For context, Epic first filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple last year, after Apple booted Fortnite off of the App Store, because Epic subverted Apple’s rules and put their own microtransactions in the Fortnite app. The important points to note here are 1) that Apple don’t allow apps that have transactions that don’t go through them directly, or have content that isn’t approved by Apple, and 2) they have rules against hosting third-party storefronts on the App Store, which has kept Epic from bringing the Epic Games Store to iOS....

Twinfinite spotted this in the stream and clipped the performance-specific section of the broadcast. They’re not promising universal gains on every configuration just yet, because you know, PC’s come in all shapes and sizes, but on Wloch’s own rig sporting an Intel Core i7-9700 with an RTX 2060 Super graphics card at Ultra detail and a 4K render scale of 40%, he received a boost from a stuttery 35fps to a silky smooth 60fps over Manhattan....

Here’s the launch trailer: By robust, I mean: this looks almost like multiple games-in-one, given you seem to be able to get hands-on with designing the products you sell, manage your peeps Prison Architect-style, construct your factory Factorio-style, and can play the whole thing in singleplayer or co-op. Steve Hogarty had a swig of capitalism juice back upon its initial early access launch in 2020, praising Good Company for its style, setting and intuitive interface....

Fallout 76 gold bullion guide This Fallout 76 gold bullion guide will show you how to get gold bars quickly and how you can spend them on plans and recipes for a lot of new items. Those looking for a beginner’s guide to get started with the base game should have a look at our Fallout 76 guide. How to get gold bullion in Fallout 76 How you can use gold bullion Fallout 76 guide series...

The biggest discovery comes from Reddit user u/MilkManEx, who converted the trailer’s audio into MP3 and has seemingly unearthed text in the spectrogram reading: “WHATEVER HEART THIS TOWN HAD HAS NOW STOPPED.” Meanwhile, the Silent Hill forum found an SOS signal hidden between the “THY FLESH IS WEAK” images on the CRTV. Over on Twitter, fans deciphered another morse code message on images posted by Annapurna, the game’s co-publisher. This time the message reads: “I DONT KNOW HOW TO LEAVE....

From there, you have 44 seconds to chain together as many new words as you can, with plenty of other twists to make it more challenging. For a start, if you did replace that A with a T, the T would then be pinned in place so your next word would need to also start with T. So you’d go from THEM to THEY, meaning the T is unpinned but now Y is....

Meant as a casual mode to relax away from dungeons and grinding levels, Island Sanctuary has no Job level limitations and can be enjoyed by anyone. Even though you can craft your own buildings and gather materials, you don’t need to have played any gathering or crafting classes. With a base to customise, crops to tend to and a pasture full of animals to pet, it’s easy to see why comparisons were drawn to other farming games such as Stardew Valley....

You can play Moving Out with up to four players - though just because the game is couch co-op doesn’t mean you need to be on the same couch to play it. Moving Out has Steam’s Remote Play Together feature, so even if you’re practising social distancing with your buds, you’ll still be able to play it online with them. Only the host needs to own the game to play like this, too, so you won’t all have to shell out for a copy....

Forager launched in April 2019, then had ongoing development partially supported by a Patreon, with a string of updates leading to multiplayer entering closed beta testing in February. That’s not gone great. “As many of you have noticed, the quality of the Multiplayer Beta was really low,” Mariano Cavallero said in a Patreon post yesterday. “The update was a year late, crashes would happen all the time, most features weren’t working, and some people wouldn’t even be able to start the game at all!...

It’s one that abandons weak shooting and focuses on its promising telekinetic powers. That leans into its lead’s latent Max Paynian vulnerability and noir humour instead of joyless, stony disaffect. That realises ‘cyber’ is only as interesting as the lives it affects, and that ‘punk’ can be burlesque eccentricity and burning hopefulness, not just sneering neon. Now, take them off, and let’s take a look at what we’ve actually got here....

