It’s been discovered that you can dish out over two billion damage to a poor, unsuspecting Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet in one ridiculously powerful hit, assuming you have the patience to sit through the 164 turns of setup required to pull it off.Pokemon professor King The Luck – the same person who previously calculated how much you can possibly heal a Pokemon in a single turn – has been at it again, and has now worked out the perfect way to ensure you definitely knock out an opponent in a single hit. It all revolves around the move Last Respects – a unique Ghost-type attack which starts with a base power of 50, but is increased by 50 each time one of your Pokemon gets knocked out in a battle. For some reason, this doesn’t cap until 100 Pokemon are KO’d, so without healing items, you can use the move Revival Blessing repeatedly to bring back a fainted Pokemon and knock it out again until you’ve eventually charged Last Respects to a whopping base power of 5,050. Getting to this point is just the beginning, though, as you also have to ensure your Pokemon is as powerful as it possibly can be, and that its opponent is as weak as possible, which is where things …
CD Projekt is the latest game studio to receive a spurious claim that it’s failing because it’s gone too woke. That in itself is hardly news – there’s a whole industry out there of people profiting off of misplaced gamer rage – but this one has gone and gotten a response from one of the CEOs of the Witcher and Cyberpunk studio.”Seems we live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it,” joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says on Twitter, quote tweeting a link to a video making a lot of extreme claims. “CDPR talent leaving? We have the lowest rotation of people in recent years. DEI-driven recruitment? We hire based on merit and talent alone, just as we make games driven by artistic vision alone. Why did we choose UE? Because it enables us to work on our games more efficiently and we remain cutting edge tech-wise. The Witcher 3’s director left? Well, yeah, more than two years ago… Now, can we stop looking for conspiracy theories and go back to making cool stuff?”The Witcher 3 was, of course, one of the most beloved games of all time, and while the state of Cyberpunk 2077 bruised the company’s image in a major way – the director of Cyberpunk 2 ha…
There’s a double-edged sword that comes with legendary games, and it’s how impossible it can be to replicate that success. Both Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 2 represent stellar entries in the Resident Evil timeline and the best Silent Hill games respectively, and for that reason, they’ve become time-tested titans of the genre.That’s why Capcom took a gamble when it decided to remake its most famous game ever. Thankfully, when Resident Evil 2 Remake landed in 2019, it pretty much wrote the book on how to remake one of the best survival horror games of all time. It’s all about a fine balance of innovation, homage, and evolution – and with Silent Hill 2 Remake now launching to similar acclaim, it demonstrates how both Konami and Capcom went about the act in two different ways. You don’t even need to play the games in full to see what I’m talking about. The evidence can be found in the first half hour of each.Worlds apart “Up there with the Resident Evil remakes” Silent Hill 2 Remake review: “An atmospheric and rewarding horror game”Resident Evil 2 is flat-out iconic. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield’s first foray onto our consoles was atmospheric and creepy enough back in 1…
In a moment of enigmatic revery, Nintendo has announced it’ll be playtesting a mysterious new Switch Online feature later this month, and it’s inviting up to 10,000 people to get involved.
Nintendo, never one to prioritise form over function, is calling this newly announced venture the Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program, and the only clue it’s currently willing to share is that it’s explicitly “related to a new feature for the Nintendo Switch Online service.”
To that end, participants must have an active Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership, and the playtest will require them to download “exclusive software” to their Switch console in order to take part.
