Hundreds of staff reportedly affected by TikTok makers ByteDance’s decision to “restructure” their games team Marvel Snapdevelopers Second Dinner have reassured players of the digital card game that it will continue to “operate and flourish in the future”, in the wake of reports that publishers Nuverse are set to step away from the mainstream games space. Marvel Snap launched just last year, with some of the card-minded talent behindHearthstoneworking on the comic-book CCG....

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Publishers also behind Elite Dangerous and F1 Manager admit that their efforts to move into other genres haven’t been as successful as hoped Frontier Developments are doubling down on their success inmanagement sim games, following weak sales for recentWarhammer RTS Realms of Ruinand a lack of success in attempting to break into other genres. The Cambridge-based developers’latest business updateacknowledged that “sales to date have been lower than expected” for Realms of Ruin....

The potential sale will also include Eurogamer, VG247, Dicebreaker, GI.Biz and more It’s hard to know where to begin with this, but let’s just rip the plaster off and get it over with. Reedpop have today announced that they’re “investigating the potential sale” of RPS owners Gamer Network. This also includes our friends atEurogamer,VG247,Dicebreaker, andGamesIndustry.biz. Not included in the sale are UK eventsEGXorMCM, or the websitePopverse. There’s not a lot more I can say at this stage - we ourselves still have lots of questions that need answering first - but I’ll endeavour to share more with you, our readers, as soon as I can....

I go on Twitter to find indie games so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by tea-brewing adventure game mishaps, low-fi city-building, the ubiquitous cool violence, a lovely bucket of fish, and heaps more. Check out these attractive and interesting indie games!...

Ace of spades Despite the threat of annihilation hanging over the horizon, however, SteamWorld Build is one of the most relaxed and easy-goingbuilding gamesI’ve ever played. This is a game that’s more concerned with keeping your economy running like a well-oiled, uhh, machine than turning a profit, for example, and it merely dips its toe in the genre’swider, ongoing obsessionwith building up defences to fend off oncoming hordes of malicious town hall-eating nasties....

15 buttons of POWER. The Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 is a nice revision over the original lots-of-buttons-with-screens concept, giving you an easy control centre to fire off macros, adjust the volume, launch programs, bleep yourself, adjust Corsair and Elgato components and peripherals and generally do things quickly and easily no matter what you’re doing on your PC at the time. We spotted a deal on the latest full-size Stream Deck over at Currys, where you can pick it up for £119 versus the original £149....

Reportedly it’s called Tribes 3: Rivals There’s a new TribesFPSin development, eight years since the last Tribes game,Tribes: Ascend, wentskeeting off into the no-further-updates hereafter. It’s the work of former Hi-Rez subsidiary and nowadays independent studio Prophecy Games, and going bySteamDB listings, it’s calledTribes 3: Rivals. Yep, that still looks like a sci-fi FPS built around fluid rocket-skating over pleasantly undulating geography, with players grabbing flags and hitting the map boundary in the time it’d take a Battlefield soldier to flop-to-prone in disbelief and outrage....

Our weekly news liveblog Here’s the very first of RockPaperShotgun’s new weekly news liveblogs. Read more about the thinking behind them inour announcement post, if you dare. A few PC game releases coming up this week that have our curiosity, perhaps even our attention: historical locomotive RTSLast Train Home(29th Nov), timeloop puzzlerOrten Was The Case(29th Nov), first person mage ‘em upWizordum(29th Nov), futuristic Robin Hood-inspired action gameGangs of Sherwood(30th Nov), and city-building dungeon crawlerSteamWorld Build(1st Dec)....

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That’s cynosa bad price for a keyboard. Mechanical keyboards may offer a superior typing experience, but they are also A) expensive, and B) loud. So if you’re looking to save money on your next PC build, or you want to play games late at night without incurring the wrath of your household, then the Razer Cynosa Lite will offer a cheaper, quieter experience. It also packs in a lot of features for a budget board, and you get grab this already inexpensive peripheral for less than half-price thisBlack Fridayweekend....

Ray-traced gaming on the road. Gaming laptops are a tougher proposition at a time when the Steam Deck offers portable PC gaming at a fraction of the cost. Yet while Valve’s handheld is great for playing indie games and older AAA titles, there are some circumstances where it’s simply not fit for purpose. It isn’t really suited for twitchy multiplayer shooters, while glossy ray traced experiences are beyond its capabilities. So if you’re after that kind of gaming on the go, a laptop remains ideal, and you can get a great portable gaming device for less than a grand thisBlack Fridayweekend....

The AOC 24B2XH is a 1080p screen that does what it says on the tin. Thebest PC gaming monitorscan run the gamut from ultrawide 8k screens curved like the spacetime around Jupiter, to bespoke esports monitors that refresh faster than the Ticketmaster page for a Taylor Swift concert. But if all you want is for your PC games to look nice while spending as little as humanly possible, here’s a screen you can stick on your desk for less than £75 thisBlack Fridayweekend....