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Inventory Space will – hopefully – give you a better idea of whether mammoth games will slot into your life neatly, or not at all. Liam and I (two men crumbling into dust) came up with Inventory Space because live-service games demand so much of our time now. They’re all fighting to be that one game in your daily schedule, wrestling back the competition with daily quests, login bonuses, or huge expansions to keep us in their four-figure headlock....

For starters, Counterplay explain the differences between polarity attacks, breaching, soulshattering, and weakpoints. The latter they’ve showed off previously in the trailer below. They say that weakpoints are typically revealed after enemies attack, rewarding patient players. Breaching is for breaking through the armor of big enemies, achieved by following up heavy attacks with faster moves. Polarity attacks and soulshattering have more daunting names but seem sensible enough once they’re explained....

Get 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4-3600 for £55 (was £64) Get 2x8GB Adata XPG Spectrix D60G DDR4-3200 for £59 (was £69) Let’s cover the Corsair option first. This is Vengeance RGB Pro RAM, which I’ve used in my own PCs on occasion and has always performed well. The spec here is fast with relatively high latency - DDR4-3600 CL18 - and should offer excellent performance on both Intel and AMD systems....

The announcement really gives no details on what the expansion might be about, but does seem to differentiate between “new content” and the expansion. Focus Home Interactive say they’ll be publishing both, having reached an agreement with Nacon, who acquired Spiders a few months before GreedFall’s release. I was a bit hard on GreedFall when it launched last year, seeing it as a middling applicant to the pool of party-based and story-focused RPGs....

Not that you see a lot of hacking in any of the game’s trailers, but I’m going to trust them that, aside from all the GTA-esque wanted levels (all the way up to ten), car crime, and murder, there’s some subtley involved. Controlling an android that’s fighting its own programming is a decent enough hook for that. It lets you augment your own character with powers (speed, strength, etc), but also allows you to mess with the world somewhat....

GTA Online has an impressive spread of bicycles to buy: a sporty road bike, an easy-going beach cruiser, a off-roading hardtail mountain bike, and—my favourite—a stunty BMX. When I’m not logging on for profit or bloodlust, I’ll usually pull a bicycle out my garage and trundle about town, watching the murders, stunts, chases, japes, and alien wars of regular Los Santos life. Players seem to like cyclists. Or at least, players seem slightly less eager to murder people on bikes....

I’m a scrappy racer alright, even in GTA Online’s more technical modes, so I apologise in advance for every spin-out and pile-up I cause. It’ll be a horrorshow of flaming wheels bouncing down the track. But I am interested in high-speed racing and will give it a go. My favourite F1 races are always those roaring through regular city streets past regular homes, because of how unreal it seems, and I’d be surprised if this doesn’t have plenty of those....

But I’ve been escaping Hell since December 2018, and with the following top-tier Hades tips and strategies, you too will learn how to defeat the God of the Underworld with ease and reach the mortal realm. So if you’ve been having trouble reaching the later realms of Hades, you’ve come to the right place! Here are our 8 top Hades tips: Hades video walkthrough Dash-strike is your bread and butter Flat damage is your friend Prioritise Daedalus Hammers Choose your Mirror Upgrades carefully Save your Coin until near the surface Don’t underestimate Armored enemies Level up your Keepsakes Keep at it!...

But no, I have proven myself wrong. In a strange turn of events, I’ve decided I actually much prefer Halo Infinite’s smaller modes. And I think this comes down to laziness. In games like Battlefield 2042, with their vast maps and plentiful zones to capture, I find it difficult to match their rhythm. The action is there, but sometimes it feels like you’re a kid in a vast playground and you see people having fun playing cops and robbers miles away, but can’t seem to find any joy nearby....

Two teams: terrorists; and counter-terrorists. Each has competing objectives to complete each round, like rescuing hostages, planting a bomb to destroy an objective, or assassinating a VIP. Starting with merely a pistol and a knife, they earn money to buy fancier weapons and gear across the match - which are lost if you die. Weapons can be deadly, killing with a few critical hits, or completely useless if you’re not careful....

