HomeFeaturesCrusader Kings III How fast can you die in Crusader Kings 3?You come at the Pope, you best not miss You come at the Pope, you best not miss Yesterday, I dived into the magical world of themedCrusader Kings IIIplaythroughs, with this sobering exploration of what a man’s life might look likeif he cared for nothing except banging giants. I may return to my nightmare re-imagining of C12th Estonia at some point, but not today....

HomeFeatures Remember how great ASCII art used to be in game guides?90s kids, memories 90s kids, memories I used to sit up reading these in the 90s and 00s, a little goblin who wasn’t yet good enough to complete these games without help. You reached out to me, guides writers, and you never even knew it. And the true marker of the dedication of these artisans can be seen in one thing: the ASCII art of game titles they put in at the top of their work....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves adds good dogs and treasure vaults next weekI promised myself I would remain calm about this game getting dogs, but man is it a struggle I promised myself I would remain calm about this game getting dogs, but man is it a struggle The next bigSea Of Thievesupdate is right around the corner, bringing new four-legged friends, new gold hoarders missions, and loads more good stuff on September 9th....

HomeHardwareNews World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands minimum PC requirements now include HDDs againLong live HDDs. Long live HDDs. After yesterday’s kerfuffle overWorld Of Warcraft: Shadowlands' PC requirementslisting an SSD as the minimum type of storage supported, Blizzard have now updated the game’s minimum requirements to include good old-fashioned HDDs as well. In theirupdated support articleon the subject, the storage entry for WOW’sShadowlandsexpansion now includes both SSDs and HDDs, with the extra clarification that “player experience may be impacted on HDD” depending on the drive’s performance....

HomeHardwareNews Fortnite is getting ray tracing and DLSS support for some reasonComing in Fortnite Chapter 2’s fourth season. Coming in Fortnite Chapter 2’s fourth season. The number ofconfirmed ray tracing and DLSS gamesis still pretty small at time of writing, but today’s bigNvidia Amperereveal added another key addition to the slowly growing line-up:Fortnite. I’m not entirely sure why, given its art style largely consists of big, blocky worlds and colourful cartoon characters, but hey, if you’ve been particularly looking forward to doing battle with Fortnite’szero-chill sharkswith added ray traced reflections, you’ll be able to get your RTX on fix at some point during Fortnite Chapter 2’s fourth season....

HomeNewsFortnite Fortnite’s Black Panther statue becomes an impromptu memorialWakanda forever. Wakanda forever. Fortnite’s big cat probably wasn’t planned to be a memorial to the late actor, mind. Rather, it’s inclusion is likely just part of the game’s currentMarvel crossover event, which has seen comic book “rifts” appear all over the island. But asEurogamerreports, that hasn’t stopped grieving players from paying tribute via the statue. On jumping into a game for a look myself, I found at least two players kneeling peacefully at the foot of the colossal, obsidian cat - a quiet savannah ambience muting the gunfights going on a few towns over....

HomeNewsCrusader Kings III Have you met the party baron of Crusader Kings 3?Top lad, that Baron. Top lad, that Baron. Wait, you don’t know the Party Baron ofCrusader Kings 3? Aw, mate, he’s only an absolute ledge. Best bants in all the kingdom, I tell ya, throws the best parties from here to the Holy Roman Empire. While it looks like he’s scarpered from the game’s final release, tales of the legendary host (and some fantastic placeholder art) appear to have helped shape the grand strategy’s tangle of plots, intrigue, and colourful characters....

HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch’s Bastion gets the attack helicopter buff he never needed in a new modThey were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should Ah, theOverwatchWorkshop. It’s an excellent tool for creating all sorts of wacky modded game modes in Blizzard’s colourful hero shooter, and players have produced some real gems with it since it was added....

HomeNewsPath of Exile Path of Exile’s Heist expansion is going for the big score this monthI’m in I’m in Path Of Exile, Grinding Gear Games' huge free-to-play action RPG, has a new expansion - Heist - coming on September 18th. The titular Heists are the main pull, in which you charge into various dungeons and strongholds with your team of goons, get as much loot as you can, and escape before you’re caught and killed....

HomeNewsPendragon Pendragon jots down a September release dateStories, strategy, and stabbing aplenty. Stories, strategy, and stabbing aplenty. To celebrate the release date reveal, the wordsmiths at Inkle have drawn up a new gameplay trailer. It’s a fine night for another story, after all. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Pendragonis, as the Steam page puts it, an “infinitely replayable” dark ages epic that lets you trudge across ye olde Britain as any one of the Knights of the Round Table (plus friends) in an attempt to bring the band back together....

HomeNewsSpace Crew Space Crew takes Bomber Crew’s misadventures into orbit in October3… 2… 1… oh no 3… 2… 1… oh no After bumbling through World War 2 withBomber Crew, developers Runner Duck will return with the crew management game’s sequel,Space Crewon the 15th of October. Once again we’ll be building a crew, customising our vessel, and issuing folks orders so they can complete missions without crashing and burning ordropping your lunch over Birmingham, but in space....

HomeReviewsTell Me Why Tell Me Why reviewTime and memory are slippery things Time and memory are slippery things If you’ve playedLife Is StrangeorLife Is Strange 2, you probably know roughly what to expect from Dontnod’s new story-focused adventure about about small towns and intense familial relationships,Tell Me Why. However, whereas LIS focused more on the teen experience of these themes, Tell My Why feels more like it’s been made for grown-ups - or at least us as grown-ups and not the teenagers within us....

HomeHardwareNews World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands PC requirements calls for an SSDRIP hard disk drives. RIP hard disk drives. World Of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion is getting a formal release on October 27th, but Blizzard’s recentlyupdated PC requirementsfor the game have been causing quite a stink among its player base. While the minimum CPU and GPU requirements haven’t changed all that much, the minimum storage requirement now seems to imply that you need an SSD to play WOW’sShadowlandsexpansion rather than a traditional HDD....