Fallout: New Vegas Looks Amazing in Unreal Engine 5

Released in 2010, Fallout: New Vegas stands out as a landmark entry in the long-running post-apocalyptic franchise. Easily considered by many to be the best Fallout game to ever be released, its fantastic story and writing has made it more memorable than the other installments to some, especially when compared to the modern take added to the games since Bethesda took over in 2008. However, Fallout: New Vegas has aged over the past decade or so, and a recently released video shows what the game could look like in a more modern engine.

As spotted by DSO Gaming, footage created by the YouTube channel TeaserPlay shows what Fallout: New Vegas might look like if it were to be remade today in Unreal Engine 5. As can be imagined, the Mojave Wasteland looks pretty spectacular in this development kit, demonstrating intricate detail as well as some fantastic lighting, as many have come to expect from this engine. It should be pointed out that the video does not represent any remake, official or otherwise, that's currently being worked on and is just a concept trailer.

If this idea sounds familiar, that's because TeaserPlay has put out numerous trailers of this ilk. Recently, they released a video showing what Grand Theft Auto 3 could look like in Unreal Engine 5. They've also done concepts for Vice City, Assassin's Creed, Resident Evil 4, Red Dead Revolver, and many more. It's an interesting project, as not only does it show the potential for reimagining older games in newer toolkits, but it also gives some insight into how advanced gaming technology has come even in a short span of time.

Unreal Engine is one of the most popular game engines in the world, being used in all manner of AAA and independent titles. The latest version was made available not long ago and is being used in the development of a number of anticipated games, such as Redfall, the new Layers of Fear, and CD Projekt Red's upcoming The Witcher continuation.

As for the series itself, Bethesda recently confirmed Fallout 5 will be made at some point. Admittedly, it's quite a long way off, as the studio wants to work on The Elder Scrolls 6 first. This means it could be a very long time before a new Fallout entry sees the light of day. Still, videos like the one TeaserPlay has recently put out is a fun experiment in seeing what could happen if a game more than a decade old were to be remade using current technology.

Undetected is a New Stealth Game With Serious Metal Gear Solid Vibes

The stealth game genre has evolved over the last few decades, tasking players with taking a calculated and cautious approach instead of going in guns blazing, like in most action games. This genre of gaming wouldn't have been possible without 1998's Metal Gear Solid, developed by gaming icon Hideo Kojima. Franchises like Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Deux Ex, Dishonored, and more would end up taking inspiration in some shape or form from this legendary game. One such game is Undetected, a game that embraces Metal Gear Solid's aesthetic and gameplay.

Undetected is a new stealth action game from indie game developer Antonio Freyre and his company Merlino Games, with DigeratiDM taking on the game's publishing duties. Merlino Games recently released a trailer for Undetected, where many fans can easily see how the game is a giant love letter to the original Metal Gear Solid. Much like its inspiration, Undetected will have all the elements that made the original Metal Gear Solid a beloved game, from the retro-styled graphics to how it plays.

Undetected utilizes Metal Gear Solid's unique viewpoint, where the player has a top-down perspective of the action, navigating their player character around a base that pays homage to areas like Shadow Moses Island. Players will have to navigate the various halls and corridors that this game has to offer, avoiding guards that are patrolling the area. There will be some enemies where the player will be forced to fight, with zany boss encounters that wouldn't be out of place from the Metal Gear franchise.

A variety of Metal Gear Solid-inspired items such as rubber bullets and explosives will be at a player's disposal, with no lethal weapons being available. Players are also tasked with rescuing members of their revolutionary group, Los Desplazados. Saving these members will grant them benefits such as boosts to their overall health or key cards to access certain areas.

Other elements from Metal Gear Solid that Undetected implements is the usage of sound and how it affects a player's stealth. Footsteps, items, surfaces, and weapons all will emit sound, giving players the option to either stay as silent as possible or use sound in a tactical way to move enemies away. The game will also feature a variety of difficulty modes, with one even being able to wipe the player's save file if an alert is triggered. Many fans are already praising the game, with many excited at how Undetected captures the look and feeling of Metal Gear Solid's PS1 debut.

