We also have even more recommendations of games we think you should play this weekend. That includes free trials and demos, as well as games you can spend money on. Hot indie games week of April 20 Gray Zone The RTS genre sadly continues to be in a weird spot. We’re not getting your Red Alerts or StarCrafts, but we are seeing interesting takes on it with nearly every new RTS that gets revealed....
It eventually returned to the PC storefront, albeit with the files in question removed, but still issues remained: performance problems, bugs that make the game unplayable, audio compression issues, horrible face rendering, fewer civilians walking around, lack of fog, render distance issues, spelling and grammar mistakes, and much, much more besides quickly earned the game a reputation for being an ill-tested, badly thought-out cash grab. Oops. And the game’s problems aren’t over....
It’s all pretty grim. As reported by Polygon, players in GTA Online can currently duplicate their vehicle by taking a sex worker into their car and parking it in a way that blocks the passenger door and makes it impossible for them to exit. The player then will need to vacate the vehicle and shoot the hood of the car until it catches fire with the sex worker inside. From there the player will call their in-game insurance company, head over to the garage with the car, drive it out of the garage, then murder the sex worker....
In the GTA Online January 19 weekly update we’ve got a brand new car up for sale, as well as a new side activity in the form of Taxi driving, which should act as a nice distraction from all the dishonest payouts you’ve been getting recently. This short roundup article will cover every new coming to the game this week that you need to know about. This’ll include discounted cars, a new podium vehicle and double GTA cash and RP on select missions....
Images that appeared on GTA fansite GTAforums seem to point to code buried in the launcher after an update to the software on Tuesday that reveals Unreal Engine versions of Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas all exist. Other Twitter users known in the GTA and Red Dead Redemption community have also been posting evidence taken from the launcher, suggesting that these games are real – and could be unleashed upon the world fairly soon, too....
News came over the weekend in a blog post, with the developer confirming it aims to get a “completely paired down” test build into partners’ hands by next week. “Our goal is to have the Halo 3 public flight kicked off in the first half of June,” reads a post from 343 Industries’ Halo community manager Tyler Davis. For those of you out there in Internetland hoping to try your hand at Halo 3 on PC, you’re first going to need to register for the Halo Insider program....
But, it looks like we may not have to wait too long before we learn the release date. The game’s store page, in some regions at least, appears to have been updated with a December 8 release date. That’s according to Aggiornamenti Lumia, which captured a screenshot of the page showing the new date. According to the site, the page has been up since August of last year, but only had a placeholder release date....
That’s according to The Sun, which says that Henry Cavill injured his leg on an assault course, one that involved swinging axes no less. It’s still unclear what actually happened to the Hollywood actor. One source said that the injury isn’t bad enough to require an ambulance, but Cavill also seemingly can’t walk. The first season of The Witcher debuted in December of last year, quickly becoming a huge success for streaming platform Netflix and resulting in a huge jump in sales for CD Projekt’s games based on the same books....
Project Athia was shown on PS5 today during Sony’s showcase, and according to Square Enix, it will “take you on a thrilling other-worldly adventure. At times it will also be action-packed, “twisted, tempestuous, and forbidding.” “We are hard at work on making full use of the exciting potential of the PS5 hardware for this project,” said Takeshi Aramaki, head of Luminous Productions. “While today was just a sneak peek, we’ll have a lot more to show you in the future and we can’t wait to tell you more about the game....
But don’t worry. If you haven’t got the time to sit through a load of chat about the game and wait for those little flashes of gameplay to present themselves to you, there’s a better option: you can watch a supercut of all the gameplay showed off so far knitted together by the Punish Youtube account. Check it out below. You can see from the video that the game isn’t going to be a simple 1:1 remake of the original....
