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Yeah I’m being reductive but she’s a “cunning scoundrel” doing a heist, throw me a bone In fairness it actually is kind of a move to make a Star Wars rogue (TM) be a lady, because almost all of the recent mainstream Han Solo rip-offs have been bros (although the games do like a gal from the wrong side of the tracks). Kay is offered the chance of a lifetime by a sinister man called Jaylen, who has big “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!...

The 1.5 update brings a chaotic level, deadly paintings, and more This next free update brings an entirely new level: The Astral Stair. A never-ending stream of endless corridors complete with flying paintings that want to kill you. There’s also a new character form for everyone’s favouirte bear Yatta Cavallo, as well as an upgrade for their Cherry Bomb attack. If you’re after a fun new pick-up, you’re in luck. GoldFinger is a new item that starts a special event making you more powerful and invincible for a set ammount of time - the more enemies you defeat during this golden time, the better your score and the better the prize....

Gator season The trailer showcases some pretty slick animation and shows young protagonist Hazel approach Shakin' Bones, who South Of Midnight’s creative director David Sears describes as “an immortal figure, roughly analogous to the ferry boatman in Greek mythology, Charon, as he escorts you from the real world into a more fabulistic place” in an interview over onXbox WireHmm curious. Shears goes on to explain that South Of Midnight will take place across a fictionalised magical realist US, and you’ll be exploring backwater parts of the country helping Hazel on her mission to “repair a broken world....

This year’s cheery RPS fanzine show was very long, so we’ve boiled it down to its most essential trailers and announcements Cyberpunk life sim Nivalis gets a chill and moody story trailer A new trailer for League Of Geeks' colony sim roguelike didn’t bring us any new footage, but it will be getting a Steam Next Fest demo next week on June 19th. I’ve beenplaying an early build of it already, so why not go and have a read of that while you’re here, yeah?...

Stuck on the Wordle word for June 11? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Sundays are all about relaxing, but that inner peace won’t come if you’re struggling with today’sWordle. For UK folks, expecting to do anything remotely puzzle-related in this blistering heat is unreasonable, so you’re in the right place if you need a hand. 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?...

All the latest from Microsoft and Bethesda’s NotE3 shows We’re rolling out the liveblog widget once again for today’sXbox Games Showcase, as well as theStarfield-focusedStarfieldDirect, which will follow immediately after. And will be about Starfield. Come join us – we’ll be up and running just before Microsoft’s main showcase begins at 6pm BST / 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. After Thursday’sSummer Game Fest / Day of the Devs liveblog, which was filled withgame announcements, cosy commenter chat, andNicholas Cage, I for one am looking forward to sharing the update trenches with you all again....

The official name is now Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth A newYakuza 8trailer reveals its full official name, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, as well as a surprising new location. Seems our boy Ichiban is off to the USA, without his pants. Even he didn’t expect that. Watch the trailer below for careful object placement to hide his shame. “Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is a direct sequel toYakuza: Like A Dragon where an unexpected chain of events sets two legendary ex-yakuza, Kasuga Ichiban and Kazuma Kiryu, on a larger-than-life adventure as dual playable protagonists,” Sega say....

Still Wakes The Deep looks, in a word, horrifying I do love me a game from The Chinese Room, andStill Wakes The Deeplooks to be a right old trip. Announced during theXbox Games Showcaseat this year’snot-E3, this first-personhorror adventurecasts you as a worker on an off-shore industrial oil rig and something seems to have slithered aboard from the depths. Check out the trailer below for some major chills. Information is still light surrounding Still Wakes The Deep, but the crux is: you’re screwed....

Previously known as Shumi Adorable exploration andplatformergameSmushi Come Homehas just been shadow-dropped as part of this year’s Wholesome Direct, meaning you can play it right now. The game follows the titular Smushi, a small mushroom, as it makes its way out of a forest to get back home. Along the way, it’ll meet and help out many of the forest’s inhabitants. If the combination of tiny shroom guy, chill exploration, and light puzzling hasn’t convinced you, take a look at the game’s launch trailer below....

Airborne Kingdomwas about constructing a floating city in the sky; you figuratively and literally balanced your construction of homes and industry as you floated around and interacted with settlements on the ground to gather resources. Natecalled it an “absolute delight” two years ago. Now there’s a sequel on the way.Airborne Empirestarts with the same basics of citybuiilding, but now your constructions will be under siege from sky pirates. Here’s the announcement trailer:...

Grab a cuppa and get cosy Wholesome Directis my favourite showcase from not-E3, because I feel like it’s a show directly catered to my interests. Cats, cooking, seaside towns, pretty landscapes, magical girls - Wholesome Direct has it all. This year we from the RPSIndiescovery Podcastwatched the show and have plucked out a handful of games that we’re looking forward to the most, which was pretty difficult. There were a lot of great games this year....

From the maker of great Source Filmmaker shorts Resistoris a narrative racing game. That alone is enough to intrigue me, but it’s also got vehicular combat, a slick art style, and it’s from a new games studio founded by the creator of some really excellentTeam Fortress 2shorts. You’ll find the announcement trailer below. Set in the year 2060, Resistor is set at a time when nation states have been destroyed and all that remains are corporation-controlled city states....

Too faithful? I’ve never been a Sonic fan, but I thoughtSonic Superstarslooked pretty good at Geoff Fest earlier this week. It’s an old-fashioned sidescrolling platformer rendered in a 3D art style faithful to the original games, and it’s playable in co-op. Now there’s ten minutes of gameplay footage to let you watch a couple of levels played through in nearly their entirety. This footage is all over YouTube and I’m not sure where it originated, but here’s a GameSpot upload:...