HomeFeatures Have you played… Sins Of A Solar Empire?Slow and beautiful space battles Slow and beautiful space battles Try as I might, I cannot viewSins Of A Solar Empirethrough anything other than the most rose-tinted glasses. Much of it is auditory. The sound of each button press, the wonderful space opera soundtrack, and the endlessly invigorating voice line, “Scouts have found a colonisable planet!"; they’re all ingrained in the memories of a 13-year-old playing his very first real-time space 4X game, and loving every second of it....

HomeGuides How to unlock the Machete in Warzone: requirements and best loadoutAnd a Machete-unlocking loadout. And a Machete-unlocking loadout. The latest season of Cold War and Warzone allows players to unlock theMachete, a brutal melee weapon. You’ll need to fulfil a certain requirement to unlock it though, so here’s bothhow to unlock the Machete and the best loadout to do so with.On this page:How to unlock the MacheteLoadout to unlock the MacheteHow good is the Machete?...

HomeNews Introversion invite you inside their game design petri dishAnother prototype available to buy for charity Another prototype available to buy for charity Introversion, makers ofPrison Architectand Uplink, are running a Fail Masterclass. Each month they reveal a new prototype for a game they’ve decided not to make over ontheir YouTube channel, and then make the prototype available to buy. All the money goes to the charity War Child. This month’s cautionary tale: Nanotech, a game about building microscopic creatures in a petri dish and giving them simple, gobbling behaviours....

HomeHardwareNews Razer now want to save a million trees with their Sneki Snek plushBuy a Snek, save 10 trees Buy a Snek, save 10 trees At the end of last year Razer announced a new conservation partnership with Conservation International to save 100,000 trees with the launch of theirSneki Snek plush(pictured above), a cute, wiggly mascot version of their famous snake logo. Having comfortably beaten that goal in less than two months, Razer are now extending their Sneki Snek campaign to savea milliontrees, and will be shortly announcing brand-new Sneki Snek merch to go along with it (and I’m putting it out there now, I’m calling dibs on a rainbow-coloured Snek in honour of Razer’s Chroma RGB)....

HomeNewsTeardown Teardown, the smash-and-grab heist game, now has Steam Workshop supportWith over 100 mods available already With over 100 mods available already I’ve said it before, butTeardownis that rarest of things: a technological gimmick with a game that utilises it to its full potential. It’s a first-person heist ‘em up set in an entirely destructible world, in which you must smash and explode routes through buildings to grab your targets and escape before a timer runs out....

HomeNews Which game has or had the best modding community?And why was it Half-Life? And why was it Half-Life? Modding seems to be in rude health in 2021, as industrious players crack open game eggs to whisk and scramble their insides whether developers release tools to help or not. There’s no shortage of player-made tweaks and fixes, of modest additions, or even of total overhauls. This is cause for celebration, but more importantly, it’s cause to argue....

HomeHardwareNews AMD are bringing Smart Access Memory to Ryzen 3000 CPUsGet up to 16% more performance when paired with an RX 6000 GPU Get up to 16% more performance when paired with an RX 6000 GPU AMD have announced that their niftySmart Access Memorytech that lets all-AMD PCs get free extra performance is now available on almost all Ryzen 3000 CPUs in addition to their latestRyzen 5000chips. AMD say that older Ryzen 3000 CPU owners can now get up to 16% more performance from their PC when paired with one of their new Radeon RX 6000Big Navigraphics cards - including the newly announcedRX 6700 XT- which is definitely a turn up for the books for older CPU owners....

HomeHardwareNews AMD RX 6700 XT: everything you need to know about AMD’s new Big Navi GPUPrice, specs and release date confirmed Price, specs and release date confirmed AMD have just unveiled the next card in theirBig NaviRX 6000 family of next-gen graphics cards, the RX 6700 XT. Whether you missed the announcements or just need a refresher of everything that went down, here’s everything you need to know about the RX 6700 XT, including when it’s coming out, how much it’s going to cost and how its specs stack up toNvidia’s RTX 3060 TiandRTX 3070....

HomeNewsCrusader Kings III Crusader Kings 3 is adding randomly generated torturous poetryTime to send some classic medieval burns to your enemies Time to send some classic medieval burns to your enemies Crusader Kings 3will soon let players send randomly generated poems to their friends and enemies. Whether you fancy a little romance, or want to send a sick diss to some lord who wronged you, there’s a poem for it all....

HomeNews I kinda miss finding random CD-Rs in the gutterHow and why did so many discs end up in the road? How and why did so many discs end up in the road? I don’t find many CD-Rs in the gutter anymore. Time was, the streets would glitter with home-burned CDs and DVDs that were either lost or thrown away. With the rise of broadband and fall of physical media, now everything’s up in a cloud....

HomeNewsMinute Of Islands Minute Of Islands is delayed due to “significant last-minute issues"Studio Fizbin say they won’t be able to hit March 18th Studio Fizbin say they won’t be able to hit March 18th Puzzle-y adventure platformerMinute Of Islandshas a lovely look to it, but we’ll be waiting a bit longer than planned to play it. Studio Fizbin have announced that they won’t be launching this month due to some last minute bugs found during testing....

HomeHardwareNewsResident Evil Village Resident Evil Village is getting ray tracing supportBut will it reflect the true 9ft 6in majesty of Lady Dimitrescu? But will it reflect the true 9ft 6in majesty of Lady Dimitrescu? Well, here’s a nice surprise.Resident Evil Villageis getting ray tracing support, AMD announced this evening during theirRX 6700 XTreveal event. They only showed off a brief clip of the game’s ray tracing in action during their presentation, but from the looks of things we can expect to see beautifully ray traced reflections on its polished mansion floors and maybe some ray traced shadows as well....

HomeNewsRevita Roguelike platformer Revita launches in early accessDo you dare to part with your hearts? Do you dare to part with your hearts? Another challenger has entered the action roguelike arena.Revitais now out in early access, a twin-stick platformer where you’ll have to sacrifice your health in exchange for items as you climb a mysterious clocktower. You can spot all the action in the new launch trailer that shows off the first three worlds you can start shooting your way through today....