After palling around with the gunmen and women in Ghost Recon, sneakyman Sam Fisher has set his sights on the murderbuds over at Rainbow Six. Seeing as he’s basically touring Tom Clancy properties at this point, I wonder when Fisher’ll be strapping on his flight helmet with the Hawx gang. What’s this fakeout though? The trio of green dots aren’t googles, but the sights on a gun? And who’s tones are spilling out of this gruff lad’s vocal chords, because they sure don’t belong to Michael Ironsides....

“Set on a remote chain of islands that have been protected by the Maidens for generations, the turn-based adventure will have players follow the protagonist to save the people of the island as they face the threat of destruction,” Squeenix said. “In this touching tale set in a world of melancholic beauty, players will set sail for the high seas, together with Laty, a girl who failed to become a Maiden....

Squeenix’s 25th anniversary message on Twitter had chat from Yoshinoro Kitase, director of the original FF7 producer on the Remake, and Tetsuya Nomura, who did character design on the original was was creative director on Remake. Along with thanking fans and that, they looked to what’s next with the world of the grumpiest goofball and his hippy pals. “FFVII has re-emerged as the latest game in the series once again,” said Kitase, “with titles like Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier, and you can look forward to even more exciting new developments in future....

In this Star Wars: Squadrons Drift guide: How to Boost and Drift How to Micro Drift When to Drift How to Boost and Drift in Star Wars: Squadrons Boost Drifting is one of the most important mobility-based skills of a Squadrons pilot, because it enables you to turn on a dime, allowing you to turn the tables on a tailing enemy or to quickly reposition yourself. Any ship in Squadrons can Boost Drift, but pulling the technique off is quite the mystery for many beginners....

Shen says that you’ll be able to play through all of Starfield’s faction quest lines independently of each other. Differently to Fallout 4, you won’t be locked out of other factions if you join one. Bethesda wanted to make them “a little more personal” than in recent Fallout and The Elder Scrolls games, he said, echoing a recent interview with Todd Howard. Shen also noted that you won’t end up being able to lead every faction you can join in Starfield, unlike in Skyrim....

Valve say this builds on the chat filtering they made for games like Dota, CS:GO, and Destiny 2, turning it into a central part of Steam so the same rules apply to chat in the Steam client, mobile app, and any games which support it. You’ll still see everything you type, even if you have filters enabled, but filter-users receiving messages will see “♥♥♥” or “***” symbols replacing any words they forbid....

Some of answers cover what’s already known, like the Steam Deck UI eventually replacing Steam’s Big Picture mode on desktop, but there are some tasty morsels of fresh new info in there. For one, it turns out the Steam Deck can be used as a controller for playing on your main PC or laptop. Given the Deck’s considerable, uh, girth, this doesn’t sound like a very wieldy alternative to just using an Xbox or PlayStation controller, but it could work out nicely if those little trackpads do a sufficient job or recreating the accuracy of mouse movement....

The port was paused when the game was made an Epic Game Store exclusive last year. EGS has no Linux support, so the exclusivity delayed any work Feral had planned. In the meantime, Valve’s work on Proton and SteamOS, designed to allow Windows titles to run on Linux so people are able to access their entire Steam library on Valve’s portable device, has killed off any need for a native port....

“Production has outperformed our estimates,” according to Yang, who sometimes uses his personal Twitter to share Steam Deck news or warn people against DIY Deck mods. Hence, a few lucky souls who’d otherwise have to wait until late autumn for their orders can expect theirs much more imminently. As with all orders, Valve send a confirmation email when someone’s Steam Deck is ready to be paid for and shipped out; Yang clarified that those previously in the Q4 windows aren’t now receiving their emails by accident....

You can find the Bash Bash here. Steam’s taxonomy basically treats all the games as subgenres of hack and slash, and also includes character action games and musou games. Hit that page right now and you’ll find Monster Hunter Rise at half price, Devil May Cry 5 reduced by 67%, and Hades down by 40%. God Of War, the PC port of which released relatively recently, has a 20% discount....

