HomeNewsMedieval Engineers Medieval Engineers has ended development with one final small updateWelp Welp After a long silence and one small final update, Keen Software House have declaredMedieval Engineersdone and shoved it out the door. First launched in 2015, the build ‘n’ siege sandbox hadn’t seen a substantial update in the past year year of early access while Keen focused on its sci-fi sibling,Space Engineers. Keen had insisted thatMedieval Engineerswasn’t abandoned but now with one final round of bug fixes, they’ve called it quits....

HomeReviewsBeamNG.drive Premature Evaluation: BeamNG.driveCrumplestiltskin Crumplestiltskin Developer:BeamNGPublisher:BeamNGRelease:Out nowOn:Windows, Mac, LinuxFrom:SteamFor:£18.99, $23, €21 Don’t ask me to explain in any more detail, but I’m almost completely certain I understand what “soft-body physics” means having watched precisely one YouTube video about it while high in bed one afternoon, my own soft body draped inelegantly across the pillows and speckled in Quorn nugget crumbs, like some forgotten Renaissance masterpiece. Car simulatorBeamNG.drivedeals in the physics of soft bodies, objects that, unlike the impossibly perfect “rigid bodies” of pure Newtonian physics, can compress and crumple and deform and twist....

HomeNewsStellaris Stellaris: Federations is out now, and adds a space UNOffblast! Offblast! It’s a great week to make new spacefriends, thanks to the launch of the new Federations expansion forStellaris. As the name suggests, Federations expands the options for galactic friendship in Paradox’s sci-fi 4X strategy game. Now you can join a Galactic Union, Trade League, Research Cooperative, Martial Alliance, or Hegemony, different types of federation with different goals and perks....

HomeReviewsDOOM Eternal Wot I Think: Doom EternalAbsolutely gorious Absolutely gorious Release:March 20thOn:WindowsFrom:SteamPrice:£50/€60/$60 Doom Eternalsucks in the whole of you. Fights plunge you into flow states. They send you wading through demonic maelstroms of gristle and gore. You twist and jump and dash, punching, shooting and chainsawing every Cacodemon that should know better than to cross you. I’ve danced the bloody ballets of hell and beyond, and I’ve returned to tell you: they are dazzling....

HomeNewsMinecraft A bunch of kids in Japan held their graduation ceremony in MinecraftThe wholesome content we all need right now The wholesome content we all need right now Minecrafthas become a graduation venue for a group of students in Japan, after schools have been shut for more than two weeks due to Covid-19. The Japanese school year ends in March, so rather than miss their end of year graduation ceremonies, a bunch of kids got together to create their very own virtual celebrations in Minecraft - and it’s exactly the content I needed to see today....

HomeNewsFights In Tight Spaces Bust baddie skulls with a deck of tactical action moves this year in Fights In Tight SpacesBut are there trap cards? But are there trap cards? Rarely does a deck-building game, nor even a tactical game, look so simply stylish as this.Fights In Tight Spacesis both, which is quite a nice mix of mechanics. Your suited-up James Bondian protagonist busts in to tiny tactical grids to knock baddie skulls with the help of their deck of action movie rear-kicking abilities....

HomeNewsControl Control shows off the new tricks and terrors of its first expansionStanding in the way of Control Standing in the way of Control To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Ugh, but I cleaned out the dimension’s litter tray last week - can’t someone else have a go? I’m excited for more Control story. I do enjoy pottering around that world and building. It’s a shame combat can be such a chore....

HomeNews Donate processing power to help find a treatment for Covid-19Help crack Covid Help crack Covid If you want to help stop the spread of Covid-19, wash your hands. Followmedical advice. If you want to help some more, though, it wouldn’t hurt to chuck some of your processing power at protein modelling. Folding@home is a program that let’s you do exactly that: analysing protein structures to find potential “druggable sites”. I won’t pretend to fully understand the science, but I do know this is more likely to help than doing nothing....

HomeNewsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive Golly, everyone’s on Steam right now for some reasonStay home and squad up Stay home and squad up Unofficial Valve voyeurSteamDB reportsthat Steam broke through its previous online user record yesterday with a peak count of 20,313,451. SteamDB pulls fromSteam’s ownfigures which actually reported just a hair higher for yesterday at 20,313,476. The previous record was over 18 million online users back in January 2018. That’s also the date that still holds Steam’s record for most players actually in game at a time....

HomeGuidesOri and the Will of the Wisps Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Regrowing The Glades: all the seed locationsEssential for getting collectables Essential for getting collectables When you come to the Wellspring for the first time, you may have noticed a small seed. This is one of six collectable seeds that you need to deliver to Tuley in Wellspring Glades. He wants to regrow the plants in Wellspring Glade and in order to find all the collectables, you’ll need his help....

HomeNews Players are hurling rocks to win Call Of Duty: Warzone’s 1v1 GulagIt’s only a flesh wound! It’s only a flesh wound! The 1v1 fights inCall Of Duty: Warzone’sGulag are meant to be a quick fight where eliminated players who win the standoff get a second chance to respawn with their team. Naturally, players are working on ways to better ensure victory, because they are clever little buggers. They’ve already figured out how to make the Gulag’s “non-lethal” rocks deadly and learned to abuse the tagging system as well....

HomeFeatures The joy of playing a great game before its superior sequelOriginal-er sin Original-er sin I’m having a moment inDivinity: Original Sin. I’m lost in the limitless depths of my inventory, its small icons denoting vague categories which make me forget which character was meant to give what to whom, or where I put that unidentified sarong I swear I picked up in the last battle. Meanwhile, the NPCs in the market square around me are repeating their lines on 20-second loops....

HomeNews Virtual GDC begins today in lieu of the physical conferenceTalks are streaming all week Talks are streaming all week GDC 2020begins today. It’s online this year after the San Francisco-based conference waspostponeddue to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Hundreds of professional presentations and thousands of attendees are no longer getting together in person but the grand industry mindshare is attempting to spread knowledge regardless. Though not every talk has survived the jump to digital space, you can start watching many of the scheduled presentationson Twitchright now....