HomeGuidesValorant Valorant: How to play SovaHe’s so-very good. He’s so-very good. Sova’s a great choice for players new to the game thanks to his accessible, easy to understand abilities which happen to the genuinely helpful. His skills maybe be simple to understand, but there’s a high skill-ceiling for those chasing mastery of this agent. Below we’ve put together some strategy advice to help you make the most of Sova’s abilities....

HomeNewsXCOM: Chimera Squad XCOM: Chimera Squad is out now, and it’s half-priceBreach! Breach! Breach! Breach! It’s time to put down your world-saving guns and pick up your alien-policing batons, becauseXCOM: Chimera Squadis out. XCOPS takes a big sidewards leap away from the main series, boiling down turn-based combat into single-room encounters. Developers Firaxis have messed with the turn-order, too, with your troops' individual moves now interleaved with your enemies. I’ve already played it, and have mixed feelings....

HomeNewsCloudpunk Cloudpunk’s stratospheric deliveries and noir conspiracies are out todayOld punk yells at clouds Old punk yells at clouds Bad hours, shady bosses. The gig economy’s tough enough as-is, without the risk of dropping a package off the side of a ten-mile-high balcony. Released today,Cloudpunklets you traipse around a stunning voxel cityscape, making deliveries and solving mysteries like some sorta flying Deliveroo driver-turned-detective. Let’s just hope you’re getting a bonus for all this sleuthing....

HomeFeaturesPistol Whip Have You Played… Pistol Whip?Guitar Hero meets Hotline Miami Guitar Hero meets Hotline Miami Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Like the better knownBeat Saber,Pistol Whipis a virtual reality rhythm game, but here you’re firing bullets at silhouetted figures in time to the music. It’sHotline MiamiviaGuitar Hero.The Guitar Hero part is that you’re advancing through the level in a straight line with no way of stopping....

HomeHardwareFeatures HTC Vive Cosmos Elite review: standing in the shadow of the Valve IndexAn improvement on the regular Cosmos, but man alive it’s way too expensive An improvement on the regular Cosmos, but man alive it’s way too expensive When HTC first announced that their newVive Cosmosheadset had a modular faceplate design that would let you update it for “different VR needs in the future”, it wasn’t entirely clear what those needs would actually entail....

HomeNews Make your voice chat a lot better with Discord and Nvidia’s new magic noise reductionBackground noise, begone! Background noise, begone! If your chatmates are lucky, you’ve already seen and been using these. If not, hey, this is a helpful reminder. So here’s “Barnacules” demonstrating Nvidia’s new RTX Voice the other day: To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Come on, that fan’s not even on and no way he’s actually banging that hammer, you can see he’s just flapping it around without tou- oh....

HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch’s revamped chat wheel will finally let you say sorryI need healing I need healing Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube The new chat wheel now lets you put together a sort of chat loadout of your favourite phrases, picking from a bank of 26 fully-voiced lines for each hero. Keybinds can also be set up for lines that aren’t included on your current wheel setup, similar to the game’s current shortcuts for readying your ultimate or requesting healing....

HomeNewsParadise Killer Paradise Killer is an open-world whodunnit with celestial stakesMurder in Paradise Murder in Paradise A new trailer forParadise Killerdropped today, which means it’s finally a chance to check in on Kaizen Game Works' open-world crime-solver. Pretty standard, murder mystery visual novel stuff then, right? Chat to the suspects, explore the scene for clues, crack the case before celestial entities hard-reset the universe into its 25th iteration, a perfect reflection of Paradise as a concept, borne of the corpses of alien gods....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves players are immortalising their real-life pets with its new catsAll paws on deck! All paws on deck! I know I won’t shut up about it, butSea Of Thievesgot cats for pets yesterday. And as if they weren’t brilliant enough, pirates are now welcoming these furry friends aboard their ships to remind them of their real-life kitties. For some players, the four-legged crewmates are a sort of memorial, too, naming their in-game cats after pets that have passed on, so they can sail with them on the seas forever....

HomeNewsPendragon The 80 Days devs want you to pen campfire stories for PendragonPen for Pendragon Pen for Pendragon If you’re into Arthurian myths, you might be interested inPendragon. It’s an upcoming “narrative strategy game” about chatting and turn-based whacking from the creators of80 DaysandHeaven’s Vault. If you’rereallyinto Arthurian myths, you might want to take a stab at writing one.Developers Inkle are after short, lightly-interactive campfire stories for their heroes to natter to each other....

HomeNewsFallout 76 There’s a special deer in Fallout 76 that will lead you to stashes of loot (but players keep killing it)PSA: Stop killing the Observant Radstag PSA: Stop killing the Observant Radstag The next time you come across a Radstag inFallout 76, have a quick check of its name before you start pelting it with bullets.The Wastelanders updatebrought with it many new and wondrous things, and one of those was the Observant Radstag....

HomeReviewsXCOM: Chimera Squad Wot I Think - XCOM: Chimera SquadOrder, order Order, order Developer:Firaxis GamesPublisher:2KRelease:April 24thOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£17, $20, €20It is very hard for me not to think aboutXCOM: Chimera Squadas a warped and watered down version of XCOM proper. We’re still in the same universe, fighting many of the same enemies. We’re still alternating between squad-based missions and a boardgamey over-structure, researching new weapons and gadgets while unlocking new abilities for our troops....

HomeGuidesXCOM: Chimera Squad XCOM Chimera Squad training: how to remove scarsRequirements for training Requirements for training There are plenty of ways to upgrade your agents in XCOM Chimera Squad, one of which is via the training facility. Training can either be used to increase the stats of your agents permanently, give them new abilities, or remove scars. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings XCOM Chimera Squad training guide OurXCOM Chimera Squad trainingguide will go over all the training available and the requirements you need to achieve to execute them....