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The devs of interesting upcoming im-sims on the impending boom - and what it means for the genre Ellis Tucci grew up playing games likeThief,System Shock, andDeus Ex. Now she’s making an immersive sim of her own. It’s calledSpectra, and it’s set in the US in an alt-history 1972 where Soviet Union is the dominant military power after President Roosevelt was deposed in a fascist coup. You play as a Soviet agent tasked with infiltrating and fomenting revolution in a fortress city called Hiwatha....

Conquer history, or bend the timeline with its neat Variant Ages Paradox Interactive and new indie team C-Prompt have announced their debut 4Xstrategy gameMillennia, which I got to play for an hour at this year’s Gamescom. With development being led by former Irrational Games co-founder Robert Fermier and Age Of Empires II lead designer Ian M Fischer, Millennia will see you attempting that classic quad of Xs across ten distinct historical ages, starting in the Stone Age before eventually ending up in a “post-modern future”, designer Ben Friedman tells me....

A sale just for Exoprimal? Each year, Steam announce the dates for upcoming sales and fests. The information is designed so that developers can opt-in to have their games included, and plan for the year ahead. But if you’re looking to buy a boatload of games, you might also want to plan when based on potential discounts. Here’s the list, copied direct from the blog postover on Steam: The names are probably quite self-explanatory, but Steam’s documentation now includes pages for each fest to explain what kinds of games qualify....

Also announcing my new game: Legally Distinct Large Wolf Man A lot of stuff happened over the past couple of weeks, so in this week’sElectronic Wireless Showpodcast we briefly round up some of the Unity nonsense, and some of the more interesting and/or funny bits of the Microsoft leak that happened at the start of the week. But what we really want to talk about is intellectual property rights! Bill Willingham, the man who came up with Fables (the IP that brought you The WolfAmong Us) declared via....

That’s £55 below RRP for this model. AMD’s RX 7800 XT is one of their best graphics cards in years, offering a genuine boost in performance over the competing RTX 4070 with FSR 3 Frame Generation tech on the way. These cards are meant to start at £499, but as with all GPUs to get a good review prices on most models are far higher - so it’s nice to see an Ebay 10% off code that brings these models back to down to the price of a base unit....

With Star Wars Outlaw’s creative director at the helm Ubisoft are planning to make Tom Clancy’s The Division 3. The project was announced alongside news that Julian Gerighty, the current creative director ofStar Wars Outlaws, would move across to be “executive producer for The Division brand” once that project is finished. “A core focus of Gerighty’s is to build a team for Tom Clancy’s The Division 3, which will be led by Massive Entertainment, while making sure Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 remains well supported,” saysthe announcement....

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak....

Every main, companion and faction mission (plus all the side quests we know about) Wondering what every quest in Starfield is?Starfieldis a massive game — it even boasts Bethesda’s biggest map ever. Of course, its massive, starry map is filled with plenty of quests and missions to complete while exploring, though it can be a little tricky to keep track of all of them. We’ve got your back, though! Here’s a list of every quest and mission we know about inStarfield....

That’s essentially the same price as AMD’s RX 7800 XT. Nvidia’s RTX 4070 is a great graphics card - but the release of the competing RX 7800 XT has put pressure on Nvidia to drop prices. Combined with a 10% Ebay discount that knocks £55 off the price of a unit from MSI, it’s now possible to grab this GPU for just £490 - around the same price as AMD’s RX 7800 XT while delivering around 15% better RT performance, while also packing in the frame-rate advantages of DLSS 3 Frame Generation and superior power efficiency....

Seeing things Among the sicker jokes I’ve played on various editors as a freelancer is to review triple-A games on this sorrowing technological Igor, which - I swear to you - physically flinches and begins to whimper frantically when presented with any game more demanding thanFar Cry 2. Thing is, I’m pretty sure I can run Ubisoft’s forthcomingAssassin’s Creed: Mirageon this hapless relic. The publisher have released minimum and recommended system specs for their latest historical throat-slitter, and they’re pretty dang reasonable....

“The spirit is indistinct from the flesh” Spencer Yan’sMy Work Is Not Yet Doneis a narrative-driven investigative horror game that combines elements of the survival and simulation genres with a plot exploring “the imbrication and dissolution of human identities/meanings within uncanny wilderness”, toquote the project’s Github page.It follows the final days of Avery, last surviving member of a doomed hunt for the source of a strange transmission, and sees you performing complex acts of maintenance upon environmental sensors, while picking through journals and other found documents so as to “to discern the most viable ‘truth’ behind both Avery’s mission and the signal itself”....

You only live twice Cyberpunk 2077’s triumph was that it offered a sprawling story, dozens of hours long, which cohered around just a small number of themes. Or maybe even a single thesis: that the cynical, defensive, self-centred voice in your head - personified by ancient, soul-trapped, anarcho-rockstar Johnny Silverhand - offered only a literal dead-end, and that real rebellion in the face of a messed-up world lay in helping friends....

Beamdog has also worked on Enhanced Editions of Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment Less than 18 months after it acquiredBaldur’s Gate: Enhanced EditionandMythforcedevelopers Beamdog, Embracer Group has reportedly laid off more than two dozen staff at the studio. Mere days after the release of its nostalgic co-op shooter, no less. The deal also saw Aspyr pick up the publishing rights for Beamdog’s Mythforce, a first-person spell-shooter dressed in the clothes of Saturday morning cartoons - specifically the 1980s animated Dungeons & Dragons show....