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Anyone received their key for the closed beta? I completed the Art of Siege challenge on this webpage and redeemed my "guaranteed" access to the beta but as of yet haven't received an email. Apparently they're doing the invites in waves or something but everyone was supposed to get their keys...

Now if there is any article that so succinctly describes my gaming life it is this one: The Sweet Confusion Of Going Back To A Game Later On I'm sure you know the feeling where you've come back to a game after a few months of not playing it and struggled to get back into it. Also, trying to...

Want to know if machines will replace your job in the future? Although this is based in the UK it's fun to check. I'm pretty safe with there only being a 2% chance that my job will become automated. Will a robot take your job?

A fun article by PC Gamer that constructs the "perfect" FPS name, setting, theme etc. from from a list of options people voted on. Check it out The game that was generated from the votes is called Rising Dark Shadow: Apocalypse Protocol and is set in a steampunk city in a post-apocalyptic WWII...

If anyone is interested in trying out the R6: Siege Beta you can go to this webpage and run through the "training" game in order to claim a closed beta key.

Go on admit it, we all have one. Be it a game, website, puzzle books, sudoku etc. it seems to be a human thing to have a little time-waster to go to. Sometimes I wonder if time-wasting wasn't what smartphones and the internet were invented for! So what's you current favourite time-waster? Mine...

So the latest comic in the Team Fortress 2 series came out on the 31st of August and it happened that I was in the mood for reading a comic (which I don't usually do). Since I hadn't read the previous comics I figured I start at the beginning which were initially the comics they did to advertise...

So I came across this game the other day after seeing it mentioned in an article, the fact that it was a western setting piqued my interest. The game started out as a free browser game: Westerado but there's now a purchasable version on Steam called Westerado: Double Barrelled which has...

Came across this really interesting article yesterday. It's one of those things you don't usually think about but may find yourself wondering about when you come across something super gross or gory in a game and then realise that someone had to work on putting that in there. How working on...

I'm sure you're all familiar with the game 20 Questions. I thought we could get a gaming focused version going for some fun. Basic rules: One person (the gamemaster) chooses a game (original title and not sequels etc.). Let's stick to well known games/franchises to make things a bit easier...

Half-line Miami Download it here

Interest article on PC Gamer, the results from a survey on what people thought were the hardest games on PC. Here's a breakdown of the Top 10 Also interesting was the level of difficulty that people generally chose when playing games: Do you agree? What do you think are some of the hardest...

So the other day Uber announced that Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is a thing. It's a standalone expansion of the original game adding some new features the main of them being the new Titan units. And for the first time I feel glad that I backed this game on Kickstarter because all backers...

So here's some quite different. A bit of a different take on the Super Mario World. http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2232&pid=12311&autoplay=1#pp To give you an idea of the ruminations... ...Deep...

Upcoming game The Flock Now here's the really interesting twist... What do think about the fact that this game will have an intentionally limited shelf-life and that it will conclude with a climatic ending?

Interesting article on the weapon skin economy in CSGO http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/14/csgo-skin-economy-explained/#more-307715 Good read for anyone who has dabbled with buying and selling weapon skins.

What games have you played that sucked you into their world so much so that you found yourself thinking, daydreaming or actually dreaming about them when you were not playing them? I remember when I first got Starcraft 2 and got into the multiplayer, I remember finding myself visualizing and...

Have you ever played an unusual game? By that I mean a game that sets itself apart from the others by being different in some distinct way. It may be the setting, or unique game mechanics that just set it apart. For example: Two games that made me think of this thread are Gathering Sky...

So a friend showed me this browser-based game called Agar.io Basically you start off as a cell that follows your mouse pointer around. The aim is to absorb the small bits around you to get bigger. You can then start absorbing other players who are smaller than you but watch out for those who...

Any here remember the old Battletech games? I remember loving Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception, even though it was quite difficult at the time. Harebrained Schemes - who did the Shadowrun games are looking to Kickstart a new game in the seires. Whilst I'm wary of backingon KS after...