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HomeNewsPlanet Coaster No, this Mortal Engines-themed Planet Coaster build won’t eat your ridesHungry hungry theme parks. Hungry hungry theme parks. Alright, listen. The 2018 Mortal Engines adaptation might’ve been largely forgettable, but it did a damn fine job of bringing the book series' ridiculous towns-turned-monster-trucks to life. Now, onePlanet Coasterarchitect has crafted their own version of London-Upon-Wheels, wrapping their fantasy amusement park around a multi-tiered truck of a city. It’s just a shame there’s no way it’ll ever move....

HomeNews The Epic Games Store is having a grand old halloween saleA real slasher compilation. A real slasher compilation. Is there anything scarier than buying products at below the recommended retail price? Almost certainly, which is why I’d hesitate to call theEpic Games Store Halloween Saleparticularly spooky. It is, however, taking a massive knife to game prices across the platform, with some pretty hefty discounts of up to 80% going on a number of range of fantastic games until the sale wraps on November 3rd....

HomeNews Catch the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest from now until MondayFrames to table fresh Frames to table fresh Gather ‘round and take a seat, Steam have now kicked off their firstDigital Tabletop Fest, an event of panels, announcements, and demos for games that “run across the lines between digital and physical games”. From now until next Monday you can catch panels from the likes of developers adapting tabletop RPGs, building digital deck-builders, and other such table to screen fare....

HomeNewsDarkest Dungeon 2 Darkest Dungeon 2 launching early access version in 2021Time to test your resolve Time to test your resolve Don’t stress,Darkest Dungeon 2is on its way. Red Hook Studios announced today that the sequel to their strategic dungeon crawling game will launch in early access in 2021. A new trailer for the grim strategy series confirms that yup, things sure will continue to be bleak for your long-suffering party of adventurers....

HomeNews It’s now down to a polite 27GB If you’ve yet to download said update,Epic Games have given a little warningthat it’s a bit larger than usual. While the patch is around 27GB to download, it ultimately means future updates will be a bit smaller, and loading times should be better as well. And, of course, the big news here - the game’s overall install size is now only around 27GB itself....

HomeNewsRune 2 Rune 2 lawsuit now going after Bethesda and ZeniMax tooAllegations the release “was maliciously torpedoed in a conspiracy” Allegations the release “was maliciously torpedoed in a conspiracy” Rune 2publishers Ragnarok Game were already suing the legal remnants of Human Head and several key figures there. Now they’ve expanded it to also pursue Bethesda Softworks and their parent company, ZeniMax Media, saying the release “was maliciously torpedoed in a conspiracy between the game’s developer, desperate for cash, and a large video game conglomerate intent on destroying threats to its own video-game franchises....

HomeNewsHumankind Try your hand guiding Humankind in a new demo for the Civ-like strategy gameGet your hands on Humankind Get your hands on Humankind AmplitudeStudios' strategy gameHumankindis offering a playable peek at their vision for the next era of civilisation ‘em ups. The strategy romp has a new trailer out along with a free demo that you can play in your browser so you can decide for yourself if it’ll take the strategy crown....

HomeVideos U.S. presidents and Far Cry 3 monologues feature in this week’s Mystery Steam ReviewsDo you know the definition of a metroidvania? Do you know the definition of a metroidvania? The PC Gaming Weekspotis a good way to spend around two hours on a Monday evening. We go through all the big news in PC games, we chat about the new games we’ve been playing over the last seven days… and we also get furious with one another during the quiz segment....

HomeGuidesCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Warzone Zombie Royale guide - best loadout, tips, and tricksHow to get the best out of Zombie Royale. How to get the best out of Zombie Royale. Call of Duty: Warzone’s Zombie Royale is absolute mayhem. I love it. Dropping into Verdansk armed with nothing and ending up with a horde of zombies bearing down on you like ravenous dogs is a terrifying thrill. I’d actually say the feeling of terror I’m always in whilst playing Zombie Royale is an ideal horror experience....

HomeFeatures Amnesia: Rebirth’s bright setting is designed to create a different type of fear, Frictional Games tell us"What’s scary isn’t the monsters or location, it’s that you’re stranded" “What’s scary isn’t the monsters or location, it’s that you’re stranded” The year is 1937, and you’ve just woken up in a crashed plane in the middle of a desert. You’re not some sort of Indiana Jones-esque film though, I’m afraid, you’re in a horror game -Amnesia: Rebirth, to be exact....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s post-launch expansions set sail for Ireland, ParisOnce you’re done bashing England apart, of course. Once you’re done bashing England apart, of course. In letting us pillage jolly old England,Assassin’s Creed: Valhallahas already promised a tempting power fantasy. But Ubisoft’s upcoming historical stab ‘em up isn’t stopping with just one country. Revealed in a new trailer outlining Valhalla’s post-launch plans, it looks like Eivor will be setting sail for the Emerald Isle before taking an axe to Ubisoft’s own Parisian front door in two major expansions, Wrath Of The Druids and The Siege Of Paris, set to arrive next year....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Vin Diesel: Wheelman?For the Vin For the Vin Wheelmanis a game in which Vin Diesel rampages around Barcelona in an assortment of beefed-up muscle cars. It came out at around the same time as50 Cent: Bulletproof. I can only assume Vin played it and grunted “I can do that” through a mouthful of six-dozen eggs. Wheelman is a half-decent game too, with shades ofCrazy Taxiand the best parts of the Driver series....

HomeNewsHades Supergiant artist goes behind-the-scenes on building a god in HadesBlood and Darkness and UV mapping Blood and Darkness and UV mapping Hadesis a bloody gorgeous game. There’s no arguing that. But did you know that the enigmatic Nyx started life as one of the Fury sisters? Crafting a god is a strange process for mortal hands - but such is the job of the artists at Supergiant games, one of whom has this week gone in-depth on how the studio models, rigs, textures and animates a Cthonic diety....