HomeFeaturesSatisfactory Have you played… Satisfactory?Making you feel good about exploiting the planet Making you feel good about exploiting the planet And yet you have to congratulate Coffee Stain on what they’ve accomplished against these odds. They’ve put together a surprisingly robust and extremely fun factory-builder in a 3D environment, which in itself is enough to prove wrong my predictions when I first heard about the game. But more than that: they’ve given us a factory-builder where the overwhelming feeling is one of possibility and hope, rather than - in Factorio’s case - bleak and uninviting....

HomeNewsNecromunda: Underhive Wars Necromunda: Underhive Wars plans to fix crashes and save corruptionBug fix bees report to the hive, please Bug fix bees report to the hive, please Turn-based gang warfare gameNecromunda: Underhive Warslaunched its grimy take on Warhammer 40,000 earlier this week. You’d expect to need some grit in a strategy game set in a polluted, gun-totin' dystopia but players seem to be fighting the game itself about as much as rival gangs....

HomeNewsPanzer Dragoon: Remake Panzer Dragoon: Remake will launch on PC soonNever too soon for dragoons Never too soon for dragoons The dragon combat game of 90s fame is spreading its wings for a PC release soon, the developers say. ThePanzer Dragoon: Remakewas originally expected last winter and was later released on the Nintendo Switch in March this year, so it’s good to hear that PC date may finally be landing. They’ve not given a date, so we’ll just have to see what flavor of “soon” they mean....

HomeReviewsStar Renegades Star Renegades reviewBREAK the cycle BREAK the cycle There is a lot happening inStar Renegades. For a seemingly small game it throws an absurd amount of idea clay into the RPG kiln. What comes out of that fire is an impressive, if unwieldy, mosaic pot. You can easily spot pieces of other games.Into The Breach’s do-over storytelling,Grandia-esque timeline battles, a whiff ofShadow Of Mordor’s nemeses, and not-quite-Personalevels of relationship management....

HomeNewsWarframe Starting with a little update next week Ah, I don’t even need to say it, do I? We’re all thinking it. If onlyCall Of Duty: Warzoneand its monstrous drive space demands would follow suit. In a forum post excellently titled"The Great Ensmallening", the devs say they’ve “found some new technology” that will allow them to make the game smaller and load faster. The catch is that players will need to download some remastered content over the course of three smaller updates in the next couple of months....

HomeNewsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Rio Major cancelled, and Valve addresses cheating coaches"We’re not going to ask players and fans to risk their health in order to attend a Major while the pandemic still poses a threat to travelers" “We’re not going to ask players and fans to risk their health in order to attend a Major while the pandemic still poses a threat to travelers” The coronavirus pandemic has shut down yet another gaming event....

HomeNewsThe Unfinished Swan Eight years later, The Unfinished Swan finally lands on PCSplat attack. Splat attack. “Unfinished” Swan, eh? It all looks quite finished to be, but what do I know about birds? Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Released way back in the naive days of 2012, The Unfinished Swan was a Playstation 3 puzzling explore ‘em up from Giant Sparrow, the devs who’d go on to release the fantastic Edith Finch five years later....

HomePodcasts Enjoy our famous and adored podcast LIVE next week at EGX Online!From our mouths to your ears From our mouths to your ears Catch us on the officialPAX Online X EGX Digitalwebsite next Tuesday the 15th, at 12pm. What a lovely little lunchtime treat, eh? The theme, living a normal life, is partly so we could make a terrible pun that doesn’t quite work on live/life, but partly because in 2020 normal life seems a dream, beyond the reach of our grasp....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Screamer 2?Worth yelling about. Worth yelling about. Graham’s already written alovely pieceon the firstScreamer, but I thought I’d tackle the sequel, aptly namedScreamer 2. And what a treat it is. Much like Graham, my memories ofScreamer 2are buried in a dusty tome in the back of my brain. Shake off the dust and they come flooding back, though. I can clearly recall the white and orange cardboard sleeve it was packaged in, with ‘Sold Out Software’ proudly displayed on the front....

HomeFeaturesImmortals Fenyx Rising Print the myth I’m going to get this out of the way, because every outlet with a hands on preview of Ubisoft’s action-adventureImmortals Fenyx Rising(which used to be called Gods & Monsters) is going to say it somewhere.Immortals Fenyx Risingis aproperBreath-Of-The-Wildalike. It’s one themed around Ancient Greek myths, yes, but you’ve got yer horses you can tame, yer open world to explore in any order you like, yer physics puzzle dungeons and levitating rocks ability....

HomeNewsRiders Republic Massive multiplayer stunt ‘em up Riders Republic flips out next year…Fortbike? …Fortbike? If you pull of a flip and nobody’s around to see it, is it even really gnarly? Fortunately, that won’t be a problem inRiders Republic, a whopping great extreme sports romp announced during tonight’s Ubisoft Forward showcase - one that plans to set you and up to 49 other bikers, boarders, and wingsuited adrenaline junkies loose on a mountain valley to prove, once and for all, who’s the coolest kid around....

HomeGuidesPath of Exile Path Of Exile Witch guide: beginner build for NecromancerHow to make a summoning start as the Witch. How to make a summoning start as the Witch. There are a bunch of classes to choose from in Path Of Exile, but here’s the best Witch class to go for at the beginning. Of course, go for what you enjoy, but if you want a bit of guidance on the best Witch build to start with, we’ve got you covered....

HomeNewsScott Pilgrim VS The World: The Game Scott Pilgrim VS The World: The Game is playing an encore this WinterBread makes you fat? Bread makes you fat? I don’t say this lightly, but please, please crank up the volume before hitting play. You can thank me later. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube I’d actually only ever played the demo back in the day, and remember it being a pretty decent side-scrolling bash ‘em up....