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Temtem Oceara guide In this Oceara guide for Temtem, I will be showing you where to find the elusive Oceara. There will also be some descriptions on the base stats, as well as the list of all of the brutal water moves it has access to. Do be sure to check out the rest of the Temtem list as there are plenty of other water-based options later on. Oceara location You’re going to need to have beaten the first Temtem Dojo in Arissola before you can find Oceara....

“Ok, some mysteries should not be so mysterious,” CD Projekt Red’s global communication director Robert Malinowski said to Eurogamer. “I can confirm that the medallion is, in fact, shaped after a lynx.” So there you go, it’s all solved. Except, hang on, I still have no idea what that means. There was a lot of speculation initially that the medallion might be about Ciri, because she gets a cat medallion in one of the books or something....

I’ve been using VR for a long time, so I thought I’d ask myself what people might be worried about before committing to it themselves. What about those awkward tangibles, like wires, space, and PC power? Or troublesome intangibles, like what you look like when you watch a John Travolta movie in VR. Here’s what I’ve learned in the past eight years. You can play in a small area My first Holodeck was in the living room of our cramped London flat....

Blacking out in the tavern - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim You meet a bloke called Sam in a bar, who boasts he can outdrink you - YOU - in a competitive piss-up. Not a chance. Your night with Sam remains unseen as you black out and wake up in a temple strewn with giant’s toes and cryptic notes. As your blurring vision abates, you follow a trail of decadence and chaos, retracing the steps of last night....

In Mesmer you get to be the history maker, in an old-world, European-esque city that is ruled over by a corrupt monarchy. Leading a revolution and storming the castle is, as it turns out, quite difficult, and requires a complex balancing act. You bounce around the cheery, colourful, 3D streets of this picturesque city, the cobbles littered with petals, the rooftops strung with bunting, and start to uncover the rot and discontent....

There are no total conversions or complete overhauls in this list, but changing too much of Noita would take away from what makes it wonderful anyway: the chaos. You’re not here to see what it would be like if Half-Life were remade using Noita. You’re here for spells, potions, and a whole lot of effects. How to install Noita mods Noita is integrated into the Steam Workshop, and the game has its own mod manager....

Best Resident Evil Village mods As a result, this mod guide for Resident Evil Village is largely filled with silly stuff. The game’s mechanics won’t fundamentally change with any of the mods below, but if you want to Chris Redfield with a sexy sailor (a canonically sound one), then here’s how to get that. Below, we’ve listed the best Resident Evil Village mods around right now, and you can either click the link to go straight to the mod in question, or carry on reading the whole thing....

Like the original, the maze of perspective tricks will play with your perception of space on the screen. “Compared to the original, it features a host of perplexing new visual effects, the ability to load your own images, and built-in screen capture,” MacLarty says. It’s quite the trip, in which brightly colored screen static transforms into smears of paint and then some kind of rainbow mosaic piece. The puzzle is in how the game’s hallways are textured with optical illusions that make you question what’s a wall and what’s a hall and what winds up being nothing at all....

Apart from that we don’t actually go on too many tangents, although we talk about swearing for a bit. Matthew also does a lovely Cavern Of Lies on hidden Easter eggs on game maps. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts. You can find the RSS feed here, and you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat....

Digressions, apart from the sandwich thing, are surprisingly few, although we make time to talk about what Andrew Ryan would be like if he took a trip to the London Aquarium with Matthew, and there’s a pretty off-topic Cavern of Lies in there too. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts. You can find the RSS feed here, and you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat....

Because of this, we end up talking about Blorko again. We also nearly come to war about the difference between randomly improvising funny stuff and deciding that saying ’egg’ a lot of is funny. There is a difference, but you know it when you see it. Matthew’s life is like a sitcom, and also we apologise to Henry Cavill for forgetting his birthday. Sorry Henry. Please come on the show....

Get the WD Black SN770 1TB for £75 (was £91) Get the WD Black SN770 1TB for £140 (was £181) So: the SN770. As mentioned above, 5150MB/s refers to the max read speeds, while sequential write speeds are up to 4850MB/s. That’s good for copying very large files rapidly, with speeds that are only slightly behind the very fastest PCIe 4.0 drives which max out at around 7000MB/s, but the lack of a DRAM cache means that sustained speeds aren’t as strong as higher-grade drives like WD’s own SN850....

Get the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB for £240 (was £284) The Samsung 990 Pro is our current top ‘fastest SSD’ pick, offering the shortest loading times of any drive we’ve tested. That’s down not to its sequential read and write times, though these are impressive at 7450MB/s and 6900MB/s respectively, but its random read and write specs which are just ludicrous - up to 1.4M IOPS for reads and up to 1....

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Based closely on Los Angeles, and built to 1:1 scale so every block represents a cubic metre in real life, Greenfield has been the work of more than 400 people for the last nine years. There are ports. Skyscrapers. Suburbs. Slums. Chemical plants. Railways. There’s everything, in fact, you might expect to find in the metropolis it’s based on. Managed by a committee of ten people, and built by legions of architects, it’s now grown to a size of 20 million blocks, making it the largest Minecraft city build that exists at present… and it’s only 20% complete....

I did, however, finally go back to Resi 7 last night, and golly, as much as I hate the horrible rotting corpses of the Bakers three, I had forgotten about the sheer horror of Ethan Winters’ mangled hand. Look away now if you don’t want to lose your lunch.

Sometimes you open a door to get a wonderful surprise. Sometimes you open a door to find something truly terrifying. Which will it be on day seven of the RPS advent calendar? It’s Phasmophobia! Imogen: I love horror games. I am a wuss at horror games. I’m the pal who suggests playing them, then immediately hands you the controller and refuses to take it back. I cannot do this with Phasmophobia, however, because it is a multiplayer ghost hunting sim where you kinda need everyone to be present and not act like giant babies so you can get the jobs done....

Anyway, with that out the way, here’s a list of things I liked this year that no one else at RPS had a chance to play, or in one case just thought was total ass. Monster Hunter Rise I spent a glorious week over the summer racing through the base game of Monster Hunter Rise in order to review its Sunbreak expansion, and it was genuinely one of the highlights of my entire year....

There’s a trailer below, and the pack will launch on June 1st. As an interior decorator, you’ll take on clients who will have a specific request for you. You must find out their likes and dislikes, and then try to deliver what they’re asking for within budget. From the post introducing the pack on The Sims site, it sounds as if the jobs will be a mixture of serious and daft - and the trailer above shows some swimming pools in interesting places....

Sure, the saving of £8 you’re getting in the UK compared to its normal price of around £62 doesn’t sound particularly bargain-tastic in the grand scheme of things, but considering other Corsair RAM deals I’ve highlighted in the past have only tended to get as low as £60, this is still a pretty good discount all things considered. As I’ve said on previous occasions, 16GB of RAM is a good amount to aim for on a modern gaming PC....