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Immortality is about Marissa Marcel, a movie star who only made three movies—in 1968, 1970, 1999—which never saw the light of day. She upped and vanished too. We’ll be picking through footage from those movies and behind the scenes to figure out what they were, and what happened. Sam Barlow talked about how the game actually works during yesterday’s ID@Xbox Twitch stream. He explained that it draws from his “love of movies and 20th century classic filmmaking,” and this “is also a very deep dive into how movies are made, who makes them, how do movies work....

Information around the DG1’s exact specs are still thin on the ground at the moment, but Intel have revealed a few more details about its Xe-LP micro architecture at their Architecture Day 2020 conference today. Xe-LP (standing for low power) is one of two Xe-based architectures being readied by Intel, and it’s set to be their most efficient architecture for PC and laptops yet. Xe-LP GPUs will contain up to 96 EUs, or execution units, according to Intel (which is their version of Nvidia’s CUDA cores and AMD’s Stream Processors), and will support a number of DirectX 12 features such as asynchronous compute (which allows it to perform graphics and compute workloads simultaneously), sampler feedback (which allows games to load into memory only the bits it needs for a particular scene) and view instancing (which is all to do with running shaders and rendering)....

These are the sorts of questions you’ll be answering across 12 different murders - and there’s a demo available now, if you want to start to work the case right away. Here’s the latest trailer, which makes a strong - ahem - case for playing it: The Case Of The Golden Idol is set in the 18th century and follows a “cursed aristocratic family”, with the 12 strange deaths you’re investigating spanning 40 years but all being somehow connected....

No sooner have Dontnod wrapped up one twin-tastic story in Tell Me Why, than they’ve announced a release for their next one. Granted, leading man Sam’s twin, The Double, isn’t exactly a sibling. Or real, actually. Once again, Dontnod are taking us to small-town USA for a supernatural mystery. This time, we’re following former journalist Sam Higgs as he attempts to piece together his shattered life following tragedy. Luckily, working in media’s given him the miraculous ability to perfectly picture scenes and spaces in his head, letting him not only recall past scenes, but also predict the future to a degree....

Clearing the shelves is only the beginning, of course. By November 17th, multiplayer will be removed from Disintegration entirely, leaving the game an entirely singleplayer affair. “We stand by the creative risks taken to launch such a unique, genre-bending game created by this small but talented and passionate team,” V1 explained in an update post. “While our player base showed interest in the single player campaign, the game unfortunately struggled to build a significant audience necessary for a compelling multiplayer experience....

The real Elvira was quite a character, according to John Romero. “She used to walk around with a green parrot on her shoulder and smoke cigarettes,” he says. “She would tell jokes with the parrot answering her all in Spanish.” Looks like Elvira’s character in game will favor bullets over birds but the character screen in the video shows that she does get a reference to her brothel ownership in the form of a reduced cost to upgrade brothel security....

In the world of Garden Story, the four towns of The Grove appoint citizens as Guardians. Tragically though, the four towns have fallen into disrepair, which is where you, in the shoes of Concord the grape, come in. “As the newly-appointed Guardian of Spring Hamlet, they’ve got plenty of work ahead of them to prove they’re worthy of such a prestigious title,” explain Picogram and Rose City Games. “Help the community by checking the daily request board for tasks, including gathering resources to help local shopkeepers, repairing bridges to ensure safe passage for citizens, battling the invasive entities collectively known as Rot, and much more....

Logitech’s family of G915 keyboards is seemingly endless - for each fullsize, there is a smaller and/or wireless version to match. Here we have the full-size version of Logitech’s wireless keyboard, unlike the TKL model that’s also been on sale. Basically, this one is a mechanical board with all the regular keyboard keys, is the usual shape and size, but is wireless so can be placed wherever you like without a pesky cable interfering....

The game’s May 2022 update saw the introduction of the second new character class post-release. Just like with April’s introduction of yet another female Martial Artist in the form of the Glaivier, the Destroyer belongs to the already very well-populated Warrior subclass. But what impact has this latest addition had on the game’s meta, and is it worth making your next character a Detroyer? Read on for our comparative rankings of all 17 subclasses for both PvE and PvP activities to help you set up your perfect roster....

