HomeHardwareFeaturesHalf-Life: Alyx How to play Half-Life: Alyx on Oculus QuestGet your Quest playing Half-Life: Alyx in seven easy steps Get your Quest playing Half-Life: Alyx in seven easy steps Half-Life: Alyxcan be played on practically every PC VR headset under the sun, from the super expensive Valve Index to entry-level Windows Mixed Reality headsets. However, you can also play it on the standaloneOculus Questwhen you take advantage of Oculus Link, which connects your Quest to your PC like an ordinary Rift headset....

HomeNews Real sports teams are broadcasting fake sports while we isolateThe refs are definitely crooked though The refs are definitely crooked though The EA’s NHL account has been allegedly running matches insideNHL 20and posting the final scores for a series of matches each day. I call shenanigans though. How can we trust these numbers if we don’t see the match, EA? The final scores from today’s#NHL20sim 🔥Agree?pic.twitter.com/bDyjb0zhGu— EA SPORTS NHL (@EASPORTSNHL)March 22, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeFeatures The joy of travelling together in PyreHigh road, low road High road, low road Still, there’s a reason Bethesda fill their games with monster-shaped loot-piñatas and mysterious quest-givers. If you’ve any experience with long-haul travel in real life, you’ll know it’s often the kind of journey that plays out quite unlike the experience most games want you to have: boredom, insomnia, a severe lack of personal space, and the odd chafed arse....

HomeFeaturesUnreal Unreal (1998) is the FPS you have been missingTruly Epic Truly Epic I wanted a comfort game. A big, safe, entertaining game to sink into, to distract me from cold-o-geddon. And what better than Unreal? An enormous, superbly built FPS, that’s fast, entertaining, and full of… coughing, coughing aliens. Oh no. Unreal might be one of the only games that exists in reality the same way it exists in my head....

HomeNews Valve haven’t made Half-Life 3 yet because their attempts weren’t good enoughGood enough isn’t good enough Good enough isn’t good enough Half-Life: Alyxis out today and, as you’d hoped, it is good. Graham-certified good, in RPS’sHalf-Life Alyx review. For all its goodness, Alyx is not officiallyHalf-Life 3, which Valve still have not made. There are a few primary reasons that the fabled “3” hasn’t made an appearance, Valve have now explained....

HomeNewsSkateBird Screenshot Saturday Sunday: Surreal dogventures, politics, and a Hotline Miami pizza partySave me a slice Save me a slice Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Our weekly check-in with the weird and wild world of computer game development. With everyone in lockdown, what better way to feign connection with the outside world than bonding over some decisively unfinished screenshots? This week: surrealist low-fi landscapes, an unconventional crossbow, slamming the final slice, and a small bird that’s once again asking for your financial support....

HomeNewsSession Session’s new co-op film mode lets you create radical home movies Like Skate before it,Sessionwants to look like a proper old-school skater tape. Wide-angle handheld films, packed with stoner teens busting shins on concrete stairs for fifteen minutes ‘til one finally nails a gravity-defying line. This week’s update for the early-access skate sim brings that lineage full-circle, letting you drag along a friend to film your sickest tricks - or, more likely, your most painful bails....

HomeNews Stock Jump turns economic collapse into sick ski tricksRadical recession Radical recession The world’s not looking good these days. Economically, as much as anything else. Across the board, stocks are in freefall thanks to Covid-19 keeping potential customers and workers indoors in self-isolation. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that all those jagged downward trends look a little bit like ski slopes if you squint hard enough. EnterStock Jump- a free little browser game about using real-time economic decline to score a Winter Olympic world record....

HomeNews Failed Dota 2 card game Artifact is preparing for a massive comebackSecond wind Second wind Valve are on something of a roll right now.Half-Life: Alyxis looking absolutely stunning ahead of next week’s release. WhileDota Underlords(and auto-battlers generally) might be on abit of a downturn, it’s hard to say it hasn’t done well for itself. Now that they’re back in full swing, it might be time for Valve to bring their dustiest skeleton out of the closet....

HomeNewsMonster Hunter: World Monster Hunter: World brings back cataclysmic elder dragon Alatreon this May We’re almost at the end of theMonster Hunter: Worldroadmap. Oh, that doesn’t mean Capcom’s beastie-basher is coming to an end - it just means we’re completely clueless as to what happens from June onwards. There’s one last nasty to get through before we enter the unknown, though. In May, Capcom are bringing the cataclysmic elder dragon Alatreon back to Monster Hunter in a free update....

HomeNews Rip and tear with Animal Crossing’s Isabelle in this Doom II modFamily friendly slaying Family friendly slaying If you’re anything like me, you’re currently going through some intenseAnimal Crossing: New Horizons FOMO. These sort of lifestyle sims aren’t for me, but I’ll admit - watching my mutuals posting their island adventures non-stop has me a little jealous. Where’smyTanuki landlord? Why can’t I have a best friend who is also a dog?...

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed Odyssey Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is free to play this weekendGet yer free creed Get yer free creed Clangclang clang! That’s the sound of the biggest freebie bell, made with whatever kind of metal wot they had in ancient Greece. Ubisoft’s latest sneakin' and stabbin' action game is free to play this weekend for any curious travelers who haven’t gone back to the era yet.Assassin’s Creed Odysseywill be free until Monday morning (or evening, depending on your time zone)....

HomeNewsDOOM Eternal Boom boom boom, Doom Eternal can now be in your roomTime to rip Time to rip Dust off that shotgun. Clean out that rocket launcher. Unsheathe your chainsaw, for the Slayer’s time is upon us.Doom Eternalis out, and it’s very, very good.Watch on YouTubeDoom 2016 was great, but this is better. Developers Id Software have thrown more creatures into their cyber-menagerie, weaving new ideas into a bulky campaign that eclipses its predecessor....