The 10% off code that works on several Dell and Alienware gaming monitors is still active for a little while longer. Like any proper gaming monitor, these feature low response times, high refresh rates, and G-SYNC compatibility. They’re good workstation monitors as well, since all of them boast either an IPS or VA panel for excellent image quality and wide viewing angles. If you’re for something even better, check out the 48″ LG CX OLED TV that’s also on sale. In my opinion, there’s no better monitor than that (provided your PC can drive 4K resolution).
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Pokemon Go developer Niantic is rolling out a new feature that makes it easier to see which Pokemon may hatch from certain eggs. Tapping on one of the eggs in your inventory will pull up a list of all the Pokemon that may possibly hatch from it. Each monster is categorized by their rarity; Pokemon denoted with one egg icon will be most common, while those with five eggs will be rarest.
Eggs have been among the most controversial elements of Pokemon Go. Niantic has previously been criticized for the very low hatch rates certain Pokemon have, especially since some monsters–such as Happiny, which is available as a Shiny as part of the game’s spring event–can only be obtained by hatching them. This move should at least give players a somewhat better idea of how likely some eggs are to yield certain Pokemon.
We’re excited to share that all Trainers will now be able to see which Pokémon may hatch from Eggs in their Inventory! Tap an Egg to see a list of possible Pokémon and their rarity level.
The aforementioned spring event runs until tomorrow, April 8. As part of it, spring-themed Pokemon such as flower crown-wearing versions of Pikachu and Chansey are appearing in the wild more frequently. There is also a Spring Collection Challenge that tasks players with catching certain monsters before the event ends.
Following the spring event, April’s Community Day will take place this Sunday, April 11. This month’s featured Pokemon is Snivy, the Grass-type starter from Pokemon Black and White. After that, Niantic is holding a Rivals’ Week event from April 13-18. That will introduce several new Pokemon to the game, including the Gen 6 monsters Skrelp and Clauncher, as well as Therian Forme Landorus.
Bundles are always a great way to save money on an assortment of products, and a new one from online retailer Antonline comes with some great PC gaming goodies. The Lenovo gaming monitor bundle costs $1,180 and contains a Lenovo G27Q monitor, Ryzen 9 5950X processor, and three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC. This bundle is only available through April 9. The Ryzen 9 5950X processor is hard to come by at its regular price of $800, so this bundle is a good way to snag the new CPU without paying a premium to third-party sellers.
The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X processor has 16 cores with a base clock of 3.4GHz and a max of 4.9GHz. This is a powerful processor that will work great with a high-end gaming PC. Of course, you’ll need the appropriate components to go with the Ryzen 9–if you need help, check out our guide on how to build a gaming PC.
The Lenovo G27Q gaming monitor boasts a 27-inch IPS panel with a 1440p resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, and 1-5ms response time. For those that like pushing their frame rate as high as possible, it also comes with FreeSync Premium in addition to being G-Sync Compatible.
Last but not least, you get three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC, which offers a huge library of PC games you can download and play for as long as you’re subscribed. Some of the most noteworthy games featured in the service include The Outer Worlds, Skyrim Special Edition, and Fallout 4. All first-party Microsoft games are also available on the service on launch day.
Mythical Games, the studio behind the upcoming multiplayer title Blankos Block Party, has launched its own NFT Marketplace to allow players to trade in-game items for both traditional and cryptocurrencies.
The studio has been working on incorporating NFTs (non-fungible tokens) well before the current boom, with the idea to give players more control over in-game items they purchase. Mythical explains that the current market simply allows players to license content for in-game rewards, which remain tied to your account irrespective of if you continue using it or not.
With the Marketplace, Mythical hopes to give players more agency with their purchases. Not only will you be able to trade any in-game Blanko Vinyls you purchase, but you can also increase the level of cheaper, low-level items and eventually sell them at a profit. Since runs of vinyls are limited, especially those designed by some well-known artists, Mythical Games expects its 300,000 strong player base to start driving a communal economy that sees prices for some items fluctuate according to demand.
“Rolling out the Mythical Marketplace is the next big step for us toward creating true player-owned economies in games,” said John Linden, CEO and co-founder of Mythical Games. “With the recent boom of NFTs and digital assets in pop culture, we’re happy to be at the forefront of introducing these concepts to AAA games and leading the way to new sources of revenue and value creation for players and creators.”
Currently Blankos Block Party has allowed players to sell in-game items on secondary markets, but Mythical Games is launching its own Marketplace to make it easier to integrate with the game. The game is currently in open beta with an expected release on PC later in 2021, while the Marketplace is rolling out in an Alpha Phase to select users as Mythical continues building upon it.
IO Interactive CEO and co-owner Hakan Abrak has confirmed that the Hitman series is taking a break as the studio focuses on its new James Bond game. The Hitman series will continue, and more DLC is planned for Hitman 3 specifically, but you should expect Agent 47 to take some time off.
“Our thinking right now is, Agent 47 deserves a bit of a rest,” Abrak told IGN. “He’s been busy the last three games.”
January 2021’s Hitman 3 was positioned as the third game in a trilogy, so it makes sense that IO would give the franchise a rest for now. Abrak mentioned that IO remains committed to Hitman 3 and it plans to continue to update and support the game in the future.
Even if Agent 47 is taking some time off, Abrak said you can be sure the franchise will return at some point down the road.
