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Retro FPS Prodeus announces co-op and shows its bloody main character
Get the 1TB Crucial P5 NVMe SSD with a free heatsink for £80
Cyberpunk 2077 will fix its minimap and perk refunds in update 1.3
Get a 1TB TeamGroup MP33 Pro NVMe SSD for just $87
Phasmophobia's upcoming equipment overhaul looks especially spooky
Halo Infinite won't have assassinations at launch even though 343 love them
Garden Story review: a cosy, sweet-natured RPG
This website is now a Back 4 Blood and Holly stan account
Death Trash has already made back its development costs
Humankind review: a heavyweight alternative to Civilization
Naraka: Bladepoint review: a punishing battle royale that rewards perseverance
All-women speedrunning marathon Flame Fatales has begun
Destiny fans have made it into a D&D tabletop RPG
A free-to-play chicken game has reignited my passion for management games
A Steam exploit could've let you add infinite money to your wallet
Road 96 review: fun and high jinks on the campaign trail '96

Retro FPS Prodeus announces co-op and shows its bloody main character

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 03:08 PM PDT

Retro-inspired shooter Prodeus has been blasting its way through early access since November and is about to get a helping hand. Yup, Bounding Box Software showed up at the Realms Deep shoot 'em ups showcase over the weekend to announce they'll be adding co-op. They also gave a look at the rather bloody main character. You can spot all that and some player-made maps they've shown off, in a new trailer full of gore and metal music. You know, the classics.

Get the 1TB Crucial P5 NVMe SSD with a free heatsink for £80

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 02:03 PM PDT

The Crucial P5 is a solid PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD with strong enough performance to be used as your primary OS drive, and today it's been discounted to just £80 at Scan - with a free Akasa M.2 NVMe SSD heatsink. That's an absolute bargain, so let us tell you all about it!

Cyberpunk 2077 will fix its minimap and perk refunds in update 1.3

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 01:56 PM PDT

CD Projekt Red's plans to keep patching Cyberpunk 2077 this year continue with the upcoming 1.3 update. As they've done previously, CDPR have dished out a few indications of what changes are coming via some in-world news posts today. They're teasing some minimap updates, help with a tricky romance choice, and cheaper perk point refunds. These changes are "not the biggest ones and there’ll be more to come," CDPR say. They'll be showing off more of update 1.3 tomorrow. Here's a look at what they've shared so far in the meantime.

Get a 1TB TeamGroup MP33 Pro NVMe SSD for just $87

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 01:44 PM PDT

TeamGroup is perhaps best known for their RAM, but the Taiwanese company also makes a solid line of SSDs. Today, their budget MP33 Pro NVMe SSD has been reduced on Amazon, dropping from $100 to $87 for a 1TB capacity drive.

Phasmophobia's upcoming equipment overhaul looks especially spooky

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 11:16 AM PDT

Thank goodness we're now well past the point of me apologising for still talking about a game from last Halloween and into the part of the year where I'll be unapologetically looking forward to this Halloween. Phasmophobia, the co-op ghost sleuthing simulation that I've yet to stop playing since last year, is getting a sizable update this month as spooky season creeps closer. There are even more new ghosts coming, redesigns for tons of your equipment, and "sprinting adjustments" which I believe must mean I'll be hoofing it out of houses faster than the current crawl.

Halo Infinite won't have assassinations at launch even though 343 love them

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 09:46 AM PDT

With all the Halo Infinite information now flying about, 343 is not so stealthily approaching that late 2021 launch window. Your Spartan sneaking capabilities will be similarly out the window at Infinite's initial launch, it turns out. 343 Industries have said that you won't be bopping your opponents in the back of the head for those extra special kills during multiplayer. Assassinations are good fun and all, but 343 have found that they often get turned off due to the disadvantage they create. Bringing assassinations back is already on their radar, but they really want them to "feel meaningful" when they return.

Garden Story review: a cosy, sweet-natured RPG

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 08:30 AM PDT

Have you ever seethed at the injustice of juicy, happy grapes being crushed underfoot? Probably not. I hadn’t either, but playing Zelda-like Garden Story has changed things. It stars Concord, a purple vineyard-venturer so stalwart and noble that my empathy for grapes is now at its apex. Sommeliers. Jam makers. Raisin(eers?). M&S Holiday advert charcuterie board arrangers. Watch your fucking backs. I’m ride or die for grapes now. Garden Story has radicalised me.

This website is now a Back 4 Blood and Holly stan account

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 08:22 AM PDT

Alright look. I know some of you don't want to believe this, but it turns out a bunch of people enjoyed the Back 4 Blood beta, and I was one of them. It is conceivable that I'm going to play it and write about it multiple times when it comes out. Sorry not sorry. Was the free open beta perfect? No, it was not. I feel for the people who had trouble getting online, or got disconnected. It seems that was most prevalent for console players, and therefore beyond my sight. But I sort of feel the clue is in the name: it was free, it was a beta, it was stress testing a game that still has a coupla months of tweaking to go (although arguably, it might have been better to wait to splash about that the game had gone gold until after the beta...).

