HomeNewsTotal War: Elysium Total War: Elysium trailer shows the card game looking Hearthstone-yComing this year Coming this year Creative Assembly today revealedTotal War: Elysium, a free-to-play card battle game based on uh, history I guess? After announcing Elysium in August 2019, today they showed more in a trailer and announced it’s coming to PC later this year. Total War: Elysium will have historical leaders and forces throw down, and it all looks quite Heartstone-y....

HomeGuidesXCOM: Chimera Squad XCOM Chimera Squad guide: 25 tips and tricks for beginnersTips for managing your squad and reducing city unrest Tips for managing your squad and reducing city unrest XCOM Chimera Squad came out of nowhere didn’t it? The latest in the rebooted XCOM series opts for a more streamlined approach than its predecessors, focusing in on a fixed squad that must keep the peace in City 31. Things can quickly snowball out of control if you don’t know what you’re doing, but that’s where we come in....

HomeFeatures All 234 animals in Red Dead Redemption 2 reviewed (part 1)American Alligator to Giant Boar American Alligator to Giant Boar Red Dead Redemption 2is a game drowning in details, with its attempt to capture a simulated vision of an American west that’s been gone for 120 years, down to every last shell casing, spittoon stain and sweat-crusted saddlebag. Probably my favourite thing about it all, however, is the obsessive, noachian fervour with which the natural world has been catalogued....

HomeNewsCrucible Amazon’s multiplayer shooter Crucible launching May 20thPvEvP PvEvP Amazon Game Studios today announced a May 20th release date forCrucible, their free-to-play multiplayer shooter where two teams compete while battling big monsters. Players get to pick from characters with different abilities, hunt monsters, level up… it’s got a lot of familiar-sounding bits from other multiplayer PvE and PvP and PvEvP games, and I’m curious. Seeing as it’ll be F2P, yeah, I’ll give it a go....

HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Turn 4 This is the turn when the facade of the storeroom at gg6 was peppered with 9×19mm Parabellum rounds and several blasts of grenade shrapnel, yet the occupants suffered not a scratch. 1st Squad gave the first assault from COPPER short shrift. The sacrifice of the COPPER cannon fodder wasn’t entirely pointless. While most American muzzles were pointing south-westward, the cool customers whose fighting withdrawal featured in yesterday’s missive, made their escape from LEAD, and the pinned crew of the Pak 40 sustained no further casualties....

HomeNewsLumberjack’s Dynasty Early access review: Lumberjack’s DynastyWood that I cood Wood that I cood Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£18, $20, €19 The weirdest thing aboutLumberjack’s Dynasty– in a very long list of strange things – are the overheard snippets of conversation as you approach the game’s various NPCs. As you round the crest of a hill you might eavesdrop on a neighbour muttering something about how “everyone is talking about it”. Stroll up the drive of your aunt’s house and she’ll be whispering “yes, it will all be out in the open soon” to your uncle, before they both stop mid-conversation and slowly rotate on the spot like a pair of rotisserie chickens to face you....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla First Assassin’s Creed Valhalla gameplay coming Thursday in Microsoft’s streamHeave ho! Heave ho! We’ll seeAssassin’s Creed Valhallagameplay and learn about other upcoming games in a Microsoft stream on Thursday. With E3 off and everything topsy-turvy, Microsoft are planning to hold monthly showcase streams in the run-up to the launch of their new Xbox Series X later this year. Which effectively means they’re also hosting monthly streams showing off PC games, in these blessed days when Microsoft care about PC gaming again....

HomeNewsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive Five Australians charged over Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match fixingLocal offenses Local offenses Five people were charged this Sunday with fixingCounter-Strike: Global Offensivematches, according to Victoria Police. If found guilty, they could face up to a decade in prison. “It’s alleged that players were arranging to throw matches and subsequently placing bets on those matches”, the Victoria Police Media Unitexplained. Each of the suspects was charged with “use of corrupt conduct information for betting purposes”....

HomeFeaturesFinal Fantasy XV Have You Played… Final Fantasy XV?Final Fantasy roadtrip Final Fantasy roadtrip Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix When I think back to the launch ofFinal Fantasy XVback in 2016, I still can’t quite believe that Square Enix managed to get away with it all. Everyone might be kicking off now about separating theFinal Fantasy VII Remakeinto multiple who-knows-how-many parts, but at least we know (hopefully) that they’re all going to be actual games....

HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch has ditched hero pools for lower ranked playersIf you’re in Diamond or lower you won’t have to deal with hero bans anymore If you’re in Diamond or lower you won’t have to deal with hero bans anymore Looks like Blizzard are starting to realise that mostOverwatchplayers aren’t all in the Top 500, as they’ve removed hero pools for lower competitive ranks. Players from Bronze up to Diamond will no longer have to deal with the weekly hero bans because, let’s face it, those of us at these levels never use the same compositions as theOverwatchLeague, do we?...

HomeGuidesLegends of Runeterra Runeterra card guide: every region’s cards explainedAll the cards! All the cards! Legends of Runeterrais a card game and that means there’s a lot of cards that are all sorted into different groups. Here they’re called “regions”, which are like the colours in Magic the Gathering, or similar ways to categorise decks in other collectable card games. There are a ton of cards for each region, so we’ve put together a full list of cards that are foundin the game....

HomeGuidesLegends of Runeterra Runeterra keywords guide: definitions of all the abilitiesKeyword interactions explained Keyword interactions explained Legends of Runeterrahas a lot of skills and abilities hidden on each of their cards via the use of keywords. They range from being able to prevent damage to a unit, to ensuring an enemy can’t block your attackers. With so many keywords though, there are some interactions that are not obvious to those who haven’t played much of the game, with the consequence being that you could lose the game due to a misunderstanding of what an ability does....

HomeDeals Three of Capcom’s best games are going cheap at Fanatical todayCap-come on down! Cap-come on down! Have you exhausted your Steam library? Okay, let me rephrase that: have you run out of things you’re excited to play in your Steam library? Well, if you’re a fan of Capcom games, then the latest discounts fromFanaticalare well worth a look, withResident Evil 2,Devil May Cry 5andMonster Hunter: World’s Iceborne Master Edition all going cheap today....