HomeNewsMinecraft Minecraft is generating incredible caves in the version 1.18 snapshotThe experimental snapshot has a lot to show The experimental snapshot has a lot to show I loaded up the experimental snapshot myself today and if all these major world gen changes are a bit unsettling to you, don’t worry. I didn’t immediately find myself chucked into some floating island nullverse world. It’s still definitely Minecraft, albeit with mountain-ier mountains and cave-ier caves....

HomeNewsDiablo II: Resurrected The fixes are in after Diablo 2: Resurrected’s technical alphaThe remaster has been remastered itself The remaster has been remastered itself Blizzard’s technomancers are elbow deep inDiablo 2: Resurrected’s guts. With a recent technical alpha letting players pass judgement on what’s been built so far, the team have been refining the game accordingly. Quite a few quality of life adjustments have been implemented from the feedback they received, and Blizzard have detailed a bunch of them for us....

HomeNews Watch the RPS Indies Uncovered stream at PAX and EGX Rezzed to discover your next favourite indie gameWe wishlist you well We wishlist you well While we’re a little bit closer to meeting up at the Tobacco Docks for some Zoom-less chats and interactive funtimes, we’re not quite there yet. So, in lieu of in-person video games events, the lovely folks at EGX Rezzed (and our American cousins that are keeping all PAX-related things ticking over) are running two online events that kick off this weekend - and we’ll be taking part with our returningIndies Uncoveredstream....

HomeNewsWorld War 3 World War 3 reemerges from the trenches with a development updateMap reworks and better movement are inbound Map reworks and better movement are inbound Afterpulling its early access versionfrom sale in August 2020 to refocus on development,World War 3has reemerged with an update on what its tactical shooting looks like. Developers The Farm 51 have released a new trailer going over a good chunk of changes they’ve been making based on feedback from the folks still playing, including map reworks, a vaulting system, kill cams, and more....

HomeDeals Get Northgard for free in the GamesPlanet strategy salePlus big discounts on Age of Empires, Frost Punk, Battletech, Crusader Kings, Company of Heroes and many more top-tier franchises. Plus big discounts on Age of Empires, Frost Punk, Battletech, Crusader Kings, Company of Heroes and many more top-tier franchises. UK retailer Gamesplanet is running a medieval and strategy sale in honour of their 15th anniversary, including a pretty outstanding offer - get the excellent Viking strategy gameNorthgardfor free when you spend more than £3....

HomeDeals Get up to 85% off Japanese games in Humble’s Big in Japan saleFeaturing Final Fantasy, Naruto, Dragon Ball and Yakuza, amongst others. Featuring Final Fantasy, Naruto, Dragon Ball and Yakuza, amongst others. Calling all Japanese game fans: Humble is running a ‘Big in Japan’ sale right now with up to 85% off on titles from Japanese developers, from classic titles like Chrono Trigger andDevil May Cryto newer releases like Code Vein, Balan Wonderworld and Persona 5 Strikers....

HomeFeatures Hands on with Company Of Heroes 3 - aka Total War: WW2We put a war in your war, so you can war while you war! We put a war in your war, so you can war while you war! The Total War series are the Kinder Eggs of strategy gaming: a layer of delicious, map-based strategy, with a dramatic RTS toy hidden inside. It’s a tasty formula, and I’ve often wondered why more games over the years haven’t adopted it....

HomeFeaturesLoop Hero Have You Played… Loop Hero?Unique, uniquer, uniquest Unique, uniquer, uniquest Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Is it possible to say that one thing ismore uniquethan another thing? Doesn’t sound right. Something’s either unique or it isn’t. But I’ll be damned ifLoop Herois one of the most unique games I’ve ever played. Watching your hero cycle endlessly around a closed loop, auto-battling ever-tougher enemies while you play tiles in and around the loop to help your hero “remember” their surroundings and grow in strength?...

HomeNewsHighFleet HighFleet will flip its switches on Steam on July 27thIt’s probably diesel-powered, not steam-powered It’s probably diesel-powered, not steam-powered HighFleetis one of the game’s I’m looking forward to most this year. It’s a simulation game, but it’s simulating fictional machinery: giant dieselpunk airships, which spew smoke and missiles. In between, there’s exploration and diplomacy and diegetic interfaces. I’m quite excited that we now know it’ll be out in two weeks, on July 27th....

HomeNews Kojima doesn’t like the Death Stranding “Director’s Cut” brandingBecause the new content in it was never cut Because the new content in it was never cut Death Strandingdirector Hideo Kojima doesn’t like that the upcoming new version is called a “director’s cut”. Yesterday, he took to Twitter to explain his reasoning, saying that director’s cuts of films typically add stuff that was filmed then taken out. Death Stranding’s new version, on the other hand, will supposedly have a bunch of completely new content added....

HomeNewsMinecraft Minecraft 1.18’s new world generation is now available for testingAnother step towards Caves & Cliffs update part two Another step towards Caves & Cliffs update part two Minecraft’s 1.17 update launched a few weeks ago, but that was only part one of what’s collectively known as the Caves and Cliffs update. We’ve knownwhat’s coming in 1.18for a while, and the key feature, new terrain generation, is now available to play via an experimental beta....

HomeNewsNieR: Automata Nier: Automata’s Steam version will finally get its major patch this weekFour years late Four years late Nier: Automata is a great and beloved game, but it was released in a poor state on Steam four years ago. Since then, players have relied on fan patches to get the game to do simple things, like run in the correct resolution or play cutscenes without stuttering.No more. The long-awaited patch announcedback in Aprilis arriving this week on July 15th....

HomePodcasts The Weekspot podcast: we’d be happy to revisit Vice City in GTA 6Where the heat is on Where the heat is on I can picture it now: cruising down Vice Point, behind the wheel of a Cheetah, giving off big divorced dad energy as W.A.S.P. bellows from the car stereo. How brilliant would it be to head back to Rockstar’s Miami? If you believe what’s been said over the past few days, we’ll all get the chance to revisit one of video game’s great locations in a few years time....