Remedy's Quantum Break delisted from storefronts after temporary Game Pass removal

HomeNewsQuantum Break Remedy’s Quantum Break delisted from storefronts after temporary Game Pass removalPossibly due to expired licenses Possibly due to expired licenses Jack Joyce has run out of time, or steam, both work! Remedy’s time-bendingQuantum Break- part superpowered shooter, part live-action TV show - has been delisted on Steam and The Microsoft Store. The game’sSteam pageis still up, but it’s no longer available for purchase on PC or Xbox consoles. Publisher Microsoft had already confirmed the game would be “temporarily”removed from Game Pass(for console, it was never on the PC version) due to licensing issues, although there was no word on a removal from storefronts....

April 6, 2023 · 6 min · 1266 words · Laura Dickerson

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor needs a huge amount of hard drive space

HomeNewsStar Wars Jedi: Survivor Star Wars Jedi: Survivor needs a huge amount of hard drive spaceA moon-sized amount A moon-sized amount When Alice wrote aboutStar Wars Jedi: Survivorearlierthis week, she explored an “almost prohibitively large map.” It turns out those embiggened maps have a knock-on effect: Survivor will require 155GB of hard drive space.Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - Official Story TrailerWatch on YouTubeTherest of the system requirementsaren’t too bad, with the minimum recommended including 8GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen 5 580 or Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics card....

April 6, 2023 · 4 min · 655 words · Michael Scott

A decade after its announcement, genre-bending Defender's Quest 2 returns

HomeNewsDefender’s Quest 2: Mists Of Ruin A decade after its announcement, genre-bending Defender’s Quest 2 returnsThe RPG/tower-defender is coming to PC later this year The RPG/tower-defender is coming to PC later this year You may rememberDefender’s Quest: Valley Of The Forgottenas the beloved early-2010s game that swapped the towers in tower-defence, with humans that you could level up and customise. Essentially an RPG/tower-defence hybrid. You might also remember thata sequel was announcedbefore it somewhat fell off the map - you probablydon’tremember since it happened a decade ago, to be fair....

April 5, 2023 · 1 min · 165 words · Megan Allen

A Highland Song gives Death Stranding a musical run for its money

HomeFeaturesA Highland Song A Highland Song gives Death Stranding a musical run for its moneyThe best bits of Inkle’s Pendragon and 80 Days combine to create a rhythmic hiking platformer like no other The best bits of Inkle’s Pendragon and 80 Days combine to create a rhythmic hiking platformer like no other But also: A Highland Song is 100% a game that deserves to have its music cranked up to full, whether it’s returningHeaven’s Vaultcomposer Laurence Chapman’s soaring orchestral score, or Scottish bands Talisk and Fourth Moon’s aforementioned folk music....

April 5, 2023 · 4 min · 749 words · Christopher Gillespie

Another The Last of Us Part 1 patch arrives, but the mouse jitter fix is delayed

HomeHardwareNewsThe Last of Us Part I Another The Last of Us Part 1 patch arrives, but the mouse jitter fix is delayedA bigger update is coming this Friday A bigger update is coming this Friday The Last of Us Part 1developers Naughty Dog have released the latest hotfix for its beleaguered Murder Dad adventure, although it doesn’t include the anticipated fix for a widespread camera jitter issue that’s been popping up for mouse users....

April 5, 2023 · 2 min · 341 words · Donald Scott

Behold, the Cyberpunk 2077 path tracing mode your GPU probably can’t run

HomeHardwareNewsCyberpunk 2077 Behold, the Cyberpunk 2077 path tracing mode your GPU probably can’t runOverdrive Mode is coming on April 11th Overdrive Mode is coming on April 11th Nvidia have previewed the upcoming Overdrive Mode forCyberpunk 2077, showcasing how it replaces the game’s already extensiveray tracingeffects with full path tracing. Why Nvidia and not the developers, CD Projekt Red? Well, that might have something to do with Overdrive Mode being such a graphics card shatterer that it will supposedly take a GeForce RTX 40 series GPU – withDLSS 3in effect – to run....

