Finding these Royal Tools - the Pickaxe, Shovel, Watering Can and Fishing Rod - allows you to uncover more items and explore further out into the world. It’s one of Disney Dreamlight Valley’s opening quest and, despite them being found in the very opening areas of the game, are easy to pass by if you aren’t looking close enough - which is where this Royal Tools locations explainer can hopefully help....

Three different rendering modes are on offer on PS5 and Series X consoles, all of them delivering something desirable - but the horsepower simply isn’t there to offer them all in combination. For that, you’ll need a high-end PC (where Dying Light 2 offers even more visual features) and we’ll be talking about that in our next piece. Right now the question is simple: how do PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles run the game?...

Dorfromantik’s Sakura biome was previously exclusive to the recently released Switch version of the game, and today’s PC update - appropriately known as the Sakura Update - brings over a number of other features formerly only available on Nintendo’s platform. Steam players can now, for instance, enjoy full controller support - which, among other things, helps massively improve what was previously a slightly fiddly experience on Steam Deck. There are also new Custom Mode options, enabling players to turn on World Borders....

Dorfromantik is a journey. Even 45 hours later (a shared tally because I’m not the only one in my household besotted with it) I still discover new things about it, about how it really works. And I would never have known it to look at it. To see it for the first time is to see a game so absurdly simple, and gentle, it seems strange it has scores at all....

The LA-based show will open its doors for the first time since 2019 at its usual home of the Los Angeles Convention Centre, following mixed success as an online event in the interim. Next year will see the LACC’s two main halls divided into separate spaces for industry attendees and those attending as fans - similar to how the various halls are separated at Gamescom. Behind the scenes, as previously announced, the event is now being operated by Reedpop - the company which owns PAX and EGX, and a number of websites including Eurogamer....

Earlier this month, Mendy appeared in court charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. The 27-year-old is accused of attacking three women at his home in Cheshire between October 2020 and August 2021. Mendy will next appear at court on 15th November, when his lawyer is expected to apply to dismiss the charges. A trial date has been set for 24th January. Mendy was suspended by Man City after being charged by police, pending an investigation....

That’s according to Bloomberg, which reported today that the FIFA publisher had inked a deal for a further two titles featuring Marvel characters. There’s no word yet on which other Marvel faces might star in these games, which EA studio might be making them, or when they will see release. EA’s already-confirmed Iron Man project is now in pre-production at Motive Studio, the Montreal-based team behind Star Wars Squadrons and the upcoming Dead Space remake....

Rising from the grave of E3 is EEK3, an annual indie showcase organised by Haunted PS1. As the name would suggest, Haunted PS1 is a community dedicated to indie games that are reviving the 90s era of gaming with weird and uncanny aesthetics. EEK3 in particular focuses on retro horror games and has a penchant for the low-fi, low-poly offerings its community brings. Calls for submissions for this year’s livescream (noun, a livestream with plenty of scares) went out in March....

Yesterday Eurogamer published impressions of the free-to-download football game, which launched on PC and console in extremely limited form. As I wrote yesterday, there’s a lot that’s wrong with eFootball, Konami’s follow-up to the beloved Pro Evolution Soccer series. But it’s the player faces that have turned eFootball’s launch into a viral joke. Players are flooding Steam with negative user reviews, decrying the state of the game. That’s bad enough for Konami, but what’s worse is eFootball is now the worst Steam game of all time, according to Steam reviews....

On 2023’s big Call of Duty game, now expected to arrive in 2024, the story is all about Activision Blizzard finally ditching its rigid annual release schedule which has seen a new COD in a box each Christmas for the past two decades. For the next Dragon Age, which still lacks a release date despite a fresh developer update, it’s all about how the game is still waiting for that “BioWare magic” which brings it all together....

