Throw some furniture and help your customers fly the nest when Moving Out releases in April

HomeNewsMoving Out Throw some furniture and help your customers fly the nest when Moving Out releases in AprilThrow around expensive furniture with no consequences Throw around expensive furniture with no consequences I have never enjoyed the actual act of moving out. All that packing and organising and cleaning, then theunpacking, ugh. Thankfully,Moving Outdoesn’t make you do any of the rubbish real life stuff - instead you run around as a wobbly little removal person throwing boxes and tables into your truck, without a care in the world about breaking some doors down or launching valuables into a pool....

February 5, 2020 · 2 min · 350 words · Dustin Smith

Ukie report shows the UK games industry has an overwhelming lack of diversity

HomeNews Ukie report shows the UK games industry has an overwhelming lack of diversity“Diversity isn’t a nicety; it’s a necessity if the industry is going to grow" “Diversity isn’t a nicety; it’s a necessity if the industry is going to grow" The first ever detailed report on diversity in the UK games industry has been published, showing some pretty eye-opening statistics about the industry’s inclusivity, as well as the mental health of people working in games....

February 5, 2020 · 3 min · 462 words · Jacob Coleman

Wot I Think - Warcraft 3: Reforged

HomeReviewsWarcraft III: Reforged Wot I Think - Warcraft 3: ReforgedLet slip the crafts of war Let slip the crafts of war Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:Battle.netFor:£25, $30, €30 Warcraft III was an immensely important game for a lot of people. A fantasy RTS that lead right into the start of World Of Warcraft, it left a big, war-booted footprint on the landscape of games. Odds are, you will have felt its impact even if you never played RTS games, since the original Dotagrew out of a modfor Warcraft III’s multiplayer mode....

February 5, 2020 · 4 min · 661 words · David Johnson

Blizzard are fixing some Warcraft 3: Reforged problems, but don't expect dramatic changes

HomeNews Blizzard are fixing some Warcraft 3: Reforged problems, but don’t expect dramatic changesWelp Welp The launch ofWarcraft III: Reforgedlast Tuesday was not a return to glory for Blizzard’s vintage fantasy RTS. The prettied-up remaster’s changes are less dramatic than Blizzard have advertised (particularly the cutscenes), it’s got quite a few bugs, and players can’t even go back to the original unadulterated Warcraft 3 because Blizzard ‘updated’ it to the same troubled client as Reforged....

February 4, 2020 · 4 min · 682 words · Daniel Robinson

Destiny 2's Empyrean Foundation brings a quick way to farm Timelost weapons

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2’s Empyrean Foundation brings a quick way to farm Timelost weaponsA new boss is in the Sundial today too A new boss is in the Sundial today too The last two big additions on the calendar forDestiny 2’s Season Of Dawn arrived today: a new final boss in The Sundial and, more practically, an easy way to farm squillions of the seasonal weapons and get your dream rolls....

February 4, 2020 · 4 min · 646 words · Stanley Myers

Have You Played… SimCopter?

HomeFeaturesSimCopter Have You Played… SimCopter?It really took off lol It really took off lol Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.When 3D engines started becoming more prevalent in the mid-90s, a feature that should have taken off way more than it did was the idea of switching from a top-down management/building game, to a first-person view where you could tour your work at ground level....

February 4, 2020 · 5 min · 1053 words · Morgan Reese

Just three years after opening, Fable Fortune's servers are closing next month

HomeNewsFable Fortune Just three years after opening, Fable Fortune’s servers are closing next monthUn-Fortune-ate Un-Fortune-ate Bad news Fable fans -Fable Fortune’sservers are being shut down on March 4th, bringing an end to the short life of the Fable card game spin-off. The game launchedback in 2018, following half a year of early access, and now it’s leaving us wondering what on earth is next for the much-loved series.Fable Fortunewas your standardHearthstoneor Magic competitor, letting you build a deck of cards to send out strange creatures to fight other, stranger creatures....