“This is not the end of Agent 47. I just want to make sure everybody knows that,” he said. “As we talked about before, it’s synonymous with IO, it’s a very beloved franchise of ours and, of course, Hitman will continue. Agent 47, maybe, is going to take a bit of a rest, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not working on some cool, cool stuff within the World of Assassination. So, there’s definitely activity coming and I’m looking forward to talking about that sometime in the future.”
If Hitman 3 is the final entry in the main series for some time, Agent 47 heads off for some rest and relaxation on a good note. Hitman 3 launched in January to rave reviews and the best digital sales in franchise history.
Outside of the Hitman game series, a Hitman TV show is in the works. It’s a prequel to the games, and as such, Agent 47 will have hair.
IO’s next project is its new James Bond game, which appears to be in the early stages of development. IO is hiring 200 people to work on this game and others within the studio.
“Every Bond kind of defines a generation and it’s amazing how they kept reinventing themselves over so many years,” he said. “So, we’re not only inspired by one movie, or games and whatnot. We’re inspired by the whole thing, and just sucking things into us to make an original Bond, an original story, but that is absolutely true and recognizable in the values there is in Bond. I’m really looking forward to creating a new community that the gamers can call their own.”
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Deadly Premonition 2 is coming to Steam, according to publisher Thunderful Group’s annual report. It was previously only available on Switch. No date is known yet for when Deadly Premonition 2’s Steam listing will go live.
Deadly Premonition 2 is the 2020 sequel to the 2010 cult classic Deadly Premonition. The original survival horror game–through an odd combination of unpredictable storytelling and awkward game mechanics–captured an audience who enjoyed its absurdity.
The sequel continues to follow the original protagonist, FBI agent Francis York Morgan. Only this time, he’s disgraced and under suspicion by the very agency he once worked for. Another FBI agent, Aaliyah Davis, is tasked with investigating Morgan due to new findings from a past murder case in the fictional Louisiana city Le Carré.
Deadly Premonition 2’s critical reception was mixed and many reviewers thought that the followup wasn’t able to recreate the original’s off-kilter magical spark. Reviewer Kurt Indovina commented in GameSpot’s Deadly Premonition 2 review, “though the return of the original’s off-kilter writing, outlandish characters, and disturbing twists is an exciting prospect, it all feels diluted this time around, missing many of the flavor notes that defined its predecessor.”
He also noted the ” jarringly inconsistent frame rate of the open world,” but praised the game for its character writing and dialogue, as well as Francis York Morgan’s overall story arc.
Deadly Premonition 2 also landed in hot water for its treatment of a transgender character, Lena Dauman. The game’s characters repeatedly misgender her and call her by her dead name. In response to the criticism, director Hidetaka Suehiro promised to patch “that scene” and did end up releasing an update that removed Morgan’s lines that misgendered and dead named Dauman.
Indovina put it best in the ending line of his Deadly Premonition 2 review: “It’s a different brew of coffee from your favorite roaster, but one that’s more bitter than you probably hoped for.”
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Developer Flavourworks has announced that its previously PlayStation-exclusive FMV thriller Erica will launch on PC via Steam on May 25. An exact price for the game has not been revealed, but Erica is now available to wishlist on Steam.
Erica is a full-motion video interactive fiction thriller that was published by Sony exclusively for the PlayStation 4. The game, akin to choose-your-own-adventure games like Until Dawn but with much less control of the characters, launched in August 2019. In January of this year, Flavourworks ported Erica to iOS devices.
Erica tells the story of the titular character, played by Holly Earl (the voice actor for League of Legends‘ Lillia and best known for her role in the Channel 4 sci-fi series Humans), who uses her recurring nightmares to uncover the truth of her father’s murder. Players make decisions for Erica at critical junctures to direct the story.
In addition to not clarifying how much Erica will cost–though it’s worth noting that the game is currently $10 on the PlayStation store and forward-compatible with the PlayStation 5–Flavourworks has yet to specify the game’s system requirements.
We gave the game an 8/10 in our Erica review from 2019, with critic Funké Joseph saying the game “never fails to hook you into its haunting, mysterious world.”
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A PS5-exclusive survival shooter called Abandoned has been revealed on the PlayStation Blog. Created by the Dutch developer Blue Box Game Studios, Abandoned is a cinematic survival first-person shooter with heavy horror elements, and a teaser trailer that accompanies its announcement shows it off.
Abandoned stars an amnesiac hero named Jason Longfield, who must escape from a mysterious forest, finding food and ammo to fight or sneak his way out. As the blog post reveals, Abandoned may be a first-person shooter, but it will focus more on hiding and aiming than run-and-gun gameplay. For example, if Jason is out of breath from sprinting, his aiming will suffer, and the firing rate on all the weapons in the game is slow compared to action-heavy shooters.
Abandoned will use the DualSense controller and the PS5’s support for 3D audio to create what Blue Box hopes will be an immersive experience. Though the trailer seems to run at a fairly low framerate, the blog post says that Abandoned will target 60fps and run at 4K. A gameplay video is coming soon.
Abandoned looks to be similar to other survival-oriented horror shooters that we’ve seen in recent years, particularly the Blair Witch game that came out in 2019. These single-player games have followed a wave of popular multiplayer survival games with a heavy focus on shooting elements, such as Rust, Day Z, and Ark: Survival Evolved. That said, Abandoned looks to be much more in the vein of the upcoming Resident Evil Village and its prequel, Resident Evil 7.