Despite these occasional acts of cruelty, this inaugural entry into the Gabriel Knight series was one of the first adult-oriented games I fell in love with as a kid, and remains my gold standard for good point-and-click adventures to this day. It has so many outstanding features: its pitch-dark mystery-horror-thriller plot; its evocative setting in early-90s New Orleans; its haunting MIDI soundtrack, which you can check out for yourself below: Also worth highlighting is the phenomenal voice cast....

That’s what OWW is, for me. A portal into other people’s dreamscapes. It works because of how varied the galleries can be, with people pursuing wildly different tones. I might spend a few minutes wandering through a sunlit statue garden, then leap into a cavernous disco hall. I’ll squeeze through darkened corridors, then teleport to a neon-flooded podium. Even the scanty, neglected galleries are interesting. You get to figure out whatever ambitious architectural project someone was going for, and empathise with their giving up....

Although, it’s not like Ray’s a stranger to a comeback. After many years on the shelf, his act was modernised in 2011 and we were gifted the exceptional Rayman Origins. Origins owes a lot to the Italian plumber, obvs, but it’s much more than a Mario knockoff. Checkpointing, unlockable abilities, and palette-cleansing shoot ‘em up stages involving a rideable mosquito all help in making this its own thing: one of the best 2D platformers of the last decade....

Part of the game’s wonder is just its increased scope. While your Civilizations or your Crusader Kingses offer up a continent or a world to explore and conquer, in Stellaris it’s a whole galaxy. One richly packed with species, anomalies, dangers, events. Stories. The other big piece of the puzzle is the soundtrack, which I still listen to on a monthly basis. Stellaris can put forward a damn good argument for having the best space opera music in videogames....

Back in the year 2000, I’d already played a fair few video games in my then-short life, but I’d never really been the driving force behind purchasing one. Even kid-oriented favourites like Lego Island and Detective Barbie had, I recall, been given to me in the way that toys just sort of arrive in childrens’ lives sometimes. That changed when I saw one of these adverts, which I highly encourage you to check out for yourself right now: I knew immediately that I needed to play this game....

In truth, I wasn’t particularly won over by it when it first came out about a year ago. It was one of those very late end of year releases that got swallowed up by the bigger, shinier games of the year, and in the stark light of a cold, miserable January, I found its assortment of chuckling, giggling fruit, desk tat and turd-topped ice cream cones just a little too juvenile....

Gun Rounds is a turn-based roguelite shooter. Your aim as the little red person at the bottom is to defeat all enemies on the screen in order to move to the next level. On your turn, you get to pick one of the four weapons at your disposal, and aim it wherever you like. All the while, the enemies dance around in looping patterns in an attempt to evade your shots....

There are three things that I really appreciate every time I return to Space Run. First: I appreciate the complete lack of any attempt to marry the mechanics with the story. Your ship in Space Run is made up of hex-shaped modules that fit together, and each hex is a potential building spot for anything you like: turrets, shield generators, missile launchers, power generators, and various other implements designed to keep your cargo from turning into a silent fireball in the depths of space....

In an interview with Polygon, Murray talks briefly about his history making sequels to games at Electronic Arts and Hello Games’ beginnings with their own first game and its sequel. “I had a little bit of a midlife crisis [after Joe Danger 2],” Murray says. “That’s what started No Man’s Sky, you know, I felt a panic. I knew as a studio I wanted to do the game that No Man’s Sky became eventually, but I was like, what if I never get to make that and what if we just keep doing the next thing and the next thing and life moves on....

80GB of storage space is quite a lot, though, so if you’re already keen to punch Chaos and listen to your Limp Bizkit/Frank Sinatra playlist, you may need to make room ahead of the March 18th release date. Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin minimum PC specs OS – Windows 10 (64-bit) CPU – Intel Core i5-6700 / AMD Ryzen 5 1400 GPU – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) / AMD Radeon RX 470 RAM – 8GB Storage – 80GB DirectX version – DirectX 9....