But after spending a few hours squashing demons, spiders and warlocks in Pagan Online, my scepticism has been eased. I like that you’ll be able to jump into Pagan Online and make progress in the story even if you only have 20 minutes spare. The MOBA-inspired heroes are another way Pagan Online tries to stand out. Speaking of loot, you’ll be pleased to hear that Pagan Online has buckets of it spilling out of every enemy. I’m not fully sold on the ‘Online’ bit of Pagan Online yet.

Several Fortnite lawsuits have been dropped, but seemingly only temporarily. The law firm representing 2 Milly, Backpack Kid and Orange Shirt Kid, among others, announced that their clients were dismissing their current lawsuits, but only so they can refile them. A U.S. Supreme Court decision has changed how people can file copyright lawsuits. “Our Fortnite and NBA 2K cases were filed under the previous standard, with our applications pending before the Copyright Office at the time we filed our

The fruits of their recent labours are numerous, from the possible addition of wall running to more evidence of NPCs. LEAK: Also there’s a Night Mode is development. (via @AustinScriver)#ApexLegends #Apex #Apexlegendsbattleroyale #Apexlegendsleaks #ApexPartner #apexlegendsclips pic.twitter.com/5DhdqR8MvGMarch 8, 2019Next to mechs, wall running is probably the feature from Titanfall that I miss the most. According to datamined details received by Gaming Intel, wall running could be coming to the

Jump Force already has characters in it from Dragon Ball, Bleach, My Hero Academia, and Naruto, so why not Halo as well? That must be the thinking behind this mod, created by The Onifox, which makes Master Chief a playable fighter. The opening cinematic looks ridiculous but then, this is Jump Force—they always look ridiculous even when they don’t feature Master Chief standing around like an action figure from the wrong set. The voice lines were edited in for this video—sadly the original mod doe

Wii U emulator Cemu was able to run The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild shortly after the game’s release, but just being able to run something isn’t enough for modders. The most obvious difference is the removal of cel-shading, which is a divisive choice. I think it gives it more of a Twilight Princess look, but I did like the original style. The UI’s stretched to fit widescreen, but apparently that’s not a problem at most resolutions. If you want to have a look at some of the stranger thing

Beginning on March 19 and lasting for a week, Fallout 76 players will get to experience its first seasonal event. Enemies will need to be cleared from the route, decorations chosen, and music played. The parade will end with a burning of Old Man Winter in effigy, but the festivities will attract even more enemies. The more marching protectrons players protect, the more loot they’ll earn at the end of the event, including creepy masks like those in the screenshot above. Over on their blog Bethesd

The Epic Games Launcher store has a search function now. This may seem like the kind of thing you’d expect it to have right from the start, but as Sergey Galyonkin explained on Twitter, “We launched with three games, there was no need to enable search”. Now there are slightly more than three games on the Epic Launcher—though still not as many as its competitors, of course—and so it has a search function. Galyonkin adds that “Once we have more games, we’ll add more features, including pages”, as

Vignettes, one of my favorite mobile games, is now out on PC—and it’s a “reworked” version of the original with “numerous improvements and previously unreleased content”. It’s a very light puzzle game in which you rotate colorful objects, and as you pull them around they’ll change shape. For example, when you stand a fire hydrant on its end so that you can only see one color, it morphs into a garbage can. Rotate the garbage can at the right angle and it will transform into a curled-up cat. At $7

The developers of typing game/RPG hybrid Epistory have announced that the sequel, called Nanotale, will be out on PC in the second half of this year. You’ll take control of a novice archivist called Rosalind, who’s collecting plant samples and cataloging mysterious goings-on to try and saving a dying planet. Epistory, which came out in 2016, was very well-received, and has “overwhelmingly positive” user reviews on Steam, so I have high hopes for Nanotale. Hopefully that includes an adaptive diff

The first alpha for ambitious MMO Ashes of Creation, which has plans for huge cities and a player-led government, has been delayed past this summer, developer Intrepid Studios has announced. The team has not decided a new date for Alpha One, but the delay will last “months”, creative director Steven Sharif said. During that time, Intrepid will work on the game’s performance and netcode, testing of 200-player castle sieges, new animations and improved art. It follows a beta for Ashes of Creation

