HomeFeaturesValorant People’s private names for Valorant map spots are delightfulSee you at Kitty Cat See you at Kitty Cat Valorantis great, when it isn’t making me sad. So goes myValorant review. Friends are a key component of Riot’s snazzy new wizard FPS, primarily because they won’t (usually) swear at you when you do something stupid. A nice side benefit, though, is that you wind up with your own private and superior ways of describing parts of the map....

HomeFeatures The 9 worst scientists in PC gamesOne Off The List One Off The List Science, the most difficult of the arts. We are trained from toddlerhood to respect and fear the products of scientific advancement, such as the selfie sticks or mechanical pencil. The unsurpassed boffins who create such devices are worthy of admiration. But there is one realm in which science is not such a gentle guardian of the people....

HomeNews Ubisoft commit to “fundamental changes” following abuse allegationsStill investigating allegations Still investigating allegations Following a series ofallegations of sexual harrassment and abuseagainst multiple Ubisoft employees at several studios, the company have laid out more of their plan to change. “We have significant work to do to improve the ways in which we operate and collaborate, and I am personally committed to ensuring we make these fundamental changes,” Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said....

HomeNews Ubisoft Forward teaser reveals some of the games coming to the July 12th showcaseAll eyes forward All eyes forward It’s a 33 second video but you’re only getting 13 seconds of games mashed in between Ubisoft’s biggo logo. Each shot is a split between two games though so maybe that makes it 26 seconds. Ah, Maths, here ya go: To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings...

HomeNews A Fallout TV show is on the way from the makers of WestworldLights, Camera, Nuclear Winter Lights, Camera, Nuclear Winter War never changes, but prestige TV sure can. Today, Bethesda announced that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, creators of HBO’s Westworld, are taking their cinematic lens toFallout, working with Amazon Studios to create a post-apocalyptic telly show based on the long-running nuke ‘em up RPG. Hold on, though - a darkly comic show about robot cowboys, deserts and conspiracies?...

HomeGuides Call of Duty: Warzone - Best Rytec AMR LoadoutHow to kit your Rytec AMR. How to kit your Rytec AMR. The Rytec AMR is somewhat reminiscent of the Barrett .50 Cal from previous Call of Duty games. However, this one has some cool attachments, including explosive and thermite rounds to completely shred enemies at all ranges, as well as take out vehicles. We’ve been playing around with it and have put together the best loadout for Warzone featuring the Rytec AMR for you....

HomeNewsConan Exiles Conan Exiles has been exiled from its free launch on the Epic Games StoreJust a flesh wound, really. Just a flesh wound, really. Barbaric survive ‘em upConan Exilesintended to make its Epic Games Store debut with a free week alongsideHuethis week. That’s an odd pairing, sure, but odder still is news that Conan has found its claim on the platform unceremoniously postponed. The Epic Games Store team has decided that Conan Exiles will not be free, but will be available for purchase on the store at a later date....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077 no longer has wallrunning CD Projekt Red have confirmed, to my great dismay, that the ability to wallrun has been cut fromCyberpunk 2077over the course of development. Wallruning! The second-coolest movement in first-person games, after slidekicks! Tragedy. CDPR say they cut wallrunning “due to design reasons”. Fair play, they probably know what they’re doing with their own game. I think it still has the fourth-coolest movement, regular slides?...

HomeNews Free games hub Kongregate is no longer accepting new submissionsSorry, no more submissions Sorry, no more submissions It’s been a long time coming, but Adobe Flash’s drawn-out death spiral is coming to a close. This week, free browser game portalKongregateannounced that it’ll no longer be accepting new submissions to the site, laying off several staff members as it pivots entirely towards developing and publishing games. While everything currently hosted on the site will remain there for the foreseeable, they’re the last games Kongregate will ever host....

HomeFeaturesThe Song Of Saya How a comic tried to reimagine cult visual novel Song Of SayaBut what is a monster, anyway? But what is a monster, anyway? Seeing Song Of Saya (Saya no Uta)featured on Steamis like finding a dead body on the shore.It’s a terrific visual novel, this one, but one always recommended in whispers. A horror love story festooned in blood and gore, and with a list of content warnings longer than my games backlog....

HomeNewsHyper Scape Hyper Scape, Ubisoft’s frenetic take on battle royale, is now streaming on TwitchDouble jumps and melting cities Double jumps and melting cities Making itself known via streaming also gives us a good look at the game’s Twitch integration features. Every so often, viewers will get the chance to vote on events for the current match - be it revealing all remaining players on the map or saddling everyone up with infinite ammo....

HomeVideosMortal Shell Mortal Shell is a body-hopping Dark Souls tribute act, with wicked lute solosEpic lute Epic lute I dread any ‘soulslike’ game arriving in my inbox, as it normally means having to make a video based on the first fight shot from different angles, as I couldn’t get any further. So it speaks to the appeal of Cold Symmetry’sMortal Shellthat I persevered long enough to put together an entire video preview, and find a delightful lute to jam on in the middle of a swamp....

HomeNewsRust Rust’s roads are now littered with knackered old carsBeep beep! Beep beep! Arriving inthis week’s update, Rust’s modular motors come in three sizes - from knackered old hatchbacks to gnarly minibuses fit for a wasteland road trip. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Cars have been in the pipeline for a good while, first teased all the way back in adevblog from 2015. Part of what’s taken them so long are the map changes needed to accommodate them....