Maelstrom, now in Early Access, has all of those, plus it’s a battle royale game. This isn’t a battle royale game where you can hide outside the safe zone and apply bandages to win. There are three races in Maelstrom: human, dwarf, and orc, and each race has three different ships to choose from. It’s one thing to reach the end of a battle royale match and find yourself outgunned, but it’s something else to be at a severe disadvantage right at the start. A successful battle royale game needs a so

Fortnite has spent the last fortnight talking comets and Twitter teasers. Now, developer Epic Games has told players to “brace for impact” as they “witness Season 4 tomorrow”. Brace for impact!Witness Season 4 tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/LVG3mO6vmKApril 30, 2018What we’re less clear on is the weapons Season 4 will introduce, and indeed how long the fourth outing will run for. Epic has consistently tweaked the Fortnite formula since launch, though, so I guess we should expect the unexpected.

BattleTech is a great tactical mech combat game, but it can be quite a time sink. Reddit user mruts has a good solution that uses Battletech’s debug mode to quintuple mech movement speed. Click on the ‘speed’ button to activate 5x mech speed, and then press control, shift and minus again to get rid of the debug menu. Wolf-grey lists this as a solution for Windows 10 users, but I’m using Windows 7 on this PC and it works fine. I’d love to see the developers add a quickplay option to let us speed

Groom an heirOne of the first things any king needs to do is to prepare for their inevitable death. Thrones of Britannia sees the return of mortal faction leaders, and while they can become extremely powerful generals and governors, they’re still fleshy and vulnerable. You can never have too many shieldsShields are still incredibly important in Thrones of Britannia. Skip naval battlesAfter a break from them in Warhammer, manual naval battles are back in Thrones of Britannia, and they are still b

In preparation for this year’s FIFA World Cup, footie sim FIFA 18 is getting a themed content update that’s free for existing owners. Here’s a trailer:”Jump into FIFA World Cup Ultimate Team and benefit from a revised chemistry system featuring dynamic player items related to the real-world tournament to build a dream international squad,” says EA. “Also featured in FIFA World Cup Ultimate Team are FIFA World Cup ICONS, some of the most iconic players from the tournament’s history.” FIFA 18’s co

It’s fertile ground for a Total War romp, with the British Isles heaving with people who really don’t like one another, especially the kings. Fight, build stuff and just generally engage with Total War and you’ll end up winning. For all of its tweaks, it often drills down into what’s great about Total War as a series. Much like an agent in previous Total War games, the priest will also decrease public order in enemy territory. Thrones of Britannia is the most unusual historical Total War instalm

In the wake of its expired Champions League partnership, Konami appears to be doubling down on new official licensing deals for its next iteration of Pro Evolution Soccer. As reported by Eurogamer, leaked information from Evo-Web suggests PES 2019 will bring with it a “huge addition of licensed leagues”, and a so-called ‘Legend Edition’ whose cover image flaunts an early 2000s, mohican-sporting David Beckham. The images below show Philippe Coutinho sporting the official Barcelona kit, which woul

Having only played through the Capital Wasteland once myself, such a milestone might prompt a return—and if I do, I might play with kvatchcount’s Simply Uncut mod installed. By my count, Simply Uncut reintroduces 53 NPCs, weapons, armour sets and schematics missing from the full release game. Pink Power Armor is “a suit and helmet sprayed stylish pink. On the weapons front, Simply Uncut adds a unique shotgun named Pa’s Fishing Aid, brass knuckles named Love Tap, a bat named Curse Breaker, an Ame

Having partnered with Nvidia and Square Enix to bring Rise of the Tomb Raider our way in 2016, a similar collaboration will deliver Lara to desktops in Shadow of the Tomb Raider later this year. A neat-looking, Predator-aping cinematic landed on Friday—and the following ‘Developing Shadow of the Tomb Raider for PC’ video dropped shortly after:In a blog post, Nvidia says: “Following the success of this collaboration, we’re pleased to announce that we’re working with the studios once more on the P

Eight years ago, modder TheHappyCrusader set out to bring the Warcraft universe, specifically the Warcraft 3 era, to turn-based strategy game Medieval 2: Total War via a conversion mod. Lots of hard work and an entire change in personnel later, the team behind the project have released a public beta featuring 22 factions and a bespoke campaign. Warcraft: Total War focuses on the universe’s Third War, depicted in both Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, Frozen Throne. Everything is desi

