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HomeNewsThe Day Before The Day Before’s promised gameplay trailer involves a whole lot of joggingGetting those steps up Getting those steps up Image credit:Mytona Image credit:Mytona The last few weeks have been messy forThe Day Before, the survivalMMOthat was Steam’s most wishlisted game for much of 2022. Last month, The Day Before’s Steam page was quietlyremovedfrom the storefront following a trademark dispute. Developer Fntastic also delayed the game from March 1st to November 10th at the same time, just days before they promised to show some raw gameplay footage of it in action....

HomeHardwareNews The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s 4.01 patch improves ray tracing, but tanks non-RT performanceA supposed performance upgrade backfires spectacularly A supposed performance upgrade backfires spectacularly While thepatch notesforThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s 4.01 update claim it “improves the overall stability and performance of the game”, if you’re not using the recently addedray tracingsettings, it might well do the opposite. I gave the patch a whirl to try out its PC-specific changes – namely a new ‘Performance’ setting for RT global illumination and a fix for the broken screen space reflections setting – only to find that non-ray-traced, DirectX 12 performance has been utterly knackered....

HomeNewsThe Sims 4 Now thatThe Sims 4has babies andtoddlers, the family unit is complete. Perfect timing too, as the game’s next expansion is all about growing up with family. The Sim 4’s Growing Together Expansion Pack is out March 16th and it’s planning to expand the way your Sims change over time and relate to other Sims The Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion Pack: Official Reveal TrailerWatch on YouTube The Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion Pack: Official Reveal Trailer...

HomeNews Cross your Magic Eyes to play this stereogram platformerThe eye-bending new game from Daniel Linssen The eye-bending new game from Daniel Linssen If you spent a portion of the 90s going cross-eyed to look at Magic Eye 3D pictures of dolphins, elephants, and sailboats emerging from fields of noise, you might enjoy the new platformer from indie developer Daniel Linssen. It’s called Stereogram, because it’s made of moving stereograms. Let your eyes go slack and gaze into the distance of an optical illusion as you jump around pretty little Magic Eye levels in this platformer which reminds me ofVVVVVV....

HomeGuides Dead Space Marker Fragments locations and secret endingLearn where to get the Marker Fragments for the Dead Space remake secret ending Learn where to get the Marker Fragments for the Dead Space remake secret ending In this guide, we’ll explain how to get the secret ending in Dead Space. We’ll then help you find each of the Marker Fragments that you’ll need. Dead Space PC Review - An Excellent Remake Of A Horror ClassicWatch on YouTube...

HomeNewsDeep Rock Galactic Deep Rock Galactic will soon let you play the game as it was at launchCelebrating its 5th anniversary with a time warp Celebrating its 5th anniversary with a time warp Of course, that’s just one way they’re celebrating the milestone, alongside an anniversary event and new DLC. Top 10 Best PC Co-op Games Of All TimeWatch on YouTube Top 10 Best PC Co-op Games Of All Time...

HomeReviewsDeliver Us Mars Deliver Us Mars review: a family and a planet in crisisRad planet? Rad planet? Deliver Us Mars | Countdown to Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube Deliver Us Mars | Countdown to Launch Trailer These questions are teased out in much the same way asDeliver Us The Moon, with Kathy stumbling on plentiful hologram recordings detailing key moments of what took place on this new Mars colony as she and her team explore its seemingly abandoned innards....

HomeNewsDwarf Fortress Dwarf Fortress developers share earnings report after releasing on SteamA 462x month-on-month increase in revenue A 462x month-on-month increase in revenue Dwarf Fortresssellinghalf a million copies on Steamin just a few weeks already indicated that its creators, the Adams brothers, were due a windfall. Now the latest earnings report from Bay 12 Games is here to put an exact dollar figure on that success. Here’s a tease: revenue in January was up over 462x since December....

HomeReviewsHi-Fi Rush Hi-Fi Rush review: it’s a bangers bonanza in this electrifying rhythm-action gameHi-fi beats to rage to Hi-fi beats to rage to Sometimes I want to describe games in the most high-brow way possible. I might smugly write something like “it elevates the genre” while sipping wine and eating cheese, musing on how a game pushes the media forward as an art form. Other times I just want to write that a game is really bloody good, actually, and I like it lots....

HomeDeals The Dell S2721DGF 27-in 1440p 165Hz monitor is down to £287 at Dell UKThis Fast IPS monitor is a firm favourite - and even cheaper with employee/student discounts. This Fast IPS monitor is a firm favourite - and even cheaper with employee/student discounts. Dell’s S2721DGFA is one of the best 1440p gaming monitors on the market thanks to its use of an LG Fast IPS panel, blending the plus points of both TN and IPS displays....

HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless show S2 Ep 1: this podcast is definitely not a fraudForspoken’s direct storage, The Last Of Us TV show, and becoming a cyborg Forspoken’s direct storage, The Last Of Us TV show, and becoming a cyborg The Electronic Wireless Showpodcast returns in 2023 with a new friend and a new format. We ran out of themes, so we’re going to flip to a magazine-ish show, where we discuss some current events as well as the games we’ve been playing....

HomeNewsDelete After Reading This stylish, text adventure heist game has big Device 6 vibesDelete After Reading is coming on March 14th Delete After Reading is coming on March 14th Delete After Readingis a delightful looking text-based puzzler that will be familiar to anyone who’s played Simogo’s excellent (albeit sadly iOS-only game)Device 6, only with fewer spooks this time. Like Simogo’s surreal thriller, most of Delete After Reading plays out like you’re reading a novel, where scrolling through paragraphs of text will reveal images, clues and puzzles you can interact with....

HomeNews Don’t prepare for Titanfall Fans have been clamouring for a sequel toTitanfall 2since its release in 2016, but it looks like we might need to put those hopes on hold for a little longer. According to areportfrom Bloomberg, EA have cancelled an unannounced project codenamedTitanfallLegends, a single-player mash-up between Titanfall andApex Legends- Respawn’s battle royale, set in the same universe. Around 50 devs were working on the game before its cancellation earlier this week....