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That’s an incredible set of specs for a gaming monitor of this price, especially when it’s also got a height-adjustable stand and a sleek, slim design. There’s still a hint of this being a ‘gaming’ screen thanks to the subtle red, metallic highlights on its lower bezel and the base of the stand, but for the most part, this is a good-looking modern screen you wouldn’t be embarrassed to have in your home office or gaming desk - especially not when it’s beautiful curved VA panel can produce such rich, vibrant colours straight out of the box....

Before I can tell you exactly how fun Arenas is, it’s worth explaining exactly how it works, because it’s pretty different from anything Apex has done before. It’s a 3v3 team deathmatch where the first team to win three rounds or lead by a two-win margin takes the game. If teams are tired with four wins each, the ninth round is a sudden death tiebreaker. You pick your Legend as you would jumping into a battle royale (without seeing what the other team has chosen), and there’s no switching Legends between rounds so you can’t metagame by swapping out to characters that counter others....

Actually, “launch” is probably a better word to use than “throw”, because pulling off the stunt jetts you off into the sky like Gnome Chompski strapped to a rocket. Apex Legends’ seventh season landed earlier this month, bringing with it a new map, new character and new vehicle, the Trident. Now, there are many fun things you can do with the Trident that Respawn actually intended on letting you do - like covering the thing in Caustic’s gas traps to make a hovering stink-machine, for example....

Apex Legends tips | Apex Legends Arena mode | Apex Legends best characters | Best loadout in Apex Legends | Apex Legends attachments | Apex Legends Armor & Gear | Low Profile and Fortified in Apex Legends Apex Legends L-Star overview The L-Star began life in Season 2 of Apex Legends as an extremely high-DPS Care Package-exclusive LMG. Now it’s a world-drop item, and it still blitzes enemies like any other LMG in the game, but it’s probably the most unusual of all the LMGs on offer thanks to its overheating mechanic - which, if mastered by learning when to ease off the trigger, means you effectively never need to reload the L-Star....

On this page: Apex Legends Mirage abilities Mirage tips and tricks Mirage Passive tips: Now You See Me Mirage Tactical tips: Psyche Out Mirage Ultimate tips: Life Of The Party Apex Legends Mirage backstory Apex Legends Mirage abilities Mirage has access to three abilities: Now You See Me (Passive), Psyche Out (Tactical), and Life of the Party (Ultimate). He is a Legend based entirely around misdirection and fooling your opponents, making him one of the most fun to play if you enjoy humiliating your enemies....

Baldur’s Gate 3 would be a very different game if our characters were quite so enthusiastic about their own Mind Flayer tadpoles. Makes you wonder if they shouldn’t go with the flow. Sounds great fun, really. What’s the worst that could happen? The fantasy RPG entered early access this year, with a view to maybe launch in full in 2021. Our Baldur’s Gate 3 early access review liked a lot about it, though Matthew Castle did think he might rather wait until it was complete and done....

As it stands, then, there’s much more value to be found in the previous generation of GPUs. The GeForce RTX 30 series stands up particularly well, combing strong base performance with the added benefits of DLSS upscaling support and ray tracing capabilities that leave AMD (and Intel Arc) graphics cards eating some attractively light-diffusing dust. Even with new-for-2023 games like Forspoken and Returnal asking for much in the PC system requirements, the cards on this list will handle anything, even if it takes some lowered settings to get the fastest framerates....

Finding the best Sniper is essential if you want to come out on top in long-range engagements, but testing them takes time. Time that you’d probably rather spend scoring headshots and getting wins. That’s why we’ve done all the testing for you! In this guide, we’ll reveal our pick for the very best Sniper Rifle in Warzone 2 at the moment. We’ll also provide a ranked list of every Sniper Rifle in Warzone 2, and provide more information on each so that you understand why they’ve been ranked in their current position....

Story-wise, the CIA have sent Requiem team out to the biggest known outbreak site in the Ural Mountains to assist with various research objectives. As for how it compares to prior zombies modes, Activision say that the new format means there’s no set path to each objective and you’ll be able to spend as much time as you like exploring and hunting for loot. There are of course the zombie hordes to contend with though so don’t drag your feet too long....

