HomeFeatures Have you played… Call Of Duty: Warzone?Worth the space it takes up on your PC Worth the space it takes up on your PC I consider myself quite the all-rounder when it comes to playing games. I’ve sampled a little bit of what sometimes feels like every game ever made during my five-squared years on this earth. And yet somehow, inconceivably, before last year’s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare I’d never played a CoD game before....

HomeNewsNo Man’s Sky No Man’s Sky’s next update Origins will launch next weekIt’s the start of something new, Hello Games say It’s the start of something new, Hello Games say No Man’s Skyis in for yet another update to its giant spacefaring simulation sometime next week, Hello games say. They’ve shared the title for the new update and hinted that it’s the beginning of some big new piece of the game, but don’t appear to be sharing more until the update and its patch notes drop next week....

HomeNews Nvidia’s new Broadcast app helps you remove your messy room and loud keyboard from video callsStop vacuuming while I’m gaming, mom! Stop vacuuming while I’m gaming, mom! If you need to wrest back some control over your environment in these unprecedented times, as they say, Nvidia have launched a new app for that. Their new Nvidia Broadcast application is made for removing annoying noises and messy home offices from the background of your morning work calls or evening livestreaming sessions....

HomeFeaturesRing of Pain Ring Of Pain is a solid card crawler featuring the grimmest owl in gamesRing-a ring-a walnuts, a pocket full of owl guts Ring-a ring-a walnuts, a pocket full of owl guts But there’s still plenty of room for invention in the format, and the upcomingRing Of Pain(out on October 15th, andshowcasedin the ongoingPAX X EGXextravaganza) demonstrates what it was missing all along: massively disconcerting owl people. Watch on YouTube...

HomeFeaturesInkulinati The good medieval mollusc boys of Inkulinati’s turn-based strategy will leave you feeling giddyFar from middling Far from middling Turns out these 700 year old drawings lend themselves very nicely to a 2D duel. The combat is easy to grasp (“but hard to master”, he mutters under his breath) and there’s a snappy flow to battles as turns flip between you and the enemy with an uncomplicated ease. I like this about Inkulinati a lot - it doesn’t overdo things....

HomeNewsWelcome To Elk Anecdotal adventure Welcome To Elk is out nowDon’t “moose” out. Sorry. Don’t “moose” out. Sorry. Welcome To Elkrecognises we’re probably all overdue a trip. Oh, a change of scenery would be nice, but it’s the people who make the place - the strange, sombre and often surreal stories from folks we’d never otherwise get to meet. While there’s still a global pandemic going on in the real world, developers Triple Topping are taking us on a trip to their storybook island starting today....

HomeNews Fortnite now supports ray-tracing, because why not?Spit-shined shootin'. Spit-shined shootin'. What doesFortniteneed ray-tracing for, anyway? Epic’s blockbuster murderfest isn’t exactly gunning for hard realism, after all. Regardless, RTX ray tracing brings high-fidelity reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion to Fortnite today, alongside support for DLSS 2.0 to run those high-res rays at an agreeable frame rate. Fine, you’ve got me - I’ll admit it does look quite nice after all....

HomeNews Making fake CSGO cheats that sabotage would-be cheaters is an amazing ideaThe victims' videos are fun to watch The victims' videos are fun to watch The war between cheaters and anti-cheat technology might be endless, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with it. I’m delighted to learn about the work of “ScriptKid”, a fella who releases fake cheats that actually sabotage games for would-be cheaters. Wrong’uns go to Google looking for free cheats, find the fake cheat site he’s set up, download and run his fake cheats, then… find they’re forced to jump off buildings to their death inCounter-Strike: Global Offensive, or their movement keys screw up, or their gun stops working, or worse....

HomeHardwareNews Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080: release date, where to buy, price, specs, and benchmarksThe RTX 3080 goes on sale at 6am PT / 2pm BST. The RTX 3080 goes on sale at 6am PT / 2pm BST. Nvidia’s RTX 3080 is here. Launching today, Thursday September 17th, at6am PT / 2pm BST, the RTX 3080 is the firstNvidia AmpereGPU to be released in 2020, and we’ve gathered together everything you need to know about it, including what time it goes on sale, where you can buy one, how much it’s going to cost, and its specs and benchmark figures....

HomeNewsQuake It was supposed to come with essasys from John Carmack and American McGee, but an “unnamed publisher” didn’t seem to like the idea… When the listing for the recordwent up yesterday, a cheeky note said that it was supposed to come with essays from former Id Software devs John Carmack and American McGee. Alas, an “unnamed video game publisher made it impossible to include this in the package”. I wonder who it could be?...

HomeHardwareNews Some mad people are bidding over $80,000 for an RTX 3080 right nowAbsolute scenes Absolute scenes We already knew that theRTX 3080 was likely to be short supplyuntil the end of the year, but this is something else entirely. TheeBay listinghas 105 bids on it at time of writing, with 200 people watching it - no doubt mostly for the entertainment value of watching some poor bastard spend their entire life savings on a heckin' graphics card, but still....

HomeNews Sony’s PS5 showcase was exciting for PC gaming, then hugely disappointingAnnounce Bloodborne for PC you cowards Announce Bloodborne for PC you cowards For a brief, beautiful moment last night, Sony were good to PC gaming. Their PlayStation 5 Showcase focused on their new console, sure, but they did let theFinal Fantasy XVI announcementconfirm a PC release, and they did reveal theDemon’s Souls remaster is coming to PCtoo. For a company cagey about even acknowledging the existence of other platforms, this was delightful....

HomeGuidesSpelunky 2 Spelunky 2: how to turn off ‘always run’Sometimes, speed is damaging. Sometimes, speed is damaging. Here’s how to turn off the ‘always run’ function in Spelunky 2. How to turn off auto-run in Spelunky 2 In order to turn off auto-run in Spelunky 2, find your way to the options menu. This can be found either from the main menu underneath ‘Play’ and ‘Online’, or after pausing the game at any time....