Every Video Game Release Coming Soon For PC

PC players are starting to see a lot of console-exclusive ports make their way to Steam and various launchers. This is great news for anyone who's felt like they've been missing out without owning a console, and it's clear that the lines between console and PC are beginning to blur, especially concerning Microsoft and their desire to port their impressive games library to both systems.

Game Pass has made things even more lucrative and many series once thought console-locked forever are receiving PC versions (even if it takes a year or so to adapt them over).

Those playing games on a PC have a lot to look forward to in 2022 and beyond, with some high-profile ports, awesome-looking Indie releases, and AAA titles that are sure to look absolutely stunning on a high-end build. Here's a look at all the titles we can expect to see on the PC in the rest of 2022, along with games that do not have specific release years. What are the most exciting 2022 PC games?

Updated June 9, 2022: The upcoming PC games were added to the calendar over the last week: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, Rollerdrome, Deadcraft: It Came From the Junkyard, Post Void, Madden NFL 23, Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed, Endling - Extinction is Forever, New Just Cause Game, Plunder Dungeons, Ruggnar, Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince, Aery - Last Day of Earth, Nevergrind Online, Stick Go story, Dying Light: Definitive Edition, CrushBorgs, Pocket Academy, Othello: Daynight Time Clash, One Piece Arcade Idle, Skeleton Crew, Japanese Rail Sim: Journey to Kyoto, Unity of Command 2 - Desert Rats, Vnesis, F1 Manager 2022, I Am Sakuya: Touhou FPS Game, Intergalactic Pawn Shop, Abeyance, Far Sector, Angry Alligator.

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak's Malzeno Draws an Interesting Parallel to Horizon Zero Dawn

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak's flagship monster Malzeno is a grave threat that players could understand better by looking at Horizon Zero Dawn.

Every Monster Hunter game features a "flagship monster" that adorns its box art, similar to Legendary Pokemon like the newly announced Koraidon and Miraidon. The expanded "ultimate" versions of various titles have introduced their own flagship monsters, seen with the shift from Monster Hunter 4's Gore Magala to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate's Seregios. That trend carried over to Monster Hunter World's Iceborne expansion, which Capcom is replicating with Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak.

The flagship monster in Monster Hunter Rise was Magnamalo, but the upcoming Sunbreak expansion instead features Malzeno. This Elder Dragon is considered one of the "Three Lords" causing trouble around Elgado Outpost, grouped with Garangolm and Lunagaron as creatures inspired by western stories and myths: a vampire, Frankenstein's monster, and a werewolf, respectively. The Monster Hunter Digital Event in May 2022 gave fans more information about Malzeno's powers, which could be better understood looking at the Chariot-class machines from Guerrilla Games' Horizon franchise.

Malzeno's Machinations in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

During the aforementioned Digital Event, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak director Yoshitake Suzuki described Malzeno as a monster designed to capture the regal air of legends like Dracula - with concept art focused on "aristocracy, nobility, grandeur, and cunningness." He offers an insight into Capcom's philosophy for Elder Dragons being sketched around what kind of calamity they would cause, and says Malzeno has previously pushed the Kingdom that players now protect to the brink of ruin.

Its destructive force is characterized by "mysterious creatures" that latch onto other monsters like leeches; visually reminiscent of tiny, pink Khezu with petal-shaped wings. Malzeno appears to hold opponents in place while its subservient creatures absorb the monster's life force. According to Suzuki, the beautiful and elegant Malzeno will transform into a more vicious, powerful form once it has absorbed enough energy. This translates into Malzeno's Blooblight status effect as a game mechanic, which sees a hunters' health drain unless they can deal enough damage against the Elder Dragon in return.