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There’s just something about Europa that drew me in instantly – perhaps it was the gameplay reminiscent of Tears of the Kingdom, or maybe the breathtaking visuals that look as though they were plucked straight out of a Studio Ghibli film. Whatever it was, I’m so happy that it did as this indie gem proved to be everything it appeared to be and so much more. I’ve left the game with just one wish – that it somehow could’ve been longer.Everything from Europa’s emotional story to its unique take on the 3D platformer genre has stuck with me since I finished playing, and will probably continue to do so until the end of time. It’s such a simple and serene game, yet it manages to carry so much depth within itself. The vibrant aesthetic is almost misleading in a way, honestly – Europa offers a far greater experience than just a pretty playthrough, and it does so nearly seamlessly.One lonely planet Beneath Europa’s stunning Ghibli-like world is one very lonely planet, a moon that served as a home to many at one point, but now carries nothing but the sounds of buzzing gardeners and rushing rivers. Gardeners, the game’s robot-ish creatures that stand as the setting’s bugs and wildlife, r…
RuneScape’s original creator Andrew Gower is returning to MMOs a little later than planned because a certain political event happens to land on November 5.Brighter Shores marks Gower’s return to the genre with all the isometric perspectives, low-poly visuals, humble fantasy world, and life sim nuggets that made RuneScape a household name. The new MMO was once supposed to hit Steam early access on November 5, following a closed beta period starting on October 22, but it was apparently delayed to its new date because two politicians are competing to rule over the American machine on the very same day.”We have decided to push the launch of Brighter Shores back to [November 6], because apparently there is some sort of election thingy on the 5th,” Gower tweeted. “Who knew?!”Jokes aside, he’s obviously referring to the US presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, which is sure to dominate headlines and suck up attention from every other corner of the internet on November 5. On the flip side, at least anyone looking forward to Brighter Shores doesn’t need to choose between voting and rotting in a desk chair with a new MMO all day.But there’s no rush, regardless of when…
Lead Skyrim designer and former senior Starfield systems designer Bruce Nesmith reckons Bethesda Game Studios won’t move to a new game engine – and explained why it doesn’t need to.Speaking in a recent interview with VideoGamer, Nesmith outlines why Bethesda’s in-house engine still works for the studio despite its age. “We’re arguing about the game engine, let’s argue about the game,” he says. “The game engine is not the point, the game engine is in service to the game itself. You and I could both identify a hundred lousy games that used Unreal. Is it Unreal’s fault? No, it’s not Unreal’s fault.”While Bethesda’s engine has been used to create what are arguably many of the best RPGs of all time, it’s also ever-evolving – what started as the company’s version of Gamebryo, a now long-defunct engine, gradually blossomed into the Creation Engine. “Gamebryo is no longer a business, it hasn’t been for a while. But that engine has been constantly tweaked, updated, and refined,” continues Nesmith.According to the ex-developer, the Creation Engine has evolved “to do exactly the kinds of games that Bethesda makes: The Elder Scrolls, the Fallouts, Starfield.” At this point, “it’s perfectly tun…
During Revenant, the Destiny 2 Assassin’s Creed armor sets will be available to buy with Bright Dust, meaning they’re essentially free. Over the coming weeks, pieces of the Misthios Hunter armor set inspired by Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s vision of Greece, the Wolf-Kissed Titan armor set which looks to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and the Eagle Warlock armor set modelled on Assassin’s Creed legend Altaïr’s classic white garb will be up for grabs in the Destiny 2 Eververse store for 1,200 Bright Dust each. That’s not cheap, but if you really want to dress like you’re in the Animus, here’s when each of the Destiny 2 Assassin’s Creed armor pieces will be available to buy.How to get all pieces of the Destiny 2 Assassin’s Creed Armor for free During Episode 2: Revenant, the Destiny 2 Assassin’s Creed armor ornament sets will be sold in the Eververse store for Bright Dust, which means you don’t need to spend any real money on Silver to buy them. However, the armor sets will be sold piece by piece across multiple weeks, so you need to check in when the store’s stock changes after the Destiny 2 wee…
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Quick menu 1. FAQ2. What to expect3. Last year’s best dealsEven though the sale is better known for discounting TVs and laptops, Black Friday board games are a bit of a dark horse. They’re surprisingly good, getting you new and old favorites for their lowest price of the year.No, really. While some offerings stay the same as they have been the rest of the year (many family-friendly games get ‘discounts’ that are actually identical to ones we’ve already seen months before), many others tumble in cost by an absurd degree. We’re always taken aback by how much cheaper hobby games are in particular during the Black Friday board game deals, to the point we’d recommend waiting for the sale before pulling the trigger.To save you having to dredge through countless retailers in search of the best offer this year, we’ve rounded up every tip we can think of to save you money on the best board games. Because our team of bargain hunters have been searching the sale for years now, we have a pretty good idea of what makes a worthwhile discount. Basically? If you’re hoping to snag the very best Black Friday gaming deals, we’ve g…
A subtle change has arrived to the Steam shopping experience to drive home the fact that you’re buying a game license rather than a copy of a game that you’ll definitely own forever, and rival storefront GOG already seems to be weighing in on the matter.As reported by Engadget, if you’re about to buy a new game on Steam, you’ll now notice a new message pop up, which reads: “A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam.” This disclaimer appears as though it’s likely related to a California law set to come into effect next year, which’ll stop digital storefronts from using words like “buy” in relation to things like game licenses unless it’s obvious what people are spending their money on, as part of a move to make it clearer to consumers what they actually own (or rather, what they don’t). Needless to say, this new message on Steam has already caused quite a stir, so much so that it’s seemingly reached the ears of rival storefront GOG. GOG is famously free of digital rights management (DRM), and offers its customers offline installers for the games it sells which you can download onto your PC where they can remain safe forever, so it’s understandabl…