The Steam Charts is the only place on the internet to find out the most up-to-date information about the games you care about the most, the latest rumours of upcoming changes to early access hits, and secrets that can see your way to coming top of the gaming high score tables! (more…)

For the third day in a row, our outpost was under attack. Some enterprising yanks had discovered they could take opportunistic raiding parties through an undefended snowy field and get within grenade-throwing distance of our forward operating base a walled-in barracks full of tiny toy soldiers all sitting around grunting that they didn t have enough rifles, ammo, or best friends to clutch to their breasts as they died in the snow. Someone lowered the iron gate for me and I drove the truck into the compound, during a mercifully quiet and shrapnel-free moment.

Who wants b-mats! I shouted, employing the shorthand for basic materials I d learned from wiser, fightier men. Get your b-mats here!

Everyone in the compound rushed to the truck.

Oh YES, said an engineer, as he unloaded the essentials he needed to build up defences and do his own job. Buddy, you are the real MVP. (more…)

What sound drips forth from the audio tubes? It’s just the latest RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show. Our topic this week is: “which TV show deserves a good videogame adaptation?” Maybe you feel Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Whatever could make a good survival game? Or perhaps The Handmaid’s Tale could be a great FPS? Probably not. Graham is convinced that road trip anime Kino’s Journey is a contender, while I’m yearning for a good The Wire or Wolf Hall game full of intrigue and politicking.

Meanwhile, Graham caught up with the sad boy brigade and played Limbo follow-up Inside, while I’ve been hunkering down in the top-down persistent multiplayer war of Foxhole. It’s just us two this week because Adam is gone and Pip has been possessed by a flu demon that makes her voice sound like it’s trapped in hell. (more…)

Hello person reading this on the Steam update page for their favourite game! You can only read this paragraph introducing the Steam Charts right now, but I promise if you only click through to the full article you will read insights into this game of the sorts you could never believe! People, it’s the mother-stuffing Steam Charts. (more…)

Foxhole [official site], a massively multiplayer sandbox war where players act like units in an RTS, has invaded Steam Early Access. A war has raged for yonks, see, and now hundreds of players play every part from building bases and running supplies to, you know, fighting. After a stretch in open pre-alpha (which I downloaded but didn’t play because Plunkbat happened), Foxhole has now officially launched into paid early access. A bit like PlanetSide 2, World War 2 Online, and other persistent wars, it’s all one big throwdown across many fronts with grand schemes and grander failures. I hear good things from chums who are more resistant to Plunkbat’s siren call. (more…)