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The teaser doesn’t show much, save for some healthy stretches and poorly-positioned balancing acts from Mr Dead Cells over here. One of those poses might even win him a Sunlight Medallion, I reckon. Besides praising the sun, Fatal Fall adds two new biomes to Dead Cells. Fractured Shrines is a dawn-drenched series of floating islands high in the sky, contrasting the bleak, swampy goodness of The Undying Shores. These will come with their own sets of monsters, bosses and weapons (to be revealed at a later date), and will run in parallel to the Stilt Village, Clock Tower, and Time Keeper stages....

The really good news, though, is that Death Stranding’s PC requirements seem to be right on the money, as my early tests show the game’s recommended GTX 1060 graphics card will have no trouble hitting well over 60fps on max settings at 1080p. Alas, I’m not allowed to show you what the game looks like on all its various graphics settings just yet, but you’ll have four presets to choose from come July 14th: Low, Medium, Default and Very High....

“You are Skully, member of the newly deceased and just when you start to get the hang of being dead, your newfound home and friends are attacked by humans,” say the developers at Ukuza. Apparently the naughty invasive humans are out to steal your magical undead juice: the blue flame. Naturally, you want that back. “Together with your best bat friend Imber, you have to jump, slash, and flap your way though the Underworld and stop the human threat,” say Ukuza....

You can listen to three new music tracks from Deltarune as part of the update: Hometown Bay, My Funky Town and Green Room. Okay, okay, they aren’t quite Megalovania or Bonetrousle, but it’s something to tide you over. Fox still seems to be hard at work on Deltarune, and said he wants to see the game released “the most out of anyone on the planet”. “As stated last time,” Fox said, “we’ve been simultaneously working on Chapters 3, 4 and 5 of DELTARUNE....

However, in chatting to Mimimi this week about leaving real-time tactics behind in favour of their new “Stealth Strategy” label, I’ve managed to glean a few more details. Alas, Mimimi still aren’t ready to reveal Süßkartoffel’s official name just yet, but head of design Moritz Wagner told me it’s not only going to be much more beginner-friendly than their previous games, but that it will also be much more like one big sandbox this time, resisting the urge to limit players by strict level constraints....

Desperados III will once again send a squad of highly-skilled varmints out to sneak and murder through sandbox levels, combining their abilities to bypass, distract, and disable enemies in all sorts of ways. Some are straightforward, like shooting varmints stone cold dead, but it gets tricky when you throw in tricks like magic, a trained pet cat, or a pretty lady distracting fools with her sway. Our Matthew took a look at a preview version last August: More recently, Katharine talked with Minimi’s head of design, Moritz Wagner, about Desperados and Shadow Tactics on stream for Rezzed Digital....

Hitman 2 offered the ability to import Hitman 1 locations at launch, and it was announced in August 2020 that Hitman 3 was meant to do the same again. At the time of writing, the Hitman 3 website still advertises that “locations form 1 and 2 can be imported at no additional cost for existing owners”. That’s no longer the case. The pre-launch guide explains that Hitman 1 will instead be available for free to claim for only 10 days after launch to anyone who purchases Hitman 3 on the Epic Games Store....

The Hunter, Titan, and Warlock Guardian Games Boxes are three such items. As is the way with challenge-gated merch, it has a default price of €777,777 (£675k) but playing enough Guardian Games to earn the event’s Ghost shell also gets a code bringing it down to €50 (£43). Still pricey but hey, that’s merch, baby. Earned merch is clever. Trinkets and shirts are a way for people to celebrate their fondness for a game while not playing, so merch celebrating your in-game accomplishments is doubly neat....

How to level up fast in Diablo Immortal Here are our top tips for leveling up faster in Diablo Immortal: Below we’ll go over each of these tips in more detail so you can reach level 60 in no time. Don’t fully clear zones This tip will be obvious to ARPG veterans but is important for new players. You don’t need to kill every monster in every zone and are really only slowing yourself down if you do....

Your Divinity: Original Sin 2 saves are another thing which cannot be limited by petty platform divides. The iOS version of the game now has Steam Cross Save functionality, meaning you can move your progress in the RPG back and forth. The same update also comes with language updates, adding Brazilian Portuguese and Latin-American Spanish. You can switch languages in Steam by right-clicking the game in your library, choosing Properties, and switching to the Languages tab....

