HomeFeaturesGris Have You Played… Gris?Tougher than it looks Tougher than it looks Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time…Take one look atGrisand you’d probably think it was a dainty, delicate flower of a game. Yes, it’s a story that’s ultimately about grief and loss and all those other fragile, angstyemotionsthat are apparently exclusive to young women, but I put it to you thatGrisis actually an absolute bruiser of a platformer, one that slaps you round the face with its good looks and doesn’t even bother to apologise for it....

HomeGuidesMinecraft How to find a Village in MinecraftThe best method for finding a Minecraft Village The best method for finding a Minecraft Village Looking for tips on how to find villages in Minecraft?Whether you are looking to trade with some friendly faces, or you’re planning to loot the local blacksmith to find asaddle for your horse, this guide has everything that you need to know to find a village. We’ll also teach you any risks that you should look out for when you arrive, so that you aren’t surprised when zombies try to eat your brains....

HomeNews Mojang celebrated Minecraft’s 11th birthday with a new name, Mojang StudiosGoing up up up into the business skies Going up up up into the business skies Mojang? Never heard of them. Mojang Studios? Oh, theMinecraftandMinecraft Dungeonsfolks? Them I do know. Yes, they’ve tweaked their name a tiny bit again, now becoming Mojang Studios because there are several studios doing several things. And because corporate types get a bit bored and antsy if they’re not allowed a rebranding every few years....

HomeNewsMortal Kombat 11 Mortal Kombat 11’s killers get friendly in a new trailerFinish your friendship Finish your friendship Sub Zero’s going to serve you an ice kream kone. Liu Kang goes to the disko. Scarlet’s doing you a karikature painting. Is JohnnyKCage doing motorcycle tricks? I don’t really know where the friendship comes into that unless he takes you along riding tandem but whatever. Would ya lookit that, Mileena’s back! Only as part of Kitana’s friendship move though, it seems....

HomeNewsClub Penguin The kids aren’t alright The BBC interviewed one kid, a fourteen-year-old named Kaden, who said “I’ve seen people advertise strip club igloos, I’ve seen people ask for pimps. There’s a lot of swearing on there and I’ve been asked a lot of crazy things. It’s really put me off going on these mature servers.” Kaden explained that there were safer areas of the game, but apparently most folks wind up in the “mature” areas where penguin people were openly sharing details of their other social media accounts like Snapchat or Discord....

HomeGuidesValorant Valorant: Tips and TricksSome helpful pointers to get you up and running. Some helpful pointers to get you up and running. For newcomers,Valorantisn’t the easiest shooter in the genre. You need precise aim, map knowledge, clever ability usage, and strong communication to win matches, all of which take time to develop. Almost all of these things - especially precise aim coupled with low time-to-kill - can put off new players immediately....

HomeNewsLegends of Runeterra Watch a Runeterra concept artist draw a new character on Friday 29thGet a peek behind the curtain Get a peek behind the curtain At 6pm on the 29th of May (10am Pacific),Runeterraprincipal concept artist Chris Campbell will draw up a new character for Riot’s card ‘em up. It’s for an “interactive global livestream”, where you’ll get the first peek at the newness and get to chat to him about how art works....

HomeFeatures You forgot all about Nox, and should probably put that rightThe forgotten ARPG The forgotten ARPG Twas but a few weeks ago I was lamenting the lack of tangiable story and motivation in Action RPGs,as I wrote about one of my all-time favourites, Titan Quest, observing that the entire genre offers only two-thirds of a game. Then, as I browsed the archives on GOG.com, I spotted a game called Nox....

HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Epilogue The version of cult war movie Colonel Croesus that went on general release in 1970-something, ends, as Comment Commander khamul pithily pointed out last Sunday, with the gold-stuffed getaway sub “holed and taking on water, but Steiner opening the gates and taking her out to sea anyway, purely to spite Croesus – not knowing he was already dead.”. The final scene in our Combat Mission-powered homage feels more like the end of the Director’s Cut - Captain Crosbie (Clint Eastwood) standing on the periphery of a throng of celebrating Millionaires, blood-spattered gold bar in hand, contemplating the almostBosch-like tableaux of death and destruction that surround him....

HomeNewsDeep Rock Galactic Deep Rock Galactic roadmap lays out a smashing year of miningDig too deep Dig too deep As is Dwarven tradition, the intersteller halflings atDeep Rock Galacticjust won’t stop digging. Alien bugs or no, there’s gold down there - so grab a shovel and get in the hole. This week, developers Ghost Ship Games revealed their plans for the next few months of mining n' shooting, bringing new biomes, classes, jobs and objectives to the beardiest blokes in deep space....

HomeNewsThe Collage Atlas Screenshot Saturday Sunday: Paper lighthouse, dour coasts and a rocket-propelled sedanScreenshot Saturday Sundays! Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Starting things off is artist John Evelyn, showing off his penmanship with hand-drawn 3D sculptures that put my idle doodles to shame. From my hand-drawn adventure: The Collage Atlas - for all you#screenshotsaturdayfolk.As ever, all the textures you see were drawn with 0.03mm fineliner pens on watercolour paper before being scanned and brought to life in Unity....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends dev suggests Lifeline may be in line for a reworkNeed a second opinion? Need a second opinion? AsApex Legends' resident doctor, Lifeline isn’t the worst character in the game. Far from it, she’s probably one of the better picks of the bunch. But while she’s not in a bad place, Respawn do feel she’s in a complicated one, and have suggested a “sidegrade” may be due to bring her in line with the rest of the battle royale’s colourful murderchums....

HomeNewsHalf-Life Experimental Half-Life rave album Panopticon is out todayResonance cascade Resonance cascade Even if I’m entirely too young to have ever staggered out of a warehouse covered in glowsticks and good vibes,Black Mesa’s experimental rave slaps pretty hard. But while there are elements of performance to Dunning’s streams, it’s hard to pop on a two-hour twitch VOD while out for a jog. Released today, Panopticon rearranges that mess of generative noise into a more listenable, deliberately-curated package....