Steam S Lunar New Year Sale Has Begun

If your pockets are still a little light from last month’s Steam Winter Sale, that’s OK, you could just look at the Lunar New Year Sale purely for the lovely Ox-themed artwork. There are free animated Ox stickers to get on each day of the sale, if you’re into that, but the background art alone is a great spread of pinks and purples. After a quick glance around, there are a handful of interesting deals....

January 15, 2023 · 1 min · 122 words · Adan Wohlert

Steam S Most Wishlisted Game Seems To Be Worked On Entirely By Volunteers

The company website for Fntastic now has a ‘volunteer’ section, which says: “Fntastic’s culture is based on the idea of volunteering. This means that every Fntastic member is a volunteer.” Full-time volunteers are salaried, but those offering their services part-time are given “cool rewards, participation certificates, and free codes”. Describing what they’re looking for in part-time volunteers, Fntastic say: You can read what Fntastic have to say about it all here....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 257 words · Lena Soto

Teardown The Smash And Grab Heist Game Now Has Steam Workshop Support

Now it has Steam Workshop support, with over 100 mods already available. Teardown’s developers released level design tools alongside the game a few months back, and people have already been hard at work. That’s why the Steam Workshop is already well stocked. A developer blog post announcing the update names a few of their favourites, my favourite of which can be seen below. It’s called The Junkyard, and it offers a car shredder, bulldozer, killdozer, shreddozer, ball and chain crane, monster trucks and more in a junkyard filled with cars....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 214 words · Cecilia Moore

Temtem Devs Address Its Premium Battle Pass Controversy

“We are aware that there’s been a lot of controversy surrounding our decision to include a battle pass in Temtem, and the nature of this decision is causing a lot of fracture in our community,” community manager Tsukki said on Discord. “We know there’s been calls to review-bomb the game, and the effects of this are being felt.” Temtem’s Steam reviews are currently mostly positive, but both positive and negative reviews have exploded since launch....

January 15, 2023 · 3 min · 526 words · Ida Lovelace

Tencent Have Bought Another Game Developer So Let S See How Big Their Collection Is Now

This isn’t the first big acquisition the Chinese tech conglomerate have made, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. But now is as good a time as ever to remind ourselves of exactly how many gaming pies Tencent have their thumbs plunged into. Sumo Digital Kicking things off with the Sumo news, GamesIndustry.biz reports that Tencent are set to fully buy Sumo Digital today, after previously having an 8....

January 15, 2023 · 6 min · 1187 words · Maxine Bivens

Tfi Friday 3 New Indie Games That Are Not Porn

It’s not that it’s there, so much as how sometimes it’s disguised and I’m not prepared for it. I clicked through to a game that described itself as being about looking after a friendly sheep. “Cute!”, I thought, much like a fool would think. From the screenshots, I can’t say I believe she shares much of the anatomy of a sheep, but she sure was friendly. Anyway, the boob-cannon of new releases aimed right at my face shunted my psyche towards a lot of aggressively wholesome things this week....

January 15, 2023 · 3 min · 620 words · Jonathan Gier

That Mmo With The Amazing Character Creator Is Free Right Now

First of all, the character creator is enough of a feature that the Korean YouTube has a running series giving characters makeovers. Observe, the many tweaks revamping this lad: It is a very good character creator. It has the same face-tweaking settings as many other games you’ll have played, all lots of sliders and colours and options and things, but get this: the end result can actually look good, rather than inspiring some sort of Uncanny Valley dread....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 304 words · Richard Carter

The 9 Best Dogs In Pc Games

Barbas - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Barbas is a magic talking dog with the voice of a New Yorker who has fallen down a manhole. He got into an argument with his master and was turfed out on his tail. As the only person in popular Norway simulator Skyrim who ever does any bloody work, you are the one Barbas comes to for help to reconcile with his owner. The catch: his master is Clavicus Vile, the demonic prince of trickery....

January 15, 2023 · 4 min · 826 words · Billy Utley

The Anacrusis Hits Early Access And Game Pass In January

The game will enter early access with three episodes which are feature-complete, but obvs not fully polished. They plan to be in early access for 9-12 months, adding new episodes and new modes, while responding to feedback from players. In a new devblog video, Faliszek explained, “we want to be able to have these conversations with people in the community playing our game, getting real feedback, and trying some things....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 304 words · George Collier

The Best 4K Gaming Monitors 2023

With GPUs becoming ever more powerful, and ultra-high-res play becoming ever more attainable, I’ve upped my efforts recently to test as many 4K monitors as I can. What you’ll find below are the best of the best, ranging from surprisingly affordable screens to the very pinnacle of currently available screen tech. All in service of making your games look as pin-sharp as possible, though just remember that if you don’t have a top-tier graphics card, you’ll have to lower some quality settings to keep that FPS up....

January 15, 2023 · 10 min · 2097 words · Patrick Stathopoulos

The Best Game You Missed In March 2020 Iron Danger

And you know what? I’m damn glad I reversed time and pulled it back from the oblivion of the “want to play it one day” pile, because it’s an impressive little number. A lot of games market themselves as being built around a “unique” mechanic. And while 90% of the time these mechanics are not in fact unique, every so often you get one that’s the real deal, and this tactical RPG with functional time travel is certainly one of ’em....

