Month: September 2021

FIFA 22 ratings are here, and so are the fervent undervalued/overvalued debates from passionate fans. Typically, the FIFA ratings roll out in a slow build, and the top-ranked players are released at the end. But this year, EA Sports chose to immediately release the stats and names of the top 22 players.

Lionel Messi is still ranked number one, retaining his top streak from FIFA 21 and FIFA 20. Trailing behind him, Robert Lewandowski takes second place and Cristiano Ronaldo comes in third. The only difference in the top three from FIFA 21 is that Lewandowski and Ronaldo switched places in FIFA 22; Ronaldo was in second place last year instead of Lewandowski.

There’s a lot of shifts within the roster, so just focusing on impressive ranking improvement in the top ten: PSG’s Kylian Mbappé went from rank eight from last year to rank five this year. Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane went from rank 21 to eight. Chelsea’s N’Golo Kanté rose from rank 26 to nine.

You may be wondering: How are FIFA ratings decided? It all lies in the hands of a team led by Michael Mueller-Moehring–the guy in charge of collecting and verifying EA Sport’s soccer data. According to an interview Mueller-Moehring gave to ESPN, 9,000 data reviewers–including coaches and scouts–get together and decide on ratings for players. Most individuals in that group are season ticket holders that can watch a lot of matches in person.

It’s less reliant on big data than you think, Mueller-Moehring points out, which makes sense–there are intangible qualities like intelligence and resilience in EA’s FIFA game that can’t really be defined by any metric. Data Reviewers usually estimate those two stats by the “player’s aggression or…by the style of play on the pitch.”

FIFA 22 will roll out more rankings in the upcoming weeks, so keep an eye for that if you’re waiting to see where your favorite player lands. In other news, you can also check out the FIFA 22 Career Mode trailer and FIFA 22’s Official Gameplay Reveal video.

Darkest Dungeon 2 will be available in early access on the Epic Games Store on October 26. Announced by developer Red Hook on Twitter, the sequel to gothic horror turn-based strategy game will be available in early access on PC via the Epic Games Store.

While Darkest Dungeon 2 has a store page on the Epic Games Store, a price has not yet been announced. The teaser shows off a number of character classes that were present in the original game and implies that the evil from the Darkest Dungeon in the first game has spread out into the world.

As reported by Game Informer, Darkest Dungeon 2 looks to abandon the town building elements of the original, instead sending players’ parties on a doomed caravan ride through various biomes. The game will instead be similar to a rougelite, having players earn the currency of Hope, which can be used in between runs to purchase upgrades for the caravan to make it a bit further. Players will navigate across a massive map, forced to make hard choices between where to travel next. Permadeath also returns, but instead of returning to the Hamlet like in the original, in Darkest Dungeon 2 players will have to pick up a new adventurer at a local inn.

Darkest Dungeon 2 is currently only announced for PC via the Epic Games Store. Darkest Dungeon is available on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, Mobile, and PC, for anyone interested in checking the original out before diving into Darkest Dungeon 2.

Cassie’s Collection in Psychonauts 2 is another long, involved level with a ton of collectibles. The stage loops back on itself a number of times, allowing you to snag some things that you missed as you uncover its many secrets. Still, many are hidden off the beaten path, requiring you to carefully scope out, climb, and explore the library and its connected areas. Below, you’ll find a complete rundown of everything you can snag in Cassie’s Collectibles, and exactly where to find it all.

We’ve got even more Psychonauts 2 coverage and guides, including our rundown of all the collectibles in Loboto’s Labyrinth, Hollis’s Classroom, Hollis’ Hot Streak, Ford’s Follicles, Strike City, Compton’s Cookoff, PSI King’s Sensorium, and Tomb of the Sharkophagus. And don’t forget to check out our Psychonauts 2 review.