The latest patch for open-world survival game Scum adds new areas to the world map, including an extensive underground coal mine and 24 islands off the coast of the main island. Those new islands are bare for now, “but with time interesting things will pop up on them for you to find”, the dev team said in the patch notes. The underground portion of the coal mine is empty too, but the devs have said that it will be filled soon. The patch also adds the lever-action M1887 shotgun, which fires 12 ga

Worlds Adrift, built using Improbable’s SpatialOSImprobable, the creator of multiplayer-focused cloud platform SpatialOS, has opened two game studios to build its own online multiplayer games. The Edmonton studio already has 50 staff working on Improbable’s first game, built using SpatialOS, and the studio is headed by Aaryn Flynn, the former Bioware general manager who joined Improbable last year. The London studio, which will be a mix of new hires and existing Improbable staff, will be lead by

Multiplayer swordfighting game Blade Symphony has gone free-to-play. Unfortunately, the game has been flooded with negative reviews since the change. The user reviews from the last 30 days are “mostly negative”, and just 30% of users posted a positive review compared with 70% in the game’s five-year life span. But Puny Human has its work cut out to please its new players and fix bugs. The free-to-play update also added 48 new items and rebuilt the popular Castle map, Puny Human said in the Steam

In the new trailer for Shenmue 3 we see protagonist Ryo Hazuki seek out a wise old master, who is having a drink in the woods, and persuade him to impart his wisdom. There’s a training montage and some combat, with a lot of kicking and sliding around to dodge. This is work in progress footage of course, shown at the Magic 2019 convention in France. It’s having the desired effect on fans, with a bunch of reaction videos already appearing on YouTube. If you’re a bit baffled by all this hype, maybe

The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Adventure was a short and adorable experience that made our list of underrated games from 2018. It was all about talking to animal people and solving simple puzzles while chilling to piano tunes and generally having a nice time. Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard, will be out later this year. The trailer makes it look like a similar balance of whimsy and gentle spookiness only this time there’s a lion, a zebra, and a rhino among the animals in

Nero Combo with DT. Devil Bringer Knuckle is amazing for this character loool pic.twitter.com/ODRFmLbCZcMarch 9, 2019Devil May Cry 5 has been out less than 48 hours but players are already pulling off combos that, even to an untrained eye like mine, are completely wild. It’s not perfect but I feel like turbo mode will help out a lot. pic.twitter.com/A0Cat9YMLQMarch 9, 2019stuff from stream pic.twitter.com/tx4I2XlqtiMarch 8, 2019As some users have commented under those clips, they’re enough to ma

Action-RPG Grim Dawn’s long-awaited Forgotten Gods expansion—which will add a new story chapter, an endless game mode and hundreds of items—will be out on March 27, developer Crate Entertainment has revealed. The meaty expansion adds a new story chapter set in a desert outside the bounds of the Erulan Empire, and your task is to “battle alongside the Witch God cults to vanquish the rising threat of a forgotten god”. Forgotten Gods adds a new class mastery, extra mobility skills including telepor

The Epic Games Store’s next freebie will be Oxenfree, the dead-good adventure game about a group of teenagers who disturb something dark and mysterious on a remote island. The game will be free to keep for two weeks from March 21. The latest free game on the Epic Games Store, Slime Rancher, is available to grab for free right now. There are plenty of reasons you should pick up Oxenfree: its coming-of-age tale is one of the best stories in PC gaming, and it remains one of the top 100 games on PC.

The next season of Rainbow Six Siege will add two new operators: one Danish, one from the United States Secret Service. We don’t know much about them yet but a new leak, from a seemingly reputable source, might have revealed some of their abilities. According to the leak, first posted on Resetera, the Danish attacker will be “invisible to cameras” and will have a “sort of silent step similar to Cav”—a reference to Caveira’s ability to make her movements near-silent for a period of time. The desc

Hidetaka Miyazaki, the creator of Dark Souls and president of developer From Software, has said he would “love to take a crack at” making both a battle royale and a regularly-updated “live service” game, a la Destiny and Anthem. But don’t worry: From Software is still keen on singleplayer games, such as its upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. While Devil May Cry 5 has some online elements, it’s coming out two weeks before our game,” he said. Regardless of what From Software is doing, we need peo