Kotaku Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:00 AM ![]() This week, we've got a host of Avowed tips to help you make the most of your sojourn to the Living Lands. We've also got some pointers for mastering Magik in Marvel Rivals, and for defeating Mortal Kombat 1's new pink-clad ninja boss, Floyd. (Get it?) Click on for these tips and more. |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:28 AM ![]() If you've ever wished Stardew Valley was more all-action, Pesticide Not Required is well worth trying. It takes the tried-and-tested wave-based horde survival gameplay popularized by Vampire Survivors and combines it with a clever farming system to create one of the most delightful roguelike surprises of 2024. Now, developer Jampacked Games has unleashed a fresh update with an entire new tier of weapons and more challenges to put the most committed players through their paces. Alongside this, you can pick up the already-cheap indie game at a discount thanks to a Steam sale. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best farming games, Best roguelikes, Best survival games |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 7:38 AM ![]() If you've been waiting for the perfect excuse to try Star Wars Outlaws, this is it. While Ubisoft's open-world take on a galaxy, far, far away had an incredibly underwhelming launch - which our own review can attest to - it's having a quiet resurgence on Steam. With five major title updates under its belt and a staggering half-price sale, this is the time to see if the trip around the cosmos is for you. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best Star Wars games, Star Wars Outlaws review, Star Wars Outlaws blaster |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 7:34 AM ![]() Struggling to find the Tracktail Lizard location in Monster Hunter Wilds? With numerous large-scale biomes to discover and explore, finding a specific tiny monster in its living, breathing world can be difficult. But find one once and you'll soon have a practically infinite supply for whatever you plan to do with them. Tracktail Lizards are an endemic life species needed to complete the Dareel's Research Report Monster Hunter Wilds quest. Already well-versed in its varied ecology? Get back into the fight with the best Monster Hunter Wilds weapons and Monster Hunter Wilds armor. Our Monster Hunter Wilds builds can get you over the finish line, too. Continue reading Monster Hunter Wilds tracktail lizard locations MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Monster Hunter Wilds armor, Monster Hunter Wilds weapons, Monster Hunter Wilds review |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 7:34 AM ![]() While I'll always have an affinity for RE5, Resident Evil Outbreak and its sequel File 2 are the best co-op games in the survival horror series. Tense multiplayer action in that old-school style, with a touch of randomization to keep repeat runs fresh and danger lurking around every corner, makes the PS2 pair beloved cult classics to this day. We may not get an official remake any time soon, but new Steam game Blood Typers is here to fill the gap - and it combines the format with another iconic PC zombie game favorite, Typing of the Dead. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best co-op games, Best zombie games, Best horror games |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 7:00 AM ![]() A metaverse full of life-size, browsable planets with terrain built by machine learning, hosting user-generated monetizable content, and promoting total player agency. That's the buzzword-filled, 'LinkedIn tech bro' description of Project Artemis. But in the words of Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene - the creator of PUBG and now the driving force behind Artemis - it's simply a "universe where you can do whatever you want." MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best survival games, Best open-world games, Best single player games |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 6:25 AM ![]() The Old School RuneScape Sailing skill is almost here, and you'll be able to get your hands on an alpha version of it very soon. Developer Jagex has shown more of the MMO's first-ever new skill as a part of RuneFest, while teasing the impending launch of a limited-time test. So if you want to take to the OSRS seas alone or with friends, you don't have to wait long to do just that. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best MMORPGs on PC, Runescape system requirements, Old School RuneScape: Beginner's guide |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 6:23 AM ![]() The first Path of Exile 2 race event arrives today, and I'd encourage anyone who's been enjoying the new ARPG to give it a try. Back in the early days of the first PoE, I dipped into the feature out of pure curiosity. Even though I wasn't very good at first, I found myself enjoying the game even more and getting better at it along the way. It opened my eyes to a newfound appreciation for PoE, and I'd recommend everybody has a go. If you need more incentive, however, you can win a powerful, stylish unique helmet, or even a custom Path of Exile 2 gaming laptop. