HomeGuidesElden Ring How to pause Elden Ring without modsAn exploit has emerged that allows you to hit an unofficial pause button An exploit has emerged that allows you to hit an unofficial pause button Can you pause Elden Ring?Until recently, we believed the answer to this question to be a resounding “no” —Elden Ringmakes a point of not letting you pause, even in single player. Naturally, on PC the modding community quickly stepped in, but now it turns out that there is a cheeky exploit that allows you to effectively pause the game in its vanilla state....

HomeNewsJoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fighting game coming to PCOra ora ora! Ora ora ora! The big hairstyles, dramatic poses, daft names, shouted catchphrases, and supernatural powers of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are coming to PC in a fighting game based on the popular anime/manga series. Due to launch this autumn,JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle Ris an updated and expanded version of a PlayStation 3 exclusive from 2013....

HomeFeaturesLost Ark Lost Ark’s Mokoko island is a great example of the game at its bestA little tangent A little tangent This article contains spoilers for Lost Ark’s main questline. Lost Arkis a very silly game, but not in the way it initially seems. For its first 15 hours or so, Smilegate’s ARPG is like someone described Lord of the Rings to the developers through a door, an overblown yet generic riff on Western fantasy tropes with overdesigned yet underwritten characters, all of whom talk about the game’s plainly ridiculous lore with the gravity of a neutron star....

HomeNewsOverwatch 2 Overwatch 2 splitting its PvP and PvE, with PvP now in a closed alpha testingClosed beta testing to begin in April Closed beta testing to begin in April Overwatch 2has been repeatedlydelayed, but it looks like it’s finally on its way - albeit in a changed form. In ablog post and video earlier today, theOverwatchteam announced that they were decoupling the game’s PvP and PvE modes, and that the PvP mode was now entering the first of several testing phases....

HomeNews PC Building Simulator 2 announced as an Epic exclusive coming later this yearConstruct a PC without cutting your hands on the case Construct a PC without cutting your hands on the case PC Building Simulatorwas a surprise hit back in 2018, turning the annoying bits I have to do before I can play games into the game itself. Now a sequel has been announced, due later this year, which will likewise let you customise and repair PCs with accurately modelled parts....

HomeNewsValkyrie Elysium Square Enix announce Valkyrie Elysium, bringing the series to PCAn action-RPG about fighting Ragnarok An action-RPG about fighting Ragnarok Two decades in, mythological RPG series Valkyrie will finally spread to PC with the next game. Last night Square Enix announcedValkyrie Elysium, a new entry in the series started with Valkyrie Profile way back when. See the new young Valkyrie mashing monsters to fend of Ragnarok in the first trailer, below....

HomeNews Steam had more players and playtime than ever in 2021Including 69m daily active players Including 69m daily active players We Answer Your Steam Deck Questions For 19 minutes StraightWatch on YouTube We Answer Your Steam Deck Questions For 19 minutes Straight Those efficiencies are increasingly important as Steam and game download sizes grow. Steam’s growth figures are large, too, even when compared to the large, pandemic-fuelled growth of 2020. In 2021, the service had 132m monthly active users, 69m daily active users, 27....

HomeNewsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection gathers 13 vintage Konami gamesCowabunga, dudes Cowabunga, dudes One of my earliest video game memories is at the swimming pool, where a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade cabinet nestled amongst the vending machines. After a swim I’d stare longingly at the snacks I couldn’t afford then stand on tip-toes before the game I couldn’t afford to play, waggling a joystick and mashing buttons to pretend I was controlling the attract mode demo....

HomeFeaturesShadows Of Forbidden Gods The Rally Point: Shadows Of Forbidden Gods exhibits the power of evil chaos theoryPedagogue of Wrong Gods Pedagogue of Wrong Gods Gods. Those jerks. You know what the problem with god games is? They’ve got no subtlety. It’s all open worship and overt power, conquering and seizing so you’re only superficially different to a 4X or management game. I suppose what I’m saying is that SOFG is more fun if you revel in scheming and causing chaos, and given the choice between effective and interesting, will always do the right thing....

HomeReviews Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn Of Ragnarök review: the Assassin’s Creed you like in a fun new fantasy worldThe roof is on fire, we don’t need no water The roof is on fire, we don’t need no water Assassin’s Creed Valhallaenters its endgame phase with its final DLCDawn Of Ragnarök, the very concept for which is kind of a big honking spoiler, so consider yourself forewarned. The series as a whole is still electing to carry on with that subplot about super-advanced precursor god-people, like a chill friend who you ask to party knowing that they will, univited, bring along their mate who is really into a specific genre of sci-fi and will not stop derailing conversations to talk about it....

HomeNewsGotham Knights Gotham Knights starts bamming, biffing, and powing in OctoberAnd where, and where, and where is the Batman? And where, and where, and where is the Batman? Gotham Knights - Official Gameplay WalkthroughWatch on YouTube Gotham Knights - Official Gameplay Walkthrough WB’s announcementtoday didn’t bring any new info or moving pictures to watch, just a date and a picture. Gotham Knights is set after the death of Bruce Wayne, which I assume involved a slow-motion scene of pearls bouncing on tarmac, at which point I guess Batman left town to mourn?...

HomeFeaturesHave A Nice Death Have A Nice Death is a fun roguelike that needs more meat on its bonesLean with potential to be really mean Lean with potential to be really mean Have A Nice Deathis a roguelike where you take control of an overworked Death, whose employees have ditched their jobs and run amok. You’ll journey into the bowels of your company, find the miscreants, and scythe them back into work....

HomeHardwareFeatures How is the Steam Deck as a desktop PC?Taking on 1080p Taking on 1080p Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Half the point of theSteam Deckis that it’s portable, but the other half is that it’s a PC. With the right tools, then, you can plug into a monitor, add a mouse and keyboard, and get playing as if it were a (somewhat) conventional gaming rig. But how well does the Steam Deck work as a desktop PC, really?...