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HomeNewsLast Oasis Last Oasis servers are back online and allegedly stableIt needed a good flush It needed a good flush Survival MMOLast Oasishas had a rough launch week, but it looks like things might settle soon. Aftertaking the servers offlineto address stability issues that were making the game largely unplayable, it’s now back online and allegedly on better footing. Donkey Crew say that they won’t be shutting down servers or wiping player progress again now that they’re once again publicly available....

HomeGuidesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord conspiracy quest guide: how to declare warHow to thwart Istiana’s or Arzagos’s plans How to thwart Istiana’s or Arzagos’s plans During the main quest in Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord, you’ll meet a couple of influential people who want to steer you in a certain direction. Whichever person you decide to side with out of Arzagos or Istiana, the other person will try to thwart your plans later on....

HomeNews Rumour: Resident Evil 8 will leap out next year in first-personSalt, etc Salt, etc According to new rumours,Resident Evil 8will come out next year. It’ll be in first-person,says serial leaker AestheticGamer, “and many purists are going to hate it” because “it’s taking some serious departures [with] story/enemies and the like”.If you believe the rumour, it started life as Revelations 3, a more experimental spin-off game, but testers liked it so much that developers Capcom decided to turn it into a full fledged entry in the main series....

HomeNews Saints Row: The Third Remastered is coming [update: now it’s official]What silly crimes! What silly crimes! Update: Annnd now it’s official,Saints Row: The Third Remasteredis coming May 22nd. See some old/new comparisons in the trailer below.While we still don’t know anything about the newSaints Rowgame that Volition are currently making, thanks to a wee leak we do know that the 3rd Street Saints will revisit an old adventure inSaints Row: The Third Remastered....

HomeDealsTabletop Simulator Tabletop Simulator is half-price on Steam right nowYour turn Your turn Tabletop Simulator comes with the fairly standard contents of a nan’s game cupboard already set up: Chess, Solitaire, Go, Backgammon, Dominoes, jigsaw puzzles, and such. The big draw is that people can create all sorts of other games in it, all sorts of combinations of boards, token, dice, figurines, scenery pieces, and assets you create. For most people, yeah, that mostly means you can download games other people have already made....

HomeNewsRegions Of Ruin Town-building action-RPG Regions Of Ruin is free right nowDwarf buttress Dwarf buttress Regions Of Ruinis an excellent 2D side scrolling action-RPG. It’s also a town builder, as you build up a settlement from nothing using the wood, stone, iron, and all the other biz you liberate from bandits, monsters, and generally anyone who gets in the way. It’s a little bit likeTerraria, with more of a fighty, loot-happy structure....

HomeGuidesValorant What is the Valorant closed beta start time? (BST, EST, PST, CEST)Here’s when it kicks off in your region. Here’s when it kicks off in your region. Valorant’s closed beta is due to start today and the question on everyone’s lips is, “when does it start?”. Well, we’ll explain all below.Valorant: Closed Beta start time - BST, PST, EST, CESTAccording to itsofficial site, theValorant closed beta starts at 2:00PM CEST....

HomeNewsLIKELIKE Online Experimental arcade LIKELIKE takes its show online with a curated Bitsy crisisNo invitation necessary No invitation necessary I really miss going to games shows, y’all. Fortunately, I’m not alone. With their usual Pittsburgh location shuttered during the Covid-19 crisis, experimental arcade-slash-arts gallery LIKELIKE have taken their show online withAn Itsy Bitsy Crisis- a digital exhibition of works created in Adam LeDoux’s lo-fi game-making toolBitsy, hosted in an online museum as pixellated as the works on show....

HomeNews Record-breaking Half-Life speedrun briefly trades crowbars for lightsabersForce sprint Force sprint Half Life’s introduction is famously slow. Long tram rides and lengthy speeches from co-workers preparing Gordon Freeman for an experiment that would destroy the world. An atmospheric start, for sure, but it’s a pain for folks trying to beat the game as quickly as possible. For one speedrunner, though, those dead minutes aren’t an obstacle - they’re the perfect opportunity to start practising for a record-breaking Star Wars run....

HomeNewsStreets of Rogue Streets Of Rogue creator wants to ramp up the carnage with a sequelStreet sweeper Street sweeper Streets Of Roguelet you get away with some pretty daft stuff. Want to make a profit on the zombie apocalypse? Sorted. Feel like possessing the clone of a scientist to kill his genetic source? Gotcha. But developer Matt Dabrowski reckons there’s even more mayhem he can throw into the Streets Of Rogue blender, and has announced plans for a sequel to deliver just that....

HomeNewsEVE Online EVE Online prepares for dying stars, alien invasions and charity fund-raisingDon’t stare Don’t stare Thursday should’ve been the highlight of theEVE Onlinecalendar. But even withEVE Fanfest’s cancellation, the next few months are set to be big ones for New Eden withEclipse, EVE’s second quadrant of the year. An extragalactic invasion comes to a head with star-snuffing starships, interstellar easter egg hunts, and a charity drive to use all those spacebucks you’ve amassed for real-world good....

HomeNewsMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord continues its quest to quell quarrelsome crashesBug slayer Bug slayer Settlements of bugs and crashes burn behind them, but the campaign is not yet complete. This Friday,Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlorddevelopers TaleWords took the fight against the game’s crashing to a new front. Patch e1.0.4 purged the game of 17 more crashes, with a scant few performance issues and balance oddities finding themselves caught in the crossfire....

HomeFeatures Priceless Play - 4 April 2020Now Play THESE Now Play THESE Now Play This, a festival for experimental game design, is one of the many games eventseither postponed or cancelledto stop the spread of COVID-19. The festival has been running for six years or so, celebrating the strange and unexpected in game design, and each year it brings together some truly spectacular art pieces and games. This year, the festival team has had toget creative with its lineup....