HomeNewsLucifer Within Us Digital demon detective game Lucifer Within Us is out nowWhich daemon done it? Which daemon done it? Demon exorcising detective gameLucifer Within Ushas arrived with its mysterious tech utopia plots. As an exorcist for the Inquisition, it’s your job to banish digital daemons after sussing out who’s been possessed. You can jump in now to figure out who’s been wreaking havoc in the last city of humans....

HomeGuidesGenshin Impact Does Genshin Impact have cross-platform play and cross-save?Can you play with your PS4-owning friends? Can you play with your PS4-owning friends? Genshin Impactis available on several platforms, including PC, PS4, and mobile devices, and players are finding the free-to-play Breath Of The Wild-like super fun, especially for the asking price of £0. Still,does Genshin Impact have crossplay? Watch on YouTube Does Genshin Impact have cross-play? With co-op play available as one of the better ways to play Genshin Impact, you’ll want to link up with friends regardless of which device they’ve downloaded the game on....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Hoplite?Roguehoplite Roguehoplite Hoplitehas been an instant install on any new phone I buy since before I’d left university. It’s an unassuming turn-based roguelite where you play as a Hoplite deftly moving from enemy to enemy, from tiny map to tiny map, in search of a Golden Fleece. It’s also the first thing that comes to mind when I try to dredge up a list of games that pare back their chosen genre until what remains is the absolute essentials and nothing else....

HomeNews StarCraft II winding down new contentWhat’s next for the world of StarCraft? What’s next for the world of StarCraft? Ten years after theStarCraft IIsaga started and five after its final episode, Blizzard have announced they’re winding down development. They still plan to tweak balance, but won’t be making new paid content. Not putting a pillow over its spaceface, but shuffling it off to a spacehome. Their announcement also muttered about thinking about what’s next forStarCraft, though I wouldn’t take that as them announcing a sequel or anything just yet....

HomeReviews The ten-minute indie games of the 10mg collection reviewed in ten minutes eachA smorgasbord A smorgasbord Here’s a free tip for you, if you keep fish - you’re probably feeding them too much. Small fish, like guppies and tetras, might have big appetites, but they only have little tummies, so they prefer to eat little and often. Now: what if…video games?. There is a new indie dev collective called10mg- named, I assume, after a small amount of… some drugs?...

HomeNews Valve explain why Steam’s front page shows the games it showsWatch this video to learn Watch this video to learn Why does Steam’s front page show you the games it shows? Some of it’s algorithms, obvs, but whythose gamesforyou? And what about the rest? If you’ve ever wondered, do watch this twenty-minute video where two fellas from Valve’s Steam team explain it all. It is interesting to see which parts are curated and which are pure datamunching....

HomeNews Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition is out nowSo long, Nate So long, Nate After 15 years, Age Of Empires 3 returns today with a shiny new expanded version. Like the AOE 2 Def Ed before it,Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Editionpolishes up Ensemble’s historical real-time strategy game to play nice with modern computers, rolls in all the old expansions, and adds a few new things too. Considering we’ve still not got Nateback from AOE2, I dread to imagine what this might to do him....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 can be beaten in 7 minutes, apparently7 minutes isn’t even long enough for character creation. 7 minutes isn’t even long enough for character creation. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube The trick, really, lies in using the Jump transmutation spell to triple his hop height, leaping over every combat encounter and skipping through most of the game’s cutscenes. There’s one real testing point, in that the player needs to make a successful investigation check to make it through a well into the Whispering Depths....

HomeNewsSpace Crew Bomber Crew’s orbital follow-up Space Crew takes off todayMake it so. Make it so. Spaceships, it turns out, are kinda hard to operate. NASA aren’t sending folks up in shuttles all alone, after all. Released today,Bomber Crewfollow-upSpace Crewis a tactical management game that tasks you with the smooth operation of an interstellar starship, daring you to keep the lights on with slightly too-few crewmates while aliens remind you how desperately thin the hull plating is....

HomeHardwareNews Facebook is locking some Oculus Quest 2 owners out of their headsetsFacebook integration going well then, eh? Facebook integration going well then, eh? That’s no guarantee Facebook wont just suspend your account outright, mind. OneRedditorexplained that they were banned “within 10 minutes” of creating a new Facebook account and merging it with their 4-year-old Oculus account. Even after reportedly sending off their Driver’s License, Facebook explained that they had already reviewed the decision and would not be reversing it, leaving the hopeful buyer with a “new white paperweight”....

HomeFeaturesHearthstone Fight your dad and befriend a bear in the new Hearthstone single player contentGet Rexx’d Get Rexx’d As such,Hearthstone’s current single player content series, the Book Of Heroes, is a particular treat. Every month, starting from last month, the BoH unlocks a new series of eight linked boss fights, where you take on the role of one of Hearthstone’s ten emblematic class heroes, and fight through the landmark moments of their pretend careers....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Lucifer’s Atoms?Devil’s in the details Devil’s in the details It makes me a little bit sad sometimes, when I play something absolutely fascinating that also happens to have barely any chance of getting the recognition it deserves. These games aren’t confined to obscurity because of the ol' David & Goliath narrative of plucky indies and all-powerful AAA ogres, but because they seem to be made without a care for mass market appeal....

HomeFeaturesAge of Empires II: Definitive Edition Ships in the knight: an Age Of Empires 2 match reportThe ‘phant ‘em menace The ‘phant ‘em menace I’ve not posted aboutAge Of Empires 2in a while, because there’s been a lot of other things on, but I’m still plugging away with it - I start each day with a quick random match against the AI to keep my hand in, and once a week or so, I dare to enter the adrenaline-soaked APM hell of ranked multiplayer....