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“We have indefinitely suspended President Trump’s Twitch channel due to the ongoing risk of further incitement of violence. The President’s statements continue to be interpreted as calls to action, and we are taking this action to remove the potential for harm to our community and the general public,” Twitch told IGN. “Twitch has clear rules that prohibit hateful conduct, harassment, or incitement of violence on our service, and we consider off-service events when making enforcement decisions....

Sound familiar? That’s because Moon was one of the inspirations for Undertale, Toby Fox’s smash hit indie RPG. Now Moon is headed to PC for the first time, a year after it was first translated into English. Moon was originally developed by Love-de-Lic, a Japanese studio formed by former Square Enix RPG developers who had worked on Super Mario RPG and Romancing SaGa. It was released on the original PlayStation, to some critical acclaim but not much commercial success....

Patch 3.06 arrived in Riot’s tactical FPS last night, giving tweaks to a handful of characters. First up, Jett has lost one of her smoke charges, so she’ll only have two going forward. The devs say that having three smokes “contributed to a sense that she could get away with using them at any time, have more to spare, or spam them without much thought.” Hopefully, Jett players will think a bit more about where they launch them now....

Valorant team comps guide Best agents for any Valorant team Sage Cypher Breach Brimstone Creating a balanced team in Valorant How to build around your teammates Best agents for any Valorant team We’ll talk about how to balance out your team with a diverse selection of roles and abilities shortly. But first, let’s talk about the elephant in the room - the fact that, as Valorant currently stands in its closed beta state, some characters simply give your team a better chance of winning than others....

What if you’re somewhere in the middle? Well. More general tactics game enthusiasts will find plenty to love here - but they’ll have to be prepared to get accustomed to some typical Fire Emblem idiosyncrasies which Vestaria never bothers to explain. Vestaria Saga plays very similarly to Fire Emblem games from the SNES-GBA era. the only thing missing is the classic ‘weapons triangle’. For the uninitiated: imagine a chess board, but with trees and forests and rivers on it....

“The reception of Saints Row did not meet the full expectations and left the fanbase partially polarized,” according to Embracer’s Q2 interim report, published today. “The game development studio, Volition, has been working hard to improve the player experience.” “Financially, Saints Row has performed in line with management expectations in the quarter. Going forward, Volition will transition to become part of Gearbox which has all the tools, including an experienced management team in the US, to create future success at Volition....

Revealed earlier this week, Operation Scarlet Spear will have players teaming up to take on a new threat on foot and in their fancy new spaceships. Once intending to bring their quality-of-life changes to Warframe alongside Scarlet Spear, Digital Extremes explained that they’ve brought the revisions forwards a bit to give players more time to feel out the changes in a 20-part developer workshop stream. Titled Review, Revise, Refresh, there are too many changes to list in this humble news post....

Here’s the teaser trailer - complete with dramatic choral music, freaky alien beasts, and a peek at some shiny new items. You’ll be able to bag yourself that Hydroid Prime Warframe and the Athodai hand cannon for free by connecting your Warframe and Twitch accounts, then watching 30 consecutive minutes of TennoLive (the announcement dev stream that closes the event), as well as 30 minutes of any other TennoCon stream that tickles your fancy....

Gulag keeps players occupied after they’ve crashed out of a match, giving them the chance to claw their way back into play by beating opponents. That was the theory anyway, but Warzone 2’s different and controversial 2v2 Gulag is waving goodbye. It’ll be replaced by a 1v1 Gulag similar to the mode found in the first iteration of Call Of Duty’s battle royale. New 1v1 maps are being worked on for the start of Season 02, though one of the most immediately obvious things changing about Gulag is the retirement of the minigun-wielding Jailer....

To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — The Blindboy Podcast (@Rubberbandits) June 22, 2020 I did a proper cackle when he started taunting the fishermen with his iPhone. And at the part where he dances on a moonlit roof, then burns the house down and struts off into the night. He’s very good at immortalising the wild abandon of an RPG player in song. I mainly know Blindboy for his podcast, so it’s neat to now appreciate him musically for something other than the horse song....

But then I got thinking. While the Xbox Series X is certainly a lot more convenient than the full-sized tower PC plonked next to my TV, was it possible to build a similarly tiddly PC that could rival the Series X’s 4K gaming chops? Readers, it is. It will cost you considerably more than Microsoft’s £450 / $500 console box, but throwing price to the wind for the moment, I hereby present: how to build an Xbox PC....

It’s not that way in Bripton, the next town over. The graveyard there is uncannily empty, save for a similarly bare tree. But you can change that, should you so choose: shoot up the bank or fight a duel and, the next time you return to that settlement, new plots will have appeared for every life snuffed out. Weird West even suggests you head to the local cemetery to loot any bodies you’ve missed - though its reputational system implies you should ensure nobody’s watching first....

Here’s all you need to know about microtransactions in Path Of Exile. What microtransactions are in Path Of Exile? You can purchase microtransactions in-game or by visiting the ‘Shop’ section of the Path Of Exile website. Here, you can purchase extra storage space in your Stash, fancy pants cosmetics and weapon skins, and other gear like pets. To access the microtransactions in-game, press the ‘M’ key and you’ll be placed in the microtransactions menu....

Feelies Before you start playing a game these days, you’ll likely have learned all about it world from watching trailers. Once upon a time, you might first immerse yourself in its world by rummaging through documents and artifacts from it while waiting for the game to install. Because some games (particularly adventure games) often included an assortment of physical objects, ‘feelies’. Feelies were often presented as objects pulled from the game’s world: ID cards; blueprints; schematics; paper maps; cloth maps; iron-on patches; jewellery; newspapers; magazines; a paper chef hat; sunglasses; postcards; letters; badges; a blob of pocket fluff; a golf ball; and storybooks....

Mixed dual-wielding “Give a guy a gun, he thinks he’s Superman,” an old saying goes. “Give him two and he thinks he’s God.” I would like to add: give him two different guns and honestly, he isn’t thinking at all; he’s too busy trying to supress his giggles of glee while he strikes cool and moody poses. Why should I put my sawn-off shotgun away in my magic pockets and slowly draw my revolver to pick off a distant baddie when I fire both at once?...

You ride this bus long enough, you see games move in cycles similar to fashion designers, or those big ferris wheels at fairgrounds. Things come round, they peak, they go round again. Often a few different people independently notice an empty niche and start working on something to fill it, so you get a bunch of games with similar themes or styles coming out within months of each other. So I ask: why and/or how have a bunch of people identified golf as a gap in the market?...

To find out exactly how the RTX 3070 Ti stacks up against the rest of today’s best graphics cards, you can read all about it in my full RTX 3070 Ti review. For what it’s worth, I think you should stick with the RTX 3070 if you’re looking to buy a new graphics card, as I don’t feel the RTX 3070 Ti’s marginal performance increase is good enough to justify its higher price over its vanilla sibling....

That’s a good island, and a great museum. The recently-deceased Morris Lupton and his ghost dog Sparky will be trying to save the island of Shelmerston, sitting atop a volcano which seems to be awakening. Thankfully Morris now has ghostpowers, able to peer inside objects and into people’s memories to find out more about the island, its residents, and how the volcano was stopped last time. I Am Dead is coming to Steam later this year, as well as Nintendo Switch....