HomeReviews Family follow-up Rivals brings you more lovely musical detectionSongs about vain Songs about vain Well, turns out that was just warming us up. Meet Rivals, broadly the same thing but longer, tougher, and about tracing 20 years in the careers of two school friends who formed a high school band and then almost immediately broke it up to do their own separate bands. Once again the brainchild of Tim Sheinman (including musical tracks from fictional albums), in Rivals you’re placing the chapter titles of a biography of Luke and Josh in the correct order....

HomeNewsGOG Galaxy GOG Galaxy client will start selling Epic Games Store gamesA bit confusing, but good? A bit confusing, but good? You’ll soon be able to buy games off the Epic Games Store from inside theGOG Galaxyclient, as part of GOG’s plans to expand their launcher’s built-in store. No, this does not mean Epic exclusives will be coming to GOG’s own store. Yes, you will still need an Epic account. Yes, it is a bit weird, but I suppose adding new stores fits with GOG Galaxy’s goal of being the launcher and library encompassing all other platforms and libraries....

HomeNewsSpaceflux Impossible arena shooter Spaceflux has my head in a spinMaps within maps within maps. Maps within maps within maps. I’ve seen a lotta shooters in my time, but five seconds intoSpaceflux’s early access trailer and my brain’s already turned to soup. Not content to use recursive geometry for puzzles, Calin Ardelean’s fractal shooter takes these non-euclidean spaces and asks you to play a round ofQuakein their infinite hallways. Out today on Steam Early Access, I just hope it’s not as stomach-churning as that sounds....

HomeNewsMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord finally gets proper mod toolsIt’s about time, too. It’s about time, too. Muster the mod-makers! Official modding tools have finally arrived inMount & Blade II: Bannerlordwith bespoke editors and toolsets for the feudal romp entering open beta today. While the lack of these tools hasn’t stopped stubborn modders from taking a crack at Bannerlord, it should now be easier than ever to bash together your own weird twist on TaleWorld’s sword-swinging sequel....

HomeFeaturesNo Man’s Sky No Man’s Sky’s Origins update is almost very nearly the game I want it to beNearly the game they said it would be Nearly the game they said it would be No Man’s Skypromised the universe, and delivered a video game. At the time, on the game’s initial release in 2016, it looked like it might be a reputation from which Hello Games could never recover. Yet in the four years since they’ve worked and worked and worked, releasing update after update, building an expanding and iterating, even reinventing, without ever charging early adopters an extra penny....

HomePodcasts Podcast episode 111: the death specialOur favourite full stops. Our favourite full stops. We also talk about the end of swarms, Matthew’s strange theories about What Remains Of Edith Finch and Call Of Duty, spoil the first season of The Walking Dead, and a lot more. No Cavern Of Lies this week, because I am too much like Abraham Lincoln. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings...

HomeReviewsThe Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk reviewCheck yourself before you Shrek yourself Check yourself before you Shrek yourself Don’t expect Baldur’s-Gate-style roleplaying, however, ‘cos this ain’t an RPG. It’s a satire of one - primarily the tabletop kind, though it takes aim at CRPGs too - and while the tactical bits are played straight, nothing else is. There’s my biggest caveat about this game, then....

HomeNewsTrain Station Renovation Train Station Renovation is freshly renovated and out nowParp parp! Parp parp! If fancy somewhere new and exciting to clean after six months tidying your flat day after day after day,Train Station Renovationmight do it for you. It’s a game about fixing stations up to be all shiny and new, clearing away rubbish, filth, satanic shrines, and graffiti, fixing machinery, replacing furniture and fittings, and redecorating. It’s more like the canned cleanup ofHouse Flipperthan the physics-simulated chaos ofViscera Cleanup Detail, which isn’t what I’m personally after, but I know our Alice Bee dug it....

HomeGuides Best Marksman Rifle in Warzone: a guide to Marksman Rifles in Call Of Duty: WarzoneIs the Kar98k still the best Marksman Rifle in Warzone? Is the Kar98k still the best Marksman Rifle in Warzone? Looking for the best Marksman Rifle in Warzone?Marksman rifles have a slightly strange spot in theWarzonemeta. The semi-automatic and single-action weapons in the class function completely differently from one another, and are hard to compare directly....

HomeNewsGrounded Grounded has added ziplines and Halloween décorGetting around is getting easier Getting around is getting easier The backyard is booming and boo-ing with new stuff in early access miniature survival gameGrounded. Obsidian have added a new zipline structure to help your tiny little people with traversal and some spooky new food and décor for Halloween. They’ve made some bug fixes to the game’s many bugs as well.Obsidian preview several of the changes in the new update in the developer video below....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Paunch?Paunch Paunch Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Much like we have offices to work in, Paunch provides an arena to settle things in, like arguments and such. This is a game that really takes fighting seriously and it whisks you to the mountainous, frigid highlands to have it out. Just as Bob’s rippling muscles and fleshy tone contrasts quite beautifully with the greenery, so does the sound of a boulder whistling through the air and clattering into a skull....

HomeNews Lenovo’s foldable PC? No, I want a PC I can screw up into a ball and throw at the wallSo much for the ThinkPad X1 Fold So much for the ThinkPad X1 Fold To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Looking like a giant tablet, the ThinkPad X1 Fold is covered with a 13.3" OLED display which can fold up leaving no crease. So the whole computer can cleanly fold in half, like a book....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves donating special sail proceeds to cancer researchPlunder for a cause Plunder for a cause Sea Of Thievesis no stranger to handing out snazzy new ship cosmetics in return for real-world cash but these sails are of a slightly different sort. Rare are donating all proceeds from the Sails Of Union to the Stand Up To Cancer campaign benefitting cancer research. You can nab the new sails until November 6th....