Cassie’s Collection Collectibles

• Nuggets of Wisdom: 4
• Memory Vaults: 2
• Emotional Baggage: Duffel Bag, Suitcase, Purse, Hat Box, Steamer Trunk
• Half-A-Minds: 2
• Figments: 227

Cassie’s Collection is divided into multiple sections–you’ll not only work your way through the actual library, but into various books and memories that will take you to other locations as well. You’ll have to scour all the locations to find all the many collectibles in the level, and many are in hidden spots.

Nugget of Wisdom: You’ll first start in Cassie’s library, which has some side sections you’ll need to make your way through. In this first room, however, you’ll find some alcoves set into the walls that you can’t quite climb up to. Climb up onto the counter of the library and onto the books to reach the globe hanging above you, and you can then use the height to leap across and float down to each of the alcoves. One contains your first Nugget of Wisdom.

Suitcase Emotional Baggage: This is also in the very first room you’ll enter. Look for the Suitcase on top of a stack of books in the corner; you’ll be back here a few times, so you can grab it after you’ve advanced to find the Suitcase Tag.

Suitcase Tag: Climb up through the library until you reach a room with a bottomless pit beneath it and flying books that make a path through it. Look for Mental Connection grapple points above you. As you use them to advance, you’ll be able to use them to make your way to a ledge attached to one of the columns in the room’s corner, where the Suitcase Tag sits.

Purse Tag: As you explore the library, you’ll enter several different rooms, each with a different theme. In the first room where you fight a battle after gaining the Projection ability, climb a stack of books to reach a high alcove among the suitcases. The Purse Tag is inside.

Purse Emotional Baggage: In this same room, look for a raised spot with the illustration of a knight fighting a dragon. The Purse is on the railing beside it.

Half-a-Mind: Once you have the Projection ability, head to the Children’s Literature corner. Before you jump into the book, look for a locked door and use your Projection to open it to reveal the Half-a-Mind.

Memory Vault: After the room with the math equations, you’ll enter another two-dimensional book level. Once you’re through that, when you come back into the 3D world, check behind the book to find the Memory Vault.

Nugget of Wisdom: Also after clearing the second book, check the room for Mental Connection points. You’ll be able to grapple your way up into the air to reach an alcove set in the wall that hides the Nugget of Wisdom.

Half-a-Mind: This Half-a-Mind is right on the ground in the area known as Librarian Lane–you can’t miss it.

Duffel Bag Emotional Baggage: You’ll eventually jump into a giant world constructed out of books, as you search for evidence against Fannie Flats. Before heading toward the buildings, spin around from your entry point and take the winding street downward toward the docks to find the Duffel Bag.

Hat Box Emotional Baggage: This one is tough to miss. Look for it right in the center of the water in the middle of town, where paper boats sail around it in a circle.

Duffel Bag Tag: There are three main areas in this section of the level where you’re headed to look for evidence. You’ll find the Duffel Bag Tag in the newsprint location, straight across the water from where you start. The area is marked with a big fight, and after you’ve cleared the enemies, you can use your Projection power to open a locked door and reveal the tag.

Memory Vault: Once you reach the top of the newsprint area, go through the 2D book and grab the evidence. Before you leave, head off to one side and you’ll find a small gate you can slip through to find a doorway beyond. That doorway is a portal that will actually take you out to another island in the middle of the dockyard. On it, you’ll find the second Memory Vault.

Steamer Trunk Tag: On the left side of the circling boats, you can jump up onto some tightropes that’ll help you navigate across the archways and cross the water to where you can climb up to the Marketplace. Before climbing all the way up, you’ll hit the flat platform of an open book. Look to the left along the stack of books for a pathway you can take to reach the tag.

Nugget of Wisdom: At the top of the Marketplace, after you’ve found the evidence, you’ll have the chance to head back down using a grinding rail. Before you do that, look over the front edge of the area to a spot you can drop down to grab the Nugget of Wisdom.

Hat Box Tag Emotional Baggage: You’ll find the Hat Box Tag in the Cannery area, right behind the big ink waterfall to the right of the door near the water’s edge.

Nugget of Wisdom: Also in the Cannery, you can’t miss this one. Complete your two-dimensional adventure into a book and when you come out, the Nugget will be waiting ahead of you.

