Balance tweaks, bug fixes and improved cheat detection also live now Destructive game-showshooterThe Finalshas received its biggest update yet. Patch 1.5 arrives with a litany of bug fixes, balance changes and more, along with the introduction of a brand new mode - the game’s first time-limited variant, as well as its first mode for solo players. Solo Bank It is a spin on the game’s existing Bank It mode, in which players collect coins from their defeated opponents....

Bandle Tale and its enormous skill trees arrive on February 21st When cute crafting RPGBandle Tale: A League Of Legends Storywas first announced at the end of last year, I don’t think I really appreciated the fact it was going to be the next game from the devs behind mortuary farming-me-doGraveyard Keeper. I keep turning this fact over in my head as I watch Lazy Bear Games' associate producer Vlada Redko play a portion of Bandle Tale over Discord for me, with creative director Nikita Kulaga and Riot Forge’s creative director Rowan Parker telling me about what’s happening onscreen in front of me....

Available now with Bethesda’s stamp of approval What’s the most 90s way you can market your retro-styled prequel to a 90s mech shooter? Other thanan Acclaim-style stuntwhere you offer people £500 to tattoo their baby’s face with the game logo, I’d say perhaps releasing aQuakemod. So here’s Episode Enyo, a prequel to upcoming “biopunk” hack ‘n’ slasherSlave Zero X, now available as a Bethesda-approved free add-on inside Quake. Made by Ironwood Software, Episode Enyo is a prequel to Slave Zero X, which is itself a prequel toSlave Zero, a third-person mech shooter whichBrendy enthusiastically described as “a okay game”....

Work for a fairytale startup, lose your soul! Hey! How would you like to contribute to the downfall of society? I do so by regularly tuning into Love Island and/or Married At First Sight. For those of you who’d like to do your part in videogame form,dev_helllooks to be the answer. It’s a first-person deckbuilding roguelike where you play as a software developer employed by a shady corporation to “reshape the future”, and it’s giving off strong whiffs ofInscryption....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatPlanescape: Torment’s Litany Of Curses is better thanHalf-Life’s Snarks. I hadn’t that expected that snark-off to be so one-sided but Morte’s cussing taunt took 80% of the votes. You have to forgive Snarks for snapping at your finger one day, Gordon, they’re just little critters. Onwards! This week, I ask you to choose between nostalgia and new styles, ya? What’s better: playing on an old patch, or asymmetrical outfits?...

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PC Game Pass players should backup saves if they can Against The Stormleft early access late last year, but has just now received its first major post-release patch. Update 1.1 “isn’t as spectacular” as its developers had first hoped, but it does buff the roguelite citybuilder with som new art, UI improvements and quality-of-life tweaks, as well as new orders to make early stage settlement building “a little more interesting.”...

Sure looks like a vampire game Rebel Wolves, the studio founded by a few of the CD Projekt folk behindThe Witcher 3andCyberpunk 2077, have officially titled their forthcoming dark fantasyRPG. That title is… Dawnwalker. They’ve also shared a new teaser image, which I think could depict one of two things: a) a vampiric or otherwise supernaturally-inclined hero flying through the air care of aDishonored-style Blink teleport, sword raised and clawed fingers stretched towards an unseen foe against a blood-red backdrop....

Its first official gameplay trailer makes quite the ruckus The denizens ofFrostpunkare, understandably, quite grumpy so-and-sos a lot of the time, but through their cries of “More heat!” and “Please can wenotwith the human waste hothouse jobs!”, I reckon even they’d be quite pleased to hear thatFrostpunk 2will be heading to PC Game Pass on its day of release (with Xbox Game Pass following when it arrives on consoles). Alas, we still don’t know exactly when it’s coming out yet, but in the mean time, why not gather round the burning barrel of 11 Bit’s very first gameplay trailer for it while we wait?...

The ASRock RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D is one of the fastest variants too. This is the fancy AsRock Phantom Gaming D model too, which brings a snazzy design and a faster 2340MHz boost clock (versus 2250MHz on the vanilla spec). In terms of missing features, AMD’s new FSR 3 frame generation tech works fine on “last-gen” RX 6000 graphics cards like the RX 6900 XT - versus DLSS 3 which is only available for the latest series of Nvidia GPUs....

The call is coming from inside the tree I worked on the phones when I was in pension admin, years ago, and I fielded some weird ones, but nothing quite as weird as the calls inHome Safety Hotline. It’s, technically, I suppose, ahorrorgame about manning a call line through a 90s CRT-screen PC, where people will be like “my kitchen is full of droppings that look like coffee grounds, what do?...

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And takes a lot of learnings from it, too Having spent what feels like an entire lifetime inJRPGPersona 5 Royal, going back to the originalPersona 3is pretty jarring. It’s unsurprising given it came out 18 years ago, but exploration is more akin to a slideshow and dungeon-running to a well-rehearsed routine. But with an hour ofPersona 3 Reloadunder my belt, P3’s remake felt immediately familiar. It’s absolutely built for a seamless transition for P5-likers and takes away some of P5 Royal’s learnings, too....