HomeNewsHalf-Life: Alyx If you like a lot of headcrabs, Half-Life: Alyx now has a horde mode modSweaty 17 Sweaty 17 The lack of an SDK hasn’t stopped people from working on mods forHalf-Life: Alyx. We’ve already had one this week that sort of lets you play the gamewithout VR. Today, I discoveredXenThug, a horde mode map that throws an ever-growing number ofHalf-Lifeenemies at your face. I’d be playing it right now if I weren’t writing this....

HomeGuidesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord sieges: How to attack towns and castlesPlus a detailed list of every siege weapon in Bannerlord Plus a detailed list of every siege weapon in Bannerlord How do sieges work in Bannerlord?To get your own settlements inMount & Blade II: Bannerlord, the most direct way will be to lay siege to a town or castle. Doing so is extremely risky without having ample supplies and a high enough skill point rating in engineering, and that’s not counting other armies interfering in your plans....

HomeFeaturesOld World Preview: shape nations and annoy kings in Old World, the new 4X from Civ 4’s Soren JohnsonOld World Trading Company Old World Trading Company I booted up the preview build ofOld Worldexpecting a game much like something from the Civilization series. Probably not unreasonably, given that lead designer Soren Johnson is well known as having been co-designer onCiv III, and then lead designer onCiv IV, before starting his own studio, Mohawk Games, in 2013....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Resurrect Priest deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2020)Resurrect Priest has some interesting new toys - here’s how to use them. Resurrect Priest has some interesting new toys - here’s how to use them. With the Standard format rotation, a lot of decks are changing significantly. Chief amongst these is theResurrectform of Priest, which has both lost and gained a lot. This deck is a weird one, and pretty tough to pilot....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Secret Stealth Rogue deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2020)Sneaky bois. Sneaky bois. Stealth Rogue takes advantage of the class’ brand new Stealth synergies brought about in the Ashes ofOutlandexpansion. From buffs to card draw, this deck has it all. We’ve gone for a reasonably aggressive tempo style of play here, and you’ll be looking to finish the match pretty quickly if things go according to plan....

HomeNews Units won’t deploy randomly in Artifact 2.0Chance won’t be a fine thing Chance won’t be a fine thing I’m enjoying how all the headlines aroundArtifact’s upcoming comeback are about what it won’t do. It won’tsell you cards, and it won’t make you play on one lane at a time. ‘It won’tdie in a firelike it did before’, promise. We now know a lot more about how the revamped game will actually work....

HomeHardwareFeatures WD’s Blue SN550 SSD is disgustingly good valueThe best budget NVMe SSD just got even better The best budget NVMe SSD just got even better When theWD Blue SN500came out last year, it went straight into mybest gaming SSDlist thanks to its low price and great read and write speeds. It was the perfect SSD for those on a budget, but the one thing it lacked was a cheap 1TB model....

HomeReviewsThe Procession to Calvary Wot I think: The Procession To CalvaryVery animated Very animated Release:Out nowOn:Windows, Mac OS X, LinuxFrom:SteamFor:£8, $10, €9 “Your mileage may vary” is a term writers use a lot because it does a lot of heavy lifting. It can helpfully mean either “I liked it but I can see why others would not”, or exactly the inverse of that. I can’t help but feel, though, that it was a phrase invented for weirdoRenaissance paintingpoint-and-click adventureThe Procession To Calvary, because I think both things about this game simultaneously....

HomeFeaturesStarship Titanic Starship Titanic really isn’t worth dredging up from the bottom of the Santraginus V seaAim for an iceberg Aim for an iceberg I findStarship Titanicsuch a sad thing. It was Douglas Adams’s last work of fiction, and it was a truly terrible one. This masterful creator, the man who brought us TheHitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy in all its forms, spent what would turn out to be his last few years working on a fundamentally broken videogame....

HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Paper cars, messy lives, spiders and the great outdoorsScreenshots? Screenshots. Screenshots? Screenshots. Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It might be a weekend for eggs, sun, and supernatural resurrection, but that’s not stopped those dang game developers from pushing more fabulous visuals for us to peruse. This week: Unconventional driving, a crowded kitchen, the terrifying vastness of open wilderness, and spiders. As regular readers will have pieced together, it’s become harder and harder to filter through all the retro-PS1 horror games flooding the #screenshotsaturday tag lately....

HomeHardwareNewsCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Streamer tears out of Call of Duty: Warzone’s gulag using a steering wheelBeep beep! Beep beep! As the folks atPCGamesNpoint out, our hapless driver is streamer/comedian Noel Miller - decked out in full military fatigues for a night of unconventional warfare. You can catch the full stream onTwitch, with the full-throttle prison fight kicking off at around 1:21:00. It all starts out reasonably enough. Well, as reasonable can be expected given Miller’s set-up - driving a truck through Warzone’s winding roads does, at least, make sense....

HomeNews Discord’s noise filtration beta wants to silence noisy keyboardsClickety-clack Clickety-clack CLACK. CLACK. CLACK. We’ve all been in that call. Discord, Teamspeak, (god forbid) Skype, or whatever your voice channel of choice, there’s always someone hammering away on their mechanical keyboard. This week,Discordpushed a beta for Krisp.ai integration - a machine-learning powered tool for cutting unwanted background sounds out of your call, leaving your friends with only the crisp, clean sound of your sexy vocal chords....

HomeHardwareNews Valve patent suggests they’re giving Steam Controllers another shotOld Owl-eyes Old Owl-eyes Poor Steam Controller. Hanging on long after Valve’s efforts to bring PCs into the living room fizzed out,the last batch of the gamepads finally sold out last November, bringing an end to the era of Steam Machines. And that was that, until curious eyes spotted a patent filing for a new Steam Controller - one that’s trying to one-up the Xbox OneEliteController on customisability....