Middle-earth: Shadow of War release date delayed

Middle-earth: Shadow of War now launches on 10th October, instead of in August. The delay to the Shadow of Mordor follow-up is, as you expect, to ensure the game delivers "the highest quality experience". "Middle-earth: Shadow of War expands gameplay in every dimension, including the massive open world, the story, the RPG systems, and personal player stories of the Nemesis System," community manager Monolith_Andy posted on the game's official forum. [Read More]

Skullgirls 2nd Encore's new fighter Annie out in March, three more characters on the way

Skullgirls 2nd Encore is introducing new fighter Annie of the Stars to its roster this March, developer Hidden Variable has confirmed, and three additional DLC characters will follow. When Annie's DLC debuts in March, it'll be in the form of a Steam early access release, which the studio will continue to balance until it's satisfied the character is ready for the primetime. This early access version will include Annie (who was initially designed for Skullgirls Mobile), as well as her stage, Sound Stage 17. [Read More]

Sleep Is Death was ahead of its time

Friends have been gathering around tables to play pen-and-paper games together for decades, but what's changed recently is that now those friends can have an audience while they do it. Whether through 'actual-play' podcasts, Twitch livestreams, or sold-out performances at gaming events, there is a new audience eager to spectate while creative people improvise stories together. I understand these audiences mainly because, back in 2010, I spent hours trawling a website called SIDTube. [Read More]

The Witcher 3 features a creepy Doctor Who Easter egg

If you go down to Witcher 3's churchyard today, you're in for a spooky surprise. It seems like developer CD Projekt Red has a few Doctor Who fans in its ranks, as players have discovered an Easter egg featuring the TV series' Weeping Angel enemies. THERE MAY BE SPOILERS AHEAD. Travel to the church near Lindenvale and you'll see a pair of odd-looking statues standing outside. Explore inside the church and return outside - wait, was that statue facing towards you before? [Read More]

Uncharted: Fight for Fortune review

Fight for Fortune is the Vita's Uncharted card battling game. Every one of the series' characters, from Drake to Francis Drake to Draza, battles over treasure using tropes from the series ("CAVE IN!", "Sully's Sea Plane"), all in card form. How does this end up? Well, (full warning, this review's about to peak) it's a little thin. I'll start by telling you how it works, though don't expect anything familiar. [Read More]

Valorant tier list: Our best agent recommendations and how to unlock agents explained

Looking up a Valorant tier list will be helpful to those players just starting out in Riot's competitive shooter - or looking to master an Agent according to their preferred role in a team. As Valorant is a blend of Counter-Strike pinpoint gunplay with Overwatch's hero characters, there's a roster of characters to pick from when you start each match - and the choice can be overwhelming. We've put together a Valorant tier list for the game's best Agents, which should give you some indication on which characters you should try to learn first. [Read More]

Warzone Krampus: How to inflict damage to Krampus and kill Krampus in Warzone and Vanguard

Inflict 365 points of damage to Krampus and kill Krampus 3 times are one of the challenges to complete in both Warzone and Vanguard, respectively. As part of the Festive Fervor event, which is themed around Christmas, Krampus joins in to celebrate alongside the task to kill 10 Elf Team Six members hiding. The main difference here is that each game has a slight variation in terms of objective, but the task remains the same. [Read More]

Xbox Series X games list: All confirmed launch games on release plus Xbox Series X exclusives explained

Xbox Series X games are slowly being announced - giving us an idea of what we'll be playing when the system launches from November 2020. There are plenty of confirmed Xbox Series X games around launch and beyond (many which are also on the PS5 games list), giving us a firm idea of what we'll be playing around launch - as well as how Microsoft is handling exclusive Xbox Series X games and Xbox Series X enhanced upgrades for existing Xbox One games. [Read More]

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT review: solid 1080p performance, but falls away fast at higher resolutions

Page 1 of 6 Next page For nearly six months, Nvidia's $329/£299 RTX 3060 has stood alone as the only next-gen graphics card targeting 1080p gaming - the most popular monitor resolution and one that accounts for 67 percent of displays, if the Steam hardware survey is to be believed. Now, AMD has a next-gen 1080p card of its own in the form of the RX 6600 XT, a $379/£329 option that costs $100/£90 less than the previous most affordable RDNA 2 graphics card, the RX 6700 XT. [Read More]

Chaos Reborn review | Eurogamer.net

Julian Gollop's devious turn-based classic receives a worthy update. "GL, HF." As our own Rich Stanton once observed, only in StarCraft 2 would you need to remind players to have fun at the start of a video game multiplayer match. With Chaos Reborn, it's sort of the other way round: fun is pretty much guaranteed, but so is luck - good and bad luck, promoted to a position of supreme, and supremely mischievous, importance. [Read More]