Reader, I bloody love Death’s Door. Like Katharine said, it’s kind of a more gentle Soulslike, with a Studio Ghibli-esque flair to the character design and world. Also, there are fun jokes like a gravedigger being called Steadhone and stuff. But I also hate Death’s Door, because it’s still not an easy game, and I think I ended up playing it improperly this weekend.

I do enjoy a good Dark Souls or Skyrim speedrun, for sure, but in those big, open RPGs, speedrunning eventually evolves into using glitches and tricks to bypass parts of the game. Desperados 3 speedrunning may eventually go that route, but I particularly enjoy these early days when speedruns are just watching folks play the game very quickly and very flawlessly. Check out this run through Desperados 3’s second mission by “Optibum” who completes the level in two minutes and fifty seconds....

This isn’t much more detail than the notE3 trailer showed, mind, so at this point I’m still not quite sure how all those abilities work. Hell, Destiny 2 is obtuse enough that I’m still not entirely sure of the intricacies of some abilities I already have. So with only short snippets to see so far, I’ll need to wait to judge any of them, especially when it comes to PvP - which makes up a lot of the trailer....

Here’s how it works: as a Dawnblade Warlock, activate your super, then immediately pop open the inventory and swap out a new weapon. Once you’re back in the game, you should start blasting out endless flaming slashes. Destiny streamer Gladd demonstrated the exploit on Friday, helping publicise the exploit. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Gladd (@GladdOnTwitch) February 7, 2020 It’s all a bit of fun when you’re burning down raid and strike bosses with ease....

Bungie revealed the next season’s Eververse set in the latest This Week At Bungie post. Eververse is the cosmetics store which sells items for premium microtransaction cash, and some of them for the Bright Dust currency we can earn by playing. The season will bring plenty of other new armour but Eververse sets are often particularly fancy, interesting, or weird. And boy this street wear is interesting. As a dedicated follower of spacefashion, prone to gushing over outfits, I adore the concept....

The Guardian Games will run until May 11, so that’s three weeks to decide who’s best. Unsurprisingly, Destiny’s squillion Hunters have taken a strong early lead. Eva Levente has decorated the Tower with a strong Olympics-y look, which is nice, and taking part can get you new prizes. Natty new Ghost shells come emblazoned with statues of the emblematic class animals, and a quest leads to a new exotic machinegun: a honking great Cabal minigun named the Heir Apparent....

The official announcement of DAH2: Reprobed happened during THQ Nordic’s 10th anniversary showcase, but is far from a surprise. The game was announced seemingly by accident by the PlayStation Twitter account earlier this week, and the trailer has remained online since. THQ Nordic themselves teased the sequel at the end of a trailer back in February. Destroy All Humans 2 shifts time period from the 1950s to the 1960s, and lets players travel through fictional versions of San Francisco, London, Tokyo and ultimately to the moon....

You and I might immediately question a company’s practices if they say they use voluntary work to make products people pay for. Fntastic founders Eduard and Aisen Gotovtsev, however, take a broader view: “Volunteering at Fntastic means that a person works willingly for a common cause. We consider all team members, including employees, volunteers,” they said in the statement provided to RPS. “This idea comes from our own experience and aspiration....

On equippable items, Blizzard say they’ve found that the currently in-development system of carrying around items with those new Ancestral, Demonic, and Angelic properties involved too much faffing about for too few gains. “It felt like an excessive amount of bookkeeping for the player,” they say, adding that they’re currently iterating on managing gear stats but will share more later. Sounds alright, as I’d sure hate for Diablo to have ditched inventory Tetris only to beguile me with gear tedium of a new variety....

As you do with action RPGs, you’ll spend time in Slormancer unlocking buckets of skills, abilities, weapons, and other goodies as you claw your way to the big bad. So far, Slormite Studios say that players will be able to choose one of three classes: the Knight, Huntress, or Mage, and play through the first of five planned acts. You’ll be able to reach level 40 for now, with the eventual level cap being planned as 100....

