World War 2 RTS Steel Division 2 is due to roll out on April 4th, despite messy labour disputes greatly reducing the size of developer Eugen Systems. Owners of the original Steel Division; Normandy 44 are getting some nice treats if they pick up the sequel, including eight exclusive divisions to control, with over 350 units (mostly returning plus a few new ones) split between them. Troubles with the studio aside, it looks like a solid continuation of the large-scale style of real-time strategy that Eugen have built their name on since RUSE. See the release date trailer below.

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Like any decent human, I like a side-scrolling platformer. So when I spy one with a demo, I’m inclined to take a look – most of the time I say, “Huh, yup, that was another side-scrolling platform demo,” and don’t trouble you with the news. But do you know what – I’m rather taken with Unsung Warriors. Not least because of how ridiculously charmingly it works its current Kickstarter into the game.

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With the arrival of the RTX 2060, we now have four [cms-block] cards that can take advantage of the GPU giant’s cool new graphics features, such as their reflection-enhancing ray tracing magic and performance-boosting DLSS tech. But not all games can do both things at the same time, and many more still have no confirmed support for ray tracing and DLSS at all. So I thought I’d do the hard work for you and put everything in a nice, big list, detailing every ray tracing and DLSS game confirmed so far. The list is still quite small at the moment, but if you’re thinking about upgrading to either the RTX 2060, RTX 2070, RTX 2080 or RTX 2080 Ti, then these are the games that are going to get the most out of them.

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Come with me, and you’ll be in a world of wonderful imagination. I’ve left virtual art gallery MMO Occupy White Walls alone for far too long, but that break has meant I now get to step back into a world brimming with new art and architectural possibilities. Come on. Let’s go on a little tour of one of the best galleries I’ve stumbled into.

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Not a lot of people understand what polyamory actually means. Some consider it cheating, others conflate it with polygamy, and think polyamorous people are just new-wave hipster Mormons. I m polyamorous, and while I m both new-wave and a hipster, I m not a Mormon, because from experience that isn t what polyamory is.

Without taking a good while explaining the nuances of polyamory (the different relationship orientations, the emotional difference between it and swinging, what the hell metamour means) I d have a hard time referencing any piece of mainstream media, much less a video game, that tells a polyamorous love story in a way both relatable way for poly people and an understandable way for people who are monogamous. In fact, I d have a hard time showing you a film, book, TV show, or game that has polyamorous people in it at all. And then there s Spitkiss.

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The turn-based tactical ratbashing of Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times has arrived on PC, following its 2017 debut on pocket telephones. The first one was pretty deece and this time all the DLC sold for the mobile version is included as standard on PC. If you fancy some light tactical monstermashing within a fantasy universe that makes middle-aged British people feel all roasty-toasty inside, voila!

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The moonlit version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds map Vikendi has launched in the main version of the game, after a week on the test server. Green rays of aurora borealis dance across the sky, the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, and the mid-sized snowy map doesn’t play too differently but it does look jolly nice. This update also reworks item spawn rates on Vikendi, making assault rifles more common while SMGs and DMRs become less so. Vikendi and Erangel get a new SMG too, though the tracked snowbike also due to hit Vikendi in this update has been delayed.

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Sunless Skies, the cosmic horror, spacefaring roguelite, splits my brain like a log beneath an axe.

On the one hand, a certain ennui – I have seen all this before, I have made these long, fraught voyages before, many times, in its fine predecessor Sunless Sea.

On the other, late at night my thoughts drift, unbidden, back to its dark places, its lonely ports and clockwork suns and frozen voids. Places that left impressions, places that told me unsettling stories and implied many more stories still.

I don’t want to do it all over again. I don’t want anything except to do it all again.

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I’ve been keeping half a retina on techo-noir strategy game Re-Legion for a few months now, lured by an elevator pitch that is effectively ‘what if they made a whole game based around Syndicate’s Persuadatron?’ In it, you establish a new opiate of the masses and recruit weak-minded civilians to do your bidding – including, naturally, disputing the preachings of rival such cults. With guns, like.

A black’n’neon palette and veritable flocks of murderous parishioners are a sure fire way to turn cyberpunk-hungry heads, but today’s the day we find out whether it’s our new religion or a false prophet.

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Bonjour, my little cauliflowers. The new Overwatch map klaxon is a-clanging, summoning us all to the glitz and glamour of Parisian street murder. In a pre-Valentine’s surprise, Blizzard popped Paris on the public test servers last night. Are they gearing up for some grand Valentine’s Day event? Hopefully.

In the meantime, here is a neat piano and a robot singer.

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