HomeFeaturesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord players have made Harry Potter, Gandalf and lots of glitchy gifsPhysics bugs, AI bugs, and more Physics bugs, AI bugs, and more It’s inevitable at this point. Where there are games, there are antics, and a game as big and complicated, and as work-in-progress asMount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, there will be slapstick. There will be creativity. There will be gifs....

HomeNewsRealm of the Mad God Realm Of The Mad God escapes Flash shutdown with a Unity portdeus hex deus hex I was delighted to learn that not only isRealm Of The Mad Godstill a thing, but it’s still full of players and it’s as moreish as ever. The perfect hybrid of action-RPG and bullet hell shooter is now being remade in Unity, to escape the curse of Flash and ensure future generations will know its terrible brilliance....

HomeNews Steam will host more virtual game festivals during lockdownWith demos to play With demos to play The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition will run June 9-12th, offering “time-limited demos or short playable experiences” for upcoming games, devs chatting, and so on. Like previous Steam Game Festivals, but now happening in the week E3 was due to fill. This is wholly separate to E3, to be clear, just conveniently claiming its spot....

HomeNewsDOOM Eternal I hate Doom Eternal’s new coffee-sipping ArchvileNo, we don’t have dairy No, we don’t have dairy Checking out a new coffee shop is intimidating enough as-is. Wondering whether the wifi’s good enough for work, checking the prices on the croissants, trying to figure out how “chatty” the baristas are. The last thing I need is one ofDoom Eternal’s cretins judging me for my choice of milk alternative. Until May 14th,Eternal’sCoffee and Camo Serieslets you grind out a fresh batch of free cosmetics - one that, unfortunately includes this absolute roaster....

HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Blasting beats and long walks on the beachScreenshots! Screenshots! Screenshots! Screenshots! I’d just hopped into bed last night whenQ.U.B.E.developer Dan Da Rocha dropped this absolute bombshell on the #screenshotsaturday tags. Crank the volume right up and hit play, y’all. Here’s a Rhythm FPS game we’ve been messing around with. It’s been pretty fun to work on so far! ?#screenshotsaturday#gamedev#madewithunrealpic.twitter.com/leYq1aEb4l— Dan Da Rocha (@DanDaRocha)April 18, 2020 Here’s a Rhythm FPS game we’ve been messing around with....

HomeNewsWorld of Warcraft Unofficial World Of Warcraft server briefly simulated their own (educational) pandemicNot-so-corrupted blood Not-so-corrupted blood Last weekend,World Of Warcraftprivate serverElysiumplanted a single, awful seed. Server organisers coated one in-game item with a highly infectious virus. Within 24 hours of first infection, it had spread to over 7,000 players. This was Pandemic in Azeroth, an attempt from one fan project to deliver actionable real-world advice on surviving the Covid-19 pandemic to World Of Warcraft’s fantasy denizens....

HomeNewsHalf-Life: Alyx If you didn’t backflip while juggling in Half-Life: Alyx, did you really play it at all?Flipping heck Flipping heck I was gearing up for a second playthrough ofHalf-Life: Alyxthis weekend. I really wanted to use the physics engine to have a little fun this time around, so I took a peek at some inspirational Let’s Plays to see what I could try. Then I uninstalled Alyx and put my headset away....

HomeNewsValorant Riot trust Valorant’s anti-cheat so much, they’ll pay big bucks for exposing flawsHigh-stakes Bounty Hunting High-stakes Bounty Hunting ForValorant, Riot’s new Counter-Strike-with-Superpowers FPS, regular anti-cheat was never gonna cut it.From the beginning, they’ve been flaunting the shooter’s technical guts - 128-tick servers, flawless ping, and an anti-cheat system that makes it “impossible for a player to cheat in game-defying ways”. But that level of protection comes with a level of access that’s raised a fair few concerns....

HomeNewsTales From Off-Peak City Tales From Off-Peak City’s eccentric first volume hits Steam and Itch next monthI’ll skip dinner, thanks. I’ll skip dinner, thanks. Cosmo D’sTales From Off-Peak City Volume 1might as well be a dream. None of the lines make sense, voices are disembodied and audible only as music, with a general sense of being neither somewhere nor elsewhere. The pizza toppings look gross. But even if the developer’s world seems pieced together from half-forgotten memories, it’s all quite real and - as a new trailer this week attests - available to buy come May 15th....

HomeNews Just Cause 4 and Wheels Of Aurelia are this week’s Epic Games Store freebiesGratis games Gratis games The trap is set. The Epic Games Store have droppedJust Cause 4andWheels of Aureliaon the ground for you to grabfor freethis week. Please ignore the dangling cage overhead. It might look like it can trap you in their store, but it’s just where Tim Sweeney likes to keep his favourite cage. If you’re brave enough, you can grab Avalanche’s over the top action game and Santa Ragione’s narrative adventure right now....

HomeHardwareNews Lian Li put the “desk” in desktop with their mad, new motorised PCsDesk jockey Desk jockey Desktop PCs can be huge, clunky things that take up buckets of room sometimes, but what if I told you that you can still have a super powerful PC without having to put up with an enormous PC tower? Enter PC case maker Lian Li’s new motorised gaming desks. Dubbed the brilliantly catchy DK-04F and DK-05F, you can now gaze at the innards of your machine right underneath your keyboard....

HomeNewsReceiver 2 Please use this Receiver 2 cheat to make the game even betterDo it Do it I bestowedReceiver 2with a coveted Bestest Best sticker in myReceiver 2 review, despite it having big pacing problems. The tension of trawling across rooftops was enough to cut through the repetition, and the panic of fiddling with a firearm that requires a dozen button presses to reload remained sublime. It takes a loooong time to progress to the point where you get new enemies and new guns to shoot them with though, partly thanks to the game dropping you down a progression rank every time you quit....

HomeFeatures Verdant Village’s free alpha shows massive promise for this fantasy Stardew-likeA farmer’s work is never done A farmer’s work is never done It’s a fantasy life sim that is very, very much like Stardew Valley, except everyone is wearing medieval-ish clothes and has a name spelled in a bit of a funny way. Currently it’s available for free viaItch.io, on the proviso that you understand it’s in an alpha state....