Obviously, obviously>, Human: Fall Flat is primed for multiplayer. It s a knockabout physics game in which you play as a wobbly non-Newtonian man. He s ungainly and awkward to control and, for heck s sake, Gang Beasts showed how funny that combination is when several players get together.

Yet developer Tomas Sakalauskas never really saw his game like that. Human Fall Flat was meant to be a singleplayer physics-based puzzle game, a meeting of Portal and Limbo. And besides, he was pretty sure that online multiplayer was impossible. But it s what players asked for, so what could he do?

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[Update: The first day’s streaming is done! But you can still watch us kissing the ground hard in Human Fall Flat in the video below.]>

That rumbling sound you hear is half of Brighton packing its bags as Gamer Network decamps to Birmingham for EGX 2018. And the Rock, Paper, Shotgun Video Department will be at the show, too. We ve decided to try our hand at livestreaming , which is basically video without safety nets. I ve heard it s quite popular these days and that someone called Ninja makes a billion pounds a minute from it. So even if we make fools of ourselves, we ll at least be able to retire on all that delicious green. I can t believe we didn t get on this sooner. Anyway, read on for information on what we re doing and when.

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We’ve just passed the half-way point of 2018, so Ian Gatekeeper and all his fabulously wealthy chums over at Valve have revealed which hundred games have sold best on Steam over the past six months. It’s a list dominated by pre-2018 names, to be frank, a great many of which you’ll be expected, but there are a few surprises in there.

2018 releases Jurassic World Evolution, Far Cry 5 Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Warhammer: Vermintide II are wearing some spectacular money-hats, for example, while the relatively lesser-known likes of Raft, Eco and Deep Rock Galactic have made themselves heard above the din of triple-A marketing budgets. (more…)