Square strategy Battles, meanwhile, resemble a flash-based tower-defence game from the mid-2000s. Each general can command up to 5 units, which line up in rows on the battlefield and duke it out with the opposing force. Many battles simply come down to strength of numbers, but there is a basic range of tactical options that can make a difference in close fights. You can order units to switch places on the battlefield, useful for giving your front line a break from the fighting and a chance to heal....

HomeNewsStardew Valley Stardew Valley’s next update will add “a significant new piece of endgame content"Maybe it’s Willy’s fish factory Maybe it’s Willy’s fish factory IfStardew Valleywere a flower it would be a perennial, constantly coming back each year with new blooms. Not long after releasing themassive 1.4 updatethat left a mark on every part of the game, developer ConcernedApe announced that he’d be working on yet another free content update. Over four years on, he’s still got plans for new additions, which will include some endgame content for update 1....

HomeNewsMortal Shell Try the Souls-y action of Mortal Shell in its free open betaIt’s good! It’s good! “We expected demand but nothing like this,” developers Cold Symmetryexplained. “We really didn’t want so many people to feel left out.” So now everyone can grab the open betafrom the Epic Games Store. The beta has trimmed out story spoilers so you can still go in fresh at launch. A lot of its land is off-limits too....

HomeNewsWatch Dogs 2 You can grab Watch Dogs 2 free during Ubisoft Forward on July 12You let the dogs out You let the dogs out Ubisoft’s big not-E3 showcase is scheduled for this Sunday, July 12th where they’ll be showing off new gameplay and trailers for upcoming games. As part of the event, they’re also letting you claim a free copy ofWatch Dogs 2for PC, though you’ll have to be fast....

HomeGuides Call of Duty: Warzone - Best FAL LoadoutFALbulous. FALbulous. Ever since Warzone’s Reloaded Season 4 update, the FAL has suddenly become a viable option both at long and close ranges - particularly close. This is thanks to its absurdly high damage numbers at short range with two tap kill potential if you hit those headshots.Here’s how to kit it out for both long and short ranges.Best FAL Loadout in WarzoneJust be warned, you’ll need to grit your teeth and level this thing up - a lot....

HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Mapmakers, mushrooms and unfortunate fashionMushroom road, take me home Mushroom road, take me home Screenshot Saturday Sundays! We’re having a particularly lazy Sunday afternoon this week, but that shouldn’t mean forgoing a stroll through the delights on offer through the #ScreenshotSaturday hashtag for our usual weekend viewing. This week: pastel cartography, mycelium cottages, data-corrupted highways from hell and squirrels. Small concept for the map editing#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/HJf6gbnM6a— samso__n (@samson_auroux)July 4, 2020...

HomeNewsCellular Harvest Cellular Harvest is an utterly alien ecosystem, captured on cameraHoundeye Snap Houndeye Snap Photography games are very in right now, haven’t you heard? Lifting off earlier this week,Cellular Harvestis a wonderfully relaxing short game about exploring vivid lo-fi wildernesses, capturing alien fauna on camera, and reporting back to HQ so your corporate overlords can turn all those creatures into bug juice. Shooting with cameras, not guns, doesn’t make you any less complacent in extinction it seems....

HomeHardwareNews Forget Ampere and RTX 3000, Nvidia’s next graphics card is… another GTX 1650?Super Ultra Mega cards Super Ultra Mega cards Next-gen graphics card fever has gripped the internet hard over the last couple of months, with rumours flying this way and that about the upcomingNvidia AmpereGPUs and the ray-tracing-capableBig Navicards. But the latest GPU gossip doing the rounds isn’t anything to do with Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series or the hotly rumouredRTX 3080andRTX 3090....

HomeFeaturesArise: A Simple Story Have You Played… Arise: A Simple Story?It’s really not complicated It’s really not complicated Arise: A Simple Storyis a game about the three Ls. No, not Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (a small joke for RPS Vid Bud fans, there), but life, love, and loss. You know, the BIGGIES. In it, you’re reliving the memories of a sweet old man as he journeys on to the after life, taking in everything from the breathless rush of childhood, where you’re bounding across giant sunflowers in the wind and hitching rides on the back of bumblebees, to the first blush of romance and the heartache of later life....

HomeNewsHorizon Zero Dawn Horizon Zero Dawn launches on PC August 7thJust over the Horizon Just over the Horizon Alright folks, start up the post-apocalyptic phone tree.Horizon Zero Dawnnow has a PC release date. Guerilla Games had previously announced plans for a summer release and then, to my equal parts joy and sadness, revealed a trailer for the sequel before gracing PC players with a date for the original. Well that’s solved now....

HomeNewsThe Settlers Medieval town builder The Settlers has been delayed “until further notice"Settle down for a while Settle down for a while Town-building simulationThe Settlershas been in the works for a while but it will be some more whiles yet before it launches. Ubisoft have announced that the upcoming eighth entry to the Settlers series is delayed so the team can work on responding to fan feedback. A new date hasn’t yet been chosen....

HomeGuidesMinecraft: Dungeons Minecraft Dungeons Jungle Awakens: how to unlock Panda PlateauHow to unlock the Dingy Jungle secret How to unlock the Dingy Jungle secret Minecraft Dungeons isn’t all that old, but there were plenty of secret levels waiting to be unlocked. The Jungle Awakens DLC also has its own secret level and it is quite well hidden.This level has quite a few pandas that you need to rescue from their undead captors....

HomeNewsBefore I Forget Narrative exploration game Before I Forget launches in JulyA bitterwseet exploration A bitterwseet exploration The first game from indie studio 3-Fold Games is a bittersweet one.Before I Forgetis a first-person exploration game about a woman with early onset dementia uncovering her past. Despite that, 3-Fold call it “delicate and atmospheric,” as the main character remembers details about her life and partner. It will release on July 16th....