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Cosmo D’s surreal pizza adventure also picked up the Nuovo Award Cosmo D’s surreal night club RPGBetrayal At Club Lowwas the big winner at tonight’s IGF Awards, picking up both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Nuovo Award. It was one of this year’s frontrunners in terms ofnominations, winning all but one of the awards it was up for this year. The other nomination was for Excellence In Design, which went to the also excellentThe Case Of The Golden Idol, proving that, yep, once again theRPS Advent Calendaris at the forefront of great indie taste-making....

Valve’s Source 2 update is official As the prophecy foretold (and by prophecy I mean weeks of teases and abucket of rumours)Counter-Strike 2is real, coming this summer, and a limited test is available right now for selectCounter-Strike: Global Offensiveplayers. The sort-of-sequel is being built on Valve’s Source 2 engine and will launch as a free upgrade to CS:GO, carrying over all of your unlocks and purchased items. There’s no way to sign-up for limited test access, but if you’re a CS:GO player, there’s a chance that you’ve been invited....

A mast have Something terrible lurks beneath the waves inDredge. Actually, scratch that. There are a lot of terrible things that call the oceans of The Marrows home in this melancholy fishing adventure, but what they are, I couldn’t possibly tell you. In all my hours sailing these cursed waters, I’ve only ever seen brief flashes of them - their ungodly, slippery masses, long spiny fins, and a dozen different combinations of glowing eyes, teeth and tentacles....

No longer ray-denless Surprise! Thelong-promisedpatch that bringsray tracingtoElden Ringis here, over a year after release. There’s much more in the version 1.09 update besides – thepatch noteslist plenty of balance changes and bug fixes – but given the sheer amount of time the new ray tracing features have been in the works, not to mention the fact thatElden Ringhas never exactly been an exemplar of technical reliability, I wanted to focus in on ‘em and see what performance is like on PC....

Here’s everything we know about CS2, including the latest release date info What’s the latest news about Counter-Strike 2?FPS fans rejoice:Counter-Strike 2is official, and it’s releasing in the next couple of months. CS2 is the long-awaited sequel to legendary squad shooterCounter-Strike: Global Offensive, complete with map overhauls, a reworked approach to tick rate, fancy new smoke grenade tech, and lots more to look forward to. CS:GO is one of the most beloved shooters of all time, and has never been more popular, hitting a record concurrent player count of 1....

One step closer to the metaverse Epic Games have married their two money makers, creating holy matrimony between battle-royale mainstayFortniteand Unreal Engine 5. As part of the company’s State Of Unrealpresentation, Epic unveiled Unreal Editor For Fortnite (UEFN), a UE5-powered version of the game’s Creative mode which the community has been referring to as Creative 2.0 for the past few months. UEFN is out right now in beta form, and some of what’s possible with these tools are downright wild....

A brand new Acer machine with Ryzen 7735HS CPU and Nvidia’s mid-tier laptop graphics card. The latest wave of gaming laptops has hit the (virtual) shelves, and it’s now possible to pick up an RTX 4060 gaming laptop for just over a grand. The Asus Tuf A15 is down to £1099 at Amazon, a great value for a machine that includes the aforementioned GPU rated up to a 140W TDP, a Ryzen 7735HS CPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD, a 15-inch 1080p 144Hz IPS display and a 90Wh battery with fast charging....

Plus, new looks at The Lords Of The Fallen, NCSOFT’s Project M, and a King Arthur RPG Epic Games held their State Of Unreal presentation last night, where they talked about the new tech coming to Unreal Engine 5.2, unveiledFortnite’s Creative 2.0mode, and debuted new looks at upcoming UE5-developed games such asSenua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. The first hack-and-slashing adventure already had pretty lifelike faces, but the spooky sequel is taking things a step further with some frighteningly realistic tech....

The open world racer is coming in May After some early leaks these last few days, publisher 2K have officially announcedLego 2K Drive, an open-world racer that looks surprisingly awesome - if you’ll excuse the low-hanging adjective. The game features co-op, multiplayer modes, and the ability to transform between air and land vehicles, Team Sonic Racing-style. The downside? Its collection of pre-order bonuses probably needs a graph of some kind to understand....

We’ve been playing some matches in three of its seven game modes Men Of War 2doesn’t do anything by half measures, as I discovered during a recent tussle with its online multiplayer modes. Whereas Relic’s recently releasedCompany Of Heroes 3will let you pick from its four broad faction types in its WWII RTS battles,Men Of War2 takes a much more granular view, offering up 14-15 different unit types for each of its three playable nations....

Steam release and preload times for Resident Evil 4 When is the Steam release time for Resident Evil 4?The long-anticipated remake ofResident Evil 4is out tomorrow, March 24th, and it’s fair to say that all of ushorrorfans are a little bit excited. So excited that many of us might want to ensure we start playing just as soon as we can. If you’re eager to join Leon S. Kennedy on his latest horrifying adventure, read on below forResident Evil 4release times in your region, as well as details on how to preload the game....

Our first indie highlight from the show floor It’s day one ofPAX Eastand what better way to kick off our show coverage than highlighting a great indie game! We first came acrossDemonschoolback atPAX Westlast year and have loved it ever since. It’s a slick, tactical Persona-like where you play as a band of university students navigating school life by day and beating up ghosties and ghoulies by night. I had a chat with Demonschool’s Jenna Stoeber who talked me through what Demonschool is about, the game’s many horror inspirations, and what spooky shinanigans players can expect....

Spoilers: who knows This week on the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastwe bite off more than we can chew by trying to make sense of the timeline of the Studio ZA/UM firings, lawsuits, and alleged fraud/toxicity, an ongoing and complicate mess that, as of this week, shows no signs of ungoing. We kind of end up on an “who tf knows?” but do manage to boil it down into a cowboy metaphor that helps us get a grip on things....