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HomeReviewsCultic Cultic review: crunchy retro-inspired FPS is a vicious, violent delightBlood brother Blood brother Cultichas really good headshots. I mean, it also has a lot of other things going for it, but it feels rude not to highlight this right at the very top because I think it’s important. Cultic’s headshots are sensational. Enemy noggins pop with a squelchy crack that tickles a very unnerving part of my brain, the resulting blood fountain spraying so high it causes the ceiling to drip with human juice long after your hopeless adversary has slumped to the floor....

HomeNews Doom is out now for Windows Notepad, sort ofIt’s just mirrored in Notepad y’see It’s just mirrored in Notepad y’see so i got DOOM running inside of NotepadNotepad is ten years older than Doom.Watch on YouTube so i got DOOM running inside of Notepad Samperson was a bit taken aback at interest in his video of DOOMpad, which was “a quick joke” he made for himself. “The trickery I was doing ended up straight up not working reliably on other people’s machines,” Samperson said on the itch page for the game....

HomeFeaturesDead Rising Have you played… Dead Rising?Follow me! Follow me! Friends, let me admit something up top. I am the most tedious ofDead Risingapologists. I love its in-game timer. I adore its linear mission structure that is completely at odds with the expansive semi-open world shopping mall in which it takes place. Hell, I even like its severely stripped down Wii port. I firmly believe that Dead Rising is an all-time great, but also understand why folks have (reasonably) cooled on the game’s particular quirks....

HomeNewsSable I will never finish Sable before it leaves Game Pass, and I’m cool with thatGame Pass sparing me pressures of ‘The Backlog’ Game Pass sparing me pressures of ‘The Backlog’ Open-worldhoverbike ‘n’ climbing gameSableis due to leave PC Game Pass on Sunday, and I only started playing today. I will not finish in time. That’s fine. Honestly, I haven’t finished half the games I’ve bought, and I’ve long since stopped thinking about ‘The Backlog’ as if I ever will....

HomeFeaturesA Little To The Left Lovely tidying game A Little To The Left has added a skip puzzle feature because of an article we doneThere’s more than one way to tidy a cat There’s more than one way to tidy a cat The developers at Max Inferno Studios read this article and decided that, you know what? Alice0 was on to something. They contacted us to let us know that her piece was the inspiration for adding a feature called Let It Be, a skip puzzle function that you can access at any time....

HomeHardwareReviews Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 review: A wildly expensive flagship GPU with a touch of DLSS 3 magicThe biggest, brawniest, and most bankrupting of Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace graphics cards The biggest, brawniest, and most bankrupting of Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace graphics cards You probably already knew if you were willing and able to buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 after seeing itsprice announcement, so here’s a short version of the following review: Yes, on pure performance it’s thebest graphics cardfor 4K you can get....

HomeDeals Pick up the Samsung Odyssey G7 32-in 1440p 240Hz gaming monitor for £499A top-tier DisplayHDR 600 gaming monitor for £100 off. A top-tier DisplayHDR 600 gaming monitor for £100 off. The Samsung Odyssey G7 is one of the best gaming monitors in the world - or at least, that’s what I keep telling myself after buying one last year. This is a 32-inch model, offering a 2560x1440 resolution, a 240Hz refresh rate and a DisplayHDR 600 certification that means it actually delivers impactful HDR - a rarity at this price point....

HomeNews Take charge of a band of space castaways as Stranded: Alien Dawn enters early access todayStart a new life in the off-world colonies Start a new life in the off-world colonies Imagine making all the incredible effort to get a spacecraft to another star system, only to crash it into a wild and unexplored world. That’s the gist ofStranded: Alien Dawn, a futuristic survival sim from the devs behindSurviving Marsthat launches into early access today....

HomeFeatures What’s better: temporarily piloting an enemy, or a game within the game just for funsies?Vote now! Vote now! Last time, you decided thatutterly rinsing a place is better than an end credits song. This was a pretty close one, with rinsing taking 54% of the vote. Good. Onwards! This week, you must choose between two things which add fleeting novelty and surprise. What’s better: temporarily piloting an enemy, or a game within the game just for funsies?...

HomeHardwareDeals You can get 1TB of fast SSD storage for £65 in Amazon’s Prime Early Access SaleThe WD Blue SN570 is even cheaper than usual The WD Blue SN570 is even cheaper than usual Hello, yes, it’s me, once again banging on about theWD Blue SN570. I just think it’s neat: a highly affordable yet remarkably quick M.2 SSD, with multiple capacities to choose from and regular sales making it even cheaper....

HomeHardwareFeatures Best Amazon Prime Early Access Sale PC gaming deals - day 2All of the best UK and US hardware deals in the Prime-exclusive sale All of the best UK and US hardware deals in the Prime-exclusive sale Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Welcome, prospective hardware acquirers, to the second and final day of the Amazon Prime Early Access Sale. LikePrime Day, this sale requires a Prime membership to access all the best deals, but so far those have included some tempting savings on some quality PC gaming kit....

HomeNews Deathloop takes place in the same world as Dishonored, creative director confirmsDie-hard Dunwall fans can bin their Pepe Silvia charts now Die-hard Dunwall fans can bin their Pepe Silvia charts now Time-bending sci-fi shooterDeathloopis one of the possible futures of theDishonoreduniverse, Arkane’s Dinga Bakaba revealed during a recent episode of the Xbox podcast. Bakaba was the creative director on Deathloop, and lead designer forDishonored 2and Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider....

HomeNews Dusk’s developers are making a Fallout-inspired CRPG with first-person combatWith folks from the Fallout fan community With folks from the Fallout fan community New Blood Interactive have made a name with various flavours of retro first-person shooter, including Dusk,Amid EvilandGloomwood. They’re branching out into nostalgic throwbacks for other genres, however. To mark the 25th anniversary of the orignalFallout, CEO Dave Oshry showed new footage from their unnamed, unannounced CRPG.You can see the game in action with its first-person combat view in the tweet below:Since today marks the 25th anniversary of#Fallout, maybe it’s time we show you how we’re changing the perspective of combat in@NewBlood’s CRPG - and how it differs from our main inspiration....