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Kotaku Monday, January 17, 2022 5:30 AM
    

A crane game filled with raisins was left in the monkey pen at Japanese zoo Nagasaki Bio Park to see if the animals could figure out how to use the redemption game to get snacks.

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PCGamesN Monday, January 17, 2022 6:24 AM
     Valheim fan has recreated The Witcher 3's Kaer Trolde and it looks ace

While you can busy yourself with plenty of adventuring and monster slaying in Valheim, it's the building that I often enjoy most. Travelling offers plenty of surprising twists and goofs of your own making, but creating is when the game slows down and you can unwind or catch up with friends. You've also got a thriving community on Reddit that shares plenty of gorgeous creations of its own. We recently got a build inspired by For Honor, and now we can add a popular location from The Witcher to that list.

Reddit user m3k6c9hl has shared some impressive in-progress shots of their build of The Witcher 3's Kaer Trolde. The impressive structure is nestled into the side of a snowy mountain, offering a clear view of all the surrounding lands - that is, when the weather suits. Plenty is going on inside, too. M3k6c9hl has put together an impressive-looking banquet hall with a horseshoe of long tables looking into a central feast.

If you need a refresher, the port city Kaer Trolde sits on the coast of Ard Skellig in The Witcher. The Jarl of Skellige's fleet use the port as a dock, so longships and triremes are a common sight. A castle, the city's citadel and seat of the jarls of Clan an Craite, provides the inspiration for this build so far.

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PCGamesN Monday, January 17, 2022 5:28 AM
     Minecraft shaders: the best Minecraft shader packs in 2022

What are the best Minecraft shaders? More importantly what are Minecraft shaders? The popular crafting game has a lot of things in its favour: infinite replayability, massively varied gameplay, and a constantly changing and improving online game. Where Minecraft draws criticism compared to other modern games is its graphics. Fortunately, as with everything in Minecraft, the graphical fidelity can be tweaked to incredible effect with the help of Minecraft shaders.

From photorealistic lighting to uncanny motion blur, shaders are capable of bringing your Minecraft experience to life. Every Minecraft shader has its own unique qualities, whether that's injecting some serious style or providing a boost to Minecraft's base visuals without too much lag. So, in order to set you on your way to crystal-clear vistas we've put together a collection of the best Minecraft shaders out there.

Getting a Minecraft shader or shader pack up and running is a simple enough process. Before you get started trying to install a shader pack though, you'll want to download and install either Forge or Optifine. Bear in mind that these aren't always kept up to date, so your options are limited if you want to run shaders on the latest version of Minecraft Java. Likewise, you need to make sure whichever shaders you're downloading are for the same version of Minecraft Java you're running.

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PCGamesN Monday, January 17, 2022 4:26 AM
     League of Legends patch 12.2 notes – New Champion Zeri, Crystal Rose, Withered Rose, Porcelain, Firecracker skins

2022 is here, League of Legends fans, which means another year packed with gameplay updates, new champions to welcome to the MOBA game, and plenty of new skins. League of Legends patch 12.1 has headed to live servers, bringing a handful of item and champ changes and some snazzy new Elderwood skins. Now, it's time to see what the second patch of the Season 12 League of Legends patch schedule will bring.

The big news for 12.2 is the arrival of brand-new champion, Zeri. It seems she might have made a slightly premature debut as her universe and biography pages (which went live January 4) appear to have now been taken down, though we have an idea of what she's all about from the details that were offered in these when live. As reported by Surrenderat20, Zeri will be known as The Spark of Zaun, and will be a marksman champ who "channels her electric magic to charge herself and her custom-crafted gun". We don't know anything about her abilities beyond a few hints in the bio and universe info, but you can check out a fuller description in Zeri's section below.

Patch 12.2 also brings a whole bunch of new champion skins. Akshan and Janna are getting Crystal Rose skins, while Elise is getting a Withered Rose style. Then there are plenty of Porcelain and Firecracker skins to go around for others. You can take a look at all of these in the notes below.

RELATED LINKS: Best LoL Champions , League of Legends patch 12.2, LoL tier list

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, January 17, 2022 6:49 AM
    

The speedrunning fundraiser festival Awesome Games Done Quick ended in the wee hours on Sunday, with one of its most spectacular runs coming in the final stretch. A speedrunner beat Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in just over two hours, which frankly is impressive enough to me. More than that, the runner known as "Mitchriz" was blindfolded from start to finish, guided by a combination of memory and feeling-out environments. In two hours! Ludicrious.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, January 17, 2022 6:00 AM
    

I enjoy the sub-genre of meme about Sad Murder Dads as much as the next gal. Heck, I enjoy those lads themselves. From Kratos in God Of War, to Joel in The Last Of Us, and even less story-focused murder dads like Soldier 76, dudes rock. Successfully rehabilitated and reimagined as father figures struggling to inhabit that role and accept their emotions, in some very good games to boot. Developers who were hot young guns in the 00s are now tired middle-aged dads themselves, and as a result the art they consume and, more to the point, the art they want to make looks radically different. I'm not having a go at that; that's just life, is what that is.

But what I'm asking is, what's the mum equivalent? Because I really want to see someone give a mum story the same big budget, fun epic treatment that Kratos got in God Of War. At the same time, I also dread this coming to pass.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, January 17, 2022 5:31 AM
    

Friday's long-awaited PC launch of God Of War was mostly received by people nodding their heads and muttering "Boy"—the highest praise a heavy heart can offer. A few would-be players, however, found themselves unable to play, with the game throwing up "out of memory" error messages when they really shouldn't be out of memory. The devs have been looking into the issue, and released a potential fix on an opt-in experimental branch on Steam. It sounds like it fixes the problem for some people, but not all.

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Siliconera Monday, January 17, 2022 5:30 AM
    

The first My Hero Academia battle royale game's trailer appeared ahead of a February 2022 Japanese beta.

The post My Hero Academia Ultra Rumble Trailer Shows Off the Battle Royale appeared first on Siliconera.


Destructoid Monday, January 17, 2022 5:00 AM
    

Highest-ever grand total for a single GDQ event In a wonderful piece of news to kick off the week, it...

The post AGDQ 2022 smashes records with $3.4 million raised for Prevent Cancer Foundation appeared first on Destructoid.


Pivotal Gamers Monday, January 17, 2022 6:00 AM
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