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HomeNews Dying Light: Bad Blood is now free if you own the original gameGrab yourself a free steam code right now Grab yourself a free steam code right now Dying Light’s battle royale spin-off,Bad Blood, is now available for free to anyone who owns the original game. Whether you play the original on PC, PS4 or Xbox One, you can claim a free Steam code for Bad Blood right now. This isn’t limited to current owners though, if you pick upDying Lighton any platform in the future you’ll be eligible for a free copy of Bad Blood too....

HomeNewsFrog Fractions Frog Fractions is getting a Game Of The Decade editionReady for some ribbeting game play Ready for some ribbeting game play As far as I’m aware, you don’t actually need to know any maths to playFrog Fractions. Twinbeard’s edutainment game spoof is very much not what it seems, and later this year you’ll be able to play a standalone remastered version in a new Game of the Decade edition....

HomeNews GTA Online and Red Dead Online are giving away free cash and gunsCRIMES CRIMES Across the next fortnight,GTA Onlineplayers can claim $2,000,000 of crimecash for free just for logging in, whileRed Dead Onlineplayers can scoop a free Bounty Hunter license as well as some free guns and ammo. Rockstar announced the freebies today while crowing about “another record-breaking holiday season” for both multiplayer modes, spaffing all sorts of claims against the digiwall....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Theme Park World?Welcome to Theme Park World! Welcome to Theme Park World! Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Also known as Theme Park 2, also know as Sim Theme Park. This game consumed my prepubescent years. That Theme Park World hasn’t received a gussy up and polish to sell on Steam or GOG is a genuine surprise to me, because it’s a smashing little management sim....

HomeFeaturesSpace Engineers I am proud of my ugly, humble creation in Space EngineersJoy of the rovers Joy of the rovers For reasons,Space Engineersgot its hooks into me last week. I had plans to fly around in space exploring, salvaging, and maybe pirating some rich jerks. But I started on a Mars-y orange planet (I am assured that Mars is not actually red, just its atmosphere), and had to get to space first....

HomeFeaturesTemtem Temtem? I hardly know him! Temtemis an early access game in which you trap and tame small creatures in magical cards, battle them against other tamers, and try to tame every variety ofTemtemon the strange archipelago where you live. If this sounds like it’s all a synonym for Pokémon that’s because it is: Temtem is Pokémon on PC. Except, well, there are loads of Autochess games and Battle Royale games, so fantasy dogfights can be a larger genre than one series, right?...

HomeFeaturesWarhammer Underworlds: Online Warhammer Underworlds: Online seems OK, I guessTake me turns, six underworlds Take me turns, six underworlds Warhammer Underworlds: Onlineis an adaptation of the tabletop game that its publisher Games Workshop calls a “tactical arena combat game”. That’s a fair summary, but I’m struggling to come up something more detailed that isn’t kind of negative. I’m finding it hard, to be brutally honest, to care about it much one way or the other....

HomeHardwareNewsDOOM Eternal Doom Eternal won’t have ray tracing for quite some timeHell no Hell no Bad news for anyone hoping to playDoom Eternalin all its real-time ray tracing glory when it comes out on March 20th, as id Software’s studio director Marty Stratton has confirmed that the team have only just started to look at what they can do with the fancy pants reflection tech. As a result, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that Doom Eternal will have ray tracing support at launch, and it could be several months before it’s eventually patched in....

HomeNewsApex Legends Respawn just bait and switched the next Apex Legends characterWho’s actually the next legend? Who’s actually the next legend? In the animated short released today, a reporter interviews Forge—the recently announced new legend for season 4—about his imminent entry to the Apex Games. Forge is pretty confident about his skills and dares any of the other legends to “bring the fight up close and personal.” Alright, here’s your chance to watch it before I tell you what happens....

HomeNewsRocket League Rocket League ending Mac and Linux support because they represent “less than 0.3%” of active players"We’re sorry for the frustration this has caused" “We’re sorry for the frustration this has caused” Image credit:Psyonix Image credit:Psyonix Last week,Psyonix revealedthey’re going to stop supportingRocket Leagueon Mac and Linux, ending the ability to use any of the online functions on those platforms. They explained that it was “no longer viable” to support Mac and Linux as they continued to upgrade the game with “new technologies”....

HomeNewsStar Wars: Knights of The Old Republic Rumour: Knights Of The Old Republic is coming backPlz be true Plz be true Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republicwas the first big boy game I played, so the possibility that people are working on a remake/sequel/some sort of sequelley remake does make me go a bit tingly. One of the two tipsters claiming to be in the know has been right about Star Wars goss before, and they say it’s a straight up remake....

HomeFeaturesWattam The joy of harmless griefing in WattamThe several stages of griefing The several stages of griefing Which brings me to Wattam, a game of action, exploration and puzzles, and like Untitled Goose Game, it’s an offline game that could be viewed as a microcosm of online spaces. Think of each of Wattam’s sandbox islands as a server and the hundred-odd objects around the world as its users. While the core of Wattam is about building connections with each other, it’s also about explosions and poops, sometimes at the same time....

HomeReviewsJourney To The Savage Planet Wot I Think: Journey To The Savage PlanetBug-eyed moansters Bug-eyed moansters Release:January 28thOn:WindowsFrom:Epic Games StorePrice:£21/$30/€30 My clone wakes up in the hell pod for the dozenth time, and I am immediately desperate to leave. Martin Tweed, proud president of the universe’s 4th best space exploration company, yells at me from inside a cheesy company FMV memo. The ship’s computer lectures me about our dwindling supplies of resurrection goop....