HomeNews They were told it had to be “better than Tolkien” I remember whenMike Laidlaw revealed he had joined Ubisoft Quebeca couple of years ago. What a match! The former lead designer forDragon Ageworking with the studio that created the brilliant Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. Surprisingly,Laidlaw announced his departure from Ubijust a year later, which a report revealed today was shortly after the game he was working on was cancelled. Even worse, we now know what that game could’ve been - an Arthurian fantasy RPG....

HomeReviewsCarrion Carrion reviewSandwich Artist’s The Thing Sandwich Artist’s The Thing Carrionhas fleeting moments of brilliance. You might have seen those moments, in the GIFs that have been popping up on Twitter over the course of the Metroidvania monster mash’s development. It’s a shame, then, that the brilliance doesn’t last beyond the frames of a looping animation. The game’s greatest delights exist within the wriggling mass of meat and gristle at the centre of the screen....

HomeNewsCloud Gardens Cloud Gardens will cultivate ruined urban ecosystems later this yearHome grown Home grown If there’s one thing we can all seem to agree on, it’s that human civilisation will make a beautiful corpse - A quiet reassurance to the idea that, even once we’ve all bitten the dust, life will find a way to carry on regardless of the concrete messes we leave behind. Announced today,Cloud Gardenswants you to tend to those spaces, helping life flourish from urban decay when it arrives on Steam next year....

HomeFeaturesMegaquarium Have You Played… Megaquarium?World of tanks World of tanks Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Look, we’ve not got time for life histories here. If you’ve read anything of mine on this site or elsewhere, you’ll know full well I really like, y’know, fish and that. Sea Geezers. Damp Daniels. The Wet Squad. Call them what you will, I’m into them....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Highlander Galakrond Shaman deck list guide - Scholomance Academy - Hearthstone (August 2020)Scholomance has brought a whole bunch of tools for all the classes - here’s a take on Shaman. Scholomance has brought a whole bunch of tools for all the classes - here’s a take on Shaman. Galakrond and his contemporaries had to be nerfed to hell for the Shaman class back at the beginning of Descent of Dragons....

HomeGuidesValorant How does Valorant Ranked work - How to rank upHere’s how the ranked system works. Here’s how the ranked system works. SinceValorant’s official launch, Riot’s has slowly trickled in new features and updates to keep the game moving in the right direction. One of these features is a much anticipated ranked/competitive mode for those who want to get serious, climb a ladder, and prove that they’re the best out of all their mates....

HomeReviewsMaid Of Sker Maid Of Sker reviewIt’s over now, the music of the night It’s over now, the music of the night Maid Of Skeris a first-person survivalhorror game, which makes the name a bit confusing because it’s pronounced like “Made Of Scare”. Sadly, this isn’t a very good description ofMaid Of Sker, because although there are some good and creepsome bits in it, this isn’t a game made for jump scare compilations on YouTube, nor it is suffused with a creeping, lingering dread....

HomeNewsPhantasy Star Online 2 Phantasy Star Online 2 dons a hazard suit for next month’s Steam launchRise and shine, anime Freeman. Rise and shine, anime Freeman. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Now, Sega have announced that PSO2 is coming to a little platform called Steam - and as is the done thing these days, is arriving with a heap of crossover cosmetics with Valve’s catalogue. Swapping out your sci-fi rifles for the Heavy’s minigun or lettingPortal 2’s Wheatley follow you about is fun enough, sure, but there’s something deeply strange with PSO2’s anime reimaginings of Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance....

HomeNews Red Dead Online is getting a “naturalism” Frontier Pursuit todayJust let me be friends with the wildlife, Rockstar Just let me be friends with the wildlife, Rockstar Rockstar is inviting you to become one with nature inRed Dead Onlinetoday. At least, I’m reasonably sure that’s what they mean. They’re introducing a new Frontier Pursuit “that will introduce players to the secrets of naturalism”, which sounds a lot like you’ll be able to become a hunter, or maybe just make friends with the animals....

HomeNewsGrounded Shrink down into Obsidian’s survival game Grounded, out in early access todayI wonder what sorts of bugs you’ll be fighting I wonder what sorts of bugs you’ll be fighting If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to become a very tiny child forced to survive in the jungle that is your own back garden, well, today is your day. Obsidian’s Honey I Shrunk TheKids-like,Grounded, releases in early access at around 6pm BST, inviting you to make spears out of twigs and create armour from the carcasses of your buggy foes....

HomeNewsDestroy All Humans! The Destroy All Humans! PC remake is out nowWe do have it coming We do have it coming Moaning about bad titles is easy money in this job, but now and then you get to complain because a game’s title pretty much explains itself, critically undermining your introduction. Destroy All Humans!is a remake of the mid-2000s action game about wacky 1950s aliens who’ve come to Earth to harvest brains and blow everything up for kicks....

HomeNews World Of Warcraft Classic begins the war to open Ahn’Qiraj todayKnock knock? Knock knock? Brought your bug repellant, adventurers?World Of Warcraft Classicis going back to Silithus to revisit the game’s most notorious bug hunt. Today’s update for the throwback MMO is preparing to re-open the lost Silithid empire of Ahn’Qiraj - which is to say that the long and arduous task of funding an army, piecing together an ancient staff worthy of a Scarab Lord, and knocking down that stubborn door at the bottom of the world has once again begun in earnest....

HomeNewsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive Counter-Strike: GO has swapped in a couple of player-made mapsAnd it’s gotten rid of a couple old ones, too And it’s gotten rid of a couple old ones, too These new maps will be available in the Casual, Deathmatch and Scrimmage game modes, and you can take a peek at a gallery of areas you’ll be fighting in onthe Counter-Strike blog. If you don’t fancy going over there, though, here’s a few I’ve picked out for you:...