HomeReviewsFallout 76 Wot I Think - Fallout 76: WastelandersTurns out war does change actually Turns out war does change actually Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:Steam,BethesdaPrice:Free update to base game. Fallout 76: £35/€40/$40 But in fairness to Bethesda, they immediately began steeringFallout 76back towards warmer, more populated waters. Now, after a year and a half of work, the proof-filled pudding is served. And since it’s landed on steam too, widening its reach considerably, Bethesda are no doubt hoping a proverbial drove of players who gave it a miss 17 months ago will be coming back for a taste....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed II Assassin’s Creed 2 is free to keep via Uplay until FridayAssassin’s Freed Assassin’s Freed Assassin’s Creed IIcan be grabbedfrom Uplayfor zero monies this week. I have some very fond memories of the second Assassin’s Creed game, even after… oh. Oh no. No, no, no. 11 years? That can’t be right. I’ll just double-check. Nope, it’s right. Well, fu- -rther analysis shows that I am now old. It had to happen eventually....

HomeNews Crytek just accidentally revealed Crysis RemasteredCrypes Crypes Update: And now it’s officially announced. Crytek sayCrysis Remasteredis coming this summer with “high-quality textures and improved art assets, an HD texture pack, temporal anti-aliasing, SSDO, SVOGI, state-of-the-art depth fields, new light settings, motion blur, and parallax occlusion mapping.” Nibel on Twitter managed to snatch the art before it was taken down, and I can confirm seeing the logo on the official site before everythingwas restored....

HomeGuides Doom Eternal secrets: every secret locationUnlocking the Unmakyr Unlocking the Unmakyr Doom Eternal is a big game with tons of secrets hidden throughout. Most are just the secret items hidden throughout all of the levels, which we will provide links to here.I should warn you that the rest of this article contains major spoilers.Doom Eternal secrets guideSome are easter eggs to put a smile on your face, while others are game changers....

HomeNews Gamescom cancelled, will be an online-only event as Germany blocks public gatheringsNot quite GamesGone Not quite GamesGone Chalk another one on the board, team. Gamescom 2020 has been added to the illustrious list of eventscalled off due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation, nestled alongside the likes of E3 and GDC. But look on the bright side - while the Koelnmesse might be silent this August, Gamescom organisers this week announced plans to replace the on-site show with an entirely-online digital event....

HomeFeaturesHouse Flipper Have You Played… House Flipper?Flipadelphia Flipadelphia Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I have mentioned this in a supporter post, butHouse Flipperhas become a go-to game in my library for when life just gets too much, like how we all have a library of films to watch when atrociously hungover (mine included Legend and This Is Spinal Tap)....

HomeNewsMinecraft Minecraft’s RTX beta is out today, assuming you’ve the power to run it It’s time for that expensive RTX graphics card to finally pay off, readers. Starting today, you can now downloadMinecraft’s RTX beta - a version of Mojang’s literal block-buster that, with the help of the graphics tech folk over at Nvidia, lets you explore infinite worlds with high-tech ray-tracing effects. Hyper-realistic, perhaps? They’re still cubes, mate. It’s just that now, they’re very quite nice-looking cubes at that....

HomeNews Oh look, a weird free puzzler from the OlliOlli devsNot a skateboard in sight Not a skateboard in sight I’m hacking something, I think. I’m some kind of software entity, burrowing into a computer that doesn’t want me there. I can tell because of the security programs, which lumber towards me every time I take a step. My job is to avoid them for long enough to grab a data file, and then teleport out of dodge....

HomeNewsv r 3 Pippin Barr returns to digital water museums with Bitsy exhibition b r 3Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Grab your wellies, readers. Educator, developer and museophile Pippin Barr has once again dipped his toes back into the world of virtual puddles. Following 2017’sv r 3, Barr’s newb r 3exhibition (official site) once again explores the many ways devs choose to draw their streams, rivers and oceans - this time, through the lens of free game-making webtoolBitsy....

HomeNews Riot Games have bought Hytale developers Hypixel StudiosMacrotransaction Macrotransaction There was already a pre-existing relationship between the two, with Riot being one of the studio’s angel investors. That relationship grew over the past few years, and reached this new conclusion this week. Hypixel’s Aaron ‘Noxy’ Donaghey, who becomes the CEO of Hypixel Studios, said in a press release: “Since our first meetings with Riot leadership long before their initial investment, we’ve found in Riot a partner with a similar commitment to empowering players....

HomeNewsXCOM: Chimera Squad See the surprise XCOM game Chimera Squad in actionAlien love triangle Alien love triangle Following on from the surprise announcement ofXCOM: Chimera Squad, a small, standalone game that has the frighteningly close release date of April 24th, we’ve tracked down some footage. If you want to see the motley crew of humans and aliens working together in turn-based harmony, breach this page break with your best officers.Your team are a mix of humans and aliens, protecting the people of City 31 from those seeking to end the interspecies alliance that followed on from XCOM 2....

HomeNews Soundself: A Technodelic uses your voice to craft virtual hallucinationsVocal gymnastics Vocal gymnastics I wouldn’t know where to start in acquiring mind-altering substances on the mean streets of Scotland, but I do know where to get them virtually. I checked Steam’s ‘Upcoming’ tab this morning and spottedSoundSelf: A Technodelic, an experience (notagame) that uses your own voice to loop trippy music and visuals to you. I might have to lock the door to my home office, but I’m going to try this when it comes out....

HomeNewsFallout 76 The Wastelanders update has put some new food on the menu for Fallout 76’s cannibals"There’s gonna be a lot more meat in Appalachia." “There’s gonna be a lot more meat in Appalachia.” Scrolling through theFallout 76subreddit last night, I came across a post that was a little different from the rest of the excited fans eagerly waitingto meet their first NPC wastelanders in the new update. Not real cannibals (I hope)!...