HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2’s new communal goal for Seraph Towers looks unlikelyUghhh Ughhh As is becoming tradition towards the end of a content season,Destiny 2has set another big communal goal for players. This time, rather than dump all our leftover seasonal resources into a magic box or whatever, we’re being challenged to completeSeraphTowers. A whole lot of Seraph Towers. This seems perhaps for just a cool reward rather than the big season finale, something separate to y’know the miles-long spaceship that’s about to crash into Earth but everyone has apparently forgotten about....

HomeNewsFortnite Epic are offering Fortnite’s online services tech to all developersRoyalty changes too! Royalty changes too! As well asrevealing Unreal Engine 5 todaywith a natty tech demo, Epic announced some other news for game-makers. For starters, all developers can now use the online technoguts they initially created for Fortnite, for free. That’s easy access to cross-platform systems for things like friends, matchmaking, lobbies, and accounts. It’s not limited to Unreal Engine either....

HomeNewsHalo 2 Ian Halo’s remastered adventures continue on PC today with the release ofHalo 2: Anniversaryin the wee hours. Ian and his sexy pet search engine, Cortana, are continuing to get into sci-fi trouble with ringworlds, and this time we also get to play parts from an alien Arbiter’s perspective too.Halo 2has been on PC before, with a wonky port back in the day, and now Bungie’s FPS returns fancied up with new models and textures, remastered cutscenes, support for higher resolutions, adjustable FoV, and other such modern technobits....

HomeFeaturesYakuza 0 Have You Played… Yakuza 0?And I will try to Kiryu And I will try to Kiryu Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Hype can often be a deterrent if you’re late to the party. If you have someone screaming at you to watch The Wire for months on end, then chances are you’ll either bounce straight off it or come out the other end thinking it was lesser than it actually was....

HomeReviewsHorizon’s Gate Horizon’s Gate reviewA seafaring RPG that’s a joy to play A seafaring RPG that’s a joy to play Horizon’s Gateis a seafaring survivalist adventure that boasts a gorgeous, retro pixel-art style. Although there is a narrative in place - with joyously raucous maritime dialogue consistently dotted throughout its trajectory - sailing aimlessly in search of exploratory endeavours is what marks it as something truly special. At the beginning, these mercs are total strangers who are likely only interested in the coin you pay them to stick around....

HomeReviewsLandlord’s Super Premature Evaluation: Landlord’s SuperWhippet good Whippet good Developer:MinskworksPublisher:The Yogscast Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£15.49, $19, €18 Landlord’s Superis set in the dismal and rain-battered fictional town of Sheffingham, where the cruel rot of Thatcherism has taken hold and misery is chiseled into the haunted faces of everyone you meet. A well-observed mix of environmental design, an allegedly dynamic weather system that seems permanently stuck on inclement, and a visual filter that strips away all primary colours in favour of shades of nicotine-brown, articulates the mood of the era nicely....

HomeNewsValorant Riot have banned nearly 9000 Valorant cheatersA good Omen A good Omen How manyValorantcheaters does it take to change a light bulb? Just one Phoenix, and he’ll do it in a flash. Haha. But no, let’s be serious. Riot have dropped the ban hammer on 8873 cheaters in their new guns ‘n’ wizards FPS, and say “this banwave is still only the beginning”. It seems like all that (possibly!) over-invasive anti-cheat software is paying off....

HomeHardwareFeatures The RPS Rig: Everything you need to play games for less than £1000How to build a great 1080p gaming PC without breaking the bank How to build a great 1080p gaming PC without breaking the bank It’s been a while since we first introduced the RPS Rig, our £1000 PC build that includes everything you need to start playing PC games, during which time prices for our prized components have gone up, down, or disappeared altogether....

HomeNews Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 remasters grinding onto PC in SeptemberSk8 or die Sk8 or die Sikk tricks and disastrous flips are coming to PC withTony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, a collection throwing together the first two sk8 ‘em ups with a seriously overhauled look. Activision’s announcement calls this a “faithful remaster” with “all” the original levels, pro-skaters, and tricks, though only “many” of the soundtrack songs....

HomeNewsCassette Beasts Cassette Beasts looks like a PC Pokémon where you can smoosh critters togetherStuck together with lint Stuck together with lint If you go around cramming your pockets full of monsters, accidents will happen. Just look atCassette Beasts, a newly-announced Pokémon-ish battler where critters can temporarily fuse together into powerful new forms. Presumably they’re gummed together with lint, a Werther’s Original, and one of the old pound coins shops no longer accept....

HomeNewsLegends of Runeterra Runeterra’s 1.1 patch blasts many more bugsBugs b gone Bugs b gone Riot already blasted some of the biggest bugslast week, but yep, there were plenty left. It (hopefully) won’t crash on startup anymore, buffs on copied units are being displayed properly, and various cards are generally doing what they’re supposed to now. I’ve been playing a fair bit and hadn’t noticed any problems, but it sounds like I ran into some without realising....

HomeNewsStellaris Stellaris celebrates four years with a new update, a trial week, and a saleBlast off! Blast off! Four years ago, Paradox launchedStellaris, a sci-fi grand strategy game which had promise but needed a bit of work to find itself. Since then, Paradox have released so many updates overhauling and replacing bits and pieces that I’m entirely lost on how it works when I come back to it. They’ve certainly put in work....

HomeNewsDeathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure That bizarre Fighting Fantasy FMV game now has a demoIt’s like an interactive bedtime story It’s like an interactive bedtime story Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube You can play the demo for yourself onthe game’s site. It lets you experience the first part of the story, making choices and doing a little bit of combat to give you a feel for it. It kind of resembles those old bedtime story things the BBC used to do, you know, if the BBC had challenged you to escape a dungeon full of orcs....