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For all the streamers out there itching to share the awesomeness that is Half-Life: Alyx with your audience, Valve has made it super easy to create the best streaming experience for viewers. With Alyx finally upon us, the gaming community is abuzz with excitement as long-time fans and newcomers alike get their hands on this long-awaited VR-exclusive title. Unfortunately though, because it is indeed VR-exclusive, many of us plebs who are yet to own VR gear are left behind and undoubtedly feeling a little hard done by....

More games could get Ray Tracing thanks to the updated Vulkan API How to build and upgrade your own extreme gaming PC How to download Minecraft with RTX Visit the Windows Store and download the Xbox Insider Hub app Once that’s done, click to open the app and click to join the Xbox Insider program Once you’ve joined, click the open box icon on the left You should then see an open to join the Minecraft for Windows 10 beta, click that then click to join Select the option that says “Minecraft for Windows 10 RTX Beta” You then have the option to download Minecraft or have your current version updated How to make the most of RTX 23 incredible Minecraft creations that will blow your mind

This article is sponsored by Writing compelling characters can be one of the most difficult parts of the craft, especially when it comes to ensemble stories, which focus on groups of characters and their relationships with one another. In an ensemble story, each character needs their own desires and roots, their own challenges and voice. At their best, reading a good ensemble story can feel like hanging out with a clever, loving, bickering group of friends....

Our quick take HP TouchPad - 4.0 / 5 Design The hardware User interface Sweet Synergy Core applications: Email, Calendar, Contacts, Maps Browser and keyboard Work or play? Media and documents App Catalog and Pivot Final points To recap If core functionality - email, browsing, contacts - are what interest you, then the HP TouchPad will serve you well and it deserves a high score. If it’s an all encompassing world of multimedia delights, services or physical connections, then you might want to look elsewhere

HTC quashes rumors it might unveil the next-generation Vive headset and reaffirms that the Taiwanese company wants to focus on existing VR products. To the disappointment of VR fans everywhere, HTC has said that it will not be announcing the successor to the Vive headset at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show next week. Rumors that HTC would announce a new VR headset have been buzzing around for a while now, but the Taiwanese manufacturer quashed it in a statement made earlier today....

Our quick take Huawei Nova 10 Pro initial Design 164.2 x 74.5 x 7.9 mm - 191 grams Curved glass front and back Self-capturing dream Dual front facing camera system 60MP primary ultrawide selfie 8MP portrait zoom lens Display and software 6.78-inch OLED display 1200 x 2652 resolution - 429ppi HDR10 - 120Hz - 1 billion colours Rear camera system 50MP RYYB primary 8MP ultrawide 2MP depth sensor Performance and battery Snapdragon 778 4G processor 8GB RAM - 128GB storage 4500mAh battery - 100W wired charging To recap Huawei’s entry to the mid-range market for 2022 is competitive, offering a sleek, attractive device with lots of high end flagship features....

As a general rule, I’m not a fan of reviewing a game, or even analysing it, as the type of game you want it to be. There’s a whole variety of games out there, and if a game is a different genre or style than I typically prefer, that’s a ‘me’ problem, it’s not the fault of the game. Even then, it’s not really a ‘me’ problem anyway, because there are so many other games out there I can play....

Immortals Fenyx Rising’s DLC A New God ups the ante and challenges players with more difficult vaults and new challenges as they face additional puzzle mechanics and have to master new Godly Power upgrades. Each of the four gods that were saved in the main game will challenge players to six different vaults each, and hidden in each vault is an optional chest that holds a relic. Players will need to collect all 24 relics in the game in order to unlock the secret vault, which is part of Hermes’s “It belongs in a Museum… er… Pantheon!...

Insomniac Games has confirmed that the upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Spider-Man will run on the same engine as Ratchet & Clank. When asked on Twitter about whether the game engine being used for Spider-Man was the same as Ratchet & Clank, developer Insomniac Games responded by saying the company only has one. This should come as good news for anyone who enjoyed the graphical prowess of the recently reimagined Ratchet & Clank, which is sure to be quite a few given the positive reviews that often include a nod to the game’s gorgeous visuals....

This article contains spoilers for The Forever Purge. The Purge franchise has been astonishingly successful since the series — which now incorporates five movies and two seasons of TV — launched in 2013 with the eponymous first movie. As of this writing (with the fifth film, The Forever Purge, just hitting theaters), the saga has racked up $460 million in worldwide box office receipts, against a combined budget for all five films of a reported $53 million....

