Project Cars 3 really stretches the definition of a sequel. It bears no resemblance to previous Project Cars games, tossing aside the franchise’s traditional tough-as-nails racing for a more approachable formula that a wider range of players can enjoy. The result is a racing game that leans heavily into territory that should be familiar to Forza players, meaning you can enjoy its racing without extensive knowledge of the inner workings of each car you drive. But it’s also a racing game that struggles to bring together all of its new elements cohesively.
Core to Project Cars 3’s transformation is its overhauled handling system. You’ll have more than enough downforce in the front to bend around each corner with the right amount of car, only briefly having to coun…
Read moreDuring my college years, I went on a few ghost hunts. I trekked through dark rooms in middle-end hotels and strangers’ houses, guided by the small green light of an electromagnetic field detector. Oxenfree reminds me of those nights in dark, weird places. I was a dumb teenager, driven by curiosity and a confidence in my immortality. And while the most dangerous thing I ever encountered was asbestos, it illustrated for me why we seek the unknown, even when aware of the danger. The exhilaration of going against something, anything different from mundane life, is why we become thrill-seekers.
That is the plot of Oxenfree: someone bored and restless teases the unknown, and after poking it too much, enters a downward spiral where everything goes to hell. It begins w…
Read moreEwan McGregor has climbed aboard Everest alongside Mark Strong and Sam Heughan, a thriller from Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman based on the fictional account of George Mallory’s life in the novel Paths of Glory, Deadline reports. Come from Sports betting site VPbet
Everest will star McGregor (Trainspotting, Star Wars) as real-life climber George Mallory. In 1921, Mallory and a crew of climbers and sherpas made the first attempt at conquering Mt. Everest. Mark Strong (Shazam!) will play Arthur Hinks, who selects Mallory to lead the climb, while Heughan (Outlander) will play the part of Mallory’s rival, Australian climber George Finch. Filming will reportedly begin in January in the UK and Italy.
Mallory led thre…
Read morePayday 3 has had a rough launch, with its online-only gameplay coming under fire when the game’s servers went offline multiple times in its first week of release. Developer Starbreeze said it might add an offline mode further down the track, and this week the first iteration of that mode is coming to the game–though it will still require an internet connection for now.
The new Solo Mode (via VG247) is launching in beta in Payday 3’s next major patch, which arrives on June 27. While players will be able to play most of it offline, they will still need an internet connection to load into Solo Mode, and to upload their progress at the end of a session. In a dev update video, Starbreeze head of community Almir Listo also warned that players will see a drop in performance “since the p…
Read moreLeoVegas Group’s new slot studio Blue Guru Games, which was launched in May 2021 through the Swedish gaming company’s investment arm LeoVentures, has debuted The Nemean Lion, the first of four titles currently in its games portfolio. The Bragg Gaming Group-powered slot has already gone live with a number of major operators via the Oryx Gaming Blue Horn casino content delivery program.
The Malta-headquartered studio’s portfolio will reportedly be expanding further in the coming months, and as mentioned has three other new titles, including Octopus Armada and Curse of the Mummies, set to be released on May 24th and June 14th, respectively, while a fourth title, Clash of the Seraphim, is coming soon.
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Read moreIn the United States and a federal judge has reportedly tossed out a civil lawsuit that had sought to force the former boss for prominent casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited, Steve Wynn, to register as a foreign agent.
According to a Wednesday report from the financial news domain at BusinessInsider.com, Judge James Boasberg from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the action brought by the United States Department of Justice on grounds that officials lacked powers that would have compelled the 80-year-old to disclose his alleged stint as a foreign agent of China.
Close connections:
Wynn reportedly helped to establish the Las Vegas-headquartered casino firm that still bears his name some 20 years ago but was forc…
Read moreA big change is coming to the Aldi stores in the United Kingdom. All 900 shops will offer The National Lottery beginning in April. The supermarket chain announced a deal with Camelot to provide tickets to players in all its stores in the country.
Full Gaming Options
Starting in April, Aldi’s locations in the UK will feature the full selection of draw-based games provided by the National Lottery. Customers will be able to shop for groceries and pickup games at the checkout. The process will be simple and streamlined, only adding to the grocery shopping experience.
Games available at the checkouts will include Lotto, Lotto HotPicks, EuroMillions, and EuroMillions HotPicks. Thunderball games and Set For Life are also included. The launch in the UK comes just a short tim…
Read moreThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Ultrahand ability is one of its most enjoyable mechanics, so it stands to reason plenty of the game’s shrines will demand you to master it. Such is the case with Gasas Shrine southwest of Hyrule Ridge, which asks you to connect a lot of items together to make your way through. We’ll tell you how to solve the puzzles within here.
