That’s why Deadbeat Heroes sounds promising. PC Gamer: Do you remember the moment you had the idea for Deadbeat Heroes? Although it’s been a lot of hard work, we’ve thoroughly enjoyed making Deadbeat Heroes and we think everyone will enjoy playing it. What comics or TV shows inspired Deadbeat Heroes? Deadbeat Heroes will be available on Steam from October 10.

Emotional Fugitive Detector is the funniest game at IndieCade. Emotional Fugitive Detector is a cooperative game for two people sitting on opposite ends of a monolithic gray machine. For example, let’s say the Emotional Fugitive Detector is scanning for happiness. The facial recognition software built into Emotional Fugitive Detector is super strong. Right now, Emotional Fugitive Detector exists as a fun side project for Ehren and his team.

For a game that’s almost entirely driven by text, it’s surprising how evocative A Case of Distrust can be. Structurally it’s a pulpy, 1920s detective story set in smoky San Francisco. That might sound kind of static and boring, but trust me, A Case of Distrust’s biggest strength is its restraint. A Case of Distrust isn’t quite that bombastic, but you are a detective, and you do get to confront chumps with compromising facts. Wander tells me that there’s about 40,000 words baked into A Case of Di

If you owned a PS1 you might remember Fear Effect, a stylish horror shooter that became something of a cult classic. French developer Sushee are trying to tap into that nostalgia with a complete remake of the game called Fear Effect Reinvented as well as a real-time tactics spin-off called Fear Effect Sedna. The remake is coming next year, and now Sushee have announced that Fear Effect Sedna is too: “early” in 2018, in fact, although there’s no release date yet. It marks a slight delay for the t

There are many things that we have to think about, but custom cooling is nothing without its companion—the actual liquid. These products really are non-conductive; however, all liquids become conductive over time as ions dissolve as the liquid comes into contact with metal. Corrosion inhibitionThese additives want to make sure your cooling components don’t end up looking like Grandpa’s rusted out Cadillac. This would be fantastic if galvanic corrosion actually occurred between copper and nickel,

The last beta version before a proper release arrived this week, bringing with it the game’s full story mode. Expect hand-to-hand combat that relies upon timing and counters, segments where you sneak through shrubbery, and lots of blood. The amount of gore in the game is emphasised by another tweak in this beta: you can now be impaled by spikes. Developer Wolfire Games has fixed lots of bugs, too, and added new settings options including a brightness slider. There’s no word on a final release da

The next Humble Monthly Bundle is now ready for purchase: pay $12 (just over £9) now and you’ll immediately unlock MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited and the early access version of Quake Champions, Bethesda’s arena shooter. You’ll also net some card packs and in-game currency for The Elder Scrolls: Legends, the free-to-play card game, and then a bunch more titles when the bundle fully unlocks next month. The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited is the clunky name that was giv

The PC adaptation of Steve Jackson’s tabletop wargame, Ogre, rolled onto Steam this week. It’s a turn-based combat game with both single player and multiplayer modes. The key units are ogres, super-powered war machines that blast through pretty much anything in their path. In the board game, which first launched in 1977, one player controls a single ogre while the other tries to blow it apart piece by piece with infantry, tanks and missile launchers. I’ve never played the board game but it’s cle

Rocket League is serving up its second dose of Fast & Furious DLC on Wednesday, when two classic cars from the films will join the game’s roster. You can get behind the wheel of both the ’99 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, from the 2003 film 2 Fast 2 Furious, and the ’70 Dodge Charger R/T, which appeared in the series’ first flick, 2001’s The Fast and the Furious. They’ll boast unique booming engine sounds and flashy wheels as well as their own array of decals (six apiece). It’s the second tie-up betwe

If you missed last month’s release of Ruiner, a stylish top-down shooter, then it’s worth reading Omri’s review. The game has three difficulty modes: Easy, Normal and Hard. The update, launched this week, tones them all down to make the game “smoother and more accurate”. On Normal, enemies deal less damage and on both Normal and Hard they’re less bullet sponge-y. Bullets from ranged weapons now travel faster, too, “making it easier to hit enemies” and some guns fire in a tighter spread.

