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• Claire De Lune won't light any fires, but it'll warm you up
• The Sims 4 Cottage Living review: unrealistic yet ideal cottagecore
• The top 12 games on PC in August
• The latest King's Bounty 2 footage shows a game at odds with its past
• EWS podcast episode 149: the best robots special
• Bridge-based strategy game Carrier Command 2 has been ordered to release in August
• The Ascent review: a fun cyberpunk shooter that takes a while to warm up
• Spook snapper Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water will be haunting PC on October 28th
• Scope out this early look at Halo Infinite's first full multiplayer match
• Kena: Bridge Of Spirits has been delayed to September
• The joy of playing Escape From Tarkov in single player
• Audio-only RPG The Vale launches its accessible adventure in August
• Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters are out and fans are already fixing the fonts
• Gabe Newell says gamers have never had a great mobile hardware option
• Type long and prosper with 50% off Roccat's phenomenal Vulcan keyboard
• Get a top-tier Razer gaming laptop for £735 off, plus £700 of extras

Claire De Lune won't light any fires, but it'll warm you up Posted: 29 Jul 2021 09:07 AM PDT 14 years on, it might say more about me than about games that I automatically want to reference Portal when I play a game like Claire De Lune. It's a bit unfair to compare everything in the first person physics puzzle subgenre to one of the best games ever made as a default. You have a zappy non-violent gun necessary for navigating a series of platforming challenges. That's... actually where the similarities end. Instead of the increasingly sinister laboratory and wry humour, Claire De Lune crashes you into an alien planet and asks you to reunite with your daughter while periodically getting a flash of sad backstory. Read more

The Sims 4 Cottage Living review: unrealistic yet ideal cottagecore Posted: 29 Jul 2021 09:00 AM PDT I grew up in the countryside and thus Cottagecore has always faintly amused me as a concept. My experience was more ThereIsAlwaysASpiderInTheBathcore. You may imagine that you spend your days picking letterbox-red strawberries from your garden, under the heady scent of roses, but in actual fact if you do not get to the strawberries within about 30 seconds of them ripening then they will be eaten by slugs. But I don't want to destroy anyone's dream, and if real-life cottage fantasy doesn't work out then there's always The Sims 4: Cottage Living. This latest expansion to EA's (already monstrously expanded) life sim allows you to live out the ultimate Cottagecore fantasy. Compliant hens, a Llama to joke with, the ability to commune with wild foxes and birds, and loads of cute wooden furniture. It's probably my favourite expansion in recent memory, maybe because Maxis appear to have embarked on a tactic of taking note of the most popular community mods and then making them. They should have just done that years ago. We'd have had official bunkbeds for ages. Read more

The top 12 games on PC in August Posted: 29 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT I know these monthly lists often highlight the 10 games that you should keep an eye on over the next month, but I’ve bumped it up to 12 for August. Because, if you haven’t heard, video games are back, baby!... And they might disappear again at any moment, so please just let me celebrate the fact that there are more than 10 computer games coming out over the next four and a bit weeks. Read more

The latest King's Bounty 2 footage shows a game at odds with its past Posted: 29 Jul 2021 08:25 AM PDT The original King's Bounty was a classic RPS game. A sort of janky but inventive tactical mash-up that took Alec Meer (RPS in peace) into a battle inside his own belt for the right to upgrade it. This small glimpse at the upcoming King's Bounty 2, along with Ed’s hands-on preview a few weeks ago, doesn’t really hint at the extreme options the 2008 offering had, but there are moments in there that suggest at alternative routes and game-altering decisions. Read more

EWS podcast episode 149: the best robots special Posted: 29 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT This week The Electronic Wireless Show Podcast is all about the best robots in games, which is another one of those topics we might have done before. But we're doing it again because darn it, robots are cool. Obviously this means we have a short discussion on whether cyborgs count as robots (yes, probably, but not in all circumstances). As well as what I feel is actually a very productive chat about robots this week, we also talk about Miles Jupp and his thousands of children, Thomas The Tank Engine, and Matthew does a truly stunning Cavern Of Lies themed around Ace Attorney. Read more

Bridge-based strategy game Carrier Command 2 has been ordered to release in August Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:50 AM PDT One of the reasons I’ve been excited about Carrier Command 2, Microprose's first-person bridge command simulator, is because it looked close to being finished when I first came across it. I wanted to play it, and I didn’t want to wait. And I don’t really need to, because it’s going to be coming out in August. Read more

The Ascent review: a fun cyberpunk shooter that takes a while to warm up Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT Having previewed top-down cyberpunk shooty RPG The Ascent a little while back, I thought it was just all right at the time. But now that I've plugged myself into the mainframe for many hours, I see that it takes time for The Ascent's mechanical heart to get the blood pumping. After it's limbered up, this game is often a great time. I say "often" because The Ascent can veer from extremely fun to extremely infuriating in a matter of nano-seconds. There's a lot to like here, but the way it's wired means it frequently trips itself up. Remain patient enough to untangle the mess, though, and you're in for a real RGB romp. Read more

