Benjamin O'Rourke
Benjamin is one of our staff writers who loves making videos, playing games and to generally have a good time. He loves old-school and retro-style games, especially platformers and RPGs.
Frozen Synapse 2 reveals new trailer, but is delayed until next year
Frozen Synapse, a wonderful turn-based strategy game from 2011 by Headup Games, has had a sequel in development for a while. The latest trailer shows a range of new units, including melee and close-range ones, like flamethrowers, smoke grenades and mine layers.
In a press release on the game's site, Mode 7 also tells us " will feature a vast procedurally generated...
Alchemilla team working on co-op survival game Twin Soul
White Noise, the team behind the Silent Hill mod Alchemilla, have teased a new co-op survival horror experience called Twin Soul.
From the teaser trailer, we know the game focuses on a house which seems normal at first, until freaky things start to happen. Whilst the trailer doesn't reveal much, the IndieDB page has more information. It states that the...
Overcooked The Lost Morsel DLC is ready to be served
Overcooked, the fast-paced multiplayer cooking game, has new DLC titled The Lost Morsel.
As shown in the trailer, this DLC features a host of new chefs, as well as a more... exotic locale. You also get a helicopter to travel around in. With more frantic action in the kitchen, the DLC will only put more strain on your friendships as you...
Pokemon Sun and Moon trailer shows off new Z-Moves and Ultra Beasts
A new Pokemon Sun and Moon trailer is live, just four days before the release of the game itself. In what is presumably the final trailer before launch, we meet our three new starters, each packing their own stupidly powerful Z-Move unique to them.
First up is Decidueye's Z-Move, Sinister Arrow Raid, which shows the owl launching a barrage of...
Plague Inc: Evolved update brings new horrors
Plague Inc: Evolved has added a new virus that really shakes up the game. The popular disease simulator (and the exciting game of strategy behind it) has now added the terrifying Shadow Plague, which is vampiric in nature.
As the Steam update page says, you can:
Consume humanity - Feed carefully to grow in power and transform into a monstrous bat...
Darkest Dungeon devs talk about future plans
Darkest Dungeon, the crowdfunding success, has sold one million copies. In a recent blog post, the devs at Red Hook Studios has discussed what it feels like, and what they plan for the future.
"There are a lot of things we can say about hitting the one million copies threshold, but none of them truly encapsulate the event," they said. "We...
Mass Effect Andromeda trailer teases Andromeda Initiative
Mass Effect Andromeda has had more information revealed about it today, by a new teaser trailer. While it didn't tell us much, it suggested that Andromeda will be set 600 years after the events of Mass Effect 3, in a future "beyond the Milky Way ... among unknown stars and unseen dangers".
The Andromeda Initiative, meanwhile, was shown at the...
Pokemon Sun and Moon trailer reveals final starter evolutions
The latest Pokemon Sun and Moon trailer has revealed, amongst other things, the final evolutions of the starter Pokemon Litten, Rowlet and Popplio. The secondary evolutions were already revealed a few weeks ago in a previous trailer, but the final evolutions have been hotly contested for a while since a leak surfaced, revealing concept art. That leak is now...
Star Citizen is free to play until the end of October
Cloud Imperium Games have decided to make their new space-faring sim, Star Citizen, free for the rest of October as part of what they call "Fall 2016 Free Fly".
The way to participate in this free-to-play trial is simple. Just create a Star Citizen account and use the promo code "FALL2016". Once you've done that, all you need to do is...
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided gets a patch to fix DirectX 12 problems
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided didn't originally release with DirectX 12 support, but it was just over 2 weeks when that support was added with patch 5. The latest patch, 592.1, focuses on "fixes for a couple of gameplay and DirectX 12 related issues raised by the community."
A few of the fixes for the DirectX 12 support include:
Improved stability...