“Turns out,” says Littman, “it’s because it’s really hard to do”. So there you go. But Littman was not deterred. Working away in the leviathan’s guts, with the famous motto of the SAS in mind - “You’ve got to at least have a go, even if it’s really hard” - Relic learned from their fellow strategy Jonahs at CA, and set about applying the knowledge to their landmark WW2 strategy franchise, Company Of Heroes....

The moral of this trailer: don’t rob a ghost train, lest the devil take your soul. The game sees you and your crew of cowboys working to get your souls back by travelling the world on horseback and then diving into turn-based fights (also sometimes on horseback). The first Hard West was released back in 2015 and scratched Alec’s ever-present XCOM itch, while being less all-consuming than its inspiration. The original developers went on to make Phantom Doctrine, while Hard West 2 has a new development studio at the reigns....

In NieR: Automata you play as these androids who have these levitating weapons strapped to their backs. Two of them are blindfolded, the other isn’t. Knee high leather boots are in vogue, as is a soundtrack with lots of operatic “oooos” and “aaaas”. Beware the mackerel; it’ll end your game early. I just get the feeling NieR’s still a bit slept on. If you are someone who is snoozing, consider this article as one of those alarms that wakes you up naturally with a gradual increase in light, as opposed to a really shrill one - I don’t like confrontation....

But as it transpires, Cavill isn’t the only one in Tinseltown who knows their way around these inscrutable, whirring machines we call “computers”. Indeed, in the wake of his charming video, a swathe of weapons-grade celebs have come out of the woodwork to reveal their secret hardware passion, and have all - somehow - chosen to share their PC build secrets exclusively with us. Read on, then, as we reveal the rigs of the stars:...

The 7 Day FPS jam is week long game-making marathon meant to “challenge yourself and first person games by creating a game that takes us to new places in new ways,” say the organisers. As ever with game jams, there’s quite a lot of submissions to scroll through. Jammers are always quite creative, so there’s lots more than just guns galore. Here’s some of the submissions that caught my eye....

I’m particularly pleased to see the return of its soothing radio station, which was one of my favourite parts of Golf Club Wasteland when I reviewed it last year - or at least that’s the impression I get from the trailer’s narration. The reveal doesn’t give away much else, although judging from all the water I reckon we’re either in a different part of the planet to Golf Club Wasteland and The Cub, or further into the future....

You can watch the full Dartmoor sequence below to see what I mean. It’s a demanding benchmark. Even with an Intel Core i5-10600K processor, 16GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 inside my PC, there are several moments near the start of the benchmark where it stutters and grinds to a halt due to the sheer amount of exploding furniture flying around - and that’s at a 1920x1080 resolution, too....

This guide covers everything you need to know to get into the Well and navigate the underground areas to find the lantern in Tunic. How to get into the Well in Tunic After getting the Shield in the Old House, head through the gate ahead and make your way up the steps towards the exit. This will bring you out by a waterfall that you can walk behind to get back to the Sealed Temple save point, so do that if you need to rest....

If you’re struggling to find Powder Snow, then you’re in the right place! This guide will teach you everything that you need to know about Powder Snow, including where you can find it and how to collect Powder Snow with a Cauldron. How to get Powder Snow in Minecraft 1.17 Powder Snow spawns naturally in areas where there is regular snow, and it looks indistinguishable from regular snow so the only way you can find it naturally is by quite literally stumbling across it....

Either way, this guide will help answer all your questions. Below we’ll walk you through how to find an End Portal in Minecraft Survival Mode and complete it with Eyes Of Ender. We’ll also explain how to create your own End Portal in Creative Mode, for those who are more interested in building than exploring. How to make an End Portal in Minecraft There are two ways to make a working End Portal in Minecraft, depending on which gamemode you’re playing on....