April 5, 2023 · 7 min · 1395 words · Brendan Friedman

Dredge's rescue dog is actually the spooky fishing sim's most supreme being, devs reveal

HomeNewsDredge Dredge’s rescue dog is actually the spooky fishing sim’s most supreme being, devs revealHumans love ‘em, otherworldly fish hate ‘em Humans love ‘em, otherworldly fish hate ‘em Spooky fishing gameDredgeis overflowing with underwater eldritch horrors, ghoulish critters, and mutant fishies - like, theBlinky-the-fishkind. Based on that description, you’d expect some three-headed sea beast, incomprehensibly twisted and glowing with an otherworldly light, to be the game’s most supreme being. Nope. That title goes to the dog you rescue in one of the game’s side missions, the developers have revealed....

April 5, 2023 · 6 min · 1103 words · Pamela Smith

RPS@PAX 2023: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun really nails the feeling of being a big stompy space boy

HomeFeaturesWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun RPS@PAX 2023: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun really nails the feeling of being a big stompy space boyWe’ve played it, and it absolutely rules We’ve played it, and it absolutely rules I really like retro first-person shooters. Show me a game with a gun in it that looks like it could feasibly run on Windows 95, and all of the neurons in my brain will start to fizzle and spark....

April 5, 2023 · 2 min · 270 words · Renee Cooper

This 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is just £95 at Amazon UK

HomeHardwareDeals This 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is just £95 at Amazon UKIntegral’s M3 Plus is a value champ that’s easy to recommend. Integral’s M3 Plus is a value champ that’s easy to recommend. We’ve covered surprisingly cheap NVMe SSDs on this deals patch before, but today we’ve hit a new high - or new low, depending on how you look at it. Right now you can pick up an Integral 2TB SSD for just £94....

April 5, 2023 · 5 min · 917 words · Monique Schmidt

What's better: bioluminescence, or dark darkness?

HomeFeatures What’s better: bioluminescence, or dark darkness?Vote now! Vote now! Image credit:Unknown Worlds Entertainment Image credit:Unknown Worlds Entertainment Last time, you decided thattime loops are better than resuming interrupted reloads. We thankfully won’t need to re-run that result, but we cannot fully leave the past behind us. One eagle-eyed reader observed that time loops and staged reloads “aren’t really comparable”, and I cannot overstate my embarrassment at having made such an obvious mistake....

April 5, 2023 · 2 min · 368 words · Jessica Cole

Why Star Wars Jedi: Survivor doesn't hit reset on Cal's combat abilities

HomeFeaturesStar Wars Jedi: Survivor Why Star Wars Jedi: Survivor doesn’t hit reset on Cal’s combat abilitiesRespawn chat to us about lightsaber colours and Cal’s expanded Force powers Respawn chat to us about lightsaber colours and Cal’s expanded Force powers An important Star Wars question is: what colour lightsaber would you have? The lightsaber is the mood ring of elegant weapons for a more civilised age. Jason de Heras, design director onStar Wars Jedi: Survivor, agrees with me on the purple blade (a colour introduced to the canon specifically because Samuel L....

April 5, 2023 · 4 min · 804 words · Mr. Chad Hawkins

Crab Champions is a crab shoot 'em up sequel to that dancing crab meme

HomeNewsCrab Champions Crab Champions is a crab shoot ‘em up sequel to that dancing crab memeBe a crab and shoot everything Be a crab and shoot everything 2018 April 1st, the music producer Nosiestorm dropped the singleCrab Rave, which became a meme sensation. Since the music video was made with the Unreal Engine 4, it’s no surprise that the Nosiestorm ventured into game development, and threw the rave cabe into a shooting game....

April 4, 2023 · 2 min · 316 words · Carlos Wells DDS

Devolver Digital acquire Gunbrella developers Doinksoft

HomeNews Devolver Digital acquire Gunbrella developers DoinksoftAcquisition spree continues Acquisition spree continues Devolver announced the news on Twitter: Today is a historic moment. We are excited to announce that the world-renowned franchises and talented people at@doinksoftwill be joining Team Devolver!pic.twitter.com/16wP3iH6Ab— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital)April 3, 2023 Today is a historic moment. We are excited to announce that the world-renowned franchises and talented people at@doinksoftwill be joining Team Devolver!pic.twitter.com/16wP3iH6Ab (Red Dead Redemptionhas become a running joke for Deolver....

April 4, 2023 · 1 min · 189 words · Jamie Mann