It’ll be a work-in-progress for a while, if Larian’s past RPGs are anything to go by In fact, the studio’s director of publishing Michael Douse toldGameFile, Larian really consider that early access is “the only way to do it now”, highlighting the ability to “create a situation where you have a constant dialogue with the players” while continuing to work on a game they can already get their hands on. (Thanks,Eurogamer....

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild Botany Manoris a game that seems calculated to make me sit up on alert like a meerkat, or crash through a wall yelling like that sentient jug mascot (I am not from America, I just know he exists). It’s apuzzle gameabout growing plants. HolyStrange Horticulture, Batman! But Botany Manor is much less eldritch, and much more gentle historical feel-good movie starring Emma Thompson in the lead role....

Ghost Ship explain the new season reactivation feature As per the article header image, DRG Season 5 will add a Season Selection tab to the game’s Season Terminal, allow you to pick out and reactivate any foregoing season. Doing this will kick your party and reload the Space Rig, as when disbanding a lobby, but you can invite friends back in afterwards, or make the new season lobby public. Party members won’t need to have the same season active to join you, though the post notes that “because the Mission Terminal reflects the host’s selected season […] it’s possible that a few individual missions might not show up for other players if they’ve got a different season active”....

Master workers, all Based oncredit listingsat videogame documentation site MobyGames,actionRPGDragon’s Dogma 2may have had around a quarter of the headcount compared to other AAA Capcom releases in recent years. As is the way of Xitter, however, therealcontext was actually somewhat buried in the replies, gifted a paltry amount of likes by the few users who valued the bigger picture over a good story. User PorkPonchoadvised againstusing “the credits as a decent source of how many people actually worked on it....

Thoughts from Larian, union advocates, Motion Twin and industry lobbyists The carnage was uppermost in Larian CEO’s Swen Vincke’s mind when he acceptedBaldur’s Gate 3’s Best Narrative gong at the GDC Awards last month. According to Vincke, the layoffs can be traced straightforwardly to a pattern of executive greed that sees company leadership betting the livelihoods and stability of their workers on whatever new idea seems capable of delivering instant growth for shareholders....

Here are our top tips for getting views in Content Warning Looking to get views in Content Warning?The premise ofContent Warningis to adventure with a party of up to four players into theOld Worldand filmspookyoccurrences. This footage is then uploaded to SpookTube, the game’s main content creation platform. The more views you get in Content Warning, the more money you’ll make, which you can then invest into better equipment, emotes and even weaponry....

Sam Fisher’s return was sneakily announced two years ago Typically, though, it’s not a given just yet - though the signs seem promising. Eagle-eyed fans (viaEurogamer) noticed that developers Ubisoft Toronto had updated their Facebook header image to an image of Fisher’s iconic glowing three-eyed night-vision goggles shortly after Ubisoft announced their Ubisoft Forward livestream event for June. Maaaybe some news on Splinter Cell Remake.Ubisoft Toronto changed their Facebook header and profile picture just yesterday....

Lead designer Michael Gummelt spills some beans A couple of months ago, we learned that Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt had worked on a live serviceCall Of Dutyzombies gamebefore it got cancelled. Details were practically non-existent at the time, but YouTuber Glitching Queen recentlyinterviewedGummelt about what the game could’ve become. Fun surprises: It would’ve been a free-to-play live service game featuring coliseum battles. Unsurprises: microtransactions, seasons, general background shenanigans between Treyarch and Raven....

I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by first-person stunt-o-shooting, retro-styled adventure games, an impressively unpleasant spider, and heaps more. Check out all these attractive and interesting indie games! I’ve been a bit lukewarm onKiller Bean(coming to Steam), having previously only seen its third-person camera mode, but this first-person action is oh hello:...

Could it focus on the New California Republic? Amazon’sFalloutTV series is yet to even premiere - it hitsPrime Videolater this week, on April 11th - but it already looks set tofollow The Last of Usin being the next big-budget post-apocalyptic video game adaptation with a second season in development. That’s going by news fromVariety, who report that the California Film Commission has handed over $150 million in tax incentives to a dozen television shows set to film in the sunny state....

I’ve seen Battlestar Galactica, I don’t trust what’s going on here at all Exciting news for the future of everyone’s favouriteco-opshooter that isn’tlegallyan adaptation of Starship Troopers. A few days ago,Helldivers 2issued a new major order to annihilate the Automatons, who had been pushed back like never before. And annihilate you all did, with players' combined efforts being officially recgonised yesterday onthe Helldivers 2 Xitter: Mission Accomplished! The bots have been eradicated!...

Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s freshest videogame releases Time for another sorry week of heaving news-fuel into the Maw’s thousand-and-one gullets and urgh, what’s that brooding stench? It reeks of embargoes in here. The air is foul with it. This week is the week of the inauguralTriple-I Initiative showcase, aka the IIIIs, aka a 45-minute dollop of trailers and announcements from such studios as Slay The Spire creators MegaCrit andDarkest Dungeondevelopers Red Hook....

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start. In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Monday, April 8, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves....