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- Coo with me at the fanciness of this in-development voxel engine
- This prebuilt RTX 3060 PC costs less than the sum of its parts
- Lost Ruins has combat, platforming, fancy particle effects, and a terrible idle animation
- Total War: Warhammer 3 brings tower defence and lakes of sick to Total War
- Before We Leave, a chill citybuilder with space whales, is out now
- Fall Guys Season 4.5 is out, with 1v1 battles, a new arena, and crossplay
- Get Assassin's Creed Valhalla for 25% off in Ubi's big sale
- Look, we all already know if we're getting the Mass Effect Legendary Edition
- EWS podcast episode 139: the best giants special
- This 15 minutes of Days Gone footage told me all I needed to know
- Paradox apologise for releasing the worst reviewed game on Steam
- Subnautica: Below Zero review
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition's PC settings are missing all but the most basic options
- Sega want all future Atlus games to launch at the same time around the world
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla's first DLC expansion, Wrath of the Druids, is out now
- Have You Played… Stronghold: Crusader Extreme?
| Coo with me at the fanciness of this in-development voxel engine Posted: 13 May 2021 03:25 PM PDT  I understood polygons. You knit a bunch of triangles together, they make shapes, right. Now everytime I open Twitter there's someone posting an intricately detailed 3D model and writing "actually, this is just a sphere" above it, or posting a fully animated 3D character and saying, "this is really just a shader." But today's graphics marvel is the voxel. I previously thought of them as betamax to polygon's VHS, but voxels have had a resurgence of late via various indie games. And I've never seen anything voxelly as intricately detailed as an in-development engine by a programmer called John Lin. Watch a video of it below.  |
| This prebuilt RTX 3060 PC costs less than the sum of its parts Posted: 13 May 2021 02:43 PM PDT  Last week we posted about a rather excellent gaming PC deal, which bundled up an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card and AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processor into a computer box with surprisingly solid components throughout, all for less than one thousand of your Earth pounds. Today, that deal makes a return of sorts, as UK system builders AWD-IT have a very similar prebuilt gaming PC, once again for a little less than £1000.  |
| Lost Ruins has combat, platforming, fancy particle effects, and a terrible idle animation Posted: 13 May 2021 02:22 PM PDT  Lost Ruins is a 2D sidescrolling action platformer in which you can mix-and-match abilities while fighting monsters, but I'd hesitate to put it in a box alongside Dead Cells. The rhythm of its combat, the weight of its movement, and its anime grimness places it alongside other games like Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight and maybe the more recent Skul: The Hero Slayer. It's out now and there's a trailer below.  |
| Total War: Warhammer 3 brings tower defence and lakes of sick to Total War Posted: 13 May 2021 01:39 PM PDT  Tower defence and Total War are not, you might think, two tastes that go particularly well together. You’d be surprised. Last month, I got to play one of the set piece battles from Total War: Warhammer 3, which saw an army of furious fantasy Slavs, battling to fortify a toehold in their invasion of hell. There were barricades built, hoards of devil dogs wiped out by AI-controlled, magic-spaffing turrets, a gigantic polar bear made out of moss and dirt. You know, normal, reasonable things. And it was bloody wonderful.  |
| Before We Leave, a chill citybuilder with space whales, is out now Posted: 13 May 2021 01:17 PM PDT  Before We Leave is a citybuilder in which you form settlements on a planet and then blast off to find new homes across a solar system. It looks extremely chill, it has space whales, and it just launched after a spell in early access.  |
| Fall Guys Season 4.5 is out, with 1v1 battles, a new arena, and crossplay Posted: 13 May 2021 12:00 PM PDT |
| Get Assassin's Creed Valhalla for 25% off in Ubi's big sale Posted: 13 May 2021 11:24 AM PDT  Assassin's Creed Valhalla's first major piece of DLC has been released, the Ireland-themed Wrath of the Druids, and now Ubisoft are discounting a whole bunch of Assassin's Creed content to celebrate over at the Ubisoft Store. As well as offering the AC Valhalla DLC Season Pass at 25% off - the first time it's been discounted - you can find significant savings on almost every entry in the long-running sneaky-stabbing franchise.  |
| Look, we all already know if we're getting the Mass Effect Legendary Edition Posted: 13 May 2021 08:57 AM PDT  I love Mass Effect. I am the BioWare liker. Give me an RPG with a weird setting and some non-humans to be friends with and possibly smooch, and I'll have a hell of a time. When people ask "what is your favourite game?" (which used to genuinely be on the interview set questions for Gamestation when I worked there) I usually say "Mass Effect 2, but with the context of having first played Mass Effect." As such, I am the consumer who is targeted by the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. All three spaceventure ME games in one remastered package? Sign me up! So far I've only played a bit of the first game, in its spiffy new 2021 get up, and all I can say is "Hooboy, this sure is some Mass Effect!". That's good, because Mass Effect is good. And it's the only thing that really needs to be said, because it doesn't really matter what any of the reviews say: you already know if you're getting it or not.  |