When I first saw Hyper Demon’s trailer, I felt excitement, wonder, and fear. Here’s the important thing to realise: the unearthly and incomprehensible violence you see in that trailer is genuinely what the game looks like to play. That’s how it feels to play, too. I am delighted that the best-looking game of 2016 has been followed by the best-looking game of 2022. Its many skulls have a crystalline makeover, glimmering like citrine and shattering the spectrum into rainbow highlights....

Rebirth wasn’t quite as good as I’d hoped (by dint of it being a Frictional Games game, whom I hold to a very high standard), but it is still a great horror adventure. Bly Manor, on the other hand, is teeeeerrible. Worse than not being scary, it is often actually funny. So I’ve been thinking a lot about horror and what kinds of horror I think are good, and why....

Ahem. Well, if Danny Trejo can show up in this kickflip ’em up, what other cameos may appear? We used the game’s character customisation menu to cook up some possibilities. Lara Croft - Tomb Raider Lara is an athletic woman, she has a private gymnasium in her home. Are you telling me she could not heelflip? Be sensible. There is an entire desert realm in OlliOlli World where you grind along the sun-bleached spines of long-dead beasts, their species and characteristics unknown....

Note: Spoilers follow, obviously. You’ve been warned. On this page: Vault of Hephaistos walkthrough video Reaching the centre of the Vault Left path walkthrough Right path walkthrough Polyphemos boss fight Immortals Fenyx Rising Vault of Hephaistos walkthrough video Above you’ll find a full video walkthrough of the Vault of Hephaistos, solving every puzzle and finding every chest in the entire vault. But if you’d prefer a written walkthrough, we’ve got that too!...

However, much like their 10th Gen Comet Lake counterparts before them, Rocket Lake still feels like something of a halfway house for Intel, as they’re also due to be launching their even more advanced 12th Gen Alder Lake chips in the second half of this year. These will finally move Intel onto their much anticipated 10nm manufacturing process (Rocket Lake is still effectively using a kind of 14nm process, using the same 10nm design as their 10th Gen Sunny Cove laptop CPUs, but back-ported to 14nm), bringing with it even more performance and feature improvements than what we’ve got here with Rocket Lake....

Into The Pit is one of those, until it isn’t. You know you’re in trouble when the demonic eldritch hell portal starts feeling too comfortable. To be clear, that’s far from the case at first. The horror starts off with you finding yourself in the deserted streets of a vaguely Victorian town, where the few remaining locals cower behind their doors. It turns out everybody’s been lured in t’ pit by a mysterious acolyte known as the Alderman, and you’re the only one wizard enough to stop him....

There’s a cinematic and gameplay trailer below. In a private presentation prior to the showcase, we got a scant few extra details about the game. It sounds as if the basic structure is following the traditions of Jagged Alliance 2. It’s set on an island and you can choose which region you wish to tackle next, an you’ll be balancing turn-based battles alongside the meta-layer of reinforcing regions and dealing with responsive enemies....

That trailer to celebrate its imminent early access exit was surprising, and you can’t tell me otherwise. The game has picked up a lot of additions on its trip to release, turning Doom’s run-and-gun carnage into a slow and steady turn-based stalk through the facility. It’s a place where you have to check every corner, examine every weapon, and even search through an enemy’s viscera for character boosting relics. Perks let you define a character with weapon and armour customisation, adding things like auto-reloads every turn, better tracking, and even stealth....

There’s also the Edgerunner update dropping today, a tie-in for the Netflix anime Edgrunners (more info on that was also revealed tonight), and free-to-play mini game featuring Roach the horse, because we all like Roach the horse. Phantom Liberty, which sounds like a joke name I’d make up if I were inventing a fake Kojima game, seems to involve V making some kind of deal with the President. At least I think it’s the President, and I think that’s her in the header image....

Learn how to destroy Hay Piles in Kena: Bridge Of Spirits below! How to collect Rot inside Hay Piles in Kena: Bridge Of Spirits If you see a Hay Pile in Kena: Bridge Of Spirits with some glowing particles floating from the top of it, that means there’s something beneath that Hay Pile - nothing as large as Spirit Mail or a Meditation Spot, but more likely a Rot to collect....