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Plants Vs Zombies creator's new game is about stacking wombat pooApr 24, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunKnowing that wombats' dump is little stackable cubes was one of the fun facts I learned at school (it was either a rhetorical proof for or against the existence of God; I forget which). This knowledge comes in handy for understanding the game Hardhat Wombat, coming from George Fan (of Plants Vs. Zombies fame), with Andy Hull (of programmer on Spelunky fame). Out later this year, it's a combination puzzle-platformer and conscruction game in which you play a wombat, wearing a hard hat, who constructs increasingly complex things out of his own feces. That is no way to make a skyscraper, wombat. Read more Great moments in PC gaming: Killing Spelunky's shopkeeperNov 12, 2022 - PC GamerGreat moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories... Read more.Best browser games 2023May 20, 2022 - PCGamesNHunting for the best browser games? Modern computers are so powerful that you don't need a beefy rig to play great games. As long as you have access to a stable internet connection, there's a massive library of games that can be played from the comfort of your web browser, and what's more, every game on this list is free. It can be difficult to coordinate with several friends to find a game that everyone owns. Gone are the days of worrying about your friend's empty Steam library and their low specced PCs - instead you can simply send them a link to these top browser games and start playing right away. Whether you're looking for something to play for a few minutes before your lunch break ends, or you want a game to sink your teeth into after work, we've got you covered. Our list of the best browser games contains a mix of genres to ensure there's something for everyone. With all of that said, here are the best browser games. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Spelunky speedrunner shuns gold and violence in this Hell speedrun Spelunky Classic mod adds two player co-op amongst other improvements Spelunky world record broken once again - record breaker plans on topping it Long-standing Spelunky speedrun record revealed as fraudulentOct 12, 2021 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunIn 2012, a player named BarryMode completed Spelunky Classic in two minutes and 30 seconds. Since then, this time has stood as the world record, and no other speedrunner has come close. Now, BarryMode's speedrun has been revealed as fraudulent. Read more Spelunky world-record speedrun exposed as a fraud after eight yearsOct 12, 2021 - PC GamerOver eight years ago, speedrunner BarryMode (a completely unknown figure in the scene) shattered the Spelunky speedrunning community by beating Spelunky Classic in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Veteran speedrunners have spent years trying to best that time to no avail—and for good reason... Read more.1.47 Update!Sep 30, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsHey, everyone! This update isn't exactly massive, but I feel like it qualifies as major, since the last update was in... lemme see here... 2014! 7 years ago! Big thanks to BlitWorks for the patch, which adds a variety of languages and fixes a number of long-standing bugs related to the window and resolution. If you need to access the previous version, it will be kept in a public branch called "version1_4", which you can access by right-clicking the game in your Library and going to Properties -> Betas. Thank you for all of your support over the years! We hope you enjoy Spelunky 1.47! Patch Notes Added Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, and Portuguese translations. Added fullscreen borderless mode. Fixed a crash when using Alt + TAB. Fixed an issue when closing the game with Alt + F4. Fixed a crash on changing the resolution of the game. Cracking adventure Phantom Abyss has whipped into early accessJun 22, 2021 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunPhantom Abyss’ early access opened last night five minutes before my bedtime. Two hours later I was sleepily stumbling through the game’s procedurally generated temples, watching as the ghosts of those who played before me stumbled and fell. The ego-driven concept of only one player being able to complete a temple before it’s closed forever is surprisingly moreish, though I think they need to take another crack at the controls. I haven’t claimed a temple yet, but the temples have claimed me. This is news and not a review, but indulge me a little. The structure and temple design are the highlights right now. Starting amidst the ghosts of previous players lets you grasp a little of what you’re up against. You can follow along, keeping track of where people perished when a floor flipped around, or where spikes sprung up and kneecapped them. You’re challenged by them, but you also learn from them. You can see long drops that looked impossible but some brave player nailed, and find secrets that you’d never have spotted if there wasn’t a dotted line leading you right there. And all this only gets you so far. Everyone that’s helping you right now has died, leaving the temple for you to try and claim. Read more Spelunky 2 is OUT NOW!Sep 29, 2020 - Community Announcements"Spelunky 