Looking at the latest trailer for The Balance’s giant robo-biffer Override: Mech City Brawl, I’m officially jealous I wasn’t able to take it for a spin at EGX last month. Looking a bit like old PS2 gem War Of The Monsters, it’s a game about oversized cartoon robots knocking seven shades of steel out of each other, or sometimes alien invaders if you’re running solo. It all looks a little Pacific Rim meets Megas XLR, and that’s pretty much a match made in heaven, so far as I’m concerned. Below, a fresh peek at the game, its features and its big ugly space-monsters.

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Undertale‘s spectacular soundtrack has found a new home today, in an unlikely partnership with old arcade studio Taito and their minimalist rhythm game Groove Coaster. Being that these are two games I regularly return to (although Groove Coaster mostly lives on my phone), it’s a pairing I’m plenty happy with. While sadly only four tracks, they’ve picked some good ones for this DLC, and the levels they’re wrapped around are appropriately themed. Below, a cute trailer featuring our favourite lazy skeleton trying his hand at DJ’ing. Minor Undertale spoilers below, too.

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The Tricentennary is nearly upon us, so in order to prepare for the special day, it’s once again time to gather up everything that we know about Fallout 76 since it was revealed at E3 2018. There are a bunch of trailers, some explanations about how it’ll play, and the release dates for both the beta and the game itself. You can find all of this, along with everything else we know about the game so far, including any hidden details that could hint at what is to come. (more…)

Ever since playing Bloodborne I’ve been vaguely suspicious of the moon, so seeing its influence tearing the very fabric of reality asunder in Ode To A Moon‘s debut trailer reinforces my prejudices. The latest from 0 N 0 W creator Colorfiction, it looks to be yet another walk through a surreal reality, although this time more coherent than their previously disconnected dreamscapes. Below, a strange and lurid launch trailer – given some of the fragmented spaces shown, I’m certainly hoping this was only vaguely> inspired by real events, as Colorfiction claims.

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RimWorld is a game of perfect catastrophe. Not simply a homage to Dwarf Fortress, or a skin graft of Prison Architect, it has spent five years of early access becoming its own simulation of farce, hopefulness and inevitable disaster. Today, it’s finally “done”. It starts as an opaque management game about the marooned survivors of a sci-fi shipwreck. But it quickly harnesses the darkness and humour of an absurd Yeatsian apocalypse. Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, Landoa has raided the drug stash again. And through all this, what rough beast slouches toward your settlement in a manhunting rage?

Oh, it s a tortoise. It’s gonna take a while.

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Resonance Of Fate is a JRPG without classes and practically devoid of stats, but dense in acrobatic gunfights and weird dieselpunk monsters to shoot with heavily modded guns. Remastered and relaunched today (and making its PC debut), Resonance Of Fate is the work of Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean studio Tri-Ace, and flew under the radar when it first launched in 2010. Still, it was offbeat and creative enough to earn itself a cult following, and I’m personally very glad to see it back and looking stylish as ever. Below, a launch trailer featuring that> scene.

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When AMD launched their Vega-infused Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G processors earlier in the year, I was left mighty impressed. Here were two relatively cheap CPUs that could sort of play games at decent enough settings at 1920×1080 via their integrated graphics chips without forcing you to spend hundreds of pounds / dollars on a dedicated GPU – a feat made all the more enticing at the time by the then astronomical prices of even the cheapest bestest best graphics cards.

GPU prices have, thankfully, calmed down a bit since then, but even now they remain a considerable expense for those looking to build a PC as cheaply as possible – whether it’s for you, your kids, younger siblings or even your parents. With the right processor, you can save yourself a heck of a lot of money – so today I’m going to take a look at AMD’s newest and cheapest Vega-fied CPU, the 50 / $60 Athlon 200GE, to see how it holds up against its 90 / $100 Ryzen sibling, the 2200G.

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Stealthy sci-fi shooter Skin Deep, latest from Blendo Games (Quadrilateral Cowboy, Flotilla, etc) cites the greatest Christmas movie ever – Die Hard – and Far Cry 2 as equal inspirations. As the resident barefoot badass aboard a spacecraft crawling with murderous pirates, it’s up to the player to clear out the bad guys, ideally while not being vented into space, bleeding out or otherwise dying horribly. The game was just announced with no release date yet, but below you’ll find a debut trailer featuring acrobatic sharpshooting and a dedicated ‘cough blood’ button.

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How many boppers would Blackout ops rock if Cod Blops could rock lots? Well, that depends on the mode. Following the launch of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 last week, developers Treyarch are still fiddling with its flagship battle royale mode, Blackout, and yesterday tweaked playercounts. Four-player squads have gone down from the classic Plunkbut count of 100 players to 88, while the duo mode nudges up to 100. I have heard complaints that ‘Quads’ mode was too chaotic, so removing three squads from the field sounds helpful. Treyarch say they’re still tinkering.

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The Ancient Greek world in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is honestly a colossally sized place. Set during the conflict between Athens and Sparta, there are a fair few returning features, such as sailing, but it also retains a fair few of the the big changes that were brought with Assassin’s Creed Origins. There’s plenty of new features as well, like romancing NPCs and dialogue choices. In this collection of guides, we will cover the basics of combat, which gameplay mode to choose, the multiple side quests, skills and sailing explained, and dealing with the mercenaries.

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