Nick Gillham: "Despite being easy to get into and a great mission structure, Deserts of Kharak is a fiddly experience with a rather bland aesthetic. It’s great that fans of the series will see new titles being made, but it’ll hardly win over newcomers."
The Epic Game store only has one free game this week, but it's a pretty good one.
PC gaming is dead, long live PC gaming!
There was a period of time, through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, when many game critics and analysts speculated that PC gaming was on its last legs. They argued that the platform had become a creative backwater, and would soon be completely overtaken by modern consoles thanks to their burgeoning, easy-to-use online capabilities.
The Catch-All is back! That’s right, the Constantly Calibrating weekly gaming news show is back on the Internet, bringing you some of the news you may want to hear. On this week’s show the team explore the makings of a Goblin with Styx: Shards of Darkness; go on a brief combative adventure in Mass Effect: Andromeda, take a look at the lack of Virtual Console at launch for the Nintendo Switch; venture out to Mars with Homeworld; and wonder about Bethesda’s upcoming slate of games.