Steamer Trunk: Back in the main room of the library, climb up onto the globe hanging above the librarian’s desk. Use your Projection power to make your archetype pull a switch down on the ground–you might have noticed it before, and if you pulled it, it might not seem like it did anything. The switch will make the globe move, allowing you to reach a few things you couldn’t before, including some figments and the Steamer Trunk. When the globe is at its peak, jump across to the Trunk on the left using your Levitation Ball.

Borderlands 3 is running two mini-events over the next two days in celebration of the game’s two-year anniversary. Announced on the Borderlands website, there will be two mini-events taking place, with each running for 48 hours.

The two events are Loot Monster Mayhem and Freebies at Maurice’s Black Market, both of which are live now, ending September 15 at 8:59 AM PT / 11:59 AM ET. The Loot Monster Mayhem event increases the spawn rate of loot variant enemies, which drop extra goodies. Players will also be able to seek out Maurice’s Black Market vending machine during the event, which will be offering free loot. Maurice’s vending machine spawns in a different non-DLC location every week, so players will need to hunt it down.

Gearbox is also offering up two special shift codes during the event. The first one unlocks three cosmetic items, the ice cream cake colored Popsychle Vault Hunter skin, the Pain Freeze weapon trinket, and Field Trip Echo Device skin. The second shift code gives players a diamond key, which gives access to the Diamond Armory, where players will get four items, one of which is guaranteed to be Legendary. Shift codes can be redeemed in the in-game social menu or on Gearbox’s shift code website.

Shift Codes:

• Cosmetics: KH5J3-9BSSS-K6WF9-RT3BB-FTBCJ
• Diamond Key: CHC3J-TCHSZ-5XCXH-FTTJJ-JZ55S

Gearbox recently announced that Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, a Dungeons and Dragons-inspired Borderlands spin-off, will be releasing on March 25, 2022.

The psychedelic music festival that is PSI King’s Sensorium in Psychonauts 2 is a huge location, with multiple smaller sections within a larger map. It’s big and involved, and requires you to drive around a campground to locate PSI King’s five senses to get the band back together. Scattered throughout its many locations are a ton of Figments, emotional baggage, Nuggets of Wisdom, and more. Here’s a full rundown of everything you can find in the level to increase your intern rank inside the PSI King’s mind.

We’ve got even more Psychonauts 2 coverage and guides, including our rundown of all the collectibles in Loboto’s Labyrinth, Hollis’s Classroom, Hollis’ Hot Streak, Ford’s Follicles, Strike City, Compton’s Cookoff and Tomb of the Sharkophagus. And don’t forget to check out our Psychonauts 2 review.

PSI King’s Sensorium Collectibles

• Nuggets of Wisdom: 3
• Memory Vaults: 2
• Emotional Baggage: Duffel Bag, Suitcase, Purse, Hat Box, Steamer Trunk
• Half-A-Minds: 4
• Figments: 263

–Suitcase Emotional Baggage: You’ll first find yourself in a backstage area, with PSI King looking to put his band back together to get back on stage. Go beneath from the back and you’ll find the Suitcase.

–Half-a-Mind: To the left of the Suitcase, you’ll see some posters. Burn them with Pyrokinesis to open a tunnel beneath the stage, which will lead you to a Half-a-Mind at its end.

–Purse Tag: Also in the Backstage area, look for a couple of camper trailers near the fence at the back of the area, furthest from the stage. Hop on top of the camper to find the Purse Tag.

–Half-a-Mind: Not long into your time in PSI King’s Sensorium, when you enter the Eye King’s Shrine, you’ll unlock a new ability called the Time Bubble. It allows you to slow down fast-moving enemies and items, providing you access to new areas. Your first Half-a-Mind is located behind the first spinning fan you’ll find in the level, which you can slow down and jump through with Time Bubble.

–Nugget of Wisdom: In Eye King Shrine, slow the spinning stars accessible from the pile of roadie boxes just before you take the swinging rope to the spotlight to activate the second rainbow bridge. This is something of a side path and leads to a platform with the Nugget waiting.

