Clawing a smile back on my face Maybe you can relate, but I tend to find I crave twee and colorful things proportionally inverse to my melancholy. If I’m having a good week, give me Fear and Hunger and horrible films like Speak No Evil. If, like this weekfor some reason, I feel like bursting into tears at inopportune moments, I need silly little guys doing whimsical activities. EnterDungeon Clawler. It’s a vaguelySlay The Spire-ish roguelite where you grab weapons from a claw machine while you fight....

Waste and relaxation I’ve been scouringSteam Next Festdemos specifically for something laid back, andSpilled!– despite sounding like the title of a musical about upturned milk – has delivered nicely. It’s a light and breezy ocean cleanup game that has you sailing a cute lil’ boat around polluted seas, cleansing oil patches and scooping up plastic bottles. Even if it doesn’t have the every-last-speck detailing ofPowerWash SimulatororViscera Cleanup Detail, it satisfies in very similar ways, and I would very much like to get back out on the water whenever the full game is complete....

Making games is hard A newreport in Bloombergdescribes the development ofSuicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leagueand the issues which may have led to Rocksteady’s expensive live service gameflopping at launch. Staff, talking under condition of anonymity, described corporate owners who pushed for a multiplayer game from the studio known for singleplayer experiences, as well as indecisive leadership and a culture of “toxic positivity”. In this instance, “toxic positivity” refers to the seemingly common practice of studio leadership reassuring staff that Suicide Squad “would eventually coalesce at the last minute, just as the Arkham games had....

A 15-minute trailer arrives next week Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is no more. No, EA haven’t once again taken Dragon Age 4 back to the drawing board; instead, they’ve just changed its name. The next entry in their trad-fantasy RPG series is now calledDragon Age: The Veilguard, and we’ll get a “first look at gameplay” next week. Without wishing to spoil anything, the name “Dreadwolf” refers to one of Dragon Age’s antagonists....

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The best weapon, Echoes, and team for Calcharo Looking for the best build for Calcharo in Wuthering Waves?Calcharo is a DPS machine inWuthering Waves, boasting a powerful fighting style that lets him exchange stacks of two resources - Cruelty and Killing Intent - in exchange for inflicting massive combos that can decimate any opponent on the field. Currently one of the top Resonators in the game, Calcharo’s worth mastering if you want to bring big damage to the forefront of your team and slay bosses fast....

The best weapon, Echoes and team for Jianxin Looking for the best build for Jianxin in Wuthering Waves?InWuthering Waves, Jianxin is a great support character. She can provide shields for your team, heal them, and handily pull enemies into one place ready for you to unleash attacks upon them. Below, we’ll jump into thebest Jianxin buildto make sure you’re getting the most out of this 5-Star Resonator, available to pull from the Utterance of Marvels banner, and her skillset....

It’s already being tested via a closed alpha, with closed beta in July Mods are toBaldur’s Gate 3what butter is to bread, thatunreadable squiggle-fontis to death metal bands or wheels are to the bottom of trainers when you’re a kid: not necessarily essential, per se, but so harmonious and well-suited that theyfeelessential. In the case of the D&D CRPG, it’s a natural extension of playing dungeon master around the table, crafting the world and its characters as you see fit - typically by making everyone in Faerûn even hornier somehow....

Rolling server restart puts paid to rogue Currants I’ve set aside some time this evening forDestiny 2’s latest expansion The Final Shape, which launched last night. My pal Liam suggested we playthisevening because Bungie’s servers would inevitably go up in flames the moment it launched. And what do you know? The right decision was made. Are we smug about it? Yes. Anyway, the good news is that Bungie have put out a few of those fires, though there are still a few bugs to fix....

They’re calling the move “strategic changes for future growth” The makers ofDead by Daylightover at Behaviour Interactive are no strangers to the cold, calculating mindset of killers, having createdplentyofthemnowfor their multiplayer hunt-and-seekhorror game. That coldness seems to have seeped into the company itself too, as they racked up their career-killing bodycount with nearly 100 more layoffs this week. Behaviour’sannouncement- the opening of which ominously dubs the studio as “The Company” in true killer-like fashion - confirmed that they will look to cut up to 95 staff....

Time for a refresher of the entire Elden Ring mythos, ready for Shadow Of The Erdtree Want to brush up on your Elden Ring lore?It’s certainly a good time to revisit the story, with the colossalShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC mere days away. Over the past two years,Elden Ringhas become just about my favourite game of all time, and a large part of that came from diving deep into themythos and story of Elden Ringand learning just how much I missed on my first couple of playthroughs....

Presto start to play The work of Milan-based Jyamma Games, it takes place in a world overtaken by a “twisted eternal play”, in which everybody has a mask that determines the role they are doomed to perform indefinitely - the latest plot justification for the classicDark Soulstragicomic ritual of everything and everybody resetting when you die. You don’t have a mask, however. Rather, you’re the Maskless One and as such, free to wear any dang mask you choose and make use of its esoteric powers....

Ding. Ding. Ding. Witchy roguelikeHades 2got a fresh update yesterday that sees a bunch of weapons getting stompier, thumpier, and, yes, whompier. It’s like the hammer of Hephaestus himself was put to work on the entire armory. The Moonstone Axe’s heavier attacks now channel faster, for one thing, which could make the most sluggish of the weapons a little more viable. I haven’t had a go at the re-jigged bashing yet myself but I trust from these patch notes it will be subtly noticeable....