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HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Covid-19 won’t delay Cyberpunk 2077’s September launchHacked together from home Hacked together from home Business are shuttered. Streets are quiet. Sirens blare back and forth. No, this isn’t some piece of post-apocalyptic fiction - increasingly, it’s every urban space under the escalating Covid-19 pandemic. With developers, publishers and retailers alike scrambling to get their staff working from home,Cyberpunk 2077developers CD Projekt Red are keen to remind fans that they’ll still get their 21st-century dystopia come September 17th....

HomeNews EGX confirmed for September 17-20th in LondonPut it on your calendar Put it on your calendar ExCeL London is currently hostingNHS Nightingale, an emergency hospital to help cope with the ongoing pandemic. “We are doing the best we can during this unprecedented time, looking to the future with hope while we work now with diligence, constantly monitoring the situation and following guidance from the UK government,” added David Lilley, ReedPOP’s UK head of events....

HomeFeatures Hands-on preview: Minecraft Dungeons is an unexpected treasureLicense to illager License to illager WhenMinecraft Dungeonswas first announced, I thought it was a bit of an odd call. Dungeon crawlers are popular, andMinecraftis popular, but… a Minecraft dungeon crawler? Surely, I figured, a switch to isometric dungeoneering would lose all of Minecraft’s creative, construction-toy charm in translation, and I just couldn’t see Minecraft’s gently strange, cuboid world as an intuitive setting for a Diablolike lootstabber....

HomeFeaturesFirewatch Have You Played… Firewatch?Littering? In my forest?! Littering? In my forest?! Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.One of my favourite game-related anecdotes to tell - y’know, to get out at the fancy dinner parties we have where games journalists get together to collude and decide which games will be reviewed well over the coming months - is aboutFirewatch....

HomeFeaturesThe Sims 4 Recreate doomed romance in The Sims 4 with these custom Life Is Strange hairdosHair today, gone tomorrow Hair today, gone tomorrow It’s been a few weeks since I surprised and delighted you with somecustom content of the weekforThe Sims 4. Typically, I also avoid showcasing CC for Create A Sim (or CAS). It’s the part of the game I’m less interested in (I don’t think that, to date, I have actuallyplayedthe Sims - I just build houses, m8), and therefore the part I don’t download a lot of CC for....

HomeNewsStardew Valley Stardew Valley democratically decides to add banana “trees” next updateFancy a peel? Fancy a peel? There was never really any question, was there? In the hierarchy of fruit popularity, bananas are right up there with apples and strawberries - not particularly exciting, but safe. Reliable. Always there when you need ‘em. So whenStardew Valleyasked players what fruit they’d like hanging out on their farms in the update 1.5, there was only ever one answer....

HomeNews Try Google Stadia for free with nine games in a new trialAnd Stadia Pro is free for two months And Stadia Pro is free for two months Google have now made their cloud gaming service, Stadia, completely free to anyone who has a Gmail account. That means you no longer have to buy theirpricey Premiere Editionto get started, all you have to do is sign up online. On top of that, to help keep people entertained in isolation they’ve made their premium subscription service, Stadia Pro, free for two months....

HomeNewsValorant Valorant key-sellers and bots get the boot to free up beta slotsHand in your keys Hand in your keys But I can see the frustration in leaving streams running for hours. Yes, it’s a pain, but maybe don’t go rushing out to give strangers money for keys - Riot have made it quite clear that those probably won’t last long. We’ve banned a pile of VALORANT closed beta account sellers and botters to free up more entitlements....

HomeNewsCataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead’s big update is the perfect excuse to play it againTo zom or not to bie To zom or not to bie I am in terrible danger. The last time I wrote substantially about the zombie survival simCataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, I described it as “a roguelike you could play for the rest of your life”.That was over three years ago, and it’s been expanded slowly but constantly since then....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077’s faction The Mox protect sex workers from violenceNoble gang goals Noble gang goals CD Projekt Red’s tech dystopia FPSCyberpunk 2077is expected out later this year. Ye olde marketing machine seems to be getting its gears turning again and CDPR have today posted about one of the gangs that you’ll find in Night City. The Mox are a group that CDPR say “protect working girls and guys from violence and abuse,” specifically sex workers like their in-game inspiration Elizabeth Borden....

HomeFeaturesThe Red Strings Club Have You Played… The Red Strings Club?Think ‘n’ drink Think ‘n’ drink InThe Red Strings Club, a corporation believes it holds the keys to happiness, and it’s preparing to slip them down the throats of everyone in the world. It’s a chemical end: to discrimination, to suffering, and to freedom. So what. A little brainwashing never hurt anyone. Cyberpunk is rarely this thoughtful, nowadays. What’s more important, liberty or happiness?...

HomeNewsThe Last Campfire Here are the first minutes of Hello Games' The Last CampfireWell Hello Well Hello Hello Games are of course the folks behind giant space sandboxNo Man’s Sky, so their next game,The Last Campfire, came as quite a surprise when it was announced in 2018. It’s a much smaller game, not nearly an entire universe, about a little traveler named Ember. Hello have now shared a new video to tell us more about the adventure puzzler that’s due out this summer....

HomeNewsApex Legends Looks like Apex Legends won’t be getting a solos mode any time soonLimited-time solos mode “negatively impacted” the game Limited-time solos mode “negatively impacted” the game Apex Legends’Old Ways event has begun, bringing with it Bloodhound’s Town Takeover on the World’s Edge map, as well as the addition of a permanent map rotation and duos. This will be good news to a lot of Apex fans who like dropping into a match with a trusty partner, but unfortunately it’s bad news to those who were hoping for a solos mode....