HomeNews Unreal Engine 5 revealed with a Tomb Raider-y tech demoCome watch! Come watch! Epic revealed Unreal Engine 5 on a livestream with Geoff Keighley. Along with talking tech, they showed a demo running in real time on a PlayStation 5, named Lumen In The Land Of Nanite: To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings I really did mistake it for a less-gritty direction for Tomb Raider at first....
HomeNewsFallout 76 You can try Fallout 76 and its new Wastelanders update free this weekendFreeloader weekend in the Wasteland Freeloader weekend in the Wasteland Originally ill-fated and now much-upgraded sort of MMOFallout 76is having its moment in the sun at last. It’s still not the bestFalloutgame on the block, but it’s not someplace you’d be utterly embarrassed to invite your mates. To that end, Bethesda are running a free-to-play weekend starting this Thursday....
HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends Season 5 starts today, adding master thief Loba to the rosterNamed Fortune’s Favor, this season is all about nicking loot Named Fortune’s Favor, this season is all about nicking loot Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube You know you get those squadmates in Apex that just go around hoovering up all the best loot for themselves? Well, Loba is basically those people formed into an actual character....
HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Turn 11 Turn 11 in freeze-frames: Sergeant Nemchik (Charles Bronson) hosing a halftrack with Crabmeat 2’s .50 cal. Captain Lynch (Harrison Ford) wriggling through a hole in a brick wall. Sergeant King (Carl Weathers) on his knees, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. Hauptmann Steiner (Wolf Kahler) sprinting down the gangplank of the getaway U-boat, Schmeisser in hand. Well and truly cornered, the Sd....
HomeNewsDisco Elysium Disco Elysium should now run better on chugging old PCsIt’s the Working Class Update It’s the Working Class Update The specs go down to a PC with a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM. Dang, that’s half the previous minimum RAM requirement. Or in Appleland, even a 2009 Mac Mini will do you. Along with getting a professional team cracking on French and German versions, they’ve tapped fans for authorised localisations into Spanish, Korean, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese....
HomeNewsHalf-Life This artist uses Half-Life to generate experimental dance musicA right old rave! A right old rave! Graham Dunning has done songs and live performances for a few years now, and he’s about to release a whole album of it. Which I guess is why he’s treating us to Twitch streams like this: To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings [n.b. I’ve since replaced the archived stream with a highlights video cos Twitch killed the full one]...
HomeNewsBefore We Leave Before We Leave is a city-builder with planet-devouring space whalesFree space willy Free space willy City-builders aren’t usually my jam, butBefore We Leavehas planet-devouring space whales. It’s a “mostly non-violent” game about helping colonies hop between cute little planets, building wooden spaceships and salvaging ancient tech. It came out last week, and everything about it looks soothing.Apart from the whales. Obvs.Here’s the launch trailer, in which there is a strange paucity of explicit space whale....
HomeFeatures Bookworm Adventures has been erased from the internet, and I want to know whyMisadventure Misadventure There’s been a murder. And no one seems to have noticed. One of my favourite ever games, released during the peak of PopCap’s glory days, is simply gone. Not just no longer on sale, but seemingly erased from history, from the current timeline.Bookworm Adventures(and it’s sequel), the adorable word-spelling combat game, has been Shazammed right out of existence....
HomeNewsEmpire of Sin John Romero’s actual gangster gran will mind control toughs in Empire Of SinOriginal sinner Romero style Original sinner Romero style Romero Games celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday with an ode to one seriously badass mother in their upcoming tactical gangster gameEmpire Of Sin. John Romero’s actual great grandmother Elvira Duarte was apparently a brothel owner who they’re making an homage to as one of the game’s crime bosses. Despite being of advanced age, she’s got a pretty gnarly special ability, they say in a new developer video....
HomeNews Itsa me :( Mariomaniacs recently completed the astonishing task of reverse-engineeringSuper Mario 64and making an unofficial PC version. It doesn’t need an emulator or anything, it’s just Super Mario 64 running on PC. Nintendo are less than wholly impressed with this technical feat, sending in their lawyers to try to shut down downloads. A wholly unsurprising conclusion to a whole lot of work. This fan-made PC port requires you to provide a ROM of the N64 game, with the PC port coming distributed as an executable or source code you can compile yourself....
HomeNews Return to Thimbleweed Park in a free new mini-adventureFree for everyone! Free for everyone! We’re all invited back to the strange town ofThimbleweed Parkfor a free new little spin-off. Over the weekend, Ron Gilbert and pals releasedDelores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure, a new story standalone story which grew out of a prototype for Gilbert’s next game engine. And it’s free for everyone to play, whether you own the original or not....
HomeFeaturesFallout 76 The making of Fallout 76: WastelandersNuclear summer Nuclear summer When Bethesda Game Studios decided to bring human NPCs into their post-apocalyptic MMORPGFallout 76, they wrestled with a kind of temporal dissonance. The new arrivals were a reflection of the year or so of real time that players had spent making West Virginia more habitable. Yet those first quests still remain, locked in their original time period. Night turns to day inFallout 76, the sun coaxing new fruit from the tato plants in my garden....
HomeNews Ubisoft will host their digital showcase Ubisoft Forward on July 12thThe E3-replacement barrage continues The E3-replacement barrage continues Hear ye! Hear ye! Ubisoft have announced E3 part 25: Ubisoft Forward to occur on July 12th, 2020. That’s all you need to know, right? Naw, alright fine. As we know,E3 was cancelledbecause of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. June’s fast approaching though, so publishers and developers who would’ve been up on stages saying pretty words like “the next decade of gaming” are now detailing their online-only backup plans....
