HomeNews System Shock 3 might be in trouble, as multiple devs reportedly “no longer employed"After struggles to find a new publisher After struggles to find a new publisher There’s bad news ahead for Shodan fans -System Shock 3might be in trouble after numerous members of the development team have parted ways with OtherSide Entertainment. Rumours suggest that the entire development team might have been laid off. At the very least, several senior devs have confirmed they no longer work at the company....

HomeGuidesTemtem Temtem Barnshe: location, full move set, and why electric attacks ruin it You may have seen a request from one of the NPCs for aTemtemcalled Barnshe. It’s a particularly rare bird that only appears in one area. It’s a great option for those looking to have a Mental type in their party as it has access to a lot of great moves, but it comes with one major caveat that you need to know in advance....

HomeFeaturesThief Thief (2014) isn’t as bad as you remember, but gosh, no, it’s still not good enoughDishonorable Dishonorable So why this desire to defend it? Well, it’s partly because I remember reviewing it six years back, andfinding qualified enjoyment- trying to recognise it for the game it is, rather than measuring it against the games it foolishly tried to link itself to. And partly because I wondered ifDishonoredhad been called Thief: Dishonored, would it too have been so harshly judged?...

HomeReviewsThe Pedestrian Wot I Think: The PedestrianHell of a commute Hell of a commute Release:Out nowOn:Windows, Mac OS XFrom:Steam,GOGFor:£15.49, $20, €16.79 For good or ill, it feels like puzzle platformers are a dime a dozen these days. Stand on a thing, jump up to another thing, bounce off a trampoline - oh whoops, there was a circular saw in the way. Try doing the jump slightly differently this time, idiot. They’re like the kind of fitness benchmark tests that all PE teachers secretly dream they could do....

HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: abandoned amusements, eldritch beasts, and shotgunsScreenshots are back! Screenshots are back! Could it be? Should it be? After two months away, Screenshot Saturday Sundays have returned under new management. Every Saturday, game developers across the globe take to Twitter to share weird and wonderful works-in-progress under the hashtag #screenshotsaturday. This week, we’ve got creatures beyond comprehension, abandoned theme parks, and the return of shotgun-propelled desk chairs....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2is having a pretty tough time with swords. Just as Bungie announce plans to reworkbladed weapons entirely, a new problem emerges with swords of a more supernatural nature. Dawnblade-specced Warlocks have discovered a relatively simple exploit allowing them to burn through their super indefinitely, letting them spit flaming blades ‘til the sun goes out. Brilliant, until you’re facing four of them on the other side of the Crucible....

HomeNewsWest of Dead Undead gunslinger West Of Dead wrangles up a PC beta next weekReady? Draw. Ready? Draw. Fancy spending Valentine’s Day rootin' and tootin' with an undead Ron Perlman?West Of Dead, a pistol-whipping twin-stickannounced at XO19 last November, is celebrating the loveliest holiday with its first PC open beta. Starting February 14th, developers Upstream Arcade are kicking open the gates of Purgatory, Wyoming for a ten-day trip into West Of Dead’s corpse-filled caves - no roses required....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Bungie are about to sharpen up Destiny 2’s swordfightingOh, you lovebirds. Oh, you lovebirds. Slash. Slash. Slash. I adore my collection ofDestiny 2swords, but they’re not exactly complex beasts.For Honor, it ain’t. It seems Bungie have also noticed this blunt angle with blades. The boffins over at sword headquarters have shared some sharp changes to blades arriving with Destiny’s next season, promising a more pointed experience when bringing a blade to a gunfight....

HomeNewsDandara Flippin' good platformer Dandara expands with Trials of Fear Motion sickness warning ahead.Dandara’s disorienting world is about to get dizzier. Developers Long Hat House this week announced a new Trials of Fear Edition. Arriving “soon”, the new edition bulks outDandara’s upside-down metroidvania sprawl, adding new regions, new bosses, and a revitalised story to give more gravitas to your gravity-defying antics. Just remember to take deep breaths and make sure you’re drinking enough water....

HomeNews Inscryption is a grim card game from the creator of Pony Island, arriving next yearConsider me pelts Consider me pelts Looking at that header,Inscryption(official site) seems predictable enough. A decent deck-building dungeon crawler, not too dissimilar to Slay The Spire, eh? It’s even got some of that extremely-online black humour going on. But this is developer Daniel Mullins we’re talking about, the bloke wot brought us harrowing genre-bustersPony IslandandThe Hex....

HomeFeatures Priceless Play - 8 February 2020Breaking down and building up Breaking down and building up To say that there’s a lot going on in the world right now would be an understatement. I recently played Studio Oleomingus’s The Indifferent Wonder Of An Edible Place, which destroyed me (in the best possible way). I wrote about it here, but it didn’t come easy. For a couple of hours, I walked around my apartment in a daze, wondering how I could possibly put it into words when everything seemed too big, too much, and too heavy....

HomeNews Warcraft 3 refixes, Monster Hunter meets Resident Evil, and more of the week’s patchesPatch me up, doc! Patch me up, doc! This week, Blizzard started fixing Warcraft 3: Reforged following its rocky launch,Monster Hunter: Worldstarted a weirdResident Evilcrossover event,Apex Legendsadded a new Legend, and Minecraft invited us into the new Nether. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update.Warcraft 3: Reforged starts the fixesAfter launchingin a shonky state(and disappointing people enough thatrefunds are open to all), Blizzard are now hammering out bug fixes....

HomeNewsWarcraft III: Reforged Blizzard now offering Warcraft 3: Reforged refunds to anyone who wants oneStop poking meee! Stop poking meee! I’vewritten beforeabout the bugs, performance problems, missing features, and oversold features of Reforged. Blizzardhave started patchingand insisted they are “fully committed to supporting the game for a long time to come” but that doesn’t mean much for the game right now. So, some people want refunds. Some buyershad previously reportedthat they were able to get refunds beyond the bounds of Blizzard’s usual refund policy, and now it’s official....