With quality of life changes around relics and reviewing the game’s storyline Honkai: Star Rail’s version 2.0 will arrive at the start of February, adding a new area, three playable characters and new missions to the gachaspace game, HoYoverse have revealed. The headline addition in version 2.0 - or If One Dreams At Midnight, as it’s also known - is the new realm of Penacony, a former prison turned holiday destination in the Asdana system....

Victimless crime Let’s take a closer look, then, at how RGG’s latest crime caper performs on PC. We’ll also work out its best settings, to keep it running smoother than a legally distinct Segway. Owners of a certain Valve-made handheld device may want to read ourLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Steam Deck analysisas well. It all works fine, as you’d expect from a game with Steam’s Verified status, though some manual setting refinements can be just as beneficial on a Steam as they are on a desktop....

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Pocketpair confirms reports of cheaters on their official servers They might not have an enemy in Nintendo’s legal teamjust yet, butPalworlddevelopers Pocketpair have a different battle to fight in the meantime: online cheaters in the immensely popular ‘Pokémon with guns’survival game. The studio confirmed reports of cheaters causing grief for those playing online in the game’s official servers. While a proper PvP mode isn’t in the game yet - it’sin the works, though - players in the game’s subreddit havereportedbeing killed by other human players and having their pals, bases and even clans stolen using what seem to be glitches, hacks and other exploits....

Dozens of staff across “all possible departments” said to be affected Reikon Games, the developers behind cyberpunky top-down shooterRuiner, have reportedly become the latest studio to lay off dozens of staff, with over half of the Polish indie said to have lost their jobs earlier this week. Former employees speaking toKotakusaid that approximately 60 to 70 people - over 50% of the studio’s workforce - were laid off this past Tuesday, January 23rd in an announcement described as “sudden and shocking”....

Will it be in one piece? The much delayed, rebooted, and delayed live service pirate ‘em upSkull And Bonesactually pencilled in a release date not long ago. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more remarkable, Ubisoft have also announced it’ll get an open beta before it launches. In only a couple of weeks, you’ll be able to sail the seven seas with a purple rarity cannon firing off common rarity cannon balls that you bought off a rank 25 landlubber with your Skullbucks....

You can’t avoid this non-copyright-infringing Noid One game I heard and saw a lot last year but absolutely did not play wasPizza Tower, a fast and fiendishplatformerinspired by the Wario Land games. A lot of people seem delighted to rocket around in the colourful adventures of pizzeria proprietor Peppino Spaghetti. People who are younger than me. People whose hands aren’t gnarled claws. People who don’t have one foot in the grave....

Complete Edition hits PC on March 21st Good news, Horizon likers. Not only have Sony announced a release date for the PC version ofHorizon Forbidden West’s Complete Edition- mark your calendars for March 21st, folks - but they’ve also released a new trailer showing off all the various PC features. Chief among them for me is proper support for PS5 Dualsense controllers, which means you should be able to benefit from all the same haptic feedback ripples and adaptive trigger pulls of Aloy’s bow as folks did on PS5....

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It’s back on Steam and seemingly for good There’s also a new playable demo available fromits Steam pageahead of the looming Steam Next Fest. Berserk Boy’s art, level design and movement are clearly inspired by 16-bit classics of platforming, but there’s seemingly a greater emphasis on speed and combos. Attacking enemies in quick succession fills aBerserkMeter that lets you use special attacks. There also seem to be light Metroidvania elements, with alternate paths to uncover around the setting of New Hope City....

This survival game has now been cancelled alongside today’s news ofsweeping layoffs across Blizzard and other divisions of new owner Microsoft. “Today’s actions affect multiple teams within Blizzard, including development teams, shared service organizations and corporate functions,” said head of Xbox Studios, Matt Booty, in a note to staffreported by The Verge. “As part of this focus, Blizzard is ending development on its survival game project and will be shifting some of the people working on it to one of several promising new projects Blizzard has in the early stages of development....

Help for new demigods Adventure mode was one of my favourite things aboutDwarf Fortress, mainly because it made the infamously complex management gamemore approachableby letting you play it like a more traditional roguelike. I’m excited, therefore, that Adventure mode is coming soon to the Steam version of the game, and excited even more so that it’s aiming to make it even more accessible. A new update on development which outlines exactly how the new premium version of Adventure mode differs from the original, including its plan for tutorials to guide new players....

Once again pondering the orb Friends, it is finally time for me to discourse unto you about my great love of balls. The roots of my enthusiasm go back to pinball machines - both the fancier, arcade variety that transmogrify into e.g. screaming robot skulls when you achieve a high-enough multiplier, and the crappy, play-at-home variety that are basically a canted wooden sheet with some numbers drawn on it. But it wasn’t till I embraced the holy medium of videogames that I realised the full potential of balldom....