What a lovely game this is. The current demo build is limited to the tutorial, but it’s more than enough time to get your evil operation up and running. The only HQ I can select is the tropical island, yet it’s perfect for villainy, with a helipad, guards running all over the place, and the arctic tidal swells of a classic Bond soundtrack ebbing and breaking over the headphones. If you’ve played Evil Genius 1, or Dungeon Keeper, or even Theme Hospital, you’ll be right at home....

Darrah, who worked at BioWare for over 20 years including as an executive producer on the Dragon Age series, wants BioWare employees to stop using the term as it promotes “bad process”. In the video, he explains how game development is like a hockey stick. Usually it progresses steadily before hitting a tipping point where the various components of a game finally gel together. “That’s what people are talking about at the studio when they say ‘BioWare magic’,” he says....

As always, there are multiple solutions to the Martínez Squad Building Challenge, but below we’ve done some digging to try and find the cheapest solutions so around. Remember that the prices aren’t fixed of course, so could go up or down at any point. All prices below are as accurate as possible at the time of writing. Josef Martínez: Exchange an 84-Rated Squad Team Overall Rating: Min. 84 Team Chemistry: Min 75 Reward: Jumbo Premium Gold Pack...

In news that is perhaps unsurprising, FIFA 23 on Switch, due out 30th September, is basically the same as FIFA 22 on Switch. As EA puts it in its own words: “Gameplay features and modes will have parity with FIFA 22 on Nintendo Switch and will feature the same gameplay from FIFA 22 Legacy Edition without any new development or significant enhancements.” So, what will FIFA 23 on Switch have that’s different?...

This agreement with the US National Labor Relations Board concludes Clifton’s long-running dispute with Nintendo and its contractor agency Aston Carter, through which they were employed to test Nintendo games. As part of the deal, Nintendo must also display a notice informing employees (in block capital letters) they “WILL NOT” be fired or stopped from discussing unionisation. “You have the right to talk about a union, and WE WILL NOT stop you from talking about a union,” this notice will read (via Polygon)....

Unlike other challenges that require you to visit specific locations on the Fortnite map, this one requires you to locate a motorboat first. Completing this challenge will earn you XP, which will help you unlock new Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 4 battle pass skins. Note this particular challenge is no longer able to be completed. What’s new? Chapter 3 Season 3 has arrived! New additions include Reality Seeds and Saplings and riding animals, along with the new Battle Pass, characters collection and map changes....

This challenge first tasks you with locating a Junk Rift in Fortnite, then travelling to either of the two locations in order to use the item. Completing this challenge will reward you with 15k XP, which will help you unlock more skins for the Battle Pass. Fortnite Junk Rift locations To use a Junk Rift in Wreck Ravine or Rocky Wreckage, you’ll first need to find one, and there are currently two ways of getting Junk Rifts in Fortnite:...

The single-player mission will bridge the gap between seasons and be available from 16th March, whenever you first log into the upcoming Chapter 2 Season 6. Alternatively, you’ll be able to watch the experience online in cinematic form. Details of when this will premiere will be announced shortly. Zero Crisis Finale is a big experiment for Fortnite, which has previously required you log into the game at specific times - or watch via streams - to see its climactic seasonal live events....

Melatonin is a different type of rhythm game, one where you don’t necessarily travel through an abstract environment to physically reach a goal at the end of a route. Made by a one-man band, the game explores the life of a young, drifting average joe, via a spontaneous nap through his dreams and waking life. The first thing you’ll notice is the welcoming cozy game aesthetic of the soft pastels that make up Melatonin’s colour scheme....

In many regions in Inazuma, players will find materials that they have never seen before and some of them are utilized by characters or recipes that came with the new area. While some are easy to spot, others require a little more exploration. To help you find Crystal Marrow in Genshin Impact, we have prepared this guide to show the best places to find Crystal Marrow. On this page: While players usually need to break rocks and crystals to farm some types of ore, Crystal Marrow can be collected directly....

One option from Scan and Nvidia is a small form factor (SFF) gaming PC currently retailing for £1099, which includes an RTX 3060 Ti graphics card and an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processor. That spec should provide very competitive frame-rates at 1080p and 1440p, so it could be worth considering if you’re interested in making a substantial upgrade over your existing gaming PC or if you’re getting into PC gaming for the first time....

