HomeNewsWasteland 3 Wasteland 3 shows off new conversations and the cult of God-President ReaganFeeling serious? How so? Feeling serious? How so? Oh, so that’s what thatWasteland 3’s animatronic Ronald Reaganwas all about. Gotcha. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Thing is, they also control all the oil in Colorado. If you wanna get moving, you’ll need to find ways to deal with ‘em. Fargo’s favourite character, though - and I’m not sure what that says about him - is Vic Buchanan, a purple-haired “psychopath” who’s big into torture and asking folks why they’re so gosh-dang serious....

HomeFeatures Priceless Play - 23 May 2020Persistence, persistence, persistence Persistence, persistence, persistence My dad isn’t like most dads. There are many things about him which make him unique, but perhaps none so idiosyncratic as this: the man really, really,reallyloves Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States. I’m not sure how many children have been taken on car trips to Coolidge’s homestead in rural Vermont (where, fun fact, Coolidge was sworn in as president following the death of President Harding), but I bet we’d make for a pretty odd club....

HomeNewsRisk of Rain 2 Risk Of Rain 2 delays its 1.0 release into AugustClear skies ahead Clear skies ahead Pack your brolly away, it’s clear skies for a few months yet.Risk Of Rain 2developers Hopoo game released a revised forecast for their swarming early access roguelite this week, pushing the game’s 1.0 release back to August this year. After all that time in early access, the devs reckon they’d picked up a little tunnel vision, and are re-thinking their release plans to bring some new and improved features to the colourful bug-hunt at launch....

HomeFeatures What are we all playing this bank holiday weekend?Well? Well? I’ve just become aware that this is another three-day weekend in the UK so WELL…! We’ll be back in full force on Tuesday, in that case.What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!But you, dearest reader, what are you playing? I’ve just become aware that this is another three-day weekend in the UK so WELL…! We’ll be back in full force on Tuesday, in that case....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Eivor will lay down the bants in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s traditional Viking rap battlesFliting, not to be confused with flirting, haha unless? Fliting, not to be confused with flirting, haha unless? Ismail gives just a quick 101 on flyting in the video below. As the lads and lasses do when they get to drinking, the barbs will occasionally come out. Like a sort of rap battle, opponents would trade rhythmic insults for the entertainment of all their onlookers....

HomeNews Fortnite will screen a full Christopher Nolan film in-game for freeIt’s gotta be Inception, right? It’s gotta be Inception, right? The in-world cinema ofFortnitewill screen a yet-unconfirmed old Christopher Nolan film for free this summer, Epic have revealed after debuting a trailer for his new film, Tenet. It’s going to be Inception they show, isn’t it? Gotta be. Inception turns ten in July, it’s like a big ol' video game itself, they could add fun in-game effects with folding worlds and slowed time… it’d make sense....

HomeNewsWindows Solitaire Microsoft’s Solitaire anniversary merch sucks, here’s the shirts they should makeNo card cascade?! No card cascade?! Celebrating the big day ina blog posttoday, Paul Jensen, the studio head of Microsoft Casual Games, revealed that now they have merch. It is… No. This is a terrible missed opportunity. Solitaire contains a deeply cool and thrilling sight that would be mighty bold on a shirt: the post-victory cascade of cards....

HomeNewsMonster Train Monster Train might be the best deckbuilder since Slay The SpireSeriously! Seriously! I’m clearly having a weird Friday morning, because I just clapped my hands together and squealed “ooh, this does interesting things” aloud to myself. I’m also clearly playing a very good videogame. This isMonster Train: a deckbuilding roguelike that wears itsSlay The Spireinfluences on its sleeve, while spinning up a familiar formula in a completely different direction....

HomeFeatures The 9 deadliest sharks in videogamesOne Off The List One Off The List Listen, never mind that sharks are not the mindlessly violent animals we’ve been trained to fear, and simply additional victims of mankind’s global vertebrate binge. Dismiss, please, the ongoing cultural rehabilitation of this toothy swimmer, who is statistically quite poor at killing humans. Ignore also their adorable habit offalling asleepwhen you hold them upside-down. Forget it, forget it all....

HomeNews The Foxer needs you To fully defox the enlargeable geofoxer below, identify all twelve locations plus the theme that links them. SOLUTIONS Last week’s cluster foxer: The 1930 movie “Hell’s Angels”(phlebas)a1. blonde bombshell (ylla)b1. howard hughes (Dr. Breen)c1. november 15, 1930 (phlebas, Gothnak)a2. james whale (mrpier)b2. dawn patrol (Gothnak) Gremlins(phlebas)d1. goodyear gizmo (mrpier)e1. amc gremlin (phlebas)c2. sa-14 gremlin (Dr. Breen)d2. roald dahl (Gothnak)d3. gremlin graphics (Gothnak, phlebas) Words that begin ‘char’(Gothnak)e2....

HomeNews The Migration is a lovely little apocalypseAND THEN THE DRUMS KICK IN AND THEN THE DRUMS KICK IN Since I’ve ended up incoherently semi-shouting this at several people recently (sorry, Nat), I’ll save myself the time and write it down: Connor Sherlock’sThe Migrationfeels to me like witnessing an apocalyptic event, and it’s great. There you are, wandering around the surface of some desolate world, only bleached bones and warbling synth for company, when the end comes....

HomeNewsSid Meier’s Civilization 6 Civilization VI starts its DLC season pass today with new civs and the ApocalypseJust one more turn… Just one more turn… Firaxis today kicked off a year of new DLC forCivilization VI, with the first of six packs coming as part of their New Frontier Pass. Seems a smattering new civs and modes will be the focus for the next while, rather than a big ol' expansion....

HomeNewsDOOM Eternal Doom Eternal to be purged of controversial anti-cheat softwareLeaving none in its place Leaving none in its place As you may or may not have noticed, there is a bit of a hoo-ha going down about kernel-level anti-cheat software. This is software that peeps at what Windows is up to using administrator privileges, which some people are understandably unhappy about. Happily, then,Doom Eternaldevelopers Id Software are going to rid their game of Denuvo Anti-Cheat....