Steel Rats is Trials HD meets The Wild One… with added killer robots

You’ve got a bike with a chainsaw wheel and a city full of robots to mow down. Steel Rats is stupid and wonderful, and it’s coming to PC, Xbox One and PS4 later this year.

Review: The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 (PS4)

It’s repetitive, admin-heavy and ridiculously sexualised, but for a small niche of players, The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 could be a lot of fun.

Nintendo Switch Online seems like a poor deal

Cloud saves, a few NES games and some smartphone app features are the sweeteners you’ll get when Nintendo starts charging you to play Switch games online – in other words, the bare minimum.

Disco Elysium is quite fantastically ambitious

It’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Video Game, but without the bats. Disco Elysium is shaping up to be a cracking isometric RPG with superb dialogue.

My Thrones of Britannia review for PCGamesN

The latest in the Total War line is a wonderful retelling of the story of Alfred the Great. Although if you’re feeling unpatriotic, you can smite Britons by playing the Vikings as well.

There’s now a video game version of the board game Terraforming Mars – and I played it

Terraforming Mars is coming to a PC near you in 2018, with all of its shonky public-domain artwork intact. Depending on your perspective, this is either a very good thing or a very bad thing.

Review: The Swords of Ditto (PS4)

This beautiful ‘micro-RPG’ from One Bit Beyond may look cute, but it holds a fearsome challenge. If your character dies, they’re gone for forever – and you lose almost everything.

State of Mind is a slick-looking low-poly thriller

State of Mind is a promising techno-thriller from point and click experts Daedalic Entertainment, with a distinctive low-poly look.

The strange story of how Tom Clancy sold his own name

Tom Clancy died in 2013, but his brand lives on. In fact, Ubisoft has the right to use his name on video games in perpetuity. I wrote a feature on this unusual situation for PCGamesN.

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Until midnight on 18th April, you can get 20% off Most Agreeable T-shirts and mugs. Hurry!

The best games of EGX Rezzed 2018

Phogs! Smoke and Sacrifice! Unforeseen Incidents! Dead Cells! Regular Human Basketball! Metamorphosis! Hipster Cafe Simulator! Hyper Sentinel! Roll up, roll up to see the best indie games on offer at Rezzed 2018!

I am in awe of the superstar designers at EGX Rezzed

They say never meet your heroes. Just stand a few feet away from them instead and stare with your mouth open.

EGX Rezzed: first impressions

It’s halfway through day one, and the coffee has stopped working.

Developers Long Hat House explain the meaning behind Dandara

The video game Dandara is full of symbolism and strange references – but what does it all mean? I asked the developers, Long Hat House, about the thinking behind their metroidvania masterpiece.

Getting ready for EGX Rezzed

I”ll be at EGX Rezzed for the whole weekend – but I’m already worrying how I’m going to fit everything in. If you’re going to be at the show, come say hi!

PlayStation 5? Noooooo, not yet!

It feels like I only just got my PS4. I’m in no rush to splash out on a brand new console.

When coding goes wrong – amusing bug tales

Skating horses in Second Life, an unstoppable virus in World of Warcraft and the one-letter mistake that stuffed the AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines – I sought out some funny bug stories for a feature in PCGamesN.

Review: Midnight Deluxe (PS4)

This golf-like puzzler for PS4, Switch and Vita is entertaining, but it feels out of place on the big screen.

The closure of Grainger Games – as told by the staff

I spoke to employees at Grainger Games to find out what they’ve been going through – and what they plan on doing next.

Grainger Games has gone – another tragedy for the already hard hit north-east

It’s all gone, just like that. Grainger Games has shut its remaining stores. And it’s another grim disappointment to add to the hardships of North-East England.