Popular Dark Souls modder and explorer ZullieTheWitch has figured out a way to play the RPG as any of the enemies or NPCs. So yes, that means you can play as a Bonewheel, and it means you can play as a Crystal Golem. But more importantly, it means it’s possible to play as a Crystal Lizard (see picture above). Or perhaps you’d prefer to play as a Crow Demon (who closely resembles Ornifex from Dark Souls 2). The Dark Souls specialist has also thoroughly dissected the recent Remaster for unused equ

The original Unravel was good, but not without its annoyances. “With its natural dioramas, Unravel succeeds at magnifying the sweet sadness I feel when I reminisce about old friends and long days of exploring. EA offered up a ten-hour trial of the original Unravel in 2016, and today it opened the doors on basically the same thing for Unravel 2. Available from Origin, the trial version offers ten hours of play across the game’s first two chapters. The Unravel 2 trial will be available until July

In 2014, television director Casper Kelly teamed up with Adult Swim to make Too Many Cooks , a viral video which imagines a hellish sitcom whose opening devolves into a bloody mess and then keeps going for another six or seven increasingly meta minutes. Kelly’s new video Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough gives gaming videos and personalities the same treatment. You really do need to see it for yourself:It’s mostly just weird for the sake of weird, but buried somewhere in the madness i

We Happy Few was refused classification in Australia last month, meaning it was effectively banned in the country. It might seem a bit silly for a country that does actually have an R18+ classification, although its introduction in 2013 doesn’t appear to have had much on-the-ground impact for Aussie gamers. “Please note that the Review Board can only consider submissions about We Happy Few itself and not any other matters relating to computer game classification policy or issues generally.” We H

Overwatch’s Play of the Game feature is sometimes a bit of a mess, but overall it’s a very popular feature. In fact, it’s such an important part of the experience that Blizzard wants to patent it. The patent application was originally filed at the end of 2016, crediting lead gameplay programmer Keith Miron and designer Geoff Goodman as inventors, but only became public earlier this month. Overwatch Play of the Game patent application abstractThe filing also makes a point of differentiating the P

With the Battle for Azeroth expansion for World of Warcraft on the horizon, Blizzard is beginning to slowly phase out some Legion-specific features starting with artifact weapons. Once that happens, you’ll still have your artifact weapon, but the powerful traits that actually make it worth using will be deactivated. Artifact weapons aren’t the only things slowly being phased out in preparation for the new expansion. You can find a full list of the impending changes in this blog post. World of Wa

Sadly, this year’s SGDQ Gungeon speedrunner, Teddyras, got screwed. “If I need to, if I get bad weapon drops, I can just stick with the sword,” he said at the start of his run. Apparently the universe took that as a challenge, because Teddyras went on to get some of the worst drops I’ve ever seen, let alone in a live speedrun. Instead of the hearts Teddyras desperately needs, the fourth boss—which, incidentally, is immune to the Gungeon Ant—drops another crappy weapon. Teddyras’ run comes to an

(Image: © Wikimedia via Solomon203)Realtek might be best known for its onboard audio solutions, but for the past couple of years, it’s been trying to make a name for itself in the SSD controller market as well. Anandtech was on hand to snap some picks extract some info, and in one of the pictures, there’s a card billing the RTS5762 as the “fastest client PCIe M.2 SSD controller” in the world. According to Realtek, the RTS5762 is capable of delivering up to 3,500MB/s of sequential read performanc

Fear the Wolves is a “post-apocalyptic first person shooter battle royale” being developed by Vostok Games, the team behind the still-in-beta online shooter Survarium that’s made up of former developers of Stalker. Vostok hasn’t revealed much more about Fear the Wolves than the bare-bone basics, but it’s now taking signups for an upcoming beta that will give players a chance to actually see the game from behind the trigger. “Fear the Wolves is reaching the next stage of development, and is now a

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Ultima 7 Developer: OriginYear: 1992 What made Ultima 7 so incredible? Read this article comparing Ultima 7 to the much more recent Divinity: Original Sin 2 for an idea. Know that Britannia has entered into a new age of enlightenment. But the Guardian of Ultima VII was no ordinary villain.