Today, Square Enix announced that they were removing the boosters, while apologising “for not responding sooner” to players’ concerns. The announcement of their remove was made via a tweet: “We apologize for not responding sooner to your concerns about the addition of paid consumables in the Marketplace. We introduced them as an option for an evolving player base, and did not see them as pay-to-win since they don’t offer power directly,” says the message....

(Warning: some spoilers for the games mentioned.) Beacon - Alien: Isolation A flashback to a simpler time, when everyone was putting their faces too close to extraterrestrial egg sacs and recording it on their Go Pro. In the beacon mission of the only good Alien videogame, you traipse across the surface of that windy planet from the movie, using chunky scanning equipment and fuzzy voice comms. It’s pure cinema in first-person....

Pending approval from shareholders and authorities, Microsoft will buy up Activision Blizzard in a cash deal valued at $68.7 billion [almost nice -ed.]. They’ll pick up video game series including Call Of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Candy Crush, Starcraft, and Diablo, along with 10,000 employees at studios and arms including Blizzard Entertainment, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Raven Software, Toys For Bob, Sledgehammer Games, King, Beenox, High Moon Studios, Radical Entertainment, and Major League Gaming....

You can now add the ‘Games For Work’ app to your Teams meetings by digging into the Apps button on the top menu bar, the one with the People and Chat buttons and that. This will give the option to play four games inside Teams, clicking and typing away while the meeting continues discussing TPS reports and “the washing-up situation” in the background. Some games are competitive, some are cooperative, and some you can watch other people play....

Fortunately, I’m playing with a team of developers who are happy to prioritise my immediate survival over their own. “We’ll run interference!”, yells lead developer Sam Malone over my panicked giggling. My astronaut bops between the hunter’s laser beams and harpoon bolts, miraculously clinging to unlife as Sam pelts my pursuers with taxidermied wolves from a nearby display. Another beam knocks my spectral form out of the suit, but the jig’s not up: I weave between dinosaur skeletons, jump up a ladder, turn a corner and possess an urn....

He said his game is “maybe not even a game, but rather a digital toy.” Watching the trailer, I can see that. Everything about it is clean and concise. You don’t even get backgrounds, just the small levels you play on. It’s not meant to swallow up whole days, but rather to give you something to do. The sort of game that you could play while waiting for the microwave to bing and the meal to cool down....

If you’re wondering exactly how much damage a headshot deals with a Victus XMR, or you want to know how many shots it takes with a Vel 46 to kill an enemy, you’ve come to the right place. Below you’ll find our in-depth Modern Warfare 2 weapon stats tables, covering everything from damage and time-to-kill stats to ADS and movement speeds. On this page: Assault Rifle stats Battle Rifle stats SMG stats Shotgun stats LMG stats Marksman Rifle stats Sniper Rifle stats...

Almost a decade after release, the Steam listing for Mortal Kombat’s 2011 reboot now notes that, “at the request of the publisher, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition is no longer available for sale on Steam” (cheers, VG247). At time of writing, the page doesn’t explain the whats, hows and whys of Komplete Edition’s sudden fatality. However, speculators over on Resetera reckon a copyright kerfuffle surrounding a certain movie tie-in character might be to blame....

On this page, we’ve put together a brief walkthrough on completing every villager request we’ve found so far in Bannerlord. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord quest list Most of the quests in the game currently are story quests, but there are a few that are given to you by villagers, notable townsfolk, and even nobles. When completed, they will give you gold and renown, if you made the right choices....

With current prices set at £780 in the UK and $760 in the US, the MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio is quite a bit more expensive than the Asus TUF Gaming OC Edition I used in my initial RTX 3080 review. That card’s RRP should be around £680 / $730 by all accounts, although the ongoing shortages have since pushed those prices up to £750 / $750. Still, the dilemma remains the same - are you actually getting any more for your money by opting for a more expensive version of the same graphics card?...