Ollie Toms

Minecraft skins sure do make for an enticing challenge for designers. The challenge of trying to create a recognisable face or to properly portray certain types of clothing using just a tiny grid of pixels. It's been pretty incredible to see some of the things that various Minecraft players and communities have created over the past 10 years, so we've collated 64 of the best…

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Minecraft seeds determine almost everything about your travels and experiences in Minecraft. They decide where you start, how your world is put together, what you may find if you travel north, south, east, west, down below ground, or into other dimensions such as the Nether or End. Given that they're so important, why leave the game to dredge up some meaningless string of numbers, when…

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I still remember what Minecraft servers were like back in 2012 and 2013. The vast majority were just survival servers, perhaps with one or two anti-griefing mods installed but nothing more in-depth than that. And one or two big names were just beginning to pave the way for the minigames servers that now utterly dominate the Minecraft servers landscape. But whether you're looking for Hunger…

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Minecraft mods have been around very nearly as long as Minecraft itself - and probably most of its players, too. Vanilla Minecraft is all well and good, and Mojang admittedly add more and more new stuff with each major update; but they cannot hope to match even a hundredth of the rate at which the Minecraft community is churning out mods, of all shapes and…

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Minecraft shaders, many players believe, force you to choose between a prettier Minecraft and a faster, smoother Minecraft. And that's true, to a certain extent, but there's a wide range of Minecraft shaders out there nowadays, and they occupy the whole spectrum when it comes to performance and optimisation. We've done our best to cover this spectrum with our list of the very best Minecraft…

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Dota Underlords builds are wondrously complex and finnicky beasts. Combining your knowledge not just of heroes and abilities and items and alliances, but also the pacing of a match and your relative needs on different rounds can all get pretty mind-boggling pretty quickly - especially now that you also have to factor in the new Ace Tier heroes and effects with versions #245 and later.…

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The carefully crafted selection of Dota Underlords alliances available to you each match is one of the game's defining features. Just as much as deciding which heroes to use, where to position them, and which items to equip yourself with, your combination of alliances will decide who lives and who dies on the 8x8 battlefield. With all the minor and major updates that have happened…

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Dota Underlords, I think we can all agree, is a real head-scratcher of a game. Simplified heroes and systems it may have compared with its perplexing, ponderous progenitor Dota 2, but then Dota 2 never had multiple 10v10 fights happening at once, did it? So we've put together this comprehensive Dota Underlords strategy guide, packed with beginner-friendly tips and explanations of everything that goes on…

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The Dota Underlords heroes roster is sublimely complex and difficult to wrap your head around even if Valve weren't shaking everything up with massive content updates every week or two. With each hero sporting different alliances, abilities, and basic stats across three different levels, there's an awful lot to bear in mind when forming your army. Our Dota Underlords heroes guide will walk you through…

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The Dota Underlords items roster is no stranger to upheaval - not since the August Update, which removed every alliance item from the game and added three entirely new items into the fold. But now, they've only gone and added a whole new type of item in these new-fangled Contraptions, which can be placed onto the board to affect the outcomes of fights in various…

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Mastering the Dota Underlords gold and economy system is absolutely essential for winning matches with any sort of consistency. It is what enables you to start from nothing and end with an insurmountable army of 3-star Knights and Mages and Trolls and whatever else you desire to populate your board with. Our Dota Underlords gold guide will walk you through the very best practices for…

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Apex Legends sure did sink its polished claws into us here in the office back in February; and none were as inescapably gripped as I, who spent the following months solidly diving down again and again upon King's Canyon in search of guns, attachments, kills, wins, and above all, knowledge. I've spent hundreds of hours in-game collating the below Apex Legends tips and tricks on…

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A firm favourite in the hands of many an Apex Legends player, the G7 Scout is a sniper rifle for players who don't want to use a sniper rifle. Solid damage combined with a fast rate of fire enables you to use this weapon to great effect at pretty much any range you like - I've out-shotgunned enemies with this rifle, so believe me when…

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The Wingman has always been one of the top-tier weapons in Apex Legends, despite receiving a nerf to its magazine size with the 1.1.1 update. Now that Season 3 has released, the Wingman's all-important Skullpiercer Hop Up has been removed; how much does this hurt the once top-tier pistol's position in the new meta? Our Apex Legends Wingman guide will solidify your understanding of this…

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The Alternator has been on quite a journey through the Seasons, beginning as one of the worst full-auto weapons in the game, then being buffed to ludicrous degrees thanks to the Disruptor Rounds Hop Up - and now back to pretty much where it began in Season 3. But in skilled hands, it can still hold its own in a firefight, just like any other…

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With Season 2, Respawn elevated one of the lowest rungs of the Apex weapons ladder, the RE-45, to towering heights with the incredibly powerful Disruptor Rounds Hop Up. With Season 3, that Hop Up has vanished, and with it the RE-45's brief time in the sun. But that doesn't mean it can't shred an opponent under the right circumstances. In the below Apex Legends RE-45…

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Apex Legends' Hemlok/Hemlock Burst Assault Rifle is a high-damage Assault Rifle that, curiously, has always seemed to work better in single-shot mode than using its signature three-shot burst. But with Season 3's adjustments to both the gun's damage and its fire rate in the different modes, is that no longer the case? Our Apex Legends Hemlok guide will walk you through the various stats going…

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The Longbow DMR was, in Season 2, the go-to sniper rifle of choice thanks to its buffed fire rate and very high damage - especially headshot damage. Now, despite Season 3 bringing us a larger and more horizontal map that should prove to be a sniper's playground, the Longbow's usefulness has dropped off slightly compared to other snipers such as the Scout and the new…

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To me, Sudoku will always be the inferior number puzzle. Kakuro is every bit as challenging and twice as pretty. Not too long ago I installed a Kakuro app on my phone with 3000 unique Kakuro to solve. To date, I've completed 7 of them, because I skipped straight ahead to the Extreme section, and I'm going to steadily complete all 600 of them in…

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The L-Star EMG was Season 2's new addition to the Apex Legends weapons arsenal, and it's still a hell of a gun. Available only in airdrops like the [block id="651773" title="Apex Legends Kraber"] and [block id="651779" title="Apex Legends Mastiff"], the L-Star is capable of tearing players apart in milliseconds thanks to its extreme DPS - but its power comes at the price of overheating. Our…

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