HomeFeaturesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Modders are making ambitious things in Bannerlord, even without modding toolsWhen life gives you no dragons, make a dragon When life gives you no dragons, make a dragon Mount & Blade2: Bannerlord has only been around for a few months, but that’s plenty of time for modders to have a good tinker. We’ve already been blessedwith a bounty of minor Bannerlord mods: there are hundreds of ways to tweak, alter and optimise your experience, and the option to turn your character into a sword-swinging, death-dealing toddler is not to be sniffed at....

HomeHardwareDeals Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards are suddenly dropping in price in the UK and USHoo-ray tracing! Hoo-ray tracing! Good news,graphics card dealshunters. Prices are dropping on Nvidia’s RTX cards, with big discounts today on the RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super, RTX 2070 and the RTX 2080 Super on both sides of the Atlantic. It’salmostas if retailers are trying to clear the decks a bit before the as yet undated launch of this year’s next-genNvidia Amperecards… Sure, graphics card prices may not be quite back down to pre-pandemic levels just yet, but it certainly makes building a ray tracing capable PC that little bit more affordable....

HomeNewsThe Long Dark The Long Dark’s new event adds Canadian snacks and harsher temperaturesIt’s getting cold in here It’s getting cold in here It may be summer in Canada now, butThe Long Darkis cooling things down in July with the Winter’s Embrace update to their Canadian survival simulation. From June 29th until July 31st,HinterlandStudio are dropping the temperature inThe Long Dark, meaning you’ll need to work harder to survive. They’re also permanently adding some new treats to celebrate Canada Day....

HomeNewsHogwarts Legacy The unannounced Hogwarts RPG is still on track for 2021, say insidersCan we get a Revelio charm? Can we get a Revelio charm? “The long-rumored project is very real,” says Bloomberg’s report. Earlier in the year,rumors suggestedthat Warner Bros. would be hosting their first E3 press conference to announce the Harry Potter RPG, along with a new Batman game. Of course, E3 2020 got cancelled, leaving the Bros. without a stage....

HomeNewsAstroneer Astroneer gets industrial with a free Automation updateLet the robots do all the hard work. Let the robots do all the hard work. Whether it’s making honest-to-god computers out ofMinecraftredstone or constructing elaborate rube-goldberg machines inGarry’s Mod, it seems unavoidable that any given sandbox game will eventually add complex mechanical systems. Well, now we can addAstroneerto that lineup with this week’s Automation update, which lets you sit back on your space lawnchair and let the game do all the busywork for you....

HomeNewsShakedown Hawaii Shakedown: Hawaii breaks onto Steam this AugustShaking down Steam Shaking down Steam After a year of tearing up the same turf, it’s time to take the shakedown to another store. Followinglast year’s debuton the Epic Games Store,Retro City Rampagefollow-upShakedown: Hawaiiis bringing its playful, parodical GTA-esque sandbox to Steam this August. But first, developers Vblank Entertainment are once again taking a brief detour towards some rather unexpected ports.Like its NES-ish predecessor,Shakedown Hawaiiis a top-down GTA parody styled after that series' earliest entries, painted in crunchy retro console visuals....

HomeNews Sorry, Microsoft probably aren’t announcing a new Fable or Perfect DarkChicken chaser? Chicken chaser? Your hopes are low - do you have any sources, or facts? This weekend, a very select group of FPS and action-RPG fans were elated to discover thatFableandPerfect Dark- two franchises that have gathered dust under Xbox’s stewardship - may have been preparing for a comeback. Well, sorry team. Microsoft have stepped in to confirm that, no, you can’t believe everything you read on Twitter....

HomeNewsTales of Monkey Island Y’arr, Tales Of Monkey Island has returned to Steam and GOGGhost ship, no more Ghost ship, no more After a few years back in dry-dock,Tales Of Monkey Islandhas returned to the open sea. Following Telltale Games' infamous scuttling back in 2018, many of the story-driven studio’s works were taken off sale - going down with the ship, if you’ll pardon. Slowly, tales of shamblers and caped crusaders have resurfaced, and now Guybrush Threepwood’s 3D follow-up has found its way back onto Steam and GOG....

HomeNews Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon 2 leaps out next monthAnother curse? How unfortunate. Another curse? How unfortunate. Blimey, that didn’t take long, did it? Less than a week after its announcement,Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon 2has a new trailer and - more importantly - a proper release date. The sequel to an 8-bit spin-off of Castelvania’s crowdfunded successorBloodstained: Ritual Of The Night, Curse Of The Moon 2’s pixellated platform-slashing is coming to Steam in just under two weeks....

HomeNewsMinecraft: Dungeons Minecraft Dungeons wakes up the jungle with its first DLC next weekRumble in the jungle Rumble in the jungle Pack your mozzie spray and put on your hardiest boots, traveller.Minecraft Dungeonsis preparing to take us into the undergrowth with its first DLC pack, Jungle Awakens. Arriving next Wednesday, the expansion is bringing some lush new levels, weapons, abilities and story missions to the block-busting dungeon crawler - along with a new dungeon, gear and balance changes in a free update that same day....

HomeFeatures Steam Points are better kept in your pocket than spent on Steam summer sale stickersWoah, that’s the flamingo off Doom! Woah, that’s the flamingo off Doom! “It’ll be easy,” I thought to myself, when it was suggested someone do a nice, timely little post on the new-ishSteam Pointssystem, and the various new goodies on offer through it. “Sure, no problem,” I said, when Matt refused to write it because he thought Steam Points were “pointless”, and I was the only other writer on the call with Graham....

HomeNewsTales Of Arise Tales Of Arise has been delayed beyond 2020Don’t go telling tales, y’hear? Don’t go telling tales, y’hear? Tales Of Arise, the latest in a long line of Bandai Namco’s Tales Of JRPGs (Berseria, Symphonia, Legendia, etcetera), isn’t coming out this year. Revealed last year and in development since before the announcement ofTales Of Vesperia: Definitive Edition, the Japanese firm’s fantastical tale of two warring planets needs a little more time to tell properly, postponing the game’s release indefinitely....

HomeNewsTorchlight III Torchlight 3 wraps up its campaign with a new zone on MondayHalls of the mountain kings, birds, robots. Halls of the mountain kings, birds, robots. A little under a month after hitting Early Access,Torchlight 3is already preparing to wrap up its story campaign. The early access diablike’s first major update adds Mount Echonok, the third and final piece of Torchlight’s story map, closing out the campaign with steam-powered robots, cyborg scavengers, and cleans up the game’s more egregious bugs this coming Monday....