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HomeNews EA will release Command & Conquer: Remastered source code at launchThe full mod cons The full mod cons WhenCommand & Conquer: Remastered Collectionlaunches next month, it’ll arrive with a lovely little gift for the modding community. This week, EA announced that some of the source code for bothCommand & ConquerandRed Alertwill be freely accessible at launch, giving modders the groundwork to go wild creating whatever they’d like - up to and including giant tanks that punt nukes out of their big ol' guns....

HomeFeaturesFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Final Fantasy XIV’s interior designers will build you Hogwarts, for a priceMMO DIY SOS MMO DIY SOS As in real life, there is nothing more desirable inFinal Fantasy XIVthan owning your own home. The plots for houses in the long-running MMO are limited and it can be a struggle to nab a space before other players, and housing is therefore an FFXIV player’s measure of in-game status....

HomeNewsFactorio G2A pay Factorio devs over £32,000 after uncovering stolen key sales Last year, second-hand games marketplaceG2Amade a bet: If any developers or publishers could prove that stolen keys were being sold onG2A, the storefront would pay back the money lost on chargebacks tenfold. Only one studio offered to take them up on the offer,Factoriodevelopers Wube Software. Turns out, Wube were right to suspect stolen sales - and now G2A’s gamble has cost the storefront $39,600 (roughly £32,360)....

HomeFeatures Have you played… Close To The Sun?Oh, Icarus Oh, Icarus You turn up on said ship after things have gone a bit tits up, obviously. Your sister was one of the scientists working on the ship, and she was doing something to do with time, which isobviouslyan inadvisable thing to do. You navigate the ship, occasionally making contact with her, Tesla himself, and a paternal and helpful third scientist trapped near the engines....

HomeNewsKerbal Space Program 2 Kerbal Space Program 2 has been delayed until autumn 2021Euston, we have a problem Euston, we have a problem Unfortunately, yet another game is being delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This time it’s space flight simKerbal Space Program 2that’s been grounded - now we’ll be waiting until autumn next year to launch those little green men into the great beyond. “With everything going on in the world today due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we’re facing many unique challenges that require more time to safely iterate, create, test, and make KSP2 as great as it can be,“yesterday’s statement said....

HomeFeaturesThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Oblivion character imprisoned for 617 yearsYou were caught sneaking You were caught sneaking What? That’s the story according to theUnofficial Elder Scrolls Page Twitter account, which twote last night about a character they put in jail for 225,000 days. — UESP (@UESP_net)May 21, 2020 To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Honestly, it sounds like the kind of talentless non-adventure character I’d play, if there were anything to do once you’re in there....

HomeReviews Saints Row The Third: Remastered reviewThird Street will never die Third Street will never die Getting remastered games feels like a bit of a monkey’s paw at this point, doesn’t it? The finger has curled, and we get remasters of all the old games we loved - but we have to play them a decade after their original release, and not as the person we were when we loved them....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves hits Steam’s shores next monthShip shape Ship shape It’s been a long, arduous voyage through the storms of “being a Windows Store exclusive”, but finally,Sea Of Thievesis making landfall on Steam’s shores. Rare’s lovely little piracy sandbox will drop anchor on June 3rd, letting former Windows sailors carry their progress over to the new vessel with full cross-play between Steam, Windows and Xbox. With two years of updates under its belt, it’ll hopefully launch in a more ship-shape state that its maiden voyage way back when....

HomeDeals The latest Humble Bundle is a tribute to Bandai Namco with nine games for $25Namco your own way Namco your own way Bandai Namco hasreturned for a fourth Humble Bundlethis week with nine games up for grabs at £20 / $25 for the job lot. And while you may suspect that it’s getting a bit ‘Queen Greatest Hits III’ at this point, there’s still enough in there to justify putting your hand into your pocket – especially as it’s all for charity....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 I hope Destiny 2’s Titanic disaster rumours are as fake as they seemCome tour the arcology with me Come tour the arcology with me One weirdly persistentDestiny 2fan theory is that Bungie are planning to fully obliterate and remove one of the MMOFPS’s areas, the Saturnian moon of Titan. It’ll be a dramatic show of force from the Darkness sweeping through the solar system, so the story goes. There is no real evidence to support this but I’ve seen some folks start repeating it as a given....

HomeHardwareFeatures Intel Core i5-10600K review: Core i7 performance on the cheapNow you’re playing with power Now you’re playing with power When AMD launched their incredibleRyzen 3 3300Xthe other week, I called it the $120 Core i5 killer. At the time, I only had Intel’s existingCore i5-9600Kto compare it to, but finally we have its10th Gen Comet Lakesuccessor in the ring, the Core i5-10600K. Like the 9600K, this 10th Gen chip still has six cores to its name, but Intel have doubled the thread count (that is, the number of virtual cores it has) up to 12 this time, giving it a bit more oomph when it comes to multi-tasking....

HomeHardwareFeatures Intel Core i9-10900K review: the best gaming CPU just got even betterSo hot right now So hot right now 6 Best And Worst Things About Tropico 6 | Tropico 6 ReviewWatch on YouTube 6 Best And Worst Things About Tropico 6 | Tropico 6 Review When Intel declared their 9th GenCore i9-9900Kwas the world’s fastest gaming CPU at the end of 2018, it came at an astronomical cost. £600 / $580 was the asking price for thebest gaming CPUmoney could buy at the time, which today could get you an entire RTX 2080 Super GPU....

HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch’s fourth Anniversary event has some of the best skins yetThe Brawls are back in town! The Brawls are back in town! There are so many games celebrating birthdays this week!The Witcher 3 turned five,Red Dead Redemptionturned 10, and nowOverwatchis celebrating its fourth year. ForOverwatchit means its Anniversary event has kicked off once more, and from now until June 19th you’ll be able to replay all the old seasonal Brawls and grab a whole host of new cosmetic items....