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HomeFeaturesControl Control’s new AWE DLC doesn’t have much Alan Wake, but it has a great monsterIf you go down to the Bureau today… If you go down to the Bureau today… Control’s new AWE DLC might technically stand for “Altered World Events” - the term the game’s FBI-but-magic organisation The Federal Bureau of Control uses for the weird stuff they investigate - but let’s be honest, we all know it’s going to be remembered as the “Alan WakeExpansion”....

HomeNews Fortnite Season 4 has Marvel Comics supervillain Galactus trying to gobble up the islandTime to battle Marvel’s planet gobbler, Galactus Time to battle Marvel’s planet gobbler, Galactus Marvel’s planet-gobbler, Galactus, is the new looming threat overFortnitewith Chapter 2: Season 4 starting today. The battle royale’s new season is one big Avengers-style crossover called Nexus War, and it’s brought loads of unlockable superhero outfits to dress up in while you battle the world-eater....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… FIFA: Road To World Cup 98?Woo-hoo Woo-hoo Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.FIFA goes through cycles. We’ll get a few years of exciting innovation, and then a few years of EA simply changing the fella on the front cover. It’s how it’s always been, and I can only imagine how it will always be. In 1997, though, it was most definitely the former....

HomeNews The Last Stand returns Catch the teaser trailer below for a short, sweeping view of a creepy lighthouse overlooking a cliffside. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube “It has been many years since the infection first hit. Radio silence, no sign of life, nothing but lingering hopes… CEDA is not going to save us,” saysValve’s announcement post. “But there is hope! A few brave souls have continued the fight against all odds, and soon we can all benefit from their resilience....

HomeNewsMedal of Honor: Above and Beyond Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond trailer reveals Respawn’s VR shooterSneaky spy things, in VR Sneaky spy things, in VR Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyondgot a new story trailer at tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night Live and despite the gritty WW2 subject matter, it looks pretty fun. Coming from Respawn Entertainment, the makers ofApex Legends, Above And Beyond will revive EA’s shooter series in VR....

HomeGuidesMortal Shell Mortal Shell: All shell locationsGrab them as soon as you can Grab them as soon as you can There are a total of four Shells - one of which you’ll find very early on - scattered across the map. I’d recommend getting hold of them all as soon as you can, as it’ll give you plenty of options when fighting through difficult zones or tackling tricky boss fights....

HomeNews Observer: System Redux confirmed for PC, and it has a demo nowRutger Hauer as a brain-hacking detective Rutger Hauer as a brain-hacking detective As a nice little Gamescom surprise, Bloober Team today announced thatObserver: System Reduxwill also be coming to PC. The originalObserverfrom 2017 was a lovely little cyberpunkhorror gamestarring Rutger “crying in the shower” Hauer, and the upcoming System Redux is an expanded and prettied-up version - but was only announced for next-gen consoles....

HomeNews Rejoice! Absolute classic citybuilder Pharaoh is getting a remake next yearNo puns about the Nile, please No puns about the Nile, please It seems a developer has managed to leverage two bits of my Ancient Egypt-related childhood nostalgia in one go today. Triskell Interactive and publisher Dotemu used an animated trailer that reminds me of famous Val Kilmer musicalPrince Of Egyptto announced a 2021 remake of absolute stone cold classic citybuilderPharaoh....

HomeNewsUnknown 9: Awakening Unknown 9: Awakening is a brand new game that already has a big weird expanded universeEnter the storyworld Enter the storyworld Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube An interesting thing to note about Unknown 9 is that a whole slew of adjacent media in whatthe official sitecalls a “Storyworld” already exists. There’s a novel trilogy, the first of which is called Unknown 9 Genesis and is being serialised for free, a series of comic books called Torment, a three part scripted podcast called Out Of Sight, and an “interactive experience” called Chapters....

HomeNews Watch Gamescom Opening Night Live here todayTwo hours of trailers and announcements Two hours of trailers and announcements To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings I prefer YouTube’s player for streaming stuff, but it’ll also be broadcast onTwitch,Twitter, andFacebook. Geoff Keighleysaid yesterdaythat the show will bring “content debuts” from: 2K, Activision, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Blizzard, Bungie, Deep Silver, Devolver Digital, Electronic Arts, Frontier Developments, Focus Home Interactive, Gearbox Software, Headup Games, PlayStation, Warner Bros....

HomeNews Wesker’s kids will head up a new Resident Evil Netflix seriesWhat’s up with dad, anyway? What’s up with dad, anyway? Videogames are television now. But while everything fromSplinter CelltoFalloutis gunning for streaming gold followingThe Witcher’s Cavill-shaped successes,Resident Evilprobably makes more sense than most. With a long run of live-action films behind it, the horror series is now getting a Netflix original series, one that follows the plucky Wesker kids as they uncover the no-good rotten antics their dear old dad Albert’s been up to....

HomeNews World Of Warcraft delves into the Shadowlands this OctoberQuesting in the afterlife. Questing in the afterlife. You’ve killed every god, demon and monstrosity in the world of the living - so I s’pose it’s time to quest through the afterlife instead. The next chapter in Blizzard’s seemingly-unstoppable MMO,World Of Warcraft: Shadowlandstonight announced that it’ll open the gates to the collective afterlives in October with two new trailers.The first of these was a particularly lengthy animated “short” titledAfterlives: Bastion, with fan-fave paladin Uther catching himself in some mischief over in not-Valhalla....

HomeNewsTeardown Yup, Teardown still looks delightfully destructiveSmash and grab. Smash and grab. For all the fancy shooting and whimsical adventures offered up during tonight’s Opening Night Live showcase,Teardown’s appearance reminds us that sometimes it’s just fun to take a hammer to a brick wall. Launching later this year, the smash ‘n’ grab heist game from Tuxedo Labs has returned with a new trailer. It might only be a minute and a half long, but blimey, I could watch these buildings crumble for hours....