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HomeNewsHumankind Fame! Humankind’s unified victory condition will measure whose culture is gonna live foreverNo I’M gonna live forever No I’M gonna live forever A new video developer diary forHumankindexplains more about its single victory condition, the pursuit of Fame points. It’s a system building victories from all facets of your cultural legacy, with points coming in everywhere from military victories to building wonders.Humankindis coming from the makers ofEndless Spaceand Endless Legends, two cracking and fascinating 4X strategy games, so I’m mighty curious about their take on the big daddy of 4X: Civilization....

HomeNewsF1 2019 Five current F1 drivers will compete in the second Virtual Grand PrixTalk about shifting gears Talk about shifting gears Proper Formula One races are off for the time being due to Covid-19 coronavirus public health concerns. A couple weeks back, F1 organised the firstVirtual Grand Prixrace inF1 2019, vowing to continue hosting esports races so long as the live ones were cancelled. The first race featured a few current F1 drivers behind the controller along with a smattering of other celebrities, drivers, and esports race folks....

HomeFeaturesMinecraft Have you played… Vintage Story?It’s like Minecraft, except it runs properly It’s like Minecraft, except it runs properly Minecrafthas brought us a great many things, but despite having played it religiously for a good four years and then sporadically for a good six years after that, one thing it never ever brought me was a well-optimised, lag-free experience. EnterVintage Story. But if it were just Minecraft with different content, I may have given Vintage Story a miss....

HomeGuidesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord smithing: How to forge weaponsPlus, how to smelt and refine items Plus, how to smelt and refine items How does smithing work in Bannerlord?You can just buy weapons from traders inMount & Blade II: Bannerlord, but why would you do that when you can make your own? You’ll need to set things up first: get some hardwood to refine into charcoal, loot fallen enemies to learn weapon parts, and so on....

HomeNewsOver The Alps Over The Alps, a WWII spy adventure, is out todayPapercraft spycraft Papercraft spycraft It’s World War II, the sequel nobody wanted, and the Swiss police are on your tail. That’s likely no good even in 2020, but in 1939 it’s especially inadvisable as you’re a spy trying very hard to stay undercover.Over The Alpsis out today, taking you back to a colorful version of the war styled like a jaunty antique postcard collection....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves is setting sail for SteamAhoy! Ahoy! After two years on Microsoft’s janky Windows 10 Store,Sea Of Thievesis now officially headed to Steam. Rare last night announced that a Steam release for their multiplayer pirate sandbox is “coming soon”, and yes Steamers will be able to play with pirates on the Microsoft Store as well as Xbox One. I know many grumbled about the gaping lack of things to do when Sea Of Thieves debuted in 2018 but Rare certainly have been busy, adding a whole lot of newness since then....

HomeFeatures The 11 nicest smiles in PC gamesOne Off The List One Off The List Wilmot -Wilmot’s Warehouse Box-pusher and fervent campaigner against automation Wilmot the square is a happy law unto himself. His quiet smile is nigh-permanent proof that you can have a lot of work to do and be happy about it. As you shuffle your way through this inventory-sorting Marie Kondo ‘em up, you will see Wil’s expression changing only in rare moments, like when he has to move a bunch of heavy wine bottles all at once....

HomeNewsStardew Valley This modder animated tons of furniture, food, and drinks in Stardew ValleyExtra slimy slime balls Extra slimy slime balls I’m always here for a niceStardew Valleymod, especially one that’s easy to slip into an existing save file without the pressure to start a brand new farm. Modder “Gervig91” has been hard at work on a suite of new mods that make a bunch of items in town just a bit more lively and sparkly....

HomeFeaturesCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Warzone’s map is great, and we should make a bigger deal about itA good place to die A good place to die At first, I took the map inCall Of Duty: Warzonefor granted. The blistering forward march of techno-wizadry had inured me to its impact, and I jumped out of the spawning plane with my eyes glazed over. Of course the latest COD’s playground is bigger and more detailed than any other battle royale’s, I thought....

HomeReviews Wot I think: StelaFeaturing: more gorilla chat Featuring: more gorilla chat Release:Out nowOn:Windows, MacOSFrom:Steam,Apple ArcadePrice:£15.50/€16.80/$20 I heard a lovely story from a primatologist once, about how different apes tend to respond when faced with tricky wooden puzzle boxes. Orangutans, apparently, will sit and think for a while when stumped, and then work carefully at a new angle on the problem. Chimps, meanwhile, will typically lose their tempers, smashing the offending puzzle to splinters with their hellish fists....

HomeNewsChesses Chesses 2 throws a classic back into the blender with eight new twistsCheck mates Check mates Thought you’d seen just about all that chess had to offer? Following last year’sChesses, experimental game developer and Chess menace Pippin Barr is back with kingly sequelChesses 2, offering eight more variations on the time-worn strategy puzzle - a checkmate challenge that defies dimensions, predictability, and the structural integrity of your computer monitor....

HomeNewsFor Honor Everyone is still tiny in For HonorWiddle warriors Widdle warriors War never changes, but it has lost a little weight. Ubisoft made every character tiny inFor Honorfor April Fools' day, and they have yet to reembiggen. They still whack at each other with normal-sized weapons though, making things very anime. Me and Reddit have been having fun. They’ve also given everyone a squeaky chipmunk voice, and sure, why not....

HomeVideos Gears Tactics will appeal to XCOM fans and classic Gears Of War fans alikeWho let the locust out? Who let the locust out? Show me someone who says I’m not a fan of our excellentVidBud team, and I’ll show you a liar. Recently, VidBud Matthew got an in-depth demo ofGears Tactics, a turn-based tactical entry into theGears Of Warseries, and my admiration only grew. Set 10 years before the events of the very first Gears Of War game, you’d be forgiven for thinking this’d have more in common with the alien-sniping fun ofXCOMthan the big, boot-stompin' FPS action of the Gears games....