Then there’s stuff like Cat Sorter, in which you stand on the side of a conveyor belt stocked with a never-ending supply of mutant kittens. Cat Sorter is delightful. But Cat Sorter is seamless: you’ll be inspecting felines in no time. He also addressed the one and only Cat Sorter controversy—sometimes the cats that come down the pipeline are equipped with silly headgear. We should’ve just made a game where you sell hats.”

As the dust has settled, it seems like Sunless Sea and Kentucky Route Zero might have pioneered a new genre. I’ve heard them called “road games,” games where lonely travelers cross a weird, oppressive, tantalizing world, picking up half-stories and crooked anecdotes from other lost souls. Like Sunless Sea the storytelling in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine happens in cut-away text boxes with a branching dialogue tree. What I like about Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is how it places some of t

Medieval RTS Stronghold 2 has been re-released on Steam in an edition that reboots the game’s dormant multiplayer mode, revamps the visuals and adds Steam Workshop support. The 2005 game was only previously available on Steam via The Stronghold Collection, but its multiplayer servers were shut down in 2014. The new Steam version comes with six extra maps, graphics improvements, a new UI and Steam Workshop support, which means you can wage war on custom-made maps. If you already own The Stronghol

Where the Goats Are is a narrative game about a rural homestead at the end of its long, peaceful, self-sustained life. Happily, after a number of playthroughs with Tikvah and her goats, I’ve found this isn’t the case at all. These large, golden, coin-looking pieces of currency can be traded for goats and goat feed from the traveling merchant who visits each evening. Like I said earlier, all we do in Where the Goats Are is decide how Tikvah spends her last days. The brilliance of Where the Goats

Elite Dangerous creator Frontier Developments today revealed its road map for the year ahead in the space sim, the highlight of which will be the addition of new player groups called squadrons. These large groups will form around purchasable ships called fleet carriers—essentially mobile bases where members of a squadron can refuel, respawn and rearm. Squadrons will have hierarchies, and will come with (as of yet unspecified) tools to manage membership and encourage communication between players

Busy Work is kinda like that, except transported into a grim-as-hell corporate office. Husband-and-wife duo Lisa and Matt Bethancourt have gone all out in bringing Busy Work to life. At Indiecade the game exists as four cubicles, each stocked with computers, phones, and a stack of meaningless TPS reports . Each round takes about five minutes, and your main duty is to send as many emails as possible. Busy Work, with its instantly relatable premise and intuitive design, is a lot less heavy, but yo

We’ve all jumped into the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta for the weekend, and I admit that I’m not quite getting it yet. Maybe it’s going from the CoD:WWII beta one weekend to Battlefront the next, but the generous—and quickly regenerating—health is throwing me off. First, the drones must escort an MTT (a big transport tank, basically) to the palace in Theed, which they almost always do successfully. If you’re playing Battlefront 2 this weekend, how are you feeling about it so far? And if you’re n

Cutesy platformer A Hat in Time came out this week, and if you were a fan of 3D N64-era games then you might want to consider it. You play Hat Kid, a girl stranded in space after her ship runs out of fuel. Find enough magical yarn and you can spin headgear that gives Hat Kid new abilities: don a witch’s hat and you can craft explosives, for example. Tom was impressed by the look of both chapters 3 and 4 when Gears for Breakfast showed them off prior to release. There’s no release trailer, but he

Three more skins for Overwatch’s ‘Halloween Terror’ event, which launches on Tuesday, appear to have leaked early via adverts on Facebook. Blizzard revealed two skins (McCree and Reaper) earlier this week in a promo for the event, but the leak also shows a frightening lick of paint for Mei, Zenyatta and Symmetra. We have Mei the vampire at the top of this article, plus the other two below. Here they are:Here’s the Reaper and McCree skins Blizzard revealed earlier this week:The nights grow coldAn

Developer Hello Games has overhauled No Man’s Sky’s save system to try and make it easier to manage saves between game modes. The new system has five save slots. Also, each save has two sub slots, one for auto saves (when exiting your ship, dying, purchasing a Freighter or claiming a base), and one for manual saving at save points or beacons. Hello Games has twice patched issues with save games in the past couple of months, so here’s hoping the new system is bug-free. The new patch makes a numbe