On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. CrossCodeSteam pageRelease: September 21Developer: Radical Fish GamesPrice: $19.99CrossCode is a gorgeous action RPG styled after 16-bit era classics, boasting “around 30-80 hours” of gameplay, according to studio Radical Fish Games. The Gardens BetweenSteam pageRelease: September 20Developer: The Voxel AgentsPrice: $19.99The Gardens Between follows Arina and Frendt as they adventure through “vibrant, dreamlike island gardens” sol

Chris Livingston tried out yet another battle royale game, this time Tencent’s free-to-play variation on the theme which is set in the snow. It’s also got a terrible name, the forgettable Ring of Elysium, but Chris fortunately suggested one much better: Royale with Skis. Sam also played a super-short horror game called September 1999, which you can apparently finish in just over five minutes. It’s an avoid-em-up, the kind of game where you navigate mazes while trying not to touch the sides. What

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Homeworld Developer: RelicYear: 1999Strategy games aren’t typically sentimental. Its trailer set an oddly somber mood, with spaceships flying around not to some bombastic action theme, but Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. And then, with nowhere to go but onward, embark on the long journey to reclaim what was once yours. This is a moment of regret, of catastrophe, of remorse, all sold with th

She writes, “I, unfortunately, like most of you, do not have the details on how this all came to be and I also do not know the fate of the final season of TWD. To my knowledge, they will release Episode 2 and then that will be it.” “Our sources say The Walking Dead Final Season is set to end after the second episode launches next week”, they wrote. The second episode of the season, which was apparently completed before the closure was announced, is due for release on September 25. According to a

I mean, they did, but in the original Resident Evil 2 they were largely identifiable by some wild haircuts and colorful clothing. In that way, 2019’s Resident Evil is less of a remake and more of an adaptation. Some may consider it heresy, but the over-the-shoulder camera makes Resident Evil 2 a scarier, far more intense game than it was before. Powered by the same graphics engine that debuted with Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil 2 is just as gorgeous. There are still several months to go until R

Illusion Softworks had made its name with the wildly ambitious WWII action-strategy hybrid Hidden & Dangerous in 1999, and a year after GTAIII’s release it offered a dissenting voice on what gaming’s newfound expanses could be used for with Mafia: The City Of Lost Heaven. Like Liberty City, the game’s setting of Lost Heaven is a collage of familiar east coast bridges and skyscrapers, but it resolutely isn’t a playground bristling with distractions. Just as it did in the deliberately pedestrian o

Battle royale shooter H1Z1 is getting a facelift. Under a “re-formed dev team”, it will soon be known as Z1 Battle Royale, and its latest update aims to help smooth the transition by tackling lengthy waits for matches and adjusting a bunch of weapons. But perhaps more interesting are the changes to matchmaking, which should ensure players can jump into matches faster. H1Z1 still has a decent player count—as I write this, 7,000 people are playing—but that’s not enough to ensure matches instantly

Action RPGs based on the Sword Art Online series of Japanese light novels have been flooding to PC over the past year. Last October, we got a port of Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization, in February we got a new game in the series called Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, and last month we got a remaster of Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment. This weekend, publisher Bandai Namco announced that another game in the series was coming to PC—Sword Art Online: Lost Song. You follow a group of friends pla

Maximum Action, an old-school shooter that just hit Early Access, reminds me of lots of different games. Visually, it looks like it’s from the same era as Half-Life, but the slow-motion shooting and gun-throwing is giving me hints of Max Payne, FEAR, Superhot, and the Action Half Life mod. Whether it’ll live up to any of them remains to be seen, but the early reviews are at least promising. The Early Access version sounds pretty thin on the ground, and the number of levels are limited, but it sh

Fancy a Big Lebowski-inspired adventure about a hungover koala detective searching for his boyfriend while spouting Australian slang? I mean, you’ve probably never thought about it before—but if it sounds like you’re bag, then Stone, from debut Aussie developer Convict Games, is out now. It looks like a good laugh: you’ll smoke, drink, trip, and eventually try to find your boyfriend, Alex. The soundtrack features hip hop, trap, stoner rock and heavy techno from a number of up-and-coming indie mu

