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Try them This week, we’re highlighting the best demos you can play duringSteam Next Fest, which starts June 10th. We’re calling thisWishlisted, in partnership with Eurogamer and VG247. Excuse me, sorry, pardon me, can I just, thank you, ah, sorry, thanks… Phew, made it.Steam Next Festis pretty crowded, eh? As if the unholy swarm of trailers and game announcements fromSummer Game Festwas not enough, this week the fearful megalords at Valve decided to drop their regular cavalcade of coming-soons onto their megastore....

Available until the 18th of June If you don’t want to go through the hassle of joining and downloading the demo based on the scant details from the trailer, YouTuber ENFANT TERRIBLE has uploaded an entire 50 minute session. I have no idea who they are, though, so while I’m sure they’re lovely, don’t come to me if it turns out they barbecue babies for fun or something. The game looks to be stuffed with creepy pasta and conspiracy theory-esque paranormal shenanigans....

Ooh, it’d be brill on the Deck Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown’s first story DLC got atwo-second trailer during Ubisoft Forwardon Monday, confirming its name and its coming release this September. Here’s a more specific release date that’ll matter more to some of you: The Lost Crown itself will come to Steam on August 8th. The Lost Crown has been exclusively available viathe Epic Games Storeand Ubisoft’s own launcher since its release back in January....

Capcom’s ecosystem has become a terrible pinball machine When our demo handler discovered the beast, it was chilling with its pack, denser monster herds being another new-ish Wilds feature. Initially, the demo player attempted to fight them all simultaneously up-close, but this meant that all we could see of Wilds was massive furry buttocks clipping together against a soundscape of outraged tuba noises, so after a moment or so, we beat a tactical withdrawal aboard our Seikret, using a projectile of some kind to tag the Alpha Doshaguma and lure it away from the throng....

“We believe Valve Corporation has been unfairly shutting out competition for PC games” In what is possibly the biggest scandal the UK has seen since the last time the price of Freddos went up, a digital rights campaigner is suing Valve for £656m in compensation, accusing the company of overcharging and anti-competitive behaviour. The accompanyingwebsitedescribes the collective action claim as a “ground-breaking legal action,” which is very gamer of them. 16 times the litigation, etc....

Entire 160-person team laid off in retaliation, alleges CWA union US labour union the CWA (Communications Workers of America) havefiled Unfair Labor Practicecharges against Activision QA supplier Lionbridge Technologies. AsGame Developerreports, the CWA allege that Lionbridge fired an entire 160-person team in Idaho in retaliation for union-related activities. The CWA accuse Lionbridge, who also subcontract labour to Activision owner Microsoft, of making the layoffs “in retaliation for workers engaging in protected organizing activities and protected speech when raising issues regarding their working conditions....

Maybe scream a little Alice thought it over for a week, and then emailed her response: no. Thank god I was able to change her mind, so I could spend the next six years giving her shit about it. But now Alice is leaving RPS, and you should join me in saying goodbye. Alice’s writing sounds like how I want RPS to sound: funny and smart, yes, but best of all able to be strongly critical while still unafraid to be a fan of a game she loves....

Through a wormhole, darkly No, it’s notSilversun. Sit down,Brian. Let somebody else have a go at answering.Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vectoris a sci-fiRPGwith plenty of dice and a heavy nod towards tabletop role-playing. The firstCitizen Sleepersaw your bio-robotic protagonist landing on a donut-shaped space station where they learned to make a new life for themselves among interstellar farmers and ramen-serving rapscallions. In the sequel, a demo of which I’ve played [smug face], the hook is a little different....

Disco stu-dent of the blade This week, we’re highlighting the best demos you can play duringSteam Next Fest, which starts June 10th. We’re calling thisWishlisted, in partnership with Eurogamer and VG247. Disco Samuraiis a game that’s so difficult I’d have given up playing sooner if it didn’t contain so many of my absolute favouriteaction gamethings. Tense, decisive duels. Violence that’s both brutal and a little silly. Scalpel-sharp parry n' strike back-and-forths....

The opening of the upcoming RPG sequel will remind you what happened in its 10-year-old predecessor if you’ve forgotten The Veilguard - which had the objectively better subtitle Dreadwolfup until earlier this month, but let’s not dwell on that - recently made a fairly big showing during Summer Game Fest, giving an in-depth look at its high-stakes fantasy drama (not as Marvel-aping as was feared) that Edwin found to behappily Mass Effect 2-evoking in tone and properly single-player RPG in form....

Love, blood, and rhetoric Engaging from start to arguably too-soon finish, Felvidek is a raw, strange, and brilliant RPG that alternates between deadly combat, plummy prose, crass jokes, and odd beauty. “When I was young,” the villager washing garments in the river says, “I thought it was enough to clean the dirty laundry once and be calm. Not that it will get dirty forever.” I’m not sure I’ve ever felt the crushing weight of universal entropic decay so keenly as in thatRPGmaker textbox, nested uponFelvidek’s nicotine-stain hues....

How to find the Elden Ring Uchigatana in the Deathtouched Catacombs Looking for the Elden Ring Uchigatana weapon?As one of the first Katana-type weapons you can get, don’t miss out on the Uchigatana’s amazing slash and pierce damage. To top it off, the Uchigatana causes Blood Loss buildup, which makes it a perfect weapon for boss fights. In this guide, we’ll show you how to find theElden RingUchigatana location. How to get the Uchigatana in Elden Ring...

In From fashion, you’ll need to defeat a tough boss at the end of an secret side area before you enter the expansion Shadow Of The Erdtreeis out in under 10 days, but some players must be in for a surprise if they expect to be able to jump in straight away. As it turns out, most players on Steam haven’t even progressed far enough in the original game to access the DLC - something publishers Bandai Namco have now issued a friendly FYI about....