HomeNews Coronavirus cancellations, an Apex surprise, and more of the week’s newsRead all about it! Read all about it! This week, several esports events in China have been cancelled due to the new coronavirus going round, Steam done an oopsie, andApex Legendsmurdered its next character. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and do also check outthe Weekly Updates Updatefor the week’s big patches....

HomeNewsNot For Broadcast Dystopian telly-wrangler Not For Broadcast is now live in early accessWe’re live in 3… 2… 1… We’re live in 3… 2… 1… Oh, what a wacky satire you’ve drawn up here,Not For Broadcast. An alternate 80s Britain, stumbling blindly towards political disaster, with media outlets tripping over themselves to keep the public complacent? Careful, you might be getting a little too far-fetched, there.Not For Broadcastis out now in early access, broadcasting live on Steam’s global signal....

HomeNews Kentucky Route Zero’s end, Monster Hunter fixes, and more of the week’s patchesPatch me up, doc Patch me up, doc This week,Kentucky Route Zerolaunched its final act, Monster Hunter improved performance, and GTA Online is giving away cash. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update. Kentucky Route Zero has concluded with Act V Our returning Alec said inhis review, “I waited and waited for this, and now one of the most outstanding, intelligent and beautiful videogames yet created is God-damned over – and it was outstanding, intelligent and beautiful to the last....

HomeFeatures Priceless Play - 1 February 2020Games to stave away existential dread Games to stave away existential dread Well, we’ve made it to February of 2020. Has the sheen of the new decade worn off yet? It sure does seem like, even with the new numbers and everything, we’re pretty much right where we left off. My laundrydoesn’tsuddenly do itself now that I live in the future, and politicsstillsuck. It seems that coming to live in the brave new world of the 2020s is a lot like growing up – I keep wandering around, blindly waiting to feel like I’m an adult....

HomeNewsAlien Hominid Invasion The Behemoth announce a new Alien Hominid, ageing me tremendouslyBlast from the past Blast from the past Did you know Alien Hominid first appeared on flash portal Newgrounds in 2002? Do you also suddenly feel a sharp pain, as if all your bones had shattered into dust in an instant? Flash games might be dead and buried (for the most part), but one of its most enduring legacies is about to make a screaming, toothy comeback....

HomeNews Blizzard own your Warcraft 3: Reforged custom maps, but that’s no surpriseOh dear Oh dear It’s come to everyone’s attention that Blizzard have revamped their User Generated Content policy just in time to launchWarcraft 3: Reforged, and claim ownership of all maps made in its editor. The new legalese, while definitely overbearing and disappointing, shouldn’t be a surprise: they started tightening legal claims years ago withStarCraftII. So far as I—a non-lawyer—can tell, their latest ownership clause is much longer but not all that much different to the policy they’ve had with StarCraft II custom games for years....

HomeReviewsCommandos 2 - HD Remaster Commandos 2 - HD Remaster reviewBanner banner Banner banner When you send your Renoir nude off to the restorer for a spruce-up there’s no danger it will return with the nipples painted out because the restorer thought they might cause offence or arousal. Things work a little differently with computer games it seems. Much-loved isometric sneak-em-upCommandos 2has come back from refurbishment missing a few aesthetic details....

HomeFeatures Disco Elysium’s Hardcore Mode is just one way games can meaningfully explore povertyMonth at the end of the money Month at the end of the money Last week, the haunting and hilariousDisco Elysiumadded an extra difficulty setting called ‘Hardcore True Detective Mode’. On the surface, it seems like a fairly standard set of tweaked parameters. More demanding dice roles to shaft dear old Harry Du Bois at every opportunity....

HomeNews Flashpoint launcher is saving Flash games from impending extinctionRemember Bowman? Remember Bowman? We’ve known aboutAdobe’s plans to kill of Flashfor years now. Back in 2017 Alice O shouted off a list of memorable Flash games and it’s telling that I’ve an entirely different list in my head (as do all of you) of games that it will be a shame to lose. Fortunately there are enough preservationists here in the wilds of The Internet looking to keep an archive of what was, even the wonky ones....

HomeGuidesLegends of Runeterra How Legends of Runeterra’s rounds workHow to stack cards How to stack cards Rounds inLegends of Runeterraare perhaps the most complicated thing to get your head around. It relies on understanding the logic behind how spells resolve, when you can play certain cards, and actions that can take place during combat phases. A lot of how Runeterra works is dependent on understanding a concept Magic players would be familiar with....

HomeNewsHeaven’s Vault Inkle Studios' next game is an Arthurian storyCamelot has fallen Camelot has fallen Early this month, the studio behind the archaeological language adventureHeaven’s Vaulttweeted out seven wordsteasing their next project. At the time, the story-focused Inkle Studios had only this to share: “swords, anguish, Britain, unrequited, forests, hope, and revenge.” As of today we’ve still got no imagery to go with all the teasing but we do have some more words and they’re much less abstract this time....

HomeNewsDota Underlords Now we know the exact date Dota Underlords will be freed from early accessA new Underlord arrived last night too A new Underlord arrived last night too After almost eight months in early access, Valve have revealed the full release date forDota Underlords- February 25th. This will mark the start of the game’s first season, introduce a full battle pass, a new meta, and brand new content. Oh, and a new Underlord was added to the game like, last night....

HomeNews Shelter developers will beta test their new “tiny MORPG” this summerLooks mighty delightful to me. Looks mighty delightful to me. The folks who’ve brought you all those cute animal parent games:Shelter,Shelter 2,Paws,Meadowand the lot, revealed last year that they have something new in the works (aside from the plannedShelter 3). Might and Delight’s “tiny MORPG” is called Book Of Travels and is planned as a “unique social roleplaying experience” somewhat in the vein of the studio’s multiplayer experiments in Meadow....