HomeNews Untitled Goose Game ran away with the GDC Awards game of the year trophyWins for Disco Elysium, Control, and Baba Is You too Wins for Disco Elysium, Control, and Baba Is You too Right afterA Short Hike won the Independent Games Festival Awards grand prizelast night, the Game Developers Choice Awards declared Untitled Goose Game the game of the year. Other games to win prizes Dev Choice Awards includeDisco Elysium, Control, andBaba Is You- some good stuff....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Beware this gnarly Sea Of Thieves bug that could wreck hours of questingDon’t die, matey Don’t die, matey If you die to The Gold Hoarder and wake up here, I’ve got bad news for you. Rare are aware of the issue and are tracking it on theSea Of Thieves support sitebut the issue has remained open since last week. I’m sure Rare will have things ship shape before long but in the meantime, maybe put off putting a pin in Shores Of Gold....

HomeNewsTrials of Mana Gather your party and venture forth in Trials Of Mana’s free demoPick your plucky party Pick your plucky party Ring-a-ding! That’s me shaking the freebies bell like a farmer calling the family for dinner. We’re havingTrials Of Manathis evening, a free demo for Square Enix’s upcoming remake of 1995 RPG Seiken Densetsu 3. The demo kicks off today and you don’t need to fear spending too much time with it because you can carry your party and progress over to the full release when it launches at the end of April....

HomeNewsFootball Manager 2020 Grab your boots, Football Manager 2020 is free for a weekAll you can eat football All you can eat football Live sports have had their seasons postponed or outright cancelled as the Covid-19 virus spreads globally, but that doesn’t have to keep you from their digital counterparts. Stay safe and play football indoors, folks. The freebie fest continues withFootball Manger 2020now getting a week of free play starting today and lasting until next Wednesday, March 25th....

HomeFeaturesThe Messenger Have You Played… The Messenger?Two certainties Two certainties I thought that The Messenger was going to be a rather short platformer at first, something akin to the games of the 1980s. Indeed, there were times where leaping across levels as a ninja were felt remarkably similar to Ninja Gaiden. As I scaled a mountain to deliver a message about a demon invasion, I got new abilities that furthered my ninja skills....

HomeGuides Hearthstone’s Ashes Of Outland guide - all the info you needEverything you need to know about the new Hearthstone expansion Everything you need to know about the new Hearthstone expansion From a new expansion to a whole new class, Ashes OfOutlandis probablyHearthstone’s biggest announcement to date. We’re seeing Demon Hunters doing their thing, updates to the game’s ranked mode, and whole classes getting revamped. Our friends atMetabombhave put together this overview of everything you need to know....

HomeNewsDOOM Eternal Bethesda didn’t want Doom Eternal to include deathmatch “just for the sake of doing it"They’re up to something more interesting They’re up to something more interesting WhenDoom Eternalcomes out on Friday, it won’t include a deathmatch mode. The series that invented multiplayer deathmatch has done away with straight up murder competitions, because, according to Bethesda vice president Pete Hines, “that mode is eons old”. “I don’t know what that has to do with [Doom] other than that, well, a couple of decades ago we had that, so we should just have that again,” he says....

HomeDeals GOG’s Spring sale is now on, with lots of free Witcher goodiesToss a coin to your GOG Toss a coin to your GOG GOG’s Spring salebegins today, and there are lots of free Witcher goodies up for grabs to kick things off. Alas, The Witcher games themselves aren’t free as part of the goodie pack (although they’re allheavily discountedas part of GOG’s Witcher Universe Collection bundle), but it does include lots of Witcher soundtracks, comics, art, wallpapers and a video of some Witcher music being played at The Video Game Show concert....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Shadow President?Commander in pants Commander in pants One of several things I lamented during the golden age of abandonware (an era with a contested definition, but generally “the 2000s”), was a dearth of games explicitly about politics. Simulators in particular were practically unheard of, which is how I ended up playing 1993’sShadow President, a game about getting frustrated and trying to invade the United Kingdom. You have near absolute power as the President, which sounded unlikely to me once....

HomeNewsHearthstone Hearthstone is adding a new Demon Hunter class in AprilYOU ARE NOT PREPARED for the pun in the sixth paragraph YOU ARE NOT PREPARED for the pun in the sixth paragraph Illidan’sextremely complicated backstoryis borrowed, as ever inHearthstone, from the wider Warcraft lore. I’ll be honest in saying I was initially confused as to whether he was meant to be a Demon Hunter as in “he hunts demons”, or a Demon Hunter as in “a demon who hunts stuff”....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Hearthstone’s new Ranked system - How does it work?How to rank up in Hearthstone. How to rank up in Hearthstone. Hearthstonehas had pretty much the same ranked system for years. You start at rank 25, and gain stars with each win until you get to rank 1, and the best among us hit Legend above that. However, the devs felt this isn’t the best way to explain the way the game works, and the arbitrary numbers don’t make things particularly easy to grasp....

HomeNewsThe Last Campfire Hello Games lighting The Last Campfire this summerWork on No Man’s Sky continues Work on No Man’s Sky continues Hello Games today announced a summer launch forThe Last Campfire, their cute little explore-o-puzzler about a little lost ember trying to get home. TheNo Man’s Skystudio announced The Last Campfire in December 2018 for a 2019 launch, long enough ago that I’d actually forgotten about it. Hey, here it is again!...

HomeNews Looks like Overwatch has started teasing hero 32There’s definitely an Echo in here There’s definitely an Echo in here Here we go again. Blizzard are teasing us with the tiniest pieces ofOverwatchlore and I can’t get enough of it. Yesterday, theOverwatchTwitter account tweeted out a personal log from a Dr. Mina Liao, who’s been building an Omnic codenamed “the Athena prototype”. Now, I don’t know about you, but this all sounds like we’re about to get our first proper look at Echo, the Omnic hero Blizzard have been teasing for over a year....