But it’s still only got 15% positive reviews on Steam Upon its initial, half-formed release, eFootball - Konami’s renamed successor to PES - quickly became theworst rated game on Steam. It still now has a mere 15% positive reviews. Yet Konami haven’t given up and have now released v1.0.0 of the limping kick ‘em up, promising a “new gameplay approach.” Here’s a trailer, which breaks down the changes and additions....
$999.99 for the FTW3 Ultra - the same GPU that’s in my PC right now. We’ve covered quite a fewgraphics card dealsfor the UK market over the past couple of weeks, as nature slowly heals, but now it’s time for the Americans to have a go. Right now Newegg are offering an EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra for $999, a $300 reduction from MSRP. That’s a great deal, with the card costing less than any RTX 3080 I could find on Amazon, and it’s from EVGA - widely considered to be among the most-trusted graphics cards brands out there, if notthebest....
Find out which car is the podium prize this week Need to know this week’s Podium Car in GTA Online?Once per day you can head down toGTA Online’s Diamond Casino to spin the Lucky Wheel. Spins reward you with an array of fabulous prizes. The most coveted among them is the podium car, a rotating prize vehicle that you can walk away with for cheap. At around 1 in 20 odds, you probably won’t win every week, but when you do, you will make out like a bandit....
Chance to miss Of the four hulking Grey Knights under my command, teleporty sword boy was undoubtedly my favourite. Once every turn he could blink across the map, moving twice as far as he can with a regular action point, plopping him right behind a pesky Cultist’s cone of suppressing fire. It was both effective and efficient, but the real fireworks began whenever I clicked teleport strike, which repositioned him while also savaging several enemies in sequence with his power sword....
Take spaceships to pieces for fun and profit The excellent ship-dissecting salvage gameHardspace: Shipbreakerwill hit version 1.0 and launch out of early access on the 24th of May, the makers announced today. And oooh it’ll come to Game Pass the same day. It has been a cracking game even in early access, a satisfying first-person simulation of carefully cutting up junk spaceships with industrial lasers for maximum profit and minimum workplace injury....
Fix those missing audio and cutscene problems, maybe Proton, the compatibility software Valve uses to help Windows games work on the Linux-basedSteam Deck, is quite the achievement. There are thousands of games originally built without Linux/Steam Deck functionality in mind, but can work more or less flawlessly after passing through the Proton layer. The bad news is that, as some Deck owners are now discovering, not every game makes the jump without technical problems....
On the road again FixFoxcame out a couple of weeks back, and I am in the process of reviewing it. This process is, currently, one in suspended animation, and has been for longer than I anticipated. I moved just before the release and my PC is still somewhere in or about the Irish Sea. Luckily I can link this to FixFox thematically, as a big exciting incident for the story involves waking up a man who was stuck in a cryopod....
QuakeConline “Like you, we’re disappointed to not return to Dallas this year,” says the statementshared on Twitter. “An event of this size requires months of planning, and in this case, we had to make decisions when there was still too much uncertainty to commit to successfully executing an in-person QuakeCon.” As in the past two years, the online event will feature a mixture of streams, charity events, giveaways and a “virtual BYOC”....
Let’s get cracking This week on The Electronic Wireless Show podcast there was some confusion, because I wanted us to do a part 2 best Easter eggs special, and Nate got confused, so here we are just talking about eggs in games. We also discuss real life eggs i.e. what are the best egg formats? Nate and I are both sad because we consider boiled eggs to be inherently funny but neither of us like eating them....
One class doesn’t have the stats to wear its own starting armour Oh sure,Dark Soulsis a challenging game at the start, but at least your characters begin with enough stats to wear their starter outfit. That’s not necessarily the case with the official licensed Dark Souls pen & paper RPG, which seems a touch sloppy. Along with giving one class starter gear it won’t have the stats use, it has some spells and items which, going by the rules, seem unhelpful at best....
Elsewhere, an RTX 3080 hits £810. If you’d prefer the better value RTX 3080, then there’s also been movement - afterappearing for £860 seven days ago, the cheapest card is now this Zotac Trinity OC model for £810. That’s still a hefty chunk of change for a graphics card - and above the original RRP of £650 - but it’s a damned sight better than the £1000+ these GPUs have retailed at for months....
Plus mountaineering roguelikelike Insurmountable This week’s headline free game on the Epic Games Store is a goodie:XCOM 2. You have one week to grab Firaxis’s sequel to their alien-busting turn-based tactics game, the streamlined reboot of ye olde X-COM games. XCOM 2 is a good game, well worth grabbing for free! Also free right now isInsurmountable, a roguelikelike mountaineering game. Hit the Epic Games Storebefore 4pm on Thursday the 21st and you can grab these two free for keepsies....
More keyboard-mashing cooking action The makers of the Cook Serve Delicious game have announced a new frenetic culinary adventure, namedCook Serve Forever. Once again, it’ll have us mashing keys to prepare meals for customers, fingers blurring like a piano virtuoso as we chuck in ingredients and whizz through cooking processes. Come watch the announcement trailer for a peek at its pleasing “solarpunk” setting. After the story of Cook Serve Delicious escalated to the point that 3 was about driving a food truck across a war-tor USA, facing attacks from rival food trucks, Cook Serve Forever seems to be in a slightly cheerier place....
