Will probably have a curation problem, but let’s see Finding and sharing Free Stuff is one of the time-honoured duties of the video game journalist or SEO-monger. Back when I was OXM’s online editor, “free Xbox games” was one of our golden Google pillars, the other two being “Minecraft Xbox 360 update” and “Skyrimsomething something”. Well, uncle Valve has just rudely torpedoed that ancient investigative initiative by adding a Trending Free tab to the Steam frontpage, encompassing prologues, demos, free-to-play games and that most treasured of jewels, a full free game with no monetisation elements, such asGrimhook....

Beep beep Vroom vroom. That is the sound of 11 rivals revving their engines as they blink the sweat out of their eyes and exhale years of self-doubt from their lungs. Today is their day. We have lined up these racing games on a starting grid and are interested to see how things shake out. Will the realism-obsessed driving sims take the lead with their sublime physics engines? Might the futuristic combat racers simply destroy the opposition with explosive rockets?...

READ REVIEW OF GAME The Crimson Diamondis a proper old-school style puzzle adventure. It’s 2D pixel art, with a limited colour palette as in EGA games, and you control it with a text parser, likeKing’s Questor one of them other Sierra adventures old men like Graham remember. It’s important to mention this up front because it’s very possible that, despite The Crimson Diamond’s tale of betrayal, murder, and mineral rights in 1914 Canada, the text parser element will be a Rubicon you instantly can’t be arsed to cross....

Archive heard of this series before The Bullfroggy connected universe that is Two Point County continues to expand with the announcement ofTwo Point Museum, another irreverentmanagementsim from developers Two Point Studios. This one’s about museums, would you believe, with exhibition themes including the world of prehistory. Find a trailer propped below this paragraph like a freshly brushed-down Tugowaurus skeleton. The basics appear to be as in the previous two games: you build an attractive, labyrinthine space in order to fulfil the needs and demands of people passing through, so as to earn cash....

The Asus ROG Ally could be first up for SteamOS support Valve have made no secret of their plans to makeSteamOS– the Linux-based operating system that powers theSteam Deck– available to other games-playing devices, including rival handhelds. After arecent beta updatementioned adding support for theAsus ROG Ally’s inputs,The Vergeconfirmed with Valve that SteamOS support for non-Steam Deck portables is still very much in the works. The Deck’s long-promised dual booting capability, on the other hand, sounds further down the to-do list....

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Half-Laugh Everyone lovedHalf-Lifeyet no one in 1998 was brave enough to say: “Okay, but what if this was an early access crafting survival game voiced by a bunch of New Zealanders?” Those 90s cowards.Abiotic Factoris the courageous game that has been correcting this historic oversight. It’s fun, and the fun just got funnerer. The"Crush Depth" update, released yesterday, adds a heap of new areas to the game’s messed-up scientific facility, including a dangerous Security Sector and a vast reservoir zone called the Hydroplant....

Or more generously, building suspense “Alien: Isolation was kind of what made me see that Alien could truly be terrifying and done well [today],” Álvarez toldTotal Filmin an interview passed along byGamesradar. “I played a few years after it came out. Don’t Breathe was coming out. Or was I waiting for Don’t Breathe to come out, and I was playing the game. That’s why, at the time, I was like, ‘fuck, if I could do anything, I would love to do Alien and scare the audience again with that creature and those environments’....

You’ve got ARPG in my shmup again I’m no shoot ‘em up nutter - or “shmutter”, as I understand they prefer to be called - but some of the first games I remember playing are shmups. Games like Maelstrom, Ambrosia’s Macintosh clone of Asteroids, and the proto-shmupCrystal Questfrom Patrick Buckland, who would go on to makeCarmageddon. Little did I know that the humble premise of a small 2D spacecraft shooting baddies on a wrap-around screen would reach the glittering heights ofNova Drift....

Free to download now Are you a prospective buyer ofBlack Myth Wukongand would like to see if your PC qualifies for uninterrupted monkeying around? Wowee, would you look at that! There’s a BMW (no, not the German multinational manufacturer of vehicles) benchmarking tool out now that lets you preview how the game would run on your hardware. The benchmarking tool is free, only available onSteam, and separate from the game itself, clocking in at just under an 8GB download....

Hands-on with the first few cases of the upcoming remaster Still, while I can’t exactly say I wouldn’t have it any other way, these rough edges have always been part of the game’s charm. If Burt had much instinct for self preservation, I wouldn’t need to place that pistol in his hands like a parent doing the aeroplane thing with a spoonful of mashed swede.Dead Risingput oceans of weeping, pallid flesh front and centre, but it was the fainter wrinkles that made it such an idiosyncratic gem: time limits, non-linearity, and an almost quasi-roguelike loop....

How services like GeForce Now let you dance around the Deck’s limitations Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. TheSteam Deck’s competitors, whether they’re the old guard Ayaneo family, the luxeAsus ROG Ally X, or the shapeshiftingLenovo Legion Go, usually share the same attack line: they can play more of your games. The Deck’s compatibility issues aren’t nearly as issue-some as they were at launch, but between its Linux-based SteamOS and its relatively mild processing power, but it is true that beefier Windows handhelds will more likely cater to your entire cross-launcher library....

Yee-haw! Well, root my toots. Unless you’re Australian, in which case don’t do that. Just enjoy the now very much confirmed-looking release of the originalRed Dead Redemptionon PC. That’s according to a listing on thePlayStation Store, which contains the currently inaccurate but tantalising phrase “now on PC for the first time ever.” If you missed out on the original Red Dead (Ok, not theoriginalRed Dead) it’s a breezier, slightly goofier foray into the Old West, although the writing was still very strong for the time....