How to solve the Gasas Shrine Puzzle in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
In the first room of the Gasas Shrine, shoot the rope holding up a cube so that you can jump on it and cross the gap. Next, pick up that same cube with your Ultrahand and attach it to the other one on the other side of the room in such a way that allows you to climb up onto the next platform.
At the top, comb…
Read morePerhaps the very first Shrine you’ll come across in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (after you leave Great Sky Island) is the Jiosin Shrine, known by its feature name, “Shape Rotation.” The Shrine puzzles will get much tougher than this one, but there’s no shame in needing a helping hand early on. Here’s how to complete this Shrine and earn what may be your first Light of Blessing on solid ground.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Jiosin Shrine puzzle guide
Like the feature description suggests, the Jiosin Shrine is all about rotating shapes. In fact, if you’re familiar with the baby toy that allows toddlers to fit shapes into a box, this shrine is basically that. You’ll be using a lot of Ultrahand here and, as a slight shortcut, a bit of Ascend, to…
Read moreIn a renewed effort to bring casino gambling to Texas, advocates face significant obstacles despite recent momentum in legislative discussions.
Adelson Family Drives Efforts for Casino Legalization in Major Texan Cities
The Las Vegas Sands Corporation, spearheading the campaign for legalized casino gaming, aims to introduce destination-style resort casinos in major Texan cities such as Dallas and San Antonio. Bolstered by their recent acquisition of a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks, the Adelson Family, owners of Las Vegas Sands, are pouring resources into lob…
Read moreMicrogaming has kicked off 2022 with a bang after its world-renowned Mega Moolah online progressive jackpot, which is the largest in the industry, produced its first multi-millionaire of the new year, paying out a humongous €7,296,286.88 prize.
The winner was playing the classic Mega Moolah online slot on February 6, 2022, when they hit the top jackpot, becoming the 70th instant Euro millionaire of the progressive jackpot. The individual will receive their massive, seven-figure prize in one lump sum.
Microgaming designed the original African-themed Mega Moolah in 2006, launching the four-tiered progressive jackpot slot in November that year, with a €1 million top starting seed. Now an industry icon, it has paid out over 18.4 …
Read moreWarning: This post contains spoilers for the Netflix series Baby Reindeer.
In his one-man play-turned-hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, Scottish comedian Richard Gadd recounts the harrowing true story of how his experience with being stalked forced him to confront a buried trauma.
Playing a fictionalized version of himself named Donny Dunn, Gadd unpacks the years-long stalking and harassment campaign he endured at the hands of a middle-aged woman he refers to by the pseudonym Martha (played with a chilling intensity by Jessica Gunning) while struggling to make it as a stand-up and writer in London. As is depicted in the show, the stalking began in the wake of Gadd being groomed, repeatedly sexually assaulted, and raped by…
Read moreIt’s been a year of mid-range GPU releases, with both Nvidia and AMD coming out swinging in the battle for the middle of the market. The mid-range cards from both these manufacturers are still fairly new, but we’ve found both the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB and RX 7700 XT at relatively substantial discounts, which makes it tempting for those of you looking for an inexpensive upgrade, or a new system build, to make the leap.
The question is, however, which to pick? Let’s break down what we’ve got here, and see if we can make a decision.
First up, let’s take a look at the MSI Ventus RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, currently available for just under $360 with a promotional code and $20 rebate. For a start, it’s a very healthy discount on such a new GPU, and while there was some furore over the 8GB varian…
Read moreI’m just now getting to know Minthara in Baldur’s Gate 3—both on my evil necromancer playthrough and my Honour Mode run, where I intend to pick her up from Moonrise Towers after risking my neck to knock her out.
Still, I’ve cast off the shackles of spoilers after completing my first playthrough—gleefully getting my mitts on whatever details I can about my future drow bestie—which makes this a good point to mention that there’ll be spoilers for Minthara’s full plot line below.
