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HomeNewsJet Lancer Stylish anime dogfighter Jet Lancer is out nowBreaking the style barrier Breaking the style barrier Jet Lancer’s coming in later than planned, but who can stay mad when your flight looks like this? Sitting at the crossroads betweenLuftrausers,Daemon X Machinaand Top Gun, Vladimir Fedyushkin and Nicolai Danielsen’s slick dogfighting anime about turning mountain-sized mecha into scrapheaps with fighter jets hit the skies earlier this week on Steam and Itch....

HomeNewsTerraria Terraria’s massive final update, Journey’s End, is out todayFore! Fore! Journey’s End is a doozy of an update, with a propernovel-length changelistto trawl through over on the Terraria forums. Don’t like how your minimap or health and mana bars look? Now you can change ‘em. Feel like trying some lava fishing? Sounds dangerous, but now it’s doable. Want your expensive Razer Chroma keyboard to light up like a fireworks show every time you dig a hole?...

HomeNewsTony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2’s remastered skaters are showing their ageWhat’s my age again? What’s my age again? Time was, you could slap a JPEG on a handful of polygons and call that a Tony. But time affects us as much as graphics tech, and all those chipper young skaters in their 20-somethings back in 1999 are now well into in their forties and fifties....

HomeNewsAnthem BioWare are prototyping Anthem NEXT but say it’ll be “a longer process"What’s Next for Anthem? What’s Next for Anthem? Things have been quiet inAnthemland ever sinceBioWare confirmed that they were reinventingthe ill-received sci-fi game. BioWare want to break their silence on Anthem NEXT and start sharing more, but don’t want you to hold your breath. “Spoiler – this is going to be a longer process,” says studio director Christian Dailey....

HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Turn 14 Last year’s conflab of Comment Commandersalmost committed a war crime. This year’s actually commit one, albeit accidentally. It’s the penultimate turn. What’s left of Colonel Croesus' victimless crime syndicate is now so close to the twice-stolen gold bullion, they can smell it (for those who’ve never been in close proximity to large quantities of Au, burnt sugar and damp ferrets are the dominant notes)....

HomeFeaturesDeathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure Deathtrap Dungeon is the museum of 80s trad fantasy you didn’t know you neededLightest dungeon. Lightest dungeon. OK, time for a classic palaeontology opener metaphor, I’m afraid. You ever heard of a ‘living fossil’? It’s not an enemy fromDeathtrap Dungeon, alas, but an organism that’s remained virtually unchanged for huge stretches of time. The archetypal living fossil is thecoelacanth, a fish that first appeared in the fossil record getting on for half a billion years ago, with thick, stumpy fins poised right on the cusp of becoming rubbish legs....

HomeFeaturesyear walk Have You Played… Year Walk?If you go down to the woods today you’ll probably see this horse If you go down to the woods today you’ll probably see this horse While it sounds like regular video game wallop, year walking was a legit practice in the 19th century. Well, so the story goes. Basically, Swedish folk would fast for 24 hours in a dark room, then walk through the local woods and towards the village church, so they could see what the next 12 months had in store for them....

HomeGuides How to join a secret society in The Sims 4 universityAll secret society ranks explained All secret society ranks explained One of the more interesting things aboutThe Sims 4Discover University is that you can find and join a secret society. These hooded figures are quite elusive, but once your Sim has joined them and increased their secret society rank level, your Sim will be able to use some interesting skills....

HomeReviewsSigns Of The Sojourner Signs Of The Sojourner reviewThe hand you’re dealt. The hand you’re dealt. Language: it’s a funny old game, innit? I don’t mean the languages of different countries, either, I mean the different ways of communicating within that. From all the different regional names forthis small but noble beast, to whatever your family calls the TV remote control (ours was “iffer-offer”), to the fact that UrbanDictionary is a thing that exists at all, it can be hard for people to understand each other even when they’re talking the same language....

HomeGuides The Sims 4 university: how to get degreesDistinguished degrees and how to enroll explained Distinguished degrees and how to enroll explained In thisThe Sims 4Discover University guide, we will tell youhow to enrollinto university,where to get distinguished degrees, and everything you need to know aboutgetting a degree. If you’re looking to join the secret society, look at ourThe Sims 4 secret society guidefor details. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube...

HomeNewsThe Waylanders The Waylanders story trailer dishes out a royal rebuke and some loreCome sail awaylanders Come sail awaylanders “The first meeting between the Celts and their gods, the Tuatha de Danaan should have been a time of celebration and enlightenment,” says The Waylanders’store page. “But, when the negotiations go catastrophically wrong, you find yourself near death—and untethered from time.” That appears to be what’s being set up in the trailer below as King Ith and his son Prince Lugaid disagree about how to handle first contact....

HomeHardwareFeatures “The world of loading screens is over,” but you’re still going to make me crawl through a damn rockAren’t you, Unreal? Aren’t you, Unreal? Despite the fact that SSDs have been around for absolutely yonks for us PC folk, you may have noticed that one of the big talking points about Sony and Microsoft’s upcoming console boxes is how the transition from ancient internal HDDs to an SSD is going to revolutionise, nay, completely eliminate loading screens....

HomeNewsHalo 2 A Halo 2 multiplayer bug is killing your friends with ghost rocketsThey’re working on a fix They’re working on a fix The PC release ofHalo 2: Anniversaryarrived on Wednesday morning with a revamped look and a nasty new bug. Folks trying its widely-adored multiplayer have found that trying to rockets and grenades fired at enemies will sometimes magically teleport to teammates and blow them up instead. That’s bad, that....