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Key artwork for Slay the Spire, showing two of the characters in the games facing the infamous spire itself, which pierces the clouds above it. There's an orange glow coming from the centre of the storm. Cards fly around in the rest of the image.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Towers

The non-faulty kind.

Oct. 11, 2023 Robert Purchese

22 comments

Hardhat Wombat screenshot - a cartoon wombat dressed as a construction worked has built a 2D castle out of wombat faeces. I'm not here to judge.

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George Fan, creator of Plants vs Zombies, on design and his new game about the greatest fact in the world

And whether three months is enough time to ruin a friendship.

Oct. 11, 2023 Christian Donlan

3 comments

News

Rocket League is ditching player-to-player item trading in December

To "align with Epic's overall approach".

Oct. 10, 2023 Matt Wales

11 comments

Blog

Podcast | How video games have helped us with our mental health

With Victoria, Bertie and Johnny Chiodini.

Oct. 10, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

77 comments

News

Play the The Talos Principle 2 early with this "bespoke" demo

Plus save 10 per cent if you pre-order now.

Oct. 8, 2023 Vikki Blake

13 comments

News

Stardew Valley creator teases an important addition in 1.6 - hats on cats (and dogs)

Meowdy purrdner.

Oct. 6, 2023 Liv Ngan

3 comments

Trevor Hills tries to escape in American Arcadia

News

Truman Show-like American Arcadia gets November release date

Demo on Steam now.

Oct. 6, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

3 comments

An Art Noveau-styled image of a feminine character on the edge of a fest, with a pipe in hand, peering out beyond the camera. They're wearing many layers of what looks like fantasy garb.

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Oct. 6, 2023 Robert Purchese

113 comments

For the King 2 promotional art showing four adventurers surveying a mysterious castle that stands in the distance before them.

News

For the King 2's tabletop-inspired RPG action gets November release date

Initially available on Steam.

Oct. 5, 2023 Matt Wales

2 comments

A floating skeleton enemy from Metal: Hellsinger

News

This month's Humble Choice offers horror for Halloween

Delightfully devilish.

Oct. 4, 2023 Liv Ngan

5 comments

Three PowerWash Simulator players with VR headsets cheer at the camera whilst a cat walks up behind them

News

PowerWash Simulator blasts onto VR in November

Squirtual Reality.

Oct. 3, 2023 Liv Ngan

19 comments

Direct Deal

Jelly Deals | Take home Stray for the PS5 from Amazon for just £20

This brilliant third-person cat adventure game is the cheapest it's been.

Oct. 3, 2023 Mark Harrison

News

Xbox Game Pass October games include Gotham Knights, Warhammer 40K: Darktide

T'au much for you?

Oct. 3, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

38 comments

A selection of the romanceable pigeons in Hatoful Boyfriend

News

Epic Games "looking into" missing royalties for Hatoful Boyfriend creator

Uncooth behaviour.

Oct. 3, 2023 Liv Ngan

6 comments

Sea of Stars artwork showing heroes to the right, facing off against various enemies using magical spells

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Composing nostalgia: how Sea of Stars revisits the past through music

"Limitations breed creativity."

Oct. 3, 2023 Ed Nightingale

11 comments

Trek to Yomi and more leave Game Pass later this month.

News

Trek to Yomi and more leave Xbox Game Pass later this month

Cutting edge news.

Oct. 2, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

20 comments

Key art from Frostpunk 2 showing a largely black scene and portrait of someone's face, but their goggles are reflecting a blazing fiery image, in which a city appears to be on fire. Oh no.

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Weather is no longer the primary threat in Frostpunk 2 - people are

It's a riot.

Oct. 2, 2023 Robert Purchese

13 comments

An image taken from a Frostpunk wallpaper. We see over the shoulder of an explorer wrapped in warm winter wear, standing in a frozen landscape, caked in snow. They are looking out onto a city in a distance. Hope - perhaps.

Blog

We're giving Frostpunk keys to yearly supporters, and temporarily discounting the annual price

Snow news day.

Oct. 2, 2023 Robert Purchese

38 comments

Artwork of a chained shark from Sunless Sea.

News

Sunless Sea studio Failbetter Games reaches "mutually agreeable settlement" with former creative director

Drawing "a line under their long-standing disagreements".

Oct. 2, 2023 Tom Phillips

11 comments

News

Texas Chain Saw Massacre Victim and Family mains finally agree on something - the DLC is very expensive

"If the price is not acceptable to you, you have the option to not pay it."

Oct. 1, 2023 Vikki Blake

42 comments

Lords of the Fallen promotional image showing a bedraggled main character looking out over a burnt orange and brown landscape witha giant five-fingered hand in the far distance jutting out from the horizon

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What to Play This October

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

Oct. 1, 2023 Chris Tapsell

44 comments

A Tomb Raider 2 render of Lara Croft, in iconic green top and brown hot pants, backed up against the corner of a wall, gun at the ready.

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Cocoon, Tomb Raider 2, and the pros and cons of being stuck in a game world

To the Opera House!

Oct. 1, 2023 Christian Donlan

41 comments

News

PUBG: Battlegrounds' Halloween Battle Royale is now live

PUBG: Battleghouls.

Sept. 30, 2023 Vikki Blake

8 comments

The Snake-like game Qrth-Phyl, which is of course based on the game Blockade. We see a blueish 3D room filled by a gigantic, luminous yellow 'snake', which is wrapping around itself as it tries not to bump into itself.

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Qrth-Phyl and rethinking how we remember video games

Mental blockade.

Sept. 30, 2023 Christian Donlan

10 comments

Mediatonic and Epic Games logos, with cute-looking characters from Fall Guys.

News

Fall Guys developer hit hard by Epic Games layoffs, but studio to remain open

"Decimation."

Sept. 29, 2023 Tom Phillips

66 comments