This week’s most scintillating game releases, plus our weekly newsblog It’s a short week ‘cos we all had a Bank Holiday yesterday, and Edwin isn’t here today, which means I have donned some thick leather gloves and am standing well back to throw some sticky gobbets atThe Maw. The gobbets in question? Some tasty game releases this week! Plus whatever else we think might be interesting enough in PC gaming news to appease it - and you....

Someone will stick Hatsune Miku in it, and why not you After a month or so of testing,The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s offiical mod tools REDkit will launch on May 21st. It’ll make it easier for players to make new quests, items, weapons and so on for the nearly nine-year-old RPG. REDKit pledges onits Steam pageto give people the power to edit “almost anything in the game.” As well as those I mentioned above, that should also include adding new characters, storylines and even new landscapes to adventure within....

Like tears (of the Kingdom) in the rain Got some nice rain for you today.Second-Loopis an upcoming sci-fi shooter featuring mechs, physics puzzles, and at least one freaky umbilical-corded being struggling against the confines of a horrific laboratory womb. Video games! All of that sounds interesting. But it’s the moody reflections on the rain-slick surfaces and the game’s bodycam-style presentation that’s really got me going “oooooo”. Don’t you want to say “oooooo” too?...

I’d bat for this one You won’t be surprised to know that after two years in early access,V Rising’s 1.0 launch hasn’t seen Stunlock Studios drastically change the V for “Vampire” to V for “Venetian Blinds” or “Vienna Sausage”. From a top-down view, you still play as a newly awakened vampire on PVE, PVP, or private servers, and you’re still tasked with becoming the most powerful bloodsucker around. It has, however, streamlined some things and added in an endgame zone....

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What fresh hell this is Scylla and the Sirens are a rock band of mythical boat wreckers who insist they have tons of fans. (They do not.) As a boss battle inHades 2they are a deadly trio that has bested me more times in the last few hours than I care to admit. But as a sign of things to come for this early access roguelike sequel, they are an encouraging bunch of characterful malcontents....

Going to hell in a handheld I’ve been samplingHades 2’s early access build on theSteam Deck, and my only complaint – besides thesmooching froghaving eluded me for hours – is that it’s giving me very little to write about, performance analysis-wise. Honestly, it fits the dinky PC so well you’d have thought Supergiant had decided to make this roguelike sequel a Steam Deck game that just happened to run on desktops by accident....

“We’re still learning what is best for PC players and your feedback has been invaluable,” say PlayStation It’s been a tumultuous few days forHelldivers 2, as one of this year’s most beloved runaway hits managed to seemingly undo all of its goodwill and earn the ire of thousands of players in the blink of an eye. The backlash was sparked last week after it was announced that everyone would soon need to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network account to continue playing the multiplayer bug-and-bot shooter, leading to 100,000 negative reviews on Steam and the game being pulled from sale completely in over 170 countries where it’s not possible to even create a PSN account....

Just Marine-on-Chaos matchups for now, it seems Gears of Warhammer sequelWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2will feature some kind of PvPmultiplayermode, similar to the first Warhammer 40k game, going by an early look at an art book for the upcoming third-personshooter. The headline reveal is that there’ll be a player-on-player multiplayer mode, similar to the team-based battles of the original, which pitted eight Space Marines across three different classes - Tactical, Devastator and Assault - against eight Chaos Space Marines with their own comparable specialisations....

Plenty of bug fixes, earlier housing access, expanded control options and more quality-of-life additions, too After a bit of a bumpy landing on PC, it looks likeNo Rest for the Wickedis finally finding its feet. The early accessaction-RPGlaunched with notable performance problems that developers Moon Studios promised they’d address,starting with several hotfixes over the last few weeksthat managed to claw back some frames. The game’s first big patch goes a step further, seemingly boosting the game’s performance to a degree that its minimum and recommended hardware specs have been lowered as a result....

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You will need one to jump into its co-op multiplayer, mind After thebacklashandsubsequent U-turnonHelldivers 2requiring players to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network account, the next PlayStation flagship headed to PC has sought to reassure players that you won’t need a PSN account to play its single-player campaign. Multiplayer’s a different case, though. The former PS4 exclusive’s arrival on PC marksthe first time that those on PC have the chance to earn PlayStation trophieswhile playing, alongside the respectiveSteamorEpicachievements....

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