“We’re happy to announce that the next instalment in The Witcher series of video games is currently in development,” said the studio in a statement in March 2022, “kicking off a new saga for the franchise.” Exactly what form this new role-playing “saga” will take, we don’t yet know. The only information released so far comes in the form of a teaser image released alongside the announcement, and word that the new games will run on Unreal Engine 5 rather than the in-house REDengine....

Put under the spotlight by the folks at Nintendo include Among Us for £2.72, Diablo 3 Eternal Collection for £24.99 and Sonic Mania for £11.19. Digging a bit further, though, and there are some terrific bargains to be found amongst the full list of offers. There’s a whopping 66 pages of savings to sift through, so no doubt I’ve missed something here. Nevertheless, these ones immediately jump out to me....

I understand this is to ensure third-parties working on games which support the upgraded Switch are free to announce these projects at E3, and before Nintendo’s own digital showcase later in that week. (Nintendo’s event has yet to be formally dated but is currently set to slot in after other publishers towards the end of E3, though of course dates can still shift.) A pre-E3 airing also allows Nintendo to focus its E3 reveals on its upcoming software line-up, where fans hope to hear updates on the long-awaited The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 and long, long-awaited Metroid Prime 4....

Fortunately, we got some new details from members of its Infinity Ward development team, courtesy of VentureBeat. First, as described in Eurogamer’s preview yesterday, a lot of emphasis has been placed on the engine’s fancy new water tech. One of the tricks previously used by PC players to gain a competitive advantage is to lower their graphical settings to see past cover, fog and other effects. Would the same issue affect Modern Warfare 2?...

ON THE STATE OF THINGS IN 2022 Somewhat incredibly, it’s been over six years since No Man’s Sky’s infamously rocky launch, during which time the studio has released a staggering 20 free updates, massively changing the trajectory of the game, both in terms of its scope and reception. “In general,” Murray tells me when I ask about the studio’s outlook in 2022, “I think we’re a really happy team. I think we’re sort of the happiest and the most productive we’ve been in the last five or six years… The launch of No Man’s Sky, if I was to plot that on a graph, it was maximum stress, and there’s been a gradual but steady improvement year-on-year in how we do things and within the team....

For starters, let’s talk price: the 3060 is a $330/£300/€330 graphics card, which makes it $70/£70 cheaper than the RTX 3060 Ti. Ideally, that would mean that we’d see the RTX 3060 deliver a little more than 80 per cent of the performance of the RTX 3060 Ti, as we’re paying around 82 per cent of the price. Nvidia promises the performance of an RTX 2070 at the cost of an RTX 2060, and that definitely sounds like a good deal - especially when you remember that the GTX 1060 debuted at $300, and this card should offer around double the performance for only a few currency units more, inflation notwithstanding....

Unfortunately though, the 3070 Ti doesn’t really deliver on its premise, offering what is typically a single digit performance bump over the regular 3070 that simply isn’t good enough given its 20 percent higher asking price - and that’s without factoring in the normal Covid-era markups for graphics cards of any flavour. After a genuinely good value RTX 3060 Ti and an RTX 3080 Ti that brought 3090 performance to a lower price point, the 3070 Ti is therefore something of an unexpected combo-breaker....

One Piece Odyssey unfolds on a mysterious island - which the Straw Hats pirate gang discover after their ship is caught in a storm - with Bandai Namco promising dungeons, quests, “wonders of a raging nature, powerful enemies, and strange encounters with island locals”. Odyssey’s announcement trailer doesn’t reveal much beyond an apparent exploration focus for the “epic drama adventure”, but Bandai Namco notes players won’t just take control of series protagonist Monkey D....

Grand Theft Auto IV - Definitive Edition is a project which complied a number of mods which aimed to enhance and update the game to run on modern PCs (thanks, PC Gamer). The game was last updated by Rockstar in 2020, when the developer removed the archaic Games for Windows Live DRM after it was shut down by Microsoft. However, this also had the unfortunate effect of disabling access to online multiplayer and leaderboards, which were run through the GFWL backend....

