HomeNewsRaft Raft sails out of early access after four years with a huge updateSurvival on a raft, with co-op support Survival on a raft, with co-op support Last time I playedRaft, it was a small but solid survival game about hauling rubbish from the ocean to expand your little slab of planks into a roaming home and farm while fending off hungry sharks. That was maybe 2018. Now, Raft has finally launched out of early access and whoa what is this game now?...

HomeNews Valve’s latest patent filing is for a new VR headsetPotentially long-rumoured wireless headset Potentially long-rumoured wireless headset We Played Ten Different Game Genres On The Steam DeckWatch on YouTube We Played Ten Different Game Genres On The Steam Deck “A head-mounted display includes a front having a display housing and a back having a rear housing,” begins the abstract for the filing. There are then several blueprints of the device and its parts, and a lengthy text description of what those parts do and how it might be connected together....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Bungie reach $13.5 million agreement in Destiny 2 cheating lawsuitThat’s $2000 per download of the infringing software That’s $2000 per download of the infringing software Our Eight Favourite Games From Not E3 2022Find out what our favourite games of this year’s Not-E3 week were.Watch on YouTube Our Eight Favourite Games From Not E3 2022 Each of the 6,765 downloads of the cheating software – which Bungie claims breached copyright law that includes the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions – was determined to represent statutory damages of $2000 (£1633)....

HomeFeaturesDome Keeper Dome Keeper is a superbly satisfying wave defence game about fending off aliens with a giant laserPlease, please let there be enough content in the full release Please, please let there be enough content in the full release I realised earlier that today was the last day of Steam Next Fest, and I panicked. I remembered seeing one particular demo on Steam which made my ears prick up and my eyes expand to thrice their usual size, and until now I hadn’t the time to try it out....

HomeDeals Get five high performance Arctic P12 case fans for £23An unbeatable price on already great value, no-RGB fans. An unbeatable price on already great value, no-RGB fans. The Arctic P12 is one of the best value high-performance case fans - and now you can get five for £23, some 20% off their usual (already good!) price.These fans come in black without RGB for a stealthy look, can be daisy-chained to make cable management easier and can be controlled via PWM from 200 to 1800RPM....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: rotoscoping, water, and metroidvaniasAdmiring more upcoming indie games Admiring more upcoming indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This time, come admire some rotoscoping, Ponging, and two very different metroidvanias.I do appreciate a behind-the-scenes peek at rotoscoping:Rotoscoping WIPs for my cinematic platformer LUNARK✨https://t.co/NHTV7eIoif#screenshotsaturday#pixelart#animationpic.twitter.com/7RShoSJkNz— Johan Vinet (@johanvinet)June 19, 2022To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeFeaturesSonic Frontiers Sonic Frontiers is less Breath Of The Wild and more Super Mario OdysseyIt’s way more fun than it looks, trust me It’s way more fun than it looks, trust me The blue hedgehog is back! He goes very fast in his latest instalment,Sonic Frontiers! And lots of fans – naturally – think it looks terrible! The scepticism is understandable. But having gone hands-on with it atSummer Geoff Fest, I’d like to pose a counter argument: the gameneedsto be played....

HomeNewsTerra Nil The environmentally friendly ‘reverse city-builder’ is a relief to play Of all the demos featured in this past week’sSteam Next Fest, indie environmental ‘reverse city-builder’Terra Nilhas performed exceedingly well for itself. The demo has cropped up among the top 50 on the most-played games on Steam over the weekend, and is currently nestled betweenMount & Blade II: BannerlordandVampire Survivors. Not bad for a chill game about rewilding a barren planet....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 This Cyberpunk 2077 mod lets you fly hovercars and hoverbikesSee Night City from a new perspective See Night City from a new perspective One of the best parts ofCyberpunk 2077is Night City itself, a loud and colourful place full of interesting details and decorations. I explored loads on foot, I explored more withthe mod adding trains V can ride, and today I’ve explored even more with a mod adding hovercars....

HomeNewsAgent 64: Spies Never Die Agent 64: Spies Never Die’s demo is a retro throwback to Rare’s GoldenEyeNeeds multiplayer and mutators though Needs multiplayer and mutators though Throwback first-person shooters are penny a bushel at the moment, but while most aim to replicate the boomsticks ofQuake,Agent 64: Spies Never Diemimics the PPKs and hacking gadgetry of another 90’s classic. Maybe the name gives it away: it’s Rare’s GoldenEye for the Nintendo 64, and there’s currently a demo available to play as part of the Steam Next Fest....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Sunday 19 June 2022): Wordle word of the day #365 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 Sunday 19 June 2022?Today might not seem like a particularly special Sunday, but it sure is. In fact, it’s the day of the 365th everWordle! A full year of Wordles....

HomeNews Activision Blizzard board says there’s “no evidence” they tolerated any “reported” harassmentA statement issued yesterday says media criticism “is without merit” A statement issued yesterday says media criticism “is without merit” In fact, another, separate review of data concludes that “there was no widespread harassment, pattern or practice of harassment, or systemic harassment at Activision Blizzard or at any of its business units” in the United States between September 1st, 2016 and December 31st, 2021....

Not E3 2022is over. It’s done. I think? I meanthere’s a Nacon showcase in Julybut, I mean come on now, we can’t start classing events that occur outside of June as being part of the event formerly known as E3 can we? That would be preposterous. Before long it would spool out across the entire year, absorbing every month until E3 is a constant series of video events that could happen at any point....