Atomic Heart’s abandoned Soviet-era setting echoes Stalker. And its ensemble of gibbering nasties, first-person perspective, and, of course, penchant for battering baddies with blunt objects reminds me of BioShock. Which is to say: Atomic Heart looks promising. Again, no hard launch date for Atomic Heart just yet, but its Steam page reckons its due in 2018. Mundfish is also working on Soviet Luna Park VR, which is due at some point this month.

It’s a browser based take multiplayer game that elevates the humble game of Tic Tac Toe to a new level. In Tix.Tax you play ten games of Tic Tac Toe at the same time. Each sector in the large 3×3 Tic Tac Toe grid is itself a tiny game of Tic Tac Toe. Once you win a little game, you take that space in the large overall game. You win the entire game if you take three little games in a row, as the laws of Tic Tac Toe demand.

Two Point Hospital is the incoming institute management sim from the creators of Theme Hospital. With comedy in mind, developer Two Point Studio wanted fictional radio DJ Alan Partridge to host its in-game hospital radio station. “When we started the project, we thought, wouldn’t it be cool to get Alan Partridge to be the hospital radio DJ?” Hospital radio: you’ve got music, a hospital radio DJ. “That was the idea in my head, and when it wasn’t that, I just didn’t want to do a hospital radio DJ.

Two Point Hospital is very much the spiritual successor to Theme Hospital, the medical management game developed by Bullfrog in 1997. The January announcement of Two Point Hospital was enthusiastically received, but prior to that the developers weren’t at all sure that there was still an audience for their kind of “little people” simulation game anymore. “But the Prison Architect guys gave us, I suppose, the balls to try it.” “They’ve written stuff about us in their early days, saying, ‘Inspired

My hour with the first level of Two Point Hospital is comforting, more than anything else. In Two Point Hospital’s case, it’s mostly how the structure has changed from Theme Hospital. Ward gamingThe opening moments of a Two Point Hospital game feel pretty similar to Theme Hospital. There are no oceans of vomit in this hospital, Theme Hospital fans, but I’m assured we can expect puddles of sick from some of the game’s other diseases. This opening experience, though, will give Theme Hospital fans

If you thought The Legion’s penchant for roadside crucifixion in Fallout: New Vegas was barbaric, SuBNeRoCL and Asurah’s Live Dismemberment mod brings new levels of brutal execution to the Mojave Wasteland. But Live Dismemberment lets you forcibly remove the arms and legs of hostile pursuers while they’re still alive. “If the left arm is dismembered, NPCs will be restricted to singe-handed weapons (pistols, knives). More information, including installation instructions, can be found on the Live

Night in the Woods is a wonderful, heartfelt and often humorous coming of age narrative adventure game. “The reason we’re killing ourselves isn’t because we love what we’re doing,” Benson tells gamesindustry.biz, referencing his Night in the Woods GDC postmortem earlier this year. “That’s the thing we tell ourselves and tell people: ‘We’re just so passionate about it’,” says Benson. Benson tells GI.biz that pressures levied by Night in the Woods’ Kickstarter —which accrued over four times its in

In Fortnite’s Thanos mode, the latest limited time event, it’s 1v99 business as usual until someone happens upon the Infinity Gauntlet. But besides being a damn good time, Thanos’ cameo appearance has been kind to the sillier side of Fortnite too. (OK, not really)This extremely online screenshot of Reddit user Warraven32’s Victory Royale as Thanos is not an image from Avengers: Infinity War, we promise. The stealthiest master of the universeWhat happens when you pick up the Infinity Gauntlet whi

The 2018 International Battle Pass offers some very interesting new things for Dota 2 players, foremost among them The Underhollow, a new game mode that has three-player teams setting off on a competitive quest for cheese that sounds an awful lot like an underground battle royale. “Battle through a labyrinth filled with monsters, marvels, and many other three-player enemy squads as you search for Roshan’s rarest cheese and work to be the last team standing. You’ll need to navigate carefully to e

As you’re playing through Destiny 2: Warmind, you will eventually, as did our groundbreaking guardian and global editor-in-chief, come across a voice with an oddly familiar, posh English tone. And you may then think to yourself, as he did, “I wonder if that is actually the voice of Stephen Fry?” Fry provides the AI voice of the public address system at the Clovis Bray facility on Mars during the Will of the Thousands mission. It might be that Fry actually is the voice of Clovis himself, the foun

