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HomeFeatures The 10 best Flash games, and how to play themBless the preservation efforts Bless the preservation efforts At the end of this year, most Flash games will be unplayable in their original form. Adobe are going tostop distributing Flash, and so most browsers plan on dropping Flash support. While this may be an internet security victory - Flash has a history of being vulnerable to certain kinds of malware - it does make it harder to experience the thousands of online Flash games....

HomeGuidesValorant Valorant Battle Pass: Contracts and rewards explainedHere’s everything you need to know. Here’s everything you need to know. What does a live service game need? A Battle Pass of course!Valorant’s the latest to receive the famed reward track which features plenty of cosmetic items to gear your weapons out with. Simply purchasing the Battle Pass and figuring out how it works can be a confusing experience. To help you out, we’ve put together a guide which’ll take you through everything you need to know....

HomeNewsSkelattack Action platformer Skelattack has you defend your dungeon from rude human adventurersStop crawling my dungeon Stop crawling my dungeon Ever feel like your dungeon crawling adventures are actually you imposing on the homes of those skeleton, ooze, and monster folks? That’s the angle that action platformerSkelattacktakes, asking you to help recently deceased Skully defend the underworld from a bunch of human attackers.Skelattackis out now, with a new launch trailer to show off all the hopping, slashing, and trap-avoiding....

HomeNews Elite Dangerous will let you go outside in Odyssey expansionA step up A step up The advanced techology ofElite Dangerous’s far future will finally grant humans the impossible power of legs, according to news from Frontier Developments today.The space exploration andbwoompsimulator is getting a new expansion early next year. It’s called Odyssey, and it’s about getting out of your ship to jaunt about on foot on any planet you like....

HomeNewsFalcon Age Give a falcon a beard, VR goggles, and make it fight colonial robotsWing it Wing it We previously posted aboutFalcon Ageon its release onto the Epic Store last year, but we didn’t follow up on it, and that’s a shame because although I suppose it’s technically an action-adventure, I would prefer to call it a first-person tactical bird game. The animation on your feathery death projectile is great. It does very sharp bird-like motions - you know how birds sort of move like they’re a video skipping a couple of frames?...

HomeNewsLittle Witch In The Woods Be small, do magics I know I say this a lot, but I am always on the lookout for things that are a bit likeStardew Valley, but not. (Incidentally, for those interested in mybattery chicken farm efforts, I have increased the size of my coop whilst giving the hens three squares of space to roam outdoors during the day.) Last weekat the Wholesome DirectI learned of the existence ofLittle Witch In The Woods, and I am agog, reader, pureagogat the state of this game....

HomeNewsThe Academy The Academy will challenge you to get your think on with its boarding school puzzle adventureSchool’s not out after all School’s not out after all This boarding school puzzle game calledThe Academycites its inspirations as both Harry Potter and Professor Layton, the latter, I assume because of puzzles. The former because, yeah those three faces certainly have a familiar dynamic, don’t they? Pine Studio have dropped a trailer to announce the game’s June 19th release date, so you’ve got just enough time to study up before the exam....

HomeFeatures The difficulty with Pathologic 2’s difficultyA game about struggle A game about struggle “Nikolay, right now, what do you think aboutPathologic 2? Was it a successful experiment?” “Oh yes, of course! Certainly it was! Moreover, due to the conditions in which we constructed this game, it was a miracle that we released it. But I wouldn’t say it’s the game we wanted to release.” Even now, over a year after Pathologic 2’s release, Nikolay Dybowski and Ivan Slovtsov have differing opinions about the surrealistic survival game they played leading roles in making....

HomeNewsThe Waylanders Upcoming RPG The Waylanders introduces 12 possible pets for your fantasy rangersObviously you should choose the bear, though Obviously you should choose the bear, though Mostly, Gato describe each animal with a quick couple words on their obvious features. Talons, jaws, and the like. They do let on that wolves have attacks that can heal themselves, an interesting choice. They mention spiders having prickly webs, suggesting that rangers may be able to use those particularly horrific friends for their crowd control abilities....

HomeNews Call Of Duty: Warzone delays Season 4 because “now is not the time"No word on a new date No word on a new date The start of Season 4 inCall Of Duty: WarzoneandModern Warfare, due to happen on Wednesday, is postponed. On a night when protests in the USA continued over the police killing of George Floyd, the makers said “now is not the time.“The game’sTwitter accountposted this statement overnight:“While we all look forward to playing the new seasons of Modern Warfare, Warzone and Call Of Duty: Mobile, now is not the time....

HomeFeaturesShatter Have You Played… Shatter?Smashed it, pet Smashed it, pet You’d think you couldn’t do much with the brick-breaking genre after Arkanoid and Alleyway, but in 2010Shattercame along and smashed that theory to bits. The biggest change to the formula is that you can manipulate the ball’s movement beyond just twatting it. Your super-powered paddle is able to push and pull the ball, Jedi-style, so you can actually Roberto Carlos the bastard into a cluster if you’re good enough....

HomeReviewsNimbatus Nimbatus reviewBehold the Shatterpillar Behold the Shatterpillar Nimbatusis about building spaceships. More accurately, it’s about learning to build spaceships. And if we’re being completely honest, it’s a game about learning hownotto build them. At its heart is one of the most flexible digital construction toys I’ve come across, which allows for enormous complexity despite a relatively unforgiving learning curve, andNimbatuswould be a worthy purchase if its freestyle sandbox mode was all there was....

HomeNewsValorant Riot’s shiny new tactical shooter Valorant has launchedLook out for the good frog in a great hat Look out for the good frog in a great hat After a two-month closed beta, Riot’s guns n' wizards shooterValorantis now out for everyone to play.Valorantis the League Of Legends developer’s first tactical FPS, pitting teams of five players against each other to capture objectives. It’s very ‘CS:GOmeetsOverwatch’, and what’s more, it’s free-to-play....