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HomeNews Watch the Guerrilla Collective indie game stream hereAn avalance of games to look forward to An avalance of games to look forward to The Guerrilla Collective is a two-day livestream offering trailers and announcements of indie games. Its first day is happening right now, as I type this, while day two will happen next Saturday, June 12th. If you are looking for new indie games to be excited about, there’s oodles and oodles of them here - for better and worse....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Bungie “continuing to work on” Destiny 2’s PC performance problemsFrames up, Guardian Frames up, Guardian “Since Beyond Light shipped, players on PC have been experiencing less than ideal performance,” Bungie casually understate in their latestThis Week At Bungie blogblast. We sure have! Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer TrailerWatch on YouTube Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer Trailer Bungie say they’ve been making improvements to PC performance with “every update”, and claim “the game’s performance is close to what it was before Beyond Light for some PC configurations....

HomeDeals Get 60% off the first month of Ubisoft’s game subscription serviceGiving you access to a deep catalogue of Ubi hits, including Assassins Creed Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising Giving you access to a deep catalogue of Ubi hits, including Assassins Creed Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising Image credit:Ubisoft Image credit:Ubisoft You might not know that Ubisoft, like EA and Microsoft, has its own game subscription service called Ubisoft+. The idea here is that you get full access to the ultimate editions of Ubi games as soon as they’re released, as well as the 100+ games in the publisher’s back catalogue - including Assassin’s Creed,Far Cry, Rainbow Six and many more franchises and one-off games....

HomeDeals Get a Samsung Odyssey monitor for a historic low price todayA unprecedented 20% discount code at Samsung’s UK store gives you up to £250 off (plus a free 1TB SSD worth £142 on some models) A unprecedented 20% discount code at Samsung’s UK store gives you up to £250 off (plus a free 1TB SSD worth £142 on some models) Samsung’s gaming monitors at the company’s UK store have hit all-time low prices thanks to a brand new 20% off code, which works on discounted items too....

HomeFeaturesTetris Effect Have You Played… Tetris Effect?The expletive flow state The expletive flow state Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Tetris. We all know Tetris. We all have feelings about Tetris, one way or the other.Tetris Effectis Tetris, but with lots of flashy effects and cool backgrounds and music designed to help you slip into that flow state that allows you to perform superhuman feats of organisation for a short time....

HomeNews Sorry, no Metro or Saint’s Row surprise at E3 this year, Deep Silver sayOr TimeSplitters or Dead Island 2 either Or TimeSplitters or Dead Island 2 either June is here and the smell of E3 is in the air. Social media managers are making vague, cheeky posts about their games that don’t yet have release dates. Fans are wondering if the 23rd entry in their favorite series will be announced....

HomeReviewsThe Magnificent Trufflepigs The Magnificent Trufflepigs review: the hills are alive with the sound of beepingThis is a metal detector. We are metal detectorists. This is a metal detector. We are metal detectorists. There are two types of people: those who love Mackenzie Crook’s gentle sitcomThe Detectorists, and those who have never heard of it. The former camp will be extra delighted at the existence ofThe Magnificent Trufflepigs, where metal detecting in abandoned farm fields collides with the elevator pitch “Firewatch, but make it really English....

HomeFeaturesVictoria III Victoria 3 won’t sugar-coat colonialism, but it’ll give you the chance to resist itIf you can’t join them, beat them. If you can’t join them, beat them. There’s an inherent awkwardness in historical strategy games as entertainment, which is just how much of history is made up of stacked atrocities. Abstraction can do a lot to sidestep this, of course: many games feature real historical cultures, but pit them against each other in virtual petri dishes which might as well be fantasy worlds....

HomeNews Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters announced for 2022And a ton of other Warhammering games and trailers too And a ton of other Warhammering games and trailers too As the 40K fellowship are known to say, “you’ll have my hammer” and also my hammer and that hammer and anything vaguely hammer-shaped hidden in the kitchen cabinet. That’s right, Games Workshop hosted their yearly Warhammering announcement event and there was an entire hammer parade....

HomeNews XCOM studio are making a Marvel turn-based game, rumours say#releasethekeighleycut #releasethekeighleycut E3 is almost upon us, which means E3 rumours and supposed leaks are ramping up. Here’s a curious one: Firaxis, the studio behind the rebooted XCOM, are making a turn-based game with Marvel superheroes. The evidence supporting rumours of this ‘Codename CODA’ are pretty flimsy but welp, pre-E3 is the time for gossip and speculation. Honestly, I can see superpowers being a good fit for XCOM-esque action, but didn’t XCOM 2 already give soldiers so many more interesting and varied abilities than your average Marvel wizard?...

HomeDeals $130 for a 144Hz Samsung gaming monitor is an absolute stealThis 24-in 1080p display is $40 off at Newegg today This 24-in 1080p display is $40 off at Newegg today The Samsung C24RG50 has always been a great value 144Hz gaming monitor, debuting at $200 and then dropping to $170, but today it’sludicrouslycheap thanks to a further $40 discount at Newegg. Just use promo codeEMCEXET49at the checkout and you’ll be able to pick up this 24-in 1080p 144Hz FreeSync monitor for just $130....

HomeNewsSummer Games Done Quick E3 2021 and the rest of the summer games scheduleSo many marketing blasts coming our way So many marketing blasts coming our way After skipping 2020 due to the pandemic, E3 returns this year as a virtual event. E3 tends to be the anchor for a summer of marketing events blasting announcements and trailers, with loads of publishers and websites and such holding their own showcases around then too....

HomeNews Elite Dangerous: Odyssey releases new patch fixing tons of bugsAfter its rough launch last month After its rough launch last month WhenElite Dangerous: Odysseycame out on May 19th, it was filled to the brim with bugs. Crashes, performance issues, stability problems - you name it, Odyssey was suffering from it. Developers Frontier issued three hotfix patches in its launch week, but more still needed to be done. Now they’ve released a sizeable patch that should remove a lot of the jank, addressing issues with the servers, UI, lighting, menus, missions and more....