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Corporate giant had originally planned to delist all games Warner Bros., owners of the now-defunct Adult Swim Games publishing label, have contacted some developers about returning ownership of their game’s Steam pages. The developers of bothSmall Radios Big Televisionsand Duck Game shared the news on X yesterday. It’s a seeming reversal of Warner Bros. stated policy back in March,when all Adult Swim Games seemed destined to be delisted. “Duck Game is safe!...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 11? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Hopefully it’ll fix everything the last one broke What is it Wendy Cope wrote? “Bloody Fallout 4 patches are like bloody buses. You wait half a decade for one, and as soon as that one breaks everything, Bethesda releases another just days later.” Yeah, pretty sure that’s it. Anyway,Fallout 4will get another patch for the near decade-old game next week, presumably to help fix a lot of the problems its long-awaited “next-gen update” introduced two weeks ago....

Here are all Animal Familiar options in Hades 2 and how to recruit them Looking for Animal Familiars in Hades 2?Animal Familiars inHades 2are adorable companions that you can take with you on your travels through Erebus and beyond. These critters not only look cute but provide additional buffs and can help you gather Reagents. Below we’ll tell you how to get Familiars inHades 2and what buffs each Familiar comes with....

Here are all weapon Aspects in Hades 2 and how to unlock them Looking for Hades 2 weapon Aspects?Weapon Aspects are needed to upgrade weapons inHades 2. There are a few different Aspects to choose from for all five weapons inHades 2, and they vary in recipe and buffs. Below we’ve gathered a list of all Aspects for each weapon, how they rank and also listed how to initially unlock Aspects in your game....

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Gunner Halo and Destiny developers Bungie havereleased their classic shooter Marathon for free on Steam, with sequelsMarathon2 andMarathon Infinityto follow. The Steam ports are the work of the celebrated Aleph One community developers, who’ve kept Bungie’s old Marathon 2 game engine going as an open source project - and who still have PC ports of all three games available ontheir own site, if you’d rather not truck with Steam....

Coming this Fall Good newsDayZfans, there’s a new map inbound that’ll make survival even tougher than it already is! That’s right, the upcoming Frostline DLC adds the Sakhal archipelago, home to a rugged environment where you’ll battle against the cold and attempt to shoot nasty players at the same time. Oh, there are also volcanoes that prove an extra threat, too. And new diseases. Wonderful. Announced over on theirSteam page, Frostline is arriving sometime this Fall as a paid expansion....

Eye see you Having brought the likes ofResident Evil’s Nemesis,Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head,Stranger Things' DemogorgonandAlien’s Xenomorphto its one-versus-many game of deadly hide-and-seek,Dead by Daylightis digging back into the vaults for its next classic killer. This time, it’s nothorror video gamesor scary movies serving as inspiration for DBD’s next chapter, but 50-year-old tabletop fantasy RPG Dungeons & Dragons. Developers Behaviour Interactive teased an upcoming collab with the venerated pen-and-paper game - you might’ve heard of it, or at leastBaldur’s Gate 3- by dropping a clip of what appears to be aBeholder(yes, it could perhaps be a Spectator, D&D nerds, but Beholder seems likely) banging against the bars of a gloomy dungeon cell....

It had been due to hit early access next week, but will now land later this month The Rogue Prince of Persia, a game that is pleasingly candid in choosing its name for a roguelite Prince of Persia spin-off, has been delayed. It turns out that developers Evil Empire - they of very good rogueliteplatformerDead Cells- saw theHades 2train steaming down the tracks, and decided to sensibly dodge-roll out of its way....

Scientists reportedly so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they aren’t stopping to think if they should Pteranodon-fanciers and Stegosaur-whisperers, please throw your velociraptor-skin hats skyward in adulation. Frontier have partnered with Universal to make a third Jurassic World videogame. It’s one of three new management games inbound from theEliteDangereux developer over the next few years, including a game based on one of Frontier’s own intellectual properties. All this is part of Frontier’s recent decision to double down on what they’re calling the “creative management sim” genre - I hadn’t come across “creative management sim” prior to writing this post, and I’m not sure how I feel about it....

Xbox under pressure “to cut expenses to the bone” “This system was fine for a while when Game Pass was growing like gangbusters, but now it’s slowed way down and the amount of revenue it’s attributing to games isn’t keeping up with the budgets to make them.” Hilderbrand comments that Xbox “was basically a rounding error on Microsoft’s books” in the past. “Then Xbox went on a buying spree and spent a lot of money on Bethesda, but orders of magnitude more on Activision,” he writes....

Check out all those lovely silverbirch As I have now casually mentioned in about 400 news posts, I’m moving flat soon. During the quest for a new flat - a quest I would slot somewhere between return to Ravenholm inHalf-Life 2and the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows in terms of overall hopefulness and unpleasant surprises - I toyed briefly with the idea of living in a mobile home. You can find all kinds of weirdo moving property on Gumtree - houseboats, caravans, yurts, large coats, coffins - but they all share the disadvantage of being cramped and more expensive than described and inadequate to the power and internet needs of a Maxed-Out Videogame Journalist....

I was tempted to exclusively call it the ‘mommy ship’ so consider yourselves lucky SpacefaringRTSHomeworld 3is good sci-fi. Monolithic structures scorched with plasma burns. Sleek spacecraft. Alien sunrises. It’s also good sci-fi because its characters converse through reams of inscrutable but cool-sounding space science, and at no point does a grinning quipster tell a scientist: “Whoa there, professor. Why don’t you try saying that again… but in English!” Basically, if your wishlist forHomeworld 3has tone and atmosphere at the top, rest easy....