The cheapest Google Pixel 6 deal at Mobiles.co.uk offers 30GB of data plus unlimited minutes and texts with Vodafone, from just £23 per month. It’s worth noting these offers do come with upfront fees, but this will at least reduce your monthly costs. Google Pixel 6 - 30GB of data and Vodafone unlimited minutes and texts- £23.00 per month, £175 upfront from Mobiles.co.uk Google Pixel 6 - 30GB of data and Vodafone unlimited minutes and texts - £26....

Set six months ahead of the main game, Ghostwire: Tokyo - Prelude focuses on KK, a detective investigating mysterious phenomena. Fans looking forward to Ghostwire: Tokyo will recognise KK as the spirit that lead character Akito teams up with. The visual novel will fill in much of his backstory. “By having people experience and enjoy the events that occurred before the events in [Ghostwire: Tokyo] through a different genre made by a different team, it could help open up and widen people’s interpretations of the world and universe we’ve created,” said game director Kenji Kimura in a new PlayStation Blog....

First and foremost, you’re getting an extra 1TB of space, which, if you’ve got a Series X, more than doubles your game storage space as the console only has 802GB of usable space out of the box. Better still, for those with a Series S, you’ll have more than three times the total storage compared to the standard 512GB SSD inside Microsoft’s more affordable console, of which just 364GB is available for games....

Speaking to Kinda Funny Games on their God of War Ragnarök spoilercast, director Eric Williams was asked whether DLC is on the way. “I don’t know, man, that game is big,” said Williams said. “I think we put everything we had into it, so I wouldn’t count on it.” Watch on YouTube 15 ADVANCED God Of War Ragnarök Tips Sony Santa Monica’s previous God of War game also didn’t receive extra story content through DLC, so this news isn’t entirely unexpected....

MSI RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio 16GB for £630 w/ code TAKEIT10 (was £700) The 6900 XT may be AMD’s second-in-command when it comes to the RX 6000 series of GPUs, but the fact is is that it’s a solid GPU for both 4K and 1440p gaming, as well as also monstering FHD performance, too. In our review of the card, we noted average frame rates north of 150fps at 4K in Doom Eternal, as well as 330fps at 1440p, while in Borderlands 3, the 6900 XT offered an average of 69....

As Victoria explained earlier this week, Gran Turismo 7 went dark on 17th March as servers went offline for scheduled maintenance that was then extended for over 24 hours. As a result, many took to social media platforms and Metacritic to voice their grievances, where the game’s aggregate score on the latter dropped to 4.1. Now, however, as players come to terms with the recently released 1.07 patch - which makes it even harder for players to unlock new cars without resorting to microtransactions - that rating has dropped again, falling to just 2....

The ray tracing option on PS5 and Series X joins the two existing modes in the graphics menu. There’s still the 4K resolution quality mode for visual purists, running at 30 frames per second. There’s also the 1080p60 performance mode, which still has some trouble locking to 60 frames per second, as bizarre as that sounds. The new RT mode is what could be described as a replacement for the quality option: it’s still pegged at 30fps and it still tops out at full 2160p, but the inclusion of RT sees the dynamic resolution scaling window expand - so you can expect to see 1620p resolution, for example, in rich battle scenes....

Patch 1.10 introduces crash fixes and performance improvements reported by the game’s community, Guerrilla said. There are a raft of graphical improvements, too. Buried within Guerrilla’s blog post about the patch is word the studio is shifting to less frequent updates for the PC version after this patch, with attention turning to Horizon Forbidden West. “As our team continues development on our upcoming title Horizon Forbidden West, we are shifting to less frequent updates for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC after this patch,” Guerrilla said....

A new video released today outlines five different tribes that roam around the world of Horizon, as well a mysterious sixth tribe far in the Forbidden West which remains ambiguous. First, the Oseram return and appear to remain more technologically advanced compared to the other tribes. The Carja also make a return, guarding the kingdom against the Forbidden West. The Utaru, a tribe only briefly mentioned in Horizon Zero Dawn, becomes an integral part of Forbidden West’s story, with Aloy exploring their homeland of Plainsong....