Remember Rune, the Viking hack-and-slasher from 2000? Well, last year developer Human Head Studios announced an open-world RPG sequel called Rune: Ragnarok, which had a lot of people excited. The team later put out a stylish cinematic trailer, and now they’ve offered up an actual slice of gameplay with a short combat clip, above. I do like the way the camera frames the action, slipping occasionally into slow motion to emphasise the heaviest hits. The game has no release date but is set to enter

One for you off-road fans: last year’s Dirt 4, which Andy enjoyed quite a lot, is currently the cheapest it’s ever been right now. Before last month, it’d never even been below $20, so it’s a good price. So it might not be one for purists, but it’s still a damn good racing game, marred by a slightly stale career mode. Dirt Rally itself is also on sale for the lower price of $12/£8, albeit for an older game (it came out in 2015). The deals only last for another 24 hours, so hurry over to Steam if

Swordplay in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is both a challenging and satisfying experience. Apparently less satisfying, for some, is that the swords in the medieval RPG are made of metal and not brightly colored lasers. Modder UblichenVerdachtigen decided to use the Force and create a lightsaber mod, which replaces some of the game’s swords (longswords, short swords, and sabers) with those famous glowing Jedi sticks. You can see more of the mod in action in this video from Jackie Fish on Youtube. Yo

It’s a turn-based strategy game with an absurd cartoon art style and a story—complete with side missions—that you can play through solo or in co-op. Developer The Behemoth, also of Castle Crashers, sent it into Early Access a year ago, and now it’s out for good. If you’ve been playing in Early Access, then the launch update slots in the final four story quests and adds a new world map with 15 bonus missions. For now, it costs the same as it did in Early Access, $15/£11, but on March 13 the price

Q.U.B.E., the 2012 game about manipulating blocks with high-tech gloves, attracted comparisons to Portal, but while its puzzles were smart it lacked the personality of Valve’s classic. Your character, archaeologist Amelia Cross, stumbles through a strange world full of swirling red dust, clueless as to how she got there. Eventually she makes contact with an ally over the radio, who will act as a guide for the game. The trailer also introduces what appears to be the game’s antagonist force: an AI

Euro Truck Simulator 2’s next expansion will let you ease around the bends of the Baltic states, developer SCS Software has revealed. The team did not mention a release date for the expansion, provisionally named Beyond the Baltic Sea, so I wouldn’t expect it imminently. You can see a map of the region that the expansion will add below—it’s the purple bit. A lot of the expansion will be hours and hours of countryside, however, and you can see some screens of that below. The game is slowly buildi

Ubisoft will beef up its ban system in Rainbow Six Siege next week, targeting players using racial and homophobic slurs or hate speech in-game, it has announced. The company will ban players for either two, seven, or 15 days depending on severity, and will permaban the worst offenders, it said in a Reddit post. Ubisoft stressed that the system will not target simple trash talk. We are expecting people not to take it too far with slurs and hate speech. We’re really focusing on slurs, homophobic l

After spending a few weeks banging my head against deck-building roguelike Slay the Spire’s excellent main mode, I feel like I could use a change of scenery. The Early Access game’s new daily challenge mode, added this week, might just provide it, although it sounds even tougher than the rest of the game (the developers call it “super hard”). Slay the Spire’s core mode involves battling through three increasingly difficult dungeons while picking up new cards and abilities. For the daily challeng

Square Enix is selling lots of its games at a cut price on Steam this weekend, the highlights being Deus Ex: Mankind Divided at just $6/£4, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $3/£2. Both are historic or equal to historic low prices, according to IsThereAnyDeal (which is a great site for tracking sales, by the way). Mankind Divided is another great game but, as Andy wrote in his review, is slightly let down by its story. You can see the full list of deals here—basically all the Final Fantasy games

Arkane Studios’ immersive sim Prey landed last May and gave us a richly detailed space station to explore. That was the last we heard of it until this Friday, when the Prey Twitter account dropped the surprise tweet above. It’s either asking a philosophical question about space travel, or we’re headed for the moon. Sounds like the perfect place to set a creepy expansion. And Arkane has precedent here: Dishonored 2’s standalone expansion Death of the Outsider came out nearly a year after the game

