HomeFeaturesMinecraft I honestly thought this Minecraft screenshot was just a photo of a laptopWe put a PC in your PC so you can game while you game. We put a PC in your PC so you can game while you game. For a game whose whole shtick was that you could make anything, so long as you didn’t mind it looking blocky and pixellated,Minecraftsure has inspired a lot of people to attempt to make it look like reality....

HomeNewsMarvel’s Avengers Marvel’s Avengers has assembled a bunch of new gameplay and infoMuster the muscle Muster the muscle Crystal Dynamics have rallied the reinforcements, mustered the muscle, oh and I suppose assembled the Avengers for a bunch of gameplay and trailers forMarvel’s Avengers. They dig in to superhero-hating corporation AIM, big baddie M.O.D.O.K., and co-op play in the first of their War Table video presentations. As an example, they showed off a Hero Mission for resident god of the group....

HomeHardwareNews Oculus Go is going away this DecemberOculus Go is now Oculus Gone Oculus Go is now Oculus Gone Oculus have announced they’re ending sales of theOculus Gothis year, just two years after it first launched. The all-in-oneOculus Gowas the precursor to the now wildly popularOculus Quest, offering an untethered VR experience that didn’t rely on you on having a particular kind of phone or a powerful PC. It also cost a fraction of the price, with 32GB models starting from £139 in the UK....

HomeNewsValorant Valorant adds a surrender option, with ranked to follow when it’s workingI give up I give up Riot intended to add a ranked “Competetive Mode” toValorant, but they found a last-minute bug and so they’re holding it back - probably “for a day or two”. That’s OK. Numberwang can wait, because yesterday’s patch also added a surrender option. That’s a big deal, and I for one welcome it. It does mean you’ll sometimes wind up with unpleasant teammates who insist on giving up on games that can still be won, but it also means you don’t have to sit around allowing unpleasant teammates to make you miserable....

HomeNews Dying Light 2 cuts ties with writer Chris Avellone following claims of sexual assault and harassmentFollowing allegations made over the weekend Following allegations made over the weekend Image credit:Beamdog Image credit:Beamdog The makers ofDying Light 2have publicly cut ties with writer Chris Avellone following allegations from several women of sexual harrassment, sexual assault, and abusing his industry prestige as a sexual predator. Avellone is known for writing on games includingPlanescape: TormentandFallout: New Vegas....

HomeNews Gamelab conference has talks from Cyberpunk and Doom folks, free to watch from todaySome good talks! Some good talks! Spanish video game development conferenceGamelabstarts today and, like everything else, it’s gone online-only. Good news: you now don’t need to go all the way to Barcelona to see talks and chats with folks including Cyberpunk tabletop RPG creator Mike Pondsmith, sweet Ken Levine, Xbox boss Phil Spencer, and Magic: The Gathering lead designer MarkRosewater....

HomeReviewsHardspace: Shipbreaker Hardspace: Shipbreaker review (early access)Break it down Break it down To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Recycling a spaceship is less straightforward than just hacking away at the hull like it’s a big easter egg. The vessels you’re dissecting are intricate metal puzzle boxes, constructed from interdependent parts that must be removed in the correct order. There are fuel lines that run through the ship like veins, still turgid with flammable juices and waiting to ignite....

HomeFeaturesBattle Brothers Have You Played… Battle Brothers?Wheezy company Wheezy company Battle Brothersis a very difficult tactical game about managing a mercenary company. Crap heroes, for the most part, admittedly. But still. Ejnar was the very first crippled man I hired. He was happy to stay out of battles. In game terms he was a drain on money and food, but I pictured him being good company and helpful around the camp....

HomeHardwareNews It’s silly, but I’m actually in love with the two little trolley wheels on Acer’s Orion 9000 mega rigThis PC means wheely serious business This PC means wheely serious business It’s the little details that really make a gaming PC special. Sure, the newly-unveiled 2020 refresh of Acer’s Predator Orion 9000 mega desktop might have one of Intel’s Core i9 Extreme Edition CPUS and two Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards SLI-ed together for maximum gaming frames, but it’s those dinky little trolley wheels on the back of its chassis that really caught my eye in theirAcer Next livestreamthis afternoon, so much so that I think every PC case from here on out should come with wheels as standard....

HomeReviewsPersona 4 Golden Persona 4 Golden reviewJung people these days Jung people these days Most roleplaying games span continents, planets, even galaxies.Persona 4 Golden– the first of Atlus’s celebrated RPGs to make a belated landfall on PC - is set almost entirely inside a single town. It’s not even a very memorable town: neither a wistful Chosen One Village nor a bustling world hub, but a wilting suburb done up in Google Map shades of tarmac and drizzle, full of collapsing businesses, bitter old people and bored children....

HomeVideosSpongeBob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated SpongeBob: Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated is your childhood, but shinierAre you ready, kids? Are you ready, kids? I never got SpongeBob Squarepants. When he was in his pomp, I was in that awkward pre-teen phase where I thought I was too old to just enjoy it as a cartoon, but not quite old enough to be part of the older folk that watched....

HomeFeaturesCall Of Juarez - Gunslinger Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger might not be a masterpiece of Brechtian Estrangement, but it’s a bloody brilliant shooting galleryGreaves Bodily Harm Greaves Bodily Harm I am extremely generous to games, although mostly in my memory. My recollection ofCall Of Juarez: Gunslingeris of a genre-busting, frame-breaking piece of Brechtian Estrangement. A first-person shooter that played with concepts like verfremdungseffekt, the unreliable narrator and the Rashomon effect, it was a text that… Yeah, no John’s memory, it’s just a super-fun shooter with some silly storytelling bits....

HomeNews Claymation RPG Hylics 2 is out nowStunning Stunning Today has brought the launch ofHylics 2, sequel to the 2015 RPG with the best spellcasting animations in the genre. Made with a mix of clay models and stop-motion animation, it is such a looker. Sounds great, too. I dig its whole surreal, psychedelic vibe. The first one was great fun and I am very much looking forward to clocking off today so I can jack into the sequel....