Nvidia is pushing out another GPU driver release (398.36 WHQL) that is tuned to deliver optimal performance in The Crew 2. This is the second time Nvidia has released a GPU driver with performance tweaks for The Crew 2. [Sterescopic 3D][NVIDIA Control Panel]: Switching the 3D display setting On and Off from the Windows display settings page has no effect on the NVIDIA Control Panel stereoscopic 3D settings page. Black Screen appears when booting Windows after installing the 397.93 display driver

Eight weeks later, the Oculus Go has booked a trip overseas and is now available online and at more than 300 stores across Europe, the UK, and Canada. “With Oculus Go available online and in retail stores across more countries, it’s easier than ever for people to enjoy all that standalone VR has to offer. Part of the appeal of the Oculus Go is that it contains all the necessary hardware in the headset itself, setting it apart from headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR.

GTA Online’s Motor Wars offers triple RP and GTA$ this weekend. Born during last year’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds-inspired battle royale renaissance, Motor Wars’ weaponised vehicles, small maps, and busy UI stands it apart from the likes of PUBG and Fortnite. With that, Motor Wars is one of my favourite Adversary Modes—assuming you have 28 bodies (two to four teams) to pack out the match. To compliment that, Executive Offices, Special Cargo Warehouses, Vehicle Cargo Warehouses, Biker Clubhou

Packed in with this year’s International Battle Pass is Underhollow, a team-based take on battle royale were teams race to claim a cheese from the denizens of a collapsing underground maze. Think of a Dota teamfight taking place inside a WoW boss chamber on PUBG’s map and you’re most of the way there. Its links to the battle pass reward system aside, there’s little about Underhollow that couldn’t have been done by a determined map maker in Dota 2’s community arcade. This unreliable performance,

OpenAI, the independent research institute that was co-founded by Elon Musk in 2015, will send its Dota 2 bots to The International 2018. “Our team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams at Dota 2,” says OpenAI. “While today we play with restrictions , we aim to beat a team of top professionals at The International in August subject only to a limited set of heroes. This blog post explores the myriad challenges and obstacles the OpenAI team faces while bri

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has rolled out a new Hardcore mode, alongside its latest 1.6 patch. Then try taking on board two permanent negative perks—such is a requirement of the new mode. Hardcore mode also prevents Waypoints from being seen unless the player is up close, combat is more realistic—”strikes have a more realistic impact”—traders pay less for goods, and repairing items is more costly. Read more on KC:D’s Hardcore survival mode this way, alongside patch notes for update 1.6. Update: S

Of these projects, one of the more prominent and celebrated fansites is The Moogle Post . With an audience of over 30,000 readers per month, The Moogle Post is easily Final Fantasy 14’s biggest dedicated fansite. She met him back in 2013, long before he started The Moogle Post and became a known face in the community. She was recruited as an artist for The Moogle Post by Oldbear and put up with months of unwanted sexual behavior. A resignation letter to Amparro while she was still an editor at T

Valve has disqualified a Dota 2 team from its upcoming The International 2018 for using a programmable gaming mouse. In doing so, Thunder Predator used an “unfair advantage”, so says contest organiser FACEIT, during the South America qualifiers, which prevents them progressing to August’s $15 million competition. Motherboard links to this YouTube clip of AtuuN effortlessly directing Meepo clones around the map during the third game. Combat logs (see above) showed that AtuuN teleported Meepo clon

CD Projekt Red has launched an ongoing blog series that breaks down its Cyberpunk 2077 E3 trailer frame by frame. By the developer’s reckoning, “almost every scene in the E3 2018 trailer tells a story of its own”—and while we gathered everything we learned from E3 2018 and more, it’s always nice to hear from the developer itself. CD Projekt Red’s first frame by frame blurb examines the trailer’s opening Night City shot, 20 seconds in. “Night City is an independent megacity in the Free State of C

The Duke was the nickname of the very first Xbox controller. “I took a huge amount of crap for the size of the controller back in the day,” designer Seamus Blackley told Inside Xbox. The Hyperkin Duke is a faithful replica of the original controller, albeit with a few changes to accomodate modern games. It’s actually a touch smaller than the original Duke, but still bigger than anything else on the market. It’s a functionally solid gamepad, but feels a little cheap and plasticky compared to the