HomeNewsLeague of Legends A Chinese League Of Legends tournament has been put on hold over outbreak fearsSupport pick Support pick The organisers behind China’sLeague Of LegendsPro League have put the tourney on indefinite hold. The recent coronavirus outbreak, which has so far claimed 56 lives and infected 2,000 people in China and beyond, has scuppered plans to kick off week 2 of the LPL on February 5th. Instead, the esports season has been given a time-out until this outbreak blows over, and digital sports can be played without risk of potentially deadly infection....

HomeNewsBlack Mesa Black Mesa’s final 1.0 release is almost ready for public scrutinyNo, like, for real. No, like, for real. Fifteen years. Five UK Prime Ministers. Both my entire High School and University runs combined. Through it all,Black Mesahas been there, churning away, promising that one day it’d be done. After eight years, it was. Sort of. Released a Xen-less mod, it would take another eight years for the developers behind the notoriousHalf-Liferemake, Crowbar Collective, to finally be done with it....

HomeNewsMooncharmer Mooncharmer invites you to dance, limbs be damnedAn oddly warm moon it is, too An oddly warm moon it is, too What I am sure about, however, is that Mooncharmer is a delight. A lovely little lunar dance to enjoy for five fleeting minutes. Very quickly, more Moralias appear. They - and you- move like nothing I’ve seen before. At times, when they’re closest to you, you’d almost swear there’s a human figure hiding in all that mass....

HomeNews Ark: Genesis' space-whaling turtle riders have been delayed into FebruaryTurtle-y understandable Turtle-y understandable Ark: Genesis, the monstrous next expansion forArk: Survival Evolved, has been delayed. Again. Well, half of it, at least. While the first bit of Ark’s massive two-part expansion was set to embark last December, its release was later pushed back to January. This week, Studio Wildcard regret to inform us that we’ll need to hold on a little longer before building a bungalow on a sea turtle, with Genesis now scheduled to arrive on February 25th....

HomeNews Artist Taro Oono turns gifs into delightful Twitter microgamesPause, play Pause, play Japanese animator and illustrator Taro Oono (official site) may also be one of the most prolific game developers you’ve never heard of. But despite launching dozens of tiny interactive vignettes convened with domestic life, family antics and gorillas, you won’t find his catalogue on Steam, Epic or even indie-centric Itch.io. For a little under a year, Oono has been posting his collection of short, hand-drawn microgames directly throughhis Twitter....

HomeNewsPlague Inc: Evolved Plague Inc isn’t a “scientific model”, devs insist as coronavirus sparks salesCheck-up Check-up A deadly new disease is spreading its way across China and East Asia. With over 840 confirmed cases of the pneumonia-like coronavirus confirmed this month, concerned players are looking for ways to cope with the threat of infection. Increasingly, they’re turning toPlague Inc: Evolved. Ndemic Creations' outbreak management sim saw Steam player counts skyrocket in the last few days....

HomeFeaturesTiny Islands Priceless Play - 25 January 2020Roguelites, clickers, and city sims for troubled times Roguelites, clickers, and city sims for troubled times I know a game is good when I write down a to-do list with pen and paper. Games are great for goal-setting, but they’re also great for goofing around and goalless, meaningful mindlessness. This is why I’m a big fan of roguelite games, which feel like endless loops of manageable tasks....

HomeFeaturesA Space For The Unbound A Space For The Unbound’s short demo has carved out a big space in my heartBig Makoto Shinkai energy Big Makoto Shinkai energy Ever since I played the moreish reverse tower defence delights ofNecronator: Dead Wrong at EGX 2019, I’ve been keeping a watchful eye on Indonesian developer-publisherToge Productionsto see what else they’ve got in their surprisingly eclectic line-up of games coming out over the next few months....

HomeNews Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition beta starts next monthPlayer counts will be limited Player counts will be limited Following up last year’sAge Of Empires II: Definitive Editionrelease, Xbox Game Studios are planning a beta period for theAge Of Empires III: Definitive Editionfor registered Insiders. If you took part in Age 2’s beta sessions, the developers say they are structuring Age 3’s beta a bit differently. Sessions will be shorter and more focused, with multiplayer beta times beginning in February....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends is hiding something, and that something looks a lot like RevenantStep aside, Forge, we want Revenant Step aside, Forge, we want Revenant Last night theApex Legendsdevs treated us to a stream to announce all the new things coming to the game’s fourth season. Amongst those announcements, we got our first glimpse at Apex’s next character,beefy wrestler Forge. Except, Forge wasn’t who most Apex fans were expecting to see....

HomeNewsSOMA Frictional, the Soma folks, are teasing their next game with an ARGIt’s definitely spooky. It’s definitely spooky. “I should go check on the Frictional website,” I thought to myself when I woke up this morning. I’ll call it a premonition, though I clearly wasn’t the first to have it. If you hadn’t heard, Frictional Games, developers ofSomaandAmnesia: The Dark Descent, recently updated their websitenextfrictionalgame.comwith a spooky pulsating little symbol. It morphed once already, and has morphed again, beginning a merry chase of YouTube videos and hints presumably related to Frictional’s next game....

HomeNews Game industry support for unionisation is growing, GDC survey showsNearly 4,000 developers surveyed Nearly 4,000 developers surveyed AsGDC’s yearly survey of developers says in their report “unionisation and labor practices remain hot topics in the game industry.” The last several years have seen many reports of gamedevelopers being overworked—that thing we call crunch—to finish the biggest games each year. If not stories of crunch, it’s reports ofmajor layoffsinstead. No surprise then thattalk of unionisingcontinues to grow....

HomeDealsGOG Galaxy Get a deals-packed horoscope in GOG’s Lunar New Year saleTime for some more squeaky clean deals Time for some more squeaky clean deals Hot off the heels ofSteam’s Lunar New Year sale, GOG have finally put the finishing touches to their respective cheeseboard of Lunar New Year game deals as well. But wait, there’s more! In addition to the many hundreds ofLunar dealsto be had, GOG will also be serving up a bunch of recommended deals horoscopes based on your Chinese Zodiac sign....