Beck

Buy an external GPU enclosure with an RTX 2060 for £300

That’s £50 more than the enclosure alone goes for new. A refurbished Lenovo Legion Graphic BoostStation with an RTX 2060 graphics card normally costs £400, but right now you can pick one up on Ebay for £300 with codeCROWN20. That’s a good deal on the entry-level RTX graphics card, giving your laptop access to hardware-accelerated ray tracing, DLSS to boost frame-rates and a solid card for 1080p AAA gaming. External GPU enclosures are a great way to boost the gaming performance of a laptop without a discrete graphics card (or one with a slightly older GPU)....

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 298 words · Pedro Williams