Great Val, you As the first Something Of Mana game to come out in 15 years,Visions Of Manais bound to be exciting some of you out there. Well, funnel all that anticipation into your mouse-clicking finger, because developers Square Enix have just put upa playable demo of the bright JRPGon Steam. I’m not sure how much the demo offers, as we’re only told it includes “a section of the story, battles and exploration....

Also a very unconventional robot maid simulator InCleanfallyou essentially play a Roomba that is trying to reverse the apocalypse because the apocalypse ismessy. A Roomba capable of tunnelling through miles of procedurally generated, monster-infested crust so as to reorganise the Earth’s core and bring about its ultimate objective - a sparkling living room. I enjoy the militant reductiveness of this character motivation. There are sprawling underground ecosystems to discover, yes, weird plants to harvest, fractious clumps of tentacles to appraise, avoid or slaughter....

Bayhem Update:Garry Newman has confirmed that the DMCA notice was sent last year, and has since been “all resolved”, in an email toIGN. Original story: Earlier this month it was reported that Skibidi Toilet, the YouTube phenomenon, may be heading to film and television via director Michael Bay. Now Invisible Narratives, a production company co-owned by Bay, has apparently sent a DMCA takedown notice to Garry Newman, citing the large number of Skibidi Toilet games and assets advertised within Garry’s Mod....

More areas and puzzles coming over early access If you missMyst, but feel only vertigo and disgust forits recent 3D reinventions, you might find yourself salivating over first-person point-and-clickerNeyyah- a Mystalike or more precisely, Rivenalike from Defy Reality Entertainment and MicroProse, which has just been dated for early access release on 27th August. Real-time movement and exploration? Rotatable polygons? Pfff. These are firmly pre-rendered worlds, just like Grandpappy Atrus used to bake....

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Carry on British comedy is too often defined by its relationship to America: either as merely irony and sarcasm, which we’re told Americans don’t understand, or as a sprightly ideas factory for works such as The Office, which Americans can bless by re-making at scale. Peel back the curtains of American cultural hegemony however and you may find the true pulsing core of British comedy that lies beneath: innuendo. No American network is in a bidding war to import Vic and Bob or remake Bottom, and Carry On and Benny Hill are assumed to be anachronisms in our modern times, butThank Goodness You’re Here!...

Olympics Go! away “They wanted to look at other partners and NFTs and esports,” Lee Cockertold Eurogamer, regarding the decision to move the series away from Mario and Sonic. “Basically the IOC wanted to bring [it] back to themselves internally and look at other partners so they would get more money.” Cocker was involved with several entries in the series while working at ISM Ltd, a firm responsible for managing the Olympic Games video game license....

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Smoker face The trouble is, you can only flip cards on your half of the board, with the conflagration beginning in the middle. So “set you on fire” is wrong, actually: the gist of Arsonate is to carefully sculpt a mutually threatening blaze so that you get incineratedlast. Integral to this are fire cards that trigger events. These range from giving you an extra turn – typically, not very welcome – to awarding you a random utility you can use to twist the odds....

Plus plenty of quality of life improvements How do you like yoursurvival games? A nice bit of wood chopping while the birds chirp? Gathering some mushrooms while you deflect a little goblin’s swings? Stumbling parched through a desert as a bed of scorpions prick your ankles with deadly venom? Well,Enshroudedmay provide some or none of these experiences, but what its latest update does is capture their spirit. You’ll now be able to choose from several difficulty presets to dampen or spice up the game’s challenge....

Dial M for Mothman At ten past nine every evening he sends you out into the darkening world. He’s the presenter ofKrypta FM- pronounced with the chopped staccato of every good radio announcer as Kryp! Ta! FM! - and you are his eager listener and hopeful protege. Sniff the evening air. Breathe deep! The small town world that lies sleeping all around you is just teeming with cryptids, surely. Anyone seen a mothman lately?...

Cry Havik The story of Mortal Kombat games in recent years has been a mish-mash of double-crosses, weird friendships, and alternate dimension wobbles. They often feel like a casualty of Marvel movie bloat.Mortal Kombat 1was marketed as a “reboot”, for example, but is really just a continuation of previous nonsense, with developers NetherRealm saying “I don’t know, stick a multiverse in it.” Yet from that multiverse now arrives another bad guy, bringing new story chapters for the fighting game’s first big expansion, as well as extra characters like the liquid metal murderer from Terminator 2, a Conan of the barbarian persuasion, and the masked killer of the Scream movies....

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