After all, it’s been a hot minute since the last SteamWorld game came out, and Build is shaping up to be the perfect reintroduction to what made this series so special. It goes right back to its roots, reframing that classic SteamWorld Dig story of mining for gold and treasure with a new, management-style eye for town-planning, while also paying homage to where it all began for these jolly old rustbuckets way, way back on the Nintendo DSi....

Pottergame doesn’t attempt to reconcile with the parts of Harry Potter that, well, haven’t aged particularly gracefully. In developer Kate Barrett’s eyes, there’s no separating art from the artist. Instead, Pottergame pushes the fiction’s uncomfortable habits front and centre. It does this by aping Potter’s own history in videogames - Pottergame is knowingly a piece of shovelware, a haphazard recreation of Hogwarts where you’re tasted with one, simple task: collect those beans....

It’s not just Benedict who’s rummaging around inside somebody else’s house though – there’s a demon doing the same inside him that he’ll have to contend with. Publisher Rogue Games – also handling Game Grumps’ recently revealed survival horror Homebody – promise there’s an “intimate and disturbing story” revolving around the mansion’s former residents and their missing child. That story and the demon inside Benedict will drag him into Limbo, which is the realm inside dead people....

I spent just over an hour with Synced’s PVE mode Dead Sector, where I teamed up with another journo, and a member of the PR team who guided us both through the mode’s inner workings. I bounced between a couple of Runners (classes), one who chucked a poison bomb and a silver fox of a medic who’d probably excel on Hinge. The game does have a PVP mode, but it wasn’t available during the preview unfortunately....

Not surprisingly, there’s good and bad about previewing the long-awaited Tales of Arise with only Vesperia under my belt. On one hand, I can compare Arise’s storytelling and mechanics with one of the best games the series has to offer. On the other hand, I can compare Arise’s storytelling and mechanics with one of the best… well, you probably know what I’m getting at, here. Before the gnashing of teeth and tearing of garments begins, I should make it clear what I played of Arise is great - and a much more substantial chunk than what Ed saw back in June....

His passing was reported by Rekindle School, an arts college in Seattle where he was teaching until February before suffering from a stroke. He’s thought to have contracted the Covid-19 virus while he was rehabilitating in a nursing home. He was moved to a hospital, but ultimately passed away. I played so much Team Fortress 2 that his voice was a nightly companion for much of my life. Some of my fondest thoughts of TF2 are soundtrack by his wonderfully silly takes on the Soldier’s military barks....

It’s quite tempting to splash your cash, position units wherever, and slap items all over the place, but this is really going to hamper your chances of victory. Often, it’s the player who has prioritised their economy, positioned their units well, and plopped complimentary items onto specific champions who’ll beat the competition. Below we’ll go through a few beginner tips and tricks to up your Teamfight Tactics Mobile game, so hopefully you’ll click away from this guide with some newfound knowledge....

It was something I really appreciate, when my go-to multiplayer games, such as Warzone and Destiny 2, demand my constant and unwavering attention. Lasting about three hours, Shredder’s Revenge won’t become your new time sink, but it’s an undemanding arcadey jaunt that you can enjoy while munching on pizza with pals. Or, ya know, over Discord while everyone is surrounded by takeaway tubs in their bedrooms. As the turtles, Splinter, and April O’Neil rush through the streets, sewers, and skylines of Manhattan to defeat Shredder, you’ll face down a range of classic TMNT baddies, including the Foot Clan, robots, and a few Triceratons....

Tales Of Monkey Island was one of the many adventure games brought down when Telltale Games abruptly imploded two years ago, laying off most of their staff before closing entirely. While owners of games like Monkey Island, Back To The Future: The Game or the brilliant Tales From The Borderlands could still download and play them, the developers’ catalogue was unceremoniously removed from sale. In time, some of these would come back....

Howdy pardner. Spittoon? Take it, we got a whole crate of them right here. Every god-fearing outlaw needs a good spittoon at their heels, as my grandmammy used to say. Hoo-wee, what a women. She was known to enjoy a strong snifter of list article, you know. Everyone who visited got a spittoon and a list article. And vidyagames be damned if I ain’t the same obliging sort as my grammy, yes sir....