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Two fascinating gaming books are on the way
The NES Encyclopaedia and Japansoft: An Oral History are both set for release next year.
Win a download code for Steel Rats on PS4!
We’ve got two EU codes for the wonderfully OTT Steel Rats to give away, but you’ve only got a few days to enter, hurry!
Hazelnut Bastille is a gorgeous-looking 16-bit-style RPG
A stunning Zelda-like top-down RPG is storming its Kickstarter goals.
Resonance of Fate 4K/HD Edition launches today, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time
Who the hell launches a new game a week before Red Dead Redemption 2?
Telltale Games looks set to close
The studio behind The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us has laid off most of its staff.
Hollow Knight is coming to PS4 and Xbox One!
And this fantastic Metroidvania game is being released very soon indeed…
I did my first article for PC Gamer!
My preview feature on Night Call is in issue 322 – and I’m very excited to see my words in print.
August is Metroidvania Month
Four fantastic Metroidvania games are being released this month: Dead Cells, Chasm, Death’s Gambit and Guacamelee 2.
Moonlighter updates incoming
The excellent dungeon crawler Moonlighter is getting a ton of free updates – and there are also rumblings about an incoming Switch version.
Blacksad: Under The Skin is a new game based on a fantastic comic that you should definitely read
Co-created by an ex-Disney animator, Blacksad depicts a beautiful film noir-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals. And soon it’s going to be a game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20% off Most Agreeable video game T-shirts!
Until midnight on 18th April, you can get 20% off Most Agreeable T-shirts and mugs. Hurry!
Spiffing Reads: Roman Numerals and Giant Beetles
This week: the definitive ruling on whether it should be Black Ops IIII or IV, a massive mushroom beetle is found in No Man’s Sky, a man plays Nintendo Switch using a 1986 pocket TV, and where it all went wrong for Atari.
Spiffing Reads: the Papers, Please short film and Berlin-nightclub turn-based tactics
This week: the amazing Papers, Please short film, what Lucas Pope did next, the disco-tastic turn-based tactics game All Walls Must Fall, a secret trick in Super Mario Bros. 3, and Donald Trump targets video games after school shootings.
Burnout Paradise Remastered heading to PS4, Xbox One and PC
Burnout is coming back! A remastered version of Burnout Paradise is set for launch on 16th March, with a PC version heading along later in the year.
Spiffing Reads: UK Switch Sales Slower Than Elsewhere
This week: the Nintendo Switch isn’t breaking records in the UK, Celeste helps out with mental health, Sleep Is Death deserves a reboot, a Twitter bot unearths a lost game, and why cheating was cool.