It also hides a spring of immortality, and you’ll need to sterelise a path to it for Wiggy Silverbottom, a courageous explorer whose only weakness is germs. Pebberley Island looks like a perfect spot for a holiday, what with its lovely beaches, interesting ruins and the promise of immortality. I’m not sure if immortality is really a good thing if you depend on cash from sick people. Eternal life means you get your patients for a lot longer, but if they don’t need to worry about dying, do they re

Apex Legends only launched a month ago and has already been played by 50 million people, according to Respawn’s Vince Zampella. Thank you to the 50 million players that have shown up in the first month since Apex Legends launched! It took Fortnite a fortnight to hit 10 million players, and even after 16 weeks, it didn’t boast 50 million players. Fortnite also didn’t launch in a finished state, while Apex Legends is a complete, polished game. While Apex Legends is rapidly catching up to Epic’s be

Obsidian’s Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky dropped a ton of new details for The Outer Worlds on The Game Informer Show recently, teasing a survival mode and chatting about gear customisation, companions, character progression and lots more. The Outer Worlds will offer a few different modes, letting you choose a difficulty that fits your playstyle, whether you just want to enjoy the story or you want a hardcore challenge. While survival and crafting are often conflated, The Outer Worlds won’t send

Smite, the god-battering MOBA, has added another deity to its massive roster: Jormungandr, the mythical Norse World Serpent. He cuts through the battlefield like he’s swimming, diving across the map and doing massive damage with his ultimate. Because he’s a big snake popping out of the ground, knockbacks affect him differently, dazing him instead of moving him. The World Serpent, it turns out, has terrible oral hygiene. Frankly, he’s a bit terrifying, especially since Smite is a rare third-perso

Capcom has detailed what time long-awaited action game sequel Devil May Cry 5 will go live across the world. 8th UTC (+0) 0:00am, midnight London・Mar. 8th UTC (+0), London 5:00am・Mar. We’ve previously been very positive on Devil May Cry 5, with Tom calling it “an exceptional return” for the series. Reboot DmC: Devil May Cry was released back in 2013.

Despite the impending launch of Total War: Three Kingdoms, there are still plenty of reasons to return to the older games, especially Medieval 2 and its multitude of total conversion mods. Total War: Dragon Age is the latest attempt to turn BioWare’s fantasy realm into grand strategy romp, and so far it looks very promising. Expect heroes, magic and scripted events like Blights, the Mage-Templar War and the Breach to crop up while you play. Playing these smaller factions might be trickier becaus

Oikospiel, which is on our list of the best indie games you can play on PC, is celebrating its second birthday by going free to keep for the whole of March. It’s about a group of dogs making a video game dog opera, and it doubles as a satirical critique of the game industry’s labor practices. “Play as a German Shepherd named Pluto and explore the enchanted climates of planet Earth and the asteroid 433 Eros. The soundtrack is majestic, and reacts to your actions: it’s composed by David Kanaga, wh

Back in 2014, Chris said team-based stealth shooter Intruder reminded him “of the golden age of Half-Life 1 modding”. Five years later, the game has come a long way—but it still needs extra polish, which is why developer Superboss Games is finally sending it into Steam Early Access. Currently, Intruder offers four official maps, plus many more created by users via the built-in level editor. There are only four weapons, but Superboss plans to add more, as well as more maps and gadgets, during Ear

The latest Humble Monthly Bundle is one of the best I’ve seen in a while. For just $12, you can pick up Viking RTS Northgard, multiplayer fighting game Absolver and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, the tactical XCOM-like with anthropomorphic pigs and ducks. It’s a blend of RPG and fighting game in which you level up your character as you throw down, gaining strength, stamina and better equipment. Tyler called it the “most stylish, layered fighting game” of 2017, and a free expansion last year add

We learned earlier this week that Respawn’s upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be revealed in April at Star Wars Celebration. I can’t say 100% b/c of NDAs, but the ones I can say: I just finished up work with Jedi: The Fallen Order – and beyond that, there’s another big bomb dropping in a month! If Avellone’s involvement means similar things for Fallen Order, it’s a promising sign. I don’t know. Update: Avellone’s LinkedIn page confirms that he did in fact work with Respawn from February

