HomeReviews Subnautica: Below Zero reviewImmersive swim Immersive swim Well, spit in my goggles and give me the bends, they’ve done it again. The firstSubnauticaremains one ofthe best survival gamesyou can shake a stick at. It stranded you on a planet whose surface was an endless vista of tranquil water and peaceful moons. InSubnautica: Below Zerobreaching the surface is more likely to see you taking gulps of air in a hideous blizzard....

HomeDeals This prebuilt RTX 3060 PC costs less than the sum of its parts£1000 is a genuinely good value in a sea of inflated CPU and GPU prices £1000 is a genuinely good value in a sea of inflated CPU and GPU prices Last week we posted about arather excellent gaming PC deal, which bundled up an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card and AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processor into a computer box with surprisingly solid components throughout, all for less than one thousand of your Earth pounds....

HomeFeaturesTotal War: Warhammer III Total War: Warhammer 3 brings tower defence, boss fights and lakes of sick to Total War; I like it very much.A hell of a fight A hell of a fight [PEGI/ENG] Total War: WARHAMMER III Announce Trailer - Conquer Your Daemons | Coming 2021Watch on YouTube [PEGI/ENG] Total War: WARHAMMER III Announce Trailer - Conquer Your Daemons | Coming 2021 It was interesting, you know, seeing your reactions to last month’s remaster of Total War: Rome, a game originally released during actual Roman times when centurions walked the earth....

HomeNewsHokko Life Animal Crossing-like Hokko Life arrives in early access next monthThe cat’s out of the bag The cat’s out of the bag PC players will soon be able to experience some of thatAnimal Crossing-esque village life without having to shell out for a Nintendo console. The cosy simHokko Lifewill have you start fresh in a new town called Hokko, where you can make friends with loads of talking animal pals, catch bugs and fish, work on your interior design skills, and live a lovely peaceful life....

HomeFeaturesDistant Kingdoms Bless this fantasy city builder for its orc positivitySomething need doing? Something need doing? Readers will know that I love city building games, dating back to spending a lot of time as a child playing titans of the genre Zeus and Pharaoh. But because these were my introductions to the genre, I don’t really go in for the big town-planning-paloozas likeSimCity, because I find having to efficiently place sewage systems a bit stressful....

HomeNews Destiny 2’s Season Of The Splicer kicked off last night with more problems than I can fit in a headlineThe best mess-up was Bungie accidentally turning on crossplay early The best mess-up was Bungie accidentally turning on crossplay early Destiny 2launched its new season last night, and it’s simultaneously reminded me of why I loved Destiny, and why I don’t think I want to ever play it again. The Season Of The Splicer has a lot going on: cool new alien threats and allies, a new six-person fireteam mission, a needlessly complex transmogrification system, as well as some old and new places to explore....

HomeFeaturesDoritos Crash Course Go! Have You Played… Doritos Crash Course Go!?For the brave and the bold For the brave and the bold Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Long before brands were falling over themselves to get a jelly bean version of their mascot inFall Guys, Doritos and Microsoft were partnering up to bring you theactualbest Takeshi’s Castle game: Doritos Crash Course....

HomeNewsThe Big Con Crime time on prime time Summer’s approaching, so it’s time to figure out what kind of wacky character development you’re going to have during the scorching months. If you hadn’t come up with a plan yet, you can always go with one of the classics: going on a cross-country road trip with a con man to somehow save your mom’s video store from mobsters. That’s what local sarcastic 90s teen Ali is doing inThe Big Conthis summer, anyhow....

HomeNewsStargate: Timekeepers Stargate: Timekeepers is a new RTS from the Phantom Doctrine devsIt’s set between SG-1 Seasons 7 and 8 It’s set between SG-1 Seasons 7 and 8 Here’s the first trailer. It’s just a nice gate opening up. Stargate: Timekeepers || Teaser trailerWatch on YouTube Stargate: Timekeepers || Teaser trailer The game was revealed last night duringSlitherine’s Home Of Wargames announceathon. “Stargate: Timekeepers departs from the end of Season 7 of the Stargate SG-1 main plot to create a wholly original story starting during the Battle of Antarctica, where Command Eva McCain and her team are tasked with supporting the SG-1 against Anubis’s fleet,” it says in the trailer description....

HomeNews There’s now an official Kingdoms of Amalur map cushionTHQ Nordic also bought some more game studios THQ Nordic also bought some more game studios There’s a real hint of necromancy about THQ Nordic. The mega-publisher has resurrected a few games over the past few years, withKingdoms of Amalurprobably being the one that made me go “Huh?” the most. Well, there’s more “huh” to go around, because they just opened up a newmerchandise storeand are selling Kingdoms of Amalur cushions with the game map on them....

HomeDeals This AMD Ryzen 5 5600X at £255 is this week’s best CPU dealAt £25 under RRP, this is a great deal on one of the best gaming CPUs At £25 under RRP, this is a great deal on one of the best gaming CPUs The Ryzen 5 5600X is a terrific CPU for gaming, providing the incredible single-core speeds of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series and six cores of multi-threading power at a very affordable price point....

HomeNewsTotal War: Warhammer III Total War: Warhammer 3’s new trailer shows off Kislev’s big, awesome bearsBears for the bear god Bears for the bear god Kislev and Khorne are going head to head in the newestTotal War: Warhammer 3trailer that just landed today. The next part of Creative Assembly’s series is giving some serious love to the snowy folks of fantasy Russia with cavalry bears, magical bears, and other pretty cool looking icy units....

HomeNews We’ll see two hours of Overwatch 2 PvP next weekNew maps, new powers, but no Jeff New maps, new powers, but no Jeff The upcoming stream is going to cover the action and some new maps, which I’m very keen to see. I’ve played the current roster of maps so much that I’m starting to grow ever so slightly weary of them (apart from Ilios’s Lighthouse and Well maps, and Lijiang Tower’s Night Market and Garden maps, which are my favourite Lucio boop spots)....