It didn’t help that, once I’d arrived at the big port town and finished showering its first boss monster with a torrent of poop grenades, I decided to go all the way back across its first bit of map to finish up some extra delivery quests. But a big part of why it’s taken me so long to get to the other side of Lake Knot is that I can’t stop taking pictures with Death Stranding’s excellent photo mode....

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need a nice hole to fall into. The Behemoth revealed a brief teaser in a Game 5 reveal blog post earlier this week. There’s not much to go on, but it looks like the wee lad’s brought a few more friends this time ‘round. Christ, that’s a flashback. Maybe some of you whipper-snappers don’t recall The Behemoth, but if you were kicking about on Newgrounds or the Xbox Live Arcade in the noughties, you’ll know their work....

Our selection of The Witcher 3 builds has been carefully crafted and curated to show you exactly how you can turn Geralt into the most powerful monster hunter who ever lived. Whether you prefer to use magic, alchemy, pure combat, or (like a true Witcher) a mix of all three, we’ve got a top-tier build to cater to your needs. The Witcher 3 best builds Below you can peruse four top-tier The Witcher 3 builds, each of which take Geralt in a markedly different direction....

This guide will show you how to create the best Sucrose build in Genshin Impact. Below we’ll cover everything you need to know about Sucrose, including wishing, weapons, artifacts, ascension materials, talents, abilities, and constellations. Best Genshin Impact Sucrose build for sub-DPS Best weapon: Skyward Atlas Alternatives: Mappa Mare, Thrilling Tales of the Dragon Slayers Sucrose is especially strong with the Skyward Atlas, which increases Elemental DMG Bonus by 12%....

The prime exception to this rule is Lucas Pope’s Return Of The Obra Dinn, which gives you a time-travelling pocket watch to revisit the scenes of its many, many murders and work out exactly what happened to its 60-strong passenger list on its titular, ill-fated ship. Frogwares’ Sherlock Holmes games and their mind palace visualisation techniques also warrant a mention here, and maybe even Outer Wilds at a push, if you count its 22-minute timeloop as an investigation scene several millennia in the making....

The cheapest RTX 3070 Ti model we’ve found is a Zotac RTX 3070 Ti Trinity at Ebuyer, who are asking £649 with a despatch date of April 26th(tomorrow!). If you want the cheapest model that’s in stock right now, then that’ll be the Inno3D RTX 3070 Ti X3 at Overclockers for £10 more. Either way, you’ll be left with a performant graphics card that requires only a modest 750W PSU, less than Nvidia’s higher-end GPUs and much less than the company’s next-gen products rumoured to arrive towards the end of this year....

Set in Iraq in 2003, a handful of American soldiers find themselves trapped in Sumerian temple after a firefight causes a tremor. Unfortunately for them, said tremor did more than just make them fall in a hole, it woke up some dark evil stuff that is now hunting them. The monsters look like terrifying xenomorph bat-things with echolocation. The whole trailer is giving me mild Pitch Black vibes actually, which bodes well....

Over in New York, rogue Division agent Aaron Keener has taken over and is ruling the city with his warlords. It’s set eight months after the first game, and will go to new zones including Two Bridges, Civic Center, Battery Park and Financial District. In these, you’ll shoot baddies, loot weapons, and do all that Divisioneering. The expansion will also bring The Division 2’s first Season, starting a week after launch....

“We have more exclusives coming in the next two years than we have published to date,” an Epic spokesperson told PC Gamer. They didn’t get much more specific than that, but still, that’s a helluva lot of games. The number of schloosies coming could vary massively depending on what they mean by the term. Sometimes Epic-exclusive means you can’t get it anywhere else (like Hitman 3), while other times it just means “not on Steam”, but can be found elsewhere too (like The Outer Worlds, which was also on Xbox Game Pass for PC)....

Judging from the trailer, there’s some slightly Orwellian shenanigans going on in the devastated remains of old London town. I’m very much a Northerner and don’t exactly know London inside and out, although I can still recognise bombed-out versions of sights such as the Tower of London, the MI6 headquarters, Tower Bridge and, of course, the Tube. It looks delightfully grimy, but there’s still some rather lovely skyline shots of Big Ben and the London Eye to ohh and ahh over....

