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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has added dozens of weapons to the game’s already 300-strong roster of kit—if you’re looking for a primer, you can read our illustrious Sean Martin’s legendary weapons guide, though I’d recommend letting yourself discover them spoiler-free on your first playthrough.

However, if you’re done and dusted with the DLC, you might see its roster of cool stuff and decide hey, I’d love to do a playthrough as a Dryleaf Arts monk. After all, Margit’s long overdue to catch these hands.

You then may quickly remember that you need to be around level 100 to kill Radahn and Mohg to access the DLC—unless you’re one of those sicko mode level 1 players, and even then, that still requires a ton of prep and practice that could be spent kicki…

Two weeks ago I was in a hotel in downtown Taipei prodding some of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite laptops, and I was impressed with how well they ran Baldur’s Gate 3 and Metro Exodus. Both are compiled for the x86 CPU architecture, yet the co-created Microsoft/Qualcomm Prism emulation layer still delivered impressive gaming performance from proper PC games.

And I was happy. A few days later I was happier still as I checked out the Works on WoA microsite to see about game compatibility and this is what I saw:

But today, now that the early reviews are starting to trickle out—either in sponsored form or otherwise—the news isn’t nearly so promising. And it’s nothing to do with the brutal bout of Computex showvid-19 I came back with; it’s all about the performance…

It’s that time again, folks. The Future Games Show is back, this time with its 2023 Spring Showcase, hosted by none other than Briana White and Cody Christian: Aerith and Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

Clocking in at 85 minutes and showing off 45 games, the Future Games Show Spring Showcase will kick off tomorrow, March 23, at 3 pm PDT / 6 pm EDT / 10 pm GMT / 11 pm CET. You can watch it, well, pretty much anywhere that’s capable of displaying video. That means Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, GamesRadar, and (for the first time) TikTok. Remember to set a reminder on YouTube so you can catch it right from the start.

45 games is a heck of a lot, and many of them are set to be a surprise. But to give you a brief taste of what to expect, you can look for…

Preloading for Diablo 4‘s early access beta has begun and yeah this month is going to be a mouthful of Diablo beta dates and times. This weekend’s beta, which begins on Friday, March 17, is for folks who’ve preordered any edition of Diablo 4.

As of today, March 15, you should have the ability to begin downloading the beta in your Battlenet app on PC. So if you’ve already got your ticket to hell it’s time to hurry up and wait on that download.

In the sidebar of your launcher, make sure to change your game version to “Diablo IV – beta” so you have the option to install. It’s a slightly chunky installation. The main download is about 80GB, though you can cut that in half to just 40GB if you choose not to install the high resolution texture pack.

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Amazon’s New World MMO is moving to a seasonal format on March 28, which the studio says will deliver “more frequent content like new features [and] gameplay experiences,” and—of course—a season pass with separate free and premium reward tracks.

New World’s season pass looks fairly conventional as these things go. As players progress in the game they’ll earn seasonal XP through various activities that will advance them through 100 levels, unlocking rewards along the way. Season XP can be earned through quests, faction missions, town projects, expedition bosses, and other in-game activities.

Each season in New World will run for roughly three months, and will introduce “new features and gameplay experiences” and “new limited-time premium track rewards like cosmeti…

Sony’s policy toward PC has shifted noticeably over the last few years. The publisher has gradually been bringing more of its exclusive titles to PC, and more recently, launching games like Helldivers 2 concurrency on PC and PS5. Now, the company’s soon-to-be co-CEO Hermen Hulst has outlined the whys and wherefores of its current strategy, and how we can expect them to approach releases in the future.

Speaking at this year’s Sony Business Briefing, Hulst explained that Sony has a “dual approach” to game releases. “On the live-service side, we’re releasing our titles simultaneously, so day-and-date on PS5 and PC,” he explained. But with the publisher’s “tentpole titles” (big budget singleplayer games like God of War and Horizon: Forbidden West) Hulst says they take a more “strategi…