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As reported by Variety, White Wolf owners Paradox Interactive have teamed up with a gang of people experienced in adapting paper for the screen, planning to develop the WoD universe for movies and shows. The folks are production company Hivemind (who worked on the live-action adaptations of The Witcher and The Expanse), Eric Heisserer (who wrote screenplays for book-turned-movies Arrival and Bird Box, and developed Netflix’s books-turned-show Shadow And Bone), and Christine Boylan (producer and sometimes writer on comic book adaptations The Punisher, Constantine, and Cloak & Dagger)....

I am quite glad to see Ubisoft leaning into old British myths and magic, sure, why not. Presumably that’s Cordelia, mythological daughter of the mythological king Leir of Britain - probably best known through Shakespeare’s play, King Lear. Wikipedia is now telling me that Leir’s dad, Bladud, was a necromancer who died after he constructed artificial wings then flew into a wall. That’s the sort of mundane end I love to see on a fanciful story....

A trip into New World’s Visuals menu reveals a set of eight individual quality settings, as well as an overall Video Quality option that governs all eight at once. You can either set this to Low, Medium, High or Very High, which sets all of the individual settings to the same level, or fine-tune visual quality by changing the settings one by one. In this guide, we’ll walk through each setting and which are worth sacrificing to boost overall performance....

Below we’ll give you the chance to become as excited about Nightingale as I am. In this guide we’ll walk you through everything we know so far about Nightingale, from its projected release date and beta tests to its story, setting, gameplay, multiplayer aspect, and more. Nightingale expected release date The devs have been putting out calls for players to join their closed alpha tests since late 2022. Players can fill in a survey if they are interested in playtesting Nightingale....

Buy the RTX 3080 Ti for £1049 (RRP) Buy the RTX 3090 Ti for £1879 (RRP) Both graphics cards remain quite expensive propositions, but it is worth knowing when the Nvidia Founders Edition cards are in stock if this is the level of gaming performance you’re targeting. Otherwise, the RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 offer better value in terms of frame-rate-per-pound-spent, something reflected in our best graphics card rankings....

This year the pumpkins are back, and better than ever. Download the Pumpkin Fest for pay-what-you-can on Itch, carve your very own pump with the tools provided, and place it among the efforts of others in a peaceful spooky scene. You can take a walk around and vote for your favourite pumps. But this isn’t the only pumpkin game to enjoy! I’ve found a couple of others, too. It’s the reason for the spooky season....

I make this grandiose claim from the pedestal of 17th best OlliOlli 2 player (on PlayStation 4), which tells you two things. Firstly, I’m good at virtual heelflips. Secondly, this game must have a small audience. It’s true the OlliOlli series has cult prestige among skateboarding fun-havers and a recent Switch re-release brought it to a new crowd, but it lacks the nostalgia-gravity of a Tony Hawk Pro Skater remake or the simmyness of spiritual Skate successors such as Session....

Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Kwolok guide It feels a bit like that infamous part in Old Yeller, but someone has to deal with the rampaging toad. This guide will go through all the phases. There’s a chase sequence to begin things, then the true fight begins, with the battle even going underwater after a while. He’s a surprisingly difficult boss if you’re not prepared for the sheer number of attacks....

Get the Corsair MP600 Pro LPX 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for £94.99 (was £124) If you’re not familiar with PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs, they are a newer type of solid state drive that offer significantly faster speeds than traditional PCIe 3.0 or SATA SSDs. The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is no exception, with a sequential read speed of 7100MB/s and a sequential write speed of 5800MB/s, which is useful for copying files and working with large files (eg 4K video files)....

Set five years after the events of the original, Lost Signals “follows the story of Riley, an environmental researcher who returns to her hometown Camena to investigate mysterious radio frequency signals causing disturbances in electronic equipment throughout the town and stumbles upon ghostly happenings,” Night School say. “Oxenfree is such a special game to us, and it has been an incredible experience to revisit this world,” says studio director Sean Krankel....

