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HomeNews World of Warcraft is doubling all XP gains to keep its players indoorsDouble trouble Double trouble We all get those urges from time to time. You’re stuck at home, the PC’s right there. Surely it’s time to start up anotherWorld of Warcraftcharacter, right? Unfortunately, that temptation might be harder to resist this month. As an incentive for staying indoors and infection-free, Blizzard have let loose the Winds of Wison, an 100% experience boost for every Azerothian adventurer ‘til April 20th....

HomeNewsMortal Kombat (1992) Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition has been knocked off SteamFatality Fatality Mortal Kombathas suffered a Fatality. At the behest of publishers Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment,Mortal Kombat: Komplete Editionhas been quietly removed from Steam. With no public statement to on, rumour has it that the 2011 beat ‘em up’s removal might have something to do with rights regarding a certain sharp-fingered 80s dream demon. Almost a decade after release, theSteam listingfor Mortal Kombat’s 2011 reboot now notes that, “at the request of the publisher, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition is no longer available for sale on Steam” (cheers,VG247)....

HomeFeatures Resident Evil 3 has a demo, coronavirus happenings, and more of the week’s big newsRead all about it! Read all about it! This week,Resident Evil 3’s remake got a demo, the industry is still adjusting to the ongoing pandemic, and loads of good games are cheap or free to help occupy you in this difficult time. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and do also check outthe Weekly Updates Updatefor the week’s big patches....

HomeNews The Stanley Parable and Watch Dogs are this week’s Epic Games Store freebiesFreebies! Getcha freebies! Freebies! Getcha freebies! Hell, Nathan Greyson’sThe Stanley Parable reviewis an all-timer, too. In lieu of dropping a nice wordy quote here, I’ll let you click over and take it in for yourself. Enjoy. Watch Dogsthe first is certainly a videogame from Ubisoft, as Graham wrote in hisWatch Dogs review. Hailing from peak fatigue with Ubi’s open-world tower climbers, it had some neat ideas regarding hackable environments....

HomeFeatures Warzone solos, Stellaris diplomacy, and more of the week’s big patchesPatch me up, doc Patch me up, doc This week, Call Of Duty: Warzone added solos mode,Stellarisoverhauled diplomacy alongside its Federations expansion,Overwatch’s next character hit the test servers, and Teamfight Tactics launched a mobile version with PC crossplay. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update. Call Of Duty: Warzone introduced Solos mode Squads?...

HomeNews Four whole sexy games made Steam’s top new releases in FebruaryFebruary was hot, folks February was hot, folks Right out of the oven, here are the hottest new games on Steam from February and boy they are hot indeed. Put those games on the cooling rack and open a window, will you? Games with “sexual content,” (in the parlance of professional business speak) do occasionally crack the list of top selling new games but four is quite a feat....

HomeFeaturesBookbound Brigade Have You Played… Bookbound Brigade?It’s clobberin' time! It’s clobberin' time! Bookbound Brigadeis a fun little game that came out in January, about a super-team of literary characters hopping through various books together to save their collective world. It borrows a lot from the near-ubiquitous Metroid formula, including non-linear levels, upgrades that need to be found, and tons of backtracking. I particularly like the mechanic wherein different group formations give the brigade alternative fighting techniques, movement speeds and the like....

HomeFeaturesMy Work Is Not Yet Done How a would-be priest explores the horror of God in videogamesGod from the machine God from the machine “There was this kind of immense presence passing over me - the overwhelming terror that the sea was reaching out to devour me, each dark wave lurching closer and closer; or maybe it was the sensation of the sky looming over me, the clouds shifting and rapidly descending to crush me beneath their weight - and I felt completely immobilised....

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Play Rainbow Six Siege’s new Golden Gun arcade mode this weekend onlyOne shot one kill One shot one kill If you’ve played more standard rounds ofRainbow Six Siegesince self-isolating than your blood pressure can bear, there’s a new playlist on the block to change things up. Ubisoft have introduced Siege’s first Arcade mode and it’s got the feel of goofing about with cheats for 007 on the Nintendo 64 an eon ago....

HomeNews Tomb Raider is 100% off, yes free, until MondayWho raids the raider? Who raids the raider? Welcome to the free games website where we tell you about all the games that are free. Here’s another game that is (temporarily) free:Tomb Raider. Unlike the many demos and temporarily free to try games flying about right now, Tomb Raider is actually free to keep if you add it to your Steam account this weekend....

HomeHardwareNews What the heck is DirectX 12 Ultimate and what does it mean for PC gaming?X marks the spot, I tell ya X marks the spot, I tell ya Microsoft announced a new version of DirectX 12 yesterday, which is the bit of tech that allows games and other types of software to work with your PC’s audio and video hardware. Dubbed DirectX 12 Ultimate, Microsoft are calling it “the best graphics technology [they’ve] ever introduced” and have declared it “future-proof” for next generation games thanks to its built-in support for ray tracing, variable rate shading, mesh shaders and other techy bits....

HomeFeatures 35,000 people are watching Age Of Empires 2 right now, and it’s greatBad Neighbour 3:16 Bad Neighbour 3:16 Twenty one years after its original release, RTS classicAge Of Empires 2is finally, improbably, coming into its own as an esport. There’s been a competitive AoE2 scene ever since 1999, but in the last couple of years, and particularly since the release of theDefinitive Editionin November, it seems to have blown up somewhat....

HomeFeaturesDeath And Taxes Death And Taxes lets you not think about the value of lifeThe big standing desk in the sky The big standing desk in the sky Death And Taxesis a fun little balancing act, reminiscent ofPapers, Please. It doesn’t quite reach the lofty heights of Lucas Pope’s excellence in that border crossing simulator, but is nevertheless a good experience in its own right. You play as a newly created (and customisable) Grim Reaper, in a world where death is a bean-counting job in an office....