Phonopolis is a playful dystopian adventure from Amanita Design

It’s also their first game with 3D graphics Czech indie collective Amanita Design have revealed their next adventure game, the dystopianPhonopolis. In a handful of firsts for the collective, Phonopolis will not only be their first game with 3D graphics, but it’s also going to be the first that has actual narration rather than fun, nonsense noises. There’s no release date just yet, but have a watch of the teaser trailer below....

May 18, 2022 · 3 min · 438 words · Mrs. Mariah Wong

Popverse is a new pop culture site from our business dad

Marvel! DC! Star Wars! Anime! There’s already a starship’s load of features about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC movies and Star Wars on there, so go have a readathon. The relaunched site also covers the professional wrestling scene, which is surely even more fantastical than Tolkien’s greatest works. Popverse will be led by editor-in-chief Chris Arrant, who has yonks of experience writing about all the ol’ pop culture stuff. You can read hiswelcome letterright here....

May 18, 2022 · 2 min · 283 words · Eugene Flores

Slice-of-life sim Spirittea channels Stardew Valley and the spirit world

Out this summer No More Robots have announced they’ll be publishing Cheesemaster Games’Spirittea, a supernatural bath-house management and life simulator based around magical tea that lets you see spirits. I’m sitting here right now slurping what must be my quintillionth cup of tea so far today, so I’m quite up for finding out more about this one. I just hope the water in the kettle doesn’t come from the bathhouse....

May 18, 2022 · 2 min · 258 words · James Nguyen

Spiders announce colonial fantasy RPG sequel Greedfall 2

Make sure to write “Spiders” as often as possible In GreedFall 2, you’ll play as a native of the island of Teer Fradee. You’re “uprooted by force” from the island and taken to the continent of Gacane, an “old world ravaged by war and scarred by the Malichor plague and the political scheming” according to the press release. That’s as opposed to the original game, in which you played a Gacane colonist arriving on the island of Teer Fradee, where the natives were attempting to fight off the invading settlers....

May 18, 2022 · 1 min · 211 words · Charles Ryan

Vampire Survivors, Sniper Elite 5 heading to Xbox Game Pass this month

Plus Jurassic World and Hardspace: Shipbreaker Game Pass is particularly ideal for two kinds of games: indie games you’re not sure you’ll like enough to commit to the upfront cost, and decent-not-great blockbusters you know almost certainlyaren’tworth the cost but would quite like to play for at least a bit. Likewise, Sniper Elite 5 is the new entry in the typically trashy-but-flashy first-person shooter series about blowing the bollocks off Nazis from 300 yards....

May 18, 2022 · 2 min · 244 words · Michael Todd

Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong review: mystery, intrigue, and walking about

Keep your fangs sharp and your wits sharper From the 90s onwards, movies taught me that vampires spend all their time eating and having sex with people (often concurrently).Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansonghas taught me that they actually spend most of their time walking around looking at things, sometimes stopping to have tense conversations or pick up keycards. There is occasional eating. Your three leads are extremely cool nightclub owner Emem Louis, reluctant soothsayer amnesiac Leysha, and quintessential vampire’s vampire Galeb Bazory....

May 18, 2022 · 6 min · 1273 words · Gary Hanson

What's better: random critical hits, or controlled crits?

A question of chance Last time, you decided thatlittle inconsequential choices are better than controlling a turret. I am pleased that quite a few people did actually pick turrets. But this week, in the name of experimentation, I’m trying an approach that seems frankly inefficient. What if we… picked between two similar things? While I can’t imagine many will think this good, let’s give it a go, for science. Tell me, what’s better: random critical hits, or controlled critical hits?...

May 18, 2022 · 4 min · 642 words · Margaret Brown DDS

Wordle answer (Thursday 19 May 2022): Wordle #334 solution and hints

Here’s the answer to Wordle #334 Okay, enough chat. It’s game time. Alarms are ringing and your loved ones are frantically typing words in a desperate bid to earn bragging rights. We can’t let them win, right? Whether you need a few helpful hints or just want to skip to today’s Wordle answer answer so that you don’t have to make the cup of tea this morning, we’re here to help....

May 18, 2022 · 2 min · 334 words · Mrs. Taylor Beck

AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X gaming CPU is down to £185 in the UK

In many ways, AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600X processor is theperfect gaming CPU, offering extremely good performance for games and content creation while consuming little heat, working with very inexpensive motherboards and coming with a free, perfectly capable CPU cooler. The CPU’sonly major drawback on launchwas its price: £280. Now, the Ryzen 5 5600X is retailing for just £185 at Currys in the UK when you use the codeFNDDGAMING, bringing aheretofore unseenlevel of performance to this price point....

May 17, 2022 · 3 min · 497 words · Michele Houston

Bloober Team CEO "can't comment" on Silent Hill rumours

Because they appreciate their partners Rumours re-emerged last week that Bloober Team, makers of Layers Of Fear, were working ona remake of Silent Hill 2. NowIGNhave asked Bloober’s CEO, who wouldn’t comment but said that its unannounced project would “still be a Bloober Team title” even if made in partnership with another company. “We can’t comment on anything we are doing because we appreciate our relationship with our partners, of course,” CEO Piotr Babieno told IGN when asked about theSilent Hill 2remake rumours....

May 17, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · William Rodriguez

Bohemia Interactive confirm their next wargame is Arma Reforger, and it's out right now

Scouting the terrain for Arma 4 Arma Reforgeris the next game in the long-running military simulation series and will serve as an advance force forArma 4, Bohemia Interactive have revealed during their ‘Future Of Arma’ stream today. Most of the information Bohemia had to relay was leaked over the weekend onReddit, but it’s always good to get official confirmation of these things, amirite? Today’s stream announced that Arma Reforger is available now in early access on Steam and is bringing the series to console for the first time through Game Preview on Xbox Series X/S....

May 17, 2022 · 2 min · 264 words · Donna Petersen

Dead By Daylight invites the bogeyman to its sixth birthday party

Developers Behaviour Interactive also acquire Scavengers studio Midwinter Entertainment Dead By Daylightdevs Behaviour Interactive have confirmed that there will be a new killer, survivor and map coming with the launch of the game’s next chapter, ‘Roots Of Dread’, on June 7th. Unveiled as part of today’s sixth anniversary stream, the developers say they were inspired by the infamous urban legend of the bogeyman to create new killer ‘TheDredge’, which is an amorphous blob creature with a gaping maw and limbs at odd angles....

May 17, 2022 · 3 min · 430 words · Jordan Braun

Dying Light 2's developers are ramping up work on an open world fantasy RPG

And they’re hiring Now thatDying Light2 has been pushed into the light, developers Techland say they’re ramping up development on their next project: an open world fantasy action-RPG. There’s no more information about it than that, but Techland are hiring for dozens of roles as they look to “grow in numbers significantly.” In a press release about the job listings, Techland CEO Paweł Marchewka says that the company is happy with the Dying Light series and has plans to support the sequel “for at least five years....

May 17, 2022 · 1 min · 207 words · Joshua Banks