Assassin’s Creed’s come a long way from skulking around in white hoodies via the beige-tinted personality of human spreadsheet Desmond Miles, I’ll tell you that. I’ve never seen a hidden blade look less subtle. It’s been a hot minute since we last checked in with the assassins, with Ubi taking a year-long break after Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Ancient Greek stabbin’ and smoochin’. Not only did we call Odyssey one of the best action games around, it also had extremely tall lasses and supernatural dives into mythology....

There you are, then. Sparkly. Developers Mundfish dropped the trailer during Nvidia’s CES 2023 showcase, where they also announced DLSS 3 support for 33 upcoming games, including Atomic Heart. That should mean a nice framerate boost for anyone with an RTX graphics card. It’s always hard to tell how a game will play until its beneath your fingers, but Atomic Heart looks like a hell of a romp. It’s set in a world where the Soviet Union thrived thanks to newfangled “polymer injections”, which is as good an excuse as any to let you blast lightning out of your hands and chuck enemies about with telekinesis....

Per a Tweet from developer Tom Happ, now that the game’s on Steam it’s also playable on the Steam Deck. Katharine was a fan when the game launched on the Epic Games Store last year, as detailed in her Axiom Verge 2 review. “There’s a surprising amount to discover here, and working out how to proceed, making mental notes of where to return to later and using my powers to open up new paths and possibilities (some of which were proper lightbulb moments) all scratched my favourite Metroidvania itches,” she wrote....

The short new “sizzle reel” is a bunch of quick gameplay clips, though that’s hardly all Larian have to show this summer. As we knew, they’re taking part in the Guerilla Collective indie showcase next Saturday, June 6. Larian say that’s just the first of their plans for disseminating more BG3 news throughout June. That’ll be the date for some real news, it seems, since I know my fire bit comes as no shock....

Fortunately, we’re here to explain how to use the wingsuit in Battlefield 2042, so that you can gracefully glide through the air like you always wanted. We’ll explain everything you need to know, including how to activate the wingsuit and whether you take fall damage when you land. How to use the wingsuit in Battlefield 2042 To use the wingsuit in Battlefield 2042, you need to play as Sundance. She is one of the first specialists available, so you won’t need to wait around to unlock her, unlike Mackay and his Grappling Hook....

It looks great, and it now has a release date: September 22nd. Here’s a new trailer to accompany the release date: The story follows small town 12-year-olds (and animal people) Luka and Rolo as they explore the mystery of an abandoned fertiliser plant at the edge of town. As you wander around the storybook dioramas, touching things you ought not and chatting to people, you’ll occasionally uncover new verbs like “chill” or “hide” or “ponder”....

On the flipside, we’re not expecting these games to go even cheaper now that Black Friday is over, so if you see a deal you fancy, you might as well go for it straight away. Some games might be discounted across multiple retailers, but with our picks of the best game deals below, we’ve made sure that each price beats or at least matches sale prices elsewhere. If you are still angling for some new kit to play these games on, you can have a browse of our main Cyber Monday deals hub as well as our assortment of product-specific hubs linked below....

In this guide, we’ll break down the best TAQ-M loadout in Modern Warfare 2, explaining the best attachments, secondary weapon, perks, and equipment that you need in your MW2 TAQ-M class setup. Best TAQ-M loadout in Modern Warfare 2 Our MW2 TAQ-M loadout increases its damage range considerably, along with its accuracy and ADS speed. That turns it into a 1-to-2-shot-kill monster at any range, and allows you to quickly snap to enemies and score headshots with ease....

Below you’ll find not only the best TIE Bomber loadout I’ve come across, but quite possibly the strongest loadout in the entire game as of the time of writing. So what are we waiting for? Let’s dive right in! In this TIE Bomber loadout guide: Best TIE Bomber loadout in Star Wars: Squadrons How to use our TIE Bomber loadout Watch on YouTube Best TIE Bomber loadout in Star Wars: Squadrons I’ve been consistently top of the scoreboard in both Dogfight and Fleet Battles since creating this Bomber build for Squadrons....

