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HomeNews Nab board games Carcassonne and Ticket To Ride free from the Epic Game StoreWe’ve got a ticket to ride, and we care We’ve got a ticket to ride, and we care Board games don’t belong on computers. They’re a refuge from the screens that bore into our eyeballs and our lives, a chance to bask in the musky glow of fleshy humans. But sometimes those humans are far away, and sometimes stores give digitised board games away for free....

HomeNewsMonster Hunter: World Resident Evil 2 invades Monster Hunter: World in today’s updateGrindin' for brains Grindin' for brains Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand. An unseasonable scare has descended uponMonster Hunter: World. Yes, this month’s free Iceborne update adds a honking great new monster to slay, the beefy horned Rajang. But it also heralds the arrival of an undead plague upon the land. The Raccoon City Collaboration has commenced, bringingResident Evil 2’s hordes and heroes to the deadly safari until March 6th....

HomeFeaturesSurviving the Aftermath Surviving The Aftermath… of the early access city builder crazeThey are billions (early access city builders, that is) They are billions (early access city builders, that is) It’s been three and a half months since Paradox Interactive announced - and simultaneously released into early access - post-apocalyptic city builderSurviving The Aftermath. And while I still haven’t worked out whether I think the game’s experimental development plan was a good idea or not, I can certainly respect how developer Iceflake Studios, and their publisher, are sticking to their guns....

HomeDeals All aboard Humble’s new Train Simulator 2020 bundleJust the ticket Just the ticket Humble’s Europa Universalis bundlehas now returned to the game bundle depot, but the good news is that a brand-new bundle has just pulled into Humble Station to take its place. That’s right. It’s time to fast track your way into the locomotive world ofTrain Simulator 2020, where you can get the main game plus four add-on packs for a single US dollar (about 80p), or all that plus 12 more add-on packs for the top price of $12 / £10....

HomeNewsFallout 76 Fallout 76 coming to Steam in April alongside new NPC updateHere come the Wastelanders Here come the Wastelanders Update: Hi there, it’s me, the idiot who somehow thought we were in April. This month is, in fact, February. How is it only February. All this will happen on April 7th, not February 7th. Is it really still only February? After fifteen months exclusive to Bethesda’s own store on PC,Fallout 76has now finalised a Steam launch date of April 7th - also the launch day for Wastelanders, the update adding factions of human NPCs....

HomeNewsFortnite Fortnite’s new event mode is basically Counter-StrikeClassic attack and defense, but “Fortnite-ified” Classic attack and defense, but “Fortnite-ified” It’s time for another one of those limited timeFortniteevents and (if you hadn’t heard) it’s currently February so Epic have gone with a Valentine’s sort of theme with the title Love And War. As it do with Fortnite events, there’s a new game mode to try out and new themed costumes to buy as well....

HomeFeatures See that yellow caged duck in the top-left corner there? We call her Big Birdie. And sooner or later, Big Birdie is going to find you, and make you pay for what you’ve done. The first eight levels of marvellous eight-bit platformer Chuckie Egg are, in many ways, a villain’s origin story. Big Birdie, a duck with a chequered past that has resulted in her incarceration in the aforementioned cage, is forced to watch as a rotund gluttonous egg-sucker (the player) weaves and jumps from platform to platform, evades the blue guard-birds patrolling each level, and steals all of Big Birdie’s eggs before her very eyes....

HomeNewsFlorence Monument Valley designer’s visual novel Florence comes to PC next weekFall in love with a busker and see what the future holds Fall in love with a busker and see what the future holds “At 25, Florence Yeoh feels a little stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media,” the blurb says. “Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world....

HomeNewsOoblets Ooblets might actually arrive this year, developers hintNow featuring “sea-dangling” Now featuring “sea-dangling” How long has it been since I first saw gifs ofOoblets—those goofy critters trundling around town behind their awkwardly dancing human friend? RPS first posted about this cute little town simthree years ago. So probably about then, I’d say. I thought it might arrive in 2018. I had hope for 2019 too. According to Glumberland’s development update for January, “2020 is the YEAR OF THE OOB....

HomeNews Rockstar co-founder and head writer Dan Houser is leavingHe co-wrote almost every Rockstar hit He co-wrote almost every Rockstar hit After 21 years as a Rockstar Games big cheese, Dan Houser will leave the company in March. He’s co-written almost every Rockstar game since 1999, includingGrand Theft Autofrom London through to V, Bully,Max Payne 3, and the Red Dead Redemptions. That’s made him a big influence on the tone of Rockstar’s games....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves players hosted a fashion showCatwalk the plank Catwalk the plank A FrenchSea Of Thievesoutfit called L’Arche Du Grog eschewed the call of booty to host the first major fashion event of the seasonearlier this week. Players joined together to showcase their outfits, but in terms of style and personality rather than price tag. They “had to walk and emote creatively according to the themes”, as you can see in the below video....

HomeGuidesTemtem Temtem Skail: location, how to evolve, and why you shouldn’t use it In the first few areas ofTemtem, there are small rodent-like creates called Skail. They appear rather often, making it tempting to see if it could be a new member of your Temtem team. This, however, should not happen, because Skail are rather useless. Temtem Skail guide In thisSkail guidefor Temtem, I will be showing you where to find your first Skail, as well as explaining why you need not bother using it as a new Temtem tamer....

HomeNewsMinecraft The first snapshot of Minecraft’s Nether Update is playable todayThe Nether gets an actual glowup The Nether gets an actual glowup Last year,Mojang announcedthat a big overhaul was planned for the hellish Nether dimension inMinecraft. The first playable look at that update has landed today in a game snapshot that Java Edition players can access through their launcher. There’s a lot to look through already, including spooky new trees, stronger armor, and creepy music....