Mysteries upon mysteries in the best thing to come from Skyrim What’s better than a little city full of mysteries to solve? A mysterious little city trapped in a time loop, where you slowly learn all the secrets but no one remembers what you did last time around. That’sThe Forgotten City, and if you’re on Game Pass, I do recommend having a go before it leaves Microsoft’s service next week. It’s a great puzzle box running to clockwork, like ifOuter Wildshad you meddle with people’s lives rather than machinery....

“From the opening scenes of the first mission to the very end.” McKay’sblog postis part of the studio’s initiative to be more transparent with fans; they had previously announced the RPG entered its production phase in February. With this newfound transparency, McKay also shared what the studio would be working on now Dreadwolf has hit Alpha, saying that “we can now evaluate the game’s pacing, how relationships evolve over time, and the player’s progression,” as well as gathering feedback and extensive testing....

Maybe crime is real after all? The last Frog Detective game is here, marking the end of an era for everyone’s favourite amphibian-based mystery game series. Our froggy pal hassaved a haunted islandfrom the clutches of ghosts,thwarted wizardous party-poopersin Warlock Woods, and now their investigatory prowess has taken them to the wild west.Frog Detective 3: Corruption At Cowboy Countymay be the last in Worm Club’s trio of Frog Detective games, but it’s also a certified banger, successfully joining the first and second games in putting a stupid smile on my face for the entire time I played....

“People seem to want this Winds Of Winter book” Game Of Thrones author George R. R. Martin has admitted he hasn’t playedElden Ring, despite creating the history and lore for FromSoftware’s RPG. He does have a fairly good reason for it, though. OnThe Late Show with Stephen ColbertMartin said, “I have not played it because people seem to want this Winds Of Winter book,” the (very) long-awaited sixth chapter in the Game Of Thrones series....

Oops? Around 24 hours ago,Gotham Knightson Steam received its first patch. Among fixes for was various bugs, the game was also updated to remove Denuvo’s anti-tamper DRM from the game. Sometimes games remove their DRM after the launch window, but not normally just five days after release, making its removal from Gotham Knights a surprise. Well, now Denuvo has been re-added. Thepatch notes for the updatemake no mention of Denuov’s removal....

Terror on a timer I’ve mentioned before that I’m intosurvival gameswith a goal past staying alive, because if surviving is the only goal, what’s the point in living at all (he says, with a firm glare at the Tory party)?Groundedhas its main quest andMinecrafthas the Ender Dragon, for example, which gives you something to work towards past simply keeping your heart beating.7 Days to Dieis the biggest counterpoint to that, with its routine weekly horde attacks delivering moreish gameplay that keeps me playing way past my bedtime....

I cannot resist teasing this eyeball which follows my cursor Today has brought the launch ofSignalis, a new retro-styled survival horror about an android trapped in a spooky place in deep space. It looks neat! I’ve heard it’s good! I can neither confirm nor deny that because I can’t get past the main menu. The background is a big blinking eye, see, and it follows my mouse cursor, so I cannot resist making the eye look around and go silly....

Plus Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and some neat software. The Intel Arc A750 is a surprisingly strong graphics card for 1080p and 1440p gaming, and after an initial period of unavailability it is now back on sale at Newegg in the US. The good ship Rock Paper Shotgun has yet to review the cards - although there isan excellent articleannouncing them. However, we can rely on the testimony of one ‘Will Judd’ from Digital Foundry, who claims in hisArc A750 reviewthat the A750 and A770 offer “legitimately good rasterised performance in modern games, oversized RT performance and features that range from novel (Smooth Sync, AV1 encode, DisplayPort 2....

The changes arrive today, alongside its first content update Zax’s Story Unknown Worlds Entertainment have announced big changes are coming to their tabletop battling gameMoonbreaker. In ablog post, the developers announced they’re removing all monetisation from the game, including its in-game currencies and in-game store, in order to “better reflect our early access goals”. The changes will come into effect today, alongside the Moonbreaker’s first content update, Zax’s Story. Moonbreaker’s in-game shop and Pulsars - the game’s purchasable currency - have been completely removed and players will be refunded for any Pulsar purchases automatically....

Respawn unveil the Legend’s new abilities, and she’ll be the first with the ability to block Bloodhound’s scan Apex Legends: Eclipse, the 15th season of Respawn’s peerless battle royale, is nearly upon us. We’ve already seen quite a bit aboutBroken Moon, the brand new map being added with Season 15 - but now Respawn has finally released more details about the new Legend, Catalyst, and the Ferrofluid-powered abilities she brings to the Apex Games....

Hundreds of new places to die Each of Downpour’s five new playable slugcats will have their own abilities and storyline, and there are ten new regions to explore which each have their own new enemies, traps and weather to deal with. There are also two new modes: Challenge mode, featuring handmade arenas of escalating difficulty; and Safari mode, through which you can revisit past areas as an observer or as other, non-slugcat creatures....

io Saturnalia! Saturnaliaisn’t a terribly long game, but it has spent much longer occupying my thoughts. Any time in the past couple of weeks that my friends and colleagues thought they were talking to me, they were in fact talking to an exquisite Italian neon-folkhorrorgame wearing my skin and looking out of the eye-holes in my skull. On at least one occasion I lay in bed at 3am, sweaty and frozen in half-asleep fear, because I thought I’d heard a strange rattling noise…...

Surprise! The trailer is sparse, only giving us glimpses at the creepy side-scroller between its logo, but we won’t need to wait long before we can experience the full game. In the meantime, Jumpship have beenposting concept artfrom the game the entire month, if you physically can’t wait for more. The game seemingly follows a family on the run from some kind of apocalyptic event. Like the games Patti worked on at Playdead, you’ll be traveling around moody landscapes, only this time, Somerville will experiment with that side-on perspective, and will be full 3D....