HomeFeaturesThe Battle For Polytopia The Rally Point: The Battle For Polytopia is this summer’s low-intensity strategy gameThe Many sings to us The Many sings to us Strategy gamesare the go-to option when you’re looking for something to really get your brain working. But they can seem unreachable when your synapses are being melted from without rather than through overuse. Happily, we found an excellent solutionlast summer, and being a wily fox, I had a plan ready for this year....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Thursday 28 July 2022): Wordle word of the day #404 and hintsHints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Then again, Wordle can be rather frustrating at times too. For all that it’s a simple game, it can be fiendishly hard to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. That’s where we come in....

HomeNews A new Tactics Ogre: Reborn leak brings screenshots and a release dateBut no mention of a PC release But no mention of a PC release TacticsOgre: Reborn will reportedly launch on November 11th, according to a new leak. The same leak also includes the first screenshots of Reborn, and a feature list that suggests Reborn is more than a straight port of 2010’s Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together....

HomeNews Meta Quest 2 VR headsets will cost $100 more starting next monthThe future is expensive The future is expensive “We’ve been all-in on VR since the early days of PC and mobile, all the way through to today’s premium standalone 6DOF headsets—and we’ve invested billions of dollars to help nurture a thriving VR ecosystem,” starts the post on theOculus blog. “Now, we’re making a change that will help us continue to invest for the long term and keep driving the VR industry forward with best-in-class hardware, action-packed games, and cutting-edge research on the path to truly next-gen devices....

HomeNewsReturn to Monkey Island New Return To Monkey Island clip looks gorgeous, says II like the animation I like the animation Here’s the tweet with the clip embedded: It’s odd that#MonkeyIslandMondayhappens every 7 days. There must be some hidden pattern here. Any ides@phrenopolis? I’d ask Guybrush but he seems busy at the moment.pic.twitter.com/OZPYt2LaaN— Ron Gilbert (@grumpygamer)July 25, 2022 It’s odd that#MonkeyIslandMondayhappens every 7 days. There must be some hidden pattern here....

HomeDeals Pick up an AMD Ryzen 5800X3D for £384 at CCL todayA rare discount on AMD’s fastest gaming processor. A rare discount on AMD’s fastest gaming processor. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is Team Red’s fastest gaming processor in many titles, yet it costs far less than the slightly older 5950X and only a bit more than the 5900X. Reason being? You get fewer cores than those processors, and slower clock speeds, but dramatically increased cache - a trade-off that often provides a massive performance improvement for gaming....

HomeDeals Pick up an RTX graphics card for £212 todayThe price of the RTX 2060 has fallen off a cliff, which is awesome for patient PC gamers. The price of the RTX 2060 has fallen off a cliff, which is awesome for patient PC gamers. The RTX 2060 is the most affordable RTX graphics card, making it your best shout for gaining the hardware to do real-time ray tracing and frame-rate-boosting DLSS without overpaying....

HomeFeaturesRollerdrome Rollerdrome’s smooth, bullet time bloodsport is locked and loadedIt’s Tony Hawk meets Max Payne, and it’s rolling out next month It’s Tony Hawk meets Max Payne, and it’s rolling out next month Rollerdrome - Official Reveal TrailerWatch on YouTube Rollerdrome - Official Reveal Trailer Which is why you need that slow-mo. A simple trigger pull puts you into a very generous bullet time, letting you hose down incoming rockets or launch a grenade at a distant dork....

HomeGuidesMultiVersus The best perks in MultiVersus: The most powerful perks to apply to each characterIncluding the best Signature Perks for all characters Including the best Signature Perks for all characters What are the best perks in MultiVersus?Perks are an experimental feature in the latest open beta forMultiVersus. Each of the 17 playable characters has a long set of unique moves, but perks allow you to customise each character to your liking a little more....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Wednesday 27 July 2022): Wordle word of the day #403 and hintsHints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for the Wordle answer for Wednesday 27 July 2022?Another day, anotherWordleto solve. Perhaps even more astounding than Wordle’s incredible success is the fact that it has managed to hold the attention of its playerbase for so long....

HomeFeaturesWren The first video game to give me an actual flat tyre It’s a slow game. It’ll take many attempts to beat one of the quests, many repeat attempts of watching battles play out without my input then paying to replace broken weapons when my party fail after only chipping a few dozen hitpoints from the boss’s hundreds. It is possible that I’ve botched the village-level strategy, though it’s hard to tell with sparse feedback and info on what stats do....

HomeNews Funko Pops are teaming with the creative director of the original Lego Star Wars to make “AAA” gamesMake some display room in your games library Make some display room in your games library Funko x 10.10 Games - Official Announcement Teaser TrailerFunko and 10.10 are producing ‘AAA’ games together, starting with an action platformer in 2023.Watch on YouTube Funko x 10.10 Games - Official Announcement Teaser Trailer No info yet about when we’ll start seeing games based on Funko Pops beyond a 2023 window and a commitment to PC and consoles....

HomeNewsMultiVersus Rick And Morty are heading to MultiVersus along with Space Jam’s LeBron JamesAnd someone’s already modded in Link from Smash Bros. And someone’s already modded in Link from Smash Bros. Rick And Morty’s Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith are joining the roster of Warner Bros. brawlerMultiVersus, but not before Space Jam basketballer LeBron James. LeBron is up first, so you can expect to play as him when the open beta begins on July 26th....