Unlike guilds in other live games, the good news is you don’t have to do anything to get involved - though learning how to maximise your rewards by changing the way you play will see your Alliance rewards increase. On this page: Every time you complete an expedition, you earn Alliance XP as well as regular XP. The amount of XP earned is exactly the same for both, with the Alliance XP is put towards a weekly Alliance contribution....

The change comes as part of Apple’s App Store improvement scheme which aims to make the online shop easier to use and ensure customers “find great apps that fit their needs” that are compatible with newer iOS devices. In an email to Protopop Games, Apple reportedly said: “This app has not been updated in a significant amount of time and is scheduled to be removed from sale in 30 days....

Head over to Risky Reels and hang around for a little while - and there you may be abducted by aliens. It’s not all bad, though! You’ll be fully healed during the abduction process, before being deposited somewhere else. Here’s how a UFO abduction looks, if you are beamed up: According to Fortnite leaker FortTory, the percentage chance of you being abducted in a match is low at present, though this will increase over time as the new season gets closer....

In the latest episode, which aired today in Japan with the rest of the world to follow, Ash wins the Masters Eight Tournament of the Pokémon World Coronation Series. This is the culmination of 25 years since Ash and his Pikachu began their journey in the Kanto region - and he’s barely aged. Watch on YouTube 11 Things You Need To Know About Pokémon Scarlet & Violet After all this time, does this mark the end of Ash’s story?...

The update will become available to download from midday UK time, and will weigh in at 15GB on PC, 12.27GB on Xbox Series X/S, 9.84GB on Xbox One, 7.94GB on PlayStation 4 and 3.6GB on PS5. Primarily, this patch will prep Valhalla for its enormous Dawn of Ragnarök expansion, which launches on 10th March. (This adds four new abilities, six new skills, a new gear quality and more, as well as a huge new map and 40-hour campaign....

Here are six of our favourite 65 percent size mechanical keyboards, based on hundreds of hours of building, testing, tweaking, gaming and typing over the past decade. Best 65 percent keyboards for gaming, typing and programming The Fnatic Streak 65 is our favourite 65 percent keyboard, offering all of the functionality you need for competitive games in a small, convenient form factor. The keyboard uses Fnatic’s own silent, linear and low profile ‘speed’ mechanical switches, allowing extremely rapid key presses and making double-taps easier in shooters and action games....

The idea here is to give you a few options to choose from without being overwhelming, so that you can pick up a new headset at the right time - whether that’s when you want to start seriously trying to improve at CS:GO or when your Warzone buddies tell you off for missing those crucial footsteps. We’re focusing on headsets for PC here, but many of these options will work on Xbox Series X/S, PS5 or both - and you can see our full gaming headset recommendations for a deeper list if you prefer....

To be fair, you’ve never controlled a character quite like this. The protagonist here is a mutant, a furry being reminiscent of a cat, or maybe more of a rodent, depending on which visual you’re going with during character creation. You and others of your species are adept in the art of kung-fu, but you can also wield giant swords, guns, rocket launchers and karate weapons such as bo staves, sai blades and more....

That’s according to loose-lipped journalist Jeff Grubb who, speaking as part of Giant Bomb’s Game Mess Mornings stream, claimed the project will be single-player-only title, with EA’s aim being to build on the success of developer Respawn’s well-received solo adventure Jedi: Fallen Order. While details are inevitably limited at this juncture - the title is said to be in “very early development” - Grubb claimed the basic premise is that players will need to complete various challenges in a bid to become the new Black Panther, following the death of an earlier incarnation at the start of the game....

Why did you bring back the Rogue for Diablo 4? Luis Barriga: We felt like with the lineup that we were slowly building up, with the Barbarian, the Sorcerer and the Druid, the Rogue gives us this awesome two-in-one capability of representing that finesse dexterity class, both on the melee side and on the ranged side. Of course, on the ranged side, that’s the archetypical Diablo 1 rogue. And then on the melee side, fans of pen and paper RPGs, that’s like the Rogue’s bread and butter....

