Posts

HomeNewsLake Deliver 80s post in 80s postal delivery story Lake, due out this yearPlease be in between 4am and 9pm Please be in between 4am and 9pm You play as Meredith, delivering parcels and interacting with the locals of peaceful and beautiful Providence Oaks at a fairly sedate pace. Take a look at the trailer, which was highlighted at during today’sGuerrilla Collective not-E3 livestream, to see if it’s the kind of gentle, twiddling-guitar-music story you’d like - it is obviously the sort of gentle, twiddling-guitar-music storyI’dlike....

HomeNewsDwarf Fortress Dwarf Fortress crafts a vibrant new world in new premium edition footageMoving mountains Moving mountains The halls of the mountain king never looked quite so clean. As part of the Guerrilla Collective’s big not-E3 Showcase,Dwarf Fortressco-creator Tarn Adams ran us through the early stagesDwarf Fortress' prettied-up new paid edition - casually commentating over the genesis of an entire fantasy world before closing on a merry band of dwarves striking their first picks against a colourful new mountain home....

HomeNewsEscape from Tarkov Escape From Tarkov’s next map is off to the big cityIt’s not all warehouses and woods in Tarkov It’s not all warehouses and woods in Tarkov Battlestate today gave a new look atEscape From Tarkov’s next map, named Streets Of Tarkov. Escaping the woods, warehouses, villages, and industrial facilities of previous maps, it’ll head right into the big city. Battlestate say it will be the hardcore PvP first-person scavenge-o-shooter’s “biggest and most detailed location ever”....

HomeNews Every new PC game from the Future Games Show 2020The new PC games train just keeps on chugging The new PC games train just keeps on chugging It is all go on thenew PC gamesbandwagon this evening, as the Future Games Show has just wrapped up itsnotE3show for 2020 - making it the third big games showcase of the evening afterDay One of the Guerrilla Collectiveand thePC Gaming Show.Unlike the other two shows tonight, the bulk of the Future Games Show was focused on new content for existing games, such as a new map for MMOLast Oasisand expanded versions of trailers we’ve seen earlier in the evening....

HomeNews Evil Genius 2 deploys devilish traps and goons in new trailerPractice your laugh now, villains Practice your laugh now, villains You just can’t keep a good villain down, huh? While somewhat unfortunate for us in the real world, it’s fantastic news for devilish scheme ‘em upEvil Genius 2. Spoiling their schemes with a new “gameplay” trailer aired during tonight’s PC Gaming show, developers Rebellion revealed a few of the fiendish new traps henchmen heading to their sunny bad guy management sim later this year....

HomeNewsHardspace: Shipbreaker Hardspace: Shipbreaker breaks down how to break down a spaceshipPleasingly methodical Pleasingly methodical Ahead of its early access launch next week, a new vid forHardspace: Shipbreakerdetails the delicate process of cutting up an industrial transport ship for salvage without accidentally blowing it up. Coming fromHomeworld 3andDeserts Of Kharakdevelopers Blackbird Interactive, Shipbreaker is a first-person sim about the fine art of space salvage. Buy old ships, crack ‘em open, strip them for parts, and try not to trash your haul....

HomeNewsHumankind Humankind delayed to 2021Oh the humanity! Oh the humanity! Civilizationcan take a moment to catch its breath, as the developers of upcoming lowercase-c civilisation 4X strategy gameHumankindhave quietly pushed its expected launch back to next year. It was previously due this year, but a new trailer today says 2021. Amplitudealso put out a call to fans and prospective players to help them fine tune it, offering access to limited preview builds in return for active playtesting feedback with their Open Dev scheme....

HomeFeaturesIn Sound Mind In Sound Mind adds interesting twists to the ol' “insanity, hiding and mannequins” formulaMore like unsound, wahey More like unsound, wahey It seems unlikely though, since this comes from the admirably named We Create Stuff, who were the folks behind the popularNightmare House 2mod forHalf-Life 2. Fans of that mod, indeed, will find some familiarity in In Sound Mind: you wake up in a dark, run-down basement with only hazy memories of what happened to you, first-person your way around with a torch, and encounter obstacles which you then remove with tools....

HomeFeaturesDwarfheim Is Dwarfheim spectacularly generic, or did it just casually reinvent the RTS?AoE2 in the streets, Factorio in the sheets AoE2 in the streets, Factorio in the sheets When the trailer forDwarfheimpopped up during the PC Games Show earlier, I was underwhelmed. In fact, if anything, I was antiwhelmed. I love dwarves, as you probably know. And I loveDwarf Fortress. And when you really love something, you can get protective of it....

HomeNewsAmong Trees Lovely survival sandbox Among Trees is out now in early access, and I am so excited I might dieBear with me Bear with me Honestly, readers, it is only my obligation to you (and also a vague sense that Graham might tell me off) that I haven’t dropped everything immediately to go and playAmong Trees. It’s a gorgeous survival sandbox game set in a lush, lovely evergreen forest full of mists and bears, I’ve been desperate for it since it was first teasedalmost two years back, and the PC Gaming Show just casually revealed that it’s out in early access on theEpic Games Storeright now....

HomeNews Mafia: Definitive Edition is more than just a lick of paintCrime pays? Crime pays? Mafia: Definitive Editionlooks a bit nice. The remake of the 2002 open world crime ‘em up was announced with an extremely brief trailer a few weeks ago, but it was unclear exactly how remade it would be. A new trailer today makes clear that the answer is: a lot. It’s a ground-up recreation, and the screenshot above gives a sense of the graphical upgrade....

HomeNewsTwin Mirror Oh hey, remember Dontnod’s weird investigative adventure game Twin Mirror? Here’s a new teaser trailerEnter the mind palace Enter the mind palace It’s been a bit quiet on theTwin Mirrorfront, but a new teaser trailer was just revealed at the PC Gaming Show. For those who don’t remember (who could blame you? It’s been so long I thought the trailer was teasing a sequel toA Way Outbefore I thought of Twin Mirror), Twin Mirror is a weird sort of X-Filesy adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment, which was first announced back in 2018....

HomeNewsOoblets Ooblets launches in early access this summerLovely, just lovely Lovely, just lovely To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings It looks a bitStardew Valley, a bitAnimal Crossing, a bit Pokémon, a whole lot lovely. There we are in a little town, running our farm, renovating our home, cooking, collecting things we find laying around, fishing, and making friends with the locals. But some of our crops are the eponymousOoblets, little creatures to love, train, level up, and put in dance-offs....