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Valor Mortis review
Valor Mortis plays a bit of a sneaky trick. For a while, it keeps it straight. 'Yes', it seems to say; 'I'm definitely a Soulslike. Look at my bonfire equivalents, my healing flasks, my corpse runs, even my early impossi-boss feints. Look at my cautious action, my fog gates, the oppressive air of melancholy that lingers over these fields of mud and blood'. But jumpcut to a few hours later, and there you are: first-person wall-running, grapple-swinging, one-two parry slashing, quick-step-fire-ball-dismembering, slow-mo bullettime high-jump shotgun-blast-to-the-face-ing. This is not your usual Soulslike. Read more
Valor Mortis review - this Napoleonic first-person swordfighter is one of the freshest Soulslikes in years
Well, I say "freshest." In its ickily up-close vision of Napoleonic battlefields, swapping the boring old bubonic plague for a fleshy, pustulating necro-blight, Valor Mortis is as horrid and grim as a standard Soulslike rulebook would compel. At the same time, One More Level’s first-person take on campfires and attack-pattern combat does feel like a game striking out on its own, and not just through its unusual choice of perspective. If anything, there are decisions here that might have FromSoft purists calling for the guillotine. Yet it’s almost all in service of an intentionally tighter, more intimate kind of supernatural action, which – while lacking the immaculate complexity of Souls masterworks – serves up enough tense sabre duels to see the whole thing through. Read more
Valor Mortis review: "First-person Souslike parrying feels clutch, but I need more for this to truly stand out"
Napoleon's Ghostrunner
It Looks Like EA Is Bringing Back Wing Commander III, With A Brand New 30th Anniversary Edition Featuring Remastered FMVs
Take to the stars! Origin Systems' sci-fi space sim Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger is set to receive a 30th-anniversary edition, thanks in part to an internal restoration project led by an EA employee who has been digitising the company's video archive. The news comes courtesy of a talk called "The Lost Tapes - Preserving the EA Vault and Restoring a Classic", which took place at Portland Retro Gaming Expo on Saturday, October 10th. This saw EA senior producer Jim Vessella revealing the project, while discussing his wider efforts to preserve roughly 16,000 tapes in EA's archives. Due to being based in the UK, Time Extension wasn't in attendance for this event, but thankfully the Video Game History Foundation board member Steve Lin and the library scientist @chorby.org shared some information from the talk, which gives a little more detail about what we can expect based on some of the slides from the panel. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Starfield seamless planetary landings are finally nearly a thing, thanks to one modder's tireless work
For many Starfield players, the need to go through a loading screen each time you want to land on a planet - rather than seamlessly travel through the planet's atmosphere like in No Man's Sky - was a big turn-off. Read more
The RTX 4090 launched four years ago today, and now the RTX 5090 is rumoured for the chop, I can't help but look upon it with a warm glow
Times, they have a-changed.
DD2 Dark Arisen: All Obelisk locations to upgrade Vocations
How to find the Obelisks of Benediction to upgrade your favorite Vocations in Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen
This week in PC games: play a human-eating Katamari from outer space, take over a nature reserve in Planet Zoo 2, and battle Napoleonic body horror in Valor Mortis
Edwin came up the ladder to my office last week to remind me that my quarterly Maw Safety Certification was up for renewal. Without an in date health and safety and wild eldritch creature control license, I'm not allowed to remain in the Treehouse and we have to shut down the site. So, today I'm down in the Maw's chamber coaxing it to hock up some globules of games. Edwin's here, of course, though he seems pretty smug to be on the other side of the plexiglass for a change. I wouldn't mind if he weren't also inciting the Maw with lurid hand gestures. Read more
Sonic Racing CrossWorlds players demand Year 2 for free after noting the Digital Deluxe Edition promised ‘all future paid DLC’
The game's Year 2 paid DLC requires a second season pass
Dragon Quest creator continues love affair with AI as he releases a game he generated in 30 minutes
Just keep the slop out of Dragon Quest 12, please
Pokémon Meets American Football In This New Free-To-Play Browser Game
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! If you love American Football and Pokémon, and have wondered what it might be like to see Nidoking going up against Gengar in some fast-
Nintendo executive confirms company has "no plans to ditch physical games"
Bill van Zyll, VP and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America, has reiterated Nintendo's stance on physical media, confirming that the company has no immediate plans to move to an 'all-digital' future. Read more
"It's Truly Astonishing" - Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii Made An AI-Generated Game In 30 Minutes
"I can just give instructions to the AI". Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has released a brand new game, but with a twist: it's completely AI-generated. As covered by VGC , Horii-san posted a link on X to a game titled Interrogation Room Komiya in which you select a series of text prompts to push a suspect into confessing to a crime. The creator claims that the game was made in "about 30 minutes" with the help of AI, calling the technology "truly astonishing". Read the full article on nintendolife.com
New F-Zero GX Cheat Codes Discovered For Nintendo Switch 2 and GameCube, But Bring Plenty Of Hands To Input Them
All Parts, All Courses, All Fingers. This past weekend, the F-Zero GX community released a litany of newly discovered cheat codes, offering a wealth of powerful shortcuts to unlocking parts, courses and machines in the 2003 sci-fi racing title. The cheats, as reported by NintendoEverything and noted in a video from dedicated player Madeo Joestar (aka "Piccolo"), have been confirmed to work on both the original GameCube release as well as the Nintendo Switch 2 "Nintendo Classics" edition. There is a catch, however, in that some of these (already fairly complex) codes must be input on no less than four controllers simultaneously. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Hawkeye star Jeremy Renner insists he is not in Avengers: Doomsday, saying "The Avengers will probably lose" without him
Jeremy Renner seems pretty certain Hawkeye is not in Avengers: Doomsday, but fans don't believe him
All Pixel Blade codes (October 2026) and how to redeem them for Class Dice and more
Redeem the latest Pixel Blade codes if you want to reroll your class for something a little more rare
Haunted Chocolatier is for the Stardew Valley players who yearn for the mines, ConcernedApe says
Compared to Stardew Valley, ConcernedApe's next game is "more of an action RPG"
As Gears of War: E-Day servers suffer DDoS attack, the devs are "continuing to monitor" the damage
This comes less than one week after launch
'Your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI' says Microsoft president
When the call for external regulation is coming from inside AI's house, you know it's serious.
"So f****** peak" - Fan who made incredible Lego GTA 6 set is at it again with the perfect PlayStation diorama
This Lego PlayStation fan upgrade is good I wish it was the official version
Star Citizen singleplayer spinoff Squadron 42 gets a Steam page ahead of its 2027 launch, and this is how I've learned about 50 million famous actors are in it
Squadron 42 , the singleplayer spinoff that Star Citizen devs Cloud Imperium Games have been teasing and promising and roadmapping for a loooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnngggg while, now has a Steam page. Yep, things are finally gearing up for its launch next year . Plus, there's a new trailer that emphsises for those out of the loop (me, basically), that pretty much every sci-fi celeb under the sun is set for a cameo. Read more
Gears of War: E-Day server crashes and login problems are because of DDoS attacks, studio says
Gears of War: E-Day's servers have been struggling because they've been suffering distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, apparently - so someone, or some people, have been deliberately trying to overload them. Read more
Spider-Noir star Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver at Amazon
Nicolas Cage isn't a fan of AI
Someone’s found out how to unlock F-Zero GX’s five golden cars, previously only available through Japan special events
New cheat codes have been discovered 23 years after its release