(Image credit: Universal Studios Interactive)Turok is a name synonymous with ultra-violent games about murdering dinosaurs with guns called the ‘Cerebral Bore’. But did you know that the Turok games are (very loosely) based on comic books dating back to the 1950s? And more to the point, did you know that there’s a new Turok game coming out later this month called Turok: Escape from Lost Valley? “Encounter iconic creatures from the Turok comic series with a cute but dangerous twist,” reads the de

Remedy’s telekinesis ’em up Control is set to release on August 27, and above you can watch the opening 13 minutes courtesy of IGN. As you’d expect, given it’s the first 13 minutes from the game, it’s all about setting scene, so there’s not a great deal of action. It’s not all about remotely picking objects up and lobbing them at enemies: Control has a weird transforming gun as well, which Wes enjoyed using when he played a preview build in March. Chris also had a go in early June, writing that

(Image credit: Owlcat)Some people love the realtime-with-pause combat of Baldur’s Gate and games like it, and Pathfinder: Kingmaker was made with them in mind. In the 90 hours it took me to finish Kingmaker, I have to say that combat never grew on me. Maybe the biggest advantage of turn-based combat in Kingmaker is that area of effect spells, which it has quite a lot of, can now be set up and cast reliably. To install the turn-based mod you’ll first need to grab the Unity Mod Manager, then run i

While the world of the best VR headsets is quickly expanding into smartphone-compatible devices and standalone HMDs like the Oculus Quest and Go, this list will focus mainly on tethered headsets that are designed to work alongside a gaming PC. That preamble dispatched with, here are our five favourite lesser-known VR headsets that are doing the most interesting, amazing and offbeat things with their tech. However there are a number of lesser-known brands getting into the space, from new names wh

Just like JRPGs, visual novels can seem inaccessible at first, and have an unfair reputation for focusing on eroticism or just plain strangeness. Visual novels come in all shapes, and while it helps to like anime tropes, the strength of these games is in the characters and storytelling. Visual novels are an important narrative genre used by developers around the world to explore relationships in depth. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogyLink: SteamFun, family-friendly and stuffed with memorable

(Image credit: Bungie)Several Destiny 2 players who upgraded to a Ryzen 3000 series CPU are reporting that the game will not load properly. AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 series CPUs landed on store shelves just yesterday. So far, I have not seen a single post from a user claiming to get Destiny 2 to run on a Ryzen 3000 setup. Me and a lot of others just upgraded to Ryzen 3000 CPU’s and the game doesnt launch. Hopefully that means this can be resolved with a simple patch from Bungie, though as of right no

(Image credit: G.Skill)Hot on the heels of AMD launching its Ryzen 3000 series CPUs to retail, memory maker G.Skill has announced a new Trident-Z Neo RAM kit that, on paper at least, looks like a good fit. G.Skill claims its newest DDR4 RAM series features “optimized specifications” for builds that pair a third-generation Ryzen processor with an X570 motherboard. If you are going for a top tier Ryzen build, a DDR4-3600 kit with low timings is an excellent choice, and that is what the new Trident

Sponges in Minecraft are pretty darn absorbent—a single sponge block can suck up a total of 65 blocks of water before it becomes completely filled and needs to be dried out in a furnace. A modder named Quanted on Reddit wasn’t happy with the absorbency of Minecraft’s vanilla sponges, so they created their own modded sponge. When placed in water, the modded sponge spreads in six directions, replacing water blocks with empty air (and leaving a lot of confused squids flopping around). The intention

The thing about Star Wars that annoys me (one of many things, really) is that despite the Galactic Empire claiming dominion over a million worlds, the focus is always on a tiny number of white people getting up to trouble. Wes took a more nuanced look at the matter earlier this year, calling the selection of Cal Kestis as the lead guy in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order a “wasted opportunity” because he’s so bland. “I can’t remember the last time I was this instantly bored looking at a videogame pro

