“It’s time to Build a Zoo,” reads the press release. “Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets… then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 500,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly…” Splicing, did you say? Well, yes, yes I did! In Let’s Build a Zoo, players can quite literally mix things up during any given playthrough. On its console release, new players will be able to exhibit a whole myriad of unusual beings....

Since then I have been very lucky with regards to the Gwent Impulse. Is this a trend? I hope so. When I say very lucky, I mean that I played two games over the weekend and they both turned out to have secondary games tucked within them. The first is Boneraiser Minions, a worryingly compelling auto-battler in the style of Vampire Survivors. (I discovered it thanks to Hit Points.)You move around an arena summoning mobs who fight a horde of enemies for you....

Bloober Team shared the news in a blog post earlier today, where the company announced it had signed a cooperation agreement with Polish visual arts complany Platige Image to bring its game to a new medium (see what I did there). This upcoming adaptation will be helmed by Tomasz Bagiński, whose resume includes Netflix’s The Witcher. Meanwhile, Bloober Team’s Piotr Babieno will work alongside Bagiński bringing this adaptation to life....

For that money, you’re getting a great condenser mic that’s ideal for picking up voices with excellent warmth and clarity in a quiet environment. Of course, you want the mic close to your face to ensure best results. Once you’ve picked up these best practices, the Yeti has a lot in its arsenal that makes it a great mic for nearly every application. There are four different pickup patterns to choose from if you so wish - cardioid mode (picks up sound from the front - ideal for voiceovers), omni-directional (picks up sound from all directions - great for recording multiple people with one mic), stereo (picks up sound from left and right channels - ideal for capturing atmospherics or instruments), and bi-directional (picks up sound from front and rear - great for a podcast or co-hosted show)....

Johnson is, of course, no stranger to video game movies, having starred in an adaption of id Software’s first-person shooter Doom back in 2005 (by most accounts not an especially good movie) and more recently appearing in 2018’s live-action version of arcade favourite Rampage (see previous comment). And now Johnson has confirmed he’s poised to help bring another poor, unfortunate video game franchise kicking and screaming into cinemas. “I can’t tell you which game in particular we’re doing,” he explained during an interview with Men’s Journal, “but there will be an announcement this year....

These impressive glowing laser swords make for a spectacular light show when wielded, especially in combat against an opponent with a different-coloured blade - of which you can take part in as part of lightsaber challenges. Before that, you have to assemble your own Sims 4 lightsaber first. This page explains how to get a lightsaber in The Sims 4, a list of Kyber Crystals and lightsaber hilts, and how to engage in lightsaber sparring and challenges....

Copyright shenanigans aside, The Sims 4 Werewolves game pack has a lot on offer - which is why we’ve taken the time to break down the more important parts about the pack, such as how to become a werewolf, werewolf abilities, stats and passives, as well as unique social and world interactions for Werewolf Sims. No matter the question, we’ve got an answer to it! On this page: You create a Werewolf Sim in Create-A-Sim....

The mop-up has many forms. For me, somewhat uncreatively, it’s the task of completing a “living ‘dex” in Pokémon - catching one of every Pokémon ever released and storing them all, in order, in one place, including all the many different forms and stages of each evolution. This makes it a bit more long-winded than completing a regular regional or national Pokédex, because you couldn’t just catch, say, one Abra and then evolve it into Kadabra, then Alakazam, crossing off all three at once - you need one of each in your possession simultaneously....

This remake features various additions, such as a new orchestral score as well as the original music. There’s also the ability to switch off random encounters. Originally released for PlayStation back in 1999, Legend of Mana is set in the world of Fa’Diel, where you set down locations on the world map. Here’s how it looks:

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will take centre stage in a dedicated Nintendo Direct broadcast due to take place this Wednesday 22nd June at 3pm UK time. The presentation is set to last 20 minutes, and be focused squarely on Monolith Soft’s Switch-exclusive role-playing game set to launch worldwide on 29th July. Is this the only Nintendo Direct we’re due in the near future? It sure would be nice to hear from the company on its plans for game releases over the second half of 2022....

Yesterday, two videos appeared on Reddit showing a game in which a top-ranked Apex Legends player was knocked down, only for the server to then mysteriously crash. How convenient. When the legitimate players reconnected to the server, they found themselves knocked down - and could see the suspicious duo standing over them. The offending fourth and sixth-ranked players were then accused of carrying out a DDoS attack once they started losing in order to get an easy win....

The hotly-anticipated strategy game was due out late 2021. “We know this is disappointing, but the extra time means we can accomplish more than we could if we rushed to release this year,” the UK studio said in a statement. “The wait won’t be much longer, and we’ll have plenty of new information in the meantime. The new date will make for a stronger release and the best first step into a new era for Total War: Warhammer....

“Be the leader of red and blue wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places and fantasy worlds,” the developer teases. “Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created” (for those yet to see or play any TABS, I can confirm this is an accurate assessment of the game’s physics, which are not actually accurate at all despite the game’s name). “When you grow tired of the 100+ wobblers at your disposal you can make new ones in the unit creator....

Marvel’s Avengers developer Crystal Dynamics tweeted detailed instructions to help confused customers after it emerged both the PS4 and the PS5 versions of the game had to be downloaded and fully updated in order get the save transfer to work, and that transferring the save data via PlayStation Plus cloud storage was impossible. Here’s what you have to do: first off, you’ve got to launch the fully-patched PS4 version of Marvel’s Avengers and go to the save migration tab on the main menu to initiate the upload....

“We have indefinitely suspended President Trump’s Twitch channel due to the ongoing risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitch said in a statement to IGN. “The President’s statements continue to be interpreted as calls to action, and we are taking this action to remove the potential for harm to our community and the general public.” It seems Twitch intends to initiate wider change on the platform, however, and will be making further changes to its policies to clamp down on violent rhetoric....

At least two firms are eyeing up Ubisoft ahead of a potential future offer, Bloomberg has reported, though “serious negotiations” are yet to take place. These companies include Blackstone and KKR & Co., two of the world’s largest in the takeover market. In a subsequent Kotaku report, sources suggested Ubisoft has been quietly auditing parts of its business over the past year - a potential sign it may be readying itself for a future suitor....

The company said Siege, which has over 70 million registered players, is getting significant core gameplay changes over the course of this year, as well as new tools to encourage positive behaviour. The video below goes into detail on all the changes: Year six kicks off with its first season, dubbed Crimson Heist. This brings the Argentinian attacker Flores and the rework of the map Border. Season two introduces an operator from the Nakoda Nations and a rework of the map Favela....

Ubisoft originally announced that 15 titles that would be affected by the move: Anno 2070, Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed 3, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Driver San Francisco, Far Cry 3, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Rayman Legends, Silent Hunter 5, Space Junkies, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and ZombiU. The precise effects of decommissioning depend on the game, but ranged from the removal of multiplayer modes, online features, and DLC to being unable to access the game at all....

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters, a new turn-based tactics game in the vein of XCOM, coming 5th May, will let you fire it, and is actually the first 40K game to feature it as a proper mechanic. The central premise here is that a plague called the Bloom has broken out across a series of planets, thanks to Nurgle, the Chaos “Plague Lord” whose MO is being gross on a large scale....

The early access survival game, made by a team of five people at Iron Gate Studio, hit the 4m mark earlier today - with the dev team once again thanking the player base for their support. “I don’t think I have really had time to contemplate it,” said Iron Gate CEO Richard Svensson. “I know that players like the game a lot, but at the same time I think that I can make something even better in the future....