Month: January 2025

The FIA World Rally Championship is entering a new era with a new champion for the first time in 10 years, but the official game continues to feel like more of the same off-road action. Milestone has made some intelligent changes from last year’s game, but many of its more flaky mechanics remain untouched, and some good elements, including classic cars, have been removed entirely. The thrill of the perfect hairpin powerslide is still present, but WRC’s core content sorely lags behind its competitors.

Like previous WRC games, and indeed the majority of racing games based on an official series, WRC 4 places you in the shoes of an up-and-coming driver seeking to reach the pinnacle of his chosen discipline. You begin the game by naming your driver and co-driver and selecting a manager to guide you through your career. You shouldn’t spend too long choosing your manager, though, because you’re simply choosing from a selection of photos rather than making a decision that has any real influence on your career progress.

If you’ve played previous WRC games, starting yet another Career mode from the bottom of the ladder in the slow, understeering Junior WRC cars seems like a wa…

Even as a certain other massive space game looms on the horizon, No Man’s Sky continues to release game-changing updates. No Man’s Sky Echoes adds a truly mind-boggling amount of new stuff, including robotic aliens known as the Autophage, revamped space combat, and pirate capital ships.

The Autophage are the center of the update’s narrative content. You can join minds with NPC Priest Entity Nada to investigate and befriend the mysterious robots. As you do, you’ll build out a new Volaic Staff multitool, combining multiple components together. You can find hidden Autophage monuments and settlements across worlds. As you complete missions with the Autophage, you will gain reputation and win honorary titles, as well as robotic customization parts to change your avatar.

Pirates now have capital ships, which you can attack or raid. You can even fly directly into their superstructure, Star Wars style. Capital ships generally, no matter which faction they belong to, can be reduced to stardust. A new Combat HUD will show the hull integrity of large ships. Along with the additional enemies, starship combat has been revamped to allow power allocation. Divert your ship’s energy …

Overwatch 2 is getting yet another anime crossover, this time with superhero shonen My Hero Academia.

The anime and manga, which revolves around high-school superheroes and villains battling for the future of a world where most people are born with some sort of special superpower (aka Quirk), is a good fit for Overwatch, which is itself a superhero-esque team of heroes and villains. My Hero Academia’s manga ended earlier this year with chapter 430, though the anime is still ongoing. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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