HomeFeaturesTransport Fever 2 Wot I think: Transport Fever 2Rite of passengers Rite of passengers Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£32, $40, €40 It was day two when I finally contracted transport fever, with the classic symptoms: the aching posterior, the swelling of the pride. I’d built a circular railway, like the kind you see in children’s sets, to connect the mines and factories along the shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. Then I’d asked my drivers to load their gondolas only halfway with coal, leaving space for iron on top, a glorious layer cake of raw materials....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Best Budget Descent of Dragons decks - Cheap deck lists for the casual Hearthstone playerHow to enjoy Descent of Dragons on the cheap! How to enjoy Descent of Dragons on the cheap! Descent of Dragons has almost arrived, and it’s difficult to pin down exactly where to start. A swathe of brand new cards is about to drop, and you definitely won’t want to spend your limited amounts of Arcane Dust crafting a deck which might not be worthwhile in the long run....

HomeFeaturesPUBG: Battlegrounds Getting a chicken dinner with PUBG’s new planes is harder than it looksPlanestyle Royale Planestyle Royale Today in Playstyle Royale, the series where I head into a battle royale game and try to earn my chicken dinner while adhering to arbitrary rules, I will run someone over in a plane. They were added toPlayerunknown’s Battlegroundsserverslast week, opening up a new frontier of aerial murder. I’m not going to give myself any additional handicaps, because I anticipate this will be bloody difficult enough as it is....

HomeFeaturesDicey Dungeons Have You Played… Dicey Dungeons?Critical success! Critical success! Lately, whenever I’ve had a spare couple of minutes, it’s become a habit to fire upDicey Dungeons. It’s an RPG that is played over the course of many,manyruns. I’ve succeeded rarely and failed often, yet somehow I’ve come back for more. Lady Luck has enticed me with her lethal game show of dice rolling. I had it on my Steam wishlist thanks to the always missed Brendan andhis excellent reviewback in the summer of last year....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Hearthstone Battlegrounds - What does golden Shifter Zerus do?Get it, and you’re golden. Get it, and you’re golden. Unlock the tier three shop inHearthstoneBattlegrounds and you’ll unlock the chance to encounterShifter Zerus, the one and only. It’s a 1/1 minion with a twist. The twist being, it’ll shift into a random minion at the end of each turn. In Battlegrounds, you can combine three minions to turn them into one, bigger, beefier unit....

HomeNewsStormdivers Housemarque put ill-fated battle royale Stormdivers “on hold"Diving pool’s closed, mate Diving pool’s closed, mate Pour one out forStormdivers, readers. Developers Housemarque today revealed that the long-suffering battle royale contender is being shelved indefinitely, along with all other projects at the studio - save one. See, if there’s any remorse in the Finnish firm’s announcement, it doesn’t show. On Housemarque’s 25th anniversary, the developers are gearing up to announce their most ambitious game yet - and if they’re gonna make their next big hit, they can’t be dragging their heels on a struggling shooter....

HomeNewsOvercooked 2 Overcooked 2 invites you to join the Lunar New Year celebrations in its Spring Festival updateRice to the challenge Rice to the challenge The Lunar New Year-themed content will have us exercising our culinary muscles in five new kitchens, dodging a Chinese dragon that looks like he accidentally wandered in from a local parade. InOvercooked 2you work alone or with up to four people in co-op to cook and serve food in increasingly chaotic kitchens....

HomeNewsEuropa Universalis IV Paradox are experimenting with a subscription service to play Europa Universalis IV and its DLCThat’s a whole lot of DLC That’s a whole lot of DLC Paradox Interactive, the publishers of games fromCrusader KingstoCities: Skylines, have settled into a familiar and successful model: release a game then, rather chase it with a sequel, spend years expanding it with free content updates and paid add-ons. I quite like this when I buy a Paradox game near the start of its long life, and happily buy an expansion or two a year, but the sheer mass and price of extras for later games can be intimidating....

HomeNews Rat out some discounts with Steam’s Lunar New Year SaleRat race Rat race How are you celebrating the year of the rat? Cheeseboard, perhaps? Steam, predictably, are celebrating as they always do with another store-wideLunar New Year Salerunning today through Monday 27th. Beyond slashing the cost of thousands of games, Steam are bringing backlast year’s rewards system - letting you grind out Rat Tokens in exchange for cosmetic goodies, or pick up extra coupons to further your spending spree....

HomeNewsSnakeybus Snakeybus adds a multiplayer mode that lets you shoot rockets at other bus snakesAccidents wheel happen Accidents wheel happen Snakeybuswas released early last year, introducing the world to the possibilities of driving a bus that gets longer and longer as you collect passengers. The longer you get, the more precarious your situation is, as the possibility of ploughing straight into one of your trailing bus carriages becomes a real threat....

HomeFeaturesTemtem Temtem is the best Pokémon game in yearsHave to tame each of them! Have to tame each of them! Tempting tempeh! Tempura templars! Temerarious temperatures! It is unclear at present whetherTemtemis a contraction of anything, and what exactly it means if it is, but this Pokélike is the brand new catch ‘em up from Spanish studio CremaGames. Temtemis an unashamed rip-off of Pokémon in almost every respect, but that’s why it’s good....

HomeFeaturesRed Dead Redemption 2 A strangling spree in Saint Denis - more adventures in Red Dead Redemption 2This city is a tar pit and I’m drowning in it This city is a tar pit and I’m drowning in it Smash cut to: the vile, spluttering face of the Cowboy, who is drowning in a swamp. As his strength gives out and his legs stop kicking, those craggy features slip at last below the surface, turning sepia in the murk before vanishing entirely....

HomeFeatures Being petty jerks in Six Ages actually makes you the most powerful clan everEven our C-listers are hardcore Even our C-listers are hardcore I’m usually nice.Six Agesis about leading a village in a roughly bronze age fantasy world, in which culture is of paramount importance. Morality and belief and social expectations are complex and compared to those of our own society, very odd. What we’d call the right thing isn’t always the same thing that Riders, the game’s main culture, would consider right....