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Not super effective, but at least it runs As a monster-collecting, knowingly cynical, base-buildingsurvival game,Palworldis officially Not My Thing in at least three different ways. But Idolike theSteam Deck, as well as feeling a sense of being vaguely useful. Thus, instead of moaning about holding down a button for 20 seconds to plant some berry seeds, I’ve tested howPalworldadapts to life on Valve’s handheld – and worked out which are the best settings to use with the Deck’s modest hardware....

Join me in drooling over endless lines of conveyor belts According to Steam, I’ve spent about 2000 hours playing factory games. Terms like throughput, modularity, and automation are like dog-whistles to me, so when I heard thatShapez 2was getting a demo for Steam Next Fest this month, I knew my weekend plans were instantly sorted. Well, here we are in the new week. I’ve finished the Shapez 2 demo twice and logged 10 hours into the game....

Ubisoft staff shed light on over 10 years of development difficulties

Tired and tested Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leaguefeels like a perfectly average open worldaction gamethat plops out when a finance department locks a brilliant developer in a room and refuses to let them see sunlight for nine years. Rocksteady’s long-awaited live service shooter is aggressively unambitious and seemingly petrified of risk, marrying tight, combo-ratcheting, flow-state combat with some awfully familiar and conventional loot-chasing guff. For reasons no more complicated than the fact you can’t give Superman a machine gun, you get to play as the villains in this one....

With the recent release of the RTX 4080 Super, AMD cards are getting even cheaper. It’s rare to see an RX 7900 XT graphics card available for under £700 - especially a white overclocked model! - but that’s exactly what you can get from British retailer Quozo at the moment, with codeJAN24knocking £8 off an already low price. The same card is a whopping £824 at Amazon UK right now, making this a much better deal!...

Third Eye Open is a Malaysian coming-of-age story with a twist A story about a girl who has a ghost best friend nobody else can see, and has to juggle that relationship with her interactions with living people?Sounds fake. Haha, but seriously folks. There’s a demo forPaper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Openin theSteam Next Fest, and boy howdy did I like just looking at this game in motion. The clue is in the name, as all the characters look like 2D paper cut out dolls, and all the environments are like papercraft models....

There’s a zippy new trailer too The latest haul ofSteam Next Fest demosis so vast that I initially missedTribes 3: Rivals, a game I’ve been cautiously coveting, among them. While this high-speedFPShas been playable in a number of semi-open alpha tests already, trying it out is now as easy as sliding into itsSteam pageand hitting the big green demo download button. The demo launch is accompanied by a shiny new trailer, showing more of Rivals’ skiing shenanigans, aurally satisfying airshots, and flag-throwing tricks that I will never, ever be able to successfully pull off in a real match....

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There are 15 picks here, covering everything from citybuilders to horror games - and a lot of these are games we’ve never written about before, either. But, in case you are looking for demos of more well-known PC games, we’ve also listed some of the big obvious choices you might want to check out as well (and all the other demos we’ve written about over the last couple of weeks). You know, because we’re nice like that....

Respawn on their battle royale’s past, present, and future Then again, if you actually ask Respawn’s Apex team how they reached this point – as I did when I visited their Los Angeles offices for aSeason 20 test run– you’re unlikely to get just one answer. Rather, thebattle royale’s unusual longevity in a fiercely contested space is more often attributed to those ongoing work-and-rework efforts themselves, the scope of which sometimes remains a surprise to the developers themselves....

Early Days Collection will include the likes of Game Boy Color title Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelist Veteran trading card game and master of theheavily-kerned, overly-long monster nameYu-Gi-Oh! turns 25 this year. Among the card game’s quarter-century celebrations during an event in the Tokyo Dome this past weekend were a number of announcements, including the reveal of a collection of classic Yu-Gi-Oh! video games headed to Steam....