You couldn’t control your heroes, nor even your townspeople. All you could do was build buildings, tile by tile, in a fashion that really reminded me of construction in my beloved Dwarf Fortress. What you built determined what you got, hero-wise. Rooms built on the second floor of a tavern would bring in various types of bruisers, depending on the decor you laid out. Beyond that… I forget. It’s hard to tell now, what was in the game, what was nearly in the game, and what was just planned feature creep in the long spiral towards the game’s death in 2014....

If you like games where you go around beating ‘em up, Iron Snout is worth a go. Like most fighting games, you’ll end up discovering a surprisingly deep combat system. You’ll string together moves as best you can to simultaneously avoid your enemies’ attacks, use their own weapons against them, and punch their lights out. It’s a game of endurance, and after a couple of deaths you’ll become something of an expert at beating the piss out of cop-wolf hybrids....

Linelight is a game about moving your happy little block of light along line-based levels. Your aim is quite simply to get to the end of the level, which in practice means avoiding the red blocks of light patrolling the world, and flicking switches in the right orders in order to move bits of the level around, building yourself a path through which you can proceed. Most satisfying of all are the moments where you can manipulate the red blocks into flicking the switches for you....

Last week, I posted about how there were apparently big things in the works for Blizzard’s colourful, card-based coin machine - and I could cope with that, because it’s coming up to the time of year where the Hearthstone devs usually announce the themes of the game for the year ahead. But this week, they dropped an entirely unexpected - and completely unrelated - update for the game, and watching its forty second trailer made me feel like I’d had my brain cut out and replaced with an accordion and a box of cheap fireworks....

See the Gamesplanet 2021 Summer Sale Let’s start with the 24 hour flash deals, as these will turn into pumpkins at the stroke of midnight (or something). Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 3 for £6.74 is a great deal, as the 2017 release still costs £40 on Steam. Fraser reckoned it was well worth playing, despite a few flaws that have hopefully been tackled post-launch. The Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trilogy is another great value pick, selling for £16 - a little over half price....

Of course, there are plenty of details to digest, and that’s where we come in. In this guide, we’ll break down everything we know so far about Hollow Knight: Silksong, including the expected release date, gameplay and story details, and whether it will launch on Xbox Game Pass. On this page: Hollow Knight: Silksong expected release date and platforms Hollow Knight: Silksong trailer Hollow Knight: Silksong gameplay Hollow Knight: Silksong story Will Hollow Knight: Silksong be on Xbox Game Pass?...

Here’s the video from tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night Live: Honkai: Star Rail is from HoYoVerse, and as the name suggest, it’s connected to their action RPG Honkai Impact 3rd. Where it differs is that Star Rail has turn-based combat instead of real-time hack-and-slashing. You’ll still explore large regions with a party of characters and have plenty of dialogue with anime locals, but encountering enemies will shift you into a battle arena....

One player posted their own weird experience with the childhood bug on Reddit (via Kotaku) last month, explaining that their game crashed during the cutscene where main character Aloy is supposed to grow up. As a result, when they loaded back in, they were just running around as her tiny self, with no idea she was supposed to look any different. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Update 1....

On this page: How to swim faster in Immortals Fenyx Rising How to get the Swim Dash skill How to swim faster in Immortals Fenyx Rising In Immortals Fenyx Rising, swimming uses up your stamina at a pretty fast rate. If you run out of stamina while swimming, you’ll fall unconscious and be placed back onshore with a chunk of health lost. So, what can be done to avoid this fate?...

How to unlock the FARA 83 Warzone Here’s what you’ll need to pull off in order to unlock the FARA 83: It’s not a super challenging one, but you will need to be staying on target with this challenge. Remember that you can’t leave the game until it ends, otherwise you won’t get an extra notch on your challenge progress. Best loadout to unlock the FARA 83 If you fancy a helping hand, why not use this AK-47 build?...

Read on for instructions on exactly what you need to do in order to unlock the M13B in Warzone 2. How to unlock the M13B in Warzone 2 There are actually a couple of ways to get your hands on the M13B in Warzone 2, but since one of them involves paying for it in the in-game store, this guide will focus on the in-game unlock method. While most new weapons in Warzone 2 are unlocked via the battle pass, the M13B is conspicuously not included in the BP’s offerings....

Nightfall is being made by a team of modders, headed up by Grimrukh, the creator of overhaul mod Daughters Of Ash. It’s due out on the 21st December 2021 and they describe it as a “direct fan-made sequel” to Dark Souls, with a new story, characters, bosses, and world map. Although Nightfall’s enemies and world map won’t be entirely new. They’re being pieced together from existing bits of Lordran, then reworked to fit the mood, which is one of more darkness and pain....

As one bundle ends, another begins. Humble Bundle today launched their Fight For Racial Justice Bundle, raising money for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Race Forward, and The Bail Project. For $30 you can get 50-ish games including Spelunky, Kerbal Space Program, Baba Is You, Jackbox Party Pack 4, Hyper Light Drifter, NBA 2K20, and Football Manager 2020. It’s impressive. Humble’s publishing arm also today revealed more of their plans for The Black Game Developer Fund, aiming to spend $1 million a year supporting Black devs....

Dungeons and quests are all well and good but I spent over a decade on much of the same. If there’s anything to watch for, I imagine it’s those Outpost Rush matches. Large-scale PvP isn’t revolutionary for MMORPGs, but it’s a potential area for New World to stand out in. I’d also like to get a look at how its combat currently feels. New World is going for a more action-y style of RPG combat, with its free aim for ranged weapons and lots of movement....

All of those parts are present, and as a bonus it’s incredibly gorgeous, with strong voice acting and a distinctive soundtrack that will haunt my head for weeks. Most of its parts are made to a high standard, it’s tragic that its final design just doesn’t work at all. Of all things, IOT reminds me of Fragile Allegiance. You’re a ‘founder’, sent to an already colonised and abandoned Titan to build a new city at the behest of the Council....

That 12th Gen chip, which currently heads up our best CPU for gaming rankings, proved an excellent debut for Intel’s hybrid design: fast Performance cores, or P-cores, share the space with smaller and less wattage-hungry Efficiency cores (E-cores). Raptor Lake doesn’t change this much, but the Core i5-13600K does find itself the recipient of a few extra E-cores, bringing its total combined core count to 14 – the most of any Core i5 CPU yet....

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Scomp Link guide contents: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Scomp Link overview How to repair Scomp Link How to use Scomp Link to slice open chests and doors Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Scomp Link overview So, what’s a Scomp Link, and why is it so important? Early on in the Jedi: Fallen Order story, your little droid friend will have a bit of an unfortunate encounter with a Bog Rat....

How to solve the Incense Pots puzzle in Kena: Bridge Of Spirits In the final act of Kena: Bridge Of Spirits you must traverse the farthest and hitherto untouched reaches of the Village area of the map in order to track down three relics belonging to the Village leader, Toshi. Each relic can be found at the end of a certain path, one of which is the Mask Maker path - and it is at the end of this path that you will come across the incense pots puzzle....

Like Kerbal before it, BMFS lets you click together prefab parts to construct your machine, before you take it on a test flight. After that initial flight ends in inevitable disaster, you can tweak your construction until eventually you have a controllable flying machine. Everything is physically simulated, so even shunting a flap or a twisting a wing a few inches can change the aerodynamics. You can choose to build in order to tackle challenges in a career mode, or to build for the fun of it in a mess around sandbox, or to pit your creations against other players or AI in paintball dogfights....