Ahead of Season 10’s arrival next month Overwatch 2’s next damage hero Venture is tunnelling into thefree-to-playshootera little early - for a while anyway. Before the new drillin’ DPS makes their official arrival next month, they’ll be available to take for a spin from tomorrow through the weekend. Venture, if you missed theirteased announcementduring last year’s BlizzCon, brings an intriguing new mechanic to the team hero shooter, using their Smart Excavator drill-gun to burrow underground and become invulnerable to damage - visible with a cartoony moving pile of dirt - before popping out to pop off seismic charges with area-of-effect damage and dash forward (and potentially across gaps) using their drilling implement....

“So along as people continue to give me money to make games, I think I’m going to make them,” says Levine. Good news for people who don’t cringe violently every time they encounter the phrase “Narrative Legos”! We’ve finally got some more details about the extremely Bioshock-adjacent Judas,courtesy of the Ian Games Network, who spent six hours playing the game and chatting to Levine at Ghost Story Games in Boston. It’s a massive interview, but very broadly, it’s anFPS gamethat gives you guns in your right hand and “various organic powers” in your left....

Sinking feeling Maintaining the thrum of a finely-tuned citybuilder has to be one of the most satisfying acts of video game plate-spinning around. Nursing that constant flow of foot traffic, produce and profits, all of them teetering on a carefully honed knife-edge, that’s the good stuff right there. Of course, it’s not always the threat of imminent and total collapse that fuels these mighty engines of urban planning. Sometimes it’s the simple pleasure ofbuildingitself, watching a scrub of dirt track rise up into an advanced superhighway of architectural wonder....

You’ll need to use a separate platform to run them though Troubled citybuilding gameCities: Skylines 2is getting a little less troubled, asnew patch 1.1.0f1adds various performance and bug fixes alongside the main event: much requested mod support and tools in the form a nifty editor. We got afirst lookat the new editor tools last October, which looks to simplify the process by combining what was previously several different separate editors into a single application....

Here’s how to link ‘em Diablo 4is headed to Game Pass in just a couple more days, on March 28th, giving the stingy-but-curious like me a chance to click demons to death at lower cost. As preperation, Microsoft have outlined the steps necessary to link your Game Pass account to a Battle.net account - because what is a launcher for, if not launching other launchers. Asthe instructions explain, you’ll need to launch the Xbox app on PC, click to installDiablo 4, click to install Battle....

Napoleon Dynamite Swashbuckling third-person action-RPGFlintlock: The Siege Of Dawnis, amongst other things, a gentle homage to New Zealand, developer A44 Games’s country of origin. You do have to look for it, mind you. The game’s art direction at large is an elegant hodgepodge of inspirations that deserves to be unpicked carefully after release. Main character Nor Vanek - who is on a mission to massacre various escaped underworld gods - is kind of a Napoleonic superhero....

Best Trickster skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Interested in the best Trickster skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2?Of all the vocations inDragon’s Dogma 2, the Trickster is the trickiest, pardon the pun. Instead of attacking with a weapon, the Trickster is all about baffling opponents with trails of smoke from the Censer, a special tool exclusive to the class. This is perhaps the hardest vocation to use well inDragon’s Dogma 2, but those who enjoy playing support roles and watching confused enemies fight amongst themselves may find that the payoff to studying the Censer’s smoke is worth it....

Sprucing up the early access survival sandbox Fantasy craft-o-building survival sandbox gameEnshroudedtoday launched its first big content update, two months after entering early access. You can now enter the Hollow Halls, a series of challenging dungeons scattered around the world with new enemies and rewards. Or at the opposite end of the intensity spectrum, you can now decorate your home with loads of lovely potted plants then sit down on a chair to admire them....

You can get your own, smaller frog for a limited time only Palia, a cute-looking life simMMOinspired by e.g.Stardew Valley, has beenin beta since last year, but now it’s officiallyout on Steam, where many more people can download and play it. With this launch comes a pretty substantial update - Patch 0.178, full noteshere- which adds a new questline and Temple to explore, new furniture, and a bunch of new spring flowers and trees to grow in your garden....

Who then, is the Other Joel? According to our mysterious Treehouse member, our Jource (Joel Source) got in touch with them last night in regards to the APC story I’d posted (to safeguard democracy, I’m not going to reveal either of their identities). They wanted to “put the record straight” and say that it wasn’t the work of Real Joel, because Real Joel’s so busy scheming, he simply wouldn’t have time to drop into games like some patriotic Bad Santa....

Here’s how to change vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Looking to change vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2?When starting a new game inDragon’s Dogma 2you can pick from four starting vocations (Fighter,Archer,MageorThief). As you progress through the game and unlock more you may wish to change your Arisen or Main Pawn’s vocation and respec your skills. Luckily, it is possible to do so if you fancy a playstyle change or want to rank up in every single one....

Here’s how to enhance equipment in Dragon’s Dogma 2 and all smithing styles explained Looking to enhance equipment in Dragon’s Dogma 2?As with mostRPGs, knowing how to enhance equipment inDragon’s Dogma 2is vital for fighting monsters, questing and building a well-rounded Arisen and Main Pawn. If you want to get the most out of your armor and weapons, you’ll need to know how to enhance them and which smithing styles suit your vocation of choice as these will offer improvements to different stats....

Out now Lego Fortnite’s latest update lets players construct their own vehicles. The Mechanical Mayhem update, out now, adds three vehicle builds, and new items which let players craft their own custom designs. It’s the second major update to the blocky survival game sinceits launch last year. The three vehicle builds can be crafted via in-game recipes, and includes a nippy one-person Speeder, multi-passenger Offroader, and the material-transporting Hauler. You don’t have to rely on these presets, however, as the update also adds wheels, driving seats, and power centers, which together allow players to craft their own designs....