Month: September 2024

Want to play a game where a you’re a wildly irresponsible, extremely dangerous police officer with a suite of armaments you probably shouldn’t have fighting equally-overarmed villains in a dystopian future city? Well, aspiring cyborg-cop or dreadful judge-jury-executioner type, there’s an upcoming game for you: Mega City Police.

Mega City Police is an action roguelike about blasting your way through city streets overrun with viciously psychopathic criminals out for blood. After choosing one of a few character archetypes you go into top-down shooter action against hordes of enemies and bosses. As you go, you pick up cool new weapons and special abilities to customize and define your playstyle.

The prelude version of Mega City Police is out now, and lets you play the first 2 l…

This week brought the news that YouTuber Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson has launched legal action against his own brand of burgers, described in the filing as being delivered to customers in a “raw”, “revolting”, and “inedible” state, among many other things. The company behind MrBeast Burger, Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), has now responded to the suit and accused the star of “bullying tactics” and a “meritless” case.

VDC provided a statement to the Daily Mail, in which it says “the complaint is riddled with false statements and inaccuracies and is a thinly-veiled attempt to distract from Mr. Donaldson’s and Beast Investments’ breaches of the agreements between the parties.”

It describes the suit’s various claims as “false, disparaging statements” and s…

Meta is beginning the process of ramping down support for its original Quest VR headset. In an email to owners, the social media company says that users will not be able to create or join parties, and from March 5, 2023, lose access to Meta Horizon Home features.

The core gaming and app functionality of the Quest remains unaffected, though no new features are coming to the headset. Meta will continue to publish bug fixes and security updates for the headset through the year, TechRadar notes. However, it does appear as though the first-generation headset’s time is coming to an end and users are being pushed towards newer tech.

The Quest won’t have had a particularly long life at the time of its official demise, but it didn’t have long in the spotlight, either. First launched …

The festival of manic materialism that is Black Friday 2023 is still over a month away. But there are some very decent deals right now on 1440p gaming monitors. Indeed, with big-brand 170Hz models available for a penny under $200, it’s unlikely Black Friday with unearth anything dramatically cheaper.

1440p arguably remains the sweetspot for real-world PC gaming. For sure, there are benefits to 4K in terms of razor-sharp visuals. But then there are also downsides, debilitating GPU load being the most obvious. And price. 4K high refresh really costs.

So, what can you expect for your 200 smackers? We’re generally reluctant to recommend rolling the dice on some utterly obscure brand, so you’ll be pleased to hear we’re dealing with a Gigabyte model, the GS27QC, which is just $200…

With the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty set to arrive on September 26, CD Projekt is making some changes to the game’s system requirements “to ensure that players have a better understanding of what will be needed” to run the game at an acceptable level of performance. The changes also reflect the evolution of PC gaming hardware in the three years since the original game’s release, including support for new GPU hardware that wasn’t available back then.

“The changes to the minimum requirements are a reflection of our new standard of requirements, which we believe better represent the minimum PC configuration required to run the game at 1080p, while maintaining an average of 30 FPS at low preset,” CD Projekt said. “The reason for making these changes is that updating the r…

Roccat is no more. The peripheral brand out of Germany, bought by Turtle Beach in 2019, is being retired and all of its existing product lines will be shifted over to Turtle Beach branding.

“We want to bring a greater level of integration to our family of products across console, PC and simulation,” a statement on the Turtle Beach, formerly Roccat, website says. “We felt that time and resources would be best spent focusing under a single brand and creating a range of products that matter most to gamers.”

First and foremost a PC peripheral brand, Roccat was bought by Turtle Beach for $19.2 million total in 2019. At the time the move was cited by Turtle Beach as a way to expand outside of the company’s existing console consumer base. It was also said at the time that Roccat wa…

In the wake of a furious backlash from players, Runescape developer Jagex has admitted that it “messed up” and is making major changes to the recently-announced Hero Pass to remove all the “controversial features” that touched off the uproar.

The announcement of the Hero Pass, a new monetization system that was meant to exist alongside Runescape’s existing subscription fee, did not go over well: Angry messages flew on the official Runescape forums and subreddit, players claimed they’d quit the game and cancelled their accounts, a review bombing campaign was launched on Steam, and a video on the whole mess posted by YouTuber Asmongold attracted more than 1,200 comments.

Jagex initially tried to quell the unrest and ride it out, saying in a September 6 blog post, “We’ve been l…

Something like two and a half years after I first saw the concept and thought “that looks neat” we’re finally gonna get it. We’re finally gonna get a game where you use a mech to plow a field grow and plant some seeds and water them and then harvest a big weird alien fruit.

Videogames, hell yeah.

Following a new trailer earlier his week, Lightyear Frontier developers Frame Break have announced that it’ll release into Early Access in March 2024. First teased quite some time ago, it’s a game about homesteading on an alien world with mechs and up to four players, cooperatively. It’s very exciting, because frankly, that’s a very exciting idea.

The new trailer has the very geared up farmers of the frontier stomping about in their mechs, tossing treats to birds, and otherwis…

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Like a Tabby slime squelching into your chicken coop, Slime Rancher 2 has been steadily working its way through its early access period since it launched in September 2022. This February, developer Monomi Park added 36 new gadgets into its squidgy farming sim, including a constructible Slime pinball machine. Now, its v.0.5.0 update adds yet more gizmos to the game, alongside a whole new way to purchase them: the ProntoMart.

As explained via Steam, the ProntoMart “introduces a brand new shop system to spend all your hard-earned Newbucks”. The ProntoMart kiosk, designed in Slime Rancher’s delightful kawaii style, lets players access two new storefronts. Polestar Provisions sells blueprints needed to craft gadgets, while Coo-Coo corner is a “daily deals” shop that sells gadg…

In this world, nothing is certain except death, taxes, and Steam rolling out a terrific sale every time I’m trying to save a few pennies. Cue Steam’s Metroidvania Fusion sale, which offers up some terrific deals on some of the best genre mashups around.

There’s up to 75% off on various games, and some of the best deals include Yoku’s Island Express, which sees you play as an insect postman and, if that wasn’t enough, earned a handsome 85% in PCG’s review. There’s also Luna’s Light, which involves a young huntress navigating a hostile post-apocalyptic world. However, the stand-out that caught my eye and made my stomach drop in fear has to be the brutal soulslike Blasphemous, which is currently 75% off at $6/ £5. 

Taking i…