places player freedom above nearly everything else, and this freedom most certainly extends to romance opportunities for your protagonist, V. From long-term relationships to one-night stands, our Cyberpunk 2077 romance guide will walk you through how romance works in CD Projekt Red’s enormously ambitious RPG, and which characters can be romanced.
From the fantasy RPG series which brought you such striking protagonist names as Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, and Noctis Lucis Caelum comes a new hero: Clive Rosfield. Yep, the star of Final Fantasy XVI is named Clive. Clive! A classic dad name. “Unexpected events set Clive on a dark and dangerous road to revenge,” Square Enix say. Perhaps someone at the IT consultancy firm where he’s middle management ate his yogurt, or the next-door neighbour parked their car two inches onto his driveway. Clive!!
Fine free-to-play action-RPG Path Of Exile had been due to launch its latest expansion on December 11th, but then CD Projekt Red delayed Cyberpunk 2077’s launch by three weeks to December 10th. Recognising that yeah, lots of folks are going to be playing Cyberpunk instead, Exile devs Grinding Gear Games have delayed the 3.13 expansion into January. Sage.
Supergiant’s rougelike smash hit Hades has taken the world by storm since coming out of early access in September. Unlike a lot of games, fans seem to be in total agreement on all of the game’s main talking points. For example, we all agree that Meg is hot. We also all agree that Zagreus is hot. That Eurydice is hot. That pretty much everyone is hot. Most also agree that, hot or not, Theseus is the worst.
They are all wrong: Theseus is actually the best.
is a dungeon crawling game about people rummaging through crumbling old space wreckage for loot, and getting into fights resolved by playing cards in a JRPG-style fight between two sets of gits. There’s a sort-of-deck-building mechanic where your set of cards is determined by what gear you have, and people either tend to really like that, or really not like it. Mostly though, people like to argue about whether it’s anything like Darkest Dungeon or not, despite having a similarly Mike Mignola-esque art style.
I got it when it launched in 2018, and I liked it for precisely 10 hours of play – I thought the visuals and the music were superb, but it felt a little empty on day one for my liking. Nevertheless, after two years of regular updates, I have returned to it, and it’s lovely. It might only be 10 hours’ worth of lovely this time, too, before the core appeal fades, but then it will have been 20 hours, which is almost a full day, innit.
has a whole load of upgrades to your hacking arsenal. From explosive traps to passive perks, you can get a bunch of gear to help you with infiltration, combat, or general survival. Here’s the best tech upgrades in Watch Dogs: Legion, and the ones you should prioritise for upgrades.
’s multiplayer is going to let players explore London’s techno-metropolis surrounded by friends and enemies from around the world. It’s coming soon, and here’s what to expect from Watch Dogs: Legion’s online mode.
offers premium currencies and DLC, as well as bonus characters to unlock. There’s also all kinds of cosmetics and boosters to help you in the story. Here’s a rundown of all the DLC in Watch Dogs: Legion.
Watch Dogs: Legion lets you ‘play as anyone’, and this is pretty much universally true. Everyone on the street is a potential member of DedSec, and it’s up to you to pick and choose your group of vigilantes based on their skills and abilities. Here’s how to recruit new operatives into your squad in Watch Dogs: Legion.
Aiden Pearce, protagonist of the original Watch Dogs game, is available to play as in Watch Dogs: Legion. The notably charismatic and fun guy can only be obtained by spending your cash though – here’s how to get Aiden Pearce in Watch Dogs: Legion.
In Watch Dogs: Legion, I’ve run into a bug while parkouring around London where my character will turn around on the spot but fail to move. There’s a couple ways to deal with this, so here’s how to fix the bug where your character can’t move in Watch Dogs: Legion.
Tech Points are Watch Dogs: Legion’s way of giving you an upgrade path to go down. They’re basically collectible experience points, shown by a turquoise diamond on your map. Here’s how to earn and find Tech Points in Watch Dogs: Legion.
includes numerous bangers from the UK music scene, from footy classics to Big Shaq. There’s even a Bring Me The Horizon song in there. They’ll play all over the city of London when you’re exploring – most notably on the radio in cars, but you’ll also hear them in shops and pubs all around the gaff. Here’s a list of the songs on Watch Dogs: Legion’s soundtrack.
Opting for something quite different from their boss-battler Furi, The Gamer Bakers are just about ready to take Haven out of the oven. The romantic adventure about a couple who’ve escaped to an unfamiliar planet isn’t without combat though. You can catch a bit of that, and some more hints about the story, in a new trailer that announced its December 3rd release date.
Boarding and ripping open space ships as a contract shipbreaker was tough enough already. Hardspace: Shipbreaker has made its salvage simulation even more difficult with the new Haunted Frontier update that adds unmanned ghost ships to the game. if you’re successful, congrats, Hardspace is getting stickers as rewards that you can slap on your tools. Good freelancer, don’t complain. The update is out now along with other improvements and bug fixes to the early access game.