I’ve no idea what constitutes an “eligible player” in this instance, but those deemed trustworthy by Valve will receive in-game notifications asking if they wish to review a case of potentially troublesome behaviour. Those who agree will be sent a time-stamped replay showing the incident, and they can judge the offender “guilty”, “not guilty”, or report that there’s insufficient evidence. Here’s what the reporting system looks like. It seems quite straight-forward....

Dota 2 does have an official in-game tutorial but it’s not, like, very good. Improving it is evidently a low priority for Valve, so players who are keen to share their love of the game have stepped up. Last month, a team launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund development of an unofficial playable tutorial which might actually help would-be players. “Assuming that there will be an influx of new players brought in from the anime’s release, we have banded together as a community to create a tutorial for these new players in the form of a custom game,” they explained....

Last week, a number of FIFA players alleged to have proof that someone claimed to be working for EA was selling ultra-rare cards for Ultimate Team, the team-building mode that’s heavy on loot boxes. Supposedly the seller had the ability to directly add cards to buyers’ accounts, including cards that the game blocks people from trading. Prices thrown around included $2500 (£1800) for a particular coveted card. EA said on Wednesday that they would look into it, then came back on Friday with an update....

A financial document says that shareholders representing 98.61% of Codies shares voted in favour of the buyout. That’s a big yes. The deal isn’t fully finalised, with a court hearing to sanction the scheme to follow on the 16th of February, but this was a big step. It’s been a strange race. Take-Two’s bid got far enough along for them to make big statements about how great it’ll be, then they backed down after EA rolled up....

My Wedding Stories was scheduled to launch today, expanding the game’s nuptials with new features for bachelor parties, rehearsal dinners, dress shopping, speeches, and all that wedding stuff. But on February 9th, a week before launch, EA announced they wouldn’t release it “where our storytelling would be subject to changes because of federal laws”. A broad Russian law bans exposing minors to “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships”, punishable by fines....

El Shaddai is a third-person action game that’s basically an anime fan-fic of the Book Of Enoch, an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text. You play as Enoch, a man selected by heaven to purify a bunch of fallen angels who’ve corrupted mankind. And by purify, I mean beat the ever-loving crap out of them. This is a boss-rush game at its core, in a similar vein to something like Hyper Light Drifter, but with more fighting, platforming and puzzling sandwiched between these fights....

Below we’ll walk you through how to beat the Crucible Knight in Elden Ring, covering five useful, practical tips to bear in mind when facing off against this powerful early-game boss. Elden Ring Crucible Knight boss fight walkthrough The Crucible Knight strikes an intimidating figure in Elden Ring at any stage of the game. The earliest you can encounter it is in the Stormhill Evergaol near the outskirts of Stormveil Castle in Limgrave, though you can also find other Crucible Knights elsewhere in the Lands Between, including Stormveil Castle itself if you know where to look (check out our Elden Ring boss locations guide for help finding it)....

Read on to find out exactly where to get the Flask of Wondrous Physick, and how to get more Crystal Tears to customise its effects in Elden Ring. The Flask of Wondrous Physick is a very powerful item in Elden Ring, and remains powerful throughout the entire game. It acts like one of your other flasks, except you can customise the effects of the Flask of Wondrous Physick by adding Crystal Tears....

Much time is spent on some excellent digressions this week, including James McAvoy as a rampaging dinosaur from Jurassic Park (a state of affairs that I think would have improved his weird improv film My Son). Plus, could Matthew Save the world if he grew to six size the times of the earth and cut off a slab of his bum like a big steak, to feed us all? Will someone make a game like Deep Rock Galactic, but for mining Matthew’s celestial bum-meat?...

Frontier made the announcement in an IP Licence and Trading Update on May 1st, with CEO David Braben announcing delight at partnering with Games Workshop to create “an immersive and accessible real-time strategy game on both PC and console”. I did have to double-take a moment to make sure that said Frontier and not Creative Assembly, the folks who’ve been making the latest batch of Warhammer strategy games. As far as I can tell, Frontier haven’t ever dabbled in the RTS space....