A snack on the back Eco-conscious village builderThe Wandering Villagesees you raising a settlement on the back of a huge wandering creature called Onbu. For the most part, you live in a symbiotic relationship with this gentle giant, as your villagers keep the gargantuan trundlesaur healthy while being ferried about on its back. Awww. Well, the wholesome city-builder now lets you feed villagers to the creature and start a cult in the great devourer’s name....

They’ll shut down in June We haven’t written much about Korean MMOArcheAgesincereviewing it nine years ago, and there won’t be many future opportunities to write about it, either. Its developers have announced that its European and North American servers will shut down on June 27th. “After discussing the performance of ArcheAge with XL Games at length, we have concluded that we’re no longer able to provide the MMORPG we envisioned. The declining number of active players means the game’s content is no longer accessible in the way it used to be, and the experience of it is different from what was originally intended,” saystermination of service announcement....

Of monsters and medicine Alien-infested submarine simBarotraumahas received a chunky update, bringing two new-ish monsters into its lethal aquatic world. The shrimp-looking Mantis may be recognisable to veterans (it once appeared in pre-Steam builds). And the Viperling is a venomous variant of the existing Spineling (a thorny seaworm with hull-piercing porcupine-like spikes). But don’t worry, the medical systems have also seen a “mini-rework”, which means drugs like morphine are “less of a ‘solution for everything’”....

Another 15 hour AssCreed game would be welcome As an Assassin’s Creed girlie, I enjoyedAssassin’s Creed Mirage, a pared down (but still big game, which is really just proof of how bloated AAA games have gotten, but I’ll stop because it’s not time to take my personal bugbear for a walk) Ass Creed game that was closer to the simplicity of the older games in the stab ‘em up stealth-actionseries. Yesterday creative director Stéphane Boudon and art director Jeal-Luc Sala took to Redditfor an AMA, and in response to a question about plans for Mirage DLC, Boudon said no - but that they have ideas for more stories for Basim....

Blizzard say the timing “doesn’t line up” It’s safe to say that it’s been a tough few years for events - hi, we’re still owned by an events company - but it’s also been a tough year for Blizzard more specifically. Back in January, the company announced they had cancelled an in-development survival game and wereamong the studios affected by Microsoft laying off 2000 employees across their games division.

Project Dagger was originally due to be published by Take-Two People Can Fly, the developers ofBulletstormandOutriders, have cancelled development of a co-op action RPG codenamed Project Dagger. The Polish company informed investors of the decision to cancel the game, which was initially to be published by Take-Two, earlier this month. The report to investors was spottedby Twitter user MauroNL. “The discontinuation of work on the Project is the result of re-analysis of the development plans for projects implemented by the capital group of PCF Group, and introducing changes to those plans in connection with the unsatisfactory results of the evaluation of the scope and commercial potential of the Project after redefining the direction of the game’s development,” says the update to investors....

Update: SNES stands for Saturn eNtertainment Electronic System, actually I never expected to feel genuine affection for Dr Robotnik, whose various level-ending wrecking balls and spiked doodads have killed me a million times over, but here I am sobbing like a banshee over the release ofDr Robotnik’s Ring Racers, a free Mario Kart-alike created by Kart Krew, the fangamer team behindSonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, using the Doom Legacy source port....

Avert the dreaded autoupdate They’re also bringing the game to the Epic Games Store and upgrading it to Steam Deck Verified status. Such days of bounty we do live through, but beware - it’s possible the update will break existing Fallout 4 mods, which will be a problem for thevery large numbers of youwho’ve been downloading mods after watching the show. Indeed, the possibility of today’s update messing with mods has already seenthe creators of the promising Fallout: London delay releaseto assess the damage....

My uncle told me it’s all true though In a rare case of a wild Nintendo being spotted having somewhat of a point, actually, in regards to being protective over their IP, Facepunch announced yesterday that they’re removing all “Nintendo stuff” fromGarry’s Mod’s Steam workshop, following takedown orders sent straight from ninty themselves. “Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down,” reads thestatement....

Chopping wood, cutting onions Pine: A Story Of Loss, which stars a bereaved woodworker and thus may be a play on the double meaning of ‘pine’, is a gorgeously animated interactive fiction game that sees you performingfarmingchores and wordlessly reminiscing upon cherished memories. It’s short - designed to be played in a couple of sittings - and while the fiction is the focus here, you’ll spend time gardening and whittling in bespoke minigames as you find out more about the woodworker’s relationship....

Petition The Company to elect this fellow as employee of the month Most of my time inLethal Companyis full of tomfoolery, panicking, and ultimately letting the quota down. As I run back and forth from the ship, only able to carry four things at a time in my puny arms, I frequently see the various monster inhabitants of the game excelling at pretty much everything.The ForestKeeper has brawny strength and can travel across the map in a blink of an eye, the Eyeless Dogs can sniff out an intruder in next to no time and The Butler has dedicated his life to maintaining a mansion even after the owners have long since gone....

It starts with you conquering the trees The announcement trailer for Lost Legions opens with a Roman Emperor bellowing “GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS” like a kid who’s just had his pudding taken away. I’d just had a big swig of coffee before watching, and was instantly swept off by visions of an apoplectic Roman bigwig rampaging through the forests of darkest Germania, gluing abducted legionnaires together into a sort of Octavian katamari… and then they revealed that it’s anotheropen worldsurvivalgame, with no less than two trailer beats dedicated to the act of hacking down a tree....

A curious combination As genre mash-ups go, I didn’t see this coming. But maybe I should have, knowing how once things like battle royales pop off, they will always spawn curious mutations.Inferni: Hope And Fearis one of these curiosities, being an onlineco-op, deckbuilding,battle royale, with a 90s theme. Inferni is set during a cataclysmic event, where players choose from a range of characters known as Waywards, each fitting into a certain archetype....