April 4th-11th Spacer’s Choice Edition includes Obsidian’s first-person scifi RPG The Outer Worlds alongside two DLC packs, Peril on Gorgon and Murder On Eridanos. The base game normally costs £50, and the Spacer’s Choice upgrade initially cost £10, so as far as Epic freebies go this is a big one. Alice B’sThe Outer Worlds reviewwas less positive, praising the game for being basically alright, good fun, but dinging it for its constant lampshading of tired tropes while still employing those tired tropes....

EA putting C&C on Steam has made it easily playable again, but should you bother? You wouldn’t believe how long I’ve been bumpingCommand & Conquer Generalsdown the list because “but it’s abandonware and a pain in the hole to run” makes for a more frustrating read than “and it’s available here”. Ever the afterthought, Generals has shimmered between abandonware and temporarily available in some obscure place with no fanfare (I think?...

Try its brilliant free demo available now You know me andSoulslikes. We’re not particularly best buddies most of the time. We’ve had a couple of successful outings over the years withthe likes of Death’s DoorandHollow Knightand company, but anything with pure FromSoft blood running through its veins has always left me cold.Void Sols, however, is an upcoming Soulslike that feels like it might be able to satisfy both sides of the ‘git gud’ camp, appealing to nervous dodge-rollers like myself while also giving hardenedElden Ringers a run for their money....

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Le Château is very aptly named I approve of the recent trend towards makingbuildinggames as relaxing as possible (e.g.Summerhouse). Today sees the release of a new one on Steam, this one a teeny medieval city builder calledLe Châteauthat gives you strict limitations for building a castle. You can have a go of thedemofor free - I like it a bunch. You choose the size of the little base for your castle and then have a crack at it, laying down or deleting any of the pieces you have in your builder tool box at will....

Best Magick Archer skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Interested in the best Magick Archer skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2?For those who enjoy the bow inDragon’s Dogma 2but want to add a smidgeon of spellcasting to their attack style, the Magick Archer is a thrill. This vocation replaces the trick arrows that the regular Archer shoots with an elegant selection of magicks that can freeze, set enemies alight, unleash richocheting shots in a tight space, and even heal comrades....

“I would love to make a scene on Giedi Prime,” says Funcom exec producer A couple of decades ago there was a period when all videogames and especially all Unreal Engine videogames had to be brown and grey and dingy. “The Gears of Warrification of graphics,” we used to call it, huddled up in the chest-high trenches with our Xbox 360 controllers.SurvivalMMODune: Awakeningthreatens to bring that back in a big way: the novel and films on which it’s based take place, after all, on an entire planet made of sand....

The as-yet untitled ‘ambitious action RPG’ has a clean look - and a giant More than three years after formerDragon Agelead designer Mike Laidlaw was revealed to have joined forces with fellow games industry veterans behind the likes ofAssassin’s Creedundernewfounded studio Yellow Brick Games, the developers are finally teasing their first game. And yup, it’s definitely a fantasy game! Honestly, that’s mostly what can be gleaned from the brief tour through some clean-looking fantasy environments - including staples like a set of grand-looking ruins, rocky hillsides and lush forested paths - in a sub-30-second tease for the studio’s as-yet untitled debut....

Developers drop hints while discussing sustainability and Fallen London’s on-going success Fallen LondonandSunless Skiesdevelopers Failbetter Games haveblogged about the dark art of running a sustainable business, while sharing a tiny bit more about their next, unannounced game. Said game is apparently a change of genre from Failbetter’s previous, exceedingly narrative-drivenopen worldtitles and free-to-playRPGs. It’ll also be a little less oppressive, aiming for a feeling of “fireside menace” - that is, “an awareness of the world’s dangers, but also warmth and comfort”, which certainly feels like an appropriate mood for a time of mass layoffs and game cancellations, to say nothing of recent conspiracy-fuelled harassment campaigns....

You can also play as said tiny dragon Is there a definitive geological difference between rock and stone? Google tells me the main consensus is that stones are just smaller rocks, which sounds like a flimsy distinction to base a catchphrase on. I’m not sure when this would come up, unless maybe you were a biblical heretic trying to dunk on the people bludgeoning you to death by correcting them in some last gasp pettiness, but it still bothers me....

Laptop-friendly roleplaying for the post-Larian age Like the good works of Calvin Klein, these genes come pre-distressed.Geneforge 2 - Infestationis fresh from the rack, yet looks and functions like the CRPGs of the late 1990s. Where most isometric throwbacks these days offer a forced perspective over 3D scenes,Geneforge2 is the real deal - its flat character sprites gliding across tiled backgrounds, with the elegant shuffle of Shōgun-era ladies-in-waiting. This look is less a nostalgic affectation than it is simply practical....

17 years later “I’ve dreamed of returning to the franchise we created back in 2007 for many, many years,” said Bill Roper, CEO and co-founder of Lunacy Games. “I’ve always felt I had unfinished business with the Hellgate IP, which is why our codename for the project is Hellgate: Redemption.” Roper also mentions that it’s being made in Unreal Engine 5, and that they’re keeping “core gameplay and lore elements of Hellgate: London in our current design”....

Better controls, tougher ships, usefulier formations, and more Afterdelayingthe launch ofHomeworld 3by two months to address criticism of the spacefleet shoot-o-strategy game’s demo, developers Blackbird Interactive have now laid out what they’re changing. Improved controls, tougher ships, more useful formations, better Attack Move command, more HUD options, and more types of War Games mode objectives are among the tweaks and improvements detailed by game director Lance Mueller in a 3000-word blogblast....