Naturally, stock at Asda disappeared within minutes. There may still be some in stores at these prices, though stock can’t be guaranteed so don’t make the trip unnecessarily. Here’s everything I’ve come across right now. Don’t expect these prices to stick around for long, though. PS4: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered for £5 Battlefield 5 for £5 Assassin’s Creed Origins for £10 Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown for £11 Rainbow Six Siege for £8 The Crew 2 for £10...
Our first (proper) look at Battlefield 2042 gameplay will arrive tomorrow, as part of Xbox and Bethesda Showcase. To whet everyone’s appetite, DICE released roughly three seconds of gameplay from the trailer. They very brief video was posted on Battlefield’s social channels, and we have it embedded below. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Battlefield (@Battlefield) June 12, 2021 The footage shows an Apache helicopter engaging a Russian Kamov (Alligator) helicopter in the game’s Hourglass map....
The game, which was first delayed until mid-October and then again to November, will be one of the first games optimized for Xbox Series X that you’ll be able to play once the console comes out. The next-gen version of the game will come with a variety of modes: a framerate mode runs at a stable 60fps but kills resolution, a resolution mode which performs constantly in 4K, and a 120fps mode which will only run on TVs with HDMI 2....
One of the more interesting bits to expect out of Year 2 is a new mode with roguelike elements called Freelancer which introduces strategic planning and a customizable safehouse. Coming this spring, the mode features Agent 47’s Safehouse. This playable space is customizable as it allows you to choose exactly what type of Hitman you are. As you progress through Freelancer, more areas of the Safehouse can be unlocked and new customization options will become available....
And, god, what a package it is. Without a shadow of a doubt, the package that’s now on sale as the singular modern Hitman game is one of the best deals in gaming, at least aside from subscription services that give you loads of games. If you’re going to buy a single game, Hitman is an excellent choice – emergent in a way that means it seldom gets old, with plenty of variety in levels and objectives....
Sony has announced Horizon: Zero Dawn will be released for PC sometime this summer. The announcement came via a PlayStation Blog interview with PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios president Hermen Hulst. According to Hulst, more information will be coming from developer Guerrilla Games “pretty soon.” He added that the company is still committed to dedicated hardware, but that Horizon: Zero Dawn just seemed a “great fit” for PC. “I think it’s important that we stay open to new ideas of how to introduce more people to PlayStation, and show people maybe what they’ve been missing out on,” said Hulst....
While plenty of things have been addressed with the patch, there are still a few the team is looking into. This includes continued tweaks to the reported graphical issues regarding shimmering, sharpening and screen saturation. There’s also a really specific one where some players have reported multiple issues with various types of traversal after fast traveling to campfires while gliding inside of a tornado. The team is also looking into an issue with receiving the reward after completing the Black Box Collectibles activity....
“What’s the right word? It was like a milestone, or a watershed - what am I looking for here…” Tim Schafer, renowned developer and President and CEO of Double Fine Productions, takes a second to think: how exactly did Super Mario 64 impact him when he first played it? “It was like an epiphany, that’s what I would say: Mario 64 was an epiphany.” On June 23rd 1996, twenty-five years ago, Super Mario 64 was released in Japan as a launch title for Nintendo’s N64 console....
How do you get Lost Ark Twitch Drops? You need to link your Twitch and Steam account first, by signing in using the Twitch account you used, or will use, to claim the drop. You can do that on the Lost Ark website before or after completing the tasks. Sign in to Twitch, and set your status to online. The next step is the most arduous if you want all four tiers of the active drops....
A cursory glance at 2020’s release schedule reveals that we’re in for a tremendously sequel heavy year. The triple-A games that are already announced — like The Last of Us Part 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Dying Light 2, Halo Infinite and Doom Eternal — are just The Tip of the Iceberg 2: Electric Boogaloo. We’re also in for some high profile indie sequels, like Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Spelunky 2, and a raft of follow-ups that will likely arrive in 2020 — Horizon Zero Dawn 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 5, and Assassin’s Creed Vikings to name a few — but haven’t been officially announced yet....
