HomeHardwareFeatures Crucial’s X8 is finally a worthy rival to Samsung’s portable SSDsA Crucial bit of kit A Crucial bit of kit Available in 500GB and 1TB size capacities, the Crucial X8 isn’t quite as stylish as Samsung’s T7 Touch, but its rounded edges, plain design and anodized aluminium body still makes it feel like a premium bit of kit that won’t get dented or chipped when you’re out and about. Indeed, Crucial claim you can drop the X8 from a height of 2m (albeit onto a carpeted floor) without causing any damage to your files and data - although quite how well it will fare on a concrete or wooden floor isn’t stated....

HomeFeatures Making indie games under the coronavirus quarantineChinese indie devs are feeling the effect of COVID-19 Chinese indie devs are feeling the effect of COVID-19 There’s no shortage of games about the novelcoronavirusor COVID-19, which has, over the past few months, created a global miasma of paranoia, racism, and fear. Global Game Jam 2020 was peppered with virus and outbreak-themed games, including a 2D action game named2019-nCOV Stole My DNAand aTaiwanese gamewhere players must monitor the proper use of face masks....

HomeNewsSpiritfarer Spiritfarer shows off crafting and gathering in a new trailerOf course there’s tree chopping Of course there’s tree chopping I’ve been quite jazzed aboutSpiritfarersince it was first announced last year. The cozy crafting and management game has a much different vibe from the last Thunder Lotus game I played.Jotunkicked my rear right through the final moments so I’ll be glad to have a different relationship with this next one. There’s a new trailer out today showing off some of the gathering and crafting you’ll do while piloting your ferry....

HomeGuidesThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Witcher 3 combat tips: How to beat Golems, Wraiths, and all other enemiesUse these Witcher 3 combat tips to make Geralt an unstoppable force Use these Witcher 3 combat tips to make Geralt an unstoppable force Looking to upgrade your Witcher 3 combat skills?Whether you’re brand new toThe Witcher 3: Wild Huntor have jumped back in courtesy of the next-gen upgrade, odds are you’ll benefit from a quick combat tutorial....

HomeNewsStardew Valley This pacifist mod lets you hug all of Stardew Valley’s monstersGet ready to kiss the Slimes Get ready to kiss the Slimes Alright folks,Stardew Valleyjust wasn’t pleasant enough. The animals are cute, the spouses are cute, and even the monsters are cute. But youdohave to kill the monsters and that is decidedly not cute. You’ve got to whack them with increasingly edgy swords as you dive deeper into the mines beneath the mountain....

HomeGuidesWolcen: Lords of Mayhem Wolcen skills: how to use modifiers and upgrade your active skillsHow to get Primordial Essence How to get Primordial Essence Wolcen has a lot of spells and abilities that you can assign to your character. But just using skills is scratching the surface, as Wolcen allows you to apply modifiers, changing how a skill works. These can be as small as increasing overall damage dealt, or major alterations that transform the skill into something else entirely....

HomeNewsStar Citizen Cloud Imperium and Crytek finally settle their long legal disputeBlasting out of court Blasting out of court For the last few years,Star Citizen’s battles haven’t been high-flying dogfights. Instead, developers Cloud Imperium have been tangled in a dispute with Crytek, exchanging heated legal blows in lieu of laser blasts. But now, at long last, it seems the two warships declared a long-overdue ceasefire. Court documents posted this week reveal that Crytek and Cloud Imperium have agreed to settle the former’s lawsuit....

HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Dashing through the snow with good boys, bad gunsPut on your boots Put on your boots Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Like some sort of digital bake-off, game developers across the land offer up their finest works-in-progress to be scrutinised on aTwitter hashtag. Once more I - the Mary Berry of screenshot judging - must hand-pick some of this weekend’s best offerings. This week: Scandinavian snowdrifts, exceptionally talented dogs, and grossly impractical firearms....

HomeNewsWolfenstein: Youngblood Bethesda remove all but one of their games from GeForce NowFus Roh Don’t Fus Roh Don’t GeForce Now’s streaming catalogue has shrunk even further since launch. FollowingActivision Blizzard’s lead, now it appears Bethesda Softworks have backed away from Nvidia’s cloud streaming service. All but one of the publisher’s games on the service - from Doom toDishonored- were pulled from GeForce now yesterday, leaving onlyWolfenstein: Youngbloodstanding and streaming. Nvidia announced the removals in anupdate postlate last night....

HomeFeatures Witcher 3 cross-saves, No Man’s Sky living ships, Wolcen fixes, and more of the week’s patchesGet up to date on updates Get up to date on updates This week, The Witcher 3 let us take PC saves to Nintendo Switch,No Man’s Skyadded living spaceships, and Wolcen looted some fixes. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update. The Witcher 3 on Switch can now play PC saves Continue Geralt’s adventures on the go!...

HomeNews Asobo Studio manually edited 37,000 airports for Microsoft Flight SimulatorClear for landing Clear for landing The previousMicrosoft Flight Simulator Xgame had only—and I promise I say “only” as a joke—24,000 airports. Asobo has vastly expanded that number and specifically chose 37,000 of them to edit individually with satellite images as references. Some are small rural landing strips and others are on top of mountains. For each airport, Asobo trace all of the runways from a Bing aerial map (suppose they weren’t allowed to use Google satellite images, eh?...

HomeNews Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Faeria are your free games on Epic this weekMurder some Englishmen and play a magical board game Murder some Englishmen and play a magical board game This week’s free games on the Epic Store will have you murdering unsuspecting Englishmen and playing cards against your friends on a magical hex board. That’s right, it’sAssassin’s Creed SyndicateandFaeria! I’ll let you figure out which description goes with which game....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2’s next season will shake up snipers and The Last WordVOOP! VOOP! Bungie still haven’t even revealed the name of the newDestiny 2season starting in three weeks, let alone what’s new in it, but they are opening up about what it’ll do to the old meta. On top ofthe sword changesdiscussed a few weeks ago, they have big plans for weapons including sniper rifles, long-range fusion rifles, and the exotics Lord Of Wolves, Izanagi’s Burden, and The Last Word....