HomeFeatures Have You Played… Wing Commander: Prophecy?Put on a iron spaceshirt Put on a iron spaceshirt Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Wing Commander tee em 5 Colon Prophecy Goldis one of the cheesiest games I’ve ever played.It works because its cast of mostly B-listers are talented enough to pull off its many FMV and in-mission voice scenes, and they’re clearly having fun....
HomeFeaturesThe Dig I still love The Dig despite just about everythingMove your silly buttocks, you fool Move your silly buttocks, you fool IloveThe Dig. While I definitely played it in 1995, I’ve almost no memories of that. But thelast time I played itin 2011, I rediscovered a LucasArts adventure that felt like something truly special, something unique in their oeuvre, and something that hit the sweet spot of the science fiction I most enjoy....
HomeNews Look at this wacky fish ARG about exploring abandoned websitesWhat the fish is this? What the fish is this? Welcome to the internet of yore where gifs have three frames apiece, your CRT monitor flickers, and everything your mouse hovers over has some wild effect. Also there are actual mice, gif mice, inside the website feasting on the dead links which you must explore and then feed them. There is a fish who has lost their friend somewhere in a very bad demo game....
HomeNews Mount & Blade 2 is now out in early accessLet’s ride! Let’s ride! It’s time to saddle up and ride out, forMount & Blade II: Bannerlordentered early access this morning. The long-awaited follow-up to Warband (one ofthe best RPGs, don’t you know?) will once again send us out to ride around a sandbox medieval world, raising armies, politicking, laying siege, and charging around big battlefields with hundreds of soldiers throwing down....
HomeFeaturesRuneScape Runescape’s developers explain why they chose archaeology as the MMO’s newest feature20-year-old MMO adds 2000 years of history 20-year-old MMO adds 2000 years of history Runescape’s newest update, Archaeology, adds a whole new skill to the almost two-decade-old MMO, but there’s some necessary context for what it brings to the table - at least historically speaking. At only 10 years old, I was as industrious as they came, and actually set up my own in-game business....
HomeNews Art Of Rally’s free demo takes Absolute Drift’s minimal powerslides to the woodsFive right, jump ahead Five right, jump ahead Five years afterAbsolute Drift, Funselektor have found themselves behind the wheel once again. This week, the minimalist driving developers released a free demo forArt Of Rally, a top-down distillation of the (objectively best) motorsport that takesAbsolute Drift’s textureless powerslides and lets them loose on delightfully toy-like Nordic forest tracks.A car is a car is a car, whether it’s drifting through a blocky dreamscape or slamming sidelong into a Finnish Spruce....
HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Keep it clean, eat well and go for a walkWash, Walk and Chow Down Wash, Walk and Chow Down Screenshot Saturday Sundays! A virtual picturebook of holiday snaps from across the game development globe, delivered straight to Twitter’s doorstep every seven days. This week, we’re basically running down good lockdown practice: wash up often, eat well, and remember to take a nice walk now and again. Maybe don’t go hopping on trains right now, mind....
HomeFeatures All that Half-Life, Epic’s publishing, Covid disruptions, and more of the week’s big newsRead all about it! Read all about it! Mount & Blade 2 will launch one day early March 31st, it’s now due March 30th. But hey, every day feels six years long at the moment, so it’s a good saving. Valve explained yet again why we haven’t seen Half-Life 3 OrHalf-Life 2: Episode Three. Whichever. The next one with that beardo lad....
HomeNewsPredator: Hunting Grounds Predator: Hunting Grounds opens up for a free weekend of murderThe deadliest game The deadliest game The killing fields are open, team.Predator: Hunting Grounds’s free weekend kicked off last night, letting you skulk about a lush open forest full of heavily-armed soldiers, super-powered alien mercenaries, and enough mud to give Hollywood’s favourite muscle-man a mud bath three-times over - all without spending a penny. Since its announcement last May,Predator: Hunting Groundshas been rather reclusive - skulking, invisibly, skinning soldiers and learning how to emulate a child’s laughter....
HomeVideosUnspottable Unspottable challenges you to be a convincing NPCRobots in disguise Robots in disguise TheRPS VidBudshave put up a bunch of let’s plays as part ofRezzed Digital, as this year’s iteration of the usual Indies Uncovered stream, and they’ve already found some solid games in the pack. But one of the surprise standouts from the bunch, for me at least, isUnspottable. I hadn’t heard of Unspottable before, but after watching VidBud Matthew and Hardware Queen Katharine play together, I am both impressed and intrigued....
HomeNewsMordhau Big Mordhau update throws open the gates of Castello, a new mapEven sharper swordplay Even sharper swordplay With its latest update,Mordhauhas opened up a whole new castle for us to run around sticking swords into people. It’s good, based on the ten minutes I’ve spent being cut to pieces so far, but that’s not all that’s new. TheMountain’s Peak map has been expanded, ranked duels have left beta, there are new cosmetics, and the combat’s been tightened up in a bunch of ways I don’t understand....
HomeNewsFallout 76 Fallout 76’s Wastelanders update is delayed as Bethesda adapt to working from homeHuman NPCs in my Fallout? It’s less likely than you think! Human NPCs in my Fallout? It’s less likely than you think! “Like others around the world, we’re dealing with the critical situation that’s currently affecting some many of us and our communities. For the safety of everyone, we have transitioned to remote work, and are limiting our in-person interactions,“they tweeted....
HomeNewsFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Final Fantasy XIV is having a rent freeze even if your real landlord isn’tPack up the wrecking ball Pack up the wrecking ball Things are plenty uncertain enough with many folks' actual housing situation as they find themselves out of work while theCovid-19 coronavirusspreads. While you’ve got bigger real life concerns, at least you won’t need to spare a worry for your in game real estate....
