HomeNews XCOM 2 is free to keep on the Epic Games Store right nowPlus mountaineering roguelikelike Insurmountable Plus mountaineering roguelikelike Insurmountable This week’s headline free game on the Epic Games Store is a goodie:XCOM 2. You have one week to grab Firaxis’s sequel to their alien-busting turn-based tactics game, the streamlined reboot of ye olde X-COM games. XCOM 2 is a good game, well worth grabbing for free! Also free right now isInsurmountable, a roguelikelike mountaineering game....

HomeGuidesGenshin Impact Genshin Impact Chongyun Hangout endings: How to get all the endings in Chungyun’s Hangout Event, Signs of EvilHunt down some spirits Hunt down some spirits Want to know how to get all of Chongyun’s Hangout Event endings in Genshin Impact?In his Hangout Event, Chongyun is hunting for evil spirits to exorcise and he needs your help. Most of the time, though, his plans to hunt down evil spirits go slightly awry… If you’re interested in helping Liyue’s iciest thaumaturgist, we’ve got everything you’ll need to know about unlocking and reaching all 6 endings of Chongyun’s Hangout Event,Act I: Signs of Evil, inGenshin Impact....

HomeDeals Get a Ryzen 9 5900X for £345 with free next-day shipping and 3 months of Xbox Game Pass for PCA great deal on AMD’s top gaming processor*. A great deal on AMD’s top gaming processor*. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is the company’s best gaming CPU*, and today it’s going cheap at CCL in the UK. They’re asking £345 for the 12-core, 24-thread processor when you use code SAVE20 at the checkout, and tossing in three months of Game Pass Ultimate and free next-day shipping to boot....

HomeNewsMythForce MythForce Gameplay TrailerWatch on YouTube MythForce Gameplay Trailer I’ve never found that style of cartoon attractive, but I do think they’ve done a good job with it. So, Mythforce is a first-person dungeon-crawler focused on melee and magic, with four classes (Knight, Rogue, Mage, Hunter, you know how it goes). In that roguelikelike fashion, you’re delving into a dungeon with runs that result in persistent progression. And it supports four-player cooperative multiplayer, which is nice....

HomeHardwareFeatures The best microSD cards for the Steam DeckExpand your Steam Deck’s storage with these tried-and-tested cards Expand your Steam Deck’s storage with these tried-and-tested cards Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. This expansion into higher capacities also means that microSD cards are closing a gap with the other Steam Deck storage option: replacementSSDs....

HomeNewsBugsnax Bugsnax launches expansion and hits Steam this monthIt’ll hit Game Pass at the same time It’ll hit Game Pass at the same time April 28th is the big day forBugsnax, developers Young Horses announced today. That’s when it will: 1) add a whopping great new campaign in a free update; 2) end its Epic Games Store exclusivity and hit Steam; 3) arrive on Game Pass; 4) launch on Xbox and Switch....

HomeNews Check out this free magazine full of advice on getting into the games industryFor those who are cursed to be forced into the industry For those who are cursed to be forced into the industry How does one get a job in the games industry? Don’t. Don’t do it. Take your talents to an industry which will respect, appreciate, and pay you more. But if a curse has befallen your blood and you absolutely must work in the games industry, you might appreciate some advice....

HomeGuidesElden Ring Elden Ring Placidusax boss fight: How to beat Dragonlord PlacidusaxHow to beat Dragonlord Placidusax How to beat Dragonlord Placidusax Want to know how to locate and beat Dragonlord Placidusax in Elden Ring?Dragonlord Placidusax is the most cleverly hidden secret boss inElden Ring,as well as one of the coolest. This monster outside of time and space has an array of flashy, lightning-based attacks that can obliterate the unprepared. Placidusax may look incredibly intimidating, but once you have a handle on the fight he is a perfectly manageable boss....

HomeDeals Falling GPU prices mean an RTX 3060 or RX 6600 XT is less than £400Great choices for AAA gaming at 1080p. Great choices for AAA gaming at 1080p. You don’t need me to tell you that graphics cards prices are crazy these days - but things are getting slowly better. I noticed this afternoon that the RTX 3060 and the RX 6600 XT, the two major ‘1080p performance’ GPUs, have now dipped under £400....

HomeNews Final Fantasy XIV now lets you solo more with an NPC partyPlus new quests and loads more in patch 6.1 Plus new quests and loads more in patch 6.1 A freshFinal Fantasy XIVpatch today has made the game friendlier to solo players, with the new Duty Support System letting you go through a load of main scenario duties solo with NPC party members. Oh, but that’s a tiny piece of patch 6....

HomeFeaturesGhostWire: Tokyo In praise of Ghostwire: Tokyo’s animals - especially the catsI don’t think ghosts are cat people, though I don’t think ghosts are cat people, though I have now received most (but not quite all) of my stuff after moving, so I have a TV and two (2) consoles to play games on. One thing I’ve been playing recently isGhostwire: Tokyo, a ghost huntin' action game that’s a bit less weird and a bit more “kind of like an Ubisoft game” than I was expecting....

HomeNewsHell is Us Mordheim studio’s new game is putting out Annihilation vibesMade with the art director of Deus Ex: Human Revolution Made with the art director of Deus Ex: Human Revolution I can’t tell you ifHell Is Us, the newly announced next game from developers Rogue Factor, is actually like the movie Annihilation, because they haven’t really shown the game yet. But I can tell you that they’re clearly trying to evoke Annihilation vibes, with the trailer channeling that blown-out synth sound and scattering humanlike inhuman mineral figures across the landscape....

HomeNews Ride a motorbike through Elden Ring in this Trials Rising levelSeek mad air, ye Tarnished Seek mad air, ye Tarnished Stunting through Elden Ring in Trials RisingWatch on YouTube Stunting through Elden Ring in Trials Rising If you’re the sort to hoover up free games when they’re offered then instantly forget because they’re on clients you never use, hey, you might already have Trials Rising. Ubisoft gave it away free for a few days in December 2020....