In a recent interview with IGN, Larian CEO Swen Vincke and co-lead writer Adam Smith discussed her character arc and the nature of evil, and they come to a conclusion I find genuinely fascinating: Minthara may grow to adore her compatriots, but she’s still evil with …
Read moreหลังจากมีการแง้มๆ กันมาตั้งแต่ในงาน Tokyo Game Show 2023 เมื่อปีที่ผ่านมา ในวันนี้ Ratalaika Games ก็ได้ยืนยันอย่างเป็นทางการเรียบร้อยแล้วว่าผลงานเกมรถแข่งยุคคลาสสิกจากเครื่องเล่น Super Famicom จะได้รับการวางจำหน่ายอย่างเป็นทางการทั้งบน PlayStation 5, Xbos Series X|S และ Nintendo Switch ในวันที่ 6 มิถุนายนนี้ ถือเป็นครั้งแรกในรอบส�…
Read moreหลายคนคงได้มีโอกาสเห็นภาพตัวอย่างของ Until Dawn ในเวอร์ชันรีมาสเตอร์กันเป็นที่เรียบร้อยแล้ว ซึ่งเราจะพบว่ามีความเปลี่ยนแปลงในด้านกราฟิกที่ดีขึ้นอย่างเห็นได้ชัดด้วยการพัฒนาใหม่โดย Unreal Engine 5 อันทรงพลังราวกับเป็นการรีเมค แต่กระนั้นสิ่งที่หลายคนสังเกตว่าผิดปกติไปก็คือเกมกลับไม�…
Read moreWhen Mossmouth announced the price for UFO 50 it came as a pleasant surprise. The game famously contains 50 games—hence the name—so it’s reasonable to expect a higher price than average for a new release indie game, especially one that’s been in development for eight years. But no: it’s priced at $25.
I noticed a lot of people in forums and on social media were pleased and surprised about this, so I figured I’d ask the team during a recent interview what the thinking behind the price was. There had clearly been a lot of thinking behind it, ranging from the potential difficulty of selling it for more, through to the team’s desire to surprise the player with unexpected depth—in the same way Hollow Knight perhaps did back in 2017, or Elden Ring in 2022.
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Read moreThe Epic Games Store’s annual Mega Sale is now underway, with discounts of up to 85% on a variety of games and a free copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition Game of the Year Edition to get things rolling.
This is the first time Dragon Age: Inquisition has gone free on the Epic Store. Along with the base game, the GOTY Edition comes with a whack of DLC, including:
- Flames of the Inquisition Arsenal, Armor, and Armored Mount
- Dragon Age multiplayer Deluxe Edition chests
- Skyhold Throne, Red Hart Halla and Bog Unicorn
- Jaws of Hakkon DLC Pack
- The Descent DLC Pack
- Trespasser DLC Pack
- Spoils of the Avvar: 5 new mounts, 2 new sets of armor, and new options to personalize your base a…
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With Bethesda finishing up Starfield for a September 2023 release, and with The Elder Scrolls 6 still waiting in the wings, it’s safe to say we won’t see Fallout 5 for another… eight years? 10 years? Maybe more?
That’s what makes Fallout: London such an exciting prospect for impatient Fallout fans. The full-conversion Fallout 4 mod will take players out of the United States and across the Atlantic to merry old England, where they’ll experience weaponized elephants, murderous mailboxes, and radshrew-filled tube stations.
(Unfortunately, plans for ghoulified royals King Charles and Queen Elizabeth in the mod were scrapped.)
The Fallout: London mod is due out sometime this year, but you don’t have to wait any longer to get a taste. The mo…
Read moreGosh, but isn’t Limited Run Games on a tear? The company’s announced a remaster of your favourite PS1 demo and a spiritual successor to a series of Zelda games that was probably better off dead, but that’s just not enough. Alongside all that, we’re also getting a remaster of, wait, hang on, let me make sure I have this right, Gex? Yes, it says here the studio’s remastering Gex. Do you ever get the feeling the world’s left you behind?
LRG is set to remaster the entire Gex oeuvre, consisting of 1995’s Gex, 1998’s Gex: Enter the Gecko, and 1999’s Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko. All three are probably most well-known as PS1 games—though they came out elsewhere too—and starred a wisecracking lizard-slash-spy as he platformed his way to victory. The first game was a 2D aff…
Read moreHuman beings are so freaking weird, in the best possible way—particularly when it comes to games like Old School Runescape. We’re capable of finding tasks that seem both impossible and pointless, then seeing them through because, as monkfish maniac AvengedKalas says, “it wasn’t a matter of if but a matter of when.”
Done with the hard part of my goal. Cooking starts now. from r/2007scape
As spotted by GamesRadar, AvengedKalas has collected 1 million monkfish, a task they began at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic circa 2020. They estimate this took somewhere between 2,500 and 4,500 hours—which is proof that time has absolutely zero bearing on their behaviour, considering the discrepancy. 2,000 hours is a mere drop in the o…
Read moreActor Elias Toufexis has been busy in recent years, showing up as space spy Kenzo in The Expanse, delightful rubber forehead alien L’ak in Star Trek: Discovery, and The Penguin in Gotham Knights, among other roles. According to the actor though, he hasn’t heard anything about reprising the role most gamers know him for: Deus Ex prequel series protagonist Adam Jensen.
