Author: Fraser Brown
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will let you become a super vampire by drinking vamp blood, taking their abilities and combining them ‘in hundreds of different ways’
In Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, one of the first choices you’ll need to make is what clan you’ll be repping. Today we learned a bit more about the rebellious Brujah, but also how drinking the blood of other vampire big shots lets you explore other ability trees, turning you into what I have…
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Horizon Forbidden West’s highest PC setting needs a GPU that didn’t even exist when the game first came out, along with 150GB of SSD space
Aloy is returning to PC this month when Horizon Forbidden West launches on March 21. Ahead of the open-world romp’s arrival, developers Nixxes and Guerrilla have detailed what we’ll need to run it, as well as what we can expect in terms of graphics customisation—the latter of which looks to be pretty par for the…
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Several Steam games changed names to Helldivers 2 and Palworld to scam players
Early this morning, the busy Helldivers 2 Discord sent out a warning from the team. Imposters were threatening the integrity of Super Earth. Developers of several games on Steam had changed the name of their games to Helldivers 2, completely altering their Steam pages, including the developer and publisher tags. And Helldivers 2 was not…
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Excellent multiplayer pirate FPS Blackwake’s first update in 4 years makes it free to keep
When I was writing about pirate games you should play instead of Skull and Bones, I had to give a nod to Blackwake, even though it didn’t quite make the cut. The multiplayer naval FPS left early access back in 2020, after making a bit of a splash initially on YouTube thanks to its emergent…
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Last Epoch is everything I wished Diablo 4 was, and the first ARPG to drag me away from Path of Exile in over a decade
Path of Exile has been a constant in my life for the last decade. Grinding Gear Games managed to craft a true Diablo-slayer with its inconceivably brilliant passive skill tree, elaborate loot, a gem system that serves as a fantastic alternative to traditional active skill progression, all of it wrapped up in an adventure with…
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From Helldivers 2 to Last Epoch, 2024 is already the year of server issues
2024 has already been a wild time for big game launches, which has seen me bouncing between them at a dizzying rate. Palworld, Enshrouded, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Helldivers 2, Skull and Bones, Nightingale, Last Epoch and countless more have been demanding attention, some more deserving than others. One of the things they…
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An anonymous modder has brought one of the best mobile games, Infinity Blade, to PC 5 years after it left the App Store
Infinity Blade is not something I’ve had cause to think about for a damn long time. The swipey ARPG launched on iOS way back in 2010, and because I’ve never owned an Apple product I was left out of all the fun. And there was plenty of fun to be had, with simple-but-responsive brawls and…
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MrBeast spent 15 hours making Walmart and Target stores restock his chocolate bars
As well as raking it in with his charity stunts, James “MrBeast” Donaldson has been dabbling in the confectionary game with his Feastables brand. Apparently his chocolate bars, which include a peanut butter bar called Deez Nuts (sigh), are pretty popular, though the same could be said for his burgers, which MrBeast says are so…
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From Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag to Sea of Thieves, there a plenty of pirate games better than Skull and Bones
After more than a decade, Skull and Bones, Ubisoft’s multiplayer pirate romp, is finally out. Was it worth the wait? No, not really. Shaun gave it a 68 in our Skull and Bones review, but I’ve barely been able to stomach a few hours with its uninspired crafting grind and weirdly arcade-like ship battles. It’s…
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Helldivers 2 had an extremely rough launch, but it’s already in much better shape
It doesn’t get much worse for a multiplayer launch: broken matchmaking, frequent crashes, and a kernel-level anti-cheat system that everyone hates. Helldivers 2’s first day was not a great start. And while stability seems a touch worse on PC, there have been problems across the board, regardless of the platform. The bugs were winning. When…