HomeNewsTownscaper Townscaper’s new lighting update is absolutely gorgeousOh, I do like to be beside the seaside. Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside. Procedural village-builderTownscaperwas already a delight. A wonderfully tactile little tool for popping together quaint wee archipelagos with a look you could easily slap on a postcard. It’s frankly rude, then, that developer Oskar Stålberg has gone and made it even prettier in a new update, letting you move the sun itself to paint your perfect little seaside getaway....

HomeGuidesBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3: How to restLearn how to Short and Long Rest in Baldur’s Gate 3 Learn how to Short and Long Rest in Baldur’s Gate 3 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Want to know how to rest in Baldur’s Gate 3?When you’re low on HP or Spell Slots inBaldur’s Gate 3, you’ll need to rest. Resting is split into two types: Short and Long Rests....

HomeNewsBorderlands 3 Borderlands 3’s Bloody Harvest is back and less grindy this yearLots of loot to spook Lots of loot to spook Tis the season for online games to get all haunted for a few weeks.Borderlands 3’s Bloody Harvest is back with more skins to earn and spooks to shoot. It’s on from now until November 5th, so you’ve got some time to check it out alongside all the other in-game events on your schedule....

HomeNewsBugsnax Bugsnax releases its weird, unsettling adventure into the wild on November 12This is fine.jpg This is fine.jpg I still barely know whatBugsnaxis about. At surface level, it’s apparently an island full of semi-sentient snack foods and the colorful Muppet-like folks who’ve arrived to research them. There’s definitely more to it than that, and we’ll all only have a bit longer to wait to figure out its secrets for ourselves.Bugsnaxlaunches on November 12th, which they’ve announced via an uncanny video showcasing their voice cast....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2: Beyond Light’s new intro for newbies sounds good, as does reducing armour mod faffSo long, Hive Barrier! So long, Hive Barrier! WhileDestiny 2welcomed a whole lot of new players when it went free-to-play last October, it didn’t do much more than open the door and gesture broadly in the direction of a 100-person party raging across every room of the house. New players are dropped in at the deep end, and it’s not fun....

HomeHardwareNews Just how good are AMD’s first 4K Big Navi benchmarks compared to the RTX 3080?We put AMD’s Big Navi benchmarks head to head with the RTX 3080. We put AMD’s Big Navi benchmarks head to head with the RTX 3080. Yesterday, AMD gave us our first glimpse of what their upcoming RX 6000Big Navigraphics cards will be able achieve at 4K. While the bulk of theirZen 3 eventwas centred around theirRyzen 5000 CPUs, we also got a first look at their first Big Navi GPU in action, runningBorderlands 3on its top Badass quality settings at an average of 61fps....

HomeNewsSilent Hill: Shattered Memories Sam Barlow plans to make a Silent Hill: Shattered Memories-sorta game againBut not an official Silent Hill But not an official Silent Hill Sam Barlow, the writer and designer ofSilent Hill: Shattered Memories, has been muttering about plans to make a follow-up of sorts to the 2009 horror game. Not a sequel nor even a game with ‘Silent Hill’ in the name, but a spiritual successor combining bits of that with lessons he’s learned from making other games and a bit of extra oomph....

HomeFeatures The best free demos from the Steam Autumn FestivalBest of fest! Forget the rest! Best of fest! Forget the rest! Steam returns with actual hundreds of free demos for its Autumn Festival. I am but one woman, so I could never get through them all, but I have played what I would characterise asa lotover the past two days. My own personal labour of Hercules was undertaken so that I could bring you, the reader, a list of my favourite demos to provide, if not an exhaustive list, then at least a jumping off point....

HomeNewsThe Medium The Medium launches spirit world horror on December 10thChanneling more horror for you Channeling more horror for you We’re in the thick of spooky season right now, but not to worry there’s plenty left to come even after October ends. Bloober Team (ofLayers Of FearandObserverfame) are summoningThe Mediumthis year. Their dual-world psychological horror game is launching on December 10th. To mark the announcement,The Mediumgot a new trailer showing off some of its environments....

HomeNewsRogue The original roguelike, Rogue, is releasing on SteamYup, that smiley face is you Yup, that smiley face is you Neat news in the world of Rogue-likers,Rogueitself is getting a Steam release later this month. That’s right, no flashy graphics here. Just good ol' text characters as the Dungeons of Doom were meant to be experienced. It will be available on October 20th. If you’ve forgotten what Rogue was like before rogue-likes, here’s your refresher course, courtesy of publisher Pixel Games UK: “In the early 1980s, a computer game emerged that changed the world of fantasy gaming forever....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Your Baldur’s Gate 3 character is probably boring, Larian sayLarian’s outed you, self-inserters Larian’s outed you, self-inserters Yup, that’s right. You spent 45 minutes inBaldur’s Gate 3’s character creator looking at drow and tieflings, considering horns and tails and beards, oh my. Then you said “oh, to hell with it” and made a human Cleric with your own skin and eye color whose face is just a little more attractive than yours....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 devs would like an RTX 3080 already, thanks3080? What 3080? 3080? What 3080? Were you lucky enough to grab an RTX 3080 on release? No? Well, at least you’re in good company, because it sounds like the developers ofBaldur’s Gate 3weren’t able to get their hands on one either. Another hotfix for the early access RPG arrived today to fix some technical troubles and multiplayer woes, including some GPU-specific problems that might’ve been avoided if Larian had access to hardware they’re not convinced even exists....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3’s first patch has fixed several crash bugsBugs? Sounds like you’ve got druid troubles Bugs? Sounds like you’ve got druid troubles Larian Studios slapped a wee hotfix onBaldur’s Gate 3last night, addressing some of the more pressing technical issues. Most notably, it fixed a number of crash bugs in the fantasy RPG. This is only the first patch on another journey through early access for the makers ofDivinity: Original Sin 2....