Game Pass added Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft's fun open-world Hackers homage

HomeNewsWatch Dogs 2 Game Pass added Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft’s fun open-world Hackers homageABHTP: Always Be Hacking The Planet ABHTP: Always Be Hacking The Planet Watch Dogs 2 – Launch Trailer | Ubisoft [NA]Watch on YouTube Watch Dogs 2 – Launch Trailer | Ubisoft [NA] A weird tone for a video exposing police brutality DedSec love skulls, loud colours, dithering, 50s horror movie posters, emojis, and trollface memes. Some find it cringe, as I’m told the kids say, but I think it’s fun camp....

July 21, 2022 · 2 min · 302 words · Cassandra Ferguson

GTA Online’s Criminal Enterprises update will make you an offer you can’t refuse on July 26th

HomeNews GTA Online’s Criminal Enterprises update will make you an offer you can’t refuse on July 26thPutting that crumbling world to good use Putting that crumbling world to good use The Criminal Enterprises, Coming July 26 to GTA OnlineGTA Online’s Criminal Enterprises update grows your dodgy business options on July 26th.Watch on YouTube The Criminal Enterprises, Coming July 26 to GTA Online “The Southern San Andreas economy is in crisis,” Rockstar say....

July 21, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Bradley Leonard

PC players are lapping up cat adventure Stray on Steam, despite being free on PlayStation right now

HomeNewsStray PC players are lapping up cat adventure Stray on Steam, despite being free on PlayStation right nowThe game that got the cream The game that got the cream Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Never underestimate the innate cuteness of cats. It’s a phenomenon that’s served the Internet, Ancient Egyptian civilisation and Andrew Lloyd-Webber well. Now it’s the turn of Annapurna Interactive, publishers of miaow ‘em upStray, who have seen the highest concurrent player counts on Steam for any of their games released to date....

July 21, 2022 · 2 min · 387 words · Mary Sanchez

Saints Row seems like a tentative reboot caught between past and present

HomeFeatures Saints Row seems like a tentative reboot caught between past and presentFor better and for worse For better and for worse After four hours withSaints Row, it’s funny being back in the present. I have a gaming PC! Bills to pay! A smartphone that recognises my face! Grey hairs! I say all this because Saints Row - not to be confused with Saints Row yet also to be confused with Saints Row - whisked me back to the early 2000s, when I was but a naïve teenager whose life largely pivoted around their Xbox 360....

July 21, 2022 · 4 min · 737 words · Angela Moore

Square Enix make Final Fantasy 7 NFTs a real thing

HomeNews Square Enix make Final Fantasy 7 NFTs a real thingThese don’t seem like something Avalanche would approve of These don’t seem like something Avalanche would approve of FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH – First Look TrailerWhen Square said there was going to be a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, I didn’t think NFTs were what they meant.Watch on YouTube FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH – First Look Trailer If you were so inclined, you could plonk down $160 (£134) for theCloud Strife action figure, which comes with an NFT to gawp at on your smartphone or computer....

July 21, 2022 · 2 min · 380 words · Kenneth Jones III

Ubisoft have cancelled Ghost Recon's battle royale and Splinter Cell VR

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Frontline Ubisoft have cancelled Ghost Recon’s battle royale and Splinter Cell VRIn order to focus on other games In order to focus on other games Ubisoft announced today during an investor earnings call that they have cancelled development of planned battle royale game Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Frontline, as well asSplinter CellVR and two unannounced games.During an investor call, chief financial officer Frederick Duguet said the cancellations were the result of the “uncertain economic environment,” and that it would allow Ubisoft to “even more focus on our biggest development opportunities....

July 21, 2022 · 6 min · 1170 words · Kara Williams

Vampire Survivors patch 0.9.0 adds new boss rush mode

HomeNewsVampire Survivors Vampire Survivors patch 0.9.0 adds new boss rush modePlus a new character, weapon and Arcanas Plus a new character, weapon and Arcanas Vampire Survivorshas received another patch, which adds 2 new Arcanas, a new challenge stage called Boss Rash, and a surprise new unlockable character. The new character is called Gyorunton, and is a blue, three-headed and armless dragon, who has a Bracelet as a new starting weapon. Where does it wear the bracelet?...

July 21, 2022 · 2 min · 232 words · Margaret Morse

Wordle answer (Friday 22 Jul 2022): Wordle word of the day #398 and hints

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Friday 22 Jul 2022): Wordle word of the day #398 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 22 July 2022?TGIF, am I right? Come tomorrow you can spend the whole day working on theWordlepuzzle if you like. And who could blame you, it’s your weekend!...

July 21, 2022 · 6 min · 1099 words · Michele Contreras

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2 gathers its party to venture onto GOG today

HomeNews Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2 gathers its party to venture onto GOG todayWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine lands along with a Warhammer sale too Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine lands along with a Warhammer sale too GOG started highlighting classic games again recently under the Good Old Games label, a nod towards its original moniker. Well, two more old-school games are releasing on the DRM-free storefront today:Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2andWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine....

July 20, 2022 · 6 min · 1129 words · John Butler

Clanfolk early access review: a settlement sim that's a little too familiar

HomeReviewsClanfolk Clanfolk early access review: a settlement sim that’s a little too familiarWe have McRimworlds at home We have McRimworlds at home Clanfolk Release Date TrailerWatch on YouTube Clanfolk Release Date Trailer From this first small disaster in Clanfolk, you can already see the strengths of applying top-down hardship sim design such as that in Rimworld to the Scottish wilds. The best thing about these kinds of games is that you form little tales, a toy drama playing out half in the game and half in your own head....

July 20, 2022 · 3 min · 607 words · Latoya Whitaker

Get a 17in Lenovo Legion 5 RTX 3060 gaming laptop for £765

HomeDeals Get a 17in Lenovo Legion 5 RTX 3060 gaming laptop for £765Use code L3GION-10 to get 10% off the listed price Use code L3GION-10 to get 10% off the listed price Lenovo has deeply discounted one of its excellent Legion 5 17-in laptops over at its UK store, bringing an £850 model down to just £766. That’s a great price for a configuration that includes a Ryzen 5 5600H processor, RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card, 8GB of upgradeable DDR4 RAM and a 512GB NVMe SSD....

July 20, 2022 · 5 min · 871 words · Lance Robertson

What's better: demos or gibs?

HomeFeatures What’s better: demos or gibs?Vote now in our mission to help decide the single best thing Vote now in our mission to help decide the single best thing Demos What use is a good thing in a game if you don’t know it has a good thing? So play the demo, yeah? If it has one, these days. I’ve been glad to see a minor revival through the Steam Next Fest as well as frequent free trial weekends of whole games, games too big to shave a sliver off....

July 20, 2022 · 2 min · 269 words · Lindsey Thomas

Wordle answer (Thursday 21 Jul 2022): Wordle word of the day #397 and hints

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Thursday 21 Jul 2022): Wordle word of the day #397 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 Thursday 21 July 2022?It’s a Thursday in the height of summer which means, if you’re anything like me, your brain has already melted and it’s going to stay that way until the weekend....

July 20, 2022 · 5 min · 1016 words · Anthony Rasmussen