Saving or destroying the world I’m always interested in card games that stretch beyond pure combat and are used to convey narrative. That’s whatForetalesdoes. It’s a card game filled with anthropomorphic animals in medieval garb in which you can sneak and barter before or instead of scrapping. Find the trailer below. Foretales is set in a world being ravaged by a “terrible curse”, in which you play as a small-time thief....
Five years after Fallen Order I like teaser trailers for Star Wars projects more than I like most Star Wars projects, so this has been a good week for me. It was capped off with the release yesterday of the first teaser trailer forStar Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn’s sequel to Fallen Order. You can watch it below. Survivor takes place five years after the events of the first game, which sets it, for reference, at the same time as the Kenobi TV series....
Here’s the answer to Wordle #344 Every day, Wordle gives you six guesses to come up with the five-letter answer in language-based variant on Mastermind-like code-breaking games. If today’s puzzle has you stumped, then we’ve got some clues on hand to help you along. You can also scroll right to the bottom of the page to see today’s answer in full. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead!...
Graphics performance boosts fall short on the Radeon RX 6500 XT This week,AMD Software Adrenaline Edition 22.5.2released, making that new Radeon driver available to anyone who didn’t fancy switching to preview builds. Armed with anRX 6500 XT(a low-end card that desperately needs a performance kick), I gave the new software a whirl – and found that, for all those big numbers, Radeon owners should probably lower their expectations. I’m not saying bigger gains won’t be had on other graphics cards, or in games besides the ones I’ve tested....
More than 90% off My favourite kind of Humble Bundle isn’t a collection of games, most of which I’ll never get round to playing. It’s a bundle of a single game I like with lots and lots of discounted DLC. Enter theCities Skylines Colossal Collection, which offers upCities: Skylines, 9 expansions and 21 add-ons for £16.22/$20/€18.95. Cities: Skylines is heir to theSimCitythrone: a citybuilder about zoning residential, commercial and industry districts and then trying to manage the needs of your residents as they flock to town....
Saoghal iomall Clanfolkis colony sim set in medieval Scotland, in which you manage generations of Archibalds and Duncans and attempt to survive each harsh winter. It looks a lot likeRimWorld, and it’s aiming for an early access release this July. Here’s a release date trailer: A lot like RimWorld, yeah? Clanfolk is described as “intentionally challenging” by its developers. You’ll start the game with plentiful food in a warmer season, but you’ll need to build homes, farm, fish, and stockpile if you hope to survive through the year....
Take me down to Zenozoik city where the grass is blue and the toes are gangly Not long ago I attended a journo event in Paris, where game devs and their demo booths lined the walls. But none stood out quite likeClash: Artifacts Of Chaos, a third-person fighting adventure set in a punk-fantasy universe. Despite only the briefest of hands-on sessions cut short by sod’s law, I simply can’t shake the game from my short back and sides-furnished skull....
Spoilers within Details ofCyberpunk 2077’s first expansion have apparently leaked, including the dialogue for all its main quests. The leak apparently comes via files accidentally included with theCyberpunk 1.5 patchreleased back in February, which were removed by CDPR hours later but discovered and saved by dataminers. Although the discoverers of these files did not initially share them, one dataminer reportedly chose to do so now after having a disagreement with a CDPR moderator....
Hell opens its gates a little early Blizzard Entertainment and NetEast Games have announced that the upcoming devilish MMOARPGDiablo Immortalis available for pre-load on PC today. As in, right now. It won’t launch in full until next June 2nd, but Blizzard have provided a handy ‘roadmap’ for accessing the gamehere. Scurry forth ye demons. Blizzard’s most recent jaunt to Hell was last year’sDiablo 2: Resurrected, whichAlice Bee thoughtwas a nice trip down memory lane....
Tadpoles too. Aww! The last update for Minecraft was such a whopper it ended up beingsplit in two, with Caves & Cliffs part 1 implemented in summer last year and part 2 at the end of November. Some of the elements meant for Caves & Cliffs that didn’t make it into that update are coming with the launch of The Wild, the underground Deep Dark biome being of particular interest....
Cut above Friends and loved ones will agree, I have big “background character” energy. If I lived in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn’t be a Jedi or a Sith inquisitor. I wouldn’t even be one of those rebels who wear the long funny bike helmets. There would be no “Liam: A Star Wars Story” premiering on Disney+. Instead, I’d be the guy who changes the bedding at a grungy BnB on Tatooine....
2K Games say studio in “transition period” Hangar 13, the studio behindMafia 3andMafia: Definitive Edition, have undergone a round of layoffs according to areport on Bloomberg. The layoffs are the likely consequence of several of the studios projects being cancelled in the past year, includingan unannounced superhero game. Staff were told of the job cuts in a virtual meeting, a recording of which was heard by Bloomberg. New studio president Nick Baynes called the news “horrible”, and said he does not expect further layoffs....
Try saying that ten times fast while battling other teams Amazon Games’ fantasy MMORPGNew Worldhas received its latest update, ‘Arenas’, which means you can now smack other players upside the head in teams of three. The update brings PvP arena combat in best-of-five contests that Amazon say are for “glory and riches”, but then quickly qualifies that they’re actually for unique stuff to decorate your in-game house with. The trailer makes the whole thing seem pretty wacky, see for yourself below....