Southern California experienced an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale over the weekend, but fortunately it was centred on the Mojave Desert. Presumably it inconvenienced the cazadores. The earthquake occurred while streamer Shroud was playing Apex Legends, and you can see the footage of that moment above. There’s a lot of swearing as Shroud and his friends, one of them in Las Vegas, react to the tremors. As it builds you can see the mic stand and camera begin to shake, but it’s over b

Code Vein, Bandai Namco’s forthcoming vampire action game, just had its opening cinematic revealed at Play Anime and you can watch it above. A young child runs down some post-apocalyptic streets in a gas mask, being pursued by (bad, unattractive) vampires. Then some rival (good, attractive) vampires show up to rescue the kid and strike dramatic poses, the theme songs starts up and it’s montage time. There should definitely be more games about vampires, so I’m holding out for Code Vein to be a go

During Warframe’s annual Tennocon convention, Digital Extremes unveiled a new trailer for the next quest in Warframe’s main campaign, The New War. First teased during Tennocon last year, The New War sees the Sentients, an evil alien race that lives beyond the solar system, launch a full-scale invasion on Earth and its surrounding planets. Among all the other updates announced at Tennocon today, this new quest is one of the most anticipated since it’ll expand on Warframe’s excellent but obscure s

For the past two years, Warframe has been adding open-world zones that are a big departure from its usual claustrophobic corridor run-n-gun combat. Today, during Digital Extremes’ annual Tennocon convention, the developers revealed the new zone coming to Warframe at a later date—and it looks like nothing I’ve ever seen in Warframe. Called the Duviri Paradox, this surreal landscape introduces a new enemy faction and ages your Operators (if you don’t know what that word means it’s something I won’

Indie dev Colorfiction reached out to let us know their next game has a Steam page and one on itch, and that there’s a little demo should anyone want to check it out. Ode to a Moon is a first-person spooking simulator in which you play a photojournalist who leaves the big city to cover a thanksgiving harvest festival in the country. An eclipse is going timed to occur simultaneously with the festival, and things are going to go wrong. This 10-minute demo is more of a mood piece than anything, get

During Bandai Namco Entertainment’s ‘Future of Digimon’ panel at this year’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles, the publisher revealed that Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition is heading to PC later this year with a release date set for October 18. Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition includes the titular PlayStation exclusive, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth—released back in 2015—as well as Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory, which was released two years later and takes place alon

Aksys Games has announced that NG, the second title in the ‘Spirit Hunter’ series, will release on Steam in October. The announcement came during the Anime Expo 2019, this weekend. NG is the companion story to the horror adventure game, Death Mark which came to PC earlier this year. But whereas Death Mark relied on horror-inducing surroundings to set the tone, NG promises to take everyday locales and give them a far more sinister feel. A release date hasn’t been confirmed but we can expect to se

You can now download and play Warhorse Studio’s medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance as well as sci-fi strategy, Surviving Mars, as the early unlocks for August’s Humble Monthly if you’re a subscriber,Kingdom Come: Deliverance was released in February last year and Andy Kelly scored it a not-too-shabby 84 in his review so now would be a great time check it out if you haven’t already. Similarly, Surviving Mars was released in early 2018 and has had a number of DLCs and updates over the past ye

The next patch for Fallout 76 may not be adding NPCs (that’s coming in fall), but it is apparently going to include a handful of significant changes. Enough that patch 11 has been delayed to mid-July to incorporate them all. The highlights include revisions to make the new-player experience even more friendly. Other changes include improvements to the way power armor works. You’ll be able to activate stealth boys while suited up, and there will be a toggle in the menu to disable the power armor

(Image credit: BioWare)Thanks to ESRGAN (that’s Enhanced Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks), a variety of old games are getting a spit and polish. We’ve seen Morrowind, Final Fantasy 7, and any game with a pre-rendered PS1 background get the neural network makeover, with some impressive effects. Earlier this year, modder Red11BY did the same thing for the characters in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, BioWare’s 16-year-old RPG. The mod includes new HD textures for every sin