How would you do that (forget the ‘would you?’ for a moment)? Where would you look for clues, for things someone might care about enough to use as a password? Of course! Where else? Social media. So I go to Facebook to search for Ivy Isklander and to my surprise, she’s there. I find her profile and start looking through her life, which feels as weird as it sounds. I even send her a message asking if she’s okay, but she doesn’t respond....

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights charity in the US, issued the call in a press release which brings the game’s subject matter back into the spotlight once again. Calling the game an “Arab murder simulator”, CAIR linked to Rebekah Valentine’s recent article for IGN on the game, “Six Days in Fallujah Is Complicated and Painful For Those Connected to the Real Events,” and an article from Turkish-state owned news outlet TRT World, “Six Days in Fallujah reveals the gaming industry’s Islamophobia problem....

“SIE [Sony Interactive Entertainment] takes the substance of the newly submitted declarations seriously,” the company said in legal documents surfaced by Axios. “Although most are by former employees who no longer work at SIE, SIE either has addressed or will address the issues raised in them in due course, as SIE values its female employees and takes proactive steps to ensure they have every opportunity to thrive and be heard....

Below, you’ll find our full, complete walkthrough for the main story in the remakes, detailing all you need to know on opponent trainers, wild Pokémon encounters, and item locations for each and every route and area you come across on your adventure. On this page: Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl walkthrough: First Gym Badge Twinleaf Town and Route 201 SandgemTown and Route 202 Jubilife City Clown locations and Route 204 Route 203 and Oreburgh Gate Oreburgh City, Mine, and Gym Leader Roark...

To get Latias Mega Energy and get a Mega Latias, you must take part in Mega Raids to defeat the Gen 3 variant to add it to your Pokédex. This is a tough Pokémon to take on solo, so we recommend teaming up with other trainers and knowing the best Mega Latias counters, and the Mega Latias weakness to catch the Pokémon, and maybe even get a Shiny Latias if you’re lucky....

This Collection Challenge will task you with catching Pokémon which can be found in and around Pallet Town in the Kanto region. There are a total of 10 Collection Challenges for you to complete as part of Pokémon Go Tour: Kanto - Pewter City, Cerulean City, Fuchsia City, Pokémon League, Raid, Research, Evolve, Trade and Incense. The latter two are different depending on whether you’re playing the Red or Green version of the event....

These sandwiches can give a number of benefits, from making it easier to catch Pokémon of certain kinds, to increasing the amount of Eggs you receive during picnics, and even improving your chances at getting a shiny. However, there are a lot of recipes available in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and when factoring in Creative mode - allowing you to make your own sandwiches - it’s not always easy to know what you should be cooking....

From 6th October, the game will be available on Meta Quest VR and PICO headsets. A trailer below shows the VR version in action. Watch on YouTube Townscaper VR - Coming to Meta Quest VR and PICO For the unaware, Townscaper allows players to build and grow a colourful city simply by clicking, without time limits or quests. The game is already available across PC and Mac (via Steam), Nintendo Switch and on mobile....

Called Rengoku, the event lasts until 17th May and takes place in a modified version of the Skyscraper map. Players battle it out in a 5v5 capture point game mode that’s similar to Domination in other shooters like Call of Duty, except the capture points move every two minutes. The first team to reach 300 points wins. The event also flips the table on the standard attacker/defender dynamic, with all operators tasked with capturing points and wielding one-hit-kill explosive Kunai along with a shotgun and pistol....

To cut a long story short, if you’ve already played Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered or Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PS5 - also from Insomniac, of course - you’re in familiar territory. The trio of selectable options on offer are fidelity, performance and performance RT, so let’s dig into each of them before offering up our final recommendation. First of all, the default mode (depending on how your PS5 is set up, of course) is fidelity mode, which caps performance at 30 frames per second....

This page features links to story missions as part of a Red Dead Redemption 2 mission list walkthrough and Red Dead Redemption 2 gold medal checklist requirements, as well as a list of our Red Dead Redemption 2 guides. On this page: But as with previous Rockstar Games, though the overarching story is linear, at multiple points you’ll have a choice of missions to choose from. None will disappear, so pick the ones you want to play and get to the others when you fancy....