Author: Garry Smith
Elden Ring is currently Steam’s most wishlisted game on Steam.From Software’s hotly-anticipated action RPG – for which Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has contributed to the world-building – surpassed Techland’s Dying Light 2: Stay Human earlier this week to secure the top spot as Steam’s most-wanted game. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Techland has announced that it’ll take around 500 hours to fully complete its survival game, Dying Light 2.”To fully complete Dying Light 2 Stay Human, you’ll need at least 500 hours – almost as long as it would take to walk from Warsaw to Madrid!” the studio stated in a tweet.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Rust has sold over 12 million copies.Making the announcement in a new year round-up, developer Facepunch revealed that as well as selling 12,481,079 copies of the game, it’s also sold over one million DLC packs – a surprisingly modest number, given the number of people invested in the vanilla game, perhaps? – and has over 400,000 users on its Discord server.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Apex Legends developer Respawn is exploring “what [it] can do” about “visual clutter” in the fan-favourite first-person shooter.Boasting fluid gunplay and a distinctive artistic style, free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends is a fan-favourite, but some players purport that the game’s HUD has become increasingly cluttered, particularly when they’re under attack in-game. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Amazon Studios has plans to improve the end-game of its MMO, New World.In a lengthy blog post on the official website, the team explained how “expedition mutators” will improve challenge and enjoyment of the game for those who’ve already experienced much of what the MMO has to offer. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Which are the best mechanical keyboards on the market? That was the question I tried to answer in our feature on whether mechanical keyboards are good for gaming, and how they became popular in the first place. I ended that piece with three keyboard recommendations, but the response to the article made it clear that you wanted to see more recommendations for different use-cases than we considered – particularly full-fat gaming keyboards with features like macro and media keys, programmable RGB lighting and game-state integration or quieter models that can be used in a busy office.We’ve updated this article as…
Hello! We’re going to start the year off with a handful of pieces looking forward to 2022. Sometimes we’ll be looking at trends we’ve spotted or themes that will probably be continuing to define things in games for a while. Sometimes we’ll just be thinking about things we’ve enjoyed and where they could lead. Have a lovely new year all! Never underestimate the power of a game about words. It’s 2022 and the game of the moment is a game about words. Every morning, first thing, we pick up our phones and try to play Wordle. Five letters. What’s the…
Games like to take us places, whether it’s space, hidden jungles or a bygone version of England. As much as I love these alternate realities of the real thing and the joys of video game tourism, increasingly they’ve made me think about the home, the place in the physical world where most, if not all, our gaming actually takes place.The home, or even just home in the wider sense, seems in many ways antithetical to the stories many games tell. Going on a journey means leaving home – RPGs in particular like to deal in permanent displacement. Baldur’s Gate 3…
The beleaguered Battlefield 2042 is free to play this weekend on Xbox.The offer is part of the platform’s regular Free Play Days scheme open to anyone with an Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
The latest update to Red Dead Online has not gone down well with players.Rockstar shared an update for the new year, which includes experience bonuses and a handful of other extras for the next month, specifically for the A Land of Opportunities, Call to Arms, and Gang Hideouts events.Read more Source – eurogamer.net