Assassin's Creed Odyssey map guide - how big is the map, legend icons

HomeGuidesAssassin’s Creed Odyssey Assassin’s Creed Odyssey map guide - how big is the map, legend iconsCartographers nightmare Cartographers nightmare Assassin’s Creed Odysseyis a massive game. In fact, you can’t zoom out all the way to see just how big it really is. Encompassing Ancient Greece into a game is no small feat, so when you first visit the map on the pause screen, you may feel overwhelmed. I know I did when I first looked at it....

January 15, 2020 · 4 min · 708 words · Corey Fernandez

Dota Underlords and the autobattler genre is struggling to keep players

HomeFeatures Dota Underlords and the autobattler genre is struggling to keep playersAutobattle to the death Autobattle to the death Six months later, Teamfight Tactics seems relatively stable, whileDota Underlordsis dropping fast. We normally don’t pay player numbers much heed, but given autobattlers were last year’s big new genre and Dota and League Of Legends are both long-term titans, it’s hard not to ask the question: how come? The first, obvious, consideration is that TFT lives inside theLeague Of Legendslauncher....

January 15, 2020 · 3 min · 633 words · Sarah Sanders

Play any operator you want this month on Rainbow Six Siege's new Stadium map

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Play any operator you want this month on Rainbow Six Siege’s new Stadium mapHome team advantage Home team advantage Ahead ofRainbow Six Siege’s tournament next month, the Six Invitational 2020, Ubisoft are sending players on a month long in-game event. The Road To SI 2020 playlist will last for five weekends with a matching Battle Pass and unlockable rewards on a brand new map.From January 15th to February 16th, players will have access to an unranked mode where Ubisoft say, “matches are Bomb matches with Pick and Ban, 3-minute rounds on a 3-round rotation....

January 15, 2020 · 4 min · 686 words · Frank Casey

PUBG is introducing a brand new map with destructible buildings

HomeNewsPUBG: Battlegrounds PUBG is introducing a brand new map with destructible buildingsAnd Motor Gliders are making their way to the live servers. And Motor Gliders are making their way to the live servers. Playerunknown’s Battlegroundsnew year action will see players getting to drop in on a brand new 64-player map, the island of Karakin. Set in a delightfully arid desert location, Karakin has completely destructible buildings thanks to an edgy new feature named Black Zone - a hazard that changes the map layout each match....

January 15, 2020 · 8 min · 1604 words · Jessica Ward

Sea Of Thieves latest update is celebrating players who've committed legendary pirate feats

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves latest update is celebrating players who’ve committed legendary pirate featsTime to hunt some s-easter eggs Time to hunt some s-easter eggs Sea Of Thieves’latest free update, Legends Of The Sea, arrives today, bringing with it an in-game easter egg hunt. You won’t be hunting for actual eggs though, instead you’ll be sent to search for some of those video game easter eggs, and in Sea Of Thieves these take the form of references to the game’s most legendary players....

January 15, 2020 · 3 min · 556 words · Brandon Johnson

The Sims 4 Tiny Living got me to play The Sims again

HomeFeaturesThe Sims 4 The Sims 4 Tiny Living got me to play The Sims againWhoever built Rome didn’t have cheat codes Whoever built Rome didn’t have cheat codes When I was a kid I was really, really intoThe Sims. The first one came out around the same time that my big brother went to university, which meant I got to move into his room - the big room, which had the computer in it....

January 15, 2020 · 3 min · 559 words · Kyle Walton

This gameplay video for Frostpunk's Last Autumn DLC shows off worker strikes and more

HomeNewsFrostpunk This gameplay video for Frostpunk’s Last Autumn DLC shows off worker strikes and moreFull freeze ahead, captain Full freeze ahead, captain Last month, the hellishly cold city management gameFrostpunkannounced an upcoming DLC telling the story of civilisation just before the freeze. At the time, there was only an animated teaser trailer for The Last Autumn. This week,11 Bit Studiosare showing off gameplay from the new DLC with some of the elements you can expect from the prequel story....

January 15, 2020 · 6 min · 1278 words · Julie Wright

Twitch viewers are betting fake Gil on AI playing Final Fantasy Tactics

HomeNewsFinal Fantasy Tactics Twitch viewers are betting fake Gil on AI playing Final Fantasy TacticsBecome a Gil-getter Become a Gil-getter Remember when Twitch Plays Pokemon was all the rage? Imagine that, but Twitch chat isn’t playing the game, they’re betting on it instead. The Twitch channelFFTBattlegroundhas set up tournaments of AI bots playingFinal Fantasy Tacticsagainst one another that viewers can bet fake Gs on. Final Fantasy Tacticsstill isn’t on PC and though I won’t call this the next best thing (there are spiritual successors likeFell Seal: Arbiter’s Markfor that) it’s still quite neat on its own....

January 15, 2020 · 1 min · 202 words · Jesse White

Wizardry: Labyrinth Of Lost Souls comes to PC today

Hip to be square Sir-Tech’s original Wizardry games were among those that defined the entire RPG genre, particularly those concerned with sending a party into dungeons to kill everything. In 1991 they inspired a separate branch of spin-offs in Japan that continued long after the North American series petered out. This entry in that line finally came to English speaking PCs today. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Wizardry is a series in the odd position of being enormously influential, yet semi-forgotten....

January 15, 2020 · 1 min · 169 words · Jennifer Hammond

World Of Warcraft's new Visions Of N'Zoth update is live

HomeNewsWorld of Warcraft World Of Warcraft’s new Visions Of N’Zoth update is liveYou can’t even trust yourself. You can’t even trust yourself. The next content update forWorld Of Warcraftis live and things are looking pretty dark. The Old God N’Zoth has escaped his former prison and is setting about attacking the minds of warriors instead of their bodies. The Visions Of N’Zoth update adds new races and combat challenges for both factions....

January 15, 2020 · 4 min · 738 words · Jack Huffman

Epic Games Store will continue free game giveaways all 2020

HomeNews Epic Games Store will continue free game giveaways all 2020Weekly giveaways! Weekly giveaways! Epic confirmed today that they plan to keep on giving away a full game for free every week on the Epic Games Store throughout 2020. Previously they’d only confirmed freebies through to the end of 2019, a year they ended witha blowout of daily freebies, though they did quietly kept going when this year started. Epic say over 200 million free games have been claimed so far....

January 14, 2020 · 5 min · 1043 words · Natalie Johnson

Failbetter on the unlikely success of Fallen London's first ten years

HomeFeaturesFallen London Failbetter on the unlikely success of Fallen London’s first ten yearsIf you’re tired of London… If you’re tired of London… He produces a cast iron teapot, vanishes to fill it, then returns to let it brew. He gives information and instructions about the tea: it is whole leaves rather than ground up, and is paler than teabag tea. It works with milk if you want, but you should use less than you would normally....

January 14, 2020 · 9 min · 1891 words · Christine Chavez

Marvel's Avengers and the Final Fantasy VII Remake have been delayed

HomeNews Marvel’s Avengers and the Final Fantasy VII Remake have been delayedFFVII enters April’s game release hot-zone. FFVII enters April’s game release hot-zone. The intended release date forMarvel’s Avengerswas initially set for the 15th of May, but has now been pushed all the way back to the 4th of September. Crystal Dynamics announced the bad news in a statementon Twitter, saying: “When we set out to bring you our vision for Marvel’s Avengers, we committed to delivering an original story-driven campaign, engaging co-op, and compelling content for years to come....

January 14, 2020 · 2 min · 342 words · Michael Smith