January 15, 2023 · 5 min · 940 words · Vera Furnace

The Best Genshin Impact Yelan Build

This guide will show you how to create the best Yelan build in Genshin Impact. Below we’ll cover everything you need to know about Yelan, including wishing, weapons, artifacts, ascension materials, talents, abilities, team composition, and constellations. How to build Yelan as a sub DPS in Genshin Impact Best weapon: Aqua Simulacra Alternatives: Polar Star, Elegy for the End, Favonius Warbow, Sacrificial Bow Predictably, the Aqua Simulacra is an excellent choice for Yelan — this nifty Bow boosts CRIT DMG and HP, providing an extra DMG boost when foes are nearby (and it was essentially designed for Yelan, so it’ll look great alongside her)....

January 15, 2023 · 8 min · 1641 words · Sharon Colemen

The Dark Pictures Anthology House Of Ashes Review Very Nearly A Fun Horror Romp

The five playable protagonists you flit between are trapped in an ancient Sumerian temple that leads into an even deeper cavern, and then an even deeperer, ancienter ruin. The turducken of potholing. But instead of delicious stuffing, the surprise in these layers is a race of vampiric monsters whose vision is based on sound, and whose spit is LSD. Your job is to get your goons out alive, and the main problem is that the goons in question are - instead of a busload of teens on a field trip gone wrong - a small team of US marines searching for WMDs in 2003 Iraq....

January 15, 2023 · 6 min · 1190 words · Tina Gardner

The Electronic Wireless Show Podcast Episode 163 The Best Celebrities In Games Special

In the end, though, we don’t talk much about Chris Pratt, partly because we are so very excited to be joined on the pod by ‘Bath’s Nic Cage’, and discuss the time he turned on Bath’s Christmas lights, and partly because we do talk about a lot of games this week. I hope you’re all proud of us. We’re showing personal growth. Digressions this week include Harrods department store, a lot about Garfield, and Nate doing fat rips on his vape....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 341 words · Vickie Stephens

The Epic Games Store Is Still Mostly About Fortnite

According to the Year In Review post on Epic’s site, PC customers “spent over $700 million of which third party games represented 37% at $265 million.” Epic say all of their numbers are on the up though, including the total number of users. “There are now over 160 million Epic Games Store PC users. Daily active users are up 192% to 31.3 million daily active players, with a peak CCU 13 million concurrent players this year (up from 7M in 2019)....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 275 words · Stanley Gonzales

The Flare Path Hello Kittyhawk

Meet Edwina’s replacement, Evelyn. A Kittyhawk rather than a Tomahawk, she has six hundred additional pegasi stabled under her engine cowling and all her firepower (6 x .50 Brownings) embedded in her wings. While she couldn’t be described as a Bf 109’s worst nightmare, any Messerschmitt pilot that sees her scarlet spinner and gaping chin scoop looming in his rear-view mirror is likely to wish pretty ardently that he was somewhere else....

January 15, 2023 · 6 min · 1242 words · Charlotte Tippets

The Forgotten City Review A Lean Mystery That Builds Rome In A Day

High scores for everything else though. I didn’t play the immensely popular Skyrim mod that later inspired this standalone, which probably helps one to enjoy The Forgotten City more. But it does stand alone very well. Not a pudgy toddler hanging onto the Dragonborn’s ankles, this; no, it is a sturdy Roman legionary, lean and muscular. The team on The Forgotten City is very small, but because they’ve not overreached it means the game as a whole feels svelte rather than sparse....

January 15, 2023 · 5 min · 977 words · Craig Coonrod

The Game Awards 2022 Date And Time

What time are The Game Awards 2022? If you want to watch The Game Awards 2022 live as they happen, you’ll need to be near your favourite internet-ready device at the following times: US West Coast (PST): 4:30pm on Thursday, December 8th US East Coast (EST): 7:30pm on Thursday, December 8th United Kingdom (GMT): 12:30am on Friday, December 9th Central Europe (CET): 1:30am on Friday, December 9th What to expect from The Game Awards 2022 Awards are being given out in 31 categories this year, recognising excellence in the games industry in areas ranging from narrative and design, outstanding titles in a wide range of individual genres, through to e-sports and content creation....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 285 words · Chelsea Burns

The Garden Of Earthly Delights Is A Free Chatroom For Tigers

Remember, man is as much an animal as any boar, bear, or bird - something to keep in mind, should you feel like waltzing around the battlefield as an unarmed, topless bloke. The Garden is a new virtual hangout spot from SCRNPRNT, the architects behind strange Counter-Strike dreamscape Dustnet. This time, they’ve taken their eyes to Age Of Empires 2, as framed within a low-res facsimile of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden Of Earthly Delights....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 313 words · Douglas Albright

The Hale And Healthy Rps Advent Calendar 2021

This is what’s happening: every day from December 1st until December 24th we reveal one PC game from 2021 that we think is the cat’s big fluffy pyjamas. Every game gets a whole post to itself wherein one or more of the RPS writers will explain why it’s so good. This year, that includes some of our most regular freelancers as well. Isn’t that lovely? Found family, and all that....

January 15, 2023 · 3 min · 545 words · Donald Robinson