HomeNewsCrimesight Konami have announced a PvP mystery game about an AI Sherlock HolmesDeduce which of your fellow travelers is secretly Moriarity’s puppet Deduce which of your fellow travelers is secretly Moriarity’s puppet Crimesight takes place in 2027, when violent crime has nearly been eradicated thanks to an AI that predicts them before they happen. When the AI predicts a series of crimes that can’t be prevented, its engineers make a better AI called Sherlock to out-deduce baddie AI Moriarity who’s at the center of it all....

HomeHardwareFeatures Razer Iskur review: three months with Razer’s gaming chairPull up a chair Pull up a chair For the past three months, I’ve traded my £100-odd Ikea chair for the all-black edition of Razer’s Iskur gaming chair. Until recently, I’d been fairly resistant to the onslaught of so-called bucket gaming seats with their naff, strapped on lumbar pillows and go faster racing stripes, but I’ve also become increasingly aware that my Ikea chair probably isn’t doing my back a great deal of good either....

HomeNewsScarlet Nexus Scarlet Nexus, a slick anime action RPG, is out todayBeat up monsters, with your mind Beat up monsters, with your mind Scarlet Nexusis out today, if you’d like to take control of a child soldier capable of hurling concrete boulders with your mind and making sincere connections with your telekinetic mates over gyoza. Scarlet Nexus takes place in a sci-fi anime world home to many tropey characters, many motives, and many monsters to fight....

HomeHardwareFeatures Acer Predator XB253Q reviewA stunning 240Hz G-Sync Compatible monitor A stunning 240Hz G-Sync Compatible monitor With 240Hz gaming monitors getting cheaper and more affordable with every passing month, there’s never been a better time to jump on the high refresh rate gaming train. Mycurrent 240Hz monitor championisAOC’s C27G2ZU, which remains incredibly good value at just £215 / $280. But a new challenger enters the ring today in the form of Acer’s Predator XB253Q - and it comes with anofficial G-Sync Compatiblerating to boot....

HomeNewsAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora tech video talks ray tracing and NPC AIThe graphics card to run it is unobtainium, though The graphics card to run it is unobtainium, though Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Snowdrop Tech ShowcaseWatch on YouTube Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Snowdrop Tech Showcase Other features discussed included volumetric clouds and the volume of objects on screen at once, but I was more interested in the chat about NPCs which will supposedly understand more than normal about the game state, including time of day and player progression....

HomeNews Epic have made Easy Anti-Cheat and cross platform voice comms free for game devsAdd it to your game, no matter what engine or store Add it to your game, no matter what engine or store Epic Games' platform war with Valve is being fought on many fronts, not just via the Epic Games Store. The less noticed part of the fight is Epic Online Services, which provides backend tools for game developers similar to those Valve offer via Steamworks....

HomeFeaturesGhostrunner Have You Played… Ghostrunner?Cutthroats over cutscenes Cutthroats over cutscenes Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I heartily appreciate it whenever a game manages to be cinematic and tell a story without ever getting in the player’s way. I think of it as “the Doom approach”. The beauty of this accomplishment is that the story doesn’t even have to be very good or interesting....

HomeHardwareNews If your PC says it can’t upgrade to Windows 11, check your BIOSA lack of TPM chip could also be the undoing of many a potential upgrade A lack of TPM chip could also be the undoing of many a potential upgrade Microsoft unveiledWindows 11this evening, and people can already download their PC Health Check up to see if their PC meets the new OS' minimum hardware requirements to qualify for itsfree ugprade....

HomeNews Morrowind remake Skywind now has over 100 dungeons complete, but still has a long way to goAka Modrowind Aka Modrowind For a while last year, I started following a long modding guide to updateThe Elder Scrolls III: Morrowindto a more modern standard. Then I lost my place and gave up. I’m not joking. The thingis huge, and I forgot what I was doing. That’s why I wear mySkywindbadge with pride....

HomeDeals Take 20% off Dell gaming or pro laptops with this secret codeBargain basement prices for the XPS 15 and Dell G15 gaming laptop at Dell’s UK store Bargain basement prices for the XPS 15 and Dell G15 gaming laptop at Dell’s UK store Dell is offering a raft of discounts on their whole portfolio right now as part of their Summer Sale - including some of the best prices we’ve seen on the Dell G15 gaming laptop and the XPS 15 secretly-gaming laptop....

HomeNewsTeardown Teardown’s relentless robot is like Baymax crossed with a T-1000Cuddle it or run Cuddle it or run “Sorry about the programmer art,” ends a recent tweet fromTeardowndeveloper Dennis Gustafsson. He needn’t apologise. His tweet contains a video of a pathfinding robot navigating the destructible, constantly-changing world ofone of last year’s best games, and the robot is simultaneously terrifying and cute. Watch the video here: I know a lot of you liked the dynamic pathfinding I tinkered with a couple of years ago....

HomeFeatures The Rally Point: What the XXXX is going on?Sometimes we just want to Experiment and Exist, all right? Sometimes we just want to Experiment and Exist, all right? As I entered a second hour of trying to hammerDistant Worlds Universeinto a playable state on Windows 10, two thoughts occurred. The first is that I hope the upcomingDistant Worlds 2is the 4X I want. The second was more troubling: What do I want from a modern 4X game?...

HomeNews The Steam Summer Sale has begunWho needs holidays when you have video games? Who needs holidays when you have video games? Look, lockdown in the UK has been extended and it’s probably gonna get extended again, so this summer I feel I’m more justified than ever spending all my money on games. What else am I going to do? Go on holiday? The Steam Summer Sale has kicked off now, discounting thousands of games, so I know where my savings are going....