HomeNewsDear Esther Dear Esther is free to keep on Steam right nowHappy birthday, dear Dear Esther Happy birthday, dear Dear Esther Dear Esther: Landmark Edition PC/Mac TrailerWatch on YouTube Dear Esther: Landmark Edition PC/Mac Trailer You have until 3pm on Wednesday the 16th toclaim a free copy of Dear Esther on Steam. It usually costs £8. This is the Landmark Edition, the 2017 Unity engine remake of the 2012 commercial remake of the 2008 Source engine mod....

HomeNews GOG’s new sale has 50% off Cyberpunk 2077 and 60% off Disco ElysiumIt’s kinda a Valentine’s Day sale? It’s kinda a Valentine’s Day sale? Video game sales are less of a novelty now that a giant sale is running on one store or another almost all the time but hey, this just means you can get cheap games almost all the time. This week, look to GOG for your game shopping, where their ‘We Love Games’ sale has over 3000 things going cheap....

HomeGuidesGenshin Impact How to raise and lower World Level in Genshin ImpactTeyvat’s secret difficulty slider Teyvat’s secret difficulty slider Ready to take on more challenging bosses in Genshin Impact for better rewards?Or need to dial the difficulty of Teyvat’s enemies down a bit? Either way, Genshin Impact’s World Level system will allow you to make tiny adjustments to the difficulty of enemies and the rewards you’ll gain. Whether you’re here to raise or lower your World Level, we’re here to help!...

HomeHardwareNewsLost Ark Lost Ark gets a straight performance boost with DirectX 11, surprising no oneGet out of here, DirectX 9 Get out of here, DirectX 9 Frankly I feel a bit odd writing a post that amounts to “14-year-old rendering tech works better than 20-year-old rendering tech”, butLost Ark– 2022’s biggest surprise hit so far – has only recently come around to the benefits of DirectX 11. While it’s the default rendering option in the western version that launched last week, the original South Korean version went years with just DirectX 9 to its name, and the press build that I used forperformance testing(and Ed is using for hisreview-in progress) remains locked to DX9....

HomeNewsAbermore New stealth RPG Abermore has big Thief meets Dishonored vibesHeist of the century Heist of the century From the looks of things, Abermore won’t be a one-and-done kind of stealth RPG, either. As you can see from the trailer below, the game promises a “unique campaign” every time you attempt its 18-day heist-athon. Exactly how unique each run will feel in practice remains to be seen, of course, but here’s hoping the mixture of odd jobs and quests you’ll be undertaking in the preparation period will offer enough variety to make each attempt feel substantially different from the last....

HomeGuidesTotal War: Warhammer III Total War: Warhammer 3 beginner’s guide: Total War: Warhammer 3 tips and tricksConquer your enemies and drive back the Daemons with our Total War: Warhammer 3 beginner’s guide Conquer your enemies and drive back the Daemons with our Total War: Warhammer 3 beginner’s guide Looking for a Total War: Warhammer 3 beginner’s guide?Humans, Daemons, and Ogres collide in a brutal war, asTotal War: Warhammer 3is finally here....

HomeReviewsTotal War: Warhammer III Total War: Warhammer 3 review: a heavyweight RTS with transformative changes to multiplayerWar really is hell this time, but in a good way War really is hell this time, but in a good way Total War: Warhammer 3is an extremely hard game to review in isolation. It’s utterly massive in itself, with eight hulking single player campaigns at launch, not to mention a greatly expanded range of multiplayer and PvE skirmish options....

HomeGuidesLost Ark Best Lost Ark Deathblade build: recommended skill levelling, engravings, and awakening skills for PvE and PvPHow to kit out your Deathblade for adventures in Arkesia How to kit out your Deathblade for adventures in Arkesia What is the best Deathblade build in Lost Ark?The Deathblade is one ofLost Ark’s most intriguing character classes, with a popularity that belies a surprisingly low base damage stat. Perhaps it’s the Deathblade’s cool appearance that gets so many players past her shortcomings; after all, how many times in life do you get the chance to wield three swords at once?...

HomeNews Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and new Warzone are coming this yearA sequel to 2019 reboot A sequel to 2019 reboot Information started to slip out this week about the next iteration of Call Of Duty. Now it’s confirmed: Infinity Ward are making Modern Warfare 2 for release later this year alongside a “new Warzone experience.” Modern Warfare 2 will be a sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare reboot, and both it and the new Warzone will run on a new engine....

HomeNews Fallen London’s dating game spin-off has a demo nowWelcome, delicious friend Welcome, delicious friend You might brave all sorts of horrors in the supernatural Victorian setting ofFallen Londonand Sunless Sea, but dare you face the greatest horror of all: love? Failbetter Games this week released a demo forMask Of The Rose, a dating sim set in the same wonderful world.Mask of the Rose: Steam TrailerWatch on YouTubeAvailable nowon Steam, the demo offers “a condensed version” of the first act....

HomeNews Final Fantasy VI’s pixel remaster arrives on Steam on Feb 23rdOne of the most beloved Final Fantasy games One of the most beloved Final Fantasy games Well, here it comes. Final Fantasy VI is getting the pixel remaster treatment on February 23rd. All of the classic 2D Final Fantasy games were previously available on Steam, but only as ports of the mobile versions which did horrible things to the original game’s pixel art....

HomeNewsLost Ark Lost Ark launches, servers immediately taken offline due to missing charactersAmazon now hope to launch “in a matter of hours” Amazon now hope to launch “in a matter of hours” Update:Atweet on the Lost Ark Twitter accountsays that “all deployment issues have now been resolved” and that Lost Ark will launch at 2:15pm PT / 10:15pm GMT. This tweet was sentat2:15pm PT. Players were still experiencing issues with missing characters after downloading the new patch, however, and soservers have been taken offline"to get this resolved....

HomeNews Nerdle is Wordle for people who prefer numbers to lettersGuess the sum Guess the sum That’s what you’re doing inNerdle, which is Wordle for maths fans. The same genre principles remain: you have six guesses to solve one puzzle per day. Make a guess and the numbers and symbols that don’t feature in today’s solution are marked black, those that are in the wrong place are marked red, and those in the correct place are green....