1 did a lot with a little, and Spelunky 2 does a lot with a lot. It remains better for its additions, and no less elegant. The variety in Spelunky 2 is a pure thrill." -Rock, Paper, Shotgun "I’ll let you know up top that I adore this game. If you’re a fan of the original, I expect you’ll fall in love, too." -Polygon A disclaimer before we send you to the Spelunky 2 store page: we decided not to release with online co-op so that we could spend some extra time improving the experience, as well as add a pretty cool feature: cross-platform play between Steam and PS4™! It shouldn't take long for us to put online back in - a few weeks at most. Plenty of time for you to get acquainted with the new world of Spelunky 2 before you invite a few Steam or PS4™ friends to join you! So without further ado... it's time to go to the Moon! ːspelunkyː https://store.steampowered.com/app/418530/Spelunky_2/Spelunky 2 is now out on PC too, and yup it's greatSep 29, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun After plumbing the depths of PlayStations for a fortnight, Spelunky 2 arrived on PC today. Grab your whip and hat, and hit the Moon to explore new dungeons full of monsters, treasures, and ways to die while doing something you initially thought was quite clever. Online multiplayer isn’t in at launch, mind, so you’ll have to before you can experience the comfort/mischief/catastrophe of playing with a pal not within punching distance. (more…) Spelunky 2 is Releasing on Steam on September 29, 2020Sep 18, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsSpelunky 2 is almost here! On September 29th, the long-awaited sequel is arriving on Steam. The game has already been well-received by gaming publications like Polygon, IGN (10/10), Game Informer (9/10), and Edge (9/10). The consensus seems to be that Spelunky 2 feels familiar but also different (and bigger!), so fans of the first game will find a lot to love about it. On the other hand, curious players who have yet to experience the fun will find no better time to join in – you’ll be learning the ins and outs of Spelunky 2 alongside the rest of the world and enjoying all of the new features, including many that were designed with new players in mind. For more information about Spelunky 2, check out the store page. Add the game to your wishlist to be notified as soon as it's available: https://store.steampowered.com/app/418530/Spelunky_2/The 10 best hells in PC gamesMar 20, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. Hell is other people, wrote Jean-Paul Satre. But also my favourite level in Doom. He was a smart man, and he probably lives in hell now, on account of all the atheism. But listen, hell doesn t seem that bad. Bit hot. Bit demonic. You could do a lot worse than a trip to the underworld, is what I m saying, and as luck would have it, we have the perfect means for you to go there without singeing your eyebrows or being dunked in a toxic lake for eternity. That s right: videogames. It s always videogames. Here are the 10 best hells you can visit on PC. (more…) The 9 unluckiest characters in gamesMar 13, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. It s Friday the 13th, the day of Saint Badluck, patron saint of ladders and casinos. And it is a fabulous holiday. Out there, parades are getting ready to be rained on, and children are looking forward to tonight s shenanigans, when they will dress up as mirrors and knock on doors, declaring: sweets or I ll smash myself . I love Friday the 13th. So many cherished memories. So many splinters of reflective glass. So, Happy Bad Luck Day. Here s a list of the 9 unluckiest characters in videogames. Spoilers for pretty much every game mentioned. So, watch out. (more…) Best free games for 2020Feb 11, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunWhen you’re looking for the best free games on PC, what are you looking for? We think we’ve got you covered with our selection below, whether it’s browser games you can start playing instantly, free-to-play games to rival anything you’d spend money on, or downloadable games that you can play for a lifetime. (more…) The best co-op games ever madeJan 24, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunEvery game is better with friends, but some games are the most betterer of all. These are the best co-op games you can play on PC in 2020. Whether you want to survive against zombie hordes, fell giant monsters, or fling your physicsy forms across chasms, there’s a game for you below. (more…) The best games of the decade on PCDec 6, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun It’s been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that’s happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you, but a day’s work for us. Below you’ll find our picks for the 50 best games released on PC across the past decade. (more…) Games of the Decade: Spelunky is an endless, mechanically perfect remixNov 30, 2019 - EurogamerIn hindsight, and with all apologies, Spelunky is like smoking. I got into it in part because it's what all the cool kids were doing at the time. It was embarrassingly easy to get wrong at first, but quickly became a soothing, easily-consumed daily habit. This lead to an effortless-seeming fluency, internalising both the basic routines and the nuanced flourishes that come from