HomeFeatures Have You Played… Towns?The boys are never coming back The boys are never coming back You might have playedTowns. These days, it’s interesting as a cautionary tale from the history of the early access model, but at the time (2012) it was very much headed towards being my kind of thing. A sort of ReverseDungeon Keeper, it tasked you with running a town on top of a load of stacked-layer dungeons, and building your settlement to a point where more and better heroes would come to adventure in the underworld beneath....

HomeFeatures King’s Quest VI is as good as the King’s Quest series gotIslands Of Terror Islands Of Terror I’m never one to shy away from criticism. I am the sort of brave, intrepid fellow who takes it on the chin, and uses it to begin introspective journeys in search of clarity and truth. And it is for this reason, as you will see, that I have returned to the 1993 version of Sierra’sKing’s Quest VI....

HomeNews Pathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous smashed its Kickstarter goalKingmaker’s “indirect sequel” is go Kingmaker’s “indirect sequel” is go Owlcat Games last week finished their crowdfunding campaign forPathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous, an “indirect sequel” to 2018’s throwback isometric RPGPathfinder: Kingmaker, with a big wad of cash. The Kickstarter was seeking at least $300,000 (£240k) to help fund development and ended at a tidy $2,054,339 (£1.6m). It’s going ahead, then, though sadly they missed the stretch goal to add dinosaurs you could befriend and ride....

HomeNewsResident Evil 3: Nemesis That Resident Evil 3 demo is officially arriving ThursdayJill, that is the opposite of self-isolating Jill, that is the opposite of self-isolating The zombie apocalypsemaynot be the most comforting thing to play through at the moment. Or maybe it will be pleasantly cathartic. You can decide for yourself later this week when the free demo for Jill andTed’sCarlos' horrible adventure through zombie-infested Raccoon City lands on PC....

HomeHardwareNews The AMD ‘Big Navi’ GPU inside the Xbox Series X offers RTX 2080 levels of powerBig Navi is coming for Nvidia’s RTX cards Big Navi is coming for Nvidia’s RTX cards I should, of course, note that the GPU inside any given console box is quite different from the types of graphics card that go inside our PCs. They’re a different shape, have different cooling mechanisms and utilise several aspects of their unique console design to help them achieve their respective power targets....

HomeFeaturesRimWorld The Tragedy of King Beef - a RimWorld: Royalty story, part one of twoA beast with a mind… a mind… and fists! A beast with a mind… a mind… and fists! Once his shocking new circumstances have filtered through the hosepipe-like tangle of his brutish nervous system, the King has only one thought: “I must amass as much beef as I can”. With his mission set, our monarch gets to work - but while he sets to it, we should find out more about the man himself....

HomeNewsWolcen: Lords of Mayhem Wolcen is prioritising fixes over new content for a few monthsHey, I’m Wolcen here! Hey, I’m Wolcen here! Click-click-click-click-clicking action-RPGWolcen: Lords Of Mayhemmade a big splash when it launched in February but has struggled with technical problemsfrom the start, suffering all sorts of bugs, crashes, and server issues. While the makers, Wolcen Studio, have been slapping on patches, it’s still in a sorry state. Now they say they will prioritise fixing Wolcen over adding to it, dedicating the next four months to a plan named Operation Second Dawn....

HomeNews AI researcher turns his face into the Doomguy, unleashes hellHell on earth Hell on earth The Doomguy. Stoic, silent, flickering eyes at the bottom of the screen. He’s not really the talkative type, is he? Who would’ve guessed his first words weren’t “death” or “murder” or “double-barrelled”, but a Russian-language explanation of complex neural network modelling techniques? This week, developer Denis Malimonov unleashed his own sort of hell - replacing his regular human face with the Doom Slayer’s low-fidelity visage with machine learning....

HomeNewsCeleste Celeste outlines the tricks that make its tough platforming feel fairHigh jump High jump Have you ever wondered why some platformers feel excellent where others feel, well, not? Turns out, designing some top-tier running and jumping takes a little more work than you’d think. This week,Celestedeveloper Matt / Maddy Thorson took to Twitter to run through some of the clever deceptions they used to make the nails-hard platformer feel fun and - more importantly - fair....

HomeNewsRats for Breakfast Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Road trips, terrible towers, and bloody awful birdsScreenshot Saturday! Screenshot Saturday! Let’s start the day with an unconventional breakfast from David Szymanski, creator of bloody 90s-inspired shooterDusk. ‘Rats for Breakfast’ atrium is looking pretty decent. Now I just need to fill it with some NPCs!Wishlist here:https://t.co/JXvvX399qlSoundtrack preview:https://t.co/o4niukWRgC#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/bJi9kBXnTq— David Szymanski (@DUSKdev)March 14, 2020 ‘Rats for Breakfast’ atrium is looking pretty decent. Now I just need to fill it with some NPCs!...

HomeFeatures Priceless Play – 14 March 2020Games to keep the wolf from the door. Games to keep the wolf from the door. Here are games that either contain or combat an air of disquiet, paranoia, and discomfort. Perhaps there is one (or more) among them that you will find comforting. The Old City of High WallsfromJohnLee Cooper Library of BabblefromDemi The developer, Demi, wrote to another player who experienced a similar phenomenon: “My suggestion may be to simply keep wandering in a single direction, and I’m sure you’ll discover someplace nice soon....

HomeNews The Bird Museum is Louie Zong’s free collection of crowdsourced bird artCa-caw! Ca-caw! Last September, Zong put out aTwitter call to action. Using his modest social media clout in possibly the only way one should, he convinced thousands of followers to email him rough pictures of birds for The Bird Museum - an “ever-changing selection of bad, crowdsourced bird art”. Prospective pieces didn’t have to be good - in fact, Zong felt it better they weren’t....

HomeFeatures Every gaming coronavirus cancellationAll the big cancellations in one big list All the big cancellations in one big list Since its discovery in December 2019, the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (which causes the disease Covid-19) has spread to 123 countries and territories.On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic and urged governments to take serious action. While official responses from North America and the UK are still pretty lax, many companies are formulating their own responses, including working from home and–especially relevant in games–cancelling large events....