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HomeNewsF1 2018 Grab F1 2018 for free on Humble this weekendNyooooom! Nyooooom! Feeling the need for speed on this toasty Saturday afternoon? It might not be the newest car in the garage, but Codemasters are giving awayF1 2018over on the Humble Store all weekend. It’s yours to keep “while stocks last”, so feel free to treat yourself to a few high-speed laps.More seasonal update than sequel, 2018’s edition of the Codemasters drive ‘em up doesn’t exactly stand out among its peers....

HomeHardwareFeaturesHorizon Zero Dawn Despite stellar performance on our end, Horizon Zero Dawn’s PC port has been nearly unplayable for othersFalse dawn? False dawn? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation PC LLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation PC LLC As you may have noticed, I’ve beenquite impressed with Horizon Zero Dawn’s PC port. I’ve been able to get the game running smoothly at 60fps on High settings even on a lowly GTX 1060 during the course of my testing, and I’m also very fond ofHorizon’s lovely ultrawide support, too....

HomeNews Destiny 2’s Solstice Of Heroes event kicks off next week, bringing some delightfully glowy armourIt sounds like a massive grind to get it, though It sounds like a massive grind to get it, though If there’s one thing I miss aboutDestiny 2, it’s the armour. I’m a firm supporter of the whole “you can’t save the world if you don’t look good” thing. What I do not miss about this game, however, is how much you have to grind to look that good in the first place....

HomeReviewsHorizon Zero Dawn Horizon Zero Dawn PC reviewBattering an iron ostrich to pieces never felt so good Battering an iron ostrich to pieces never felt so good If you’ve read anything I’ve had to say aboutHorizon Zero Dawnto date - and I’veeulogisedittwicealready - the tone of this review shouldn’t come as a surprise. I knew the PC port would have to be either unplayable, or introduce an inexplicable wisecracking pelican as Aloy’s sidekick, to change my opinion of what’s probably my favourite ever action game....

HomeNewsDrink More Glurp Attempt a 20 player alien Olympics in Drink More Glurp, out todayA game about aliens who simply do not understand the Olympics A game about aliens who simply do not understand the Olympics Drink More Glurpis a game about aliens who simply do not understand the Olympics. They think that it’s all about paid sponsorships, and as a result, their sponsors have weirded-up all the events, making it so these poor aliens have to deal with increasingly bizarre competitions....

HomeNewsMortal Shell Brutal Soulslike Mortal Shell gets a release date of August 18thA proper love letter to all things Dark Souls A proper love letter to all things Dark Souls If you’ve been hankering for some moreDark Souls-like action after playingMortal Shell’s freeopen beta last month, you won’t have to wait much longer, as developers Cold Symmetry have confirmed it’s coming out in full on August 18th. This action-RPG is the very first game from Cold Symmetry, and it is truly a love letter to all things Soulsborne - gothic settings, huge freaky enemies and brilliantly bulky weapons with which to whack them with....

HomeNews I love this man’s enthusiasm for an innovative AI mocap techniqueWho’s a good AI, you are, you are Who’s a good AI, you are, you are I like neat AI stuff. The prospect of making machines autonomously clever (whatever that means) is a fundamentally exciting concept to me, even though there are plenty of ways in which AI is being and will be used to make people’s lives worse. I’m therefore a prime target for Two Minute Papers, a YouTube channel that takes interesting research papers and presents them with hyper-infectious enthusiasm....

HomeNews Impostor Factory’s new trailer raises more questions than answersThe crater good The crater good First, I’ll tell you what it’s probably not about. There’s Dr. Watts and Dr. Rosalene, whose work lets people revisit key moments in their life for a second time. According to the Steam page, though, that’sprobablynot what the game is about. Ooh, it’s already getting narratively tricky, and the game isn’t even out yet. There’s also Quincy, who attends a party in a secluded and fancy mansion and then visits the bathroom....

HomePodcasts Podcast episode 104: Mr Animal PeperamiBut please, call me Animal But please, call me Animal This week’s Electronic Wireless Show is a bit quick and dirty - like a spiced pork meat snack. We loved talking about baddies so much last time that we’ve done a bit of a lateral move, and have each brought our favourite ‘bad’ game to the pod-table. Because secretly, all games are good. As ever, there is a healthy dose of chat along with our game talk....

HomeNews Props to Microsoft for letting you play Flight Simulator for £1Low cost flights Low cost flights The standard edition ofMicrosoft Flight Simulatorcosts £59, but like me trying to show my parents their house from a Airbus A320neo, we can go lower. A lot lower, as it turns out. Here’s how you can play (but not own) what’s looking to be the first game of the next, next, next-generation for as low as £1....

HomeNewsSerious Sam 4 Serious Sam 4 sends its release date screaming into SeptemberAaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Call yourselfSerious Sam 4, do ya? Well, you don’t seem so “serious” about this launching in August lark to me. Unfortunately, the next entry in Croteam’s run-and-gun-and-scream-and-explode ‘em up won’t launch this month as planned, with the devs today announcing that Sam’s fourth shooting gallery has been delayed into late September. It takes time to pack 100,000 baddies onto one screen, after all....

HomeNewsSurgeon Simulator 2 Surgeon Simulator 2 extracts a closed beta this weekendThey’ll let anyone practice medicine these days. They’ll let anyone practice medicine these days. As far as lockdown hobbies go, invasive surgery’s a bit of a strange one. But if you insist on getting snappy with a scalpel,Surgeon Simulator 2is opening the operating theatre a little early with a closed beta. Kicking off tomorrow, Bossa will give you a few days to get used to a stranger’s insides before the medically-trainer hand-wobbler opens the hospital doors later this month....

HomeNewsAlto’s Odyssey The Alto Collection is sliding onto the Epic Games Store for free next weekThe good grind The good grind My phone is not a phone. I message on it, I poke things on it, and I take photos of my cat with it. Phoning people is the last thing I want to do with it. I also used to chase after llamas on my snowboard on it, but now I can do that on the PC as Alto’s Adventure andAlto’s Odyssey, two lovingly crafted endless runners, are now coming to the Epic Games Store asThe Alto Collection, and they’ll be free for the first week....