years of increasingly instinctive repetition. And it kills me. Death is certain, usually accidental but never escaped - if you reach either of the game's endings, something it took me about three years and perhaps five hundred hours' play to be able to do more than one in every twenty tries, the final score screen lists cause of death as "old age". The magic comes from the ingredients being so simple. At heart, it's a roguelike disguised as a basic and sweetly-styled platformer: you run, you jump, you have a simple melee attack and you have some bombs you can throw. Everything you encounter has a very simple moveset, and kills you. Spikes kill you instantly if you fall on them. Blocks kill you instantly if they fall on you. Bats drift towards you on a shallow diagonal trajectory, and can easily nibble away your health points if you don't hit them just so. Frogs hop, and do the same. Small aliens zap you from their saucers - although you can bring the saucers down by throwing something, which causes them to explode and kill you. This can happen on the other side of the level, without your involvement, and you only know it from the sound of a distant explosion from which a landmine comes flying out, and hits you, and kills you. On each death, the world is remade: each cutely-themed level randomly regenerated, the enemies randomly placed, the route to the exit strewn with challenges that are individually very simple but combine in endlessly treacherous ways: the bat which knocks you into a tiki trap, the monkey that knocks you into a spike pit, the yeti which smacks you into the void. The appeal of Spelunky is the same live, die, repeat routine so cherished in the Souls games, but with a platformer's simplicity that makes it far easier to understand and far more appealing to retry. Read more The best platform games on PCNov 27, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe biggest names in platforming used to live only on console, but it’s on PC now that the genre is thriving. Indies have taken the simple ingredients and spun them off in umpteen directions (but still normally from left to right). Below you’ll find a collection of the very best platform games on PC – including puzzle platformers, physics platformers, platformers with roguelike elements, and platformers about absolutely nothing but pixel-perfect jumping. (more…) UFO 50, the compilation from the makers of Spelunky and Downwell (among others) is out soonSep 25, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun The compilation UFO 50 is a gaming concept album from the makers of Spelunky, Downwell, and Catacomb Kids. It’s a collection of 8-bit inspired games that were “created by a fictional 80s video game company that was obscure but ahead of its time.” It was announced way back in 2017, and skipped its 2018 release window. Who knew 50 games would take a while to make? Good news, though! It’s just popped up on Steam and is listed as “coming soon”. (more…) Developers and industry legends on the games that defined the last 20 yearsSep 5, 2019 - EurogamerAs Eurogamer turns 20, we thought, you know what? It's not all about us. It's also about the developers, the people behind the virtual magic that inspired the creation of Eurogamer two decades ago. Without the developers, we wouldn't be here. And so, we thought we'd ask a few of them (20, in fact!) to pick the games that defined the last 20 years, and see what would come of it. We approached a broad range of people, from top executives and legendary talent to tiny indies. We asked them to pick a game that defined the last 20 years, but left it up to them to interpret the question. It could be a game that defined the industry, that meant a lot to them professionally or personally, or is just a favourite. We're delighted with the responses (thank you to everyone who contributed!). There's some fantastic insight here, super cool anecdotes and the odd surprising choice. We hope you enjoy it! Read more Five of the Best: ShopsAug 30, 2019 - EurogamerWelcome to another week of Five of the Best, a series where we celebrate the overlooked parts of video games. They're the kind of things you don't pay much attention to at the time, but which spring readily to mind years later, proving just how memorable they were. So far we've had potions, hands, and dinosaurs - an eclectic bunch! - and we've enjoyed reading your suggestions as much as sharing ours. Today, then, another batch, another five. And the theme... Shops! Oh, how many virtual registers we've rung over the years. Imagine a role-playing game without one - you can't. It would be sacrilege. You simply must visit a new shop in every town and have their wares be slightly more powerful than they were where you came from. Everyone knows that. But there are so many shops, it's often hard to remember a single one. It's not just RPGs. I remember ogling the superbikes for sale in Road Rash and then crashing them when I eventually saved up enough money to buy them. I remember spending ages shopping for shorts and T-shirts in a knock-off GAP in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. And I've probably spent more money than I should have on costumes in Fortnite, which is hardly my fault when they sell such silly costumes, is it?! Read more
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