HomeNews Elite Dangerous: Odyssey expansion is delayedThe pandemic has adjusted Frontier’s timeline The pandemic has adjusted Frontier’s timeline Frontier Developments have been cooking up a new expansion for big space MMOElite Dangerousbut hold up, it hasn’t been cleared to disembark just yet.Elite Dangerous: Odysseyhad been planned for early in 2021 but that window is getting bumped back thanks to our constant companion Covid-19. Odyssey is now expected in late spring for PC players, Frontier say in a new announcement....

HomeNewsHogwarts Legacy Hogwarts Legacy is delayed to 2022A time turner can’t help you here A time turner can’t help you here Don’t start packing your trunk just yet, wizard wannabes.Hogwarts Legacywon’t make it for this year after all. Afteryears of rumors, Warner Bros. finally announced the big open world wizards game near the end of 2020 with their plans to release it in 2021. No such luck after all, though.Hogwarts Legacywill now be arriving sometime in 2022....

HomeFeatures There and back again: why RPGs matter more than everSo many roles, so little time So many roles, so little time “We were trying to set a mood and build a sense of being there… that there was a world… in our own primitive way,” Fargo said. “You started off in a bar; you got to walk around outside, you had to go down to the dungeons, so you felt like you were living in a world; you weren’t just thrust into a wireframe dungeon and that was it....

HomeNews Ubisoft Massive are making an open-world Star Wars gameEA are no longer the only people making Star Wars games EA are no longer the only people making Star Wars games “We’re looking to work with best-in-class teams that can make great games across all of our IP,” Lucasfilm Games VP Douglas Reillytold the official Star Wars site. “We’ve got a team of professionals here at Lucasfilm Games who can work with the developers, shape the stories, shape the creative, shape the games, to make them really resonate with fans and deliver across a breadth of platforms, genres, and experiences so that all of our fans can enjoy the IPs that they know and love....

HomeHardwareNews Asus and MSI announce Z590 motherboards for Intel’s 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUsThey’ll be backwards compatible with 10th Gen Comet Lake chips, too. They’ll be backwards compatible with 10th Gen Comet Lake chips, too. Asus and MSI have lifted the lid on their upcoming line-up of Z590 motherboards for Intel’s soon-to-be-released11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs. Launching on January 27th, these new motherboards will be primed and ready for Rocket Lake, and Asus have confirmed their boards will be backwards compatible with Intel’s existing10th Gen Comet Lake CPUsas well....

HomeNewsCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Call Of Duty: Warzone’s infinite stim glitch is backHello poison gas, my old friend Hello poison gas, my old friend Fight your way to the final circle inWarzoneright now and you’ll likely encounter something thought long-gone, something thought to be extinct. Yes, I’m sorry to announce that the infinite stim glitch has returned. Back in October of last year, players found they could use theStim item to grant themselves infinite healingand effectively live inside the poison gas like gun-toting cockroaches....

HomeNewsDead Cells Dead Cells Fatal Fall DLC arrives later this monthAdding new weapons and biomes Adding new weapons and biomes It’s not long now untilDead Cellstakes a deadly descent into its next paid expansion. Motion Twin and Evil Empire just announced the hack ‘n’ slash roguelite’s Fatal Fall DLC will launch on January 26th, bringing with it new biomes, new enemies and new weapons with which to whack ‘em. One of those weapons is a lantern, which I thought maybe you’d just shine at enemies, but judging from the trailer below it seems you’ll be using that to clobber baddies to death too....

HomeNewsDragon Age: The Veilguard Dragon Age 4’s magic archer concept art looks well coolHinting at a new potential character and location? Hinting at a new potential character and location? On Friday,Dragon Age 4’s executive producer Christian Dailey shared a lovely new bit of concept art for BioWare’s upcoming RPG. It’s a beautiful piece featuring an archer stood amongst some autumnal ruins. Concept art is about all we’ve seen of the game so far - well, that, anda short teaser at last year’s Game Awards....

HomeNewsThe Sims 4 Fan favourite Bonehilda returns in The Sims 4 Paranormal Stuff packDerek Acorah or Destiel? Derek Acorah or Destiel? The Sims 4appeals to me because it lets me build the kind of Pinterest-worthy homes I’ll never live in in real-life, so I’m often more excited about the game’s Stuff packs than its game-changing expansions. This time is no different: the Paranormal stuff pack arrives later this month and as well as adding a new career and bringing back Bonehilda, it also adds some sweet looking desks....

HomeNews Grapple Hoops' playable alpha is about acrobatic explosive dunksMirror’s Edge meets NBA Jam Mirror’s Edge meets NBA Jam Grapple hooks: the confirmed best thing in videogames. Grapple Hoops: a first-person game in which you grapple hook across an obstacle course, smash and kick through doors and windows, and then explosively dunk a basketball into a hoop. There’s a pre-alpha demo you can play right now, but at the very least you owe it to yourself to watch the video....

HomeFeaturesDawn of Man Have You Played… Dawn Of Man?Abadagus Abadagus In strategy games that cover broad swathes of human history, it’s always a bit sad that the Stone Age is, at best, an early game sideshow – something to be breezed past in a couple of technological leaps on the way to better things. Not so withDawn Of Man, which concentrates on the various something-lithic periods to the exclusion of everything else....

HomeFeaturesAge of Empires II: Definitive Edition How to play Age Of Empires 2 as a hivemind, and why it’s incredibleResistance is feudal Resistance is feudal Probably the most common woe, for all but the most unnaturally gifted players of real-time strategy games, is the feeling of being overwhelmed. Particularly in games from the genre’s “golden age” in the late 90s, there’s a relentless need to focus on several things at once, and endlessly jump back and forth between combat and economy....

HomeFeaturesNioh 2 Nioh 2’s monsters are surprisingly cuteScary Monsters and Nice Sprites (I know this doesn’t work but bear with) Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (I know this doesn’t work but bear with) Over the Christmas hols I dipped mykusarigamaback intoNioh 2, an action RPG that blends the crushing difficulty of soulslikes with Diablo’s emphasis on loot hoovering. In hindsight, this was quite an intimidating game to play post figgy pudding, especially as it’s all about carving up twisted demons....