“Yeah, as happy as I am to be busy, I wish I was even more busy on a new Deus Ex” Toufexis wrote on Twitter. “I am not under any NDA for Deus Ex because no one has called me about it. Truly.”
As PC Gamer news lead Andy Chalk put it, “This one hurts.” Like Jay Anthony Franke as JC Denton in the original game, Toufexis did an amazing job squeezing warmth and humor out of a be-trench coated, sunglasses at night-wea…
Read moreImages of alleged upcoming Corsair PSUs have me scratching my head today. All the parts of a conventional PSU are present on the new ‘Shift’ lineup—fan, connectors, power switch—but they’re all topsy-turvy.
The bulk of the connectors on a regular PSU are located on the opposite facing side to the power switch and external power connector. However, on the so-called Shift models, they’re instead on the side. From the information we have on these unreleased PSUs, this repositioning is intended to make these connections easier to access.
The pictures of the PSU were posted by leaker momomo_us on Twitter, so not yet confirmed by Corsair. They look legitimate enough, but we’ll have to wait on official confirmation to be sure. Three capacities are noted with SKUs: 1200W…
Read morePresident Biden has signed a preliminary deal with TSMC, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, to hand the Taiwanese company billions of dollars of CHIPS funding. In return, TSMC will commit to building high-performance computer chips on US soil, including a brand new third fab facility expected to use the latest lithographic technologies for the most performant processors.
“TSMC’s renewed commitment to the United States, and its investment in Arizona represent a broader story for semiconductor manufacturing that’s made in America and with the strong support of America’s leading technology firms to build the products we rely on every day,” President Biden says.
“… semiconductor manufacturing and jobs are making a comeback.”
TSMC is largely based in…
Read moreThe Silksong community is, as you’d imagine, a little fraught right now—without a peep of news from the Summer Game Fest or Nintendo Direct, nor a public statement from increasingly enigmatic developer Team Cherry, it has an appetite for information I can only describe as starved, a result of 700 plus days of silence.
Things have continued to spiral after some offhand comments from a former playtester who goes by the name of Your Mate Graig on the Hollow Knight Discord (thanks, GamesRadar). While he claims to have been the lead tester for Silksong (a statement that has gone unchallenged by Team Cherry for months), he left the studio to work on his own game, Roc’s Odyssey, some time ago.
Graig stated Tuesday, June 18 that he “literally know[s] they are not in dev hell”&…
Read moreDiablo 4 characters who started on the Eternal Realm when it launched aren’t supposed to be able to travel to the new, Seasonal Realm. But a newly discovered glitch that involves unplugging your internet has shattered the barrier between the two.
Seasonal characters in Diablo 4 carry over some of your progress from your Eternal Realm characters, but start at level 1 with no items or gold. Seasons are meant to be an opportunity to basically restart the trek to level 100 with the aid of a unique mechanic—in this case, it’s the powerful Malignant Heart gems.
Apparently, the two realms aren’t as separated—at least on a technical level—as Blizzard made it seem. Players have figured out that if you group up with a friend on the Seasonal Realm and then briefly dis…
Read moreThe relaunch of Red Dead Online as a standalone title in late 2020 was something of a false dawn for its ever-optimistic community. Rockstar maintains the title but has been in a cycle for several years of repeating content, and it could fairly be said that this playerbase has been surviving on rations ever since 2020. This led to one of the best in-game protests I’ve ever seen, where a ton of RDO players gathered together in summer 2020 dressed up as clowns to protest the lack of substantial updates.
Well, dust off those red noses and fetch the greasepaint: Rockstar has announced RDO will be receiving Halloween-themed content for the holiday period, called Halloween Pass 2, which was originally released for Halloween in 2021, and then repeated in 2022. It’s fairly t…
Read moreBack when it was first revealed, the hope was that Cyberpunk 2077 would revolutionize the genre, and maybe even gaming as a whole. That’s not quite what happened, in part because the launch had more bugs than Starship Troopers. Performance issues, cars running into stuff, getting softlocked in the tutorial, weird children. It was a mess.
Thankfully, the redemption arc for Cyberpunk is real. With multitudes of bug fixes, content updates, and the transformative patch 1.6 behind us, as well as the massive success of the Cyberpunk anime, it seems as though things are finally getting in order for the game. So it’s with a certain amount of tentative excitement I look toward CD Projekt’s only planned DLC, Phantom Liberty.
