Same in Vampire Survivors, and no one can tell me otherwise While the official way to win20 Minutes Till Dawnis to survive 20 minutes of monster attacks, I disagree.Like in Vampire Survivors, I think the roguelikelike arcade shooter’s real victory condition is spewing so many bullets and explosions and fireballs and lightning strikes and ice shards that the framerate starts chugging. As far as I’m concerned, when the game can no longer process just how ridiculous my run is, I’ve beaten it and I win....

This ain’t your granddaddy’s farm he mysteriously left to you in his will A few days ago I sat in on a presentation forLightyear Frontier, a 3D farming and crafting game set on a remote planet at the edge of the galaxy. In fact in the presentation the game was referred to as a “farmadventure”, which isn’t a portmanteau and you only have to go another centimetere along to get farmventure, which is just about a portmanteau and, furthermore, is fun to say....

A more in-depth look at Xbox/Bethesda’s Not E3 announcements TheXbox and Bethesda Games Showcasehas been and gone, but Not E3 is far from over. Including, as it turns out, for Xbox and Bethesda: tonight’s Xbox Games Showcase Extended stream will take a deeper dive into some of the many games that were announced during the main show on Sunday, with new trailers and extended interviews. Liam and I will be liveblogging the whole thing, despite him having stayed up until God-knows-when last night watching Capcom’sResident Evilanddinosaur genocideannouncements....

Revamped cities and new landmarks Microsoft Flight Simulatorhas been revising its world one country at a time, adding new monuments and landmarks and new photogrammetry to its cities. The latest update, released today, returns to the United States for World Update 10, and includes improved scenery for Seattle, San Francisco, New York and more, as well as landmarks from Disneyland to Blackbeard’s Castle. Here’s a new trailer, cut in typically aspirational style:...

Dancing onto Valve’s storefront at an undisclosed date The collective JRPG fandom did a little squee and cartwheeled whenPersona 5 RoyalandPersona 3 Portablewereannounced for PCat Sunday’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. There was no word on whether either game would make their way to Steam likePersona 4 Golden, though. Well, never fear, because developers Atlus say both games will be coming to Valve’s storefront, asEurogamer report. In case you missed the trailer, here it is below....

Microsoft followed up this weekend’s not-E3 Xbox showcase tonight with an extended look at a handful of the games shown. That mostly involved middle aged men in jeans talking through their marketing bulletpoints, but there were also a couple of new announcements in between. One of them was that co-op survival-me-doValheimis heading to PC Game Pass this autumn. If you don’t know it, Valheim is a viking craft ‘em up about building a homestead with pals and venturing out across a wilderness to gather resources, thwock enemies, and eventually set sail to more distant lands....

Infiltrating Game Pass and Steam this September Stealthy real-time tactics threequelCommandos 3is being prettied up with an HD remaster that’s set to slip onto Game Pass in September like a frogman onto a Nazi-occupied beach. It’s not thenew Commandos gamethat you might be hoping for, but at least it’s World War something. Synchronise watches by viewing the trailer below. Commandos 3 HD Remaster will be on Game Pass for PC and Xbox at an undisclosed point in September, but it’s also coming toSteam....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Below, you’ll find three hints that will help you figure out today’s Wordle answer. If you’re still struggling, you can keep reading to find the solution and a definition that’ll explain how to use this word yourself in the future. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! As Kristoff famously sings in Frozen 2, staring at a blank Wordle grid can leave you feeling lost in the woods....

It’s using the best inventory system too Self-styled retro Thief-like FPSGloomwoodis stealthing its way into Steam Early Access on August 16th, an announcement that snuck in as part of last night’s PC Gaming Show. See, it’s like Thief but has guns. Oh, andResident Evil 4’s inventory Tetris, which is possibly the best inventory system ever invented. Witness for yourself in the trailer below. Gloomwood certainly has worked hard on developing a circa-2000 immersive sim aesthetic, which takes me right back to the good old days....

Pummel the hoards with the best Diablo Immortal Monk build Want to know the best Diablo Immortal Monk builds?Monk may not quite top ourDiablo Immortal classes tier list,but it is still the best utility class inDiablo Immortal.The class has fantastic mobility and crowd control along with a number of shields and party buffs that help you and your allies tear through dungeons. Monk needs a little bit of gear to really shine, but once you get going it is a delight to play....

And Howard wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer Starfieldis the next big new game from Bethesda Game Studios, and it’s a pretty big deal because they haven’t made something that isn’t aFalloutgame or an Elder Scrolls game in like… ever. So everyone was pretty excited to see what this new space RPG holds at the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase stream this weekend. And, sure enough, we actuallygot a pretty big eyeful of it....

Sign up today to shoot a t-rex When Capcom announcedExoprimal, an action game devised by your six-year-old self where players jump into badass exosuit and then machine-gun roiling hordes of dinosaurs, Alice0 believed that you fought the big lizard-birds with thehelpof an AI. In a new trailer and deep dive from tonight’s Capcom Showcase we learned that in fact the dino-rain is happeningbecauseof the AI. It is running combat tests with humans by, er, opening huge wormholes in the sky and dumping hundreds of dinosaurs on us like so many plastic toys....

Expedition: The Pitt introduces the game’s new replayable missions Online sci-fi RPGFallout 76is revisiting a not-so-beloved setting from predecessorFallout 3this September when the free Expeditions: The Pitt update launches from its silo. It’ll be the first time players have been able to venture beyond the borders of Fallout 76’s Appalachia region. Go downtown with the trailer below for more info. Set in post-apocalyptic, raider-occupied Pittsburgh, The Pitt, erm, pits you against those aforementioned raiders and Trog monsters you might remember from the original Fallout 3 add-on....