How Life-Leeching Machines in Horizon Zero Dawn Resemble Malzeno

Though vampire motifs are not uncommon in video games (Capcom's own Castlevania franchise is a substantive example), Malzeno's tendency to absorb energy from afar rather than drinking blood is unique. In that way, the Elder Dragon's particular brand of apocalyptic mayhem brings to mind the world-ending machines from Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel Forbidden West.

While Horizon players follow Aloy some centuries after the end of the world, various documents reveal how things became the way they are. Guerrilla Games crafts a speculative future for modern-day humanity in which entrepreneur Ted Faro helps mitigate the effects of climate change through green robots developed by Faro Automated Solutions (FAS). Faro soon pivots his company to military contracts, developing a line of Chariot combat robots: the Scarab (Corruptor), Khopesh (Deathbringer), and Horus (Metal Devil).

These machines were developed with an unhackable operating system that becomes problematic when a swarm of Chariot robots goes rogue. The war machines were designed to self-replicate by consuming biomass from the environment, as well as take over the programming of other machines (corrupting them, as future humans would see it). It becomes apparent to scientist Elisabet Sobeck that this swarm - which comes to be known as the Faro Plague - is unstoppable, so she spearheads Project Zero Dawn to shut it down and repopulate the planet after it has been stripped of life.

Horizon Forbidden West takes Aloy to the Greenhouse, an FAS facility on the California coastline where she and Quen ally Alva discover how the biomass-leeching technology was developed. Watching a test for this ability at the Greenhouse shows how devastating it was, though Aloy saw a glimpse while battling HADES at the end of Zero Dawn. Guerrilla's series could serve as an interesting companion to Capcom's upcoming Sunbreak expansion as a result. With Malzeno similarly able to absorb life from afar, one can only imagine how an army of the Elder Dragons would tear down civilizations akin to FAS' Chariot line.

Wordle 351 Answer for June 5, 2022

Wordle is back with a brand-new challenge for June 5, and players may need a hint or two to help them to the answer.

Wordle has another word for yet another day. Today's word may be difficult for some, and those players will most likely want a few hints to prevent losing their Wordle win streaks.
 

How To Play Wordle

Although the popularity of Wordle has waned since the New York Times purchased it, there are still many that play this simple word game every day. It is an easy-to-pick-up but hard-to-master game that can be accessed from almost any device with an internet connection. Wordle pits players against a mystery five-letter word every day without any clues on where to start. Here's how to play.

•     Head to the New York Times Games Wordle site.
•     Choose a starting Wordle word. It needs to be a real English word, not any of the potentially offensive words that the NYTs removed from the word list, and should be five letters long.
•     Type the chosen word into the site. It will fill in the first row of the 5x6 grid.
•     Press enter and the letter's box will change color.
•     Green letters are right and in the right place in the word.
•     Yellow letters are right but in the wrong place in the word.
•     Gray letters are incorrect and won't appear in the answer.
•     Given these clues, players have five more guesses.
  
•     Puzzle reset daily at midnight local time.
  

 

If players use the same device and browser every day, they can use the Wordle menu to check their stats. It saves things like total puzzles played, win streak, guess distribution, and more. This menu also has a spoiler-free share button that allows players to share just the colors of the 5x6 Wordle grid instead of spoiling the answers to all their friends. The Wordle menu appears after each completed puzzle or can be found by click in the graph icon in the upper right-hand corner of the website.

 Hints for the Wordle 351 for June 5, 2022

Today's Wordle word of the day can be tough for many reasons. Here are some hints without giving away the whole thing.

•     Today's Wordle word is a five-letter word ending in TH.
•     It is a measurement word.
•     This word contains one vowel.
•     It begins with the letter D.
•     This word also contains one P.
•     It has not duplicated letters in it.
  

 Answer for Wordle 351 for June 5, 2022

If anyone is still looking for the answer to the Wordle for June 5, check below the image. The full spoiler is there.

The answer to Wordle puzzle 351 is DEPTH.

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