Author: Garry Smith
Gearbox has detailed Coiled Captors, the first DLC expansion for Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, which will see players attempting to liberate an old god from its icy prison when it arrives this Thursday, 21st April. More specifically, Coiled Captors sends players on an adventure deep inside an icy mountain – where they’ll find “wintery wastelands, arid ruins, and flooding caverns” – and it’s here they’ll be tasked with freeing an old god from within the body of a mighty shark-like seawarg, via the time-honoured Borderlands tradition of killing it to death. Gearbox describes Coiled Captors – which can be…
The latest patch for Elden Ring is now live, bringing a whole host of small changes. Patch 1.04 has improved stability of gameplay and made a large number of balance tweaks to weapons, sorceries, and weapon skills. It also adds an option to change camera auto-rotation and some additional event phases for the NPC Patches. In particular, the attack speed of colossal weapons has been increased to make them a more viable option for pure melee builds. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with…
Returnal director Harry Krueger has addressed the game’s difficulty, saying it’s integral to the narrative. Interviewed by Kinda Funny Games, Krueger was asked by Greg Miller for his thoughts on the difficulty of Returnal and its impact on accessibility. “I think we can always do more, could always add more support for different ways to play the game and different control methods and so on. I think when it comes to difficulty, I think it is a question of what kind of experience you are having with Returnal,” said Krueger. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong…
I’ve spent the long bank holiday weekend being drawn into Severance, the Apple TV show about a group of people working in a very strange office. It’s a beautiful thing, and I don’t want to spoil it. What I can tell you, if you haven’t seen it, is that it picks ceaselessly at the idea of work – of what work does to us, what work makes us do to ourselves. It’s a series about the contortions that work encourages on our personalities. While these issues feel uniquely topical, I guess they have been around as long as work has…
Samsung have not only made excellent tech products for years, but they’ve become known for making some of the best gaming monitors around, and their Odyssey line exemplifies this.The Samsung Odyssey G5 is one of the company’s more premium gaming monitors, and it’s currently over £100 down at Amazon, available for just £339.Its 34 inch size and 1000R curve ensures you’ll be immersed like few other monitors can offer. It has a WQHD resolution (3440 x 1440), which will make it a great option for productivity too, letting you open multiple windows on such a wide workspace without having to…
Handheld consoles are the best part of games, I reckon. I love them more than any other aspect of this brilliant and difficult medium. Handhelds take games and set them free. They task you with finding new ways to fit them into your life, your days, your tangled journey through the world. The Switch is Mario on the sofa or sat up in bed, sure, but it’s also Mario under a tree in the park, in a window seat on the bus or a train as forests strobe past. It’s Mario queueing for an ice cream or waiting for an…
Lenovo have made some of the best gaming laptops in recent years, by offering their well-known build quality with great specs at competitive prices. And the Legion 5i is a perfect example of this.This particular model comes equipped with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, the current “Goldilocks” GPU offering the best bang for buck, and it’s currently down to just £799.97 at Amazon right now. That’s £200 off the usual retail price. The processor is an 11th gen Intel Core i5 chip, very capable for gaming, creative tasks and certainly a breeze for general productivity purposes. Combined with the aforementioned…
Death is pretty integral to videogames. Not in some fancy, high-falutin conceptual way, but as the default failure state in most action games. Even when it’s not explicitly referred to as such by the game, we talk about dying, about losing lives. At the same time, the attitude towards death is rather relaxed. You die, you restart, you try again. No biggie, until some story beat snatches a beloved NPC away from you. (Aeris! *sob*) While some games have played with this, embracing death as a game mechanic, like Planescape: Torment, or rejecting it entirely, like Fable 2, the big…
Did you know he was nearly a professional footballer? If it hadn’t been for a shoulder injury when he was a teenager, we might well have seen him on TV playing for a top club. He had try-outs at a few of them. He might even have been England’s goalkeeper – who knows?!I know he’ll hate me saying that.Nevertheless, fate intervened and we got him. He is Chris Tapsell. He began writing guides at Eurogamer several years ago and his aptitude for critical writing – and Pokémon – was obvious, so his role evolved. He joined the features team, writing…
A publisher perspective: we haven’t had one of those before, and it’s an area of pivotal importance in games people often have misconceptions about. How does it all work, from spotting a game to signing it, to marshalling it out of the door? And whose side are publishers on? My guest today started their own label five years ago in the hope of doing things differently – and things have gone very well. Today, No More Robots employs 13 people and is responsible for notable small-team games like Hypnospace Outlaw, Descenders, Not Tonight, and Yes, Your Grace. The recently-announced Hypnospace…