How shortsighted they are proven now, when a neon-saturated open-world murder mystery set on a tropical island in a different reality manages to do sexy ritual blood sacrifice, worshipping unknowable goat gods - and, by extension, the banal, cosmic horror of it all - way better. And you get to listen to a banging soundtrack rather than the boring screaming of the damned. Friends, I have met Paradise Killer, and it is good....

Her’es the new trailer: In Path Of Exile’s new endgame, you will be able to uncover and collect three classes of Sentinel. Each follows you for a short time and empowers your enemies in different ways. Because this is Path Of Exile, you can also customise the Sentinels themselves, by activating selected buffs on each as power flows through it like a circuit board. When a Sentinel is drained of power, you can go a step further and merge it with another, and a Power Core, to create a hybrid Sentinel....

Spoilers for available characters - continue reading at your own discretion. On this page: Top tier High tier Mid tier Lower tier Persona 5 Strikers best characters tier list The thing with Persona 5 Strikers is that you’ll honestly want to use all your characters to ensure they don’t fall behind in levels when you really need them. More important than this tier list are the attack affinities and Persona elemental types available to you, so as well as this, make sure you’re studying your enemies and bringing out their weaknesses in battle....

This isn’t the best mouse for gaming, but based on my experiences with the original MX Master and its successors, plenty of PC gamers will use something like this for surfing the web, working and playing single-player games, then switch to something lighter if needed for multiplayer gaming. Get the Logitech MX Master 3 for $55 w/ code SELFMADETECH So what makes the MX Master 3 so good, anyway? First of all, it’s just incredibly comfy, with an ergonomic right-handed design that can be used all day....

(At this stage in my relationship to Ready Player One/Two, my friends are holding me back outside a pub at 2am yelling “Leave it Alice, it’s not worth it!”)

Gourdlets is another city-building sandbox with no purpose beyond placing stuff you think looks nice, only this time little blob dudes will come visit and interact with what you’ve built. The first taste is free, by which I mean there’s an Itch demo you can tinker with while we wait for the Steam version. There’s admittedly very little to it, especially at the moment. You choose between a handful of terrain types and a few buildings, then sprinkle in an assortment of trees, lamp posts and flowerbeds....

VidBud Matthew and Nate have both been playing the new hot strategy games, Chimera Squad and Gears Tactics, and discuss their relative merits, coming to the conclusion that they are both good. Matthew was especially impressed that, actually, so much of the Gears universe transfers well to a tactics game without having to be changed. They also talk about how Chimera Squad is actually like Divinity. Alice, meanwhile (who will get a better microphone for next week), has been playing Sea Of Thieves with her brothers....

As I said to my adviser earlier, and as my mother recently told me, and as I heard on the news or saw in some inspirational-but-grounded tweet: the only way out is through. In the meantime, here are some games for staying indoors and remembering the outdoors. Sizeable from from Sander Ambroos and music by Jamal Green Sizeable is, in a word, delightful. There are few games which manage to scratch that GROW games Itch, but I think this point-and-click-or-drag diorama puzzle game is a worthy successor....

The devs have confirmed that Ubisoft Montréal will be taking over the project from the company’s Indian teams in Pune and Mumbai. Ubisoft Montréal developed the original Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time for release in 2003, as well as its sequels: Warrior Within and The Forgotten Sands. I only ever played the first game in the trilogy so can’t pass judgement on the others, but The Sands Of Time was a stone-cold banger back when 50 Cent’s ‘In da Club’ ruled the airwaves....

According to Valve, the latest Steam client update “added initial input support for the PS5 DualSense controller”, as well as support for the new Xbox Series X controller, correcting an issue that had it showing up as two separate devices. There’s still a way to go, however, as the PS5 controller’s more advanced features such as rumble, trackpad, and gyro “are not yet supported”, according to Valve. It’s a good start for now, although I hope that “not yet” means they’ll be adding in these features shortly....