Like Shapez 2 but for dads I am forever looking for a game to replace Transport Tycoon (orOpenTTD) in my affections. I know there are several railway management sims kicking around Steam, but I haven’t found the one that does it for me yet. Could it beRailroad Corporation 2? It’s a train tycoon game in which you lay tracks through the early 20th century, and it’s launching in Early Access on September 9th....

Shaping up very nicely Over 2000 hours spent in various factory games makes me a bit of a purist, I suppose. In theory, I should then be the ideal reviewer to enjoyShapez 2. But I’m also the ideal reviewer to tear it apart over the most minor hiccups and defects. I’m the Anton Ego of factory games. I don’t like food, I love it. If I don’t love it, I don’t swallow....

Mostly meaty good fun so far, especially if you’re a big killstealer like Edwin In the grim heatwave of the midsummer, everyone you know would love to come hunch over a table and roll dice for six hours, actually, but they’ve gotthat thingon. You rememberthat thing, right? Plus, no-one’s got a big enough table. Or the new errata. Also, Trevor’s been banging on about lady Custodes for five months straight and nobody wants to be around him right now....

This happened to my buddy Eric Steam’s seeing a good few sweeping changes of late. They’verecently added a ‘Trending Free’ tabto separate the no money down and no, money down playables. And, as of September, they’re crackingdown on links to other websitesin store pages. Now, horror of horrors, they’re coming for your ascii gigachads and “nobody is going to read this review so I’ll just say I’m gay” bangers. The changes are part of their ‘New Helpfulness System’,outlined here....

Latest space 4X DLC also adds Storm Chaser origin Asdetailed on Steam, there are eight of these new and violent instances of space weather, ranging from more straightforward Electric Storms to Nexus Storms of “unparalleled magnitude”. Each may have positive and negative effects upon ships, worlds and civilisations caught in their path. When they sweep over your planets, they may reshape the geography and expose long buried treasures. The developers are adding a “weather map mode” so you can play, er, whatever the interstellar equivalent of a meteorologist is, forecasting storms and predicting their motion....

Like wot the Squire does in the game The Plucky Squirestars a 2D sword-slashing protagonistsoplucky he busts out of his storybook confines and into the fully 3D world of a kid’s bedroom. You’ll then spend your time hopping between these various planes on a grand, cartoon adventure. It now has a release date: September 17th. I think you can look at the trailer above and go, cor, yeah, that’ll be anticipated because of the art, the animation, the energy and all that, but no....

Here is where to find the final boss in the Elden Ring DLC Wondering who is the final boss in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?Shadow Of The Erdtreeis perhaps the largest FromSoftware expansion we’ve ever had, with a total of83 bosses altogetherand 10 newRemembrancebosses. ThisElden RingDLC takes place on an entirely newmapand follows the story of Miquella, an Empyrean God who was last seen in a cocoon withinMohgwyn Palace, guarded byMohg....

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“In short, we didn’t hit our target with the latest update" It’s been looking grim for Super Earth recently. I mean, not really.MultiplayershootyHelldivers 2is still sitting around 35,000 concurrent players, which is perfectly respectable, if only around 10% of its peak back in April. Still, a clutch of disgruntled ‘divers have recently found a novel way to protest an increasingly unpopular series of nerfs: laying down their guns and letting the bots take the damn planet....

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I typed ‘Killborg’ several dozen times KIBORG: Arena feels like a throwback in several ways that I quite enjoy. It’s a free prologue to the upcoming cyberpunk puncherKIBORG. The titular arena is a large room in which you, a large man, bash a large amount of enemies. You have to punch a gong between waves to trigger the next, and this struck me as a nice pre-emptive nudge that every problem you face in Kiborg can be solved by rapidly moving your fist towards offending objects, which turned out not to be too far off the mark....

“We had a really hard time at the studio during Covid.” That’s from a new, hour-long interview withLimit Break Network, in which Urquhart talks aboutthis year’s Xbox studio closures and layoffs, the trick to retaining talent, the influence ofBaldur’s Gate 3, and (as is mandatory for an Obsidian interview nowadays) the pipedream of making sequels forAlpha ProtocolandFallout: New Vegas. “It’s going really well,” Urquhart said of Outer Worlds 2. “And it’s always easy for us to say that, because that’s what we should say, when asked the question, but it actually is....

Adam and Joe Show stans, assemble The next advance in video game graphics technology is not ray-tracing or tray-racing or any variation thereof - it’s janky stop motion and rubbish plastic dolls, and it actually began about 30 years ago, when I watched the Adam and Joe show for the first time. If you never watched the Adam and Joe show, they used to do home movie recreations of famous films likeTitanicandSaving Private Ryanusing stuffed animals and action figures....