Forsooth, Coiled Captors is actually a replayable dungeon with an elder god for a boss named, erm, Chums. Not quite as intimidating as Cthulhu or Dagon, but okay. Chums has been trapped inside the monstrous body of a seawarg for centuries and he’s a bit narked about it, the old lad. So riled up, in fact, that he’s going to metamorphose into increasingly nasty forms over the first few weeks after release....

I’m not sure if it was a consequence of recent build changes, advice supplied by the game’s designer, or experience gained from my numerous failures, but early this week Terra Incognito – Antarctica 1911 surreptitiously metamorphosed from “maddening” to “moreish”. Levels in my preview build that had felt impossible began to feel possible. I found that I was no longer so busy frantically issuing orders and fretting about frostbitten personnel, that I couldn’t plan properly or glance about occasionally and savour the atmosphere....

There’s not a hex, square, or map province to be seen in Maestro Cinetik’s absorbing £5 recreation of Hitler’s biggest miscalculation and the unorthodox approach to geography allows the title’s Operation Barbarossa to bite and humble like an Arkhangelsk winter. Early Accessable since late May, Cauldrons resembles a sophisticated track-heavy solitaire board wargame. You don’t take Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev etc. by cattledriving German army counters eastward across a vast honeycomb of hexagons, you do it by moving them along invisible branching pathways....

He now says Microsoft are stonewalling any attempts to contact them about whether or not they own the copyright, and that this silence killed a piece he’d written for an unnamed “global news organisation” because they didn’t want to risk drawing the ire of Microsoft’s 1700 strong lawer team. That piece was actually an edited version of Gough’s blog post from last month, where he explained the situation and submitted the poem to the public domain - while making multiple references to the poem being written by the universe, and also how taking psychedelics lead him to conclude that not allowing himself to be compensated would be a “blockage of the flow of love”....

Big Tones was having none of it. He applauded Hagerty’s celebration of Olive Garden as a genuine expression of widespread American food culture, calling her detractors ‘snarkologists’, and then published a book of her reviews. A class act, no doubt. And it’s this championing of the everyman gourmand, this deep passion for non-exclusionary, unpretentious foodie culture, that powers Total War: Warhammer 3’s most joyfully silly campaign experience. Pictured below is Greasus Goldtooth, formally known as Tradelord Greasus Tribestealer Drakecrush Gatecrasher Hoardmaster Goldtooth the Shockingly Obese, in a winning example of Warhammer’s trademark restraint....

As with any roguelike, death is the aim. Until fairly recently, however, instead of finding the positives in death in roguelikes, I still saw it as failure - even despite the intentions of the genre. Call me old-fashioned, but slinging myself at something in the exact same manner as previous attempts, yet expecting to find a different outcome, seemed to be the definition of idiocy to me. Enter Hades, seemingly taking the games industry by complete surprise and by storm, winning multiple Game Of The Year and Critic’s Choice awards upon its release even though it launched into early access....

As Ed encountered, this is a slightly more RPGish take on the series. Third-person wandering, dramatically framed cut-scenes. You don’t get the feeling that it would deign to stoop so low as to ask you to battle for a buckle, not with these actors bellowing each and every word as if it’s their last chance to act. But the chats can and do have an impact on the battles you’ll get into....

Part of the challenge is working out what’s worth reviewing, and what we think is worth highlighting for you, our readers. The other part, though, is often entirely selfish on our part, just playing and writing about cool games we like. In fact, the decision to review many of the games we covered this week - Railbound, Jack Move and Roadwarden - were all down to having played and liked some form of demo, making events like the Steam Next Fest an increasingly invaluable tool in helping us cut through the noise when we inevitably enter mega months like September....

Door 19 doesn’t have a handle, you have to live that chrome life and jack in to unlock it with your preem quickhacks and look I’m running out of the jargon just open it, you know what it is. That’s right, it’s Cyberpunk 2077! Graham: Cyberpunk 2077 is a buggy mess, and a trash RPG, but that doesn’t reflect the thrilling experience I had while playing it. It’s a game that does quiet and loud very well....

Destroy your enemies and run a cult colony with lots of food admin in Cult Of The Lamb! Rachel: What has aptly been dubbed by many as ‘cursed Animal Crossing’, Cult Of The Lamb is a deliciously devious roguelike with an adorable cast of creature characters. I’m honestly not really one for roguelikes; it’s probably the constant loop of failing and starting from the beginning that I can’t deal with....