Obviously their initial figure wouldn’t be the length of a standard playthrough, but their follow-up saying that “a regular player should finish the story + side quests and do quite a lot of exploring in less than 100 hours” still sounded wearying and left open questions about filler and busywork. Following that clarification on Saturday, Techland tweeted another clarification on Monday night: So: 20 hours to complete the main story; 80 hours to finish the main story and every side quest; 500 hours to do all the quests, choices, and endings, check everywhere on the map, see all dialogue, and find every collectible....

For starters, the game’s meagre tutorial section is now bustling with videos and playable scenarios introducing everything from basic play to techniques like stacking creep camps and the all-important last-hitting. Completing these tasks also gives cosmetic rewards to customise wizards, as an incentive all players can benefit from. I’ve had a look and played a few scenarios and yep, this stuff is useful. I like that it’s all guided by the much-beloved “shitty wizard”....

I don’t meant that. International Passes are mainly about cosmetics and esports, and I’ve bought them in the past despite not particularly caring about either. The basic Pass costs £8/$10/€9, and 25% of all the money it raises goes to the International prize pool. You know, whenever that happens. You earn extra rewards for playing, but if this is anything like previous years then you’ll want/need to stump up extra cash for the good stuff....

According to the Redditor, the video shows a trek through Darkspawn-infested Weisshaupt, the Grey Warden’s headquarters. The player controls a sword and shield-wielding Elf in the Knight Class, and the menus apparently refer to them as a “mid-level Grey Warden.” Grey Wardens haven’t been playable since 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins, so I’m sure DA lore experts will have a field day theorising. The Redditor mentions a few other details like improved animations, a dragon boss fight, and most importantly, the return of jumping (which made walking through Inquisition a little less cumbersome....

I call Dragon Age 2 polarising because I’ve yet to meet anyone who doesn’t consider the game either the best or worst in the series. Admittedly, I think it is the worst, for a lot the reasons Gaider talks about in his Twitter thread. Weird pacing, plot points that make no sense, and a said-to-be bustling city that in reality felt rather empty (I also thought the combat was a bit rubbish, but that’s a separate point entirely)....

“Almost every chapter is present in some form. A huge chunk is playable, a huge chunk is block-outs with no enemies. All of the E3 content is there,” wrote the leaker, posting on the infamous anonymous message board as “x0r”. Most of the game’s weapons are apparently functional. The leaker or leakers apparently released the build, its editor and the full source code. However, when confirming the leak looked real, Broussard also urged people to lower their expectations of what would be available....

Here’s the fateful Tweet: It is, by and large, empty marketing speak. Techland’s way of saying that they’ve made a big open-world zombie game. Look it’s massive! So much to do! As if that doesn’t sound exhausting enough, they compare the game’s playtime to a walk from Warsaw to Madrid. I’m sure the walk is lovely, but I’d much rather fly. Have a rifle through the responses and they aren’t great....

After extensive backlash from the community, EA acknowledged the criticism on The Sims’ official Twitter page: “Our creator segments during the Behind The Sims Summit did not fairly represent our vast community of players,” they said. “Black Simmers deserve to feel seen in all that we do at The Sims, so we’re holding ourselves accountable to this mistake and will do better moving forward.” EA’s statement raised a few eyebrows in the community....

You can pick one of several avatars at the start of the game, but whatever face you choose, you’ll star as a spunky latch-key kid with an adorable kid sister. It’s suggested that your parents may be separated or divorced, but it quickly becomes apparent that your father is missing and it’s up to you to find him because adults are Not to Be Trusted (for… reasons). It’s all pretty loosely goosey, though....

Luckily, if you’re in desperate need of some more levels before taking on a certain boss or legacy dungeon, there are a few fantastic rune-farming spots to watch out for. We’ll walk you through each of them below, and how to deal with the enemies there efficiently and safely for a tonne of quick runes. If you want to learn the best stats to prioritise increasing, check out our guide on how to level up in Elden Ring!...