Best PC controller 2025: the Digital Foundry buyer's guide to gamepads

The best first-party and third-party controllers tested. The Microsoft controller is also well made, with responsive triggers and a large, comfortable shape. It’s just a great controller all-around. However, Microsoft’s pad does have its downsides. The only minor inconvenience is that you oughta install third-party software to get the controller working on Windows. Alternatively:Custom PS5 controllers are also available. We also tested a~$200MegaModz DualSensewith a custom shell, mechanical buttons and interchangeable thumbsticks....

February 2, 2022 · 2 min · 258 words · Sabrina Cruz

Cyberbang 2069 visual novel expands on Cyberpunk 2077 romances

Yes, you could bang Keanu. Cyberbang 2069 is a visual novel based on CD Projekt Red’sCyberpunk 2077that expands upon its romances. And yes, that means you’ve got the option to bang Keanu Reeves. Triple Thirst sent an email to clarify if their visual novel would be considered a game or fanfiction. “We were expecting maybe some kind of clarification like, ‘Oh, is this about Johnny? ‘,” Triple Thirst developer Bean toldTheGamer....

February 2, 2022 · 1 min · 178 words · Dylan Merritt

Does Dying Light 2 deliver on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles?

Take your pick from 4K display support, 60fps or ray tracing. Right now the question is simple: how do PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles execute the game? Are 30fps and 60fps modes best for play - or should you push higher for the ray tracing features? Without question, Dying Light 2 looks great on all three current-gen systems. Woodland areas flow beautifully with rare signs of performance drops. No ray-tracing features are included on Series S either....

February 2, 2022 · 2 min · 226 words · Bobby Frazier

Dying Light 2 review's inelegant but hugely entertaining

Dying Light 2 is an ugly game. It’s bluntly done but impactful nevertheless, the overall effect like a Fallout-lite. Away from the main quest line, there’s plenty to do. Here’s a blockbuster, also, that only blossoms if you persevere. In the vaster map around The City’s centre there’s variety and colour in abundance. Even more commendably, for the most part it sticks. It’s rarely elegant, but it is most definitely enjoyable....

February 2, 2022 · 1 min · 71 words · Crystal Wade

Playing Spelunky for the first time: a friendly interrogation

Imagine a world in which you have never playedSpelunky. I bet many of you might’t. For Chrsitian Donlan, it’s impossible. Like so many of you,he’s been passionately playing the series for years. But there are others who are more easily distracted and seem to miss everything important that comes by. How he manages this, we don’t know, but Spelunky, to him, remains unknown. So, asSpelunky 2arrives on Xbox Game Pass, an opportunity presents itself....

February 2, 2022 · 3 min · 588 words · Jesse Moreno

Pokémon Legends Arceus Pokédex: All Pokémon locations in the Hisui Pokédex listed

Which Pokemon can you find in the Hisui region? TheHisui PokedexinPokemon Legends: Arceuscontains 242 Pokemon for you to collect. On this page: Arceus Pokedex size: How many Pokemon are there in Pokemon Legends Arceus? There are 242 Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Arceus. To learn more about this feature, visit our dedicatedResearch Taskguide. This will help you keep track of which shiny forms you’ve caught and those you haven’t. OurPokemon Legends Arceus walkthroughwill help you pick astarter Pokemonand win theKleavor boss fight....

February 2, 2022 · 1 min · 133 words · Julian Smith

Pokémon Legends Arceus Scyther evolution: How to evolve Scyther into Kleavor or Scizor in Pokémon Legends Arceus

How to obtain Scyther’s new evolution. Scythercan evolve into two different Pokemon, depending on which evolution item you use, inPokemon Legends: Arceus. The first is, of course,Scizor- the bug and steel-throw in Pokemon introduced in Gen 2. The second, however, isKleavorwhich debuted in Legends: Arceus itself. Scyther can also be found in the Coronet Highlands in Primeval Grotto. It will then transform into your new Kleavor! OurPokemon Legends Arceus walkthroughwill help you pick astarter Pokemonand win theKleavor boss fight....

February 2, 2022 · 1 min · 129 words · Lacey Barrett

Request 59 'Misdreavus the Hairstyle Muse' and Misdreavus locations in Pokémon Legends Arceus explained

Help Arezu find hairstyle inspiration! Misdreavus the Hairstyle Museis one of therequestsavailable inPokemon Legends: Arceus. Completing the request will earn you new hairstyles at the hairdressers. First, however, you oughta knowMisdreavus' location. This is achieved as part of the main mission Arezu’s Predicament. This will automatically expand the range of hairstyles available. She will ask to see certain Pokemon for inspiration. The first of these is Misdreavus. OurPokemon Legends Arceus walkthroughwill help you pick astarter Pokemonand win theKleavor boss fight....

February 2, 2022 · 1 min · 196 words · Nicole Moore

Pokémon Go Lunar New Year event quest steps, research tasks and spawns explained

It’s the year of the tiger! TheLunar New Yearevent inPokemon Gocelebrates Litleo as the year of the tiger begins. This page covers a past Lunar New Year event inPokemon Go. If you’re avoidingspoilers, we suggest skipping the information below and the next section. Thank you toredwineandbeerfrom reddit for the help with this information. it’s possible for you to now catchDynamax PokemonthroughMax Battles. First, however, you should probably visitPower Spots to collect Max Particlesand complete theTo the Max!...

February 1, 2022 · 1 min · 114 words · Mary Johnson

Why don't games play around with time more?

I have journeyed for hundreds of years. Are my creators still alive, is their civilization still alive? For I exist outside of their cycles of life and their experiences of time. It’s why I was sent here. I drift, listening and scanning planets to hear what they have to say. And sometimes they speak back. This is the opening concept of a very small, very short,free Itch.io game called Lone Signal....

February 1, 2022 · 2 min · 241 words · Brandon Martinez

Busting out new Midnight Ghost Hunt gameplay makes us feel good

Prop Haunt. Over on theEurogamer YouTube channelwe’ve carved out quite the niche for ourselves when it comes to yelping our way through co-operative horror games. With all the practice we’ve had, it stands to reason that we’d be pretty good at surviving a spirit-based onslaught by now, but how did we fare as a team of ghost hunters when we were pitted against actual players in the role of vengeful ghosts, rather than some clunky AI?...

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Terry Heath

How is a battle system like a poem?

I’ve been fascinated lately by micro-RPGs, and specifically micro-JRPGs. Whatever their tone or focus, micro-RPGs show that miniaturisation in itself can be a kind of critique. Helpfully, they’ve has left this to the evening before the loop resets. And of course, you must fight: the fortress is full of undead. But there is something powerfully bizarre at the heart of it all, and that is the Fray. The Fray isn’t just another word, here, for people fighting....

January 31, 2022 · 1 min · 211 words · Ashley Meyers

Hyper Scape and another visit to the games graveyard

Thanks for the memories. Atweetfrom last week asked developers: “What’s in your game graveyard? Games that were cancelled or no one can play anymore?” But also beloved XNA games and YA interactive fictions. I hope it’s not wrong that those two responses coexist. And that idea - the game graveyard - is just perfect. We need a game graveyard, I think. And we have game graveyards of a sort, of course....

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · 356 words · Joseph Smith