Colonists, Halcyon needs you! If you’re planning a trip to the capitalist dystopia of Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds, then you’ll want to know how to kickstart your career as a minimum-wage nobody. Luckily, we’re here to help with our guide to getting started in The Outer...

2019, year of dreams, year of tragedies. No matter how good or bad 2019 has been to you, it’s definitely been a year we can all look back on and say ‘yes, that was a year’. As we approach the end of 2019 it’s natural that we would all want to take stock on what we’ve learned, what...

Christmas is coming, and you know what that means? Days and days of awkward family interactions where you’d rather be playing games, but instead have to listen to your racist uncle parrot on and on about how things were better back in his day. Ah yes, what joys await us all in the coming weeks,...

Billing itself as the “gold standard” of transport simulation games, Urban Games’ Transport Fever 2 is fast approaching on the 11th of December for those of us partial to a bit of infrastructure management in this holiday season. If you’re a sucker for a good tram system, this game has you...

This year has been something of a belter when it comes to good games, and nowhere is that truer than when it comes to the independently developed efforts that chart among the best games of the last twelve months. So without further ado, here are the top indie games of 2019!  10....

Perchance you’ve been following our monthly column on getting into game design, a holistic approach for beginners to dip their toes into the mystical world of game development. In October, we touched on picking your first engine to start experimenting in, and during November we gave you some...

Tools Up! is a game all about working together to renovate houses. That sounds a lot like work to some people, but the aim of the game is to have fun, not actually do work. It’s not like they’re asking you to actually go and move furniture or do the painting in real life, because that would...

It’s hard to buy for a gamer. Most of the games they want they’ve probably already got, and there’s plenty of useless tat on the market to be bought and never used again by the lucky recipient. Most of their wishlist will be ridiculously expensive bits of hardware that aren’t suitable for...

It’s probably fair to say that the Darksiders series is a bit hit-and-miss. While many people lauded the first as being a very solid, and somewhat gritty, take on the classic Zelda formula, both the second and third entries weren’t received as well. This could well be due to the other popular...

Death Stranding has been out for a few weeks now, and that means you’ve probably seen or read a lot about it. It’s the first game from Hideo Kojima as an independent of sorts, with no higher-ups at Konami telling him no. It’s also one of the most star-filled games in existence thanks to a...

Greetings, budding students! Perhaps you’ve been paying attention to our monthly blog series which dwells on beginner game development for the curious gamers out there. Last month, we talked about the best game engines to start your journey. Alas, even if you figure those out, you’re probably...

It’s November! 2019 is winding down, and men across the world are refusing to shave – not out of some sort of vendetta for kemptness and hygiene, but to change the face of men’s health. November is now Movember, where not shaving has become a movement to help men talk about their mental...