It is the fearsome giantess Horaszdóttir. The harshest of all deities. The winter god of game releases yet to come. She has come again, to push our faces to the turkey giblets, and make us see and tell of the desires we hold - desires for games in 2021. Unbidden, the words come to us, and we must describe our most anticipated titles for the year ahead. What will it be today, dread Horaszdóttir?...

Stray In Doom is more brutal than its feline inspiration, but that’s entirely appropriate for the classic shooter. As you can see, the cat’s robot backpack is now a floating plasma gun turret. That’s handy when you’re facing down Cacodemons and Spider Masterminds on the surface of Mars. Pagaza’s most recent work is the Doom: Shinobi mod, which came out in February and seems like a blast. It’s a third-person mod for GZDoom that turns the player into a wall-running ninja with suitably chunky sword slashes, charging attacks and combos....

Both Suda51 and Gunn tweeted to confirm they weren’t involved with the project. Gunn was the first to address the remake, in reaction to a Bloody Disgusting article about the game. “To answer the question in the article, neither I nor @suda_51 are currently involved in this,” Gunn said. “I heard about it for the first time from Suda a couple weeks ago.” Responding to a question about whether he endorsed the game, Gunn said: “I neither endorse nor condemn it!...

I will spend some time rifling through the papers within, growing more and more frantic as I hear the slow tread of heavy footsteps approaching. I must find the right file, but also I must escape in time! I haven’t been caught yet. Today I escaped with the fifth episode of The Nate Files supporters-only podcast. It’s about speculative biology. Oh no.

Bossa say Creation Mode is “the very toolkit used by the development team to create Surgeon Simulator 2 and has been designed with ease-of-use in mind.” They add that it has “the freedom to design level logic and gameplay rules, with instant transition between creation and play.” So there you are, with your pals, running together, building and playing and… that’s nice, that. Creation Mode is built into the game so everyone has it, and it’ll have a workshop to share and download creations....

If you’re worried about environmental collapse then I’d look away now. See, Synduality’s set in 2222, when poisonous precipitation going by the rather highfalutin name of The Tears Of The New Moon has scoured the Earth of most humans. It’s turned some into creepy creatures that now stalk whatever’s left of our species, too. We’re forced underground Matrix-style into a safe zone, Amasia, which brings people into contact with some AI referred to as Magus....

The upcoming test will consist of just three missions which you’ll tackle with combinations of three wizards. Suspicious Developments say that the early encounters in the game are small puzzles where you’re given a tricky setup and challenged to figure out how to knock your enemies out of windows or into walls. Later on, missions become a little more challenging, with new enemies arriving each turn. Those sound a bit more like your typical turn-based strategy games that ask you to manage a constantly worsening situation....

Disintegration’s closed beta will run from 4 pm - 7:59 am (8 am - 11:59 pm PT) on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th. Folks missing out on the closed beta can still check out an open beta from January 31st through February 1st. With a team headed up by former Halo art director Marcus Leto, Disintegration is a hell of a thing to describe. It’s an FPS, yeah, but one where you’re locked inside a massive gun-toting drone (sorry, gravcycle), issuing commands to a team on the ground while you take the occasional pot-shot from a safe distance....

“We will remain creatively independent, we expect no changes to Warframe or how our studio operates, and we will remain as dedicated ever to you, the community, who has been with us every step of the way since we launched Warframe,” Digital Extremes said in their statement. “Our acquisition will allow Splash Damage to operate as an independent entity within the Tencent family, while we get to leverage their expertise to allow us to build even greater games as we move into our third decade,” Splash Damage said in theirs....

In a scenario that sounds suspiciously familiar, a woman has appeared claiming to be from the future, and it’s up to you to help her find and destroy the Terminator threats that have started appearing in a new location on Auroa. The woman you’re looking for is named Rasa Aldwin, and you’ll need to chat with her to get your first main mission. She needs your help finding “a soldier that just won’t quit”, and “with the help of Rasa’s special weapon, you’ll have a fighting chance against anything that stands in your way....