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for the Season 3 premiere. In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Assignment: Earth,” Spock briefly takes care of Gary Seven’s cast Isis, and admits that he finds himself “strangely drawn to it.” In TNG, Data had his cat, Spot. In Enterprise, Captain Archer had his Beagle, Porthos. In Picard, Jean-Luc traded his fish for a pit bull named Number One. Kirk had a dog named Butler in Generations, and Janeway talked about how much she missed Irish setter, Mollie, in Voyager....

After bursting onto the scene in March the wildly popular mobile game Draw Something is finally starting to drop back down to reality. Though still posting extremely high active user counts, OMGPOP’s breakout hit has seen that number decrease by about 4 Million between April 2nd and May 2nd. Some might point to the recent acquisition of OMGPOP — an acquisition that saw only one holdout — as the source for this recent downtick, based solely on who the developer was acquired by....

The Grand Theft Auto series taught us that violence and anti-social behavior is fun. It gave us a way to do things that you’d never normally do in real life, at least… hopefully, anyways. They’re a true form of escapism. Stealing cars, crashing them into groups of people, killing people for fun, shooting down helicopters with rocket launchers, and fighting the police are activities not many of us get to enjoy in the real world....

This His Dark Materials Episode 4 review contains spoilers. It originally appeared on Den of Geek UK. If the careful foundation-laying of the first three episodes had left you feeling at all distanced from or frustrated by this story, then “Armour”’s here to yank you into a giant bear hug and surround you with fun, action, excitement and promise. This was the most enjoyable and accessible episode yet. With the uncluttered, clear-cut plot of a videogame level (meet mystical gatekeeper, solve riddle, receive magical object, recruit allies, unlock achievement), a ticking clock thanks to the spy fly device, and the introduction of a couple of welcome archetypes (the rascal adventurer and the down-on-his-luck warrior), it was an entertaining hour of forward momentum....

A new update has been released for TinyBuild’s stealth/horror game Hello Neighbor that brings a lot of new content to the early-access title, including the addition of some strange robot workers. The game, which has the player sneaking into their creepy neighbor’s house “to figure out what horrible secrets he’s hiding in the basement,” is now in the Alpha 4 stage of development. While players are usually tasked with simply entering the neighbor’s basement before the incredibly smart AI catches them, it seems that this new update brings some real variety to the highly-anticipated game....

Playstation came out swinging at it’s 2015 E3 press conference. Jaw-dropping new footage of the hotly anticipated Uncharted 4 was shown off. It was revealed Final Fantasy 7, one of the biggest JRPGS of all time, would be getting a remake. There was also a strange original title about a cavewoman fighting robotic dinosaurs. Between all the sequels and remakes it didn’t stand out much at the time, but Horizon Zero Dawn, would go on to become one of the most beloved titles in the Playstation 4 library....

Content Warning: This article contains spoilers for House of the Dragon season 1 and discussion of birth trauma and stillbirth. The childbirth scenes in House of the Dragon have been a talking point among fans online since the horrifying Cesarean section depicted in the first episode. Some of what we’re seeing on the show represents things we’ve seen before – screaming mothers, pacing fathers, crying infants. But there are aspects of childbirth presented on House of the Dragon that we hardly ever see on mainstream television, and that’s really exciting....

Part of the reason Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us games are so popular is thanks to the incredibly emotional journeys the characters go through. Over the course of The Last of Usm fans found themselves very attached to Joel and Ellie and their growing bond throughout the story. When The Last of Us 2 came around, five years had passed since the ending of the first part, and while the game had a few flashbacks to fill players in on what they’d missed, there were still plenty of developments that were never shown....

Little Alex Horne is slowly convincing the entire world to make comedians do daft things for the Taskmaster, and we very much approve. There are currently seven international Taskmaster series running, while a handful of other attempts at international remakes finished after one season, and the newest iteration, Taskmaster Australia, is due to launch in 2023. When you watch clips of the international versions, they are generally recognisably Taskmaster, from the red-carpeted stage and the clinical white room in the Taskmaster house to the graphics and Horne Section soundtrack....

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is now out in the wild, but the thrill of opening a new console is often accompanied by some technical bumps and hiccups. If the next-gen system is misbehaving and turning it on and then off again doesn’t solve the problem, PS5 owners’ next best bet is a factory reset. Even though Sony’s new console released only yesterday, many users are reporting bugs with the system’s rest mode, and others have run into problems with the system’s download queue....