Keyboard is king in this game where you have to type words to do anything—yes, that includes trying to open the settings or start the damn thing

Keyboard is king in this game where you have to type words to do anything—yes, that includes trying to open the settings or start the damn thing

I have typed the word “pistol” so many times I genuinely forget how to spell it. I go over and over again. Pil—no, that’s wrong. Pistl—no, also wrong. Pit—WRONG AGAIN. Blocks descend on me as my brain goes into overdrive and my HP gets decimated. How the hell do you spell pistol again? The repetitiveness…

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If you ever feel like you’d have won a fight in Arc Raiders if you actually heard the player sneaking up on you, then you need to turn this setting on right away

Generally speaking, it’s the players you can’t see that pose the most danger to you in Arc Raiders. Chances are, players who stroll on up to you and make their presence known just want to be your friend, or they’ll openly betray you later on but you’ll often see that coming, to be honest. Either…

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Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage

The newly announced AETHUS is a sci-fi survival game all about doing things differently, set on an alien planet ravaged by a mega corporation. The hook here is in carving your own path through the capitalist wreckage, building a different world, and forging a new kind of future. The planet has been exploited by the…

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Remedy’s free-to-play multiplayer game is going back to the drawing board for a ‘reboot’ as a premium game

Vanguard, Remedy’s mysterious multiplayer game, is being rebooted. Just a couple weeks after saying that it hoped to have the game’s “proof-of-concept” finished by the end of the year, the studio announced today that it’s decided to take the project in a whole new direction, with a whole new codename. We never really learned anything…

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