We’ve already been introduced to Apex Legends‘ next character: a Scottish genius named Horizon with a very sad backstory. In today’s trailer, you can get a gander at the new map, some of Horizon’s abilities, and those floaty vehicles you’ll be able to drive around the cloud city. Catch all the booms and bants inside.
AMD’s Big Navi GPUs have finally been unveiled. Officially revealed during tonight’s RDNA 2 event, AMD’s Big Navi GPUs will be known officially as the Radeon RX 6000 series, and there will be three graphics cards in AMD’s initial Big Navi line-up. Launching worldwide on November 18th, prices for AMD’s next generation of graphics cards will begin at $579. Leading the pack is the RX 6800 XT, which looks to take on Nvidia’s [cms-block], while the regular RX 6800 will be bringing the fight to Nvidia’s [cms-block]. Then, on December 5th, the super-powered RX 6900 XT will arrive to tackle Nvidia’s [cms-block].
Here’s everything you need to know about AMD’s hotly anticipated Big Navi GPUs from tonight’s RDNA 2 event, including all of their respective prices, specs, performance figures and that all-important release date.
AMD showed off their first three [cms-block] GPUs earlier this evening, showing us how their brand-new RDNA 2 architecture will take their next-gen graphics card family to new heights in 4K gaming – and a big part of that is down to one of AMD’s intriguing new features: Smart Access Memory.
You’ll need one of AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 CPUs to take advantage of it, but when you combine them both together, AMD claim you’ll be able to squeeze up to 13% more performance out of your PC as a result, allowing you to get even more out of your system than you would with rival hardware. At first glance, it certainly makes a compelling case to go all-in on AMD hardware for your next PC upgrade, and it might just make those higher-than-expected Ryzen 5000 prices worth the extra bump over Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs. Here’s how it works.
Oculus are making Facebook accounts mandatory for their new VR headsets and ending support for Oculus accounts on January 1st, 2023. It’s a decision which Katharine rightly says sucks. Worse yet, because your Oculus headset and Facebook account will be inextricably tied, it turns out your Oculus purchases will be deleted if you ever choose to delete your Facebook account. It makes sense, in a bleak way, and definitely also sucks.
Ubisoft’s new VR game is sending you and your goggles out into space to ferry a bunch of humans fleeing Earth. It’s called AGOS: A Game Of Space, presumably because the acronym got nervous and felt the need to immediately explain itself. What’s the point if you were just going to—oh, never mind. All game names are too long anyway. AGOS has launched today, so you can zoom about in space searching for a new home to plant those humans on.
It’s time to put on your scariest pirating gear, because the Sea Of Thieves Halloween update is here. This year’s Fate Of The Damned event will send you on voyages to discover what happened to some missing Bilge Rat crews. Eerie shadow skeletons will be standing in your way on these adventures, however – it is the spooky season, after all.
Microsoft have been on a rampaging buying mid-size game studios in recent years, escalating to the point that they bought chuffing ZeniMax in September. But even buying the studios behind The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Dishonored, Fallout, and so on has not sated their desire for acquisition and expansion. In a recent interview, Xbox head Phil Spencer explained he thinks they still have a few holes in their lineup, a few types of games they’re not yet making internally. And with Xbox Game Pass being a big part of their plans, they really want to be able to do everything.
I love a good game with romanceable companions. I have not yet had the pleasure of playing Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 to flirt with it’s eligible characters, but thanks to yesterday’s update, I know exactly who you’re all falling for. Turns out 33% of players have romanced Gale, while 31% have taken more of a liking to Shadowheart.
Sure, Larian mentioned a load of the fixes in the latest patch, too, but I think we need to talk about your taste in fictional lovers.
PCIe 4.0 SSDs are set to become the de facto SSD standard going forward, and today Amazon US have slashed the price of several Sabrent Rocket drives to help make the transition to this new storage standard just a little bit easier on the old wallet – including a 1TB SSD that’s down by over $50 today, taking this normally $215 drive down to just $150. You’ll need to snap it up quickly, though, as these deals will end at midnight tonight.
The latest chunk of DLC for The Sims 4 is arriving on November 13th. Entitled Snowy Escape, it’s a wintery-themed one this time, so is very seasonal, and I got to play a bunch of a preview build. Snowy Escape adds a new world, Mt. Komorebi, with three neighbourhoods – one of which is the mountain itself where your Sims can ski and snowboard and climb to their hearts content (or at least until they really need a wee).
It also gives your Sims the capacity to nurture deep, bubbling hatred that they remember over time. I fear this spells doom for us all.
With a new generation of consoles boldly coming our week, No Man’s Sky is the latest game to announce a makeover update that’ll benefit us playing on PC too. While consoleers will see the most dramatic changes as they jump into new PlayShips and XRockets with oodles more oomph, on PC we should still see more detail in landscapes – particularly running it at Ultra settings. Consoleers will get Next Generation free when they jump system, and it’ll be a free update to the space-exploration game on PC too. Here, come look at all these fancier rocks:
not only provides players with the opportunity to explore one of the densest and most diverse futuristic cities seen in any game: with its diverse and exciting collection of cars and other vehicles, it also goes all out in providing you with the means to explore Night City. Our Cyberpunk 2077 cars and vehicles guide will walk you through the five different classes of car and the stats of every vehicle we’ve seen in the game, so you can learn exactly which ride is best for you.
