Dare u seek the Loss fish? When the ageing, silent character you play inpuzzleadventureSelflossperforms a roll, it is a tumble of such poignant melancholy I spent the first five minutes of my time with itsSteam demojust keeling about in the starting area. It’s a ponderous, pained roll, creaky and ancient. If it has i-frames, the ‘i’ stands for “I would like to not do that again for at least five minutes, please....

Games you don’t have to play are now cheaper You can tell when a major Steam sale goes live, because the Steam store stop loading. If you can make it past the “something went wrong” message you’ll find that the Steam summer sale is now underway. This year’s event includes a page of"featured deep discounts", which highlights “especially great deals on some of the all-time greats.” They’re not wrong. Many of the games on the page are 90% or even 95% reduced, and it includes Celeste for £1....

Watch and learn From ShadowPlay to OBS, there’s no shortage of tools and apps that can record and share your finest gaming moments and/or hilarious failures. No matter to Valve, who’ve updated theSteambeta client with a replay system of their own. As explained in this handySteam Game Recording guide, you can either start and cease recording clips at your command, or keep it continuously capturing up to 120 minutes of video for later snipping....

Dude, where’s my Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable? 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. Besides givingThe First Descendantthe ol’benchy markson desktop, I was curious to see how this gleaming looter shooter would run on the less flexing hardware of theSteam Deck. The answer: it didn’t, at first. Luckily, a semi-quick fix was enough to get me in, where I found a game that for all itsray tracinginclinations, is comfortable with life on the Deck....

New looter shooter to focus on strategic depth and “party play” Live service games such asThe First Descendant- aWarframe-ishco-oplooter shooter coming next month - can often suffer from a chronic case of numbers-itis, a tragic and goopy disease that stagnates game feel, letting raw and tasteless maths multiply and overwhelm what I, in all my critical wisdom, call “fun button pushy.” Developer NEXON Games were kind enough to answer a few of my questions recently, and most of all, I wanted to know how they’d immunised their endgame against this miserable ailment....

“Neither game had enough success yet to support the studio” Development on slip-slideyFPSTribes 3: Rivalsis set to slow, just months after itsearly access launch, as developers Prophecy Games say it’s not proving successful enough to “support the studio.” In a post ominously titled “Tribes 3 Player Update”, Prophecy first announced that anyone who’d paid up microtransaction money in Rivals – as well as their previous game, extraction shooter Starsiege: Deadzone – would receive an equal amount of credit to spend in their upcoming “sports shooter"Ultra Strikers....

Mute your heir You will be able to arrogantly ignore the advice of your wife and councillors in whole new ways inCrusader Kings 3, thanks to a small but mighty update to the game’s message settings. Players are due to be given much more granular control over what scrolls and missives appear on their troubled monarch’s war table, thanks to the free update that will accompany the Roads To Power DLC....

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Here’s our full walkthrough of Ansbach’s quest in Shadow Of The Erdtree Looking for a full rundown of Ansbach’s questline in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?Ansbach has an involvedNPC questlinethat involves a few different characters inShadow Of The Erdtree. As a retired follower of Mohg, his relationship with Miquella and staunch followers like Leda is somewhat complex and well worth a delve into. Below we’ve gathered a thorough list of all Ansbach questline steps along with a closer look at important choices, consequences, and rewards like the Golden Lion Shield, Retaliatory Crossed-Tree Talisman, Ansbach’s Longbow and more so you can get the best result possible out of the quest....

Bringing the total number of games to over 150 The Expanded Edition of Atari 50 will add the games across two additional interactive timelines, dubbed The Wider World of Atari and The First Console War. As with the collection’s other playable histories, the games will be presented in chronological order alongside various insight into their development in video segments, interviews, advertisements from the time and other “historical artefacts”. The Wider World of Atari will take up 19 of the games, including Berzerk and a look into the creation of Breakout, while The First Console War will delve into the battle between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision with 20 more games, including several prototypes....

It’s “a trap that dev teams are kind of laying upon themselves” Dragon Age: The Veilguardconsultant and formerDragon Ageexecutive producer Mark Darrah has published a Youtube video addressing the question: “why do AAA games take so long?” It’s a tidy 25 minutes or so, and gets a fair way into the weeds of a variety of topics, from the current enthusiasm for live service “forever games” over ‘finite’, narrative-led affairs, to the “misleading” announcement of highly-demanded sequels years before they enter full production, in order to pump up a publisher’s brand during a dry spell....

Upcoming expansions to be “focused on Immortal Empires specifically” TheTotal War Warhammer 3team at Creative Assembly just put out a new video, shedding some light on what to expect for thestrategy game’snext DLC and the game in general going forward. Upcoming expansions will focus heavily on the Immortal Empires megamap campaign, and there were lord and unit reveals for the Ogres, Greenskins, and Khorne factions that headline the next DLC - slated for the “back end of the year”....

But “nothing illegal happened” Last week, however, former Twitch strategic partnerships account director Cody ConnersaccusedBeahm of “sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch Whispers product” adding that Beahm “was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon”, the company’s semi-annual gaming convention.The Verge’s Ash Parrish subsequently obtained comment from two unnamed former Twitch employees who corroborated Conners’s account. Beahm pushed back, rejecting the claim that he had been grooming a minor while saying that the terms of his settlement with Twitch forbade him from going into detail....