Spook snapper Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water will be haunting PC on October 28th Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:29 AM PDT Fatal Frame’s premise has always tickled me. It’s a survival horror series where you fight off ghosts by taking their picture. It feels like a commentary on paparazzi and celebrities as the spirits gurn and whack away at the lens, but it probably isn’t. It’s been a console series for a while, but this year's E3 saw the announcement of a PC remaster of the Wii U’s Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water. Now we've finally got a release date for it: October 28th. Read more

Scope out this early look at Halo Infinite's first full multiplayer match Posted: 29 Jul 2021 03:26 AM PDT Halo Infinite’s upcoming technical preview got its own preview last night. Developers 343 Industries hosted a stream to show off what this weekend’s test will let people see and do, capping it off with the very first look at a full Halo Infinite multiplayer match. That’s probably what you want to see, yeah? Here’s a peek. Read more

Kena: Bridge Of Spirits has been delayed to September Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:12 AM PDT Gorgeous forest adventure Kena: Bridge Of Spirits has been delayed again, moving from an August release date into September. This is the second time Kena has been delayed - originally it was supposed to come out in 2020. Alas, as with many games last year, the pandemic made sure that didn't happen. Thankfully, this new delay isn't a huge wait though, and the developers at Ember Labs say they just need more time to polish the game. Read more

The joy of playing Escape From Tarkov in single player Posted: 29 Jul 2021 01:30 AM PDT Tarkov Interchange, Norvinsk Economic Zone, 1500 hours. As I made my way to the extraction zone after wading through the remnants of a Swedish furniture store - a venture which had cost me most of my ammunition and the use of my left leg - I spotted a figure scrounging for supplies 300 metres away. Aiming my rifle, I took a shot, the bullet’s echo so deafening that I could barely hear the Scav yelling Russian expletives at me. This is just a microcosm of the stories to tell about Battlestate Games’ online survival FPS Escape From Tarkov. In a genre that often either fails or doesn’t try to convey any type of legitimate emotional response, raids in Tarkov become these enigmatic tales of the senses. My stories differ from most because I play Escape From Tarkov single-player. Read more

Audio-only RPG The Vale launches its accessible adventure in August Posted: 28 Jul 2021 03:42 PM PDT Hear that? It's the approaching release date for audio-only action adventure The Vale. The accessible adventure about a blind princess challenges you to combat driven by audio cues and haptic feedback. Developers Falling Squirrel have announced that you'll be able to tackle the adventure yourself next month, although you can also take it for a spin right now in a demo. Read more

Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters are out and fans are already fixing the fonts Posted: 28 Jul 2021 02:33 PM PDT The Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters have launched today, bringing versions of the early Final Fantasy games to PC that we hoped would finally be prettier than the not so nice-looking mobile ports we'd been treated to in the past. They are prettier, indeed, and even have new music, but all that was slightly overshadowed by the frankly terrible interface font choice. Fortunately, fans work fast and there are already instructions for "fixing" the pixel remaster fonts just hours after launch. Read more

Gabe Newell says gamers have never had a great mobile hardware option Posted: 28 Jul 2021 01:38 PM PDT Valve announced their portable PC gaming machine earlier this month and the interviews and details about the Steam Deck have been rolling in steadily since. Among them, courtesy of another IGN interview, are some of Steam Deck's origins. President and co-founder Gabe Newell says that the Deck began as a "natural conversation" about how Valve would contribute to PC gaming in the future, and also dished some of the early names from the Deck drawing board. Read more

Type long and prosper with 50% off Roccat's phenomenal Vulcan keyboard Posted: 28 Jul 2021 12:30 PM PDT Roccat's excellent Vulcan 100 mechanical keyboard is 50% off at Amazon UK today, dropping from £140 to £70. That's an outstandingly good price for a full-size UK keyboard with an aluminium chassis, per-key RGB backlighting and tactile Titan switches. Read more

Get a top-tier Razer gaming laptop for £735 off, plus £700 of extras Posted: 28 Jul 2021 12:08 PM PDT Razer's Blade laptops are expensive, especially when they're specced out with the best possible components - but wait a year, and they start to become more sensibly priced. That's the case now, as last year's Blade Pro 17 gaming laptop, once sold for £2235, is now retailing for £1499. That's a decent deal for a 17-in laptop with a 300Hz screen, RTX 2080 Super graphics card, 10th-gen Core i7 processor and 512GB of storage. What takes this to the next level are the free gifts you get with it - including £700 worth of Razer gear in all. Here's what you need to know. Read more

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