We haven’t heard much since a pretty sick trailer at the Gam…
Read moreBlizzard is leveraging pure nostalgia with WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria, a limited-time opportunity to rewind time and play through a modernized version of the 2011 expansion. When it goes live on May 16, you’ll be able to quickly level up a character who will transfer over to the regular servers when it’s over, presumably as a fun way to prepare for The War Within expansion later this year.
WoW expansions are already playable as you level up in WoW, but WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria will take place on separate servers and feature faster leveling, new items, and rewards to take back to the regular MMO. Think of it like an accelerated tour through one of WoW’s best expansions, an alternative to the normal leveling experience.
Anyone can play up to level 20 without a WoW subscr…
Read moreIf the recent rash of survival games failing to make good on their ambitious promises has left you disillusioned, then I’ve good news: Road to Vostok is getting a substantial demo in fall 2023. You’ll be able to see for yourself exactly how the genre’s hardcore entry is coming along.
In Road to Vostok, you travel toward the titular region, crossing borders into areas populated with hostile NPCs. The more dangerous the location, the more valuable the loot you’ll find. Make it across the next border crossing, and you can trade your haul with shopkeepers for better gear or medical treatment.
The super realistic survival game involves an impressively deep weapon behavior modeling layer that simulates recoil, arm stamina, breath control, low and high ready positions, …
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Telling an authentic story is at the heart of Venba, which focuses on the mother of a family of Indian immigrants to Canada in the ’80s. With a new trailer at the Wholesome Games Showcase, the team at Visai Games dropped the release date for its debut narrative: July 31.
Told looking through the lens of the meals her family makes together, Venba promises that you’ll cook “authentic food from regional South Indian cuisine” and from the lovely stylized art, the recipes already look ready to eat. Venba’s cookbook was damaged in the move to Canada, so you’ll have to puzzle out the mangled recipes and missing ingredients to answer the eternal question: “What’s for dinner?” Every part of Venba looks like a heartfelt love letter to south Indi…
Read moreDragon’s Dogma is arisen.
The cult favorite action RPG got a formal sequel announcement last June, and at last we’ve seen it. Capcom brought a substantial trailer to Wednesday’s PlayStation Showcase, and my first reaction to Dragon’s Dogma 2 is—yep, that sure is Dragon’s Dogma 2.
The art style, the color palette, even the tone of the dialogue (and frequent mentions of “the Arisen”) feel like an extension of the first game. I also spotted a few familiar enemies, like a hulking cyclops, a griffon, and, of course, a dragon. It’s a comfy way to introduce the sequel.
The level of detail, particularly in the animations, makes it obvious this game is coming along a decade later, though.
The Dragon’s Dogma 2 trailer doesn’t include even a hint of a release da…
Read moreBoy, that sure didn’t take long. Blizzard announced today that Diablo 4, the latest iteration of its demon-clobbering action-RPG, will be coming to Steam on October 17, and is available for wishlisting now.
Diablo 4 on Steam will support cross-platform play with other versions of the game—Battle.net, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5—and will offer unique Steam-specific features including Steam achievements and integration with the Steam friends list. It will also be playable on the Steam Deck.
The launch of Diablo 4 on Steam will coincide with the start of the Season of Blood, the game’s second season and Blizzard’s hoped-for bounceback from the mess of season one. The Season of the Malignant, as it’s known, did not go over well with fa…
Read moreSolve today’s Wordle your way with our extensive range of helpful hints and daily clues, or improve your game in general with our guides and archives. Don’t worry if you’re one guess away from Wordle oblivion and just need the answer in a hurry—the answer to the February 6 (597) puzzle is just below.
Well, that was different. It turns out I had the right letters in the right order… the only problem was they were in exactly the wrong place. I should’ve taken a step back and really thought about the options I had, but I chose to waste a few guesses blundering about instead.
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A Wordle hint for Monday, February 6
The answer to today’s Wordle is nice and simple, so try not to overthink it. If you finished a race behind eighth p…
Read moreLooking for some weekend Wordle help? There’s a hint for today’s puzzle waiting just below, ready to offer a clear path through the grey letter fog. Need something a little more direct on the weekend? You’ve got it. The answer to the December 23 (917) Wordle is only a quick click away.
A win in three quick guesses on a Saturday morning? I love it. Just a nice case of almost being right, almost being right in a slightly more accurate way, and then sitting back as today’s Wordle answer revealed itself. What more could I ask for? Other than for tomorrow’s puzzle to turn up a little earlier than usual so I can play again, that is.
Today’s Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, December 23
Today’s answer refers to a sort of slant, angle, or gr…
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