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Path of Exile 2 builds, Path of Exile 2 classes, Path of Exile 2 quests |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 5:33 AM ![]() March 2, 2025: We've added the latest Monopoly Go dice links for free dice rolls and tokens. How can I get Monopoly Go free dice links? The household favorite board game has been reimagined as a free-to-play app on smartphones, allowing everyone to experience the thrills of Monopoly on practically any device. Everything that makes the board game special is here in Monopoly Go, so you'll be collecting properties and building hotels as you go around the board, and there are a variety of multiplayer minigames to get through along the way. You're going to need to get your hands on Monopoly dice rolls, but they are difficult to come by no matter how far you are into the board game. There are ways to earn additional dice rolls, including logging into the game every day to collect daily bonuses, progressing further in the game, and inviting friends to try Monopoly Go. While you can also spend real money to unlock more dice rolls, you may want to give our list of Monopoly Go dice links a try instead, especially if you're waiting for the next Monopoly Go Golden Blitz event. Take a look at all the currently active Monopoly Go free dice links for today. Continue reading Free Monopoly Go dice links March 2025 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best board games, Monopoly Go events, Monopoly Go dice |
PCGamesN Sunday, March 2, 2025 4:53 AM ![]() March 2, 2025: A new balance patch means new SpongeBob Tower Defense codes. What are the new SpongeBob Tower Defense codes? Bikini Bottom is in danger and only the sub-aquatic city's goofiest goobers can protect it. From SpongeGar to double Krabby Pattied-up Squidward, there's a wild cast of characters that can be called upon to aid the defense effort. Of course, these iconic faces come at a cost, requiring you to cough up Gems and Magic Conches to partake in the Roblox game's gacha system. Fortunately, the SpongeBob Tower Defense codes often reward you with these precious materials, so load up Roblox, dive into Bikini Bottom, and use the following codes to keep it safe. Continue reading SpongeBob Tower Defense codes March 2025 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best Roblox games, Roblox promo codes, Roblox music codes |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Sunday, March 2, 2025 6:00 AM ![]() Sundays are for asking for forgiveness, since I missed Sunday Papers entirely last weekend. Alas, I was stricken by a deep malaise, but I return now with renewed vigour and another roundup of links to good writing from across the web. Some of the good writing is even about games this time. For the LA Review Of Books, Celine Nguyen reviewed Building SimCity, Chaim Gingold's book about the creation of SimCity. |
Siliconera Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:00 AM
I love when we get vampire games with a slower pace offer a more nuanced look at life as a supernatural being. The potential for destruction remains, of course, but it's an opportunity for a more thoughtful consideration of how we'd get by as an undead forced to thrive on blood. Cabernet is one of those games, with Party for Introverts thrusting us into a new afterlife with no warning, asking us to make decisions that will affect us later, and requiring us to also continually better ourselves in the hopes of increasing our options for survival later.
Liza had a promising future. She was a doctor. She, depending on your choices, might have been a talented singer, thirst for knowledge, or charm needed to handle the politics of high society. But now she's dead. After making some choices at her funeral that affect her starting stats, she awakens in the locked basement dungeon of the head vampire Countess Orlova. Forced to make a deal with an unknown figure to escape the room, pushed into undead society, and deal with new abilities and weaknesses, she needs to survive and thrive in her new life. However, she doesn't know exactly how she died yet or who she made a deal with! And she's also being tasked by her sire, who is known as the Doctor, to continue working as a physician and add to his research.
Cabernet is essentially a vampire life sim, as we spend each day in the game helping Liza get accustomed to her new life and complete tasks that ensure her success. This means you need to do things like read books and wearing outfits to ensure stats keep growing and get high enough to meet checks for certain actions and conversation options. You need to drink blood, referred to as Cabernet, either from humans, animals, or designated sources. Observing people and knowing what to say to them to stay on their good side is important. (Or I mean, maybe you want to do the opposite.) You need to know when to use your vampiric gifts like flight, invisibility, and captivating to get your way. Quests must be tracked in your log, so you're both completing the necessary ones that advance the campaign and perhaps getting through optional ones to open up new invitations into homes or allies.
