HomeHardwareNews I am showered with the viscera of a dying mousepadPlease Ian Tel, make your future organic PCs immortal Please Ian Tel, make your future organic PCs immortal One nice thing about a computer rather than, say, a dog, is that it doesn’t rot. No secretions, no shedding, no decay. A computer will still happily sit in a corner of a room, chirping and whirring and bringing you joy as you play with it (look, I don’t know much about dogs?...

HomeNewsMortal Shell Mortal Shell’s roguelike expansion will be free at launch this weekA truly Hollow price tag A truly Hollow price tag Mortal Shell: The Virtuous Cycle | Release Date Trailer | PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox OneWatch on YouTube Mortal Shell: The Virtuous Cycle | Release Date Trailer | PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One The Virtuous Cycle will let you adventure anew with enemies shuffled around upon death....

HomeNewsPatron Patron is a survival city-builder in the vein of BanishedThere’s a free demo now There’s a free demo now Patronlooks to me like The Settlers: a peaceful medieval citybuilder about laying down paths and watching your peeps trundle between farmstead and market. It is, according to its Steam reviews, more akin toBanished: a survival citybuilder about both outlasting winter and appeasing the social simulation of your town. In either case, Patron feels worthy of further patronage....

HomeHardwareDeals This 2TB PCIe 4.0 drive is $240 at Newegg (was $500)An incredible value for a drive this fast. An incredible value for a drive this fast. Whoa, this is kind of crazy. Normally we see sales on older, more budget NVMe SSDs, but today we have a scorching hot deal on one of the very fastest drives on the market. The XPG Gammix Gaming S70 is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, capable of ludicrous sequential speeds - up to 7000MB/s reads and 6400MB/s writes....

HomeDeals This Dell 240Hz monitor is down to £234 after a handy codeA 25-in 1080p 240Hz IPS monitor that’s also FreeSync / G-Sync Compatible. A 25-in 1080p 240Hz IPS monitor that’s also FreeSync / G-Sync Compatible. The Dell S2522HG is a solid 240Hz gaming monitor based around a 25-in IPS panel, making it an ideal choice for both competitive gaming and content creation - and now it’s reached a new low price thanks to a code available at Dell’s UK store....

HomeNews Xbox Game Pass lines up more games for August, including Humankind and Psychonauts 2Plus 12 Minutes and more Plus 12 Minutes and more Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Last week I wrote that best-game-of-last-year Hades wascoming to Xbox Game Pass in August, alongside some other fine games such asCurse Of The Dead GodsandKatamari Damacy.This was apparently insufficient, since Microsoft have just laid out more games coming to their game subscription service in the Month Of Aug, includingHumankind,12 MinutesandPsychonauts 2....

HomeNewsCultic 3D Realms announce explosive retro shooter Cultic and its demoKick cultists and kick dynamite Kick cultists and kick dynamite As with others in the current wave of 90s ‘em ups, Cultic’s developers say it’s full of modern niceties like neat physics and nice lighting all wrapped up in the color palette of the early FPS days. They say Cultic is meant to give you a variety of approaches to combat....

HomeFeaturesCheeky Chooks A free-to-play chicken game has reignited my passion for management gamesBirds of a feather ranch together Birds of a feather ranch together Now, not so much. I don’t really have an explanation, other than my patience for management games has shrivelled up considerably; where once that section of my brain was a vibrant pink sponge ready to absorb vast menus and numbers, it now resembles a dry raisin. I thought that no matter how hard I tried, it would never spring back to plump life....

HomeNews A Steam exploit could’ve let you add infinite money to your walletValve have patched it, and paid $7500 to the discoverer Valve have patched it, and paid $7500 to the discoverer The hack would’ve involved a Steam user changing their account email address to include the phrase “amount100”, before adding a little bit of money to their Wallet using a method that goes through the Smart2Pay payment system. This exploit would then let the hacker intercept the request being sent to Smart2Pay’s servers, allowing them to alter how much money they were actually adding....

HomeNews All-women speedrunning marathon Flame Fatales has begunThe GDQ-affiliated event is raising money for the Malala Fund The GDQ-affiliated event is raising money for the Malala Fund If you’re after a mid-year speedrunning fix, then I have some good news for you: the all-women Games Done Quick event Flame Fatales is on all this week. Like GDQ and AGDQ, Flame Fatales is a yearly charity speedrunning marathon, and this year they’re raising money for the Malala Fund....

HomeNewsDeath Trash Death Trash has already made back its development costsGotta love that meat! Gotta love that meat! Death Trash Review Early Access | Challenging RPG In A Strange WorldWatch on YouTube Death Trash Review Early Access | Challenging RPG In A Strange World Death Trash artist, designer, and coder Stephan Hövelbrinks blasted the business news on Twitter on Saturday: That’s just a nice bit of news about a weird and charming wee game....

HomeReviewsGarden Story Garden Story review: a cosy, sweet-natured RPGAll things grape and small All things grape and small Have you ever seethed at the injustice of juicy, happy grapes being crushed underfoot? Probably not. I hadn’t either, but playing Zelda-likeGarden Storyhas changed things. It starsConcord, a purple vineyard-venturer so stalwart and noble that my empathy for grapes is now at its apex. Sommeliers. Jam makers. Raisin(eers?). M&S Holiday advert charcuterie board arrangers....

HomeHardwareDeals Get a 1TB TeamGroup MP33 Pro NVMe SSD for just $87Best known for their RAM, TeamGroup also makes a killer SSD Best known for their RAM, TeamGroup also makes a killer SSD TeamGroup is perhaps best known for their RAM, but the Taiwanese company also makes a solid line of SSDs. Today, their budget MP33 Pro NVMe SSD has been reduced on Amazon, dropping from $100 to $87 for a 1TB capacity drive....