HomeNews Cult Of The Lamb and Don’t Starve Together cross over to celebrate each other’s birthdaysMouthwatering Mouthwatering Image credit:Devolver Digital / Klei Entertainment Image credit:Devolver Digital / Klei Entertainment Videogame collaborations seem to be getting increasingly common and increasingly random. Nicki Minaj in Call Of Duty? Fortnite skins based on Mexican comedy shows from the 1970s?Pentiment characters in mediaeval strategy Inkulinati?Okay, that last one makes sense. But now, a team-up between management gameCult Of The Lamband co-op survival gemDon’t Starve Togetherhas joined the small club of fun but sensible crossovers....

HomeNewsWarhammer: Age of Sigmar - Realms of Ruin Frontier’s Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin RTS hits PC on November 17thThe ghostly Nighthaunt also revealed as the third playable faction The ghostly Nighthaunt also revealed as the third playable faction Image credit:Frontier Developments Image credit:Frontier Developments Mark your calendars for November 17th, strategy fans, as that’s whenWarhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruinis heading to PC - thesame dayas Atlus’Persona 5 Tactica, don’t you know?...

HomeFeaturesPyre Have you played… Pyre?A slam dunk from Supergiant A slam dunk from Supergiant The rules of the sport are simple - two teams are placed at opposite ends of a pitch each with a flame (the titular pyre) they must protect. An energy ball appears on the map and the two teams must grab the ball and dunk it into the opponent’s flame until that flame has been snuffed out....

HomeHardwareFeaturesImmortals of Aveum Immortals of Aveum: PC performance tested and the best settings to usePrepare for rough spells Prepare for rough spells Immortals of Aveumis making me wonder whether there’s some kind of gigantic hidden market for floaty magic shooters with overcooked YA dialogue and exceedingly high PC hardware demands. After this andForspokenreleasing within a few months of each other, I’m half expectingCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3to open with Captain Price shootingGPU-smelting laser beams out of his ‘tache....

HomeNews Killing Floor 3 announced, continuing the co-op monster mash FPSAnother sequel for the dosh-slinging shooter Another sequel for the dosh-slinging shooter Image credit:Tripwire Interactive Image credit:Tripwire Interactive Cooperative horror FPS seriesKilling Floorwill return for another monster mash (hopefully it’ll be a graveyard smash) inKilling Floor 3, developers Tripwire Interactive announced today. Sadly they’ve said little about the game and shown even less but yup, once again you and your pals will get to fight through hordes of wacky bioengineered monsters....

HomeFeaturesLast Epoch Last Epoch is an ARPG coming for Diablo and Path Of Exile’s crownCurrently in early access, it’s getting a new mage class next month Currently in early access, it’s getting a new mage class next month Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games If you can’t wait forPath Of Exile 2, and you’ve long since lost interest inDiablo 4, then you might want to cast your loot-hungry eyes towardLast Epoch, an upcoming time-travel fantasy ARPG that’s been enjoying a successful stint in early access since 2019 and, as tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night Live show revealed, is on track for a full release later this year....

HomeDeals LG’s 27GL850 monitor was legendary - and now the 27GP850 follow-up is down to $299.99This 27-inch Fast IPS 1440p 180Hz monitor is a great pickup. This 27-inch Fast IPS 1440p 180Hz monitor is a great pickup. Image credit:LG/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:LG/Rock Paper Shotgun LG’s 27GL850 was a legendary monitor, as this 27-inch model was the first to use the Koreanchaebol’s Fast IPS panels - which combined the extremely fast pixel response times you’d expect to see on TN panels with the wide viewing angles and gorgeous colours of IPS screens....

HomeNewsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) Modern Warfare 3’s first campaign gameplay trailer sure looks like more CODRain, goggles, shooting Rain, goggles, shooting Image credit:Activision Image credit:Activision Over a long beer and some (Ed: very crispy, hotel) cheeseburgers, Katharine and I tuned into this year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live having just arrived at our hotel.Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign reveal happened to be on, and I predicted it would feature three things: darkness, rain, and goggles....

HomeNewsExpeditions: A MudRunner Game MudRunner continues off-roading with Expeditions, for scienceA new entry in the mucky driving sim series A new entry in the mucky driving sim series Image credit:Focus Entertainment Image credit:Focus Entertainment It’s rare for a game to have showy tech which is more than skin-deep and actually enables new types of play. Sure, the dynamic mud of driving simSpintireswas impressive to look at, and it also gave us a game where driving two metres through a puddle could become a serious puzzle....

HomeHardwareNews Nvidia’s Ray Reconstruction aims to do for ray tracing what DLSS did for anti-aliasingPlus Alan Wake 2, Modern Warfare 3 and Fortnite to get DLSS 3 Plus Alan Wake 2, Modern Warfare 3 and Fortnite to get DLSS 3 Image credit:Nvidia Image credit:Nvidia As withHalf-Life 2 RTX, Nvidia have taken toGamescomto make a heap ofDLSSannouncements. Chief among these is an upcoming new version, DLSS 3.5, which will add toDLSS 3’s existing toolkit of upscaling and AI frame generation with a new trick named Ray Reconstruction....

HomeNewsPayday 3 Payday 3’s Gamescom trailer robs the wildest place yet: New JerseyHome of Paul Blart: Mall Cop Home of Paul Blart: Mall Cop Image credit:Starbreeze Image credit:Starbreeze Across years of updates and new missions,Payday 2ultimately escalated to such a ridiculous degree that the gangbroke into the White House to stole pre-signed Presidential pardons for themselves. It was good ridiculousness. NowPayday 3is on its way, and the cooperative heisting looks far more down-to-Earth in a new trailer fresh out of Gamescom....

HomeNewsReplaced Release window for dystopian platformer Replaced slips to 2024Sad Cat are “very aware of traps of over-promising and under-delivering” Sad Cat are “very aware of traps of over-promising and under-delivering” Image credit:Coatsink Image credit:Coatsink Developer Sad Cat Studios have delayed their debut cyberpunk platformerReplacedinto 2024, because they “can’t afford to release a sub-par game.” The Belarusian-based studio previously pushed the game from 2022 into 2023 due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, but based on its moody retrofuturist trailers I’m happy to wait until every pixel is perfectly positioned, as long as the teams are staying safe....

HomeNews Star Fox meets Vampire Survivors in this new roguelite starring cat pilotsAnd it’s out in early access now And it’s out in early access now Image credit:Flippfly Image credit:Flippfly Countless rivals have stepped up to challengeVampire Survivorsin the bullet heaven roguelite arena -Vtuber cats,Nic Cage’s Renfield,Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor- but the recently-releasedWhisker Squadron: Survivoris probably the most unexpected challenger yet. That’s because it’s brave enough to ask the mind-expanding question: what if Star Fox was a Vampire Survivors-like?...