HomeNewsEVE Online A DDOS attack has kept many Eve Online players offline for over a weekServers and players are both under fire. Servers and players are both under fire. Players started (figuratively) falling out of the sky inEve Onlinelate last month. Many couldn’t log in to the space faring MMO at all. Of those that could, plenty were unable to use the in game chat to coordinate with other pilots, which I’m given to understand is quite important for a space fleet....

HomeFeatures China’s indie scene is flourishing, so here are 6 Chinese indie games to look out for in 2020A tidy half dozen A tidy half dozen In December 2019, China’s indie scene was out in full force atWePlay in Shanghai, arguably the most significant developer-focused event in the country. Paired with the China Indie Game Alliance (CiGA) conference, the annual convention is a highlight for the mainland’s relatively young game scene....

HomeFeaturesOld School Musical Have You Played… Old School Musical?Hit me with your rhythm stick Hit me with your rhythm stick The latter will probably age horrible in a couple of years time (indeed, there are already a handful of crude, juvenile jokes in there that made me cringe even now), but seeing Tib and Rob get plonked into game world after game world was quite amusing for the most part, and I enjoyed seeing developer La Moutarde’s take on some of the retro classics of my youth....

HomeNewsMetro Exodus Metro Exodus' Epic exclusivity is nearly over, and it’s arriving on Steam next weekRussian to a new platform Russian to a new platform Metro Exodushad a bit of an awkward start to life, as initiallyit was meant to come to Steamat launch. People had pre-ordered it and everything before publishers Deep Silver suddenly declared it an Epic exclusivejust two weeks before launch. It looks like it will actually make it to Steam this time though, and it arrives just after its next DLC comes out on February 11th....

HomeNewsCorruption 2029 Mutant Year Zero developers announce their next tactical game out this monthFighting the swamp monsters, are they? Fighting the swamp monsters, are they? The developers ofMutant Year Zero: Road To Edenhave lined up a stealth attack aiming for a critical hit. Or that’s just the squad of sneaky augmented future soldiers you’ll command in their new game. Or both—it’s both. After their quite good first strategy game from 2018, The Bearded Ladies have just announced another calledCorruption 2029and a release date in less than two weeks....

HomeFeatures The 8 most shocking uses of electricity in gamesOne Off The List One Off The List Imagine a world without electricity. Horrible. What would we use to blend our smoothies? How would we know when uncle Derek hits the metal bit again in the Sunday game of Operation? Electricity has roughly one dozen uses, and yet it is in the realm of videogames when we see its most fantastical and offensive capabilities brought screaming to life....

HomeFeaturesThrough the Darkest of Times The Flare Path: Through the Darkest of TimesTalk to the monsters Talk to the monsters Käthe Schnee, my randomly generated avatar, leads a small cell of Berlin malcontents that specialises in minor acts of defiance and disruption. The group would, of course, love to strike mightier blows against the fascist regime that has turned Germany into a war-mongering, minority-murdering totalitarian state, but thus far (1944) a bit of leaflet distributing, graffiti scrawling, and fugitive assisting is basically all that they’ve managed....

HomeNewsWargroove Wargroove has added a new cooperative campaign for freeChuck horses into lava Chuck horses into lava The new campaign features two new units, three new Commanders, and volcanoes. Come watch this horseman get chucked into lava. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube The plot is about stealing from fantasy nouns - “plundering riches from the Imperial Palace of Heavensong, Stone Mountain Fort of Felheim, the Celandine Vault of Cherrystone and the Floran’s Iron Roots reserves”....

HomeFeaturesTemtem Can’t Stop Playing: TemtemTemtem up! Temtem up! Can’t Stop Playingis our monthly celebration of a game we’re loving. This month we’re stats grinding in childlike fantasy animal battlerTemtem. Watch out for more articles on it throughout the month.We’re a bit late with this month’sCan’t Stop Playing, because we couldn’t decide. But after some discussion, there is one clear answer.Temtem, the new PC game where you catch small monsters and battle them in teams, has taken over our office this past while....

HomeNewsFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers' next patch is a giant robot rumbleMech my day Mech my day Now thatNieR: Automata has come and gonefromFinal Fantasy XIV, it’s time to get back to business. Patch 5.2: Echoes Of A Fallen Star arrives later this month, driving forwards the main story and returning focus squarely to gods, empires and high-fantasy politicking. Naturally, that means it’s time to fight a Gundam....

HomeNews Final Fantasy XV, Youngblood and a Bleeding Edge beta head to Xbox Game Pass for PCPunch down Punch down Get in the car, punk.Xbox Game Pass for PCis about to pick up three new games, crammingFinal Fantasy XV,Wolfenstein: YoungbloodandDeath’s Gambitinto the back seat of its subscription bandwagon. That’s one banger, one bust, and one “huh, seems alright” jumping onto Game Pass' growing catalogue, still available at£1/$1 for three monthsif you’re a first-time subscriber....

HomeNews Rod Fergusson has worked on everyGears Of Wargame over the last 15 years, from starting the original Gears Of War with Epic, to helping establish The Coalition studio to work on the rest of the series. But now he’s heading to pastures new, joining Blizzard to oversee all thingsDiablo.“Leaving is bittersweet as I love our Gears family, the fans, and everyone at The Coalition and Xbox,“he tweeted. “Thank you, it has been an honor and a privilege to work with you all....

HomeFeaturesSpinch How a comic book author is making a platformer that looks like his artKaleidoscopic. Kaleidoscopic. Now, though, Jesse Jacobs is working on a game: a psychedelic, hard-as-nails platformer calledSpinch. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Making games is hard. I don’t know why a cartoonist would want to make a game (or anyone at all, for that matter). So I asked him. He was kind enough not only to answer my questions, but to provide some exclusive, behind-the-scenes artwork from the game...