Now it’s back again, aiming for release next year, and it’s been re-tooled a little more: it’s no longer free-to-play. In Arc Raiders - or ARC Raiders, if I’m feeling generous - you’re a survivor in an underground colony. The ARC are deadly machines who rule the surface. As a scavenger, you go on sorties in search of supplies at the behest of traders and quest givers back home, working with or against other players to make it back home with the goods....

These are the absolutely essential skills to unlock first Which are the best Skills to unlock first in Black Myth: Wukong?There’s no shortage of Skills and ability unlocks inBlack Myth: Wukong, Game Science’s newsoulsliketake on the myriad Chinese folklore tales of Journey To The West. Throughout your journey as the simian Destined One, you’ll gain access to a splendid selection of powers by using ability points called “Sparks”. Unlike most soulslikes, you can upgrade your Skills at any time in Black Myth: Wukong without needing to rest at aKeeper’s Shrine(Black Myth’s equivalent of Bonfires)....

Find all 6 Buddha’s Eyeballs in Fright Cliff to unlock a secret boss Wondering where to find all the Buddha’s Eyeballs in Chapter 2 of Black Myth: Wukong?As you enter the Fright Cliff region in Chapter 2 ofBlack Myth: Wukong, you’ll pass by a chanting head of a Buddha statue in the ground. You can interact with this head to pluck out a Buddha’s Eyeball, an item unique to this region of the game....

And how to find the NPC near the Squall Hideout Shrine Looking to free the man trapped in the rock in Chapter 2 of Black Myth: Wukong?You’ll first meet the Man-In-Stone (as the character is called) in the Fright Cliff region ofBlack Myth: Wukong, inChapter 2of the game. He’s stuck in a rock, and needs help escaping, simple as that. The Man-In-Stone questline is a fairly short one, but it’s well worth completing properly....

Here’s what to do with the mysterious item you get in Chapter 2 Wondering what to do with the Old Rattle-Drum in Black Myth: Wukong?Quite a few of the items that you obtain even as early as the first two Chapters ofBlack Myth: Wukonghave purposes which are left deliberately unclear to the player. One such item is the Old Rattle-Drum - a unique boss drop fromChapter 2which has an entire questline attached to it, if you’re enterprising enough to find all the places dotted around the landscape where you can use it....

Here’s how to absorb Spirits in Black Myth: Wukong with the help of an old master’s guidance How do you absorb Spirits in Black Myth: Wukong?One of the great abilities of The Destined One inBlack Myth: Wukongis the ability to transform himself into other beings at will. But if you’ve tried to absorb your first Spirit, you may have seen the prompt:“Cannot absorb Spirits without guidance”. What does it mean?...

Hero Games doc also advises against mentioning Covid or Chinese games industry policy OurBlack Myth: Wukongreview hails the game as “a generous Soulsy adventure hybrid that works within its limitations and delivers a beautiful challenge to be unpicked with a magical toolbox”. Reviewer Edders went so far as to find the world more engaging than that ofElden Ring- proper defying-the-gods level rhetoric. Players seem to agree. The game launched last night, and has already accrued a concurrent player peak of 1....

Neat! Oh, hey, would you look at that?Total War: Warhammer 3’spatch 5.2.0(arriving later today) has some new orcs and goblins in it. Look at ‘em! They’ve got swords and shields now! Neat!

Didn’t they just release one of these? This seems like an odd one. I’m only tangentially familiar with theDying Lightgames, but I was under the impression that the model here was releasing a single game, then updating and expanding it for years. Whether standalone adventureDying Light: The Beastrepresents an attempt to course correct afterDying Light 2’s mixed reception, then, I’m not entirely sure. But if nothing else, it does share something in common with all the other adverts at Gamescom tonight: it is a game that exists, and will presumably be playable at some point....

It’s been a while since I’ve played Civ, and there are a lot of Civs to remember, so I’m not confident in picking out What’s New here, but I think the unit animations are more elaborate this time, with battalions of tanks and herds of spear-wielders that could almost have been lifted from Total War. There’s also a lot of nasty weather about, with some continent sized whirlwinds and lightning storms....

From the makers of Far: Changing Tides and Lone Sails There are unexpected things in life, like when one of the recipes in my Gousto box (basically Hello Fresh) didn’t come packed with a key ingredient: a single red pepper. Devastating, especially since it’s only ever happened to me once. Anyway, this is a long but no less meaningful segue to a game from theFar: Changing Tidesand Lone Sails devs Okomotive that’s just been announced at this year’s Geoffcom show....

Activision screens “Most Wanted” at Gamescom Activision have just screened an abbreviated video ofCall Of Duty: Black Ops 6campaign level “Most Wanted”, in which you and a buddy infiltrate a US fundraiser to save returning character Adler from Bad Dudes. Good news, people who like Call Of Duty: this looks like Call Of Duty. It’s got a homing knife, an exploding remote-controlled car and a big chap in full face armour with an overcompensatory minigun....

Game director Jerk Gustafsson talks us through a hands-off demo MachineGames have madea decent livingas the creators of satirical alternate histories in which you messily murder Nazis using mighty double-handfuls of shotgun. There are Nazis to fight inIndiana Jones And The Great Circle- a globe-trotting, tomb-robbing adventure featuring a Lost Ark-era Harrison Ford - but as you’d expect from a Lucasfilm adaptation, there’s rather less of the bloodshed. Wolfenstein’s antic skullbursting has given way to the clean, Spielbergian “PAF” of Indy’s fist connecting with a fascist jawbone....