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HomeNews Atari are shifting focus to “premium games” on PC and consolesAre we going to take bets on Pong Royale? Are we going to take bets on Pong Royale? Go on and write down Atari as the latest company with renewed interest in PC gaming. Atari have now outlined plans to shift focus away from free-to-play mobile games and put future development efforts into PC and console games. New games currently in development will have “an emphasis on revitalizing classic Atari intellectual property for the modern era,” they’ve said....

HomeNews Nacon’s new Life sim series makes my career goals feel woefully inadequateA recipe for a breakdown A recipe for a breakdown Life, as Nacon calls it, is a new series of life sims themed around professions. It is not realistic in any way shape or form. The trailer’s narrator opens a restaurant. She plans out everything from the layout to the menu, and then plates the food for every order....

HomeNews Red Dead Online is adding new Crime and Opportunity missions this monthYou won’t have to spend gold bars to unlock them either You won’t have to spend gold bars to unlock them either There’s no shortage of unlawful mischief to commit in cowboys online, from hogtying strangers to unprompted shootouts, butRed Dead Onlineis adding Crimes with a capital “C” this month. A new type of mission will send you off to commit holdups, train robberies, kidnappings, and more....

HomeNews Robocop: Rogue City better be good or there will be troubleThe developers of the underwhelming Terminator: Resistance are taking a crack at one of my favourite movies The developers of the underwhelming Terminator: Resistance are taking a crack at one of my favourite movies My greatest achievement in life is knowing every single word that’s spoken in Robocop. In the correct order, too. My mum doesn’t appreciate that talent, but then she also let me watch it when I was eight, so she has no-one to blame but herself....

HomeNewsRoguebook Roguebook’s first free game update will add new cards in the Gem MinesDig deeper for the shiniest cards Dig deeper for the shiniest cards Roguebookshowed up to yesterday’s Nacon Connect with a short teaser for an upcoming free update called the Gem Mines update. “How deep will you venture into the mines for those wonderful Gems,” Nacon say. “The further you go, the greater the reward… but also the greater risk!...

HomeNewsThe Lord of the Rings: Gollum The new Lord of the Rings: Gollum trailer takes its collars very seriouslyGetting dressed must be Mordor Getting dressed must be Mordor Though this short new look atThe Lord of the Rings: Gollumshows more of the producer’s face than the game, there is some new stuff in there for you LOTR nerds. We get to see Mirkwood, which looks lovely. We get to see Gandalf....

HomeFeaturesWorkers & Resources: Soviet Republic The Rally Point: Don’t krai for me in Workers & Resources: Soviet RepublicModding our way back to village life in this industrial logistics sim Modding our way back to village life in this industrial logistics sim I cannot pull myself away. This paragraph started about 40 minutes ago, when I reopenedWorkers & Resources: Soviet Republic"to check something". I’ll do this again several times. You probably know that this is a Soviet-themed city builder....

HomeDeals This RTX 3060 is £550 with a 700W EVGA power supply at ScanOr £789 with a 2TB WD Black SN850 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD Or £789 with a 2TB WD Black SN850 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD I was looking for cheap graphics card earlier today, and the best I found was this deal: an RTX 3060 and a 700W power supply for £550. That’s not super cheap - the RTX 3060 is meant to cost around £300 in a sane world!...

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Assassin’s Creed Valhalla now has the PS5’s Dualsense controller tricks on PCYou’ve pulled You’ve pulled The slow, stealthy progress of the PC absorbing PlayStation has taken another step this week with the latestAssassin’s Creed Valhallapatch. Players using PlayStation 5 controllers with Ubi’s Viking romp will now feel an extra step when pulling the adaptive triggers while aiming, just before letting an arrow loose. This was a PlayStation 5 feature, but now we have it too....

HomeNewsLeague of Legends League Of Legends' lo-fi album is surprisingly goodI wasn’t expecting it to slap, but it does I wasn’t expecting it to slap, but it does Sometimes when I’m reading a book or doing the dishes, I need a bit of ambience to carry me through. Lo-fi music often does the trick, so when I spotted that Riot Games Music had released aLeague Of Legendsthemed lo-fi compilation, I hesitantly dipped my ear in....

HomeNews Watch this speedrunner stealthily skip levels with flowcharts in StyxSpeedrunners: masters of going with the flow Speedrunners: masters of going with the flow Styx: Shards Of Darkness is a stealth action game about a rather crass goblin joking his way through big, puzzle-y levels full of guards and monsters. A pal and I played it in co-op earlier this year, taking a couple hours to scratch our heads through each of its levels and cackling over our failures....

HomeNews Frog Detective 3 coming later this yearTime to solve a crime in the wild west Time to solve a crime in the wild west The Frog Detective games are short, joy-filled mysteries about a frog with a vacant smile. They’re lovely - and now there’s going to be a third one. Frog Detective 3: Corruption At Cowboy County is coming later this year, and there’s a first trailer below.Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County [TEASER TRAILER]Watch on YouTubeThe game’sSteam pageconfirms this is the Frog Detective series finale....

HomeNewsGuild Wars 2 Guild Wars 2: End Of Dragons expansion delayed until 2022While the aging MMO preps for a long future While the aging MMO preps for a long future Back when it first launched,Guild Wars 2was exciting to everyone I knew. If you liked World Of Warcraft, it seemed like a game that intelligently built on some similar ideas; and if you didn’t, it seemed like WoW but good.Several years later, FFXIV seems to have earned that title in the MMO space, but Guild Wars 2 isn’t done....