HomeNews It’s the first of September, defend yourself!Pinch, punch… Pinch, punch… You know what a fresh month means…PINCH!Fight Crab Steam Launch TrailerWatch on YouTubePUNCH!it’s the first day of the monthAND NO RETURNS.(Yes, I knowMetal GearRay returns - as will the baddie who’ll try to give you “a flick and a kick for being so quick”. Show no mercy today, reader dear.) You know what a fresh month means…PINCH!Fight Crab Steam Launch TrailerWatch on YouTubePUNCH!...

HomeNewsMarvel’s Midnight Suns Marvel’s Midnight Suns shows off its card-based superhero tacticsThis deck does more than just Magik tricks This deck does more than just Magik tricks As I gather is the case in the Marvel world, there’s always a new big baddie to kick. This time around that’s Lilith, mother of demons. Your custom hero Hunter is actually Lilith’s kid, and apparently the only one known to have kicked her rear in the past....

HomeNewsNo Man’s Sky No Man’s Sky is also a sci-fi city management simulation nowBecome overseer of your own settlement Become overseer of your own settlement No Man’s Skyhas gone and outdone itself again. Earlier this month, studio head Sean Murray called the Frontiers update “a missing piece of the sci-fi fantasy that we’ve always wanted to add,” and I admit I didn’t pick up on the hint. I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t that the Frontiers update would add huge planetary settlements, tons of new base building pieces, Sentinel settlement raids, and the ability to become arbiter and overseer of the local settlement too....

HomeNewsTale Of Immortal Chinese mega hit Tale Of Immortal now has an English language versionAn action RPG about Chinese mythology An action RPG about Chinese mythology It’s always exciting to me when a Chinese game suddenly becomes popular on Steam. It creates the sensation of having my face pressed against a window, staring at a potentially delicious buffet on the other side which I’m not able to eat. That’s how it was with Tale Of Immortal, a seemingly vast open-world, 2D action RPG which, overnight, seemed to have 90,000 positive Steam reviews after it launched back in January....

HomeNewsVVVVVV Classic platformer VVVVVV just received its first update in 7 years60FPS support and more 60FPS support and more Back in April, we reported that classic platformerVVVVVVwasabout to get its first update in seven years. Now I can report: classic platformer VVVVVV has now received its first update in seven years. The changelog is huge, but its key additions are 60FPS support, new graphical options, and hundreds of bug fixes....

HomeNews So where is the HD remake of Mavis Beacon’s penguin typing game?Stop remastering last-gen shooters and remake the classic we need Stop remastering last-gen shooters and remake the classic we need We’re drowning in remakes and remasters. Big publishers are rereleasing every game which is older than three years and sold at least thirty copies. Some of these remakes, I suspect, sold as few as seven copies. But they’re ‘IP’, precious intellectual properties to be recycled and rebooted and combined in new forms until the sun burns out in the sky....

HomeFeaturesAge of Empires IV The Age Of Empires 4 devs on bees, cheats, and “the John Wick of medieval cities"Trebuchets will be capable of launching 95 kilograms of bees over 300m Trebuchets will be capable of launching 95 kilograms of bees over 300m With the October 28th release ofAge Of Empires IVlooming, last week’s Gamescom event saw a clutch of new reveals for the medieval strategy extravaganza, including a newtrailer, a couple of liveinterviews, and - my personal favourite - an unexpectedshort documentary about trebuchets....

HomeGuidesGenshin Impact The best Genshin Impact Yanfei buildLearn how to put together the best possible Yanfei build in Genshin Impact Learn how to put together the best possible Yanfei build in Genshin Impact Want to learn how to create the best build for Yanfei in Genshin Impact?Animalistic demigod, maritime lawyer, Pyro Catalyst wielder —Genshin Impact’s Yanfei certainly has a lot of plates spinning. This young polymath from Liyue has achieved a lot in a short time, so if you end up with her in your adventuring party, you’ll be unsurprised to learn that she performs best when leading the charge as your DPS main with the help of her trusty book of elemental power....

HomeNews Blast big alien bees in the demo for retro Metroidvania shooter BiotaGet geared up with mechs and grenades and more Get geared up with mechs and grenades and more You can spot all that action down here in Biota’s trailer or just take it out for a spin yourself in the demo. B.I.O.T.A. - TrailerWatch on YouTube B.I.O.T.A. - Trailer Metroid ‘em ups are often the bane of my existence but even I’m a sucker for a swell soundtrack and a color palette swapper....

HomeNewsSecurity Booth Security Booth is like a spooky PS1 version of Papers PleaseThey’re killing to get in and I’m dying to get out They’re killing to get in and I’m dying to get out Oh dear, it appears that someone’s ripped a whole chunk of days out of my calendar. Today may be August 30th, but tomorrow appears to be October 31st in my book. How spooky. If Halloween haunts your heart earlier every year as it does mine, how about more PS1-style spooks?...

HomeNewsValheim Valheim’s Hearth & Home update will let you vomit all your tasty new foodsIt’s for a good reason, I swear It’s for a good reason, I swear As we learned last week thanks to thatsnazzy animated trailer, viking action craft ‘em upValheimis summoning its major Hearth & Home update in September. We’ve gotten teasers on quite a bit of the update’s features over the past couple months—from new building pieces to special treasure chests, and more....

HomeFeaturesWartales You can always beat the wolves, right? They’re usually the next rung up from rats; even at their very hardest, they’re maybe the fourth distinct creature thing a trainee adventurer has to slash into giblets on their way to bigger and better things. These grey, hairy training wheels might do a bit of snarling, a few mild biteroonies, but they won’t ever kill you. That’s not what wolves do....

HomeNews9 Years Of Shadows 9 Years Of Shadows is a metroidvania with a ghostly teddy and a stacked soundtrackLovely pixel art, too Lovely pixel art, too 9 Years Of Shadowsis an in-development metroidvania which features music from Michiru Yamane, Manami Matsumae, and Norihiko Hibino, who worked on Castlevania,Mega ManandMetal Gear Solidrespectively. This doesn’t excite me, but I mention it in case it’s appealing to you. What does excite me is that 9 Years Of Shadows otherwise looks fab, due to richly detailed pixel art, glittering world design, and a sidekick that appears to be a teddy bear ghost....