Crypt Underworld may have missed its original December 2017 release date a tad, but the extra time in development has done wonders for Lily Zone’s interactive fever-dream. In a chunk of footage released today, we get to see some more of its strange nightmare environment, full of mismatched textures, odd sculpted polygons and sprawling mega-structures. It honestly makes me a little uncomfortable, like I’m seeing someone’s videogame nightmare, somehow immortalised in code. Below, ten and a half minutes of bounding through this uncanny virtual space and meeting the locals.

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Some of the team behind ace dungeon-crawler Legend Of Grimrock have broken John (RPS in peace). That’s John Walker, renown strategy disliker, who said that Druidstone: The Secret Of Menhir Forest felt “like something special”. Those words and more are in his Druidstone preview, which has blown my initial misgivings out of the water and made me want to devote my whole evening to it. That’s convenient, because it just came out.

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Rowdy meat-free lads have risen from the grave and only you have the will and the power to channel their boisterousness into productive behaviour. That’s Undead Horde, a game about a necromancer raising the dead to rampage across the kingdom for fun and profit. I am only now realising that I’d rolled Undead Horde and Skeletal Dance Party into one game in my memory but no worries. Undead Horde is made by 10tons, the gang behind games including Crimsonland and Jydge, so I guess I’m glad to now be fully aware of it. They make some fun video games.

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Play games online and you ll be familiar with the idea of a skill ceiling : the concept of how good it’s possible to be at something, before there’s no more room to improve.

Fortnite Battle Royale has one too, except it s a literal ceiling. I m trapped underneath it a flat pane of patchwork brick by a bunnyhopping bear-person with a shotgun. I try to jump to safety, but manage only to donk my head, as the six-foot cuddly toy shoots me in the back.

As metaphors go, it s an effective one, describing the extra dimension that Epic s Fortnite brings to the now-familiar Battle Royale format: specifically, the ability to build things. In addition to guns, Fortnite lets players harvest wood, stone, and steel, before turning those raw materials into walls, ramps, and yes ceilings. Clever players can use these fortifications defensively, chucking up barricades, blockers, and even full-fledged forts in a flurry of left-mouse clicks, but the best players will also use them on offense. That s how I ended up trapped in a flat-pack coffin by an anthropomorphised teddy.

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While not quite as reliable a source as PayPal (who had leaked details on the wallet-devouring event in years past), the ever-unofficial Steam Database reckon that the 2019 Steam Summer Sale starts on Tuesday, June 25th. Kicking off at 10am PST/6pm BST on the day, it’ll run two weeks, and flood anyone who has a Steam wishlist with mail notifications. Steam Database have been consistently reliable, and cite Chinese Steam fan-site SteamCN as their primary reference, which they’ve confirmed with “multiple sources”, which I’d hazard a guess at meaning anonymous developers.

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Are you looking to meet heavily-armed and available men in your area for hot action… and maybe more? Someone who won’t flashbang you then run? Or fancy a group of like-minded murdermen for chat and banter? Pick up your mouse and click on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which has added a looking-for-group system to help players party up and party down. The game already has matchmaking but this lets players investigate each other and have a chat before they commit to anything.

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Last time on Wastes of Space: After having been dumped on the alien backwater known as Horace s World with barely any kit and even less of a plan, Alice, Matt and Nate finally managed to meet up, thanks to their robot friend ODD (and his Vengabus). In one place at last, they laid the foundations of their colony, and began the backbreaking work of taming the final frontier. Also, Matt learned to fly, and they built a car called the Eiffel 69. >

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In a classic case of ‘doing it because we can’-itis, HP have unveiled the world’s first dual-screen gaming laptop. Dubbed the Omen X 2S, this gaming laptop not only has a regular 15.6in screen, but a smaller, almost touch pad-sized screen beneath it sitting above the keyboard. According to HP, you see, 82% of people use their phones for messaging while playing games these days, while 49% use them to watch livestreams, videos and surf the web. Thus, the logic surely follows that you might as well ditch your phone altogether and just do everything from your trusty laptop – and pay loads more for the privilege, too.

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Hopefully by now you’ll have a decent understanding of combat, weaponry, and perks in Mordhau (and if you haven’t, what are you doing here? Go read one of my other guides!). Now it’s time to combine all this knowledge and discuss where to invest your 16 points in our Mordhau builds and loadouts guide. Below I’ve created eight diverse and powerful builds, all of which can be used to great effect in a variety of different situations. I’ll also provide a few tips to ensure that when you create your own character build from scratch, you’ll have a couple of extra tricks up your sleeve.

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Square Enix have shut down Studio Istolia and cancelled the new-ish team’s only known game, a JRPG named Project Prelude Rune. This has been a short and unspectacular life for the studio. Squeenix announced Istolia’s opening in February 2017, with former ‘Tales Of…’ producer Hideo Baba in charge, then showed only wee snippets of Prelude Rune since. They say they’re working to get Istolians jobs on other Squeenix games, so that’s good at least.

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