HomeNews Please watch this man perform videogame soundtracks on his Mongolian string instrumentListen up, you morin curs Listen up, you morin curs You know how it is. You think you’re into videogame soundtracks, then you go and hear someone perform ten of them on a Mongolian string instrument. I recently spent 20 minutes listening to a man do just that, and I think you should too. Genius Jaavka is the man....

HomeNewsSecond Extinction Second Extinction is a co-op FPS about fighting mutant dinosaursYuppp! Yuppp! Three players must gun down hordes of mutant dinosaurs to reclaim the Earth inSecond Extinction, a new co-op FPS announced today. That’s some co-op foolishness I can get behind. I don’t know how tyrannosauruses rexes and electric raptors have taken over the Earth, but I’d guess your man Richard Dawkins has been up to his ‘science’ again and it falls to us to clean up after him....

HomeFeaturesAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla The best bits from the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla no-gameplay gameplay trailerWhen life gives you in-engine lemons When life gives you in-engine lemons I would not characteriseAssassin’s Creed Valhalla’s newgameplay traileras being chock full of gameplay. Being real: it is clearly mostly cinematic sequences made in the game engine, i.e. they are all scenes that we may encounter during the course ofplayingthegame, and on that basis we can’t have ‘em under the Trades Description Act....

HomeNewsOverwatch The Overwatch League’s Vancouver Titans have dropped their entire roster mid-seasonThey claim it’s due to complications from the coronavirus pandemic They claim it’s due to complications from the coronavirus pandemic Looks like there’s trouble in paradise at theOverwatchLeague, as the Vancouver Titans have released their entire team roster right in the middle of the 2020 season. Ina letter to fansthey explain the decision stemmed from issues with the League’s online matches, afterhomestands were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic....

HomeNewsVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 This Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 trailer has come to danceLet’s dance! Let’s dance! A cheeky little newVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2trailer shuffled out today, full of goths showing off their dance moves. I’m almost sorry to see they’re not throwing the same moves as folks in the first game’s nightclubs. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To tide you over until whenever it comes out, do seeAlice Bee’s look at its dialogue systemandour stealth runfrom a preview version in August....

HomeGuidesValorant Valorant team comps guide: how to create the best possible teamMaximise your chances of victory before the match has even begun Maximise your chances of victory before the match has even begun It might be a bit reductive to say that manyValorantmatches are won or lost before the first round even begins, but it’s a nice, pithy way of saying “pay attention to your team composition, people”, so I’m gonna use it....

HomeNews Yakuza: Like A Dragon is coming to PC this yearStarring a new wrestledad Starring a new wrestledad Followinga little leakthis week,Yakuza: Like A Dragonis now officially announced for PC, coming later this year. This opens a new chapter in Sega’s RPG series about mobsters with hearts of gold, starring a different wrestledad in another city. Like A Dragon also shakes up the action, going from a beat ‘em up to a turn-based RPG action....

HomeNewsScorn Yup, Scorn still looks like a lot of Giger-y gristle and spunkJust imagine the noises of the place Just imagine the noises of the place The Giger-esque gristle and oozing orifices ofScornhave reemerged after a protracted silence, with a new trailer shown on Microsoft’s Xbox stream too. It’s been a few years but yeah, I’m still up for traipsing around a meaty hellplace, shooting meatbeasts and solving puzzles. If you like ribs, guts, holes, and bodily fluids, this is the trailer for you....

HomeNewsHardspace: Shipbreaker Cutting up starships in Hardspace: Shipbreaker sure looks neatStripping ships in space Stripping ships in space You’re a peon worker for a biggo space corp called Lynx which pays you to go out and cut up starships to scavenge for parts. You’ve got a grapple tool for pulling off big ship bits but you can also use it to swing yourself around like space Spider-Man. Your laser cutter is the real tool of the trade, used to cut through ship bits in a big, glowing line....

HomeFeaturesDeadside Deadside players will commiserate over a dead dog and then stab youEvery dog has his DayZ Every dog has his DayZ I forgot the name ofDeadsidewithin seconds of closing it. Even looking at its store page raises… not alarm bells, exactly, but some negative assumptions. It looks a lot like a lot of other, not very good games fighting for a place in the ultra-hostile, grim Eastern European PvP shooter leagues....

HomeNews Halo 2: Anniversary comes to PC next weekMaster Chef is back with another spicy dish Master Chef is back with another spicy dish To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Anniversary is the remastered edition which launched on Xbox One in 2014. Now it’ll hit PC with extra technological bells and whistles including support for 60fps, 4k resolution, ultrawide resolutions, an FoV option, and such. Halo 2: Anniversary is coming May 12th toSteamandthe Microsoft Store....

HomeNewsPUBG: Battlegrounds Jonathan Frakes probes the fact or fiction of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds loreNot this time! Not this time! A newPlayerunknown’s Battlegroundsin-universe documentary explores the history of a deserted dinosaur theme park with the perfect host: Jonathan Frakes. He’s recently escaped the shadow of playing William T. Riker on the sci-fi show Lexx, finding new fame for saying “Not this time” and “It’s a total fabrication!” incompilation videosof his time hosting 90s show Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction....

HomeNewsDark Light Souls-inspired platformer Dark Light enters early access this FridayDon’t shine it on the walls Don’t shine it on the walls Welcome to the year of cyberpunk in which all games must have futuristic tech.Dark Lightis another of the sort, though it’s calling itself a cyberpunk apocalypse instead of yer usual neon-splattered corporate dystopia. TheDark Soulsand Metroid-inspired action game will have you hacking and shooting up invisible baddies when it launches in early access this Friday, May 8th....