In a world where Goosebumps stories aren’t real but apparently Goosebumps books still are—some (literal?) clown called Slappy The Dummy’s gone and summoned those spooky creatures into the real world. It’s on you to put ’em back by way of stuffing their pages back under the cover while sneaking around and solving puzzles. “Discover the missing pages and avoid getting caught by terrifying creatures like the Graveyard Ghoul, Lawn Gnomes, Annihilator 3000, Murder the Clown, and the Werewolf of Fever Swamp,” all names that I imagine mean something to someone who wasn’t buried in the Harry Potter books at the time....

They also announced a release date: April 18th. Here’s the new trailer, although at the end of the post I’ll embed the longer game demonstration from tonight’s livestream: The full demonstration focused on Minecraft Legends’ PvP mode, in which teams of players can do battle with one another. Each player has their own character on the battlefield, like a little hero unit, and they can choose how they wish to contribute to the fight....

The committee have been formed following a report from the Wall Street Journal that brought to light new claims of alleged harassment and misconduct by ActiBlizz staff, as well as disturbing allegations about Kotick himself. He allegedly threatened someone that he’d have them killed, stepped in to stop an alleged harasser from being fired, and more. Activision Blizzard say the committee will be chaired by Dawn Ostroff, and Reveta Bowers will serve on it - both of whom are on the company’s board of directors....

Since you’re a tiny little bird you’re of course not skating in human-sized parks. Nope, you’re grinding on straws and pulling off cardboard kickflips and doing what I’ve just learned is called a “nose stall” on the back of TV screens. In addition to all the kickflappin’ tricks, there’s a lot of little bird fashion and bit of bird ’tude in the new trailer too. It’s all in service of bringing some hype back to the life of your human “big friend” who’s hung up their board because they’re so busy with work....

Yeah, you can ignore almost all of that trailer and focus on the final few seconds when it shows teeny bits of the game. The marketing blurb explains: Dark Descent is made by Tindalos Interactive, who are best known for the Battlefleet Gothic: Armada series of real-time spaceship strategy games set in the world of Warhammer 40,000. Like those, this is published by Focus. “Customise your squad with a selection of different classes....

Of all the internal gubbins, the biggest change is the use of new Zen 4 cores. Compared to the Zen 3 cores in the Ryzen 5000 series, these are up to 15% faster in single-core workloads – like those often imposed by games – and can hit boost clock speeds of up to 5.5GHz. That equals the new Intel Core i9-12900KS, and AMD’s current top-spec CPU, the Ryzen 9 5950X, maxes out at 4....

Is there any truth to these rumours? Given the sparse number of details included in the report, it’s difficult to say how watertight they are at the moment. Three months is a large enough time frame that it might hold a shred of accuracy regarding their intended launch window, but it could all still be a load of old bobbins. Instead, we’ll likely know for sure once AMD’s CEO Dr Lisa Su gives her CES 2021 keynote speech on Tuesday January 12th at 11am PST / 4pm GMT....

Before diving into this week’s small game update, the Among Us devs made a brief statement on the game’s recent hacking problem - and while they don’t name it, they understand things got real rough with last week’s mass attack. “We want to be sure to talk about the cheating and hacking going on,” Innersloth wrote in today’s update notes. “It was pretty bad there for a bit, so Forte pushed out server changes really fast....

On this page: Apex Legends Olympus map Olympus map locations Best locations to land on Olympus Apex Legends Olympus map Olympus attempts to learn from the successes and mistakes of the previous two maps to create the best battleground yet. Larger than Kings Canyon but smaller than World’s Edge, Olympus is a lush gravity-defying floating island dominated by new methods of travel, including the Trident hovercars and the massive Phaserunner tunnel which can teleport players across the map in an instant....

This guide will show you all of the songs that you can hear on the Back 4 Blood jukebox, so that you can repeatedly replay Bar Room Blitz whilst waiting for someone to inevitably get Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to play the mission on Youtube. Back 4 Blood Jukebox Song List If you’ve only played the Bar Room Blitz mission in Back 4 Blood once, you might think there are a couple of songs that can play on the jukebox....

The Gangs DLC introduces three new gangs - the Jackals, Bone Breakers and Vipers - each with their own traits. They’ll recruit members who have the kinds of traits they’re looking for, can raise the overall “danger temperature” of your prison, and can gain an advantage via newly added crooked guards. I enjoyed Prison Architect in part because I thought it successfully walked a fine line with its subject matter, choosing wisely when to depict prisons with appropriate seriousness and when to paint with broad strokes....

Battle royales have obviously been falling from the sky by the dozen over the past few years, like players from a plane, and on the face of it Super People doesn’t offer anything radically different. Its one twist is that it has classes - if you can call that a twist, given Apex Legends and several other popular battle royales have classes, too. In terms of how it plays, Super People has a tactical pace closer to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but combat tends to be more varied when you come face to face with opponents....

“When I first started on Breakaway I thought… we’re on Antarctica, I just have to do this! I love adding these little things that add more soul to the game,” says 3D artist Joel Zakrisson. “While resource extraction is still at the core of the map, adding these little fellows and adding more life to the environment was a no brainer for me.” I honestly don’t know how I feel about putting penguins into War: The Game, but as long as they don’t get hurt I’m cool with it....

Along with the Vulcan II Max, this list is home to all our current top picks across the rainbow spectrum of (sometimes rainbow-lit) gaming keyboards. Those with mechanical or optical-mechanical key switches are often your best bet for tactility and durability, but if you want to stick to a tighter budget, there are some good membrane/rubber dome keyboards here as well. Have a think about which form factor you want, too....

There’s a good selection of different Sniper Rifles to choose between in MW2, and each of them has a unique array of stats that sets them apart in feel and function from the rest. But particularly when you take into account all the attachments you can add to each rifle, there are certainly some that perform better than others. Below we’ll walk you through each of the Sniper Rifles on offer in Modern Warfare 2, along with our opinion on the very best Sniper to use in the game right now....

On this page: Best Streetsweeper loadout Best Streetsweeper Perks and Equipment Best Streetsweeper loadout in Warzone Typically with shotguns, you want to crank the hipfire spread down and the damage range up as much as possible. Blasting from the hip on the run is the key to making this weapon class work, so that is the goal with our Streetsweeper build: Muzzle: Agency Choke Barrel: Reinforced Heavy Laser: Ember Sighting Point Stock: Wire Stock Ammunition: 18 Round Drum...

“We’re saying goodbye to the Bethesda.net Launcher this year,” Bethesda said in today’s announcement. “We would like to thank you for your support and assure you that all of your games are safe.” People who reluctantly used Bethesda’s Launcher will be able to import any games they own on it into a Steam account, a process starting in early April. Any virtual currencies you have (like Fallout 76’s Atoms) in your Bethesda....

Plus, if you stick to the very end, you’ll still get to see a new horrible monster. That’s a very large spider. Black Myth: Wukong is inspired by 16th-century Chinese novel Journey To The West, and is being developed by Chinese game developer Game Science. Those roots give its world and character design a fresh flavour, like the hanging lanterns yelling “Celebrate!” over and over in the video above. But it’s also the rare game in 2022 that still impresses on pure graphical fidelity....

“In a world from the mind of Dion Koster, where self-styled crews are equipped with personal boostpacks, new heights of graffiti are reached,” say Team Reptile. “Start your own cypher and dance, paint, trick, face off with the cops and stake your claim to the extrusions and cavities of a sprawling metropolis in an alternate future.” Team Reptile say that you’ll be free to jump, grind, trick, and airdash your way around the city....