A 38-year-old Romanian man is going to do a one-year stretch in US federal prison for launching a series DDoS attacks against World of Warcraft in 2010. The US Department of Justice said in a statement that Calin Mateias unleashed his digital fury after getting into an unspecified beef with other players. “Between February and September 2010, typically in connection with in-game disputes with other players, Mateias launched DDoS attacks on World of Warcraft servers in Europe,” the agency said. ”

In a given trade, each player can offer up to a maximum of five items to trade. Once you have found a player in Trade Chat that you’d like to trade with, you can whisper them to begin the trade or haggle over price. Each time you receive an item through trade in Warframe, it is subjected to a tax paid out in credits, the basic currency in Warframe. However, legendary mods and rank 3 Arcanes are subject to a staggering one million credit trade tax. One thing to keep in mind is that Maroo’s Bazaar

It’s always nice to find an overlooked gem, especially in the niche genre of digital board games, and Solar Settlers is my latest pleasant discovery. A singleplayer game clearly inspired by contemporary economics-driven strategy board games, Solar Settlers is driven by all about doing as much as you can in a single turn. Solar Settlers is played on a grid of random cards, most of which start the game unexplored and invisible. The final resource, Metals, is spent to play cards from your hand. If

Google Chrome was recently updated to block auto-playing videos on websites by default. So much for that…looks like the chrome update broke all of the audio in my html5 games as well. The audio issue appears to be hit-or-miss: Cabbi.bo, for instance, still produces audio for some users on Chrome (myself included), but not all. “With Chrome’s new autoplay policies, developers shouldn’t assume that audio can be played before a user gesture,” a Google rep said. “With gaming in Chrome, this may af

Kingdom Come: DeliveranceQueen’s University analysts Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ying Zou and Ahmed Hassan recently published an empirical study of Steam reviews . Like Early Access games, indie games (that is, games tagged ‘indie’ on Steam) received longer reviews, but uniquely their reviews contained more design suggestions. This was even truer of negative reviews: 17 percent of negative reviews mention bugs whereas 57 percent mention game design. Moreover, negative reviews mentioned bugs like

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. You get to hang out with Patrick Stewart for a bit, but it’s just a linear march through a sewer and nobody likes sewer levels. You step out of that dreary sewer onto a riverbank and see ruins, a bandit camp, rolling hills, and the white walls of the Imperial City. You step into a world of possibility like a baby bird emerging from an egg or a xenomorph from a chest cavity. A text pop-up explai

The big Destiny 2: Warmind expansion is live, and that means we can finally look at the patch notes to see what exactly awaits the next time we dive into the game. “With Warmind, we want to show we are actively listening to the global community and that we are also committed to respecting players’ time in game,” Bungie project lead Sam Jones said. The full patch notes, available at bungie.net, also details the full list of changes being made to Exotics, which Bungie has previously touted as a ma

Specifically, I’m talking about reports of emails inviting people to take part in a beta test of Fortnite Battle Royale on Android, which Epic says is a scam. PR representative Nick Chester took to Twitter to confirm, rather forcefully, that the email is not legit, calling it “an obvious phishing scam.” @Game_Revolution this is not true, the email going around is an obvious phishing scam. The only mobile version of Fortnite that’s currently available is for iPhones. An Android version is in the

Blizzard has partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to produce a Pink Mercy skin—a limited edition Overwatch skin for Mercy. The skin costs $15 and is available to purchase from May 8-21, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the BCRF. “Show your support for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation as Overwatch’s peerless scientist and guardian angel, Mercy, in her new Pink skin—available for a limited time,” Blizzard said. In addition to the skin, a Pink Mercy t-shirt is availabl

The Y27G is a 27-inch monitor outfitted with a curved Samsung VA display. It also has a 3,000:1 contrast ratio, 178-degree viewing angles (horizontal and vertical), and a rated brightness level of 350 nits. You can connect to this monitor via DisplayPort 1.2 or HDMI 1.4 (one port each). It also has a built-in USB hub with three downstream USB 3.0 ports (and one upstream port), and a 3.5mm headphone/mic combo jack. Sometimes you can refurbished ones selling in the range of $300, but this listing