Never got round to playing the first Witcher game? Well, now you can pick it up for free on GOG—all you need to do is sign up to the site’s newsletter and claim your copy (and then opt out of emails if you want to). It’s hardly the most valuable freebie, and you can always pick it up for spare change in a sale but, hey, it’s free. The Witcher is not as good a game, and it’s far less polished. Quests in both games 2 and 3 reference events in the first game, so it might give you a deeper understan

Two cyborgs have traveled back in time to Fallout 4: one wants to kill you, one wants to protect you. That’s the Terminator-inspired idea behind Marked for Termination, a new mod that adds two NPCs to your game when you reach level 10. It cannot be killed, which means you can try to incapacitate it or—probably a better idea—run for the hills. Thankfully, the other cyborg will stay by your side at all times, and won’t override any existing companions. They too cannot be killed, which means they’l

Developer The Farm 51, who you might remember from Get Even, has announced its next project, a survival horror game set inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It’ll be about “conspiracy, horror, survival, love, and obsession”, and the team has been spending a lot of time in the exclusion zone “gathering all data and materials required to make the ultimate survival horror experience of the Chernobyl catastrophe”. “Every place from the game has its counterpart in the Chernobyl Zone”, the team said,

I’m more self-conscious in Fortnite, obsessed with my appearance in a place no one I value can see me. Out here it’s black pants and a band tee again, but in Fortnite, I’m a fish astronaut. And because I can’t stop buying Fortnite cosmetics, I’m also $100 short of a new pair of pants. Now I spend money I don’t need to in order to feel unique among group after group of 99 strangers I’ll never know. Hopefully, Fortnite skins become just as capable of earning reputations based on usage by popular s

That’s just a dirty, dirty secret that the industry has failed to address for 20 years, which is pretty shameful considering the amount of money being made,” he said. “We just don’t talk about it, and I guess… since there are no unions for games developers, the industry bodies don’t want to piss off the publishers that are often their biggest sponsors. The problem spanned the industry, with developers in both AAA and indie studios suffering, said Wilson, who also founded publisher Good Shepher

Trailblazers is an arcade racer that’s worth knowing about, if Wes’s hands-on is anything to go by. It’s billed as “F-Zero meets Splatoon”: you thrash hover cars around tight corners while also laying down paint. One player takes the lead, laying down paint on the tarmac, while the other tracks closely behind, gaining speed all the time. Eventually, the trailing car can slingshot past and, presumably, start laying paint ahead. Naturally, while doing this you’ll have to try and stop the enemy tea

I remember when EA’s Origin Access subscription service—a bit like a Netflix for PC gaming—only let you play around 40 games, but now it offers just shy of 100 after adding eight new ones this week, including Mad Max, Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera. Mad MaxPillars of Eternity: Hero EditionTorment: Tides of NumeneraBrothers: A Tale of Two Sons is another standout—it’s a relatively simple puzzle game with a masterfully-told story. Then, you just boot up Origin, navigate to the

You can also your hero power to abuse the Bittertide Hydras he plays to deal tons of damage to his face. Your hero power is pretty feeble, summoning a 1/1 mastiff with Rush (not even charge!). Companionship is another useful class-specific treasure, and will significantly boost your hero power into a very useful removal tool. A super-charged version of her hero power, this treasure is passive and lets you restart the game if you lose. Get hold of some copies of Shadowstep and you’ll be able to u

Free-to-play MOBA Super Monday Night Combat is shutting down for good next month because of changes to EU privacy laws, developer Uber Entertainment has announced. The developer said that the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was approved in 2016 and will be enforced from May 25, is to blame. It’s the same regulation that made Steam change its privacy settings earlier this month, which caused havoc for SteamSpy. In a Steam post, the developer said that it would give

Twitch has revealed the line-up of games that subscribers to its Prime service can expect to receive next month, and it includes a few gems. Psychonauts, Gone Home and top-down boss slayer Titan Souls will be free to anyone that signs up to the service, which comes packaged with Amazon Prime membership. If you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber and you want to activate your Twitch Prime account, head over to this page. In addition to free games you’ll get in-game loot and ad-free viewing on Twitch. T