HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Day-glo zombies and a dream of jeansScreens, dreams and jeans Screens, dreams and jeans Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s been an absolutely roasting weekend, folks, so let’s chill out in the shade and crack open a refreshing can of work-in-progress screenshots, videos and ice-cold gifs. This week: cross-dimensional translation, precarious hangouts, neon zombie raves and (not quite) pong. Yes, I said Pong. Our first game’s no looker in the traditional sense, but it’s one hell of a neat concept....

HomeNewsHalo Infinite Halo Infinite’s deathmatches are going free-to-playHalo 3? Halo free. Halo 3? Halo free. Halo: Infinite’s campaign might be torn between nostalgic throwback and open-world reinvention, but we’ve still got no ruddy clue what’s going on with the series' multiplayer come November. Well, whatever form it takes, there is one thing for certain - jumping around with your Spartan-II pals won’t cost a penny. Following quiet rumblings earlier this week, 343 Industries have confirmed that yes, Halo’s multiplayer murderings are going free-to-play....

HomeNews Rock Paper Sock is Sokpop’s earnest homage to RunescapeFrankly, I prefer shotguns. Frankly, I prefer shotguns. Get away from me, scissor wizard! But the real charm is in how surprisingly pointed Sokpop’s MMO is in taking Jagex' venerable MMO down a peg. Look. Runescape’s combat has always been pants. A blind dice roll where the decision of whether to stab, slash or block rarely feels meaningful outside of what skill number you’re pushing up....

HomeNews The best Halo, ODST, begins closed testing this monthStrong, silent type. Strong, silent type. From weary old gorillas to graphical japes, we’ve all had our fun withHalo Infiniteover the last few weeks. But haud on, we’ve still got the rest ofHalo: The Master Chief Collectionto get through before finishing that particular fight. This month, 343 will begin closed insider flighting forHalo 3: ODST, Master Chief’s moody, jazz-noir cousin that’s secretly the best of the bunch....

HomeNewsWarframe Warframe’s Heart Of Deimos expansion has two giant worms eternally battling for gloryA new open world, customisable warframe powers, and lots of alien bugs await you A new open world, customisable warframe powers, and lots of alien bugs await you Warframe’s gone and infested an entire moon with creepy crawlies for its Heart Of Deimos expansion. Shown properly for the first timeduring today’s Waframe fan event livestream, the expansion also includes other cool stuff, like customisableWarframepowers and a huge new open world area....

HomeNewsBanners of Ruin Animal deck-builder Banners Of Ruin enters early accessLook at those burly bears Look at those burly bears In any situation where you can choose to have animals on your team you should definitely pick bears, which is part of what looks lovely about turn-based deck-building gameBanners Of Ruin. You assemble a team of six grim-faced animal warriors, presumably meaning that I could pick six bears if I were so inclined—and oh am I ever inclined....

HomeGuidesAssassin’s Creed Odyssey Assassin’s Creed Odyssey cultists - all the Cult of Kosmos locationsHow to find and slay the cultist sages How to find and slay the cultist sages Assassinating them all becomes one of Alexios or Kassandra’s main focuses of their odyssey. To work out who the major players are and where to find them, you need to kill their subordinates and gather clues that lead you to the sages, and their leader....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 might not cap player levels to ten after allLevel with me Level with me Baldur’s Gate 3will probably be herenext month, and it’s still unclear where it will land on the critical issue of a level cap. Developers Larian previously stated ina Reddit AMAthat their upcoming sequel will cover levels one to ten, but in our recent interview, lead systems designer Nick Pechenin said that this isn’t certain, as they’re still weighing it up....

HomeNewsHellpoint Hellpoint is an action RPG where Dead Space meets Dark Souls, out nowNice ‘n’ gribbly Nice ‘n’ gribbly Alright,Dark Soulsfans. You know the drill.Hellpointis an optionally-cooperative “intense action RPG”. It’s all gloom and shortcuts, and it’s out right now. For some reason developers Cradle Games aren’t billing it as a Souls ‘em up but I’m onto them. I’ve a weakness for universes that mash up magic and tech in interesting ways....

HomeFeaturesMinecraft I visited Minecraft’s infinite dimensions and all I got was this lousy rainbow hyperscapeThe Quantum Of Sausage The Quantum Of Sausage A lot of people, quite reasonably, didn’t pay much attention to April Fool’s Day this year. I certainly didn’t, so I only vaguely noticed Mojang announcing aMinecraftupdate that would give the game infinite, Enter-The-Spiderverse-Style dimensions to explore. It was cute, I figured, but not really the most convincing fake announcement....

HomeNewsMonster Crown Monster Crown enters early access with classic Pokemon-like battlesGotta pact ‘em all Gotta pact ‘em all Are we ready to fully accept Pokemon-like as a genre now? If so, this one probably takes the crown. Because it’s actually called—yeah you get it. For real though,Monster Crowndoes definitely have the most classic Pokemon vibes of the bunch compared with other recent critter catchers likeTemtemorOoblets. Just like those other two,Monster Crownis starting out in early access as of today....

HomeNews Overwatch’s Orisa nearly got an ability that let her teleport across the map"I was sort of imaging a character more like Dutch from Predator" “I was sort of imaging a character more like Dutch from Predator” Imagine you’re having a scuffle in Blizzard’s funky little FPS,Overwatch. Most of the enemy team is here, except one of their tanks is definitely missing. That’s when you see it - a drop pod hurtling down from the sky....

HomeNews Red Dead Redemption 2 Online may get a Halloween Outlaw PassIt’s probably not Undead Nightmare 2, unless? It’s probably not Undead Nightmare 2, unless? There was a Halloween update for RDO last year, including a limited timeFear Of The DarkPvP mode, but us PC folks had barely gotten our hands on the game at that time. This year, it looks like we might get plenty of time to creep through a Halloween update and a dedicated Outlaw Pass of rewards to go with it....