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“Our first true hub expansion”, say Digital Extremes Greetings, Tenno! This message comes to you from that primeval epoch known as “Last Wednesday”, when Digital Extremes treated RPS to a preview screening of theWarframeupdate announcements planned for this year’s Tennocon - a special Tennocon indeed, coinciding as it does with the game’s 10th anniversary and the studio’s 30th. Alas, “Last Wednesday” was a regular Dark Age, and we dusty ancients were granted only a partial glimpse of the promised new areas, weapons, cosmetics and story content, Digital Extremes having reserved some of the key reveals for a happier period, “Today” - which, according to our most trusted seers, will be an era of understanding and transparency....

Subclasses ahoy Warhammer 40,000: Darktidefeatures fun, grisly, co-op combat, but at launch was criticised for live service cruft - from an incomplete crafting system to meagre progression rewards. Some criticism also fell upon its four classes, who lacked the ‘career’ subclasses of its developer’s previous game, Vermintide 2. Darktide’s classes will therefore get an overhaul October 4th, when an update will introduce skill trees for each class. Here’s a teaser trailer:...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 26? 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....

The patch notes were too big for Steam to handle, though Consistent with the spirit of the game,Baldur’s Gate 3’sfirst “major” patch notes are too large to even fit into Steam’s usual text character limit. Developer Larian instead published a portion of the patch details on a Steam blog and the rest on theirforums, which were briefly down - probably either due to an online traffic jam or just, again, the patch’s sheer size....

Unrelated to the UEFA League A new demo invites you to glide through fluffy clouds and slide down rolling fields in indie adventureEuropa. The game’s deceptively dour setup channelsJourneyand Fumito Ueda’s work, asking you to explore outsized ruins as the last child left alive, but just like those gems, everything in Europa is wrapped up in a gentle atmosphere. From the initial piano keys, the demo’s “goal” isn’t exactly clear. You enter the pretty world and start climbing....

Its more forgiving first-person slashing has some fun new tricks up its sleeve, too I’m not usually one to coo over cars and bikes in games, but when I got behind the wheel of Ghostrunner 2’s cyber bike midway through my demo session and started careening up onto walls, sliding around full 360-degree pipes and dodging all manner of vent and highway-based obstacles, I thought, hot damn, this is hecking cool....

A concrete game Alice0 has a habit of introducing me to weird and slightly frightening games featuring brutalist architecture. Well, not a habit exactly, but it’s happened three times now, which is enough to make it a thing.Fugue In Void, by Moshe Linke, is technically and literally a walking simulator, in that you are going for a walk and that’s all you do in it, but what it simulates you walking through is kind of a surrealist nighmarescape of raw concrete....

Mr. Masochist, I choose you All of my allotted 20 minutes was spent in the Castle, a traditional exterior that poorly conceals a hedonistic pleasureverse. Fans of the action adventure series will find it similar to the undergounrd hotbeds of debauchery that were the Bed Of Styx and Purgatory from Yakuza’s gone by. I mean, I spotted a young couple in a chariot pulled by some half-naked lads, with one member of the couple complaining that their human engines had fallen to their knees....

The first DLC and the 2.0 update are coming September 29th Bandai Namco have announced a substantial 2.0 patch and the first DLC pack for their rollercoaster management gamePark Beyond, both of which are dropping on September 29th. Prefabs and ride sharing are the big new additions coming with the free 2.0 patch, alongside the option to discover other player’s creations across platforms. Countdown to fiding the first penis-shaped coaster starts now....

In a sort of, “I’m going to die” way Devs GSC Game World are going throughan unimaginably difficult time right nowon top ofleaks and hacker attacks. That has to be taken into account when we think about the development of the game, and it could be why, after 20-minutes spent exploring a bit ofS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chornobyl’s irradiated world, I’m unsure what to make of it. Maybe I played a very early build, but while the world itself looks every bit the eerie post apocalypticsurvivalwasteland you hope, NPC interactions aren’t in as great shape....

The Gigabyte M28U is a fantastic choice and even has a KVM switch. Want one of the finest HDMI 2.1 monitors on the market for PC and console gaming? This 28-inch 4K 144Hz model from Gigabyte, the M28U, is down from $599.99 to $429.99 at Newegg following a price drop and a $20 rebate. Here’s the link for ya: So as I mentioned in the intro, this is one of thebest gaming monitorson the market, and suits a mid-range to high-end gaming PC - or an Xbox Series X or PS5 console....

Pufferdle is my next once-a-day puzzler obsession Whenever my eyes see the phrase “it’s like Stardew Valley, but…” sparks pop off in my brain, imagining futures farming in the zombie apocalypse or courting my favourite pixel caveman. The next one of those instead focuses on the game’s lovely fishing mini-game and is basicallyStardew ValleybutWordle, the other bite-sized juggernaut that’s inspired countless others. Pufferdle gives you free daily fishing challenges that you can play in-browser atpufferdle....

And the chill demo is still available Developer Galaxy Grove have announced that the minimalist railway gameStation To Stationis wheeling to release on October 3rd. That’s an already packed month for exciting games, but I’ll forgive this one based on how damned good those voxels look. Plus, a relaxing railwaymanagement gamemight be the perfect antidote for Big Game Burnout in the coming months. That looks lovely, doesn’t it? Station To Station tasks you to make railway connections for some low-stakes pseudo-puzzling, as you try your hardest to maximise efficiency....