Our Dragon’s Dogma 2 preview diary concludes with a prison break and an endless Golem brawl Welcome to the third and final part of myDragon’s Dogma 2hands-on diary, in which I heroically try to make headway in Capcom’s outsized fantasyRPGwith a party of pure magic-users. I am Dragonkin Skywalker - telekinetic Mystic Spearhand, oxcart patron and an extremely bad thief. Joining me on the adventure are three AI-controlled pawns - the diabolical fury that is Donald Duck, the levitating liability that is Galadriel, Queen of the Woods, and the class act that is celebrity stage magician David Blaine, all of whom I have given new and stupid names plucked from my vast knowledge of wizardry across different entertainment fields....

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Cutter down A shame, then, that all its visual splendour amounts to is little more than an empty husk filled withopen worldbusy work that already felt tired and done ten years ago. Its non-linear approach to storytelling remains intact, letting you tackle the quests and problems of its numerous village settlements in any order you wish, but even this has been boiled down to tedious checklists of fetch quests, escort missions and shooting up the same identikit facility one after another....

Fleshbeasts and free update 1.5 As if colony simRimWorlddoesn’t already have enough ways for your sci-fi frontier adventurers to die, a new expansion titled Anomaly is goiong to add “all manner of monstrous, mysterious, and maddening threats”. It’s out in around a month, and will be paired with a free 1.5 update for the base game. Update 1.5 is available on the “unstable” Steam branch, and can be accessed by those who can’t wait by right-clicking the game in their Steam library, going to Properties, selecting the Betas tab, and choosing the “Unstable” branch in the dropdownm....

Embracer will also cease all operations in Russia Saber Interactive have parted ways with Embracer Group, buying back the rights to both themselves and numerous other studios in a deal initially valued at $247 million. The deal includes 38 ongoing game development projects plus the rights to 3D Realms, Slipgate Ironworks,New WorldInteractive, Nimble Giant, Mad Head, Digic, Fractured Byte and PR agency Sandbox Strategies, as well as Metro developers 4A Games and Pinball FX maker Zen Studios via options....

“Previously announced AAA game based on a major license” needs “deep love and respect” This week’s announcement thatEmbracer are selling off Saber Interactive to new company Beacon Interactivehas cast further doubt over the future of one of Embracer’s bigger projects, the much-delayed Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic remake. While Embracer have yet to actually state this out loud, it sounds like the KOTOR remake will be a “joint project” between Saber and Embracer....

Running from March 14th until the 21st It’s hard for me to get a read on Steam sales, because my relationship and access to games is defined by my work. So I ask you, as the Steam spring sale starts: are Steam sales as big a deal as they used to be? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you’re diving intoSteam’s spring salelike Scrooge McDuck, swimming through the hundreds (thousands?) of game discounts, money spilling everywhere but into your wallet....

Play the demo for Crow Country while you wait Crow Countryand its spooky, mutant-stuffed theme park will be opening its gates on Steam on May 9th, developers SFB Games have announced. It’s the first of two games from theTangle Towermicro-studio coming to PC this year, the other one beingThe Mermaid’s Tongue, which will be picking up the adventures of their Tangle Tower detective duo on a marginally less spooky-looking submarine later this year....

Plus, the games we weren’t allowed to play as little’uns You wouldn’t know because shehardlyevermentionsit, but Alice Bee is not a Ready Player One fan. In fairness, the newly revealedOpen(or Opthreen), an RPO-themed metaverse battle royalething, does look, sound, feel, and smell horrible, so a solid chunk of this week’s Electronic Wireless Showpodcastis just us despairing over it. But there’s also some honest-to-goodness games chat, as we field a question from EWS listener Pete (thanks Pete!...

Plus new weapons, armour, and building improvements While we felt itwasn’t an amazing game, we quite liked The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria’s dwarvensurvivalantics. It was abit of cosy fun for a group of pals, and thankfully, open-ended co-op play looks to be the focus of the next big update, which adds a new sandbox mode that lets you pick rocks and sink pints free of storyline constraints. Not to mention new armour, weapons, and quality of life improvements like the ability to pause your single player sessions....

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Nobody Wants To Die is out some time this year One of my favourite ‘jokes’to do is parody Raymond Chandler, i.e. I shout “She had legs all the way up to her thighs!” and then laugh at myself. Chandlers’s trademark “blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window” kind of zingers are very hard to do well, so it’s better to say you’re doing Philip Marlow badly on purpose....

Five new worlds to get stuck into After almost four years in development,Dark Souls 3mod Archthrones is set to release a demo on March 15th. If you were unaware of said mod, it’s a Patron-funded expansion that puts Dark Souls 3 on an alternate storyline in a way akin to Demon Souls, with a hub area home to five gateways that’ll transport you to five worlds. If there was ever a reason to return to Dark Souls 3, this is probably it....