Image by Watchman on TwitterSurvival game Scum is already a hit. Let players move their characters between serversThe video above, created by TheRunningManZ on YouTube does a great job of highlighting a few of the current issues with Scum. Or, if you like medium-pop servers, you may login another day to find the place completely full. The point is, player characters in Scum are not rendered 100% of the time. That said, I hope the base-building in Scum is a bit more than just building big, boxy h

THE HIGHSAndy Kelly: Full EnglishThis week I enjoyed playing the Forza Horizon 4 demo , which was recently released on the dreaded Microsoft Store. And also, because I am a massive Bond nerd, the addition of classic 007 cars , complete with gadgets, has me thoroughly excited. So I’m pretty sure it was mostly a joke when we told Andy Chalk to respond to an email about Gamer Goo, a questionably named substance for making your hands less sweaty in marathon gaming sessions. Chris Livingston: Royale

-6000The next of the Old Ones’ creations, the dwarfs, migrate northwards through the Old World. -4420The high elves create their Great Vortex, secretly aided by the slann, to drain excess magic that leaks from the polar gates. -2005Dark elves destroy a dwarf caravan while disguised as high elves, planting a seed of mistrust between the two peoples. -1997A dwarf messenger sent to demand recompense from the high elves is returned empty-handed with his beard shaved. Alarielle the Everqueen of the h

The question is: if you had to get a gaming-related tattoo, what would it be? I have a gaming-related tattoo. Chris Livingston: Already has one (kind of)I have a tattoo on my shoulder of Max from Sam & Max—though it’s based on an image from the hardcover comic collection and not the Sam & Max games. If I had to, and it had to be game tattoo, I guess I could do Sam on my other shoulder, so I’d have the complete Freelance Police. Still, if I did ever decide to put myself through that, I’d want my

Dead Cells, one of the best action platformers on PC, has now been out for more than a month, giving the team time to go to the pub, hang out on a beach, and play games that aren’t Dead Cells for a change—so they said in a new dev update. They also shared their plans for post-launch content, starting with a new game mode called Custom Mode, which will arrive in the game’s beta test branch in late October or early November. Custom Mode will give you more control over the game, “really giving you

Multiplayer FPS Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is getting an ambitious 64-player campaign that spans 11 battles. To win, you have to capture every territory on the overall tactical map or accrue more victory points, which you gain for winning individual maps. I haven’t played Rising Storm 2 in a good six months, but this is definitely going to pull me back. If you want more detail, the devs have set out a full hypothetical flow of how a single campaign would work here. Tripwire and Antimatter Games hav

The first three games in the Ace Attorney series of courtroom visual novels are coming to PC and consoles early next year as the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Capcom has announced. You take control of rookie lawyer Phoenix Wright, who must defend clients in courtroom battles against a series of prosecutors, picking apart witness testimony by working out how it contradicts the evidence in each case. The Ace Attorney series first came to the Game Boy Advance in Japan in 2001, making it ove

Cyberpunk 2077’s 48-minute gameplay demo has us all keen to get stuck in—the team were especially impressed by the combat and the atmospheric city setting. One fan is so excited that they’ve started work on their own soundtrack for the game, the first track of which is available now for free, and you can listen below. It’s not going to be to everyone’s tastes, but hey, it’s free, and a full album is in the works. Pierre will add more tracks on this page as and when they’re ready. For more on wha

Top-down steampunk adventure Sunless Skies, the follow-up to the atmospheric Sunless Sea, will be out on January 31, developer Failbetter Games has confirmed. SUNLESS SKIES will release on 31 January 2019🌔 Literary horror🌓 Narrative driven RPG🌑 Explore a unique, dangerous universe🌗 Survive nightmares, starvation, terrifying sights🌖 Murder a sunWISHLIST NOWSteam: https://t.co/qNhlRZh4UEGOG: https://t.co/Wlr3CMZVQQ pic.twitter.com/xMEcVn2PVISeptember 22, 2018When it entered Early Access last year,

Fallout 76’s map is called Appalachia, Bethesda revealed this week. In real life the Appalachian region, which contains the Appalachian Mountains, stretches up the Eastern US, from northern Alabama to southern New York state. West Virginia, where we already knew the game is set, sits fully within Appalachia, so the name isn’t a huge surprise. The reveal came in a tweet from the Fallout account that also showed off the Guitar Sword, one of the game’s weapons (and no, you can’t play music on it, s