HomeFeaturesCyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077’s patches can’t fix its biggest problemsPatching your jeans won’t make ‘em into a new pair of trousers Patching your jeans won’t make ‘em into a new pair of trousers Many of the patches and hotfixes were to make the game work better (or at all) on consoles, of course, but a bunch of them included across-the-board fixes for bugs, stability, orstopping the cops spawning next to youwith the same haunted immediacy as your mum when she realised you hadn’t taken the chicken out of the freezer when she asked you to....

HomeNews Oxenfree II: Lost Signals will bring back more spooks and delightful dialogueThere’s a sequel signal on this frequency There’s a sequel signal on this frequency Walkin' and talkin' mystery gameOxenfreehas just announced an upcoming sequel with a new cast of talkative spook hunters.Oxenfree II: Lost Signalswill follow new characters, but include that natural dialogue system of Night School Studio’s original Oxenfree and their more recentAfterparty. You can catch the first spooky trailer right here for the newly-announced sequel that’s coming later in 2021....

HomeNewsStrangeland Primordia devs go to a terrible carnival with Strangeland in MayA surreal new adventure game from Wormwood and Wadjet Eye A surreal new adventure game from Wormwood and Wadjet Eye A few years later than planned,Primordiadevelopers Wormwood Studios are returning with a new murky adventure game. TheirStrangelandwill launch on the 25th of May, publishers Wadjet Eye announced yesterday, inviting players into a surreal and nightmarish carnival with far too many awful clown faces for my liking....

HomeNews Smite developers Hi-Rez Studios are offering permanent remote workWorking from home has already been good for them, they say Working from home has already been good for them, they say When game developers started packing up last spring to work from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I suspect we all knew it was going to be a bumpy ride. Sure enough, there have been game delays galore over the past year as many studios found the adjustment to be a challenge....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Token Druid deck list guide - Forged in the Barrens - Hearthstone (April 2021)Our extensive guide to playing Token Druid in the Barrens meta. Our extensive guide to playing Token Druid in the Barrens meta. Token Druid is aHearthstonedeck that we’ve seen riding high in most metas since the dawn of Hearthstone. It’s a really powerful deck in the right hands, and we recommend hopping on the hype train if you haven’t tried it already....

HomeFeatures What does the future hold for RPGs?There will be incremental change, but machine learning could be a revolution There will be incremental change, but machine learning could be a revolution A question that crosses my mind from time to time is why there aren’t more horror RPGs. Certainly,RPGsare more than capable of generating psychological terrors, and horror games are as popular as they’ve ever been. But outside of a handful of classics like Sweet Home,System Shock 2, andVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, it remains a fairly under-developed area within the genre....

HomeGuidesOutriders Best Outriders Devastator build: solo and endgame builds with the Devastator skill treeThe best Outriders Devastator builds on offer The best Outriders Devastator builds on offer Out of the four classes inOutriders, the Devastator has the highest potential for sheer obstinate survivability. With the right Devastator build, you can get about as close to invulnerable asOutriderswill allow: and lucky for you, we’ve got two such builds below. Ourbest Outriders Devastator buildguide will first walk you through an extremely powerful solo Devastator build, before delving into an equally powerful build designed for co-op endgame missions....

HomeNews Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.5 arrives with new story quests and Nier raid finalePaving the way for the game’s upcoming Endwalker DLC Paving the way for the game’s upcoming Endwalker DLC The wait is over:Final Fantasy XIV’s servers are back online, and patch 5.5 Death Unto Dawn has landed. This update serves as the mid-point between the game’s previous expansion, Shadowbringers, and the upcoming one, Endwalker (which will arrive sometime this autumn)....

HomeFeaturesDon’t Starve Together Have You Played… Don’t Starve Together?Those dogs are speedy boys. Those dogs are speedy boys. Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I hadn’t played Don’t Starve before, despite it being a thing I knew about for quite some time. I just never fancied getting into it as I often get frustrated with survival games I’m not immediately good at (read: all of them)....

HomeFeatures I want more games to redefine what ‘survival’ meansMainly so I can be good at survival games Mainly so I can be good at survival games I think we can generally agree that one of the main functions of video games is wish fulfillment. They let you believe you might not only be a powerful and competent person, but also the most powerful and competent person in the universe (and if that is not the case, why do Bethesda games even exist?...

HomeNews Mass Effect’s graphical remaster is more than lens flare - but does it look better?A new trailer compares the original trilogy to its upgrade A new trailer compares the original trilogy to its upgrade Mass Effect: Legendary Editionhas the tough job of upgrading the visual appearance of games originally built to run at 720 or 1080p on an Xbox 360. That’s a mammoth task even if it was just one game and not the entireMass Effecttrilogy....

HomeGuidesHearthstone OTK Leoroxx Hunter deck list guide - Forged in the Barrens - Hearthstone (April 2021)Beastmaster Leoroxx finally has a chance to shine. Beastmaster Leoroxx finally has a chance to shine. Beastmaster Leoroxxhasn’t been used a great deal since his entry into the Ashes ofOutlandset. There just hasn’t been enough potential for an OTK deck that includes him. That’s all changed now though - this deck utilises a combination of Beast minion buffing existing in the Hunter class, combined with the Forged in the Barrens’ superb Beast copying and drawing ability....

HomeFeatures Preview: the Elite Dangerous Odyssey FPS expansion is best when you’re not shooting[insert your own “one small step” joke here] [insert your own “one small step” joke here] There’s a Vulture circling overhead. Not a scavenger bird, but the somewhat larger Core Dynamics Vulture. Its engine reverbs across the moon’s surface as it boosts off into orbit, ignoring me. I’m not worth the hassle. My Sidewinder, the trash-tier space banger ofElite Dangerous, is parked quiet and unoccupied on the edge of a huge meteor crater....