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You’ll have just shy of two weeks to give it a go. Endless devsAmplitudeStudios have announced a closed beta for their long-in-the-works, not-quite-a-sequel toDungeon of the Endless, the not-at-all confusingly titledEndless Dungeon, and it’s happening next month. Like Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Dungeon (yes, my head is spinning too) is a blend of top-down squad-based tactics, tower defence and roguelite progression, as the player and up to three pals fight their way through an abandoned space station and must protect their crystal from waves of gribbly space creatures....

Six months of PC exclusivity will net devs of any size every penny. Epic is taking the fight to Steam by rolling out a new revenue sharing model in the form of Epic First Run, an initiative that will offer developers up to 100% of revenue for six months if their PC game remains exclusive to the Epic Games Store. Epic First Run will allow third-party devs of any size to opt in to making their PC game exclusive to the Epic Games Store for its first six months, in return for 100% of net revenue from sales to users....

Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn, my dear Watson… Sherlock Holmes: The Awakenedgot a remake back in April, the first game in Frogwares' long-running series to receive a second pass. And you’d better believe that it was likeEldritchChristmas for me, because the 2007 original is quite possibly one of my favourite PC games of all time. I have a lot of love for Frogwares' Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series in general, but The Awakened is particularly special to me....

The Lexar NM790 is an impressive performer with up to 1M IOPS random reads. Lexar’s NM790 PCIe 4.0 SSD is our ‘best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming’ pick, offering extremely rapid speeds. It maxes out at 7400MB/s reads and 6500MB/s writes, near the boundary of the PCIe 4.0 standard, and random read/write figures are impressive too despite lacking a DRAM cache, using HMB instead. So I thought it worth mentioning that you can now pick up this 2TB high-end drive for £85, following a price drop from £93 at Amazon UK....

Come see the S.E.E.S. The Persona formula is screwed on pretty tight by now, and Persona 3 Reload doesn’t mess with it too much. We’re following superpowered high-schoolers who live normal lives during the day and then descend into an alternate realm to bash demons by night. Normal Scooby Doo shenanigans. Persona 3 Reload’s version of The Phantom Thieves have a much sillier name: S.E.E.S. (aka Special Extracurricular Execution Squad, though I doubt you could slap that on a university application)....

Health and safety violations in every corner Existing in the intersection of puzzle game, platformer and level editor,It’s A Wrap!casts you as the director of a low-budget, probably bad Hollywood flick that’s surely about to be sued for workplace injury claims. Essentially, you rejig platforms and background props and obstacles in the level (as the director) and then you zoom in for some dangerous side-scrolling goodness (as the actor). Oh, and did I mention that it’s out now?...

Sam Lake clears things up ahead of Alan Wake 2’s launch Action-horror sequelAlan Wake 2showed up to last night’s Gamescom festivities with a cryptic trailer (below) that showed the studio’s signature Lynchian mystery, an upside-down New York, and some interesting live-action scenes. But references to Remedy’s past games have been the big conversation driver, especially since the studio is building up a“Remedy Connected Universe.”Creative director Sam Lake has now clarified that time-bending shooterQuantum Breakand theMax Paynegames aren’t cool enough to join the Remedy-verse, while also breaking down their approach to these shared-world games....

One underwhelming step Space games are basically ready built for the grand reveal. All you need to do is open a shutter and you can reveal unto the player all thewonders of the universeyou have built, be that a giant, misty blue planet with a neon green dust ring, or purple nebula sweeping accross the sky like a bruise and crackling with lightning.Starfield’s opening (shown off atGamescomthis week, and leaking all over the internet like a collander used for SMG target practice) does not forgo this moment, but it does say “okay but what if the grand reveal was entirely in shades of grey, though”?...

Producer Coralie Feniello spills some extra beans on the cute horror sequel I saw a little hands off demo, and spoke to producer Coralie Feniello, who told me that co-op was the most demanded feature from their community of players (though you can also play Little Nightmares 3 in single player, with an AI). “We already asked ourselves the question forLittle Nightmares II, but it wasn’t the right time for it,” she said....

Kyle Katarn is back, again. Star Wars’ nineties first-person shooterDark Forcesis returning in a 4K-ified remaster from Nightdive Studios, the folks behind the recentSystem Shock remake. The upcoming Dark Forces Remaster will see its visuals bumped up to a crisp 4K, running at 120 frames per second, along with a number of quality-of-life improvements. Nightdive is working with Lucasfilm Games on the remaster of the 1995 FPS, which takes place before the events of Episode IV: A New Hope (or just Star Wars, if you prefer) and follows Rebel merc Kyle Katarn - and recurring Star Wars video game hero - as he uncovers the creation of the Empire’s dangerous new Dark Troopers....

Get ready for another Black Hawk Down map The original Delta Force launched in 1998, which was a busy year for videogames: it saw the release ofHalf-Life, Starcraft,Thief: The Dark Project,Baldur’s Gate,Fallout 2and Grim Fandango, together with Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Metal Gear Solid on the console side. I’m not sure Delta Force can hold a candle to any of those, but it had a decent critical reception and attracted enough fans to spawn a fairly staggering number of sequels....

What might that mantis society have become, were it not for your and Grady’s terrible schemes? Aperture Desk Jobis full of unexplained details. Right at the start, as the camera pans down from the retrofuturist reception area to your lowly desk-based workstation, we see all manner of orange tubes, future Grady cores being trained to fool captcha image tests, a giant chicken, and what appears to be the origin point ofHalf-Life’s ammo boxes being constructed....

It’s a refurb, but the parts are exceptional for the money - and there’s a 180-day MSI warranty. In the market for a pre-built gaming PC? Right now you can pick up a refurbished MSI model with an RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, a water-cooled Intel Core i9 12900KF processor, 64GB of DDR5 memory and a 2TB NVMe SSD for just $1249.99 at Woot. This PC uses standard parts for upgradeability and comes with a 180-day MSI warranty....