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HomeNewsCorruption 2029 Mutant Year Zero devs launch new tactics ‘em up Corruption 2029 today Only ten days after announcingCorruption 2029, The Bearded Ladies today launch their new tactical squad game. They’re the Swedish gang behindMutant Year Zero: Road To Eden, the splendid ‘XCOM meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R.’ post-apocalyptic tactics ‘em up. Corruption looks similar to MYZ in ways, also built upon real-time stealth that collapses into turn-based tactical violence, and that’s a strong foundation so I’m certainly game....

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Rainbow Six Siege’s fifth and sixth years will see reworks to loads of existing maps and operators TheRainbow Six SiegeInvitational took place over the weekend, teasing loads of new content and changes coming up in the next two years. Year 5 will see six new operators make their way to the game, as well as reworks to four old maps, while Year 6 is bringing reworks across the board for maps and gameplay alike....

HomeNewsThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Need something? WhenSkyrimNPCs absolutely will not stop standing on chairs, walking into walls, and getting generally confused about pathfinding their way around one loose cobblestone in the road, I usually just sigh and roll my eyes. They don’t know any better and they never will, I remind myself. Turns out, it’s a lot damn funnier when an actual human being does the same things with some panache and commitment to the role....

HomeNewsWolcen: Lords of Mayhem Wolcen’s servers are back online after a rocky launch weekend"We want to sincerely apologise for the inconvenience" “We want to sincerely apologise for the inconvenience” Over the weekend players flocked to the brand new Diablo-like action-RPGWolcen: Lords Of Mayhem(formerly known as Umbra), so many players in fact, that the servers couldn’t handle it and started deleting peoples' stuff. Over Saturday and Sunday the developers worked to get it all back in working order, reverting to a previous save so players could get back characters and quest progression that just started disappearing....

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Operation: Void Edge operators crash the Rainbow 6 test server tomorrowSmash, vanish, repeat Smash, vanish, repeat Rainbow Six Siegeis all about mind games. Baiting out attackers, creating false lines of attack, making sure the bad guys step into your crosshairs before you wander into theirs. Operation Void Edge’s two new Operators hit the public test server tomorrow, and approach deceptive play with two radically different visions....

HomeFeatures Priceless Play - 15 February 2020Cats for Valentine’s Day and a Valentine’s Day for Cats! Cats for Valentine’s Day and a Valentine’s Day for Cats! Well, gang, it’s the day after Valentine’s Day. The cynic’s Half-Price Chocolate Day, the romantic’s Intimacy Hangover day, and a day I will spend with my cat. Rather self-indulgently, I’d like to stake a claim in both the cynic’s campandthe romantic’s, though I don’t think my cat cares for either chocolate or long talks about the future of our relationship....

HomeNews Quantic Dream are going indie, will self-publish future gamesDo androids dream of Quantic sheep? Do androids dream of Quantic sheep? Long-time Sony mainstayQuantic Dreamhave gone fully independent. Thanks to the baffling success ofDetroit: Become Human, last year’s PC rereleases of their back catalogue, and ahandy bit of investment from NetEase, the French devs will self-publish their own games for the first time in their 23-year history. That probably also means that whatever high-budget, self-important, definitely-not-allegorical tale is brewing behind those locked Parisian doors will likely no longer be confined to PlayStation alone....

HomeFeatures Valentine’s Day events, squishing Dota smurfs, and more of the week’s game updatesRound ‘em up Round ‘em up This week, Valentine’s Day events spread love,Dota 2punished thousands of smurfs,Black Mesaentered final-final-near-final public testing, andHunt: Showdownadded matchmaking for random teams of threes. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update. Destiny 2 had a stumbling start to Crimson Days Hunt: Showdown added random teams of three Rather than have to play a threesie with your Steam pals, you can throw yourself into the system to find a team of randos....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Mind. Flayed. Evidence is mounting for aBaldur’s Gate 3release date getting announced before the month is out. Better yet, that drop date (if we do in fact get one) could be before 2020 ends. Larian have already teased, well, something happening in February. Larian’s CEO Swen Vincke’s been doing thevaguetweeting thing. Now, Google have accidentally slipped up, mentioningBaldur’s Gate 3on a list of Stadia games coming in 2020....

HomeNews Destiny 2 will stop making you get new armour every season to use new modsAnd we’ll get to change elemental affinity, for a cost And we’ll get to change elemental affinity, for a cost Some much-needed changes are coming toDestiny 2’s ‘Armour 2.0’ gear system next season to reduce grind, most notably (to me) opening up the seasonal mod slots to also accept armour mods from the previous season and the next....

HomeNews Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s full 5 minute intro movie is revealedA feature-length movie before the action A feature-length movie before the action TheFinal Fantasy VII Remakeis still about two months away—now scheduled for April 10th—but the marketing machine is spinning up and there’s no stopping it now. We still don’t knowfor sureif it’s coming to PC but frankly I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t wind up in our hands when the year-long PlayStation exclusivity ends in 2021....

HomeFeaturesKitty Powers' Love Life Have You Played… Kitty Powers' Love LifeLove is a drag Love is a drag Love Life is a standalone sequel to Kitty Powers' Matchmaker. In the latter you had to run a dating agency and engineer successful blind dates. In this, you move on to the next stage, as it were, as new couples move in together in a village under your control. Couples make friends, go on dates together, and come to relationship therapy sessions with you....

HomeNews Remedy are working on two new projects, and one is a live-service multiplayer gameCould this unannounced project be a new Alan Wake? Could this unannounced project be a new Alan Wake? Remedy Entertainment’s most recent financial report released today, and while most of it is full of business-y stuff that’s not particularly interesting, there are a few juicy tidbits telling us what the studio is working on. One of most exciting things theControlandMax Paynecreators mentioned is that they have two brand new games in early development: one they’ve yet to announce, and another they’re calling project Vanguard....