At this point, it’s worth highlighting why the city sample is so special - and it’s pretty straightforward. Creating and rendering cityscapes of this level of detail is no walk in the park. Previous UE5 demos had been limited to linear, uniform, rocky landscapes. A city like the one ‘given away’ here is far more complex in terms of materials, shapes, forms and dynamism. The Nanite geometry system gives extreme detail to the smallest elements in the city - to the point where individual tiny assets can look almost lifelike when viewed up close....

The leak first appeared on reddit and was subsequently verified by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier. As you’d expect, NBA 2K22 is on the cards. According to the leak, ex-NBA pro Dirk Nowitzki is one of the cover stars. Codename Daffodil is a Borderlands spin-off featuring Tiny Tina, with a final name that may be “Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands”. (Gearbox recently trademarked “Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands”). This game is said to be in the same style as the mainline Borderlands game....

You go about this gradually because you’re no Dracula yet, and doing so involves two interlinked systems: combat and building a bigger base. And that base, yes, is a gothic vampire castle pieced together bit by bit, one wall at a time. In essence, then, it’s a base-building and crafting game, and when you mix in multiplayer, which is a huge draw here, it begins to feel a lot like games you’ve played before: Valheim, Grounded, Conan Exiles - there are lots of them....

Whilst the M4 is an easier-to-access and already-solid option to pick, but if you’re looking for something different, the TAQ 56 is a good shout for Warzone 2.0. Not only is it worth trying just in general, it’s also a weapon you need to use on your way to unlocking other guns such as TAQ-V and the TAQ-M. To help you understand how to best use and equip the TAQ 56 in Warzone 2....

Similarly to the Warzone nuke event from early 2021, as well as the even surround the reveal of Black Ops: Cold War late last year, you can expect more than just a few fireworks this time around. This will arrive as part of Vanguard Season 1, which will offer the usual array of new operators, weapons and a new Battle Pass. In addition, Warzone Pacific introduces the long awaited integration with Vanguard, as well as the new Warzone Pacific map Caldera....

You’re tasked with destroying seven pieces in total - a small number, though the difficulty is you aren’t pointed towards their specific locations. If you’ve played the objectives in the Fortnite Halloween event so far, chances are you’re already visited where they will spawn - but we’ll recommend one specific place where it’s easiest to tick off this challenge. Best Fortnite haunted household furniture location Though haunted furniture can appear across multiple Fortnitemares-related destinations, the easiest location is Grim Gables, the named location in the northern half of the map....

It appears in both games, though will be of particular interest for those playing Scarlet, as it’s required you find Bronzor Fragments to help evolve Charcadet into Armarouge. This page explains how to find Bronzor locations in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet whether you’re after those Fragments, or simply want to fill out your Pokédex. On this page: Where to find Bronzor locations in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet You can find Bronzor spawning among ruins....

Wild Hearts, a collaboration between EA Originals and Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force (the studio behind the long-running Warriors series), transplants the creature battling formula most closely associated with Capcom’s Monster Hunter games to a fantastical feudal Japan where up to three players can battle mysterious beasts known as Kemono. Omega Force - which has previous experience in the monster hunting genre, courtesy of its two Toukiden games - has now expanded on Wild Hearts’ initial reveal with seven minutes of new, largely uninterrupted gameplay footage....

Wonder Boy: Asha In Monster World is a remake of Monster World IV, a mid-1990s sequel to Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon’s Trap - a mid-1990s sequel that never properly got released in the west at the time. I am not a Wonder Boy expert by any means, and the history of this series seems dense and tangled. What I am is a Wonder Boy enthusiast, and particularly an enthusiast for Wonder Boy 3, which seemed, when I was eleven, to be a game so beautiful and rich that the world did not fully deserve it....

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak. The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer?...

The change follows the publication’s purchase of the puzzler for a seven-figure sum, and has seen it transfer onto the New York Times website. (The old link will now autodirect for existing players.) The game’s logo has also been redesigned. However, the move has not been without issue. While most play stats have carried over (guess count, win count, number of game’s played), the all-important streak count has not. Last night, the New York Times said it was “investigating” the issue - so there’s hope it may return....

Details were thin on the ground - really, there was nothing here which had not been reported already - but tonight Microsoft made it official. Kojima is working on a brand new project with Xbox which will harness the company’s cloud technology. If this sounds familiar, well, it’s a promise we’ve heard before, and a detail which first found its way online last summer, when whispers of Kojima working with Microsoft first hit the internet....

The hidden secret is a small, static credits screen dedicated to Xbox staff members which worked on the console’s now legendary green interface. (It’s a design Microsoft recently honoured with a throwback theme on Xbox Series X/S.) Kotaku was recently contacted by an anonymous Xbox developer who worked on the console way back when - and who had decided enough time had passed that no one was going to find the secret by accident....

It means Microsoft’s subscription service has grown by a net total of three million users, up from the 15 million last mentioned in September 2020. Last year saw strong growth for Xbox Game Pass, which had just 10 million subscribers back in April 2020. Additions of popular live service games such as Destiny 2 have undoubtedly helped, alongside longer-term reasons to jump aboard such as Microsoft’s impending Bethesda and Zenimax buyout, the addition of EA Access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and the fact next-gen games now cost up to £70 individually....

Part of its positioning as the “one” device you’d need connected to your telly was its ability to act as a TV pass-through, so you could hook up your cable box or your USB TV tuner. Thankfully, all of that went away very quickly, along with many of the Microsoft execs who thought it was a good idea. But one element has remained until now: OneGuide, Xbox One’s TV listings app....

From today (3rd May), subscribers will be able to have a go of Loot River, via Cloud, console and PC. This dungeon crawling action roguelike combines “tense, real-time combat with spatial block-shifting” and players will have the chance to explore “procedurally generated labyrinths” while casting spell and besting the world’s “abominations”. Then, on 5th May, users will be able to dive into the black and white vistas of Trek to Yomi (Cloud, Console, and PC), as well as Citizen Sleeper (Cloud, Console, and PC)....

If there’s anything that’s a must-buy in the sale it’s Yakuza 0 for £3.99. If you haven’t tried any games in the series before, by now you’ve probably been inundated with suggestions from fans that you really, really should by now. Well, here’s your chance for cheap. Perhaps unsurprisingly, those in the know say that Yakuza 0 is your best starting point for the series. It may be a prequel that was developed much later in the lifecycle of the series, but it serves as the natural introduction to the whole Kazuma Kiryu saga....

Since then, fans have been speculating that Crisis Core’s story will have increased significance in the wake of Remake. The release of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 - Reunion between Remake games surely offers a chance to recontextualise its story and characters. Of course, the team at Square Enix are keen not to spoil any forthcoming plans, but it’s a fair assumption that Zack - the star of Crisis Core - may have a bigger role to play in the trilogy’s future....

It has been, the story goes, a quiet sort of year for video games. After the fun and festivities of 2020, which against the backdrop of a pandemic somehow saw two new consoles being released, there’s been a lethargy to 2021 - a Boxing Day fug as we’re caught in the liminal buffer between the big launch year and 2022, where every big release has seemingly been delayed to. Which is all true enough....

WWE 2K17, 2K18, 2K19 and 2K20 are all now missing from the Steam store on PC, and from both the PlayStation and Microsoft stores on consoles. The move - which Steam-tracker suggests took place just over a week ago - leaves only the franchise’s more recent WWE 2K Battlegrounds and WWE 2K22 on sale (thanks, PC Gamer). 2K has delisted various other, older sports titles in the past, though has typically warned when this would occur....