Six months after an in-depth Kotaku report revealed a pervasive “bro culture” at League of Legends studio Riot Games, the company has hired Angela Roseboro, formerly of Dropbox, as its first Chief Diversity Officer. Riot posted an update on “Diversity, Inclusion, and Riot Culture” earlier this week, detailing the efforts it’s made so far to improve its workplace culture. Prior to joining Riot, Roseboro served a similar role at Dropbox as the company’s Global Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclus

These sounds repeat again and again until you finally identify the source: Somehow, Steam’s music player (you didn’t even know it had one, did you?) is randomly playing sound effects from horror classic Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Above: A video of Steam playing a Franklin D. Roosevelt speech. For years now, players have been complaining about a bug that causes Steam to automatically start playing random sound files loaded into its music library. The only way to be safe is to follow one redditor’

Still haven’t got the One-Eyed Mask to drop? A small but significant change coming to Destiny 2 in next week’s Season of the Drifter will see Xur, the weekend vendor better known to the community as “that snake-faced bastard”, begin selling Exotic items from the Forsaken expansion. Xur, Agent of the Nine “My will is not my own.” It also ensures that Xur will have some utility again, having been largely useless throughout Forsaken because he only sold the old gear, which many players had already

Mass Effect Andromeda was to most players a disappointment, with its planned DLC never seeing the light of day. BioWare’s games have always been changing. Mass Effect was arguably the last big transition, an RPG shaped primarily for shooter players during an era dominated by Gears of War—its second and third entries more so. To fans of the cRPGs that made its name, Dragon Age: Origins probably felt like the last gasp of a previously PC-focused studio. But I hope I’ll someday play another BioWare

Objects in Space is unlike most space sims. Frontier’s space sim might let you sit back and enjoy the galaxy unfolding before you, but Objects in Space exchanges fancy space scenery for utilitarian rooms full of screens and machinery. There’s a lot to manage and a lot of ways for things to go wrong, leaving you stranded in space. It feels more like a real place than the cockpit of most space sims. Objects in Space is out on Steam and GOG now.

Bloodthirsty top-down shooter God’s Trigger pairs an angel with a demon as they attempt to halt the apocalypse by killing their way into Heaven. Joe got into some shootouts a while back—give his God’s Trigger hands-on a read—and compared it to a co-op Hotline Miami, which frankly sounds brilliant. Harry and Judy, the angel and demon, have different strengths and weaknesses, as well as unique weapons. The best co-op partner was inside you all along. God’s Trigger is due out on April 18.

Freedom Finger is a space shoot ’em up where you pilot an angry fist as it tears across the galaxy. Watch the trailer above. It can beat enemies up in melee combat, punching, grabbing and tossing them around, and when it flips the bird, it fires bullets. You can enhance it with power-ups, and the trailer shows off a few different projectiles. Freedom Finger is due out this year.

Update: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered has vanished from the PEGI website, but you can see what was originally posted below. Original story: The rumoured Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 remaster has appeared on PEGI’s website . It’s yet to be officially announced, but getting a rating from PEGI is a pretty good indicator that it’s coming. Details are sparse, and the listing is specifically for the campaign and only mentions PS4 and a February 28 release date, which has come and gone. C

Back in October of last year, Cooler Master took to Kickstarter to crowdfund a 24-key control pad with built-in Aimpad support for precision control. Now three months later, it’s launched a entire gaming keyboard with pressure-sensitive keys. Cooler Master’s new MK850 (not to be confused with Logitech’s MK850 keyboard and mouse combo) is an analog plank that uses Cherry MX key switches capable of sensing the entire 4mm range of a key press. By implementing pressure-sensitive input into a keyboar

The Sinking City is a peculiar place, today’s new trailer reaffirms. You’re going to need to figure everything out for yourself, the trailer boasts. It’s all a bit Sherlock Holmes, which isn’t surprising given that Frogwares has been making Sherlock Holmes adventure games for more than a decade. It looks like a few of the systems from the latest entries have made their way over to The Sinking City. Originally due out on March 21, The Sinking City seems to have been delayed, with the release date