Team Cherry explains Silksong is more lethal because players are too: ‘Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight … the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent’

I remember when Dark Souls was the new hotness, it didn’t take long for the “actually, this game isn’t hard if you’re just cool and smart about it” crowd to crop up. I see a lot less of that with Silksong, which PC Gamer reviewer Tyler Colp called the “videogame equivalent of sticking your hand…

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Now that I’m done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I’m expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

BioWare fans can never agree on which era of the studio was its peak—classic Baldur’s Gate 2, the original Mass Effect, or (correctly) Dragon Age: Origins—but there’s no debating that it was the frontrunner in a golden era for RPGs that influenced at least a decade of other games. If that sounds like the beginning…

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Dying Light: The Beast review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? An open world first-person parkour horror (parkorror?) gameExpect to pay: $59.99/£49.99Developer: TechlandPublisher: TechlandReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? Co-opLink: Official site I won’t lie: punching a man’s head clean off his shoulders with a single swing of my fist is pretty darn satisfying. It’s not…

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How to start a Dying Light: The Beast co-op lobby

Just like the zombie-slaying parkour marathons before it, Dying Light: The Beast offers multiplayer co-op for up to four players. Regardless of the party size, you’re all protagonist Kyle Crane—don’t question it—and share campaign progression, too. Now all the Kyles benefit from their hard work, no matter who’s hosting. It’s an appreciated upgrade for those…

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OcUK Gaming Mach 5R review

With prebuilt machines, or any machine really, you have to make some compromises. This could be going for a slightly more value-friendly GPU to fit your budget, or skipping out on that all-white build because you don’t want to pay so much for colour-appropriate components. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D chip in the OcUK Mach 5R…

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Microsoft’s Paint now lets you save projects as layered files in the latest Insider build, as part of its continued efforts to make the default image editor great again

Keep it under your hat, but Microsoft’s Paint app has been experiencing a quiet resurgence over the past few years. Oft neglected as a potential image editing tool, MS has been beavering away in the background, adding features like background removal and object selection to relatively little fanfare. Still, updates are updates, and many of…

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A casting call for the Mass Effect TV show is out there, and if you’re ‘A young Colin Farrell-type male’, then do I have great news for you

Buddy, you’d be amazed at my capacity for forgetting videogame adaptations. Remember when I wrote about The Sims movie yesterday? I don’t. What’s more, now I’m suddenly remembering that, somewhere out there, Amazon is working on a Mass Effect TV show. What’s more, perhaps you could be in it, provided you could play any of:…

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