A bunch of the problems raised are known issues, as noted in a Q&A with our pals at VG247. I was blessed by not running into any problems at any point. Most importantly, I saw no issues affecting the deep and abiding love I have for my new Cleaner character-of-choice Holly. Sorry, this website will be posting Holly on main soon.

Death Trash has already made back its development costs

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 07:02 AM PDT

A post-apocalyptic world populated by drunks, murderers, nudists, and giant meat monsters is apparently just the existence you darlings crave, going by the success of Death Trash. The open-world RPG launched into early access on August 5th after over five years in development, and by the 14th had apparently already made back its development costs. Nice! To think, we suffered through so many years of bacon memes when the meat everyone actually craved was a vast bloody octopus.

Humankind review: a heavyweight alternative to Civilization

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT

I adore strategy games, except for when I have to review them. With so many abstract systems, moving parts, and potential play experiences, it can be a real brain-scratcher to neatly sum up how good they are. Humankind is proving tougher than most. Partly, it’s because I’ve played an awful lot of it, meaning there’s even more than usual to sum up. Partly, it’s because as soon as Amplitude’s big boy 4X was announced, we all knew its success would be defined by how it compared with the Civilization series.

So, then. No point drawing this out: is Humankind as good as Civ?

Naraka: Bladepoint review: a punishing battle royale that rewards perseverance

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 05:30 AM PDT

A prolonged, evenly-matched fight in Naraka: Bladepoint is a thing of beauty. Picture two combatants, each equipped with grappling hooks and panache, twirling across a sun-dappled battlefield. They’re locked in a mind game of slashes, somersaults and parries, both attempting to provoke a misstep that will spell either instant death or the beginning of a chase. Now picture the latter, as they bound across rooftops or treetops, the hunted party ducking and diving, desperate to steal enough time and space to pop a healing potion. This is proper Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Stuff. I like it a lot.

I’d also be the first to tell you Naraka’s combat can be frustrating, and not everyone will find it worth persevering with. If you’re into swords, grappling hooks and battle royales, though, I mean, come on. You’ve got to try it.

All-women speedrunning marathon Flame Fatales has begun

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 05:00 AM PDT

If you're after a mid-year speedrunning fix, then I have some good news for you: the all-women Games Done Quick event Flame Fatales is on all this week. Like GDQ and AGDQ, Flame Fatales is a yearly charity speedrunning marathon, and this year they're raising money for the Malala Fund. So, stay tuned for some delightfully speedy gaming in Silent Hill 2, Stardew Valley, plenty of Sonic and loads more.

Destiny fans have made it into a D&D tabletop RPG

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 04:47 AM PDT

While the next Destiny 2 expansion is looming on the horizon, hissing curses and weaving lies, you can continue your adventures so far beyond Bungie's official telling in a pen & paper adaptation. Fans have turned the MMOFPS into a tabletop RPG, building on the rules of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition to create Dungeons & Destiny. It's free, it just released a new version, and it's jolly impressive.

A free-to-play chicken game has reignited my passion for management games

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 04:30 AM PDT

Back in the day, I was quite partial to a strategy or management game. You'd find me hunched by the Dell home PC playing Age Of Empires, or my personal favourite, Populous: The Beginning. Clearly, my fledgling brain enjoyed playing God. Back then, something about birthing small followers and giving them axes and sending them off to chop wood was absolutely captivating.

Now, not so much. I don't really have an explanation, other than my patience for management games has shrivelled up considerably; where once that section of my brain was a vibrant pink sponge ready to absorb vast menus and numbers, it now resembles a dry raisin. I thought that no matter how hard I tried, it would never spring back to plump life. But having spent some time raising hens in Cheeky Chooks, I can feel the creases in my raisin unfurling.

A Steam exploit could've let you add infinite money to your wallet

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 04:01 AM PDT

Until recently, Steam had an exploit that could've let you add unlimited funds to your Steam Wallet. Discovered by security researcher "drbrix", the storefront had a way users could fake the value of their deposits by changing a few words in the email address associated with the account. Valve have patched the exploit now though, and awarded $7500 (around £5410) to drbrix for finding it.

Road 96 review: fun and high jinks on the campaign trail '96

Posted: 16 Aug 2021 01:00 AM PDT

It's good to make words work hard for you, the lazy little ingrates, and Road 96's title is grafting pretty hard. It's referencing both the name of the road leading to the northern border of fictional USA-alike Petria - against which you will fling successive desperate teenagers in a procedurally generated hitchhike-athon - and the year it's all set. Yes, it's 1996, and everyone is sharing tapes, blithely getting lifts with strangers, and very concerned with the oil industry.

It's also nearing the ten year anniversary of a terrorist attack at that same border, which exploded the side of a mountain and killed hundreds of bystanders. In a move that only makes sense when tidy plotting demands your seven intertwining personal and political stories need to come to a head all at once, the totalitarian government of Petria have decided they will hold the upcoming election on the same day as the big anniversary event. A big pre-emptive whoopsie-doodle to them.

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