HomeNews American McGee is still trying to make Alice: Asylum a realityA 400+ design bible is available to view now A 400+ design bible is available to view now American McGee is still trying to turn his theoreticalAlice: Asyluminto a reality. The last game in his dark action-platformer series,Alice: Madness Returns, released more than ten years ago, and since then McGee has been funding development through a Patreon which, at the time of writing, currently has 3,192 paying members....

HomeFeaturesDredge Catching eldritch horrors in fishing sim Dredge has fed my morbid curiosity for what lies beneathA reel catch A reel catch It’s the dead of night. I’m in my little tugboat out on open waters. I can barely see three feet in front of my nose because of the thick blanket of fog, but I’m trying my hand at night fishing, hoping to hook somethingreallygood. I find a squid spot and start to fish, reeling in one or two fine-looking catches....

HomeGuidesWild Hearts How to unlock new weapons in Wild HeartsHere’s how to unlock the Claw Blade, Hand Cannon, and Karakuri Staff in Wild Hearts Here’s how to unlock the Claw Blade, Hand Cannon, and Karakuri Staff in Wild Hearts How do you unlock new weapons in Wild Hearts?If you’ve played an hour or so of Omega Force’s newRPGWild Hearts, you may have noticed that when crafting new weapons at the Blacksmith there are three weapon types that you can’t yet create....

HomeNews Immortal Empires campaign now available to all owners of Total War: Warhammer 3The trilogy spanning campaign officially leaves beta The trilogy spanning campaign officially leaves beta To celebrateTotal War: Warhammer 3’sfirst anniversary, developers Creative Assembly are making the Immortal Empires campaign free to all owners of the Warhammer 3 base game. Previously, you needed to own all threeTotal War: Warhammergames to play Immortal Empires, since it compiles campaign maps, war units, and Legendary Lords from across thestrategytrilogy....

HomeFeatures Magic in Veil Of Dust doesn’t make life easy, just slightly less hardTurns out there’s a big difference between a homesteading sim and a life sim Turns out there’s a big difference between a homesteading sim and a life sim Hot diggedy daffodil, am I glad I picked Casual difficulty inVeil Of Dust. Unlike some games, Veil Of Dust doesn’t make it sound like any sort of concession; the middle difficulty is called Challenge, and says “it’s pretty tough - you’ve been warned”....

HomeFeaturesMaster of Magic Rally Point: Master of Magic, and a dash of Total Warhammer, on balanceSome free-for-alls are more freer for all than others Some free-for-alls are more freer for all than others From the heady mists of 1994 once cameMaster Of Magic, an all-time best 4X loosely summarisable as Civilisation crossed withMaster Of Orion. In the… uh, semi-heady fog of 2019came the newsthat it was getting a remake, and I was muchly excited, for in the interim I’d actually learned the original existed and how good and somehow unrivalled it still was....

HomeFeaturesWild Hearts Shaky performance aside, Wild Hearts is a worthy alternative to Monster Hunter10 hours in and I’m having a great time 10 hours in and I’m having a great time Like a sticky ball of regurgitated sap spat from the jaws of a giant dog, review code forWild Heartscame in hot and fast earlier this week. So while other outlets will be delivering their final verdicts on Omega Force’s beast batterin’ simulator today, I’m afraid I haven’t had the chance to play enough of it to give it a fair shakedown yet....

HomeNews Steam strategy festival TactiCon 2023 is returning in MayTactiCon 2023 is celebrating strategy games big and small TactiCon 2023 is celebrating strategy games big and small Tacticon 2023 - Announcement Trailer | Indie Strategy Game EventWatch on YouTube Tacticon 2023 - Announcement Trailer | Indie Strategy Game Event 2022’s event featured over 100 games with the usual Steam demos and sales on already released games. There were also around 40 hours of dev streams, who got to play and show off their games, along with plenty of panels discussing the nuts and bolts of creating a strategy game....

HomeNewsTeam Fortress 2 Valve scale down expectations for Team Fortress 2’s upcoming updateQuietly editing mentions of a “full-on update-sized update” Quietly editing mentions of a “full-on update-sized update” Last week Valve announced a“full-on update-sized update”would be coming toTeam Fortress 2this summer, getting us all excited at the thought of new content after years in maintenance mode. Valve have now quietly edited their original announcementblog post, walking back the hype while emphasising the community-developed aspects of the update....

HomeGuidesWild Hearts Wild Hearts best armor: The best armor to use early on in Wild HeartsDiscover the best early-game armor in Wild Hearts Discover the best early-game armor in Wild Hearts Looking for the best armor in Wild Hearts?Wild Heartsis a new Monster Hunter-like, which means there are plenty of big beasties to fight. Of course, big monsters mean it’s a big challenge, so you’ll need the best armor if you want to stay alive....

HomeGuidesWild Hearts Wild Hearts: Ragetail boss guide, tips and strategiesTips for anyone struggling to beat the Ragetail in Wild Hearts Tips for anyone struggling to beat the Ragetail in Wild Hearts Looking for tips on how to beat the Ragetail in Wild Hearts?Like its closest rival in theMonster Huntergenre, Omega Force’s newRPGWild Heartslets players loose in a world overrun with giant monstrous creatures that need hunting and killing to protect the safety of the archipelago’s inhabitants....

HomeGuidesWild Hearts Wild Hearts: Sapscourge boss guide, tips and strategiesUse these tips to cut down the Sapscourge with ease Use these tips to cut down the Sapscourge with ease Need some tips on how to beat the Sapscourge in Wild Hearts?The second in a long line of giant hostile creatures you must defeat inWild Hearts, the Sapscourge represents a major step up in difficulty versus the Ragetail. With hard-to-avoid roll attacks and the ability to spit sticky paralysing sap everywhere, it’s a nasty time for the unprepared hunter....

HomeHardwareFeaturesWild Hearts Wild Hearts: the best settings to use on PCUpdated with the recent performance patch Updated with the recent performance patch Wild Heartslaunched last week into a world of problems on PC, fromdreadful overall performanceto more specific issues with certaingraphics cardsand a bizarre bug that meant setting audio output to Stereo meant fewer frames per second. The game itself proved enough of a satisfying monster hunter (no relation)to charm Liam, but the technical mess remained....