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With some sick-looking characters Following the fast and psychedelic fingertip shooting ofInto The Pit, developer Nullpointer Games are now slowing things down with their next project. The team shook together turn-based tactics, tower-defence elements, and a graphic novel style, and the resulting cocktail is Void Warden. See how it sort of works in the teaser below. The teaser above briefly shows off the strategy map, which is the top-down web-like structure where all the tower-defence goodness happens....

Team shift focus from second open beta planned for next month to implementing changes before release Realms of Ruin, the firstRTSset in the world of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar - that’s the shiny fantasy sibling toWarhammer 40k’s gritty sci-fi universe - will see a host of improvements and fixes in the wake of its recent open beta, developers Frontier have promised. Among the biggest incoming changes are better balancing, UI polish and a fix to its most annoying issue of accidental retreats caused by shared key bindings....

Stuck on the Wordle word for July 26? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wednesday’s child is full of woe, so we’re told, but this Wednesday’sWordleis actually more likely to leave a smile on your face, since it’s quite a kind solution. Still, anyone’s brow can become furrowed if today’s Wordle puzzle is just not clicking with them, which is why we’re here as ever to lend a hand....

Ukraine-born actor Kunis is a noted fan of the MMO World of Warcrafthas launched a new pack of companion pets that will donate all of its proceeds towards helping those in Ukraine. The Pet Pack for Ukraine will benefit BlueCheck, an organisation that works to support a variety of NGOs in the war-struck country offering everything from vital medical supplies and power generators to humanitarian aid. Blizzard announced the fundraising effort with the help of Mila Kunis, the Ukrainian-born actor known for Family Guy, Bad Moms and That ’70s Show, who is also awell-documented WOW player....

Tanks are still like angry houses Arma 3’s latest Creator DLC is out now. Called Spearhead 1944, it takes the realistic military simulator to World War 2 for a co-op campaign featuring over 90 period-accurate weapons and vehicles, as well as singleplayer and multiplayer scenarios. The launch trailer below, and it looks great. Set seven weeks after D-Day, Spearhead 1944 tells the story of Operation Cobra across seven new co-op missions designed for up to 24 players....

The game’s director and producer say things could’ve been very different Recently I sat down withGGReconfor a roundtable-ish interview withArmored Core 6: Fires Of Rubicondirector Masaru Yamamura and producer Yasunori Ogura to talk more about their upcoming mecha action game. And their answers gave us more of an insight into the game’s early development, where the story might take you, and how you might overcome some of its trickiest nuts and bolts....

Dancing on ice With a trusty can of Red Bull coursing through my veins and my heart rate pounding like a jackhammer, I spent around three hours withArmored Core 6: Fires Of Rubicon’s first chapter. And rather like Red Bull’s metallic fizz of aspartame and rocket fuel, I’d say the game shares a similar makeup. It doesn’t give you wings, but what it does give you is a mech as nimble as a Eurasian Blue Tit darting at a confetti of stale bread....

These are the Steam Deck compatible Enhanced Editions too. Baldur’s Gateand Baldur’s Gate 2 are two of the finest CRPGs ever devised, with incredible stories, characters and settings, and now you can relive one of the highlights of my childhood for just £2.99. That’s a 90% savings on the two Enhanced Editions of the game, which run out of the box on modern PCs and even Steam Deck. So what exactly has developer Beamdog done to enhance these classic RPGs?...

Amazon Games, back at it As someone who’s played alotof anime MMOs and RPGs, I’ve become familiar with their opening gambits. You, a nameless protagonist, get into a fight where there’s a lot of “yuh” and “uah” noises as swords clash, followed by a win or a loss (it doesn’t matter). You wake up with amnesia in a starting town. A squeaky girl with demonic tendencies becomes your go-getting guide and asks you your name; this is usually the bit where you enter character creation....

Busy months ahead Publisher THQ Nordic have announced thatTrine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracyis coming out in the middle of a big game tempest on August 31st. The co-op puzzle game promises to be the longest and most challenging entry in the series' history and reunites our three lovable heroes: Zoya the thief, Amadeus the wizard, and Pontius the knight. Developers Frozenbyte marked the news with a character trailer, reintroducing the famous knight and his refreshed abilities....

Looking for all the latest information on Marathon, Bungie’s fascinating new extraction shooter?Those of us who were playing shooters in the 90s were likely very intrigued by Bungie’s announcement ofMarathon- a PvP reimagining of their own trilogy of shooters from the days long beforeHaloandDestiny. While only a couple of videos have been revealed so far about Marathon, there’s a wealth of detail to decipher in both the videos and the lore of the original trilogy....

To celebrate the upcoming launch of semi-sequel Endless Dungeon Sega andHumankinddevelopersAmplitudehave begun their annual seasonal celebration Endless Summer to celebrate everything related to their loosely-connected Endless universe. From now until July 27th, there will be streams and news drops about their forthcoming tactical rogueliteEndless Dungeon, and as a bonus, its excellent sort-of-predecessorDungeon Of The Endlessis free to keep on Steam for a limited time. Dungeon Of The Endless is a smoothie of different genres, blending dungeon-crawling elements with roguelike and tower-defence bits....

Using the in-game one just isn’t the same You know how some games are notebook games? Well,The Banished Vaultis a manual game, no two ways about it. Sure, you could theoretically make meticulous notes about all the planetary symbols and construction costs of the various buildings you’ll need to harvest and convert resources into fuel, alloys and elixirs as you hurtle through space trying to escape the terrifying Gloom based on itsin-gamemanual....