IO Interactive says PC players won't need to rebuy Hitman 2 to play its levels in Hitman 3 after all

HomeNews IO Interactive says PC players won’t need to rebuy Hitman 2 to play its levels in Hitman 3 after all"We guarantee that players will NOT need to repurchase these games" “We guarantee that players will NOT need to repurchase these games” Last week, IO Interactive said players would need to ownHitman 2on the Epic Games Store if they wanted to import its levels toHitman 3. That was pretty rubbish - for owners of the game on Steam, it meant you either couldn’t have those levels, or you’d need to buy it again....

January 18, 2021 · 5 min · 938 words · Emily Chan

Put words in game characters' mouths with this fascinating text to speech tool

HomeNews Put words in game characters' mouths with this fascinating text to speech toolWith great power comes great goofs With great power comes great goofs Machine learning is absolutely fascinating and yet I mostly just enjoy when people use impressive tech to create weird skits and memes. That’s exactly what everyone appears to be doing with an extremely impressive machine-learning tool that lets you type in text for various characters to say out loud....

January 18, 2021 · 2 min · 300 words · David Wilson

Skyrim's Enderal mod team are making a new commercial game

HomeNews Skyrim’s Enderal mod team are making a new commercial gameOoh! What could it be? Ooh! What could it be? The final update arrived for the huge (and hugely impressive) freeSkyrimtotal conversion modEnderalyesterday. It’s a small patch but does bring a bit tease that the developers are now working on a new commercial project. They don’t give any hint as to what that might be, but considering the years they’ve spent with Enderal as well as Oblivion mod Nehrim, it’s hard not to assume/hope it might be some fantasy RPG dealio....

January 18, 2021 · 2 min · 317 words · Heather Miller

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator may be the final Kinect game

HomeNewsSpace Warlord Organ Trading Simulator Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator may be the final Kinect gameNo guts no glory No guts no glory To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Currently, there are 31 organs in the game, although Nelson says this is scalable, and may change “if I finally wake up in the dead of night and decide, once and for all, that teeth are actually an organ”....

January 18, 2021 · 2 min · 268 words · Sarah Smith

This spooky squirrel surveillance game launches in February

HomeNewsNuts This spooky squirrel surveillance game launches in FebruaryWhat are these critters really up to? What are these critters really up to? “Ah, what another lovely looking game about photographing animals,” I thought to myself upon first glance atNuts. Look at the beautiful colors. Spot those quirky squirrels. I’m sure it’s quite relaxing. How wrong I was. Nuts has announced a February release date for its squirrel surveillance story and there is definitely something sinister going on in this new trailer....

January 18, 2021 · 2 min · 338 words · Matthew Carey

Despite advertising otherwise, players need to re-buy Hitman 2 to import its levels to Hitman 3

HomeNews Despite advertising otherwise, players need to re-buy Hitman 2 to import its levels to Hitman 3Due to “circumstances out of our control” Due to “circumstances out of our control” Hitman 3will no longer offer the ability to import levels fromHitman 2when it launches later this month, unless players re-purchase Hitman 2 on the Epic Games Store first. Near the bottom of a long and complicated pre-launch guide, developers IO Interactive said the change in plans was “due to various circumstances out of our control....

January 16, 2021 · 5 min · 1040 words · Misty Burgess

Rogue Heroes: Ruins Of Tasos's demo is a Zelda-style good time

HomeNewsRogue Heroes: Ruins Of Tasos Rogue Heroes: Ruins Of Tasos’s demo is a Zelda-style good timeFull release next month Full release next month I spend 90% of my life clicking on emails and websites, so in the evening I find I want to play games that involve a controller rather than a mouse.Rogue Heroes: Ruins Of Tasoshas a demo that scratched that itch for me last night. It’s a top-down dungeon hack for up to 4 players which has just-announced a February 23rd release date with a new trailer below....

January 16, 2021 · 4 min · 729 words · Robert Gray

Sokpop Collective are streaming all 77 of their games tomorrow

HomeNews Sokpop Collective are streaming all 77 of their games tomorrowIt’s their birthday It’s their birthday Sokpop Collective are a band of game development pals who releasea new game every two weeks via their Patreon. The games are all cute, frequently physicsy, but otherwise cover a broad range of genres. Genres likespace golf,skeleton brawler, androck paper scissors MMO.To celebrate the Patreon’s third birthday, they’re taking to Twitch tomorrow to stream all 77 of their games....

January 16, 2021 · 4 min · 763 words · Andrea Myers

All the important PC gaming news from CES 2021

HomeHardwareFeatures All the important PC gaming news from CES 2021Everything you need to know about 2021’s most exciting hardware Everything you need to know about 2021’s most exciting hardware Nvidia’s RTX 3060 is coming in late February Arguably the biggest and most exciting announcement to come out of this year’s CES was the arrival of another new Nvidia RTX graphics card. Priced at $329, the RTX 3060 will come with a massive 12GB of GDDR6 memory, which is 4GB more than both theRTX 3060 TiandRTX 3070....

January 15, 2021 · 4 min · 823 words · Jack Kennedy

Best Warzone LMG: which is the best LMG in Warzone Caldera?

HomeGuidesCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Best Warzone LMG: which is the best LMG in Warzone Caldera?Which LMG is king in Warzone Caldera? Which LMG is king in Warzone Caldera? Want to know the best LMG in Warzone?LMGs inWarzonefill an interesting role. Their time-to-kill often competes with Assault Rifles, but LMGs will almost always have slower ADS and movement speed. If you take advantage of their larger magazines and excellent range, however, LMGs can be among thebest guns in Warzone....

January 15, 2021 · 10 min · 2038 words · Rebecca Smith

How I got findommed by the moon in Mars Horizon

HomeFeaturesMars Horizon Astronomical sums Mars Horizonis a much more cunning creature than it seems at first. When I played its demo last year, I thought it was a splendid little management sim about the space race, albeit with the words “splendid” and “little” arranged like the wheels of a penny farthing. It seemed a bit simple, if I’m honest, with the potential to be a pretty linear walkthrough of the history of space exploration....

January 15, 2021 · 3 min · 545 words · Kyle Romero

Path Of Exile's new expansion Echoes Of The Atlas is out now

HomeNewsPath of Exile Path Of Exile’s new expansion Echoes Of The Atlas is out nowMore skill trees, why not? More skill trees, why not? After a short delay to scuttle out ofCyberpunk 2077’s way in December,Path of Exilehas booted its newest expansion Echoes Of Atlas out the door today. Path Of Exile’s update 1.13 is live now, adding a good chunk of new features including new maps, new endgame boss, and new passive skill trees....

January 15, 2021 · 2 min · 266 words · Travis Williams

Phasmophobia's worst objective is getting removed, thank goodness

HomeNewsPhasmophobia Phasmophobia’s worst objective is getting removed, thank goodnessWash your hands of this terrible goal Wash your hands of this terrible goal Yes, I know official spooks month is long past now. Yes, I am still playingPhasmophobia. The co-op ghost hunting simulation is just too much fun to mess around in with pals. The more familiar we’ve gotten with the game though, the clearer it is that there is one ghost hunting objective that is the absolute worst....

January 15, 2021 · 3 min · 484 words · Keith Morgan