“Unveiling the final chapter of The Penitent One’s first story, Wounds of Eventide offers new levels, bosses, items, and secrets to unearth, while unlocking another fate for Cvstodia that leads into the events of the Blasphemous sequel that was announced earlier this year for a 2023 launch,” explains the blurb. You can’t find all the newness with a late-game save, mind, so maybe it’s time for a replay? The patch notes also detail a few bugfixes....

While Warcraft III: Reforged isn’t as horrible as some would have you believe (it’s rocking a 0.5/10 user score on Metacritic), Blizzard have dropped the ball - especially considering vintage Warcraft 3 is a game that was, until the launch of Reforged, still in perfectly fine condition. Reforged may have fancier models and textures but overall does not come off well in comparison. Reforged has bugs that classic WC3 didn’t, it’s missing several classic features like custom campaigns and clans, and Blizzard now claim even greater ownership over custom maps and modes made by players....

You play as Arabella Greene, a retired botanist and owner of a stately home in 19th century England. As you wander the grounds and sun-soaked greenhouses, you solve puzzles by finding seeds, planting them, and carrying the pot to the environment it needs in order to grow. “The plants you need to grow are fussy, and finding their ideal habitat will sometimes require you to think outside the box,” says Botany Manor’s Steam page....

There’s really not much to this demo. There’s a single map, where you can set up a small settlement, with basic food amenities, and a single resource supply chain (clay -> pottery, or clay + straw -> bricks). Because you can’t speed up the game pace yet, I played the starting scenario for aaaaages, but it was a bit of a waste of time. I’d seen the vast majority of the content after fifteen minutes, and the rest was just a case of waiting for numbers to tick up....

“Since Beyond Light shipped, players on PC have been experiencing less than ideal performance,” Bungie casually understate in their latest This Week At Bungie blogblast. We sure have! My FPS has tanked severely, making some areas of the game quite unpleasant to visit. And long gone are the days I could pop YouTube or Netflix on my second monitor while running Strikes or playing Gambit - that now brings my FPS low enough to count individual frames....

The audio is a surprisingly soothing computer generated voice from a mixture of Wikipedia articles, website texts, and player-written scripts. Every official in-game point of interest has a tour, but beyond that there are over 8000 places found and tagged by the community. Even if you don’t use the audio tour, the site is a great repository of places to see, but don’t half-arse it. Get the client and sign-up to the site....

Here’s a video: Yes. They put part of the character art on the Port of Long Beach, California, and the rest of it on the surface of a cargo ship. Then they slowly, no doubt expensively, manouvered the cargo ship into port to complete the picture. Why? I don’t know what to to tell you. Modern Warfare 2 is a sequel to 2019’s remake of Modern Warfare 1, and I suppose itself also a remake of 2009’s original Modern Warfare 2....

Below we’ll show you how to put together the very best 3-Line Rifle class setup, complete with a full loadout of 10 attachments and how each one benefits the gun, and recommendations for secondary weapons, perks, and equipment to use alongside the 3-Line Rifle. Best 3-Line Rifle loadout in Call Of Duty: Vanguard The 3-Line Rifle is arguably the best Sniper Rifle in Call Of Duty: Vanguard thanks to its unparalleled ability to kill in one shot to nearly any part of the body....

Not just the RPS treehouse, mind. We grew the treehouse in the middle of an office full of people, and from our hallowed branches we can look down and see a bunch of other people playing it too. Temtem offers a rich, deep world of weird creatures, and yes it is a lot like Pokémon, but that’s the fun. “Ooh,” you go, looking at a bird with a big pointy beak, “that’s basically Fearow, so maybe it has the same weaknesses....

Grindstone is all about slicing a path through a bunch of creepy creatures on your 7x7 board in each level, earning new gear, battling bosses, and collecting currency along the way. It’s got various types of enemies on the board, with their own abilities and all, making you think about where you’ll land at the end of your turn and how to prepare for your next big slash. The new Fortune Grind update (out today on current platforms) gives you a snazzy wheel to spin that might reward your runs with either extra loot or extra obstacles instead....

With the overall goal of “advancing accessibility for gamers with disabilities”, GAconf Europe started at 10 this morning. See the schedule for the full list of talks and sessions coming. A lot of interesting stuff. While it’s clearly meant for devs, it’s an interesting and important topic for many more people. You can register on Eventbrite to join the conference through Zoom, or without registering can join on YouTube (which has a rolling archive you can scrub back through)....