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HomeNewsDisgaea 4 Complete+ Disgaea 4 Complete+ is making its way to PC this yearComing to Steam and Game Pass Coming to Steam and Game Pass Now, I’m no JRPG connoisseur, but I hear that people quite like the bizarre, energetic world of Disgaea’s tactical RPGs. It’s probably a good thing, then, thatDisgaea 4 Complete+is heading to Steam and Xbox Game Pass for PC this autumn. I’m pretty sure the only one we’re missing on PC now is poor old Disgaea 3....

HomeReviewsFight Crab Fight Crab reviewClaws for concern Claws for concern If there’s one thing I respect in any creator, it’s commitment to a concept. I believe in going all-in on things, even when they’re ridiculous, on the principle that passion and dedication can elevate even the most outlandish nonsense to a state of beauty. Fight Crabchallenged this belief. There’s a lot of pressure on me here. I bang on about crabs all the damned time, as they’re just about my favourite things....

HomeFeaturesSea of Thieves Have You Played… Sea Of Thieves?Kraken open a cold one with the boys Kraken open a cold one with the boys I want to likeSea Of Thievesso badly that I’ve convinced myself Idolike it, even though deep inside I find it quite dull to play. I don’t understand why I find it dull. The premise is superb, it looks great, and I know lots of folks who routinely have the time of their lives being weird, balloon-bodied pirates....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Highlander Paladin deck list guide - Scholomance Academy - Hearthstone (August 2020)Our guide to playing Highlander/Finley Paladin in the Scholomance Academy meta. Our guide to playing Highlander/Finley Paladin in the Scholomance Academy meta. Highlander Paladin is a deck built aroundSir Finley of the Sands. His Battlecry reads ‘If your deck has no duplicates, Discover an upgraded Hero Power’. Given thatGenn GreymaneandBaku the Mooneaterwere unceremoniously dumped from Standard format due to their extremely polarising nature, it’s surprising to see another upgraded Hero Power mechanic being added into the game once again....

HomeNewsHyper Scape Hyper Scape leaves early access with its first season next monthI want to see you get hyper, hyper! I want to see you get hyper, hyper! It’s a bit late to the battle royale party, butHyper Scapeis just about ready to leave open beta. Ditching the Twitch-drop invites to enter open beta earlier this month, Ubisoft’s take on the massive last-person-standing deathmatch genre launches properly next month, kicking off its first season with a new weapon, new hack, limited-time modes and the almost-mandatory 100-tier battle pass....

HomeFeaturesGrounded I am willing to die for the ants in GroundedDown to earth Down to earth InGrounded, Obsidian’s new mini-sized survival game, it doesn’t even take any of that to secure my undying love. When an ant sees you for the first time, it chirrups curiously, and tilts its head like a dog. I love them. I will never harm them. If I ever play with another person and they attack an ant, I will fight them to the death....

HomeGuidesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade II Bannerlord workshops: The best workshop for each cityHow to optimise your gold income and resource production in Bannerlord using workshops How to optimise your gold income and resource production in Bannerlord using workshops Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/TaleWorlds Entertainment Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/TaleWorlds Entertainment What is the best workshop for each city in Bannerlord?Mount & Blade II: Bannerlordallows you to develop your settlements into money making machines!...

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Beta? What beta? Unfortunately, high stakes cybercrime in the real world isn’t quite as cool as it seems inCyberpunk 2077. There’s no punked-up jacket plugging USB cables into his eyeballs to steal corporate secrets here - instead, it’s chumps trying their luck with email scams suggesting that you (yes, you!) have been given special access to the game’s supposedly-upcoming beta. It’s gotten bad enough that the devs have stepped in, warning fans that no, these aren’t legit, and there probably won’t even be a beta....

HomeDeals Resident Evil 3 and Sekiro are real cheap in Gamesplanet’s Summer Sale right nowA truly hot deal A truly hot deal Gamesplanet’sSummer Salecontinues apace this week, and they’ve just turned up the heat with some new, freshly baked 24 hour flash deals. Chief among them isResident Evil 3for a sizzling 50% off, taking Capcom’s recent Resi remaster down to its lowest ever price in the UK and US, and 40% offSekiro: Shadows Die Twice- perfect if yesterday’s news about itsupcoming free updatehas finally tempted you to give it a go....

HomeNews Sonic Mania runs full-speed into EA Origin AccessMonthly Mania subscription Monthly Mania subscription Doing away with Sega’s reckless reinvention of the spikey nuisance,Sonic Maniawas a rare thing - bringing fans on to make a Sonic game wot harkens back to series' good ol' 2D roots. It worked, too, and now you can check it out as part of your monthly Origin subscription. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube I haven’t played much Mania (save for a weekend of Dundee sofa-surfing with a friend’s Switch) but it’s good fun....

HomeNews Valve have made it harder to change your store country on SteamIt’s likely to stop people who use VPNs from taking avantage of cheaper games in low-income countries It’s likely to stop people who use VPNs from taking avantage of cheaper games in low-income countries Valve have made the way you change your store country on Steam a lot more strict. Now, if you switch your country setting to somewhere else, Steam requires you to make a purchase with a payment method from that country....

HomeDeals Bad North, Night Call and Kingdom Two Crowns headline the latest Humble BundleA furiously good deal A furiously good deal It seems there’s just no stopping the Humble Bundle train at the moment, as yep, you guessed it, they’ve only gone and made another gosh darned game bundle. This time, it’s pillaged the back catalogue of publisherRaw Fury, the folks behind tiny Viking ‘em upBad North, monochrome taxi murder mysteryNight Calland the side-scrolling strategy seriesKingdom, all of which and more have been packaged up in the Raw Fury Humble Bundle for your gaming pleasure....

HomeNewsBlightbound Co-op dungeon crawler Blightbound comes out in early access todayA co-op 2D Diablolike A co-op 2D Diablolike Don’t you just hate it when you finally defeat the bad guy, and he makes the land turn to ruin anyway? Now here you are, living on a mountain top because some evil titan-dude has released a plague beneath it. You should probably do something about that - and you can, whenBlightboundreleases in early access today....