HomeNewsBelow Below players can try the new Explore Mode right nowGone explorin' Gone explorin' Capy say that at launch players really loved Below’s vibe and after a lot of feedback “we wanted to provide a way for players to experience that world without necessarily having to overcome the brutal test of endurance required to fully experience the world of Below.” Explore mode will make a handful of changes meant to make exploring underground more approachable for folks who aren’t necessarily into the death treadmill thing....

HomeFeaturesOstriv How a hermit house gets built in OstrivLet them eat hake Let them eat hake Ostrivis a Ukrainian town building game set in the early 1700s. If I tell you how it works, it will sound like every other city builder, and that would do this delightful game a disservice. So instead, I’m going to show you what happens when you tell your little villagers to build a house....

HomeNewsLast Oasis Last Oasis burst due to popularity, so it’s offline for a week for fixesPlayers are keen for its return Players are keen for its return To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Last Oasishas suffered connection issues since Thursday’s launch, andits support Twitter accountlists the fixes and fiddlings they’d tried to get it going.This videodetailed the big issue, a problem with the master server that stopped players from connecting....

HomeNews Modders are already working to bring Half-Life 2 into AlyxNot yet playable Not yet playable IfBlack Mesa actually getting finishedleft you lost without a fan-made refresh of an oldHalf-Lifeto cheer on, rejoice: the new hotness is bringingHalf-Life 2intoHalf-Life: Alyx. Several modders are already showing off their progress in bringing Gordon’s adventure to Alyx’s shiny new VR game, though it’s all hella far from finished. Hey, we all need something to believe in....

HomeNewsGarry’s Mod Sandbox is the real Garry’s Mod 2, Facepunch sayGet in on the Garry Get in on the Garry Half-Life: Alyxis out, and where talk of Valve andHalf-Lifegoes, so too doesGarry’s Modfollow. You know Gmod for all the silly Source games the players made with it: Prop Hunt, Trouble In Terrorist Town,Jazztronauts, and the like. Original Gmod maker and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman has jumped on the Valve-talk train with a tease that they’re currently working onGarry’s Mod2, which it turns out is something calledSandboxthat they’ve been developing for quite a few years....

HomeHardwareFeatures WD Black P50 review: a tough SSD that’s a real bruiser on priceWatch your bank account go from black to red Watch your bank account go from black to red There have been more and more portable SSDs supporting the new USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard cropping up over the last couple of months. First, we had theSamsung T7 Touch, the latest, touch sensor-secured successor to theSamsung T5. Then there wasCrucial’s X8, which was a smidge faster than the T7 Touch and cheaper to boot....

HomeNewsThe Elder Scrolls Online You can try Elder Scrolls Online’s upcoming expansion in a free play week starting WednesdayBack to the North Back to the North The Elder Scrolls Online’s next big expansion comes out in May but you can try out its prologue chapter for free. Zenimax Online Studios have also released a new story trailer for the expansion, showing off some vampire baddies and a few vistas from WesternSkyrimthat you’ll recognize if you playedThe Elder Scrolls V....

HomeNews Blizzard asks World Of Warcraft players if they’d go back to The Burning CrusadeBeyond the Dark Portal Beyond the Dark Portal What happens afterWorld Of Warcraft: Classic? It’s something the MMO throwback was always going to have to deal with, eventually. There’s only so much content to revisit after all. As Classic’s expiration date slowly draws closer, Blizzard have begun asking players what they’d like to see next - specifically, whether they’re ready to head back through the Dark Portal in a Classic-style return to World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade....

HomeNewsNier Replicant ver.1.22474487139 NieR: Replicant ver.1.22474487139… is bringing the cult 2010 RPG to PC No, I didn’t spill coffee on the keyboard. Yes, the ellipses are part of the title. 10 years after its console debut, NieR is heading to PC with the elegantly-titledNier Replicant ver.1.22474487139…- not a remake or a remaster, Square Enix insist, but a spruced-up re-release that’s polishing up the audio, sprinkling in some new content, and finally bringing the cult-classic RPG to Steam....

HomeNewsDOOM Eternal Rip and tear in third-person with this Doom Eternal mod Gosh, it’s like watching someone throw an Action Man into a washing machine full of meat. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Like many hacked-together third-person modes, it’s pretty rudimentary - shifting the camera back and killing first-person viewmodels. Honestly, it reminds me of toggling +thirdperson in Source games likeGarry’s ModorLeft 4 Dead- a neat little trick, but you wouldn’t actually play a game like this, right?...

HomeFeatures Alyx tweaks, a new Mordhau castle, and more of the week’s patchesIt’s the Weekly Updates Update It’s the Weekly Updates Update This week,Half-Life: Alyxgot a few post-launch tweaks,Mordhauadded a new map, and Rainbow Six Siege unleashed a horrifying man of pizza. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update.Half-Life: Alyx added more control optionsYou can now use Continuous Turn and disable controller turning....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Google Stadia is helping Bungie keep Destiny 2’s lights on during Covid-19Guardian angel Guardian angel Google Stadiamight still be struggling to find its place in people’s living rooms. But for one studio’s home offices, it’s becoming an invaluable piece of tech. After Covid-19 hit their home state of Washington pretty hard,Destiny 2developers Bungie have explained the beefy laptops and cloud streaming workarounds that aim to keep Guardians fighting while working from home....

HomeNewsHoledown Holedown’s planet-breaking worms slither towards PC with local co-opDo the worm Do the worm Bouncy mobile block-busterHoledownis worming its way onto Steam. Following brilliant, abstract kinda-sorta-RTSRymdkapsel, Swedish developer Martin “Grapefrukt” Jonasson’s 2018 puzzler is a deceptively smart little gem that has you shattering planets at the behest of an ever-present communist worm. Two years later, the worm’s domain is spreading to PC - and this time, you can bring a friend....