“After a VERY shaky start it’s slowly becoming the game they promised,” says benchambers. “Feels like a true war with 128 players.." “Obviously a lot of criticism for this game came out, most of it warranted, but after a few key patches, me and my friends are back having the best time in the sandbox multiplayer that is Battlefield,” says engelzman. “Driving hovercrafts up skyscrapers, clearing and taking objectives together, mowing down the enemies in helicopters together, Battlefield is simply the best game I’ve played with friends all year, and even some of its glitches are what makes it fun....

For those needing a quick refresher, the original Evil Genius released back in 2004 (its developer, Elixir Studios, was founded by former Lionhead and Bullfrog alumni Demis Hassabis), casting players as international supervillains intent on global domination. In the broadest of terms, it’s a game of base building and minion management, giving players the tools needed to carve out an underground lair for their villainous machinations and defend it from do-gooders determined to thwart their evil schemes....

I have more or less no familiarity with any of this though, having dipped toes in a number of Final Fantasies and reliably found their water a little cold - but I’m sinking into Fantasian quite nicely. A welcoming kind of “onboarding” is not something I’ve associated with JRPGs, but - maybe because of its launch on Apple Arcade, with the different, presumably quite specific kind of audience that brings - Fantasian does it well....

Tasking you to infiltrate a military base and finding the chest inside an abandoned bunker, this can be an intricate treasure hunt without knowing the steps at first glance. This page explains how to enter Bunker 2 in Far Cry 6 to complete the Cache Money treasure hunt easily. On this page: Here’s where you can start the Cache Money treasure hunt: Cache Money location: East of Oasis Plains in Aguas Lindas....

Tasking you to investigate a flooded area and clean blockages in pipes, this can be a long and confusing treasure hunt if you don’t know the exact spots. This page explains where to find pipe locations in Far Cry 6 to complete The Truest Yaran treasure hunt swiftly. On this page: Here’s where you can start The Truest Yaran treasure hunt: The Truest Yaran location: Noventa Armas in Valle de Oro, east of Lake of Lions....

The mission, which stars actor Danny Trejo, was “accidentally released too early” according to the patch notes and will be added in again at a later date. The patch includes a number of other updates, but the size of the download is significant. On Xbox Series X/S the size is between 14 GB and 20 GB, while on Xbox One it’s between 13 GB and 19 GB. Yet on PS4 it’s between 49 GB and 60 GB and around 90 GB on PlayStation 5....

We’ll dive into all we know on that - including the FIFA 20 Early Access start time and start date - just below. On top of that though, developer EA has opted to announce a pretty large list of changes early this year, so on this page we’ll round up all the confirmed tweaks so far, as well as the full FIFA 20 release date, all our FIFA 20 guides so far, and everything else worth knowing about the game right now....

Below we’ve listed FIFA 22’s best strikers, including the best FIFA ST and best FIFA CF ranked in order of their overall rating. There are, like in FIFA 21, no LFs or RFs, since EA Sports has removed those positions all together. Remember to take a look at the specifics for each player before adding them to your team. Depending on your playstyle, you’ll want to take Ball Control and Short Passing if you like playing two up too or, if you prefer breaking through defensive tactics, investigate the Acceleration and Sprint Speed stats....

In the manager career portion of Career Mode, you can use the likeness of a raft of famous managers from the Premier League, including Jürgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Antonio Conte and Thomas Tuchel. “We’ve seen feedback from players wanting to play as some of their favourite managers, and we’re happy to say FIFA 23 enables you to play as one of the 350+ authentic football managers, of which 30+ have star heads, in Career Mode,” EA said in a detailed blog post....

FIFA 23 is the final footballing game from EA to feature the famous FIFA branding. It will also benefit from modes reflecting the upcoming 2022 and 2023 World Cups in Qatar and Australia/New Zealand. The first of those arrives next week for all major platforms except Nintendo Switch. EA previously boasted FIFA 23 had been a “record-breaking” release for the series, hitting 10.3 million players in its first week, making it the “biggest launch period in EA Sports FIFA franchise history”....