February 4, 2020 · 6 min · 1272 words · John Arnold

Nvidia's GeForce Now service is finally out of beta

HomeHardwareNews Nvidia’s GeForce Now service is finally out of betaWatch out Google Stadia Watch out Google Stadia After two years in beta, Nvidia’s cloud-based streaming serviceGeForce Nowhas finally got a proper release. In fact, you can go andsign up right nowif you like, as those months-long waiting lists have finally gone for good. Can it rivalGoogle Stadia? Quite possibly. Here’s everything you need to know. GeForce Now also involves a lot less setup than Google Stadia, as all you need to do is download the GeForce Now app to your Windows PC, Mac, smartphone or TV (the latter via Nvidia’s Shield device), link your various game library accounts and off you go....

February 4, 2020 · 2 min · 217 words · Paul Rich

Oh huh, King's Bounty 2 looks more like a modern RPG than I'd expected

HomeNews Oh huh, King’s Bounty 2 looks more like a modern RPG than I’d expectedWatch the new video dev diary Watch the new video dev diary Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Weird, no? It’s always been part-RPG, of course, but the shift from doing that in the same top-down view as battles to a more modern free-roaming way makes it look quite different. KB2 also looks weird to me because I know the series as big blasts of daft japes, krakens, cute pet dragons, moody husbands, wacky drama,zombie wives, and fights inside beltsfrom 1C’s noughties games likeKing’s Bounty: The Legendand Armored Princess....

February 4, 2020 · 1 min · 194 words · Diane Miller

Orangeblood is a non-terrible JRPG trying too hard to sound cool

HomeFeaturesOrangeblood Orangeblood is a non-terrible JRPG trying too hard to sound coolRap won’t save you Rap won’t save you I haven’t alienated a section of our audience for ages. How many of you like JRPGs? Stand up, come on. Don’t be shy. I won’t point and laugh and call them all terrible. Orangebloodis a JRPG about hip hop. It is about gangsta rap, thus unfortunately preoccupied with guns, murder and posturing....

February 4, 2020 · 3 min · 541 words · Peter Ramos

Surreal Russian immersive sim Atomic Heart reveals robotic resurrection bees and telekinesis

HomeNewsAtomic Heart Surreal Russian immersive sim Atomic Heart reveals robotic resurrection bees and telekinesisI want to swim through the goop I want to swim through the goop In the world ofAtomic Heart, too many things have tendrils. They’re on the computers. They dangle from the robotic resurrection bees. They’re in your hand, squirming outwards in some heinous fashion that grants you telekinesis. Every peek we get into Mundfish’s upcoming Russian immersive sim makes me want to get my squirming telekinesis hands on it sooner....

February 4, 2020 · 6 min · 1249 words · Shawn Williams

Everything you need to know about upgrading your PC in 2020

HomeHardwareFeatures Everything you need to know about upgrading your PC in 2020Especially when you hate buying new PCs Especially when you hate buying new PCs Some of you lovebuilding a PC. You’re well into hardware trends and technical innovations and model numbers and all of that. This is fine and valid. But a lot of players are just not interested. They love games on the PC, but the machinery itself is irrelevant....

February 3, 2020 · 13 min · 2695 words · Ethan Matthews

Kentucky Route Zero's point-and-click poetry explained for newcomers

HomeVideos Kentucky Route Zero’s point-and-click poetry explained for newcomersIt’s not too late to love you. It’s not too late to love you. I adoreKentucky Route Zero. Likewise, I adorethe pieces on this site that discuss it. Alec’s review in particular is incredibly articulate, goes into a lot of depth, and comes from a place of passion for the game. The discussion of Kentucky Route Zero generally, however, can be somewhat overwhelming to trawl through as a newcomer, and in order to fully take in much of what Alec Meer and others have written about Cardboard Computer’s point-and-click interactive fiction, you’d have to pour yourself a cup of relaxing peppermint tea and set aside a whole day of reading, like I did....

February 3, 2020 · 5 min · 955 words · Kenneth Rose