It’s only 24 seconds: I think I can sum up what we know about The Finals in a single sentence. The Finals is a free-to-play, team-based shooter in which players are contestants in a game show and battle on virtual arenas which they can alter and destroy. There, that’s it. There are, at least, adjacent details. For example, it’s being developed by Embark Studios, who were founded by former developers from the Battlefield series at EA Dice....

It’s uncommon for several sex games to make their way into the list of top released games for the month. Perhaps February had everyone feeling some kind of way with that one grand capitalist holiday. Here are the four steamy steam games that were worthy of mention for the month: Max Gentlemen Sexy Business! - Despite its name, Max Gentlemen is actually a management game. It’s not just about the gents either, you’ll grow your business in Victorian London with the help of other sexy tycoons with whom you can get intimate....

The question was posed on Twitter by game designer and developer, Jan Willem Nijman, who’s worked on games like Nuclear Throne and Minit, and the responses in the thread do not disappoint. First, a personal favourite from the Sad Dragon Age Girls Fan Club. If you’ve not played Dragon Age: Inquisition, (spoilers!) you find out right at the end that Solas is the Dread Wolf Fen’Harel - an elven wolf god who was kinda the baddie all along....

Update 2.1 is bringing the Moonchase Festival which will be taking over the Liyue Harbor with decorations and activities. The accompanying festival storline involves hunting down the Moonchase origins and doing a bit of cooking along the way. There are festival collectibles to hunt down and a special new four-star claymore to earn which is, in fact, not a sword at all. It’s a giant fish called the Luxurious Sea-Lord....

Samsung 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD - £119.99 (was £169.99) The integrated heatsink allows for better sustained performance, and is particularly handy for desktop builds with restricted airflow over the motherboard - for example, if you’re using an AiO liquid cooler. It’s also compatible with the PS5 out of the box, which is handy if you’re finding the ~825GB internal storage a bit limited. Katharine reviewed the 980 Pro during her reign of excellence as RPS hardware editor (before ascending to her current position at the reigns of Horace), calling it a ‘PCIe 4....

Get a Crucial MX500 4TB SATA SSD for $269.90 (was $400) This is a great deal for a 4TB SATA SSD, with the drive dropping into the same price range as slower QLC-based drives without a DRAM cache like Crucial’s own BX500. The differences between the two types of drive aren’t major if you’re planning to use the drive for media or game storage, but become much more critical if this is to become your OS drive, as sustained write speeds will be much higher on the MX500 than on drives that use cheaper flash memory and have no DRAM cache....

“It’s a tricky platform game, with a beautifully melancholy story, and enough creativity on show to give me strength even when the going got so tough I almost lost hope,” Adam (RPS in peace) wrote in our Celeste review, and he really hits the nail on the head. The game is semi-obvious in its links to overcoming mental health. All the times I felt like giving up at a few choice moments in the final levels, I had a gnawing feeling in the back of my mind that I was letting Madeline down....

When you load up Breakpoint from March 24th, you’ll get the option to choose between three game modes: one to play the it as it originally was, one that gets rid of that rubbish tiered loot and gear levels, and one that lets you customise a bunch of settings to personalise your game. These modes are called Regular Experience, Immersive Experience and Custom Experience, and they’re all part of an overarching Ghost Experience update....

If you believe a silly goof-up over at Google Stadia was an earnest cat-out-of-the-bag mistake and not a full on misspeaking, Baldur’s Gate 3 may be out this year. One would hope so, given it was announced something like eight months ago and 2020 has yet more months than that left in it, but I’ve seen enough large games delayed early this year to take nothing for granted. In a community blog post, Stadia include Baldur’s Gate 3 in a list of games that we, apparently, are already excited to play on Google’s streaming service this year....

It’s best to look on this project as the team’s take on Castlevania, with their trademark twist on the formula. We have characters from the Gal*Gun series lifted and transported to a more Dracula-esque fantasy world, and the game certainly plays like a blend of these two franchises. Announced just days before the recent Bitsummit event in Kyoto, Japan, and with the developers admitting it was touch-and-go whether the game would be ready to be showcased with a public-facing demo, Demon Purge turns out to be undeniably familiar yet refined food for fans of metroidvanias....