As the shroom-hopping race begins, the starter's pistol backfires, delivering a bullet straight through his foot. He hoots and curses, and the racers stall in the blocks, waiting for confirmation that the contest has really begun. I take the opportunity to grab an early lead, sprinting ahead into a field of oversized fungi. "It was a public service," Fallen London's silent narrator assures me. "One official's podiatric misfortune can't be...

LEGO has released some amazing video game collaborations in the past, from Nintendo to Horizon: Zero Dawn, but fans are already making the one I want to see next: Monster Hunter.The release of Monster Hunter Wilds earlier this year is inspiring some crafty LEGO fans to bring the game's monsters and weapons to life. User StillAd9325 shared some small, but impressive examples on the Monster Hunter subreddit last week with...

First conceived by creator deltaCJ in 2018, GTA 1991 began life as a hobbyist slant on the often rumoured, but never officially acknowledged, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Stories.As a prequel to Carl Johnson's Grove Street exploits, the total conversion mod could indeed fit that billing, but over the course of its development, it's grown into something much bigger. Now seven years in the making, GTA 1991 is gunning for...

Fair play to Norland's developer Long Jaunt, it doesn't do patches by halves. Back in March, the medieval colony sim's "damn big update" overhauled several of its most fundamental systems, stripping out character needs, reworking crime and punishment, and radically changing how your colony's horny lords give orders to peasants. Now, Long Jaunt is rolling out an even bigger patch that leaves virtually no part of the game untouched.Appropriately named...

It's a sad truth of this industry that some games simply get lost to time. Servers get shut down, listings get removed from storefronts, and releases we were once excited for get forgotten. That's if they even made it to launch in the first place.So, this is a quiz, but it's also a bit of a memorial. Let's test how short our memories truly are. All you have to do...

Late last month, Two Point Studios unveiled the first paid DLC for its excellent management sim Two Point Museum. Titled Fantasy Finds, it adds a dungeon's worth of treasures to discover and display. While impressed by the expansion's showing, I questioned the apparent lack of a new museum scenario for the campaign, which would have rounded off the package nicely.Well, excuse me while I wipe the dragon's egg off my...

Witchfire has been in development for nearly a decade at this point. But the "new" FPS from Painkiller creator Adrian Chmielarz has been gathering pace since its arrived on Steam in early access last year (following an initial launch on the Epic Store in 2023). The RPG-infused shooter has received two chunky content patches in the last seven months, and now developer The Astronauts has announced that its "biggest update...

System Shock 2 is a PC gaming classic, but much like its spiritual successor Bioshock, its final act isn't as strong as the rest of the game. Its final level—The Body of the Many—swaps out the twisting spaceship corridors of the game's earlier levels for what is basically a giant intestine, with you fighting through a resource-draining gauntlet of enemies. Unless you're extremely careful, this can leave you ill-prepared for...

Let's make sure this weekend's a real winner for you. Our Wordle tips can help refresh your general guesses, turning every new line into an opportunity. Make sure you combine them with our hint for the July 12 (1484) puzzle for maximum effect. And if all else fails, or those green and yellow letters just aren't turning up? Today's answer is here to make it right.I love being clever. I...

Underneath the piles of free-to-play monetization, daily login rewards, and horny cosmetics there's a hint of an enjoyable hero shooter in Mecha Break. For a certain type of mech obsessive, it's a paradise of steel, sparks, lasers, and giant swords. Every time you enter a match you watch your pilot buckle up, achieve full synchronization, and grit their teeth as they're about to be shot like a bullet into battle.But...