Featured Articles

Have you ever found a lost phone? If you're not a complete wrong 'un your first instinct was likely to find some way to reunite it with it's owner. But there's another urge, bubbling away just under the surface of your otherwise squeaky clean sense of morality. It's okay, you can admit it: You sort of wanted to take a peek. It's only natural.

Tagged with Accidental Queens, Dear Villagers, feature, Have You Played, A Normal Lost Phone.

So, as you might already know, there is another big Minecraft update on the way - version 1.17, a.k.a "Caves & Cliffs". As the name suggests, it's going to be focusing on the underground (with a lesser focus on mountains and such), and that's welcome news for long-time players. Especially since the Nether, Minecraft's weirdo hell dimension, got a makeover in version 1.16, it's become…

Tagged with feature, Microsoft, Mojang Studios, Minecraft.

I promise, the fact that Doug Cockle (voice of Geralt of Rivia) voices the eponymous Victor Vran is not the only reason I am recommending this game to you. Though, admittedly it is a large part of the recommendation.

Tagged with EuroVideo Medien, feature, Haemimont Games, Have You Played, Victor Vran.

We are now but a month out from the release of Cyberpunk 2077. The massive action RPG finally landed on a November 19th launch date after a couple of delays (any further chance of a date push having apparently been, itself, pushed by developers CD Projekt rolling back their "no mandatory crunch" policy). Not that we've been bereft of Cyberpunk content in the meantime. In…

Tagged with CD Projekt Red, feature, Cyberpunk 2077.

The year is 1937, and you've just woken up in a crashed plane in the middle of a desert. You're not some sort of Indiana Jones-esque film though, I'm afraid, you're in a horror game - Amnesia: Rebirth, to be exact. It's the new survival horror from Frictional Games, the team behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma, and it's out today.How can the horror…

Tagged with Frictional Games, interview, Amnesia: Rebirth, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, SOMA.

As the nights draw ever closer, and the windows of the local Tesco grow ever more pumpkiny, I have been burrowing into blankets, putting a hot water bottle on my feetsies (because we don't want to turn on the heating yet) and wallowing in some classic scares. But I have found this harder to do with games. Most games are, obviously, a very interactive experience,…

Tagged with Electronic Arts, feature, Halloween, Maxis, The Sims 4.

From Nuka Cola and Tediore to Umbrella Corp and Spacer's Choice, video games are full of fictional products and brands. Some are narrowly dodging trademark infringement, some have full lines of products with distinct style, some are jokes, and some have complex in-fiction histories. Reader dear, which is your favourite and why? Mine is a cat food.

Tagged with RPS asks.

Wheelman is a game in which Vin Diesel rampages around Barcelona in an assortment of beefed-up muscle cars. It came out at around the same time as 50 Cent: Bulletproof. I can only assume Vin played it and grunted "I can do that" through a mouthful of six-dozen eggs.

Tagged with feature, Have You Played, Midway, Ubisoft, Vin Diesel: Wheelman.

In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla you’ll be in charge of building a Settlement (with a capital S) called Ravensthorpe for your comrades, which’ll act as a base of operations and somewhere to relax post axe throw. When you first invade England you’ll start small with a few folks in tents, but as you progress and invest in its development, it’s meant to expand into a thriving…

Tagged with feature, Ubisoft, Ubisoft Montreal, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Donut County is like Katamari Damacy, but tidier. Instead of rolling everything up into an ever-increasing ball of mess, you're sucking everything underground until the surface is bare. As an expanding hole, you eat bricks, chairs, cars, until eventually you're able to gobble up entire houses. And who doesn't love some tasty brickwork for their tea?

Tagged with Annapurna Interactive, Ben Esposito, feature, Have You Played, Donut County.

If days were centimetres the sequel to this site's favourite tactics game of 2014 would be about this far away (I'm holding my hands out in front of me like a person illustrating the leg span of the largest giant huntsman spider ever recorded). Poke your spycam under yonder jump and you'll spot an interview with Door Kickers 2's designer, Dan Dimitrescu, plus a blow-by-blow account…

Tagged with Dan Dimitrescu, interview, KillHouse Games, The Flare Path, Door Kickers, Door Kickers 2.

Hoplite has been an instant install on any new phone I buy since before I'd left university. It's an unassuming turn-based roguelite where you play as a Hoplite deftly moving from enemy to enemy, from tiny map to tiny map, in search of a Golden Fleece. It's also the first thing that comes to mind when I try to dredge up a list of games…

Tagged with Douglas Cowley, feature, Have You Played, Hoplite, Magma Fortress, Hoplite.

Autumn. Nature renews itself. Green shades turn to warm reds. The air gets chiller, the days get shorter. Kids return to school. Columns come and go. Games journalists become narrative designers. It's the circle of life.But autumn is also the season when the laws of nature gets tweaked, and the dead wake up again to haunt the living for a day. Let's salute this column…

Tagged with A Panel Shaped Screen, Comics, interview, Kieron Gillen, Kieron's ghost.

Yesterday Nate observed that he is increasingly becoming a single issue voter and that single issue is "beasts". This week, therefore, the podcast is about the best dinosaur games. There is, of course, some haggling over what constitutes a dinosaur (does it include all birds and some robots?).Expect a lot of discussion of various incarnations of Jurassic Park, as you might expect. There is also…

Tagged with #BigOats, #FatBlood, feature, Podcast.

I've not posted about Age Of Empires 2 in a while, because there's been a lot of other things on, but I'm still plugging away with it - I start each day with a quick random match against the AI to keep my hand in, and once a week or so, I dare to enter the adrenaline-soaked APM hell of ranked multiplayer. I lose more…

Tagged with Diary, feature, Forgotten Empires, Nate gets good at AoE2, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch, Xbox Game Studios, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.

I was always fairly lukewarm on the lore behind Blizzard's Warcraft games, if I'm honest. It seemed to be a case of "all shoulderpads and no substance", and I couldn't get why it gripped people so much. But then I got into Hearthstone. For whatever reason, the card game's take on the Warcraftiverse, which somehow manages to ascend to an even higher plateau of camp…

Tagged with Blizzard Entertainment, feature, Hearthstone.