I created the #Skyrim Giant to look like my dad – no, I’m not joking – which means that my dad has been killed millions of times all over the world.RT if you’ve killed killed my dad. pic.twitter.com/zERqDdw7Z5February 28, 2018That’s a tweet from character artist Jonah Lobe, who worked at Bethesda Softworks on Fallout 3 and 4, Oblivion: The Shivering Isles, and Skyrim. I imagine it’s not unusual for digital artists to incorporate real people into their work, and the case of Skyrim’s giants, Lobe

Now it’s time to meet the people responsible for all the trouble: Joseph, John, Jacob, and Faith, collectively known as the Seeds. Jacob Seed, eldest brother, is a US Army combat veteran who uses drug-fueled “psychological conditioning” techniques to turn recruits into fanatical fighters and trains ferocious wolves he calls “Judges.” Next up is John Seed, youngest brother, a lawyer and believer in “the power of Yes.” Then there’s Faith Seed: “Joseph’s voice, Faith acts as a divine instrument of

Path of Exile’s Bestiary league , which lets you capture and sacrifice monsters for powerful loot, opens today. As I mentioned, it’s also a great build in that you can easily play it using only the rare items you find on your own. If you’ve dabbled in Path of Exile and hate how many bosses can one-shot you if you’re not careful, this is a great build to play. Clearing areas and killing bosses will take longer, which isn’t great if you’re looking to rip through Path of Exile’s ten acts on your wa

It crams varied tactical dilemmas into a tiny grid and is quick enough to keep me clicking through to the next fight. They really change the way you take on enemies, and provide some long-term progression to tie your campaigns together. Its size, low-fi pixel art, and fast pacing make it a great laptop game for long journeys too. Him and Phil would be our seasoned veterans , he said, while myself and esteemed PCG columnist (but admittedly green in the ways of GTA) Xalavier Nelson Jr marked new b

Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is a prime example of this danger. There’s truth to find within its choppy transcontinental trek, but it comes at the expense of sore eyes. There’s light personal upkeep to be done, managing rest, money, and health, but dying just resets you somewhere in America. Activating one of these icons cues an illustrated vignette with narrated text, sometimes with a few simple decisions to make. Many of these encounters are not so much ‘stories’ as situations, prompts, or

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If the latest live action trailer for Far Cry 5 made you uncomfortable, then get ready for more crazed religious ranting and ritual from the same talent. Inside Eden’s Gate is a live action short film preceding the events of Far Cry 5, set to launch exclusively on Amazon Prime’s streaming service March 5. As they track down missing locals and probe into other strange events, they eventually encounter Joseph Seed, the leader of The Project of Eden’s Gate cult and the man behind all the unusual ac

Back in February the developers of Butcher announced that they’d begun work on a new “gory reverse horror game” called Carrion—”reverse horror” meaning that instead of playing the victim, you’ll be the ooey-gooey creature from another dimension who hunts them down, one by one. It’s obviously reminiscent of Rain World, but with a Slugcat that’s half The Thing and half Charles Bronson three days after he joins the gun club. All I know for sure is that I really want to play this thing. It’s likely

Attention music lovers and RPG fans: British rapper Dan Bull has put together a rather epic rap song and music video honoring Henry, the humble and frequently grubby blacksmith’s son from Kingdom Come: Deliverance. You can watch and listen above as Henry’s life and trials are illuminated and celebrated—though keep in mind there are spoilers for certain elements of the story. If you’re into it and want to hear more from Dan Bull, who raps about games, the internet, politics, and more, here’s a ma

Corsair is looking to spice things up by releasing new software that will allow you to sync RGB lighting on certain products with Far Cry 5 on PC. Later versions will add more of Corsair’s RGB products to the mix, though the company did not get into specifics. In any event, lighting will dynamically adjust to various in-game interactions in Far Cry 5. In addition, Corsair plans to gift copies of Far Cry 5 with purchases of select RGB products of more than $150 from its webstore. Corsair is not t