The Outbreak extraction mode will arrive in the shooter’s final seventh season It looks like we won’t get a remake ofDead Space 2in the style of last year’s excellent do-over of the original limb-shootinghorror game, but it turns out thatDead Spaceisn’t completely, uh, dead just yet. Though to what degree you could consider it alive and well - reanimated in a twisted form of its previous glory, perhaps - is another question entirely....

Once more unto the beach It’s Sokoban! A game whose name I recognise as shorthand for this type of puzzle, and yet have never seen. It’s also a genre I’m not overly fond of, preferring puzzles I can sometimes get through by intuition (Spring Falls), brute force (every switch-the-lights puzzle ever), or entering chaos mode (real life). But I likeIsles of Sea and Sky. From starting it almost on a whim, I was playing and figuring things out with zero fuss and no overt tutorialising pretty much immediately, and from there suddenly found that several hours had breezed by without frustration or boredom....

Zanzibart…forgive me Dark Souls revolutionized games, in the sense that instead of a story now you can just have some guy with a big sword named Myrmidon of Loss who gasps “Zanzibart… forgive me” when he dies and then twenty YouTubers will make an hour long video about how deep your lore is The tweet got a lot of attention because it was very funny, and also because a lot of people are very sensitive about Dark Souls and think they’re very clever for understanding what environmental storytelling is, and got unnecessarily mad about it....

Also, no more lightning perfume bottle fun times Elden Ring’s got another patch out and it’s tinkered withShadow Of The Erdtreeweapons, fixed some bugs, and still not done anything about the game’s performance issues. Thatperfume bottle and lightningcombo? Binned off. Everyone’s favourite summon Blackknife Tiche? She’s seen a certain health-regen bug fixed, so everyone’s not being duped into thinking she’s been heavily nerfed since the Shadow Lands sprung forth. In thelast patch, FromSoftware acknowledged there were performance issues and told us to check whether Ray Tracing was auto-enabled in the graphics settings, turn it off, then see if frames and hitching got better....

Here is the perfect area order for the Elden Ring DLC Looking for a good progression route for Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?TheShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC introduces you to the Realm Of Shadow, a staggeringly large map for a mere DLC, and one with a huge emphasis on verticality and hidden paths to new areas. From the first region alone you can visit half a dozen different places, including two legacy dungeons....

Latest patch also adds offline option for PvE mode Escape from Tarkovis taking extra steps to crack down on cheaters by offering players a cash bounty - in the extraction shooter’s in-game currency, anyway - for reporting ne’er-do-wells. The popular shooter has long been waging war against cheaters, naming and shaming thousands of banned players by dropping lists of usernames as proof that “justice has been served”. Even so, cheats remain - developers Battlestate Games saidthey banned over 11,000in a matter of weeks earlier this year - so the game’s creators are now introducing the bounty system....

Sounds like you’ll get more than your money’s worth Factorio’s whopping Space Age expansion has been in the works fora good few years now, and we finally know when we’ll get our hands on it. Space Age will arrive this October alongside a major 2.0 update for the moreish factory-automating hit, with the expansion costing as much as the base game. It sounds like there’ll be plenty to show for that price, mind....

Dawntrail, the latest expansion forFinal Fantasy XIV, has officially been out just three days, arriving earlier this week after a brief early access release. Despite its story and extra 10 levels spanning dozens of hours of playtime, that’s apparently been ample time for players to complain loudly enough about one of the expansion’s brand new jobs - so much so that Square Enix have already announced a set of incoming changes planned across the game’s next run of patches....

Whoo!(thulhu) Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraftdevelopers Bit Golem announced this week that they’ve raised 200,000 złoty (around $50,000) towards humanitarian aid charities aiding Ukranians, including the Polish Red Cross, Save the Children, and Voices Of Children. Dagon itself is afree game, but has several pieces of paid DLC, all of which are currentlyon sale. Alongside a new DLC for Dagon to thank their community, Bit Golem are currently working onPool Of Madness- quite literally, Lovecraftian pool....

Gnome country for old men I’m not sure if this applies in other countries, but in England we have this thing where you’ll stroll down some random suburban street without a care in the world, and stumble on a house that has been absolutely overrun by garden gnomes. A house on which garden gnomes have either settled, like the avian hoodlums in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, or from which they have erupted, like the malignant mushrooms of Annihilation....

Here is how to get the Ancient Rauh Ruins Map in Shadow Of The Erdtree Wondering how to get to the Rauh Ruins Map Fragment in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?The Ancient Ruins of Rauh is a lush, green area inShadow Of The Erdtree, full of Crucible Knights and one rather peskyFurnace Golem. If you’ve spent some time exploring the area and have yet to discover the Rauh Ruins Map Fragment, you’re not alone....

Clip and share your Steam game adventures (or mishaps) on the move Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Anyone looking for how to record game clips on theirSteam Deckwill have, until recently, been starved for decent options.Decky Loaderallows for a decent screen capture plugin, for instance, but even that’s on the overly basic side....

Capture, clip, and share footage with Steam Game Recording Steam’s Game Recordingfeature has launched in be- wait, no,it’s out properly now! Valve have added this (impressively rich) set of video clipping tools to Steam’s default Stable branch, effectively bringing it to everyone who hasn’t tried it since the Beta branch launch back in June. It comes with tooltips to give you some pointers, but they’re light on detail, so read on for a more comprehensive guide on how to record game clips with Steam – and how to share your clips around....