Doom Eternal Super Gore Nest collectables: all secrets in the fifth mission

HomeGuides Doom Eternal Super Gore Nest collectables: all secrets in the fifth missionHow to complete the challenges in mission five How to complete the challenges in mission five With the fifth mission of Doom Eternal, the number of collectables has gone up rather significantly. It’s very easy to miss them as well, since there may be multiple items in one secret location. But don’t worry, I’ve found all of them and have put together this list of their locations....

March 24, 2020 · 2 min · 265 words · Linda Chapman

Doom Eternal Urdak collectables: all secrets in the twelfth mission

HomeGuides Doom Eternal Urdak collectables: all secrets in the twelfth missionHow to complete the twelfth mission’s challenges How to complete the twelfth mission’s challenges This is the final level in Doom Eternal where hunting for collectables is a major part of the game. While they’re nowhere near as difficult to get to as some missions, these last few items are at least well hidden. We will uncover their locations, so you can complete your collection for most items....

March 24, 2020 · 2 min · 229 words · John Steele

Football Manager offers in-game advertising space to mental health charities

HomeNewsFootball Manager 2020 Football Manager offers in-game advertising space to mental health charitiesGame on! Game on! “We will be offering free advertising in Football Manager for mental health charities in different countries who are helping people during the Covid-19 crisis,” Sports Interactive CEO Miles Jacobsontweetedyesterday. “If you work for one & want to learn more, please email partnerships@sigames.com” Like real stadiums, Football Manager has ad boards around the pitch during matches, a mix of real brands and generic ones....

March 24, 2020 · 2 min · 256 words · Jamie Palmer

Ghost Recon Breakpoint teams up with Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher today

HomeNews Ghost Recon Breakpoint teams up with Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher todayBreak on through, Michael Ironside Break on through, Michael Ironside Ubisoft’s stealth star Sam Fisher has been laying low, with nary aSplinter Cellgame since 2013’s Blacklist and only a scant few cameo appearances. He’s popped back up on the radar again today with a guest spot inGhost Recon Breakpoint, teaming up with the spec ops squad who specialise in higher bodycounts....

March 24, 2020 · 2 min · 260 words · Casey Wyatt

Have You Played... Vilmonic?

HomeFeaturesVilmonic Have You Played… Vilmonic?Playing God Playing God Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I have tried and failed to playVilmonic. It’s an artificial life sim where you’re in charge of your own organisms, cultivating the ideal conditions for them to prosper and grow. ThinkCreatures, but with optional genome editing.It’s too much for me, but it is fascinating.You start off with dreams and a spade....

March 24, 2020 · 3 min · 550 words · Carmen Clayton

HP are teasing a new SteamVR headset for Half-Life: Alyx

HomeHardwareNews HP are teasing a new SteamVR headset for Half-Life: AlyxThe Reverb G2 is coming. The Reverb G2 is coming. HP have given us a sneak peak of their next-gen virtual reality headset in a new teaser video - just in time for the launch ofHalf-Life: Alyx. Called the Reverb G2, this new headset promises “no compromise” and aims to deliver “a more immersive, comfortable and compatible experience” than HP’s 1st-gen Reverb headset....

March 24, 2020 · 3 min · 507 words · Gary Kirk

Someone drew the gods from Hades as adorable Animal Crossing villagers

HomeNews Someone drew the gods from Hades as adorable Animal Crossing villagersHera some great crossovers Hera some great crossovers Animal Crossing: New Horizons may only be on Switch, but that will not stop me from finding ways to talk about it in relation to my fave PC games. We’ve already seen loads ofthe adorable mashups of Isabelle and Doom Guy, frolicking amongst fields of demons, and now I want to show you the cutest piece of Hades fan art where someone has drawn all the gods as cartoon-y Animal Crossing Villagers....

March 24, 2020 · 2 min · 280 words · Keith Sanders

The RPS Verdict - Stellaris: Federations

HomeFeaturesStellaris The RPS Verdict - Stellaris: FederationsNic & Nate make classic space mistakes Nic & Nate make classic space mistakes Nate:The galaxy has been remade once again. Space opera strategy extravaganzaStellarishas a new DLC out, calledFederations, and a massive free patch that overhauls a greater-than-usual number of the game’s systems. Both the DLC and the patch focus hard on diplomacy, and so I thought it’d be a good idea to rope in a fellow space obsessive and see if, working together, we could befriend our way to dominion over the galaxy....

March 24, 2020 · 8 min · 1551 words · Caitlin Mills

VR has done wonders for the Combine's life expectancy, say Valve

HomeNewsHalf-Life: Alyx VR has done wonders for the Combine’s life expectancy, say ValveFrom 10 seconds to two minutes From 10 seconds to two minutes The Combine are still public enemy number one inHalf-Life: Alyx, but moving the series to VR has done wonders for their overall health, Valve have told me. Whereas before “the average lifetime of aHalf-Life 2Combine soldier was probably somewhere between 10-20 seconds,” according toHalf-Life: Alyx’s lead programmer and designer Robin Walker, “as soon as we started to do play-testing in VR, we saw enemies lasting for a minute or two of life....

March 24, 2020 · 10 min · 2043 words · John Thompson

We talked to Eve Online's devs about faction warfare, Loyalty To Lowsec and other seasonal updates

HomeFeaturesEVE Online We talked to Eve Online’s devs about faction warfare, Loyalty To Lowsec and other seasonal updatesLiving space Living space The first of these quadrants, titled Fight Or Flight,began this January, and the last part of it, Loyalty to Lowsec, goes live today. But what is a Loyalty To Lowsec? I sat down at a polite distance with Scott Rhodes and Joshua Bayer, Producer and Senior Games Designer respectively, to find out....

March 24, 2020 · 8 min · 1536 words · Christopher Alvarado

F1 2019 is hosting a Virtual Grand Prix series with real F1 drivers to fill in for the regular season

HomeNewsF1 2019 F1 2019 is hosting a Virtual Grand Prix series with real F1 drivers to fill in for the regular seasonChain, keep us together Chain, keep us together With Formula 1 races off for the time being due to health concerns, the action has gone digital with an official Virtual Grand Prix Series played out inF1 2019. Current and former real Formula 1 drivers including Lando Norris and Johnny Herbert are running in the shadow along with F1 esports folks and a sprinkling of other celebrities like Olympic cycling champion Chris Hoy....

March 23, 2020 · 6 min · 1248 words · Lindsay House

Half-Life: Alyx playtesters were "obsessed with collecting stuff"

HomeNewsHalf-Life: Alyx Half-Life: Alyx playtesters were “obsessed with collecting stuff"Play for keeps Play for keeps Honestly, have you ever seen some silly garbage in a game that you could pick up and not wanted to keep it? Collect it? Hoard it? You haven’t. Admit it. According to RPS’s inside scoop with Valve’s developers, the effect is multiplied in VR. Valve tells us thatHalf-Life: Alyxplaytesters just couldn’t get enough of collecting things....

March 23, 2020 · 7 min · 1361 words · Andrea Wiggins

Half-Life: Alyx VR performance: How to get the best settings and the smoothest experience

HomeHardwareFeaturesHalf-Life: Alyx Half-Life: Alyx VR performance: How to get the best settings and the smoothest experienceCan you really play it on the minimum spec? Can you really play it on the minimum spec? Of course, testing a VR game’s performance can be a bit tricky. There’s no frame rate counter visible from inside aVR headset, for example, and much of your experience will depend on exactly which type of VR headset you have, as their respective displays all have different refresh rates....

March 23, 2020 · 6 min · 1267 words · Amanda Lopez