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HomeFeaturesDisco Elysium The joy of dangerous, unpredictable guns in Disco ElysiumClick click boom Click click boom When my brother and I were young, we would often harass my parents to spare a few quid for the arcades. Coins in sticky hands, we would immediately run-up to the first Time Crisis machine we saw and proceed to blow away terrorists to our hearts' content. It was amazing just how much power those little blue and pink plastic guns made us feel....

HomeFeatures 1987’s Rainbow Islands boasts more great ideas than most modern platform gamesGOAL IN ! GOAL IN ! Games were so damned hard in the ’80s. Rainbow Islands is a sublimely good platform game. Its mechanics are few, but so brilliantly realised that it shames most of your modern platform darlings. You jump, or you cast rainbows. Rainbows can also be run up, then jumped off, to create bridges through the sky....

HomeFeaturesRimWorld Best Rimworld modsNo need to settle No need to settle RimWorldis a calamity simulator, where things can go so wrong so quickly that you’re left with everything on fire and DonaldGloverlooking confused in the middle of it all. You’re in charge of growing a small colony of newly landed pawns on a hostile planet, and everything from the elements to squirrels can take you down. It’s great, but that’s not the only way to play....

HomeNews Catch a Travis Scott concert inside Fortnite this weekendHe’s debuting a new track, too He’s debuting a new track, too If you’re missing proper concerts right about now,Fortniteis queuing up yet another one of its in-game performances for you to enjoy. This time around, rapper and songwriter Travis Scott will headline an event called Astronomical where he’ll be debuting a new song for all you hot dogs and bananas in the audience....

HomeNews Corona Relief Done Quick raised $400,000 with speedrunning this weekendGood games, good runs, and a good cause Good games, good runs, and a good cause Over the weekend, dozens of speedrunners whizzed through 50-odd video games in a bonus Games Done Quick to raise money for charity. In total, the Corona Relief Done Quick event raised $400,774.60 (£320k) for an American charity providing personal protective equipment and medical support in these trying times....

HomeNews Facebook launch a mobile app for their gaming-only livestream platform todayFacebook’s back, back again Facebook’s back, back again If you didn’t know thatFacebookhave their own game streaming network, don’t worry. Neither did I. Facebook Gaming is the blue giant’s gaming-only spin on Twitch, YouTube, and Mixer. It’s existed on browsers for a while, but is now available as a standalone mobile app that launched on the Google Play Store today....

HomeFeaturesVirtual-O Have You Played… Virtual-O?A first-person orienteering sim A first-person orienteering sim Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I’m pretty good at navigating new cities using a map, where McDonalds and Starbucks act as landmarks on my journey. It’s a lot more difficult when that McDonalds is instead a lonely tree, and the Starbucks is a big rock, asVirtual-Owill show you....

HomeNews Ludum Dare 46 game jam entries include trains, eldritch horrors, and heartsKeep it alive, folks Keep it alive, folks Twice-annual online game jam eventLudum Dareis wrapping up this evening so let’s check out some of the nifty things that have been submitted so far, shall we? These are all games made from scratch over the course of the weekend, so there are plenty of odd bits and bobs built to Ludum Dare 46’s theme “keep it alive....

HomeHardwareNewsCyberpunk 2077 Now you can get a Cyberpunk 2077 headset to match your Cyberpunk graphics cardKeanu compels you Keanu compels you CD Projekt Red look like they’re going all out onCyberpunk 2077-themed hardware this year, as Steelseries have just announced they’re collaborating with the studio on a brand new collection ofCyberpunk 2077Arctis headsets. Alas, the headsets in question are only variants of theirArctis 1Wireless headset rather than my currentbest gaming headsetchampion, theArctis 7, but if you were one of the lucky few to win one of the specialCyberpunk 2077-themed RTX 2080 graphics cardsNvidia gave away earlier in the year, then this could be just the thing to complete your Cyberpunk 2077 component collection....

HomeNewsGun Rounds Gun Rounds' turn-based shootouts are a hectic delightBang, Bang Bang, Bang You could throw a hell of a lotta buzzwords atGun Rounds. It is, at once, an indie roguelike (roguelite) bullet-hell deck builder with permadeath mechanics and tactical blah blah blah. You get the picture. But in play, Blabberf’s turn-based shooter brings all those disparate terms together with wonderfully tight gun puzzles, a potent mixture that easily squares up against its genre contemporaries....

HomeNews Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare’s PC cheaters are driving console players out of crossplayCan’t we all just get along? Can’t we all just get along? Like the sort of macabre bragging right that has you somewhat proud of your hometown’s staggering crime rates, we’ve sure got a few cheaters over here on PC. At least, that seems to increasingly be the view of the folks stuck playingCall Of Duty: Modern Warfarewith us over crossplay....

HomeNewsLIKELIKE Online Censorship, cybersex and sheep at LIKELIKE’s Online Museum of Multiplayer ArtLow-res, High-brow Low-res, High-brow After dabbling in curated Bitsy exhibitions, Pittsburgh indie collective LIKELIKE have brought a new show to their low-res gallery.The Online Museum of Multiplayer Artopened its doors last night, a collection of social experiments and collaborative folk rituals. If the last exhibition captured the feeling of discovering hidden gems on a convention floor, this week’s gallery encourages you to finally strike up a conversation with your fellow visitors....

HomeFeaturesSizeable Priceless Play - 18 April 2020Games about the outdoors for staying indoors Games about the outdoors for staying indoors As I said to my adviser earlier, and as my mother recently told me, and as I heard on the news or saw in some inspirational-but-grounded tweet: the only way out is through. In the meantime, here are some games for staying indoors and remembering the outdoors. If the game sounds familiar, it is:Natalie Clayton beat me to the punch a few days ago, and wrote about Sizeable here....