HomeFeatures The 10 most annoying children in PC gamesOne Off The List One Off The List Children, life’s great copy-paste. Adorable, drooling idiots with no self-control and a habit of yelling embarrassing facts to the entire supermarket. In our everyday lives, human children are a snotty emblem of hope, vulnerability, and aspiration. In videogames, they are a cursed harbinger of escort missions, narrative roadblocks, “cutesy” voice acting, and precocious dialogue. They are annoying....

HomeHardwareNews AMD confirm loads more graphics cards for 2020Shock twist Shock twist Exact details of which graphics cards will be getting a refresh are still thin on the ground, but given the RX 5600 XT launched just a few weeks ago, I’d imagine that’s probably quite far down the list. Instead, the most likely candidates would be the RX 5700 and the RX 5700 XT, which launched last July and went straight into ourbest graphics cardlist - although quite how AMD will differentiate between the old and new refreshes is anyone’s guess....

HomeFeaturesButterfly Soup Butterfly Soup makes an excellent case for why representation mattersPossibilities make more things possible Possibilities make more things possible Along with the development of lesbian and gay studies (and later queer theory), there’s been a consistent stream of critique coming from post-colonial writers, or just people who are not Western, not from the Global North, not White. What they have all been indicating is that the history of “gayness”, “lesbianism”, or “queerness” is of concepts developed in the West, to describe particular Western experiences and cultures, and then often employed as if they could fit experiences of everyone else on the planet just the same....

HomeNewsApex Legends Revenant slashes into Apex Legends' Season 4 launch trailerRise of the machine Rise of the machine Ah, Jimmy, we hardly knew ye. Today’s launch trailer forApex LegendsSeason 4: Assimilation confirms it. Forge was a bust - a well-executedbait-and-switchthat almost had us thinking months of speculation had been for naught. Rest in peace, beefcake. After slaughtering suits and televised stabbing, killer-for-hire andone-time Halloween-announcerRevenant is taking his collection of knives to murder island when the next season starts on February 4th....

HomeNews Schwerkraftprojektionsgerät is Increpare’s fiendish four-way take on TetrisQuad up Quad up Fancy yourself a dab hand at Tetris, aye? After over 35 years, who doesn’t? Stephen “Increpare” Lavelle wants you to put those skills to the test with his latest free experiment,Schwerkraftprojektionsgerät(Gravity Projection Device, Google Translate assures me). Released this week with the look of a quirky old German toy, Lavelle’s devious browser game challenges you to four simultaneous games of Tetris, using the same set of blocks and a gravity-bending twist....

HomeNewsTotal War: Rome II Sega Europe start using recyclable packaging for all PC gamesDon’t fiddle while Rome burns Don’t fiddle while Rome burns The company explain that their new packaging has a box of “100% recycled and recyclable cardboard,” the manual is also “100% recycled and recyclable manual,” and “all printing uses water and vegetable inks, apart from the disc,” while the whole thing is shrinkwrapped in “100% recyclable low-density polyethylene (LDPE)....

HomeGuidesTemtem Temtem gear locationsComes in handy Comes in handy Gears inTemtemare items that you don’t use yourself. Instead, you give them to your Temtem and they will benefit from their effects. They can augment their attacks, increase their resistance to a type, or even improve your chance to capture a wild Temtem. They’re incredibly useful, but there is usually only one of each in the game. Temtem gear locations guide ThisTemtem gear locations guidehas all the known gears and their locations, as well as descriptions of what the gears do....

HomeReviewsCoffee Talk Wot I Think: Coffee TalkNo logo on the foam No logo on the foam Mellow. I see little value in reducing games to a single word, but here that word is inescapable.Coffee Talkis a light visual novel with a drink mixing system, that lets you gently nudge its subplots towards good or bad outcomes. I can’t tell you it was a particularly gripping, dramatic or funny story. But it was very mellow....

HomeReviewsPraetorians - HD Remaster Wot I Think: Praetorians HD RemasterPraetorians Delenda Est Praetorians Delenda Est Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamPrice:£14/$17/€17 Ave, citizens! Although October (the month of Ghoastus) is still far off, a game about Romans has been released, which means that, as per the terms of my binding, Nate has been forced to summon me to review it. When I heard aboutPraetorians - HD Remaster, I couldn’t wait to enter Nate’s PC via the floppy disc drive and haunt it for the weekend....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2 needed to roll back characters after emptying spacewalletsOh dear Oh dear Last night’s newDestiny 2patch had the unintended consequence of deleting many players' hard-ground cash and upgrade materials, causing Bungie to take the MMOFPS offline for nine hours while they fixed it. Their solution was to roll characters back to their state before the patch, which has the unfortunate side-effect of wiping out everything players did between the patch launching and the emergency maintenance started....

HomeNewsDwarf Fortress Dwarf Fortress has new villainous actions and pet-able petsThe adventure family grows The adventure family grows The at times inscrutable and oft eye-strainingsimulation gameDwarf Fortresshas a new update today. It has the beginnings of a villainy system where evil acts like assassinations, coups, and embezzlement can happen during world generation. There are also pets for your dwarves which I’d like to suggest is the most important bit. Bay 12 Games call update 0....

HomeNewsThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Get in the bin, Geralt, and play The Witcher 3 as Mads MikkelsenYou Mads, bro? You Mads, bro? Geralt’s been having quite the romp since his new TV show popped up on Netflix. With the help of modders, he’s gone and invaded just about every RPG in the last couple months. Alright then, while he’s out slaying monsters in everyone else’s games, this modder has ousted him fromThe Witcher 3, replacing the White Wolf with a different game man face....

HomeNews Play The Elder Scrolls: Arena as a distressingly muscular GarfieldI can’t believe you’ve done this. I can’t believe you’ve done this. I won’t blame you if you don’t click on this post. The image is horrifying—I know. If you pop on in here I promise I’ll try to teach you a thing or so about Khajiit morphology using this ridiculous mod forThe Elder Scrolls: Arena. If you can’t see it for any reason, it’s the head of Garfield, the 1978 version of the comic book character, on top of the cat-like player characters from the first Elder Scrolls game....