HomeNewsBugsnax Bugsnax reveals more bizarre sentient food action with new gameplay trailerEdible kicks in Edible kicks in Since time was exposed as a capitalist scam, I have less problem accepting thatBugsnaxfirst revealed itself two months ago. The surreal action adventure about fuzzy muppety creatures eating and then becoming walking strawberries now has a more revealing trailer. It looks more approachable but still pretty weird. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube...

HomeNewsControl Control’s Alan Wake expansion comes out this monthAWE does not stand for Alan Wake Expansion, but it should AWE does not stand for Alan Wake Expansion, but it should So it is,the rumoursare true. After months of speculation on whether or notAlan Wakemight make an appearance inControl, Remedy Entertainment have revealed that he will indeed be in the game’s next DLC, AWE. You won’t have to wait long to see him either, because it releases on August 27th....

HomeFeaturesPac-Man Championship Edition DX+ Have You Played… Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+?Who knew Pac-Man could be tense? Who knew Pac-Man could be tense? Can you honestly say with a straight face thatPac-Manhas seen the same success he once saw 40 years ago? He’s been rebooted an embarrassing number of times; I still have nightmares about his “Ghostly Adventures”. However, I’d argue thatPac-Man Championship Edition DX+(or Pac-Man DX+ for short) was one of the two times that Bandai Namco were onto something great....

HomeNews Here’s some QuakeCon At Home highlights to tune in toTune in Tune in QuakeCon At Home is live this weekendon Twitch, though it really should be called BethFest when you look at the schedule. The event has moved wholly online thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the rescheduled celebration of id’s and Bethesda’s games has anintriguing schedule. Here are a few of the highlights. A warning: Quakecon is an American event, so if you’re in the UK or Europe, some of these will be broadcast at an ungodly hour, but it’s on Twitch and the previous Quakecon broadcasts are archived there, so you won’t need to watch them live....

HomeNewsHood: Outlaws & Legends Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a new PvPvE multiplayer heist game based on Robin HoodA real steal A real steal Each team has to steal a treasure chest from The State, the oppressive government who’s hoarding all the wealth. Teamwork is key to both locating the treasure and escaping with it. There’s a small in-game moment in the trailer below (that’s otherwise heavily CGI-based) that shows a beast of a man holding up a gate as his team sprints on through it....

HomeNews Rocksteady’s next game is probably Suicide Squad Kill The Justice LeagueI see DC I see DC For years, there have been rumours that theBatman: Arkham Citydevelopers Rocksteady Studios were working on a Suicide Squad game. We dispatched our own squads to check out those rumours, but each time they vanished forever. Turns out we needn’t have bothered with the one we sent out last week, because now the game has been confirmed in a tweet from the studio that shows a miserable looking Superman with a Suicide Squad target on his head....

HomeFeaturesCauldrons of War - Barbarossa The Flare Path: Stirs CauldronsBarbarossa boiled down Barbarossa boiled down Are we capable of coding an AI that will play this game competently and plausibly?I wish more wargame developers asked themselves this question early in the design process, and treated answers of “possibly” and “not sure” as reasons to head back to the drawing board. If they did we’d have less warfare fare but more games that convince and challenge the wayCauldrons of War: Barbarossaconvinces and challenges....

HomeNews 3 Out Of 10 is a weekly playable sitcom, free on EpicLights, Camera… Lights, Camera… We’ve got sitcoms based on game development, so hows about repaying the favour with a playable comedy series? That’s the idea behind3 Out Of 10, an interactive animated series fromMothergunshipdevelopers Terrible Posture Games. Debuting on the Epic Games Store today, each week should see the release of a new episode following the hijinks of a hapless gamedev studio trying to create their first half-decent hit....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends digs in for a new season with new legend RampartHeavy weapons, incoming. Heavy weapons, incoming. Playing defensively rarely pans out inApex Legends- at least, it’s never panned out for me. But then, I’ve never had a whopping great turreted machine gun to help lock down Skulltown. That’s all set to change later this month with the addition of scrappy mechanic Rampart and her life partner Sheila, arriving as part ofApex Legends' sixth season on August 18th....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077’s second Night City Wire stream is coming next weekCD Projekt Red have more info to share on life paths and weaponry CD Projekt Red have more info to share on life paths and weaponry We’re only a week away from our next dive intoCyberpunk 2077’s neon-filled Night City, as CD Projekt Red have just announced their next Night City Wire showcase will be streamed on August 10th....

HomeFeaturesBloodstained: Ritual of the Night Have You Played… Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night?A not-so miserable pile of secrets A not-so miserable pile of secrets Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.So that Kickstarter thing eh? People have funded more stinkers than gems, but I think the biggest success wasBloodstained: Ritual Of The Night.In my university years, I didn’t have a lot of money to spend on games....

HomeHardwareFeaturesHorizon Zero Dawn Horizon Zero Dawn is properly lovely in ultrawide, most of the timeBroaden your horizons Broaden your horizons Guerrilla Games have really gone to town on the PC port ofHorizon Zero Dawn. Not only have they unlocked the game’s frame rate and added in shinier graphics presets to give itPS4-beating performanceon relatively low-end hardware, but it’s also one of 2020’s big PC games to get 21:9 ultrawide support. The latter is something I’ve been particularly looking forward to after the superb ultrawide shenanigans of its Decima Engine-sharing stablemateDeath Stranding, and so I thought I’d take a closer look at howHorizon Zero Dawn’s 21:9 support works on PC, showing you what it looks like at 3440x1440 and how it deals with the game’s cutscenes....

HomeNews Ninja streamed on Twitch yesterday for the first time since Mixer diedHe’s already reached Twitch Affiliate… again He’s already reached Twitch Affiliate… again In what might be considered an unsurprising move, Ninja was back on Twitch yesterday - if only for a brief couple of hours. He played a bit ofFortnite’s new Joyride update with Dr Lupo in his first stream on the platform since he left for Microsoft’s now-dead Mixer last year....