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Also thanks players for “your time, love and hate” The Escape From Tarkov developers' efforts to escape from a DLC paywall quagmire of their own quagmiring continue with an update and apology from Battlestate chief operational officer Nikita Buyanov, who says he “did not foresee” the adverse reaction to selling a new PvE mode as part of a new special edition, after telling purchasers of a previous edition they’d get “all subsequent DLC” for free....

No release date as yet Manor Lordsdeveloper Slavic Magic, aka Greg Styczeń, has laid out the broad strokes of the game’s first proper patch in early access. This follows a boisterous opening weekend that has seen the new citybuildertop purchase charts on Steam,causing Valve’s mighty servers to crumble under the strainlike overloaded oxen. The proposed changes include tweaks to archer damage,retuning the game’s trading mechanics, and making the AI a touch less zealous about claiming territory....

Set around the fourth and fifth seasons of the show; or, Before It Got Bad It’s been five years sinceGame of Thronesended and a good while since we had a decent video game based on George RR Martin’s fantasy writings that aren’tElden Ringlore. Yet it seems that Game of Thrones’ cultural cachet still has enough draw to inspire new games of its own. And not just anarguably underrated-if-also-not-particularly-great action-adventure RPGorfairly okay Telltale adventure game, either, but a whole honest-to-goodness Game of Thrones MMO currently in development, according to new rumours....

Sorry solo players Hell, it turns out, isn’t always a bubbly pool of magma where like, devils prod you with forks. There is a second hell inHelldivers 2, a hell made up of wartorn planets and soldiers who fight bile-spewing bugs and robots. And it is a hell that is subject to patches. One such update has nerfed a bunch of weapons including the popular quasar cannon. It’s also increased the number of enemy patrols based on player numbers and tweaked the game’s level generation, with the former making life more difficult in hell, and the latter possibly making things more interesting....

What the Dawi can do for you Well, this was unexpected. Malakai Makaisson is the single best campaign experience I’ve had sincestrategy gameTotal War: Warhammer 3launched, and might just be up there with some of the best in the series’ history. That’s over ninety lords he’s given both barrels to getting here and, honestly, I wasn’t sure Creative Assembly still had it in them. Not the talent, mind, just the passion....

Bloober Team are working on the Silent Hill 2 remake and another secret IP project Twitter userpl_evilhas helpfully translated a recent letter to shareholders from Bloober Team, showing that their new game “Project C” will be revealed later this year. This will be the studio’s next original game, after they wrapped upLayers Of Fearlast year with, confusingly, Layers Of Fear (the natural progression for a series: Layers Of Fear, Layers Of Fear 2, and then Layers Of Fear again, although it was going to be called Layers Of Fears at one point)....

No egg puns exist, unfortunately “Given the opportunity, players will become a merciless egg baron and sit chuckling on a throne of shells while medieval Europe cowers beneath their imperious yolk,” is what I assume Soren Jonson once said, and it looks likeManor Lordsis proving this timeless adage right once more. Despite shiftingover a million units and hitting the highestconcurrent player count of any ‘city builder’ on Steam, creator Greg ‘Slavic Magic’ Styczeń is already looking to the future of how thebuilding gamehandles trade....

This week’s most magnetic game releases, plus our weekly newsblog New week, new videogames! When will it end, etc. There aren’t many obvious headliners out in the next few days, but there are a lot of tantalisingly bleak games. Let’s see here, we’ve got a survival shooter that’s essentially set inBlack Mesa, a sardonical adventure about questing Russian Orthodox nuns, a game about running the company that starts the zombie apocalypse, and a cosy village grower with an atypical emphasis on disease and death....

Several anonymous former staff back up report as EKWB threatens lawsuit Last week Dan Henderson, a former product manager at PC water-cooling manufacturer EK Water Blocks, made apublic post on LinkedIn, in which he described almost four months of no pay, and being “strong armed and bullied into signing a new contract through fear of losing my job and also financial ruin.” He also accused the company - one of the biggest in the space - of “blatant racism…psychological manipulation, plain bare faced lying, [and] severe unprofessionalism....

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read-only Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome to Booked For The Week - our new Sunday feature where we ask a selection of cool industry folks questions about books! You know books, right? They’re a bit like RPS articles, but heavier and smell a bit nicer. This week, it’sCitizen SleeperandIn Other Waters' creator Gareth Damian Martin! Cheers Gareth! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?...