Tag: OVERFLOW
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Where to get more Portcrystals in Dragon’s Dogma 2
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Tracking down Portcrystals in Dragon’s Dogma 2 lets you expand your fast travel network and put down beacons so you can return to important quest locations at your convenience. There are only a few permanent Portcrystals in the game; most notably in Vernworth and Harve Village, but you can set up the portable variant wherever…
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Midnight Suns devs ‘absolutely’ knew cards would be a controversial choice, but they were also ‘absolutely the right fit for this game and our design goals’
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In a talk at last week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Firaxis game director Joe Weinhoffer broke down the evolution of Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ tactical combat and explained the thinking behind the game’s most polarizing element: using cards to represent superhero powers. “Is it odd that we have cards in a tactical superhero game?…
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Razer’s Blade gaming laptops have lost their edge
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Dave James, mostly hardware. Mostly (Image credit: Future) This month I have been mostly… messing around with mobile machines. From gaming handhelds to laptops, I’ve had my mitts on some fun machines recently. And some frustrating ones, too. The Ayaneo Kun was almost the best gaming handheld, but slightly missed the mark, and the HP…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Jadeite Orb: Where to find and how to use it
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Tracking down the Jadeite Orb in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a bit of a daunting task when you have so little to go on. Even once you retrieve the orb, you’ll have to decide who to give it to: either Offulve, the well-meaning merchant who requests you find it in the first place, or Everard,…
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Ukraine recreates famous lost salt mine in Minecraft ‘to tell the world about their history and struggle for freedom’
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As part of Ukraine’s ongoing effort to combat Russian disinformation and memorialize its own history, the United24 charity has teamed up with Minecraft creator Endorah for Minesalt, a recreation of 16 real-world locations from the town of Soledar, at one time home to the largest salt production facility in Europe. Soledar was the focal point…
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Hyper Light Drifter’s long-awaited sequel feels like the first game got caught in a transporter accident with Risk of Rain 2—and I can’t wait for more
Hyper Light Breaker isn’t just translating the beloved 2D pixel art Zelda homage into full 3D—it’s also shifting gears into a completely different style of game from the first’s intricate, handcrafted world with a roguelike structure whose open zones are created anew for each run. We don’t yet know how that ambitious procedural generation system…
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All Dragon’s Dogma 2 Spellbound grimoire locations
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Searching for the Spellbound grimoire locations in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a daunting task, especially as you don’t have much information to go on. Meeting Trysha for the first time at Eini’s Home to the north of the starting town of Melve, you might have assumed that this would be an easy gig, but hunting…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Seeker’s Token locations and where to spend them
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You could easily spend hundreds of hours looking for Seeker’s Tokens in Dragon’s Dogma 2. There are 240 of these collectable coins scattered across the game’s sprawling open world; sometimes they’re hidden in enemy-infested caves, but most often you’ll encounter them while traversing hard-to-reach places and secret nooks and crannies. Unless you’re a completionist, you’re…
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How to get the Medusa Head in Dragon’s Dogma 2
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You’d think that decapitating Medusa in Dragon’s Dogma 2 would be a relatively simple process—find snake lady’s head, chop off snake lady’s head—so long as you avoid that whole getting turned to stone thing. But if you’ve already killed Medusa, you were likely surprised that you couldn’t just loot her head, or slice it off…
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How to fast travel in Dragon’s Dogma 2
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In January, Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno made his personal opinions about easy fast travel commutes very clear. Players familiar with the original Dragon’s Dogma remember shilling out thousands of gold for Ferrystones in an expensive effort to give their feet a rest. Unsurprisingly, tracking down these mythical items—or paying top dollar for them—is…