Last chance to nab some cheap deals on quality hardware Well,Amazon Spring sale, it’s been real, but come midnight tonight even these curated picks of your best PC gaming deals will drift away like fallen cherry blossoms. Just not as nice to look at. That’s right: it’s the sixth and final day of Amazon Spring Deal Days, or the Amazon Big Spring Sale if you’re in the US. Today’s best Amazon Spring Deal Days deals...
Ironmace have responded to the claims, asking ChatGPT for some help You might have heard ofDark And Darker, a dungeon-crawling take on Escape From Tarkov’s PvPvE that’s been gaining popularity over the last few months. Alice0enjoyed its alpha playtestlast December, and it ended up becoming one of the most popular games of February’s Steam Next Fest. It wasn’t due to launch in full until sometime this winter, but that window’s now up in the air after Dark And Darker was removed from Steam over the weekend, following a messy legal dispute between Nexon and developers Ironmace, who have been accused of “using trade secrets and copyrighted information,” allegedly stolen from Nexon....
The best PC gamepad. Want an Xbox controller? This official controller in Shock Blue is available for £35 brand new at CCL’s Ebay store when you use the codeCATCH20. That’s a handy £5 cheaper than any equivalent controller on Amazon, and the best deal we’ve seen for these gamepads since Black Friday last year. The last time I wrote up a deal on these gamepads I received a bit of stick for writing “a very padded article” given the subject matter, so I just wanted to say that if you are familiar with Xbox controllers and have used them in the past, please ignore the rest of this post and click on the link above if you’re interested....
Bungled beats to dancing feet I like to think I have rhythm, in the same way that a wobbly air dancer lunging about sporadically has rhythm. That is to say I have none at all, and that any time spent dancing turns me into an uncontrollable set of limbs flailing in the wrong directions. ThinkOctodadin a night club and you’d be on the right track (although the disastrous limb flailing is enough to keep me out of the clubs)....
Reanimated and ready to break hearts Jokes about Valve’s inability to count to three practically write themselves, but in fairness, the publisher have reportedly reached the mythical number inCounter-Strike 2’sfiles. The mention of “Left4Dead3” was recently spotted in CS2’s files (thanks,Reddit) which sparked online speculation for a third game in the series. The files state that the “severity” is “high”, the “version” is “2”, but what about the “priority?” Bad news for fans of the run-and-gunning zombie shooter: according to the files, the priority is “none....
We chat to Paradox Tectonic’s Rod Humble about going open world, getting rid of loading screens and its extensive modding tools Rod Humble has his son to thank for his upcoming life simLife By You. After finishing up work on two successful mobile games around four years ago, Humble was itching for something new. But he wasn’t quite sure what. “I was in the kitchen talking to my son about, ‘Oh, what should I do?...
Still looks unreal We’ve known aboutShadows Of Doubtfor a few years now, mainly peeking at it throughScreenshot Saturday posts, which makes sense considering the game’s beautiful, neon-soaked voxel art. Happily, the open world detective sim is now sneaking into an early access release next month, on April 24th. Shadows Of Doubt sounds wildly ambitious. Everything in the game is procedurally generated, and I meaneverything: the perpetually rainy hyper-industrial city, the citizens with their own daily routines, even the serial killer case you’ll be investigating....
At least Life By You won’t require an internet connection, though If you’re a fan ofThe Sims 4and your ears pricked up during this month’s reveal of Paradox Interactive’s upcoming life simLife By You, you might want to check your PC’s specifications before it enters early access later this year. During a chat with Paradox Tectonic’s general manager Rod Humble at this year’s GDC, I spoke to him about whether there was any plan to accommodate lower-end PC specifications when Life By You enters early access this September, and he answered by urging players to take its minimum PC specifications “seriously”....
Tales & Tactics is a not-modded auto-battler Slay The Spirehas remained an incredibly popular deckbuilding roguelike, so it naturally invited a healthymodding communitythat added fun stuff to the game -goofy googley eyes included. One of Slay The Spire’s most popular mods was called Downfall, a huge fan-made expansion that added tons of playable characters, a new mode, and more. Those developers - Table 9 Studio - are now back with their own not-modded game: an auto-battling, fantasy Chess roguelike calledTales & Tactics....
Muddy waters Terra Nilis a puzzle-citybuilder about reclaiming the environment. You replace pollution with lush life across a series of four randomly generated dioramas (plus four slightly more complicated challenge levels), covering the landscape in fynbos and forests, lichen and lagoons. When it all comes together and you can look over the fruits of your labour, birds chirping and piano melodically playing in the background, it’s beautiful. Getting to that point, though, is an often repetitive experience marred with frustration....
“Tasteless war poem pun” I keep alternating between wanting to play more and feeling weary at the prospect. While that might sound bad, it arguably means that it’s balanced an appealing strategic challenge with the grinding theme of trench warfare. The Great War Colon Western Frontis about taking the Triple Alliance or Entente through the hell years of 1914-18, or beyond. It’s a purely military game about overcoming massed defences through attrition, both in localised real-time battles, and a turn-based strategic map....
This works out to 1p per gigabyte (with a bit of rounding, admittedly). Earlier today we looked at a great price on aMicrosoft Xbox Wireless Controllerin blue using a 20% off Ebay code, and now it’s time to check out another deal using the very same discount method. This time it’s a massive 18TB HDD from Seagate, an Exos enterprise-grade drive, which is available for £245 when you use theCATCH20code at CCL’s Ebay shop front....
Friend or foe? Earlier in the week, Liam and I had the opportunity to chat withAnimal Well’s solo developer and publisher Bigmodeabout creating their eerie subterranean world. We then had a chance to go hands on with thePAX Eastdemo, and wow, we were both incredibly impressed. Watch the video below for our enthusiastic impressions: If we could give an RPS ‘Bestest Best in show’ award to a game, is would beAnimal Well....