Okay… GHOSTS! GOBLINS! SCARY THINGS! Yes, because it’s that time of the year again, we decided to test each other’s horror game knowledge (via Steam reviews) on this week’s episode of The PC Gaming Weekspot. So, I know I said we’d be doing games set in Britain, but one quick look at the calendar changed that. How could we not focus on all things spooky at this time of year?...

Scrabs - Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee Known primarily as the main ingredient in colourful Scrab Cakes, these animals are actually brutal carnivores with the senses of a bat and shark combined, and the innate aggression of a wolf spider. They have the human torso of a bodybuilder, four sharp insectoid legs, and an upwardly angled crescent-shaped beak, all the better, my dear, to stab you with. Scrabs will sometimes fight a fellow scrab, creating a ferocious dust devil that looks like two Tazes of Tasmania undergoing a frenzied spasm of lust....

What PC games are free right now? Here’s what’s free at the moment on the Epic Games Store and Prime Gaming: Recipe For Disaster (free until Feb 16 on Epic Games Store) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition (free until Mar 2 on Prime Gaming) Onsen Master (free until Mar 9 on Prime Gaming) Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield (free until Mar 16 on Prime Gaming) Divine Knockout (free until Mar 16 on Prime Gaming)...

Craftopia markets itself as a multiplayer (can also be played in singleplayer, of course) open-world survival action game. If this seems like a mish mash of categories to you, that’s because the developers over at Pocket Pair are designing a game built to answer the question: “What would happen if we combined our favourite video games together?”. Currently in early access, I genuinely believe that by the time it’s truly finished, I may never need to own another game ever again....

The premise is that simple. You’re a vagrus, leader of a merchant caravan that plods about a post-apocalyptic fantasy world in search of fortune, fame, or bumming around as you like. That world isn’t a nice place, which isn’t surprising given that the very cool backstory had the Big Empire become so utterly appalling that the gods themselves decided to drop the big Monty Python stompy foot on everything in a fit of rage....

How to build Amber as a sub-DPS/support character in Genshin Impact As one of the game’s starter characters, it’s likely that Amber will play a variety of roles within your party as you advance through the early stages of the game — and, if your focus is on free-to-play, she might end up sticking around even longer than that. The most common and logical role for Amber to fall into seems to be sub-DPS with a secondary specialisation in ranged Pyro support, so that’s what we’ll be focussing on in this build....

Now, Fallout 76’s Steel Dawn update wasn’t meant to hit until this time next week. But it seems an error earlier today meant Xbox players were already larking about in the expansion pack. So, rather than kill their fun, Bethesda have shrugged their collective shoulders and decided to launch the thing properly for all platforms later tonight. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Bethesda Support (@BethesdaSupport) November 24, 2020 Long the poster-boys and gals of the Fallout series, the Brotherhood Of Steel have been notably absent from Fallout 76....

You can probably imagine my excitement, then, when Microsoft announced there would finally be a playable demo to people download during last year’s E3. However, as I briefly mentioned in my post about Tunic’s brilliant in-game instruction manual yesterday, I actually came away from that demo a bit disheartened. With just a single (and quite unforgiving) dungeon to explore, I was left thinking it hewed a bit too close to the Soulsian school of combat difficulty than I’d like....

We open, as you can predict, with a discussion on Matthew’s opinions on barbecues. After this, and a lengthly chat about police procedurals, we do talk about some of our favourite game weather (not including mud, which is not weather). There is also a lengthly argument about whether “the moon” counts as weather, which it clearly does not. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts....

It is, however, a highly derailed podcast even for us. First of all we need to clear up what exactly a casserole is, and then we get into this whole thing about what a gritty reboot of Matthew would be like, and also I describe the time I and my brothers were so hungover one Christmas Day a decade ago that we couldn’t stand up. There’s a bunch of games stuff in there, though....