This potentially spicy meatball is out in June this year. As we all know,I like vampire stories, and I likedifferent takes on vampire stories. Yesterday Edwin dangled an upcomingvisual novelcalledVampire Therapistin front of my nose. I am intrigued, also because I appreciate a Ronseal approach to titles. In Vampire Therapist, out onSteamthis June 17th, you play Sam, a vampire who becomes a therapist to other vampires. So the title works twice!...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 18? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

What we do in and out of the shadows Take the little boy with lancing white eyes from Playdead’sLimbo, ruthlessly clone him a few dozen times (an extremely Playdead thing to do) and herd all the clones into a world redolent of Klei’sDon’t Starve, and you have something likeThe Tribe Must Survive. Developed by apparent Macbeth fans Walking Tree Games GmbH, and published by Starbreeze, it’s a heavilyhorror-themed tribemanagementsim with a roguelike campaign loop, set in what the developers are calling the “Lovecraftian Stone Age”, with flagrant disregard for my nerves....

Swen Vincke rebuts Ubisoft exec’s claim that players need to “get comfortable” with not owning their games Disclosure: Former RPS deputy editor Adam Smith (RPS in peace) now works at Larian and is the lead writer for Baldur’s Gate 3. Former contributor Emily Gera also works on it.

You can also get stuck in a massive poop The memethat willed itself into existence,Cult of the Lamb’s ‘sex update’, is upon us. The roguelite cultist sim’s Sins of the Flesh update is live now, bringing a whole bunch of new items, systems and other additions, as well as its promised woo-hooing. Sins of the Flesh is far more than its viral addition, too. The sizeable free update introduces a new sin system that allows sin to be generated by certain rituals and buildings, before being spent on temple upgrades, purgatory cooldown and more....

Dave The Diver was one of last year’s surprise hits, but though some called it an indie game, it was actually the work of Mintrocket, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Nexon. Now Mintrocket have announced their next game and it seems less likely to cause such confusion. It’s calledWakerunners, and it’s a team-based “battle action game” about heroes smashing at each other. It’ll have a demo in Steam Next Fest next month and there’s a teaser trailer below....

Trailer drops ahead of release on 23rd Jan What the hell is going on inDiablo 4these days? “Devilish machinations”, would you believe. Blizzard have formally unveiled the brooding action-RPG’s Season 3, aka Season of the Construct, which launches at 6pm GMT and 10am PST on January 23rd, and features a new quest line in which you investigate an ancient technology, theLoom, created by the mage Zoltun Kulle, which has now been purloined by the demon Malphas....

Glory to Team Tank “We had a firm belief that the gameplay of Tomb Raider I, II, and III is timeless, and with our use of the existing source code, we had every jump, secret, enemy, and puzzle exactly as the original development team designed and intended,” wrote Aspyr’s director of product Chris Bashaar. “So the conversation evolved into: how do we surprise and delight these fans? And that’s where we started brainstorming additions instead of revisions....

When will the novelty arms race end? I enjoyGames Done Quick, an organisation that raises money for charity (this year is the Prevent Cancer Foundation) by playing games at peak efficiency. If you’ve never watched it before, I recommend loading up theTwitch streamat about 1am and sort of gently dissociating while someone plays an 80s NES game you’ve never heard of. Speaking of, one of the headline acts for this year’s stream - which is running through to this Sunday 21st - was Peanut Butter, a shiba inu trained to press buttons on command, “playing” a NES game that came out in 1985....

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With a dash of Satisfactory’s automation to boot A newfarming gameis planting the seeds of recent PC hits likeStardew Valley,Human: Fall Flat,Satisfactoryand, yes,Minecraftand hoping to have them grow into an entertainingco-op offeringthat’s as cozy as it is chaotic. Southfield- apparently named for Middlesbrough developers Radical Forge’s local pub, as well as having a sort-of agricultural vibe - is a third-person farming sim with the chaotic physics of your Human: Fall Flats,Gang BeastsandKerbal Space Programsapplied....

Steam Beta launch had been planned to land today A massive update forStarfield, cramming in over 100 fixes and other improvements, has been delayed. Originally due to hit Steam’s beta branch today, January 17th, the patch is now expected to arrive later this week - but Bethesda aren’t sure exactly when, just yet. The update,said to be the biggest yet for the sci-fi RPG, was announced last week. Among the dozens of bug fixes and tweaks will be a number of fixes for quests, including quests such as Eye of the Storm and Into the Unknown getting stuck at particular points....

“These investments have proven unsustainable given the current industry climate.” A round of videogame company layoffs following a period of “unsustainable” spending? It must be a Wednesday. Swedish conglomerate Thunderful Group AB - whose corporate possessions includeSomervilledeveloper Jumpship and several teams working on theSteamWorldgames - have announced that they will lay off around 20 percent of their staff as part of a restructuring program that “stems primarily from over-investments made in the last few years”....