Fatshark revealed Darktide with a short cinematic earlier today. Crack out your 40K bingo cards, readers - we’ve got needlessly stoic brits, poorly lit corridors and existential dread aplenty. Darktide looks to be following the Vermintide format closely, offering a four-player co-op romp through the dampest, foulest pits of a grim world, fending off hordes of rats zombies, mutant cultists and demons. So far, we’ve only seen a group of faceless Imperial Guardsmen, but the real strength of Ratpunch was its characters - as mechanically varied as they were delightfully bitter....

“Next month we’re planning to publish information related to VII’s 25th anniversary,” Nomura said. “I wonder how [much] I’m allowed to share about it. Next month we will publish various things.” That’s reason enough to pay attention, but there really is no guarantee it will have anything to do with the Remake. There are several other Final Fantasy 7 projects currently in the works: Nomura made the comment during a livestream for mobile game Final Fantasy 7: The First Soldier, and there’s another mobile game in development called Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis....

That’s what I was expecting when I looked at Final Fantasy IX’s Moguri mod, but nope. It looks beautiful - like the original game, only less fuzzy, widescreen, and with higher framerate cinematics. I am late to the Moguri mod party. It’s been in development for years, and the version seen in the trailer above releasedlast year. I discovered it today thanks to this comparison video by YouTuber 2kliksphilip. The Moguri mod increases the resolution of background textures using AI deep learning and a lot of manual work....

What do you mean we don’t get to pilot it? Now, I’ve long-since checked out of MMORPGs, let alone a dense story-driven rollercoaster such as FFXIV. So when an update says something like “With Eulmore on the path to a brighter tomorrow, the Scions await such time as the Exarch might return them home”, I’m lost. I reckon it’ll mean more to you than it does to me, anyway. What I can do is speak about patch 5....

Floppy Knights revels in that dorkiness. A tactical card-based game that’s been in early access since last June, Rose City Games’ adventure stars Phoebe, an absolutely adorable and excruciatingly optimistic nerd who delights in tackling problems facing her community. To this end Phoebe’s only gone and constructed her own AI, Carlton, and the two help out townsfolk by destroying monsters with their own beasties. Floppy Knights’ story sort of plays out like a children’s book, and that’s no bad thing....

Now, before you ask, yes, we have posted about a Godzilla mod before. Craig wrote about one in his roundup of the best Microsoft Flight Simulator mods. [But with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, I threatened to pull the spitting high tension wires down if we ever passed up an opportunity to post more about Godzilla -ed.] This other mod, created by “muyprofesional” over on Nexus Mods, is a bit newer....

There are now secret hideouts waiting for you on the island. “Infiltrate enemy bases, neutralise the henchman guards and face off against their leader to get unique and powerful weapons,” Epic say. You’ll need to “take out auto turrets and security cameras, and use new gadgets like decoy grenades, proximity mines, and disguises to sabotage rival agents.” As can be seen in the next trailer, the aforementioned buff cat man is named Meowscles, and he’ll be one of the skins you can grab as part of the new battle pass....

Devs Worm Club revealed the existence of Frog Detective 3 back in July last year, which got resident fan of the series Graham ribbiting about it. It’d appear that the residents of Cowboy County have lost their hats, and Frog Detective and pal Lobster Cop need to step in to fill the presumably spurred boots of the town’s absent sheriff. I’ve not played any of these yet, but they sound entirely like my mug of warm milky beverage too....

In all their forms, G-Sync and FreeSync are adaptive syncing technologies, meaning they dynamically synchronize your monitor’s refresh rate (how many times the screen updates itself per second) to match the frames-per-second output of your graphics card. This ensures smoothness by preventing screen tearing, which occurs when the monitor attempts to show chunks of several different frames in one image. Unlike V-Sync, which is a similar technology you’ll often find in a game’s settings menu, G-Sync and FreeSync don’t add input lag, and they don’t force your GPU to stick to whatever your monitor’s refresh rate is - an approach that causes stuttering with V-Sync....

How to get Masterless Starglitter in Genshin Impact You’ll receive Masterless Starglitter when a wish results in any 4-star or 5-star weapon or a duplicate of a character you already have. This is the only way to get Starglitter, so if you’re looking to save up, you’ll need to get ready to make quite a few wishes. Additionally, the amount of Starglitter you’ll receive depends on the rarity of the item you’re receiving — here’s how much Starglitter you’ll get for each category of item:...