It's often quite interesting! However, your enjoyment might vary depending on your attachment to the characters around Liza. I found some of them fascinating. For example, I like Arban and Hussar a lot, and Alisa is interesting too. Yet there were also times when certain character portrayals meant others didn't feel as complex as others. In my case, this mainly applied to humans, which left me wondering if it was intentional to force the player to pay more attention to their fellow undead.
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The thing is, while I liked the idea of living the vampire life as Liza, the major plot points sometimes struck me as a bit boring. There's some intrigue here, to be sure. And perhaps it also came down to the choices I made when in her shoes. But finding out the truth behind her death didn't feel like it carried much weight to "my" version of her, and the day-to-day actions and interactions entertained me more than finding out who left their mark on Liza or dealing with the Countess.
Since this is a game where every choice matters and you're supposed to live with the consequences your vampire tendencies cause, Cabernet doesn't allow you to make save states. You start a run? That's it. You're locked into it. Don't like the way you responded to the Doctor one time? Too bad, he doesn't like you as much now. Didn't realize a card minigame is rigged for you to lose when you first encounter it and you waste all your money trying to get 21? Whoops. It is possible immediately quit and go from the last auto-save, but that might be some time away, so I found it better to play as intended and live with my choices.
I will say it would make it a little easier to do so if the UI was a bit easier to parse. Especially when I played Cabernet on the Switch, as the first few sessions I'd forget that it would default to mouse-based cursor control in the menus, even though everything else relied upon a standard control scheme. I found it a bit easy to miss notifications that I'd earned enough experience to level up and add more points to my stats in my character sheet. Also, since the quest tracker is really only focusing on your major campaign ones, you may miss out if you aren't checking the Quests section regularly.
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While I enjoyed Cabernet on the Switch, the menu control scheme wasn't the only time I felt like this might not be the best platform for the vampire game. There's a rhythm minigame of sorts, and it didn't feel really comfortable to go through it on the platform. I also experienced two crashes during my time playing, which can be frustrating in a title where decisions matter and you might have made some gains that "day" that were now lost.
Cabernet is one of the more unique vampire games I've played, and I enjoyed maintaining a balance of managing Liza's life while also dealing with more pressing tasks. It helped that some of her new contemporaries are also quite personable and fascinating. I just wish that some of the major campaign elements, at least early on, were a little more thrilling or that the Switch version was better optimized for the console.
Cabernet is available for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC.
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Destructoid Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:58 AM
If you've ever dived into the cooking aspect of Disney Dreamlight Valley, you'll know that there are a massive number of recipes to cook, all of which have their own stats and uses in quests or otherwise to level friendships.
There are a total of 413 always-available recipes in Disney Dreamlight Valley, including those added in both DLCs, but not recipes that are specific to seasonal events (such as Eggstravaganza). If you're wondering how to make any of them, don't worry; here is every recipe in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
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All Disney Dreamlight Valley base game meals
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The vast majority of recipes in Disney Dreamlight Valley are the 205 that come from the base game, and you don't need any DLCs to make any of the following.
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Desserts
Eternity Isle (Rift in Time DLC) recipes
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If you have the Rift in Time DLC, you'll get an additional 114 recipes to cook and fill out the Eternity Isle collection.
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Storybook Vale recipes
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The Storybook Vale DLC added an additional 97 recipes to be cooked using resources gathered in new areas.
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Destructoid Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:54 AM
Playing multiplayer with friends in Monster Hunter Wilds is confusing, trying to differentiate between lobbies, squads, link parties, and environment links.
In the case of Environment Link, here is what it is used for and how it's different compared to other multiplayer lobby options.
What is Environment Link in Monster Hunter Wilds?
Environment Link is a feature in Wilds where you can physically explore the big open worlds with friends.
This is different than setting up a Hunt or Investigation where, upon failing or completing your mission, you go back to a camp site. Here, you can openly kill or capture monsters, collect gems, harvest plants and bugs, and set up new camp sites.
It's also useful for when you want to create and save new investigations for target-farming monster-specific gear.
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How to use Environment Link in Monster Hunter Wilds
To use Environment Link in Monster Hunter Wilds, you have to create a Link Party with friends. This can be accessed by bringing up your options menu, finding the Communication tab, and clicking Link Party. You can only have a party of up to four people.
