I’m not sure about the smaller screens - it’s a cinematic kind of game - but the touchscreen interface looks like it fits really well. On PS4, you slid your fingers along the controller’s touchpad to control the game, following fingerprint prompts on the screen. Now, you can literally touch the fingerprints instead. It should work wonderfully. Erica is a game about a young lady caught up in a murder investigation, and in the pull of the dark, mysterious secrets lie within....

In preparation towards a three-day concert available 6th to 8th August, new quests are starting to emerge under the Rift Tour premise. Alongside the task to interact with the Rift Tour posters across five locations in the battle royale map, you can also use an Alien Hologram Pad on top of the Party UFO for another prize. Completing this challenge won’t reward you with XP to help you unlock more Battle Stars for the Season 7 battle pass....

To benefit from their varied loot and other features - like riding certain animals - you’ll need to go to specific areas on the map to find wolf, boar, chickens, birds, and frog locations in Fortnite. We’ve detailed all the current animal locations below, as well as other important information you should know about wildlife. On this page: Animals and animal locations in Fortnite explained Animals and wildlife refer to the five creatures that intermittently wander about the map: wolves, boars, chickens, birds, and frogs....

This challenge sees you visiting one of three characters across the Fortnite map and purchasing an item from them. Who knows, maybe it will be what you need to turn the match in your favour? Completing this challenge will reward you with 20k XP, which will help you unlock the skins on the new Battle Pass. On this page: If you’d like to learn more about their specific locations, continue reading!...

Three years later, Kevin is back, and this time it has brought some friends. Fortnite’s latest live event introduced us to a whole Cube civilisation, some of which have since made Fortite’s island their home. Now, fans are working together to watch these new Cubes, as they move and reproduce in real-time. Firstly, there’s the “friendly” blue coloured Cube, which fans have named “Blue Kevin” or “Blevin”. This is the Cube players rebooted during the live event and which seemingly is now on our side....

The characters are the latest in a string of retro tie-ins to be added this season, such as Predator (free for Battle Pass holders), Terminator, Sarah Connor and outfits from Tron. Street Fighter characters Ryu and Chun-Li also joined last week. An in-game portal teasing the arrival of Alien’s heroine and antagonist has been found on the Fortnite island, while the latest audio log, below, has plenty of hints. So, who’s next?...

The expansion, which launched last week, has suffered from performance issues, server outages and a raft of bugs. “First and foremost, I would like to apologise wholeheartedly to those who have been suffering from these problems,” Braben said in a post on the Frontier forum. “I would like to reassure you that we take these issues very seriously and that they are our top priority and focus.” Braben said a second hotfix (the first came out soon after Odyssey launched) is due out soon, which Frontier hopes will sort out more of the reported bugs and improve stability....

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands released back in March, taking the tabletop-inspired action of Borderlands 2’s much-loved DLC episode Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep and building it out into a full-length game of first-person fantasy adventuring. It was generally well-received by critics on release - Eurogamer called it “endearing” despite its “hodgepodge design” - and it’s apparently been enough of a commercial success that Gearbox is now eager to do more....

Developed by Under The Stairs, the monochromatic game sees a young girl - the titular Victoria Bloom - searching the darkness of her family home for her lost grandfather. The layout of the house will shift each run and Victoria will have a variety of light-based weapons to fend off creatures. You can check out gameplay in the trailer below. Each playthrough will differ, as Victoria collects light-based weapons like a Shotgun Bulb and Matches (along with her flashlight and slingshot) to defeat the darkness....

Both processes require a certain quantity of a variety of items to be completed. Some are more common and easily found in the wildlife, while others are tricky to find and drop from strong enemies. To help you put your hands on Dandelion Seeds in Genshin Impact, here is what Dandelion Seeds are used for and where you can find Dandelion Seeds. On this page: You need them to craft:...

Cities: Skylines was a solidly entertaining city builder when it released all the way back in 2015, but seven years of expansions and other post-launch DLC haved created a game of truly amazing scope. However, getting your hands on absolutely everything that’s released thus far is, inevitably, an extremely pricey undertaking even during sale season. Hop over to the Humble Store right now though, and you can pick up publisher Paradox Interactive’s Cities: Skylines Colossal Collection....

Whether you want to occasionally dip into these games over time, or you’re ready to embark on an epic journey for hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours, Sid Meier’s games are great for casual and dedicated gamers alike. Other great Sid Meier’s games to invest time into, alongside the six Civilization games, are Pirates!, Starships, and Railroads!. There’s even two expansions for Civilization VI and added content packs, meaning you’ll almost never run out of new things to do in the game ....

The QuadCast is an excellent microphone at retail price, thanks to its excellent sound quality and the four polar patterns (stereo, omnidirectional, cardioid, bidirectional) you can swap between to optimise your broadcast setup whenever you like, so it’s even better when it’s half price. You also get a host of extra features to help you control your broadcast or make it easy when you’re chatting in Discord, like the tap-to-mute sensor on the top of the mic that also turns off the red LED when the mic is muted, the built-in anti-vibration shock mount, a gain control dial at the bottom, built in pop-fitler and a 3....

In general you want a mouse that’s easy to use and not too heavy, and if you have smaller hands you might want a smaller mouse. If that’s the case then the Prime Mini mouse from SteelSeries is a great option, and right now it’s on sale for half price at Box, which edges it clear of the competition: The Prime Mini is the little sibling of the brilliant SteelSeries Prime Wireless, but that smaller form factor doesn’t mean you’re going to lose out on features....

While this may still seem an impressive figure, it is a marked decrease from previous quarters and the lowest quarter in shipments that Grand Theft Auto 5 has had since its release in 2013. For comparison, in February of this year, the publisher shared it had sold 5m copies between then and the previous November. Even with this slow down in sales, the publisher stated the game has now sold more than 170m units worldwide....

Kart Krash: Full Auto sees players fight to be the last one surviving in teams or chaotic free-for-alls, using the weapons attached to their go-karts and assorted power-ups scattered about the map to take their opponents out. It’s a bit like Mario Kart’s Battle Mode, except there’s tanks and machine guns. Go-karts aren’t new to the game, having arrived back in December with The Cayo Perico Heist. But the new game mode dedicates these vehicles to their own arena....

To fully understand the story, we need to go back to 2017 when then-343 Industries head Bonnie Ross addressed the lack of split-screen campaign co-op in Halo 5, making this comment during the 2017 DICE summit: “When we didn’t put split-screen in with Halo 5, I think it’s incredibly painful for the community - and for us. It erodes trust with the community, as the community is part of our world building… I would say for any FPS going forward, we will always have split-screen....

Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question. If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you’ll break your streak - which is why discovering today’s Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others....

Charlotte McBurney and Logan Hannan will be reprising their roles as Amicia and Hugo in the upcoming sequel. In addition to the returning actors, Kit Connor and Lucy Briggs-Owen have joined the cast as characters Lucas and Beatrice. Connor is best known for his portrayal of Nick Nelson in Netflix’s acclaimed coming of age series Heartstopper. Meanwhile, Briggs-Owen’s past credits include FromSoftware’s Bloodborne and Civilisation 6, where she voiced Queen Victoria....

FIFA 23 has certain features on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, PC (finally!) and Google Stadia that are not present on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. (I’m leaving out the Nintendo Switch version here because, as we know, it’s yet another “Legacy Edition”.) The current-gen version has what’s called “HyperMotion2” gameplay tech. This is the next version of FIFA 22’s HyperMotion gameplay, and combines 11v11 match capture with machine learning to create over 6000 animations....