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Ahead of its open beta, we’ve played four rounds of Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin’s 1v1 mode and came away impressed This Friday on July 7th, Frontier Development’s Warhammer RTSAge Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruinis holding its firstopen beta testfor its 1v1 multiplayer mode. Players will be able to go head to head with two of the game’s four factions - the golden fantasy knights of the Stormcast Eternals and the sneaky green stink lads of the Orruk Kruleboyz - giving us our first taste of how they’ll handle in battle, and the kinds of powerplays we’ll be making with their respective (and rather handsome) tabletop miniature recreations....

Shing! Easily among the best of the best was the Remake’s introduction of a proper parrying system to RE4’s existing knife melee combat, allowing Leon to knock crossbow bolts and lobbed axes out of the air, as well as deflecting swipes of blades and even chainsaws close-up. As demonstrated inthis videofrom modder qingsheng, the Remake counterattack mod works just like it does in this year’s remake, allowing mid-noughties Leon to bat incoming projectiles out of the air like his twenties-something descendant....

12 years and multiple final updates later, the 2D sandbox game continues to “sell like hot cakes”. Is there such thing as too much success? In the case of smash-hit 2DMinecraft-a-likeTerraria, its devs at Re-Logic might agree - they’ve apparently been trying to stop developing it for years, but it just won’t stop being so darn popular. Of course, Terraria is second only to Doom in terms of where you can play it, coming to every imaginable console, mobile platform and even the gone-but-also-forgotten Google Stadia over the last decade-plus....

From Nextorage, spun out of Sony to produce drives for PlayStation. 4TB SSDs are a rarity - particularly models with the high-speed flash memory and PCIe 4.0 connection necessary to hit reads of 7300MB/s and writes of 6900MB/s. Today you can pick up just such a drive from Newegg for $253.62, as long as you’re OK with a lesser-known brand: Nextorage. For context, this SSD cost $359 as recently as March, making this a tidy discount for a PC or PS5-compatible high-speed drive that originally retailed for $650....

Descent mode cheaters got an “unfair amount” of rewards Ubisoft have started to dish out two-week suspensions to players inTom Clancy’s The Division 2over an XP exploit. Players were apparently joining the game’s roguelike Descent mode partway through matches via a loophole in Ubisoft Connect’s interface. The team says the bug yielded an “unfair amount of XP and SHD levels,” hence the penalties. “We take these issues very seriously and are committed to maintaining a fair and enjoyable gaming environment for all players,” the team wroteon Twitter(full statement below)....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?It may be quick to finish, but it’s infamously mercurial. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes it’s hard. But one thing’s for sure:Wordleis a great way to get your brain working. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Jungle gymin' in 2.5D The latestFlashback 2trailer literally flashes back to 1992’sFlashback. Yesterday, the action-platformer sequel dropped a trailer showing off a lush jungle level that’s strikingly similar to the original game’s opening environment, but this time things have been high-qualified with pretty sun rays, explosions, and dodge rolls aplenty. Get some deja vu below. The new trailer is also our most extensive look yet at the game’s shooty and jumpy bits, with a peek at other locations (and our AI-powered gun AISHA) toward the end....

Unlock the gates Asymmetric horror multiplayer game Friday The 13th will beremoved from sale at the end of the yeardue to an expiring license. Later this week, however, an update will boost all players to max level and unlock a bunch of normally gated content for everyone so as to “reduce the dependence on database servers.” Developers Gun Mediaannounced the updateon Twitter. While it may be for technical reasons, it’s an extra incentive to give the game a go before it begins to disappear....

An incredible price for a full-size keyboard that normally retails for $90. The HyperX Alloy Origins is a solid keyboard with a minimalist aesthetic, red mechanical switches and all of the features you’d expect from a mid-range gaming board. It normally retails for around $90, but today you can pick one up brand new for just $32 from GameStop, making it one heck of a bargain. I’ve tested and recommended the HyperX Alloy Origins, and there’s a lot to like about it....

Hurt people hurt people Until recently,Gylt(look, stay with it) was confined to Google’s cloud gaming platform Stadia, but Stadia doesn’t exist any more, so this third-person stealth adventure is being unleashed onSteam. You play as Sally, a young girl whose even younger cousin Emily has gone missing. One autumnal evening, Sally gets lost and tries to take the old mining cable car back home - only to discover herself in a weird mirror version of her home town, derelict and abandoned save for shadowy monsters, the likes of which you’d find as models in Forbidden Planet in a cabinet labelled “From The Mind Of Tim Burton”....

Fanmade DLC Pale Court is an ambitious mod forHollow Knightthat adds five new boss fights, as well as new art, music, dialogue, voice acting and more. If you’re one of the bajillion people who yell “where’sHollow Knight: Silksong” during every video game livestream, maybe it’ll tide you over. There’s a trailer and download instructions below. The boss fights are against the Five Great Knights of Hallownest, which are characters referenced in Hollow Knight - andshownas crude statues and silhouettes - but never actually met....

We chat to the Wilmot’s Warehouse devs about exactly what we’ll be doing in their adorable new co-op (but also single-player) game Flockis the next game from the makers ofWilmot’s Warehouse,HohokumandI Am Dead, but ever since it wasannouncedlast year, I’ve been wondering about exactly what kind of game it is. The first trailer revealed lots of strange, whimsical environments, equally whimsical-looking beasties and a little person flying around on the back of a giant bird herding them around in delightful swoops and swirls....

Persona 3 Reload shows off its new English voice work, too Grid-based strategy spin-offPersona 5 Tactica’slatest trailer introduces a new member to The Phantom Thieves: Erina. Or maybe she’s just a temporary friend. Atlus describe her as a “mysterious revolutionary with a strong sense of justice,” although it’s not yet clear what we’re revolting against, aside from vaguely-French demons. Check out the new gameplay trailer. Every turn-based RPG just needs two moves, in my opinion: one that deals low damage but leaves enemies vulnerable (or staggered, or stunned, or asleep), and another move that deals high damage to those now vulnerable enemies....