| EWS podcast episode 139: the best giants special Posted: 13 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT  The EWS podcast was on hiatus last week, because I was in a cottage where milk gets delivered in old-school glass bottles and then isn't drunk but left in the fridge unopened so it curdles but still looks new and then my cup of tea is ruined. But now I've returned to the land of wired internet, so too the Electronic Wireless Show returns with the best giants in games special. We, once again, stay admirably on topic, talking about cool giants in games (because that was timely a week ago, just after Resident Evil Village came out. Matthew has done a really super Cavern of Lies, though. Like, proper great. Also, we have an update on Nate's fish, and Matthew has gotten into reading reviews of the fizzy drink Rio.  |
| This 15 minutes of Days Gone footage told me all I needed to know Posted: 13 May 2021 07:56 AM PDT  For a while, it seemed like all Sony was interested in making were games about bearded men trying to survive the end of the world. Days Gone is very much one of those games. You are a man, with a beard, and society has collapsed. There are zombies and lots of broken things to break and make into other things. The proof is in the footage below.  |
| Paradox apologise for releasing the worst reviewed game on Steam Posted: 13 May 2021 06:52 AM PDT  Paradox Tinto’s studio manager and game director Johan Andersson has apologised for the state of Europa Universalis IV’s Leviathan DLC. The buggy release was so bad that it swiftly became Steam’s worst reviewed game, and remains 'Overwhelmingly Negative' on the store. Andersson posted on the game’s forums taking full responsibility. "This is entirely my fault," he said.  |
| Posted: 13 May 2021 05:39 AM PDT  Well, spit in my goggles and give me the bends, they've done it again. The first Subnautica remains one of the best survival games you can shake a stick at. It stranded you on a planet whose surface was an endless vista of tranquil water and peaceful moons. In Subnautica: Below Zero breaching the surface is more likely to see you taking gulps of air in a hideous blizzard. There are hailstones, sharp winds, thick whiteouts. In the first game you learned to suppress your desire to live close to an inviting surface. In this wintry follow-up, the surface hates you and the water is your refuge right from the start.  |
| Mass Effect Legendary Edition's PC settings are missing all but the most basic options Posted: 13 May 2021 05:07 AM PDT  Bioware have taken great pains to show off all the swanky new visual enhancements coming to their remastered Mass Effect Legendary Edition tomorrow, including support for 4K resolutions, ultrawide monitors, revamped lighting, sharper textures and loads more. The difference is plain to see in screenshots and their before and after comparison video, but in terms of being able to fiddle around with those settings yourself in the game's PC settings menu... well, what's the equivalent of an intergalactic tumbleweed?  |
| Sega want all future Atlus games to launch at the same time around the world Posted: 13 May 2021 04:31 AM PDT  Yakuza: Like A Dragon was the first Yakuza game to be a multi-platform release in the west at the same time as it launched in Japan, which publisher Sega reckons is the main reason it's the most successful Yakuza game to date. Thanks to that success, Sega's chief strategy officer Shuji Utsumi says that going forward, they want Persona developers Atlus to release their games at the same time around the world, and on multiple platforms, too.  |
| Assassin’s Creed Valhalla's first DLC expansion, Wrath of the Druids, is out now Posted: 13 May 2021 04:24 AM PDT  The first major Assassin’s Creed Valhalla expansion, Wrath of the Druids, is finally out. It’ll let you roam from the England to Ireland, where your long lost cousin Barid is now King of Dublin. He needs your help to unite four regions under his banner. The expansion adds a lusher, hillier land for you to explore, with a new trade system to exploit and a bunch of new villains to battle.  |
| Have You Played… Stronghold: Crusader Extreme? Posted: 12 May 2021 11:30 PM PDT  What with Stronghold: Warlords coming out the other week, I’ve been revisiting a few of the Stronghold games in my collection, and… crikey. Over the two decades and nine-ish games of the series, Stronghold has been on a right old rollercoaster, quality-wise. It truly is the Sonic The Hedgehog of RTS/city builder hybrids, eh? For a lot of people, Stronghold: Crusader Extreme was the nadir of the franchise. But other than the fact that “Crusader Extreme” sounds uncomfortably like some kind of fash energy drink, I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for it.  |
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