HomeDeals Buy one Xbox Game Pass Ultimate code, get one freeGet six months for half price Get six months for half price Need a good deal to start your week? Well, your deals herald is here to provide, as Microsoft have brought back their popularXbox Game PassUltimate deal that gets you an extra three months when you buy a three-month subscription, giving you six months for half price. The deal is only available in the UK right now (sorry, US folk), but it’s a great way to bump up your Xbox Game Pass membership on the cheap, as every pass you buy stacks on top of the last one....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2 players have solved a vast secret map made of thousands of partsA huge collaborative effort! A huge collaborative effort! After five-and-a-half days,Destiny 2players have solvedthe new mystery in the Corridors of Timeand found new loot. This was a huge communal effort, with innumerable hundreds of players sharing thousands of map fragments to build a route through an alien time machine. The map is ludicrously huge. The effort is remarkable....

HomeNewsDying Light 2 Stay Human Dying Light 2 is delayed to an unknown dateDelay season claims another game Delay season claims another game Techland have been at work for a few years on the sequel to their 2015 zombie parkour game.Dying Light 2was originally planned for a spring 2020 release but the developers have announced today that the sequel will be delayed so that it can meet the “high standards” of Techland and its fans....

HomeFeaturesThe Sims Medieval Have You Played… The Sims Medieval?Waiting for The Sims Medieval 2020 Waiting for The Sims Medieval 2020 Who ever thought there would be a point in our lives when Turk from Scrubs would be in your face to encourage you to buy a Sims game? I never did, but at the time it certainly helped make the case to buyThe Sims Medieval. The SimsMedieval was one of the only versions of The Sims I could really get my history and castle-loving dad to look at....

HomeNewsStardew Valley This cute Stardew Valley mod adds Valentine letters from villagersPlant some love seeds Plant some love seeds On Valentine’s morning, your farmer will receive letters in their mailbox from friends and love interests each with their own message. Maybe even a gift. They seem to have the silly puns and themed jokes that I remember from handing out actual boxed Valentine cards as a child. A big factor in my mod choices lately is how quickly I’ll actually see what’s been changed in the game....

HomeFeaturesWayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls Wayward Terran Frontier stars the only good sassy robotDark horse One Dark horse One Sassy robot sidekicks are awful. They’re almost always the worst part of any game they’re in. I would not oppose an outright, global ban on including them in anything. But open world space simWayward Terran Frontier: Zero Fallshas one, and it’s great.Spaceflight feels weighty, and combat requires skill in leading your shots"One" is their name, and they lead the story mode, in which you’re a functionally immortal human carrying out One’s purposes....

HomeFeaturesZak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders: The LucasArts game you don’t want to play any moreShe blows poodles over old noizglunk She blows poodles over old noizglunk I remember really lovingZak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders. Richard Cobbett, frequently of this parish, always tells me that I am stupid and wrong and it was a terrible game. So I finally decided to prove him wrong....

HomeFeatures Cyberpunk delayed, Left 4 Dead 3 a no-no, and more PC game news this weekRead all about it! Read all about it! This week, bothCyberpunk 2077andMarvel’s Avengersreceived delays, Valve dismissed rumours ofLeft 4 Dead 3, and an NHS big cheese backed calls to regulate loot boxes. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and do also check outthe Weekly Updates Updatefor some of the week’s big patches....

HomeNews Limited testing for Halo: Combat Evolved begins next monthBrand new, never before seen. Brand new, never before seen. WithHalo: Reachfirmly securing John Halo’s boots on Steam and the Windows Store, Developers 343 Industries are preparing to bring the rest of the Master Chief Collection to desktops over the coming year.Halo: Combat Evolvedis next on the batting stand, with devs announcing that flighting (testing) for the series-starter should kick off next month, letting PC players get their mice and keyboards behind the big green lad’s visor for the very first time....

HomeNews Star Citizen devs want Crytek’s car-crash lawsuit to stop, for goodHow tyre-ing How tyre-ing Forget dogfighting, first-person shooting and interstellar exploration. For the last few years,Star Citizenhas looked increasingly like those bits in the Star Wars prequels where muppets sit on big steel dodgems to discuss trade agreements. 2020 looks to be no different, with a long-standing dispute between Cloud Imperium Games andCrysis/CryEngine-maker Crytek coming to a head once again....

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Ubisoft sues website accused of selling Rainbow 6 DDoS attacksD-Dont D-Dont Ubisoft are taking the owners of a website offering DDoS (Dedicated Denial of Service) attacks againstRainbow Six: Siegeto court.. Thelawsuit, filed in California last week, accused the owners of SNG.ONE and affiliated sites of offering server-killing services at a premium. Ubisoft are seeking to have the sites concerned shut down for good, and for the owners to pay up for damages and court fees....

HomeNews No, Valve still aren’t working on Left 4 Dead 3Dead (not) Rising Dead (not) Rising Like a pesky head cold that never quite clears,Left 4 Dead 3rumours returned to clog the internet airways again this week. After all, Valve are making games again. Between the surprise announcement ofHalf-Life: Alyxand another wave of leaked concept art for an infectiousLeft 4 Deadthreequel, there was fleeting hope that the fantastic co-op shooter was, perhaps, ready to make its return....

HomeFeaturesHaunted Garage Priceless Play - 18 January 2020Games to grow with Games to grow with My ten-year high school reunion was last year. I didn’t go, obviously, because I am too cool and also I live something like 3,000 miles away from my old high school. I don’t know about you, but I don’t super love remembering who I was in high school. It’s a truly terrifying time: the searing tension between becoming an independent being and desperately needing reassurance from your parents and peers that you’re doing a great job at becoming an independent being....