Silicon Knights’ action adventure launched on PSone in 1996 before coming out on PC a year later. It’s the first game in the Legacy of Kain series, which went on to include the seminal Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2 and Blood Omen 2. Blood Omen stars Kain, a slain nobleman newly resurrected as a vampire. He seeks revenge against his murderers and a cure to his vampiric curse in the fictional land of Nosgoth....

Last year the Rook skin was sold as part of the Season 5 premium battle pass (it was a tier 100 unlock) and it didn’t take long for players to accuse it of being a “pay-to-win” microtransaction. The issue has to do with the way the outfit looks: it’s entirely black without any reflective surfaces, which means it’s very difficult to spot in dark areas of the game. Even Roze’s eyes are surrounded in black facepaint....

Now almost two months on, players fear the Valderas Museum will never return. Season One saw the return of fan favourite maps Shoothouse and Shipment, but players criticised the paltry number of maps released. One wonders why Infinity Ward hasn’t released a map that is seemingly complete and ready to ship. But players have taken it upon themselves to answer this question. Some have noticed the map’s striking resemblance to the real-life Getty Museum in Los Angeles....

Prestiging in a Call of Duty game means to reach maximum level and then starting over in order to keep accumulating XP again. While the many unlocks you’ve gained along the way reset, there are exclusive rewards and some obvious distinction to say you have climbed the ranks to anyone you face online. There are three areas you can Prestige in with Call of Duty WW2 - Soldier Prestige, Division Prestige and Weapon Prestige - giving you plenty to work towards as you master multiplayer....

‘Cheap and cheerful’ perfectly sums up the SN750 SE. Prices start from just £56 for the 250GB model, which is the slowest model in the range (higher capacity versions are faster). Its low spec nature poses challenges for meeting PS5’s requirements in a couple of dimensions. First of all, there’s the recommendation for 5500MB/s of sequential read bandwidth (Mark Cerny actually specified 7000MB/s in the Road to PS5 presentation) and here, the SN750 SE only manages a paltry 3200MB/s - just 58 percent of the required transfer rate....

Where exactly to start with the mega drop of new games on Apple Arcade late last week? As tempted as I’ve been by Mistwalker’s outrageously gorgeous Fantasian, or Platinum Games’ overdue iOS debut World of Demons, it’s the one that took me completely by surprise that I downloaded first. Its very existence is a remarkable thing of itself: after 23 years as a PlayStation exclusive developer, this is Clap Hanz first release beyond the world of Sony’s consoles....

Announcing the hold-up this afternoon, Sega said Relic Entertainment’s real-time strategy threequel was currently “not quite up to our players’ or our own high standards”, with “bugs to squash, pixels to polish, gameplay to adjust and feedback to address”. On that last point, Sega says developer Relic is continuing to react to community feedback on improvements to the game’s dynamic campaign map, a stronger visual focus on “grit and details” during battles, an overhauled light system, plus tweaks to the HUD and UI....

It’s worth pointing out that Remedy’s Control is already available through Xbox Game Pass on PC, but picking it up through Humble Choice means you’ll own it forever and not be at the mercy of Microsoft pulling it from the service on a whim. It looks stunning on PC, too. Next to these two leading stars, the March Humble Choice bundle is rounded out with ten other games. This includes the likes of side-scrolling strategy gem Kingdom Two Crowns, pyrokinetic stealth platformer Wildfire and tech-infused fantasy RPG Elex....

Prior to Cyberpunk’s launch, CD Projekt whipped up player interest with the promise of free post-launch DLC. However, plans for additional content were put on hold while the developer worked to fix the game’s litany of bugs and to bring Cyberpunk’s widely lambasted last-gen console release up to a more acceptable standard. Now though, according to senior quest designer Patrick Mills on tonight’s 1.3 update dev stream, “streaming and memory management” have reached a point “where we can start trying to deliver those things”....

Announced during today’s sixth anniversary livestream, the next chapter will be named Roots of Dread and features a new killer, survivor and map. Down the line there will also be another Resident Evil chapter, Attack on Titan costumes, and a Dead by Daylight dating sim. Roots of Dread will include new killer The Dredge. Inspired by the boogeyman, the “formless mass” is a manifestation of darkness with the ability to teleport between lockers to catch survivors....