ANNOUNCEMENT 04 Apr 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Dropzone Gets New Modes and Goes Free-to-Play

Prior to 2015, the MOBA market was the up and coming genre for PC. Reigning kings were Dota 2 and League of Legends, which had left their mark on the financial landscape, and hordes of hopeful developers were trying to emulate their success, and rake in the "wonga". Sadly 2015 saw the end of many…
NEWS 30 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Don’t Call Ben Stiller, We Have 88 Better Heros to Call Fi…

What do you do when you have a super villain problem, and the regular superheros are busy? Well you don’t call Ben Stiller...that's for sure, but you could call the guys at Bitmap Bureau, after all, they do have 88 heroes to spare. The number 88 is the recurring theme in this side-scrolling platformer. You…
NEWS 28 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Starcraft Remastered & Original Starcraft Now Free!

If Starcraft has taught us anything, it’s how to smoke aliens, while smoking cigars and wearing space suits. Clearly in an age where awareness of cancer causing pollutants, tolerance for aliens, and rigorous risk assessments (particularly for oxygen rich environments) are all commonplace, lets be honest, the game looks a "little" dated. Fortunately, the kind people over at…
ANNOUNCEMENT 18 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Wartile, Strategic Encounters in Early Access

Wartile has just been released on Early Access. This re-imagining of D&D, aims to bring all the detail and strategy of your favourite dice driven adventures, up to speed with modern inventions. Surprisingly, instead of being a turn based game, Wartile is “phase” based, with a timer that constantly ticks down phases of the game, and…
ANNOUNCEMENT 17 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Eternal Crusade – Now Free to Play With Discount!

As mentioned last week, Free to Waagh has arrived for Eternal Crusade, with a special discount until next Thursday! How can you have Free-to-Play with a discount? Simple, the usual way, just release the base game, but keep a couple of the more tantalizing things locked behind a paywall, of course. There’s nothing that unusual…
ANNOUNCEMENT 17 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Endless Space 2: Riftborn

Amplitude reveal their seventh race for Endless Space 2, the Riftborn. The Riftborn are desperate creatures from another existence, trying to reverse the disaster that tore a hole between our universe and theirs. Once content to live timelessly within the perfect order of their world, now they have become infected with chaos of our universe,…
ANNOUNCEMENT 10 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Chrono.GG Adds Coins

ChronoGG introduce GG coins, and free games. For the last year ChronoGG has been one of my favourite haunts for finding great game deals. While Chrono falls a little short of competitors like Humble Bundle and Dig Games etc. for giving amazing value bundles, Chrono makes up in quality what it misses in quantity. The…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Abatron Unleashed on Early Access This Friday

The developers at W3 studios are set to unleash Abatron on Steam Early Access on the 10th of March. Abatron is a hybrid RTS/FPS title, which happens to also be a hybrid Sci Fi/fantasy game too. Despite setbacks last year when it failed to reach its Kickstarter goal, the developers at W3 plowed on passionately with the…
ANNOUNCEMENT 06 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Dawn of War III, Mastering Pre-Orders

That’s right you dregs, time to start saving! THQ have just announced three pre-order packages for DoW III, available from the 27th of April. As can be expected from any premium title these days, Sega are looking to cash in on the DoW III hype before the game is released. Now don’t get me wrong,…
ANNOUNCEMENT 06 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Eternal Crusade: Free to Waagh

Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade (EC) is becoming free to play, and a £15 game at the same time. It’s also not going to be pay to win, but it will have some excluded classes from the free version...oh and the people who payed £40 for the game will still get their money’s worth, because they will…
ANNOUNCEMENT 02 Mar 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

DoW III: We Make Nice Snow!

All kidding aside, the hard work and talent being showcased in the above Dawn of War III environmental showcase video is very impressive. It’s good to see the developers at Relic are doing more than slapping assets together, but actually working to theme and creating something attractive and unique to their game. I may be ribbing…
NEWS 28 Feb 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Stellaris: Utopia Release Date Announced

Utopia will be with us from the 6th of April. Despite the imminent release date, Utopia itself, is a goal that will keep players busy long after release. Some would even say that “the journey is more important than the destination”, if that’s the case then we’d better all learn about Ascension Perks quickly. Ascension…
ANNOUNCEMENT 27 Feb 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Xenonauts 2 Has Been Creeping Up on You

Goldhawk Interactive have been beavering away quietly on their sequel since 2015. This week they took the bold move of releasing a free Alpha Demo of Xenonauts 2 on GoG Galaxy (note: you need Galaxy installed, this will not download from the GoG website). The demo will remain free until Xenonauts 2 reaches the “Early…
ANNOUNCEMENT 21 Feb 2017­ by Stephen Haselden

Dungeons 3 Has Been Announced

I’m very glad to tell you that the sequel to the game that swore at me more than any other, is scheduled for release later this year. Kalypso Media have been keeping Dungeons 3 development very quiet, but they finally broke their silence today, not only announcing its presence at GDC 2017 next week, but…