June 2022

Audio player loading… Crytek has prepared a swathe of improvements for its stealthy shooter Hunt: Showdown, including a fix for a longstanding technical issue: the dreaded desync teleportation that most of us have experienced when climbing ladders or trying to wedge yourself through the same doorway that your teammate’s in. The forthcoming 1.9 update is currently being put through its paces on Hunt’s public test server, but a full release date for the changes isn’t set yet. Although there are new gun skins, Legendary Hunters, map adjustments, and other stuff on the way, most of the changes are technical in…

Audio player loading… The cel-shaded shooter XIII (opens in new tab) wasn’t a hit when it was released in 2003, but it did manage to amass something of a cult following (and it was very good, a position I will stand by unto my death) and so there was some low-key but legitimate excitement when Microids announced in 2019 that it was getting a remake. Then the remake arrived, and it was, to use the professional term, staggeringly craptastic. It was such a mess that Microids and developer PlayMagic issued an official apology (opens in new tab). By all appearances…

Audio player loading… The Destiny rocket launcher Gjallarhorn is one of the most-beloved guns in a game that, let’s face it, is all about collecting guns (OK, OK, and shooting things with them). Ludicrously sized and ludicrously over-powered (to varying extents, depending on which period of the game we’re talking), if there is such a thing as an iconic Destiny weapon then this is it. Last year Bungie announced a collaboration with Nerf, makers of countless foam-blasting toy weapons, and Gjallarhorn was the obvious choice. Now the finished product is being shown off in advance of pre-orders opening up next…

Audio player loading… Unity has laid off 4% of its total workforce, with at least 200 people across the world losing their jobs.  The exact numbers are still unknown—Unity’s total employee count is not provided, though a quarterly report in March 2022 noted that the software developer had 5,864 full-time workers. A report by Kotaku (opens in new tab) ballparks the number of layoffs at around 300 to 400 employees, with those in the AI and engineering departments taking the biggest hits. In a statement to PC Gamer, a Unity spokesperson said: “As part of a continued planning process where…

Audio player loading… The 2022 Hackaday challenge (opens in new tab) is underway which means there are plenty of wonderful innovations to check out made by the clever and creative contestants. This year the Hackaday has been aptly focussed on helping the planet and the second challenge in this year’s series is all about reusing material that would otherwise go to landfill. The projects for this round were required to either be made largely of recycled materials or be designed to help in the reuse of other materials. This presented the judges with a broad range of innovations and the…

Audio player loading… ASRock has announced that its 600 series motherboards will offer full compatibility with Intel’s promising looking 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs (opens in new tab). The company has released BIOS updates that add support for “soon-released Intel desktop processors.” (opens in new tab) As there are several ASRock DDR4 motherboards on the list, it means that we have confirmation that 13th Gen CPUs will continue to support DDR4 (opens in new tab). If you’ve got a good set of DDR4, or the price premium of DDR5 puts you off, it’s good to know that you’ll be able…

Photographing the three Sunbreak Cohoots scattered across Elgado Outpost is one of the trickier requests in the new Monster Hunter Rise expansion, but it rewards you with an amazing layered armor headpiece: a full-on Cohoot mask. You’ll get the request from Pasapato the Historian near the canteen quite early on, and will likely spend your time running around Elgado in search of them. I inadvertently took a million pictures of my own Cohoot during the process, but there’s actually a bit of a trick to completing this request that isn’t obvious at all. In this Sunbreak Cohoot guide, I’ll explain…