In this U-wing loadout guide: Best U-wing loadout in Star Wars: Squadrons How to use our U-wing loadout Best U-wing loadout in Star Wars: Squadrons The U-wing, much like its Empire counterpart, the TIE Reaper, does not focus at all on kills. Instead, you must focus on either disabling enemies, or protecting allies. My favourite U-wing loadout concentrates on the latter, because I find it gives our team the greatest chance of victory in any Dogfight or Fleet Battles match....

“A new Indiana Jones game with an original story is in development from our studio, MachineGames, and will be executive produced by Todd Howard, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games,” Bethesda tweeted today. “It’ll be some time before we have more to reveal, but we’re very excited to share today’s news!” MachineGames did well to balance drama, fun, and killing Nazis in their Wolfenstein games, so they sound a pretty good fit for the adventures of Doctor Jones....

“We are thrilled to announce that the NLRB ruled in our favor to have an election of Albany QA testers at Blizzard. With 94% committed to winning the union, we look forward to counting ballots a month from today,” says the tweet. 21 quality assurance employees at Blizzard Albany - formerly known as Vicarious Visions - will have a right to vote in the union election. Parent company Activision Blizzard had argued that all 88 Blizzard Albany employees should get to vote on the union....

Swordsman Zangetsu is back and so is his grudge against demons. As with the original, you can swap playable characters with different abilities to find new paths through the demonic stronghold. The cast from the first Curse Of The moon is back alongside new friends Dominique the exorcist, Robert the sharpshooter, and Hachi a magic suit of armor controlled by a corgi. Yup, guess we’re just playing that one with a straight face....

This is the feeling I got from puzzle adventure game Bugsnax. It is cutesy and whimsical at first glance, but there’s clearly something up, something simmering under the surface. I spent an hour with the game’s opening portion, and throughout my hair follicles were semi-hardened, primed but unsure of whether to fully extend or not. Right at the beginning of my unsettling adventure, I tuned in to a sepia toned video sent by Elizabert Megafig, a legendary explorer who urged me to join her on Snaktooth Island....

In an IGN report (which I encourage you to read in full), 26 current and former employees came forward to talk about their experiences at the studio. They say the majority of sources remained anonymous for fear of repercussions. The report brings particular focus on troubles in the narrative department, dating back to Destiny 1’s development. On top of horrific crunch where a team member claims they couldn’t type because they were so sick, sources tell of a team lead who suffered from “massive burnout” creating “an increasingly toxic work environment for others”....

If you’ve been keeping an eye on The Great War, you’ll know this WW1 RTS is comprised of two distinct halves. There’s Field Commander mode, where you’re making decisions on the campaign map, laying down trenches and allocating forces to its hex-based city tiles, and there’s Theatre Commander mode, which see you direct its big RTS battles. I only got to see the latter in my preview last year, so I was intrigued to see how the Field Commander sections play out alongside it....

On this page: How to complete the Farms contract How to complete the Summit contract How to complete the Factory contract How to do the Hunt for Adler Cold War missions What rewards do you get for finding Adler? How to complete the Farms contract To unlock the Farms contract, you’ll need to head to the Farmland area of the map and seek out the Adler contract. It should show up on the map like any other contract in the game, but the icon for it is a silhouette of Adler with his cool shades on....

Away from your static restaurants from the previous two games, CSD!3?! (which I’ve double checked is the correct acronym and I’m not having a seizure) takes you on the road in your very own food truck with two robot sidekicks, and a brand new story-driven campaign to beat. Your robots, named Whisk and Cleaver, will help you serve up hundreds of foods (including old and new recipes), across hundreds of levels, in a campaign that can be played either single player or local co-op with a friend....

Not bad considering that Valve aren’t exactly cramming Counter-Strike full of regular new maps and weapons. The anniversary was commemorated, for example, with just a tweet: I played more of the original Counter-Strike and CS:Source than I have CSGO, but I remain enormously fond of every version of the game. If I wanted to dash around Dust or enjoy the feel of an Aug in my hand, it’s CSGO I’d turn to....

Still, I signed up to have awful soup, made from Clippy’s wire entrails and melted immersive sim floppy disks, spooned on my eyeballs. What I got was a reasonably tense shooter with some extensively labyrinthine level design and, to be fair, a very good shotgun. Cruelty Squad is a maximum effort shitpost wearing a puke stained Rainbow Six t-shirt. Set in a hellish gig-economy future, the titular squad of which you are a member deals in corporate liquidations....