Chris Metzen left Blizzard back in 2016, after a long career in roles such as creative director of World Of Warcraft and Overwatch, co-design lead on StarCraft and many more. He had been at the studio for 23 years, and so he announced his retirement, for it was time to rest.
It wasn’t a long rest, however, because Metzen got the itch to start creating cool fictional worlds once more. Now he’s joined up with another former Blizz dev, Mike Gilmartin, to make tabletop games at a new company, Warchief Gaming.
CD Projekt Red announced yesterday that, once again, they were delaying the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. The dystopian RPG’s new (and potentially even final) release date is December 10th. This was a surprise to us, who’ve seen CDPR repeatedly say no more delays. And reportedly, the people making the game found out about the new delay at the same time we all did. Might not be the nicest surprise when you’re having to work crunch hours.
Everyone just wants to be involved with cloud gaming at the moment, don’t they? Ubisoft have announced they’re rebranding their UPlay+ subscription service to Ubisoft+, and they’re whacking it on Amazon Luna on November 10th, then Google Stadia later in the year.
For PC folks the service isn’t changing much from what you might’ve been used to with UPlay+. It costs £13/$15, you’ll have access to a library of loads of Ubi games, and be able to play upcoming new stuff like Watch Dogs: Legion, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising.
Diane Ganguly is a totally ordinary Londoner; one of the nine million NPCs who put the “Legion” in Watch Dogs Legion, since they can all be recruited and made playable. She’s a talent agent in her early thirties, with a pet owl, an anti-immigration voting record, and a history of going to furry conventions. As I said, totally ordinary. Until now, that is.
takes place in Night City, a seven-million-strong metropolis with danger and opportunity in equal measure around every corner. CD Projekt Red have said that while Night City is smaller than the map of its previous RPG, The Witcher 3, it’s considerably denser, and there’s an enormous amount for players to explore and discover. In this Cyberpunk 2077 map guide we’ll walk you through everything we know about the layout of Night City and what you can expect to find inside.
AMD are revealing their “[cms-block]” RX 6000 GPUs today, and you can watch it live right here with us. Taking place at 12pm ET / 4pm GMT today, October 28th, AMD will be giving us our very first look at the new RDNA 2 gaming architecture powering their next-gen graphics cards, and we’ll also hopefully find out their respective prices, release dates and those all-important specs, too.
The first time my friend showed me a blue hedgehog whizzing across the screen from left-to-right, I knew I had to get a Mega Drive. It didn’t stop there, though: I had to read the comics, watch the cartoon, get the toys. Sonic The Hedgehog became a pivotal figure in my life as soon as I laid eyes on him.
And then he let me down.
Well, that didn’t stick. Earlier today, Valorant began rolling out version 1.11, adding animal-yeeting Aussie hero Skye and a frosty new Icebox map. But following a host of bizarre hiccups, it now looks like Riot have decided to slam the pause button, calling the update a “technical nightmare” and delaying the update’s proper arrival ’til later this week.
Honey I Shrunk The Kids ’em up Grounded has taken a step into the deep end. The next update for Obsidian’s teeny tiny survival sandbox opens up the Koi Pond, letting you dive into murky puddles while evading dangerous goldfish and submerged spiders. The pool will open for everyone next month – but if you’re feeling antsy, you can dive in right now via the public test server.
Look, it’s been a tough year. You’re stressed, you’re tired, you’ve got a whole lotta pent-up anger – so why not take it out on a few hundred fantasy ratmen? Riotous rodent-smasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is currently free to player over on Steam ’til November 1st, with the return of a limited-time anniversary mission sending our hopeless heroes on a pub crawl from hell.
The man who killed our pal Cayde-6 will return to Destiny 2 with Season Of The Hunt, Bungie revealed today. Well, the Guardian reanimated from the corpse of the man who killed Cayde will. It’s complicated. Spacemagic. With the Beyond Light expansion now two weeks away, Bungie today released a new video documentary gabbing about its development and laying out more of their plans for MMOFPS’s next year of content. Look, I’m setting myself up for ridicule after years of Destiny casually setting plot big threads aside to chase distractions but: it sounds like it’s all leading somewhere.
Dodge. Slide. Slash. Leap. Fall. Die. Repeat. After months of scampering around behind the scenes, acrobatic cyber-slasher Ghostrunner finally lept onto store shelves today. The proper good acrobatic murder ballet arrives with a 20% launch discount and a free demo – should you wish to warm up before making a full leap on One More Level’s bloody wallrunner.
Ah, the hum of your hover-engine beneath your feet. The pitter-patter of rain on the windshield. The light glow of the GPS as your dispatch screen lights up. Until now, I could only imagine the interior of one of Cloudpunk‘s blocky hover-cabs. That’s all changed with today’s Cockpit Update, which puts you right in the drivers seat for a night’s shift – briefly cutting fares by a third for passengers who’re hopping on for the first time.
