Articles by Alice O'Connor
A Halo 2 multiplayer bug is killing your friends with ghost rockets
The PC release of Halo 2: Anniversary arrived on Wednesday morning with a revamped look and a nasty new bug. Folks trying its widely-adored multiplayer have found that trying to rockets and grenades fired at enemies will sometimes magically teleport to teammates and blow them up instead. That’s bad, that. And then teamkilling protections can […]
Bungie move the goalposts on Destiny 2’s new communal challenge
Just over a day after setting Destiny 2 players a new communal goal to grind towards, Bungie have made changes so it’ll be finished a whole lot sooner. A new quest, named The Lie, starts out with a goal shared between all players: complete the seasonal Seraph Tower event nine million times. Given that most […]
Destiny 2’s new communal goal for Seraph Towers looks unlikely
As is becoming tradition towards the end of a content season, Destiny 2 has set another big communal goal for players. This time, rather than dump all our leftover seasonal resources into a magic box or whatever, we’re being challenged to complete Seraph Towers. A whole lot of Seraph Towers. This seems perhaps for just […]
Epic are offering Fortnite’s online services tech to all developers
As well as revealing Unreal Engine 5 today with a natty tech demo, Epic announced some other news for game-makers. For starters, all developers can now use the online technoguts they initially created for Fortnite, for free. That’s easy access to cross-platform systems for things like friends, matchmaking, lobbies, and accounts. It’s not limited to […]
Unreal Engine 5 revealed with a Tomb Raider-y tech demo
Epic Games today announced the next major version of their game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Headline features include loads more detail and better dynamic lighting, and improved content streaming that could mean (paired with the right hardware) an end to games being interrupted by levels loading. UE5 won’t launch until next year so we won’t […]
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 remasters grinding onto PC in September
Sikk tricks and disastrous flips are coming to PC with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, a collection throwing together the first two sk8 ’em ups with a seriously overhauled look. Activision’s announcement calls this a “faithful remaster” with “all” the original levels, pro-skaters, and tricks, though only “many” of the soundtrack songs. And […]
Halo 2: Anniversary is now out on PC
Ian Halo’s remastered adventures continue on PC today with the release of Halo 2: Anniversary in the wee hours. Ian and his sexy pet search engine, Cortana, are continuing to get into sci-fi trouble with ringworlds, and this time we also get to play parts from an alien Arbiter’s perspective too. Halo 2 has been […]
Cassette Beasts looks like a PC Pokémon where you can smoosh critters together
If you go around cramming your pockets full of monsters, accidents will happen. Just look at Cassette Beasts, a newly-announced Pokémon-ish battler where critters can temporarily fuse together into powerful new forms. Presumably they’re gummed together with lint, a Werther’s Original, and one of the old pound coins shops no longer accept. Come see some […]
Disco Elysium should now run better on chugging old PCs
If you wanted to get your melon twisted by Disco Elysium but your PC, like its star, was too weak and crumpled in the face of the slightest pressure, good news: the developers have optimised the heck out of it. They’ve managed to cut the surreal detective RPG’s system requirement a whole lot, meaning more […]