–Memory Vault: A little farther into the Eye King’s Shrine, you’ll find a spot where you need to move a spotlight to hit a prism to create a rainbow bridge. On the left side of this area is the path that’ll lead you to the light, with two spinning fans. Just past the fans, look to the right for a spot with a door made of jail bars. You’ll need the Projection power to open it, but once you have it, you can snag your first Memory Vault.

–Duffel Bag Emotional Baggage: Deeper into the Eye King Shrine, you’ll have crossed a couple of rainbow bridges. When you hit the third prism, check underneath the roadie boxes below it; you can climb the ladder and spin the camera around to see the opening and grab the bag.

–Hat Box Tag: Continue toward the tower with the light for the third rainbow bridge, through two spinning fans you’ll have to slow down with Time Bubble. After you clear the second fan, turn to the right and look for some posters you can burn through to reveal a secret area, which will lead you to the tag.

–Duffle Bag Tag: Once you finish the Eye King Shrine, you’ll gain the ability to drive around the rest of the fairgrounds. You can go wherever you want, but we’ll take you to the Concessions area next. Immediately after you enter the area, turn around and walk back toward the van you arrived in and look left behind some rainbow-colored bushes to find the tag nestled in a corner.

–Memory Vault: When you arrive, look for another caged area like the one you found in the Eye King Shrine near the start, just where you find the first tightrope to climb over the line of customers below. You’ll need to use the Projection power to get through the bars to snag your second Memory Vault.

–Purse Emotional Baggage: Deeper into the Concessions area, you’ll hit a spinning platform you need to slow with Time Bubble. As you cross the platform, look for a spot where you can drop down behind the high fence to find the Purse behind it.

–Half-a-Mind: At the end of the Concessions area, you’ll enter the Nose Mouth Shrine. Toward the end of it, you’ll see another prism for making a rainbow bridge, next to a couple of grind rails. You can bypass this area and continue to the end of the shrine, but if you divert here and make your way to the spotlight, the rainbow bridge will take you to the Half-a-Mind; the grind rails are for returning to the main path.

–Nugget of Wisdom: As you make your way through the Nose Mouth Shrine, you’ll see some tongues slapping the pathway, and you’ll need to use Time Bubble to slow them so you can slip past. Get through the first two tongues and look for a trampoline you can use to head into a tower. Turn around and look for a third trampoline, which will allow you to jump a gap to a platform where the Nugget of Wisdom is waiting.

–Steamer Trunk Tag: Return to the tower you just left to get the Nugget of Wisdom. From here, the path ahead should allow you to run straight up to the Steamer Trunk Tag without much difficulty.

–Hat Box Emotional Baggage: When you complete the Nose Mouth Shrine, you’ll next use the van to head to the Woods area. Check to the right of the path that heads off to your left from the starting area, opposite the small stream, which should be on your right. There’s a campsite along the way with two tents in it; the Hat Box is nestled just behind them.

–Suitcase Tag: Keep moving through the woods until you hit a waterfall with logs falling down it. On the right side, you’ll be able to ascend the cliff by wall-jumping your way up. When you hit the top, check around the corner to the right to find the Suitcase Tag.

–Half-a-Mind: Keep ascending and at the top you’ll find Audie O. and Mr. Touch. Jump across the waterfall to the left side to find the Half-a-Mind before talking to them to enter the Ear Hand Shrine.

–Nugget of Wisdom: Now inside the Ear Hand Shrine, you should see a prism just after the start of the level. Head forward and look for a rotating fan ahead. If you turn around, you’ll find a ledge you can climb up to with a spotlight atop it. Use it on the prism to create a rainbow bridge that leads to an island where the Nugget of Wisdom waits.

–Steamer Trunk: As you near the end fo the Ear Hand Shrine, you’ll make a second rainbow bridge that leads you to the island where the instruments are located. Look to your right to see the Steamer Trunk on another platform you can leap across to.