This is the lowest price we’ve ever seen for this model, actually, even lower than it was during Prime Day, so it’s well worth picking this up if you’re after a high-speed drive for your PC or PS5. Get the WD Black SN850 1TB w/ heatsink for £99 (was £129) The SN850 scored very highly when Katharine reviewed it last year, with the erstwhile hardware editor and current RPS hedgehog noting its faster game loading times and substantially better performance in synthetic tests - so you should see significantly better results once games start to better exploit high-speed SSDs as DirectStorage hopefully eventually finally becomes a thing....

It reminded me much less of The Evil Within than I expected. It has a lot of horror elements, don’t get me wrong, but Ghostwire: Tokyo is much more of an action game using the language of horror to convey its themes than the other way around. Rather than spending most of your time on the back foot, creeping around in the hope you can get past a lumbering ball of dead lady limbs with most of your health intact, time in Ghostwire: Tokyo is more likely spent one-shotting headless demon schoolgirls with a bow and arrow....

I played this God Of War on its previously exclusive release on PlayStation in 2018, and it lived in my memory as a 70 hour poetic battle between gods and monsters. Revisiting it again on PC, it turns out that it’s actually only about 20 hours long, but it looms so large as an experience that turning it off at the end feels like stumbling into daylight, having spent many weeks in a firelit, sweaty hunting lodge in a Norwegian pine forest, slamming mead and singing songs about warriors tearing goats in two....

Combined with an asking price of £42, down from a usual price of £50, I think it’s well worth considering - whether you’re looking for an interesting mechanical keyboard for your growing collection (I see you there) or a first cheap mech to give the whole idea a try. Get a Havit 90-key mechanical keyboard for £42 (was £50) So what makes this keyboard good then, beyond the unusual (yet UK) layout and the cheap price?...

Dan Houser is leaving Rockstar He co-founded Rockstar and has written on all of their big games: yer GTAs, Red Dead Redemptions, Bully, and Max Payne 3. Blizzard opened up Warcraft 3: Reforged refunds Acknowledging the remaster wasn’t what some wanted or expected, they’ve loosened their refund policy to everyone who wants their cash back. UK games industry has a diversity problem, survey says The report from Ukie, a trade body, says UK gamemakers are a poor representation of the wider population....

Now, it seems, I’ve had another shot of PC gaming validation, courtesy of clashing-eyed funboy Zagreus from Hades. This time, I learned not to be too quick to presuppose what I’m rubbish at. And much like surrogate father Achilles, who instructs Zag in the way of how to do fights good, Hades was a consummately shrewd teacher. One of the things I have come to be certain of over the years is this: I am proper cat turds at games that involve running around really quickly in rooms, mashing things before they can mash me....

Well, some of us. VR is still hovering just a little outta my price range, so I’m afraid my headcrabs will be staying firmly locked in two dimensions for the time being. Ah, well at least Valve’s announcement came with some lovely new screenshots to fawn over. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Valve (@valvesoftware) February 13, 2020 As spotted by Joe Parlock’s hawkish eyes on Twitter, someone’s gone and left the big ol’ Source Engine error placeholder in that first shot....

Now 343 Industries think they’ve fixed the issue, with a patch due to be deployed sometime after February 3rd. “Using the telemetry we received from the hotfix on January 19, we were able to make a new build with an update that we believe should address the core issue impacting the BTB playlist,” wrote senior community manager John Junyszek in an update yesterday. “The studio ran a successful playtest today and plans to send it off for certification on Monday....

343 Industries stepped up to clear the air after rumors started flying about calling their new 2021 plans into question. A poster on ResetEra, who might be someone in the know on Infinite, claimed that the studio is considering pushing the release back again into 2022. They also claim that an Xbox One version of the game is being called into question in favor of only supporting the Xbox Series X....

And, of course, Graham has also written one of these about the first Black & White, so I’m hoping this counts as Fresh New #Content. Black & White 2 was my introduction to the series, anyway. I was definitely too young to buy it myself, so I asked my mum to buy me a copy of it from WHSmith and pretend it was for her, not the 12 year old child standing next to her....