Once you invite whoever you want to that Link Party, you then have to repeat this process, now finding a new "Invite to Environment Link" option in the same menu.
You'll then sync your world instance with up to three other players so you can seamlessly explore every place without having to post up quests.
Is there a point to Environment Link?
Once you finish the "main" part of the story, you will have access to High Rank hunts. You have more open freedom here, finding new and old monsters of your level and above.
However, to access these monsters, you have to find them in the wild. This requires you to venture around and engage in battles with them. When enough time has passed in a fight, they're now logged into your quest board for future runs.
In an Environment Link party, you can encounter these monsters together and help log new entries in the quest board.
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Destructoid Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:44 AM
It's not an understatement to say that knowing how to farm Monster Fluid is a must in Monster Hunter Wilds, as the material will give you access to the great-for-early-game tier-two Bone weapons, which must also be unlocked to get access to many end-game favorites.
But although the title won't tell you straight away, it is actually possible to farm the material from the get-go. Here's where to find and how to farm Monster Fluid in Monster Hunter Wilds.
How to find and best way to farm Monster Fluid in Monster Hunter Wilds
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You can get Monster Fluid in Monster Hunter Wilds as a chance target reward after slaying Lala Barina and any Vespoids, Bulaqchis, and Cumaqchis. It is also possible to get it by carving the remains of both Nerscylla Hatchlings and the aforementioned Vespoids. You can check out the exact probability of each of the above dropping the material below:
Although you can farm the fluid fairly well by repeatedly completing the Buggin' in the Desert Optional Commission, the best way to do it is to head to Nerscylla's lair on Iceshard Cliffs and kill her Hatchlings. Once in the area, the monsters will be scattered in spades, thus allowing you to farm a massive amount in a matter of seconds when using the right weapon.
All recipes using Monster Fluid
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Apart from being used to craft all of the tier two Bone Tree weapons in MH Wilds, Monster Fluid is also needed to craft the Sonic Horn II for your Palico, as well as the Barina Greaves part of the Lala Barina Set, the Vespond Coil part of the Vespond Set. The first version of both the Intimidator and Poison Charms will also demand it. Here are the recipes for all of the above:
Now that we have the material taken care of, I also highly recommend that you take a look at How to fix Monster Hunter Wilds crashing to guarantee you will have the best experience no matter your platform of choice.
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Destructoid Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:34 AM
The citizens of Undermine all need help, and it's the duty of brave adventurers to lend a hand. There's a lot to see and do, and sometimes, it's easy to get lost on what you need to finish specific quests. We can help.
The G.E.T.A. storyline has a particularly strange hang-up when it comes to completing the quests. Players are asked to hunt down a Crocodilian, Radioactive Rat, and eventually a mudskipper named The Captain. Upon returning to the quest giver, you'll notice that the quest isn't marked complete. You have to mount the trophies of those three enemies somewhere specific to get quest credit.
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Behind the quest giver, Bruxie Skyhook, and her sidekicks, Harris and Colton, are three wall mounts. They're easy to miss, with Undermine's general decor being exceptionally busy. Once you have the enemy heads, you'll want to interact with the wall mounts to add them to Bruxie's wall. After that, you'll be able to turn in the quest.
Where to G.E.T.A. started
To get the storyline going, you first need to complete the story quest for Undermine up until the quest "Sour Victory." Once you've completed that, you can pick up "Working for G.E.T.A." from a flyer located in the Incontinental Hotel. It's also found in a few random places around the map, in case you see a quest marker for it elsewhere. Follow the quest objective to Bruxie Skyhook, who is located on the underside of an empty building.
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She'll task you with finding the Radioactive Rat and Crocodilian first. You can see the locations on your map, where you'll drop into sewer manholes to put down some bait. Once you defeat them, you'll take them both back to Bruxie and mount their heads to the wall. She'll then have you do the same thing to The Captain, located in the eastern part of the map. Once you're done, return to Bruxie and complete the storyline. It's quick, easy, and worth some decent rewards early on.
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