The Summer Game Fest’s Kickoff Live will come at 7pm (11am Pacific) on Thursday, June 10th. It’ll have an indie showcase from Day Of The Devs, the long-running event co-organised by Double Fine, plus a performance by Weezer. Readers of a certain age might remember rewatching their music video on the Windows 95 disc over and over in awe of the miraculous technology which somehow put video and actual proper music on a PC....
But then David said look, the carpet is moving. And it turns out that the whole bottom of the cave is covered in cockroaches and giant centipedes. And if ever a small baby bat or an old injured bat falls, it is eaten alive by this hoard of chittering insects. This nature documentary haunted me, for it was the worst thing I could imagine happening. Anyway, Nate has been to that cave and he’s going to tell us all about it for this episode of our supporters only podcast, The Nate Files....
If he’d seen the potato-faced oddballs I’ve repeatedly made in character creation (saves are not compatible between big patches) Pechenin would not be so generous. Even so, I like seeing heroes wearing evidence of their travels. An earlier patch already made the camping system feel more demanding - a small price in food means you can’t just spam it after every fight - and now those longer treks between naps can visually sell you on the difficult journey heroes are undertaking, too....
There are a handful of other changes and updates in the Teardown news post, but the big ticket is clearly the level editor which was previously available only on the game’s experimental branch. You can now get your hands on it in the main game to begin building your own soon to be destructed environments. Tuxedo Labs say that they’ve included the first release of their official asset pack, which should get you started with the level editor....
Watch the video here: The point of the video is to show off the pathfinding rather than the robot itself. Teardown is a game about performing 60-second heists, which are only possible because you’ve got a set of tools that allow you to blow holes in walls, knock down bridges, and form your own routes through its architecture. Its current early access release has no NPCs, and any it adds would need to be able to navigate a world where the possible routes of traversal are always being changed by the player....
“You can play Cyberpunk, Elden Ring and 1000s of other games in your car with an epic sound system!!” said the Man With The Blue Tick. I like to think he tweeted it from his Tesla. Although you can only have an RPG sesh in the most recently manufactured Model S and X cars for now, Musk did reply to a comment to confirm that a retrofit would be available for older models from the past two years....
I’m not normally a fan of CG trailers, but hey, at least this one is directed with some flair: The Hong Kong setting is exciting, though. The two previous Test Drive Unlimited games were about zipping around an island and buying properties, cars and clothes, but Hong Kong is a lot more interesting to me than Oahu or Ibiza. A largely dense urban environment also sets it apart substantially from Forza Horizon 5’s recently announced Mexico setting....
The 10 best battle royale games Since we last looked over this list of the best battle royale games, we’ve tried out a bunch of newbies. Those that didn’t make the cut this time include sucking blood in Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodhunt and becoming super soldiers in the aptly named Super People. A few newcomers did make the list, though, and we’ve also reshuffled the order of some past favourites to reflect their current state....
Children, life’s great copy-paste. Adorable, drooling idiots with no self-control and a habit of yelling embarrassing facts to the entire supermarket. In our everyday lives, human children are a snotty emblem of hope, vulnerability, and aspiration. In videogames, they are a cursed harbinger of escort missions, narrative roadblocks, “cutesy” voice acting, and precocious dialogue. They are annoying. But hold on, that’s the point. Many of them are meant to be that way....
For the record, the list below are geared towards competitive multiplayer. You know, quickscopes and lobbies and matchmaking. Make sure you head on over to our roundup of the 25 best co-op games on PC if you’d rather team up with a mate, as opposed to defeat them in a battle to the death. And with that, I’d recommend giving the video below a quick glance. Many of these aren’t technically multiplayer games where you’ll compete against others, but they’re a good laugh nonetheless....
It’s worth noting that our definition of “survival” isn’t laser-focused on only those of the first-person variety, or those that have hunger bars. Oh no, you’ll find all sorts on this list, many of which have barely anything in common with each other, beyond the fact that you’ve got to y’know, survive. Also worth keeping in mind is the slew of upcoming survival games due out this year, as there’s a fair few with great potential....
Below you’ll find over 30 of my favourite ultrawide PC games, complete with GIFs and photos of them running in ultrawide so you can see exactly what they look like in the flesh. Not all PC games support ultrawide resolutions, I should point out, and those that don’t will leave you with unsightly black bars down either side of the screen. The good news is that more and more PC games are getting ultrawide support these days, and for a full list of games that support 21:9 and 32:9 aspect ratios, check out the list compiled by the good folks over at PC Gaming Wiki....
So join us for this penultimate episode of our BB Boys Road Trip, where we do lots of fights, get real mucky and our friend Fragile hands us an honest to goodness real life metaphor. I’m not kidding. Naturally, we’re in big spoiler territory now (and I mean really big spoilers - like, they’re actually enormous), so please do proceed at your own risk. Onwards!
Today, I don’t need to say the second part, as this legendary Logitech mouse has dropped from its normal retail price of £110 (!) to something a little more reasonable. It’s now £62 at Currys PC World when you use the code FNDDGAMING at the checkout. That’s the lowest price we’ve ever seen for this model, and a great deal for anyone looking for a high performance wireless mouse for work or gaming....
For context, the last time we wrote about a big discount to this model, it was down to £76 - so this is the best deal we’ve ever seen on the NR200P by some margin! Get the Cooler Master NR200P ITX case for £54 (was £100) As this is the NR200P, rather than the standard NR200, you get some nice extras too - including a choice of glass and mesh side panels, two 120mm fans and a PCIe riser cable that lets you mount your graphics card vertically....
Matthew being away this week means that Nate takes on the role of the anti-Matthew, and we speculate about which games we think Matthew would probably find relatable. For myself and Nate the themes include sadness and drudgery. But there’s good news, because Nate has remembered to make me a Cavern Of Lies this week! Hooray! You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts. You can find the RSS feed here, and you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat....
Now to enjoy your nice joke! Q: What did Santa say to the elf struggling to pick up a heavy present? A: It Takes Two.
“The Good Life is a captivating adventure game in which you play as Naomi, a New York-based photographer who has just arrived in the small British town of Rainy Woods with a specific job at hand—to discover the truth behind this place known as the ‘happiest town in the world’,” White Owls say. “Race against the clock tracing multiple leads and solve mysteries as a human, a cat, or a dog!...
While there isn’t a proper trailer, per se, the devs have released a 5-minute tease featuring some delightfully spooky sci-fi synths. Sit a minute and catch some vibes with me, yeah? Old sci-fi is good sci-fi, I reckon. The only other game I can think of that’s gunning for this same kind of “knackered old space-pulp cover art” is perhaps No Man’s Sky, although the title card immediately evokes underrated dogfighter House Of The Dying Sun....
