Among the promising games on this year’s schedule is blindfolded Trackmania, fabulous smash-and-grab sim Teardown, and the Half-Life remake Black Mesa. I’m also particularly interested in the opening game, Dragon Age: Inquisition, because massive RPGs are always among the most fun to watch broken apart. Last year’s SGDQ managed to raise $2.3 million for Doctors Without Borders. As a whole the event has raised over $31 million (around £22.4 million) for charity....

You’re not actually Paul ‘Muad’Dib’ Atriedes in Dune: Awakening. Loads of preternaturally talented wunderkinds hopping about the desert is bound to attract the attention of the dastardly Harkonnens, right? Instead, you’re someone known as the Sleeper, who wakes up alone on the sandy planet of Arrakis and has to make their way in the universe. Even if you’re not embodying the shortening of the way himself, you’ll still get to meet characters from the books....

In the words of its creator, Vol. 1 sends players to “visit the unforgettable street corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, as they plot to obtain a saxophone from longtime pizza-maker (and former saxophonist) Caetano Grosso.” It’s set in the same universe as Cosmo D’s similarly odd games The Norwood Suite and Off-Peak. In his Tales From Off-Peak Vol. 1 review, Nate calls it a “first-person point and click game, set in an intellectually formidable surrealist landscape....

Although, that being said, Temtem does hit an awful lot of familiar beats, especially at the start. You wake up - today is a special day! Today you get to become a Temtem tamer! You run down the stairs, excited to finally leave home. You run into your “friend” Max, who is already committing to their role as your rival by being a hateful tool. And… who’s that? Who else is here on your special day?...

TFT items guide There are lots of item combinations and it can be tricky to know what you’re looking for when choosing champions from the carousel. So our TFT item cheat sheet is here so that you know what to look for at any given time. The items used will be those at the beginning of Set 3 - Galaxies. You can use them any time you need when playing the game, and they include all the stats for the basic items....

“Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space” - Gunnery officer, Mass Effect 2 This military officer is very angry at his underlings. Luckily, he is an expert of communicating that anger in a productive manner through liberal revision of Newton’s laws of motion. Imagine a physics teacher who joined the royal marines for 10 years and went back to teach in his old school, screaming “No credit for partial answers, maggot” at the Year 10s....

Here are the 9 best vending machines in PC games. Have a good day. Mr Scrappy - The Surge 2 Mr Scrappy is a pink box spitting Terms and Conditions, found early in this sci-fi soulslark. His demeanor is happy and his dialogue is mildly amusing but more importantly, he gives you money for being an obedient lore-scrounger. Let him take a peek at all the audio logs you’ve found in the game so far and he’ll give you handy ’tech scrap’ (the level-up monies of the Surgeworld)....

It’s Friday the 13th, the day of Saint Badluck, patron saint of ladders and casinos. And it is a fabulous holiday. Out there, parades are getting ready to be rained on, and children are looking forward to tonight’s shenanigans, when they will dress up as mirrors and knock on doors, declaring: “sweets or I’ll smash myself”. I love Friday the 13th. So many cherished memories. So many splinters of reflective glass....

It was late game, a mere four squads left, when my pal “Fishhy” and I spotted another duo inside the building we were sat on. It was clear they were playing the same game as us: waiting for the other two squads to finish their skirmish before deciding whether or not to jump in on the victor. And so I did what many do in multiplayer games when they’re trying to get an enemy’s attention: I spammed the crouch button....

Let’s start with just the bog standard external SSDs. We’ve got two options here - WD’s Black P50 Game Drive and SanDisk’s Extreme Portable SSD. Both models are based around NVMe internals, meaning you can expect speeds to far outstrip what would be possible with a SATA-based solution (around 550MB/s). The P50 Game Drive, for instance, is rated for sequential speeds up to 2000MB/s, while the SanDisk Extreme manages up to 1050MB/s but costs far less....

It’s the early hours of the morning here in the UK and I feel personally attacked that they would show such a spooky trailer so late. Now I’ll be thinking about that gross pukey alien for ages. The Callisto Protocol takes place on Callisto, one of Jupiter’s moons, in the year 2320. Players will be taked with escaping a maximum security prison, but it’s not quite so simple as that, as some nasty beasties seem to be locked in there with you....

I’ve played a great deal of The Cycle at this point, and I’ve got a pretty good grasp on how to quickly learn the game, improve your gear, and turn yourself into a powerful rival against any enemies you come across. So, to help you achieve the same, I’ve put together the below beginner’s guide to The Cycle: Frontier. This comprehensive guide is split into 9 sections, each one filled with numerous in-depth tips, tricks, and tactics....

The Devil In Me follows the misadventures of the film crew behind a true crime documentary, who are lured to an isolated hotel with the promise that it’ll be a great location to get some footage for their episode on H.H. Holmes. Holmes is sometimes called “America’s first serial killer”, but his real-life murder hotel has been long since demolished, making it hard to get that sweet B-roll. Never mind, because their mysterious host is so obsessed with Holmes that he’s recreated that murder castle down to the last detail, only this one’s on an island where no-one can hear you scream....

As it’s his last day, Matthew also does a fiendishly difficult Cavern Of Lies themed around secret endings. Which of us will end up dead and loaded onto the cocaine boat while the others beat a retreat? 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....

We talked about so many games that I’m just making the show notes a big list, and I will probably accidentally leave some off - we just talked about that many games! Regular listeners will know that this is unusual for us. But we do also have a big bit about how city management games would be way more fun if the advisors giving you tooltips on your sewage system were e....

We do also chat about some games as well, including some actual current releases! But the most important question is: if you had to eat an entire gorilla, which celebrity chef would you choose to prepare it for you? Also, apologies in advance for getting the episode number wrong yet again. 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....

As well as talking a lot about heists in games, we discuss whether or not most crimes are heists. For example, theft in general is just spicy picking up, and murder is a soul heist. Matthew clues us in on what it was like to work for a secret shopper company, and Nate tells us about his repeat of his annual Eat Every Thing In Lord Of The Rings watch-along....

The times being what they are, though, results in us having a long discussion of patter theft, because some dreadful American (we assume) stole the “It’s me, Blorko!” tweet and then just did a much worse version of it. Hang your head in shame, whoever you are. I also went to a first communion party and ate a lot of cake, and had a run in with a very charismatic toddler who may or may not be evil....

Nate’s mini-game this week is offering us both dark bargains (I think I did pretty well out of mine), and in a Good Day To Ware Hard James explains why the graphics card market is broken, with a cowboy metaphor. This is a thing now. 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....