HomeNews Another indie developer has come forward publicly with allegations that UK-based publishers PQube have withheld money from them. Thai dev team Corecell claim they’ve only seen some of the minimum guaranteed money agreed when they signed the European console publishing rights to their action-puzzle gameAeternoBlade 2over to PQube in 2019. Corecell say they attempted to resolve things with PQube but that didn’t work, and they had to terminate the publishing agreement in 2020....

HomeFeaturesBackbeat The Hexagroove dev’s new 90s musical puzzler Backbeat is a puzzle game with XCOM strategy mashupsBust a move Bust a move Ventura was at BitSummit to showcase the successor to this game, Backbeat. It’s a bit of a departure from much of his past work, acting more like a puzzle game with a musical soul, albeit one where the act of creating and playing music together is imbued into every solution....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Friday 2 September 2022): Wordle word of the day #440 and hintsHints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 2 September 2022?If you can believe it, it’s Friday once again! For those of us in the UK, the four-day week means Friday has really snuck up on us; while our pals in the US are no doubt eagerly looking forward to their own upcoming long weekend....

HomeDeals A boat-load of Blue Microphones are discounted in the UKUSB mics, XLR mics, cheap mics and expensive mics. USB mics, XLR mics, cheap mics and expensive mics. There are a ton of Blue Microphones on sale at Amazon UK at the moment, as part of their ‘gaming week’ promotion. As well as the Yeti and Snowball USB microphones that are most likely to be familiar to you, there’s also a rare42% discounton the Blue Blackout Spark XLR mic - nice....

HomeNewsCrusader Kings III Crusader Kings 3: Friends And Foes brings even more drama to the medieval soap opera next weekMore than one hundred fresh shenanigans to contend with More than one hundred fresh shenanigans to contend with If you thought things could get awkward and tense inCrusader Kings 3then just wait for the arrival of its Friends And Foes pack on September 8th. There’s also the upcoming freeBastionupdate, which introduces memory maps for characters, the loyal and disloyal traits, and revamps childhood events....

HomeFeaturesFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Final Fantasy XIV’s new Island Sanctuary is more Tom Nook sim than peaceful paradise, but it worksNo rest for the wicked No rest for the wicked There were high expectations going into Buried Memory, patch 6.2 forFinal Fantasy XIV- new raids, new story, and, most importantly, a new mode called Island Sanctuary to fulfil all of your farming dreams. There were Harvest Moon andAnimal Crossingmemes aplenty in the run up to release, with players hungry to customise their own cosy piece of Hydaelyn....

HomeHardwareDeals Get 32GB of DDR5-6000 and a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for £235 at CCLCompared to £500 for buying these items separately! Compared to £500 for buying these items separately! Did you know you can get a 32GB kit of 6000MT/s DDR5 RAManda 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD for £235 at CCL? That’s an awesome deal on a normally £500 bundle that gives you some of the most critical components for a new high-spec Intel 12th-gen system....

HomeHardwareFeatures HyperX’s first gaming monitors are competent screens perched on modular mountsHands-on with the Armada 25 and Armada 27 Hands-on with the Armada 25 and Armada 27 Last week HyperX announced their first-ever gaming monitors, the Armada 25 and Armada 27, and within a couple of days I was being led into their Gamescom booth to try each of them for myself. After a disappointingly uncomfortable preview of theSamsung Odyssey Ark, it was nice to get to grips with a far more utilitarian pair of monitors – albeit not without a party trick of their own, namely HyperX’s Armada Gaming Mount....

HomeNews This Twitter bot tours Half-Life skyboxes to brighten up your timelineSkybox Satellite gazes up at the Half-Life heavens Skybox Satellite gazes up at the Half-Life heavens The second-best way to make Twitter palatable (after simply unfollowing sources of bad tweets) is to follow a load of curated and bot accounts which trickle niceness into your timeline. Today I’d like to suggest addingSkybox Satellite, a Twitter account which shows glimpses of the skies wrapped around maps in GoldSrc games likeHalf-Lifeand Counter-Strike....

HomeNews Ubisoft give online services for older games a stay of executionShutdown date bumped from today to October 1st Shutdown date bumped from today to October 1st Today was due to be the day when some older Ubisoft games would see their online services decommissioned, but the company is granting them a temporary reprieve. You now have until October 1st to cram in some multiplayer for several earlyAssassin’s Creeds, the original version ofFar Cry 3,Driver: San Franciscoand others....

HomeFeaturesHigh On Life High On Life’s talking alien guns aren’t as annoying as you might thinkThey were a highlight of my time at Gamescom They were a highlight of my time at Gamescom I went into myHigh On Lifehands-on session with one expectation: its talking alien guns will annoy the heck out of me. But in a surprising turn of events, I left thinking the game was a real highlight of my time in Cologne’s multi-hall maze of excellent people and overpriced schnitzel....

HomeNews NetEase have acquired Quantic DreamBeyond: two companies Beyond: two companies Chinese tech giants NetEase have announced they’ve fully acquiredDetroit: Become HumanandHeavy Raindevelopers Quantic Dream, following a smaller investment in the company in 2019. Quantic Dream’s co-CEOs David Cage and Guillaime de Fondaumière will remain in place, and the studio will continue to function independently from NetEase. The cost of the deal hasn’t been disclosed. Under The Waves | Reveal Trailer | Gamescom 2022Quantic Dream are publishing Parallel Studio’s Under The Waves, announced during last week’s Gamescom....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Netflix’s Cyberpunk 2077 anime show Edgerunners streams into your brain from September 13thThe new trailer’s NSFW The new trailer’s NSFW The anime series based on CD Projekt Red’sCyberpunk 2077starts streaming on Netflix on September 13th, a new trailer has revealed. Jack in, boot up and sit down to watch the not-safe-for-work trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners below. Just tell your boss they’re needed in a meeting or something. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners | Official NSFW Trailer | NetflixCyberpunk: Edgerunners is set in the same Night City as Cyberpunk 2077, but has its own cast....