HomeNews A Monster’s Expedition is a tree-pushing puzzler from the creators of Cosmic ExpressTimber! Timber! I often wish I had the mind for puzzle games. Alan “Draknek” Hazelden’s catalogue of deceptively hard brainteasers look bleedin' lovely, but I simply can’t be screaming at my monitor with strangers in the office. After solving lunar train dilemmas withCosmic Expressand teaching us thatA Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, Draknek And Friends are returning withA Monster’s Expedition- pushing over trees to explore a water-logged museum of human ruin on Steam and Itch....

HomeNews A Short Hike, Anodyne 2 and Mutazione are free for keeps on Epic this weekThree Freebies Three Freebies It’s freebie o’clock on the Epic Games Store once again. This week’s a proper bonanza, too. BetweenA Short Hike,Anodyne 2: Return to DustandMutazione, there’s no shortage of familiar and fantastical indie worlds to poke around in. All three are free to add to your library for good ‘til March 19th, when they’ll be slapped back to full price to make way forThe Stanley ParableandWatch Dogs....

HomeNews For remote school, work, and socialising To help folks using Discord as a substitute for in-person contact during these Covid-19 days, the gaming communication software has helpfully raised limits on screensharing. Discord may be designed for video games but is one of the text, voice, and video chat tools growing popular for remotely replacing classes, workplaces, and just plain human contact as schools and workplaces start shutting down and people start self-isolating....

HomeNewsDOOM Eternal Doom Eternal’s launch trailer has risen, a little earlyWhat were you saying about Rip Torn? What were you saying about Rip Torn? WhileDoom Eternalwill not launch until next week, the launch trailer has ripped and torn through the pages of the calendar to show us its sights early. Ah sure, go on, I’ll take a little ultraviolence now to tide me over. A little plasma to warm my hands in these tumultuous last days of winter....

HomeNewsMonster Hunter: World Monster Hunter Iceborne adds a new region and new monsters todayTurn them into slippers Turn them into slippers Today the seasoned killers ofMonster Hunter World: Icebornekick in the doors to a new region of the world and promptly set about turning its residents into new hats and jackets. The free update opens the Tundra region of the Guiding Lands and adds two new monsters, Safi’jiiva and Stygian Zinogre....

HomeGuidesOri and the Will of the Wisps Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Mora: how to defeat the giant spiderI hope you’re not arachnophobic I hope you’re not arachnophobic Ori And The Will Of The Wisps has a fair number of boss fights, but this one is that shade creepier than most. This giant spider is Mora and she does all the things giant spiders like to do, but it also likes to make things very dark....

HomeNewsPlanetSide 2 PlanetSide 2 has added orbital strikes and massive warshipsBring your brown spandex Bring your brown spandex After several delays,PlanetSide 2’s biggest update for years, Escalation,went liveovernight. Players of the massive scale three-way sci-fi FPS will now have access to giant shields, orbital bombardments, tank airdrops, and the most exciting bit: carriers. You see the big fellers up there? You could be in one. Or, more likely, have to team up with enough people to take it down....

HomeFeaturesThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The best item in Skyrim is…Don’t axe me to explain Don’t axe me to explain This axe. My new character inThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimis a bandit. I have 101 mods installed.One of themlets me start as a member of the bandit faction, in theory meaning that all guards will attack me on sight, and all bandits will ignore me. In practice, one of the other 100 mods installed has clashed with it, so other bandits attack me anyway....

HomeFeaturesThe Longing The deep darkness of caves and mushrooms in The LongingNot mushroom to breathe Not mushroom to breathe Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£13, $15, €15 The Longingis a game that takes 400 days to play. You control A Shade, a little servant to an underground king who’s taking a very long nap, and in those 400 days you can… well, you can lots of things. Explore the caves. Build a nice home. Sit and wait....

HomeNews E3 is cancelled, rumours sayIt seems inevitable It seems inevitable Update: Annndit’s official: E3 is cancelled. With more and more events being cancelled over recent weeks due to concerns about the Covid-19 coronavirus, it’s seemed nigh inevitable that June’s E3 would be binned. The organisers haveso farsaid they were keeping an eye on the situation while moving ahead buuut now several outlets are reporting they’ve heard that E3 is scrapped....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Castlestorm?The Angry Birds catches the Worms The Angry Birds catches the Worms CastlestormwasAngry Birdsre-imagined as tower defence, with a dash of Worms and a WoW-lite aesthetic, and it was extremely good! If it was released today, however, I’d probably ignore it. Because, even though it isn’t even a mobile game, it’s got amassivecase of rubbish mobile game energy. It’s all exaggerated, cartoony fantasy characters, bright colours, and humour of the kind that got stale around the time Clash Of Clans spent its second billion on marketing....

HomeFeaturesHunt: Showdown How Hunt: Showdown creates hot, dripping tensionWascally wabbit Wascally wabbit But the swamp and its horrible denizens aren’t Hunt: Showdown’s antagonists. The real source of tension is other players. Every detail of this shooter’s design is about engineering a sense of threat from the fact that running around this grimdank hellhole are other people who are aiming to end your bog holiday early. After all, while you’ll start out nervous of water devils, meatheads and crows, they’re predictable....

HomeNewsHorizon Zero Dawn It would be weird if Sony didn’t bring more PlayStation exclusives to PCSome more context! Some more context! With yesterday’s news thatSony will release Horizon: Zero Dawn on PCthis summer came a hint that this might be only the first of their PlayStation exclusives coming our way. It sounds like they’re moving slowly and cautiously yet do expect to bring more. While this has seemed increasingly likely in recent years, it’s still surprising to me....