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Halo Infinite's battle passes will be permanent so you'll never miss out

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 03:01 PM PDT

With Halo Infinite's still non-specific "holiday 2021" release window creeping closer, 343 Industries are continuing to put out their big chat blogs on what to expect from the newest Halo adventure. This time they sat down to talk about their planned seasonal model and battle passes that so many online games come equipped with now. The big difference is that 343 say their battle pass reward tracks won't actually be limited time. You'll be able to play them forever, which sounds pretty stellar to me.

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GreedFall's story expansion and a Gold Edition are both launching this month

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:03 PM PDT

Colonial sword and sorcery RPG GreedFall announced plans for a story expansion last November and oh look, you can spot its sails on the horizon now. The De Vespe Conspiracy expansion will add a new area and new diplomatic tangles to the BioWare-alike action RPG. Spiders have just released some details on what else to expect from the expansion when it makes landfall alongside a Gold Edition that it comes bundled into. Both are pulling into port on June 30th.

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You can play one of Hitman's best levels, Sapienza, free until July 4th

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 12:08 PM PDT

Assassination sandbox Hitman 3 has gone and made another of its levels available free for a limited time. As it did with the Dubai level back in March, the free Starter Pack version of Hitman 3 is currently giving players access to one of the best levels from the first game in the trilogy. You can murder your way through multiple Sapienza missions from today through July 4th if you own the starter pack or the full Hitman 3 game.

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Konami have announced a PvP mystery game about an AI Sherlock Holmes

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 10:44 AM PDT

Konami have announced that they're cooking up a social deduction game with an extra helping of deductive reasoning. Their PvP mystery game Crimesight is a simulated battle bewteen AI Sherlock Holmes and Moriarity, played out by their pawns all snowed in together in a rather large cottage. This turn-based strategy game has you attempting to unmask Moriarity's chosen puppet without knowing who it is they're trying to kill. Konami have given some clues on how it plays down here in Crimesight's reveal trailer.

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Mystery Steam Reviews is entering 1.0 this week

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:51 AM PDT

It's very hard to praise or admonish a game that's in Steam Early Access. If you want to be one of the cool kids and jump in before anyone else, you can, but you have to remember that the devs are basically telling you that the game isn't quite ready yet. But we're not concerned with those video games that are still in the oven. We're here to feast on some 1.0 goodness.

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Borderlands 3 has launched its cross-platform multiplayer update

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:22 AM PDT

Borderlands 3 is celebrating summer with another free game update and a few other goodies. The big new get is cross-platform multiplayer for almost every platform that Borderlands 3 is on, meaning you can group up with most of your console pals. Gearbox have also brought back their seasonal Revenge Of The Cartels event and have gone and made all their other seasonal events available year round. Here are the details on all of those changes that have now launched in the latest game update.

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Failbetter Games on how to not make a DLC

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:00 AM PDT

A couple of years ago, in 2019, Failbetter Games were thinking about a new DLC for their historical-gothic, RPG-with-a-flying-steam-train Sunless Skies. They were starting pre-production on their next game, but wouldn't need a full team's worth of resources on it. It would be, said CEO Adam Myers, "economically useful" to have something to work on that didn't have a deadline. They wanted it to transform the game, in the same way that the Zubmariner DLC had transformed Sunless Sea. It involved exploring history, and accruing a kind of meddled-with-time score for being a very naughty little time meddler.

By summer 2020, they'd swept the DLC off the table.

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I don't think I'll ever understand Mass Effect's Citadel

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 07:30 AM PDT

Hello, my name is Katharine and I have never played a Mass Effect game. I know, I know. It's one of the great crimes against the church of RPGs. But I'm atoning, honest! I did, in fact, start playing the first Mass Effect about six years ago on PS3, but I got stuck on my very first non-tutorial mission and never went back. I've been meaning to try again ever since, though, and now the shiny new Mass Effect: Legendary Edition has given me the perfect opportunity to jump back in. Or at least I would, if I could find my way out of the damn Citadel.

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Razer Iskur review: three months with Razer's gaming chair

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 06:30 AM PDT

For the past three months, I've traded my £100-odd Ikea chair for the all-black edition of Razer's Iskur gaming chair. Until recently, I'd been fairly resistant to the onslaught of so-called bucket gaming seats with their naff, strapped on lumbar pillows and go faster racing stripes, but I've also become increasingly aware that my Ikea chair probably isn't doing my back a great deal of good either. It's a perfectly adequate piece of office furniture for the price, but as someone who works from home full-time, I should probably be a sensible adult and invest in something proper to park my behind on everyday.

The problem is that "proper" office chairs - your Herman Millers et al - are just so crazy expensive that the idea of paying close to a grand for one just seems outright preposterous. What kind of postural magic could it possibly cast to be worth that kind of money? So I thought Razer's Iskur would be a good compromise. At £499 / $499, it's half-way between your entry-level office chairs and your premium posterior palaces, and it's also got proper built-in lumbar support (as any decent chair should) instead of a terrible pillow. Could this be the gaming chair of my dreams?

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker has radiation now

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 04:27 AM PDT

As if dismantling a derelict spaceship wasn't already hazardous enough, developers Blackbird Interactive have added radiation to Hardspace: Shipbreaker. The Pretty Rad update dropped this week for the sci-fi ship scrapping sim, making it so players can find and extract Radiation Filters on their looting expeditions. This is easier said than done, however, as those Filters are rather fragile, and can drop radioactive particles if you so much as bump the thing.

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Scarlet Nexus, a slick anime action RPG, is out today

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 03:22 AM PDT

Scarlet Nexus is out today, if you'd like to take control of a child soldier capable of hurling concrete boulders with your mind and making sincere connections with your telekinetic mates over gyoza.

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Apex Legends takes players back to good old Skull Town next week

Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:56 AM PDT

Just the other day I was chatting with a friend about how long it'd been since we'd roamed around Skull Town in Apex Legends. The hottest of drop zones was removed (read: obliterated) last year in the battle royale's fifth season, but next week Respawn are piecing it back together for a new event. The Genesis Collection Event kicks off on June 29th, bringing back the original maps for both Kings Canyon and World's Edge. Better yet, not only will Skull Town return to the battle royale mode, but the devs are turning it into an Arenas map too.

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