HomeNews Call Of Duty: Black Ops CIA is this year’s game, leaks sayStill no official word Still no official word Bits and pieces have been leaking around for ages.The Microsoft Storehas a listing for ‘The Red Door’ from Activision, which is not currently publicly available. “There is more than one truth, it says. “If you go looking for answers, be ready to question everything and accept that nothing will ever be the same....

HomeHardwareFeaturesDeath Stranding Even Death Stranding’s ultrawide resolutions find a way to be weirdUltrawide load Ultrawide load Death Strandinghas had several lovely upgrades for its PC release, including uncapped frame rates, 4K resolution support andNvidia’s DLSS 2.0 tech. But the one I’ve been most looking forward to trying out is its 21:9 ultrawide monitor support. After all,Death Strandingis effectively Beautiful Landscape: The Game in addition to being a surprisingly engrossing postman sim, and seeing its huge, expansive vistas in all their ultrawide and post-apocalyptic glory has definitely enhanced my overall enjoyment of it....

HomeFeaturesFallout 76 Fallout 76 is at its best when you play it slowlyOpting out Opting out I’m still enjoyingFallout 76partly because it makes it much easier to ignore the things I usually gripe about in MMOs. That’s not to say it isn’t naggy (and the recently added public teams pop up a notification with a noise that startles me almost every time I’m creeping up on something), nor immune to the usual MMO diseases....

HomeFeaturesEmperor: rise of the middle kingdom Have You Played… Emperor: Rise Of The Middle Kingdom?Crab Siu Mai Crab Siu Mai I could go into great detail about all the various ways in which E:ROTMK refined the Impressions formula into something magnificent, with its sweeping progress through thousands of years of Chinese history. But these retrospectives are short, fleeting things, and so I want to focus on one particular facet of nostalgia: the fact that every time I go back to replay Emperor, it makes me really, really hungry....

HomeNewsRogue Company Hi-Rez’s new shooter Rogue Company is now in paid betaA bit CS-ish? A bit CS-ish? Hi-Rez Studios, the makers ofSmiteand Tribes: Ascend, today launched their latest multiplayer game.Rogue Companyis a class-based, third-person shooter which, from what I’ve seen, looks like an arcade-y kinda Counter-Strike thing. Not quite sure. Here’s the launch trailer which makes the game look like something entirely different.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsAnd here’s a gameplay vid from a few days ago which actually shows what it is:To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeNews Mass Effect art book listing rekindles rumours of a remastered trilogy in MarchStill no announcement Still no announcement The new version of Dark Horse’s art book has not been officially announced either, you know. But theAmazon listingsays this expanded edition “contains extensive new material from the DLCs for all three games–including the award-winning ‘Lair Of The Shadow Broker’ fromMass Effect 2and the fan-favorite ‘Citadel’ fromMass Effect 3.” It adds that the book “is the ultimate companion to one of the greatest series in the history of gaming!...

HomeNewsShadow Warrior 3 Shadow Warrior 3 shows off 17 more minutes of gameplayGetting back into the swing of things Getting back into the swing of things Shadow Warrior 3won’t launch until next year, but hey here’s some extra blood, guns, and katanas to pore over ‘till then. Devolver Digital have published a new gameplay video tearing through “Way to Motoko” and a fight with that there Slinky Jakku thing.The new video has plenty ofShadow Warriorshooting and slashing but it also shows off that new grappling hook that Lo Wang will be sporting in the third game....

HomeNewsBugsnax The “It’s Bugsnax!” song launches today, with more Bugsnax reveals coming next weekA Bugsnax reveal is coming July 27th A Bugsnax reveal is coming July 27th Look, we’re all worn out from this summer-long celebration of FakE3, right? What better way to wind down than with the digital release of thatBugsnaxbop and someBugsnax-related reveals? The former’s out today, with a vinyl release planned for later. The later is coming next week on Monday, July 27th....

HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Beksiński, brutalist botany, and a lunar curseMoon’s haunted. Moon’s haunted. Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s time for our weekly foray into the swamps of Twitter’s screenshotsaturday hashtag, fishing out the juiciest gifs, videos and in-development jpegs we can find for the afternoon’s pleasure. This week: moon’s haunted, but we’ve also got concrete gardening, low-fi adaptations, and crunchy cosmic billiards. Too worried to pick up a few houseplants for fear of killing them?...

HomeNews Fault is using Paragon’s bones to revive Epic’s deceased MOBADo it yourself Do it yourself See, after Paragon bit the dust, Epic releasedthousands of the game’s models, environments, animations and more, all free to use for Unreal Engine 4 games. For developers Strange Matter, this was a blessing - a chance to bring their favourite MOBA back to life, with all the tools they needed to make it happen....

HomeHardwareFeatures Henry Cavill’s good, but he’s got nothing on these five celebrity PC buildsStatham, Lansbury, Elba, Rudd and Lizzo reveal their secrets Statham, Lansbury, Elba, Rudd and Lizzo reveal their secrets Lovable television strongman Henry Cavill overclocked hearts around the world when hedocumented his latest PC buildon Instagram this week, reminding us all once again that even Hollywood A-listers with inhuman physiques can turn out to be giant, lovable nerds on the inside....

HomeFeaturesBeyond a Steel Sky Beyond A Steel Sky’s hacker tool is the best toy everI’m in I’m in Beyond A Steel Skyis a 3D point-and-click adventure game which is the sequel to 1994’s 2D point-and-click-adventure game Beneath A Steel Sky. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t play the first one, although some knowledge is helpful. You play as Robert Foster, returning to a futuristic city-state he freed from an evil AI ten years ago, because new bad things are afoot (these involving kidnapping children from the land outside the city)....

HomeNewsFae Tactics Fae Tactics launches classic turn-based battles on July 31stFinal faetasy Final faetasy “Follow a young magic user named Peony on her journey across a vibrant world full of mystery and danger,” say Endlessfluff Games. “Summon allies, cast spells, and befriend a motley crew of characters as you dive into the growing conflicts between man and magical beings known as fae.” To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings...