Best Content Warning mods: More players, colors and more

Here are the best Content Warning mods available Looking for the best Content Warning mods?Whether you’re looking to add moreContent Warningplayers, face colours or an extra character limit for faces, there are already a host of mods available for this newhorrorco-op game. Content Warning is currently available on PC via Steam, as such, these mods are all for PC. See below for the most popular Content Warning mods currently available to download....

April 5, 2024 · 5 min · 945 words · Laura Crawford

Castaway is a miniature Link's Awakening - plus a 50-floor challenge tower

From the developer of Lunark I think we might be nearing the point where there are Too Many Retro Zeldalikes, and specifically Too Many Link’s Awakealikes – recent candidates includeIsles Of Sea And SkyandBlossom Tales- but I’m definitely willing to go adventuring withCastaway, in which you are a spaceman called Martin who has crashlanded on an island’s worth of gently rounded, 8-bit scenery. Martin’s goal is to rescue his pet dog, which doesn’t sound like it’ll take too long – the “concise and delightful” story mode boasts just three bosses....

April 5, 2024 · 2 min · 241 words · Jennifer Knight

Company of Heroes and Dawn of War devs Relic suffer layoffs one week after reclaiming independence from Sega

Job losses apparently needed to give studio “the best possible chance to survive in an increasingly volatile industry” Relic Entertainment, the freshly-independent developers ofCompany of Heroes,Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of WarandAge of Empires IV, have confirmed a number of job losses. The layoffs come just a week after the studio announced their sale from former owners Sega, returning them to independence after two decades. OnLinkedIn, Relic confirmed that an unspecified number of staff would be laid off (viaEurogamer, external development producer Robyn Smale stated in aseparate postthat 41 staff had been affected), adding that the decision was “made solely with the goal of providing Relic the best possible chance to survive in an increasingly volatile industry”....

April 5, 2024 · 2 min · 311 words · Alicia Mejia

Conquering Total War: Warhammer 3 as a pirate with a pathological aversion to ever touching grass

Born to plunder. World is an ocean. 410,757,864,530 dead elves. In the dingy portside taverns that pop up, seemingly unbidden, like roiling blisters along the coastal towns of theOld World, the name Count Noctilus is spoken only in hushed whispers by those blasted enough on grog to forget themselves. They are sure to be swiftly rebuked by their fellows for playing dice with fate, those still of sound mind rightly afeared that the name may echo through the brine and tickle the ears of the dread captain himself....

April 5, 2024 · 8 min · 1551 words · John Morris

Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Mystic Spearhand

How to unlock the Mystic Spearhand vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Looking for how to unlock the Mystic Spearhand vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2?As one of the advanced vocations inDragon’s Dogma 2, the Mystic Spearhand isn’t available from the game’s beginning. You’ll need to trek off the beaten path to the village of Melve and involve yourself in an important sidequest if you want to wield a Duospear and obtain one of theniftiest vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2....

April 5, 2024 · 3 min · 613 words · Lisa Long

Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Sorcerer

How to unlock the Sorcerer vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Looking for how to unlock the Sorcerer vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2?As one of the advanced vocations inDragon’s Dogma 2, the Sorcerer isn’t available from the game’s beginning. Thankfully, it doesn’t take too long to unlock it, as all you need to do is complete a sidequest after arriving in the city of Vernworth. If you like huge magick attacks, the Sorcerer is thebest vocationfor pure spellcasting mayhem inDragon’s Dogma 2....

April 5, 2024 · 3 min · 525 words · Dwayne Henry

Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Warrior

How to unlock the Warrior vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Looking for how to unlock the Warrior vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2?As one of the advanced vocations inDragon’s Dogma 2, the Warrior isn’t available from the game’s beginning. Luckily, you can gain access to the vocation fairly quickly by completing a sidequest in Vernworth, the first large city in the game. Be sure to unlock this class early on, as it’s one of thebest vocationsfor melee warriors inDragon’s Dogma 2....

April 5, 2024 · 3 min · 463 words · Victoria Moore

Elder Scrolls Online's new Gold Road expansion might just make me an MMO convert

After a brief muck about in its mad jungles and autumnal estates, I’m ready to go whole hog Yesterday, if you can believe it, marked the tenth anniversary ofThe Elder Scrolls Online. That’s a whole decade of tromping across Tamriel with your mates, and a whole decade in which I’ve watched tentatively from the sidelines, thinking about dipping my toes into theMMOpool, but never quite building up the courage (or lining the walls of my bank account) to fully take the plunge....

April 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1223 words · Kayla Brooks

Helldivers 2 adds explosive crossbow, grenade pistol and other ways to blow up friends by "accident" next week

Aim up! Helldivers 2is getting a new premium warbond next week, offering some explosive new options to take into battle, aim at an enemy bug or robot, and then accidentally kill your entire squad by mistake. Or maybe that’ll just be me. The fittingly-titled Democratic Detonation warbond packs in three newweaponsto play with: the armour-piercing BR-14 Adjudicator Rifle, bolt-action R-36 Eruptor Rifle - which fires shells that explode into shrapnel on impact - and, most excitingly, the CB-9 Exploding Crossbow which is, uh, an exploding crossbow....

April 5, 2024 · 2 min · 302 words · Briana Williams

Life is Strange devs Deck Nine accused of crunch, sexism and abusive behaviour amid allegedly toxic culture

Nazi references and racist memes reportedly found in upcoming game left unaddressed for months Deck Nine, currently responsible for heading up theLife is Strangeseries having handled spin-offTrue Coloursandremasters of the first two games, have been accused of fostering a toxic workplace home to sexism, mismanagement, crunch and abusive treatment of staff left to linger by the studio’s higher-ups. The startling allegations were made by more than a dozen current and former employees to IGN - Rebekah Valentine’s detailed report isworth reading in full....

April 5, 2024 · 4 min · 649 words · Jason Rosario

Mech fanciers ahoy, here's a Steam demo for the Front Mission 2 remake

Wanzer? I hardly knew ‘er Friends! Jaegers! Evas! Lend me your radar dishes or cybernetic ear trumpets. Developers Storm Trident and publishers Forever Entertainment have popped upa Steam demofor their Front Mission 2 remake. Tucked within its coils there are two whole levels, Rimian Base and Batari Forest, together with a Garage where you can customise your Wanzer and access to the in-game Network menu. “Who are you calling a Wanzer?...

April 5, 2024 · 2 min · 291 words · Beth Morris

New Arc Line is a party-based steampunk RPG with notes of Bioshock and Dishonored

Story trailer introduces a gilded, rotten New World Fulqrum Publishing have just released a story trailer forNew Arc Line, a new steampunk fantasyRPGin which dragons rub shoulders with zeppelins, and dwarves are as abundant as air pollution. I hadn’t heard of it before and am quite interested, partly because the game sports some wonderfully mangled and colourful dystopian maps, and partly because it’s a story of immigrants trying to find their way to an inevitably deceptive “shining city of progress”, rather than the typical Chosen One fare....

April 5, 2024 · 3 min · 440 words · Gerald Sullivan

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, April 5)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #299 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

April 5, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Cheryl Garcia