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Fiending for yourself Ruinarchis based on a concept many of you have thought of at some point. What if, instead of building up villages and hunting down hostile monsters and evil overlords, you were playing as the Dark Lord? It’s been done most famously inDungeon KeeperorOverlord, but those were quite conventional structurally. Sure, you were playing as the baddies, but still doing mostly the same things as in other games, twirling your moustache the whole time....

Slidekicks, shotguns, and slo-mo Here’s a move I pull in most gunfights inTrepang2: slidekick into an enemy, grab them out of mid-air, briefly hold them in front of me as a human shield, only to pull the pin on their vest’s grenade and hurl them into a group of their pals, who do try to scatter before this meaty bomb bursts but sadly forget that they also need to avoid me and my shotgun....

Stuck on the Wordle word for June 30? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?The weekend approaches, but first, aWordle! The daily puzzle game continues, and failing to guess today’s Wordle answer would surely set you up for a rough weekend. Weekends are about relaxing, though, so we’re here to help you figure out the Wordle answer today! 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?...

100% baloney Indie game developers decided to shatter one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming this week, after admitting that loading bar progress is faked. But, they insist, you really wouldn’t have it any other way. The bombshell came in the wake of ajokey tweetfrom comic Alasdair Beckett-King, who posited - tongue firmly in cheek - that devs should focus on perfecting a smooth-moving loading bar that accurately tracks the time left to load before they move onto other less important stuff like graphics and controls....

Versus a deal price of £250 six months ago. When we last checked in on the AMD Ryzen 5 7600Xin December last year, it had dropped to £249 in the UK. Now, the same six-core 12-thread Zen 4 processor is down to £208, making a Ryzen 7000 build surprisingly affordable - especially when you take in the drop in AM5 motherboard and DDR5 memory prices. AMD’s Ryzen 5 7600X is their entry-level Zen 4 processor, offering increased performance compared to their last-generation Zen 3 parts thanks to higher core frequencies, greater power delivery potential and DDR5 support....

Larian’s “astronomical” RPG is also 4x the size of Divinity: Original Sin II Rare news, folks! RPG threequelBaldur’s Gate 3is now coming out on August 3rd - almost a month sooner than itspreviously planned dateof August 31st. The opposite of a delay, then. The good news was announced today via acommunity updatefrom developers Larian, in which we also received more juicy details about the game’s D&D races and classes, new companions, and a glimpse at just how massive Baldur’s Gate 3 really is....

And no hardcoded limits on resident numbers Cities: Skylinesoften felt more like a traffic management sim than a city simulator, as I spent hours tinkering with my road networks to try to clear jams.Cities: Skylines 2looks like it’s going to support an even deeper level of tinkering, judging by two feature spotlight videos released on roads and traffic AI. Among the new additions: car crashes, much improved pathfinding, and car parks....

“The trailer has done almost too good a job of selling this as a multiplayer game,” devs tell us Duringtonight’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase, we got another lovely look atFlock, the latest game fromWilmot’s WarehouseandI Am Deaddevs Hollow Ponds and Richard Hogg. In it, we get to see exactly how its adorable creature herding works inco-op, which you’d probably hope to see, given its own Steam page also describes it as a co-op multiplayer game....

New Blade Runner, new Keita Takahashi, a new bike game from the Nidhogg devs and more Tonight’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase brought us 30 minutes of fresh game announcements, putting a lovely (and hopefully final) full stop on this year’s notE3 / Summer Game Fest period. While most of the announcements were updates on games we already knew about, there are a couple of cool new things in there that I’m personally quite pumped for, including a newBlade Runnergame being developed internally at Annapurna Interactive, a new Keita Takahashi joint about a kid stuck in a T-pose of all things, and a new ghostly biking game from the team behind Nidhogg....

As it moves to new engine “For those of you who are not familiar with gaming technologies – in simple terms, FM25 will have a significantly better looking matchday experience - both on the pitch and the supporting stadium environments, alongside a vastly improved user interface that will dramatically improve how you navigate through screens and access all the information available to you as manager,” writes Jacobsen. “We’ll also have new technology for Newgens and manager creation which are already looking really promising at this early stage....

Hustle and bustle factor: very high Earlier this year, Volker Wertichannouncedthat he was returning to the citybuilding genre 30 years after he headed upThe Settlers. We now have our first in-game look at his new projectPioneers Of Pagonia, which seems to dial up the economic management and actual building-of-towns side of the formula, rather than the RTS combat machinations. Take a look at the lush fields and construction down below....

Mushkin Enhanced Redline Stiletto 2x32GB DDR4-3200 CL16. Yup, it’s another DDR4 deal post - but this time, it’s for the US market and covers a 64GB dual-channel kit, for all of you video creators, game server operators and high-number-likers out there. Newegg is offering a 64GB kit of Mushkin Enhanced Redline Stiletto DDR4-3200 CL16 for $99.99, a great price considering the same RAM kit cost $169.99 for Black Friday last year....

Come and see the current contenders for this year’s Advent Calendar Babbdi Alice0:One of the best things a game can do is drop me into a weird place with little explanation, let me explore freely as I try to figure out what this place is and what even the game is, then wrap up inside an hour. And if it’s free too?What a joy. First-person explorerBabbdiis set in a grim Brutalist city you want to leave....