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All project pages will disappear with it Crowdfunding platformFigwill go offline on Sunday, May 28th, and all pages related to previously funded campaigns will disappear along with it. That means that creators who were continuing to use the platform to communicate and deliver rewards to backers are currently scrambling to transition to alternative methods, including the likes of Double Fine and Gearbox. Gearbox Publishing posted asimilar messagerelated toHomeworld 3, stating that communication will come via email and project updates will eventually appearon the official Homeworld site....

Because cannibal hell wasn’t hard enough already Sons Of The Forestis about crash-landing on a remote island described as a “cannibal-infested hellscape.” If you’ve played the early access survival game and thought, “Hellscape? More like swellscape,” then Patch 06 might be for you. Released yesterday, it adds a “first pass of hard survival” mode, alongside cooking improvements and the ability to craft custom effigies. Lovely. Hard survival mode reduces food spawns in crates, lowers fish and animal spawns, decreases health and stamina regeneration speeds when cold, and increases the penalty for eating raw or rotten meats....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 27? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordlemay be a simple game on paper, but sifting through your knowledge of every five-letter word in the English language can be just as daunting a task as it sounds like. Luckily, we’re here to help with our handy daily Wordle clue! 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?...

There’s also a free prologue available now Survival horror rebootAlone In The Darkis coming out on October 25th, publisher THQ announced last night. This new game reimagines the haunted Derceto Manor from the 1992 original, this time with a fancier coat of paint, a third-person camera view, and some famous faces. And if you’d like an early teaser of what’s in store, there’s a free prologue chapteravailable now, letting you explore a slice of the SouthernGothicmansion....

A respectable Steam Deck rival TheAsus ROG Allywas, in hindsight, inevitable. After theSteam Deckproved that handheld gaming PCs could flourish outside of a microscopic niche, it was surely only a matter of time before one of the big PC hardware movers would have a crack at the concept. This time, with more powerful internals, and none of the SteamOS compatibility problems that led to Valve creating awhole new verification system....

Hunky pirate lions and evil pop stars On any given day, you can find me either thinking about, praying for, or playing cute pixelated games with some old-school charm. Luckily, we have a pretty promising one of those on the horizon withCross Blitz, a deckbuildingRPGthat follows some furry animal pirates across the high seas, digitally represented on a grid-based map this time around. Cross Blitz was announced two years ago, but the indie team at Tako Boy have secured a publisher and are now ready to launch into early access later this year....

My favourite mail delivery sim Every week, the Epic Games Store gives away one free game for everyone. This week that freebie isFallout: New Vegas - Ultimate Edition, available to keep forever from now until June 1st. So, if you somehow missed Obsidian’s post-apocalyptic postal service sim, now’s the time to get stuck in the wasteland. Just hop over to theEpic Games Storeto add the game to your account. The giveaway ends at 4pm BST on June 1st, at which point New Vegas will be replaced with another mysterious free game....

Sad engine noises “Our primary goal is to deliver a Homeworld experience that lives up to the standards set by its predecessors and is worthy of this series’ incredible legacy,” developers Blackbird Interactive wroteon Twitter. “Homeworld 3 is shaping up to be exactly that, but in order to fully realise that vision we need more time to refine and polish the game.” Blackbird Interactive recently released the excellent ship-salvagingspace gameHardspace: Shipbreaker, which Liam gave a stamp of approval to in ourBestest Best reviewwhen it came out of early access last year....

Steps to open up the locked Monitoring Room in Herta Space Station Base Zone and complete the Emptiness of Locus Silentii sidequest How do you open the triple authentication door in Herta Space Station Base Zone in Honkai: Star Rail?Most puzzles you encounter inHonkai: Star Railare part of a larger mission, and even if you need to think about their solutions a little, they will at least be fairly well-signposted. But the locked door in the Base Zone of Herta Space Station is an anomaly: you’ll only know about it once you try (and fail) to enter it, and the clues as to how to open it aren’t tracked in your mission checklist, making it easy to get lost and confused....

A two-player mount Minecraft’snext big update is called Trails & Tales. We already knew about most of the new features coming with the 1.20 update, but now we’ve also learned the release date: June 7th. The additions to the perennial voxel favourite include a pretty cherry blossom biome, an archaeology feature, adorable rideable camels, and thefan-voted sniffer mob. Developer Mojang announced the date in their Minecraft Monthly video series. Those new cherry blossom biomes bring new trees, meaning new types of wood, meaning new colours for craftable items....

A fragmentary world more alive than any Bethesda RPG Most video games are too big. Their lands are too expansive, their histories over-explained, their playtimes too long. Most of everything is too long (songs, books, movies, everything) but it’s especially felt in games, where the magical “What’s next?” feeling of discovering a world often fades to leave the “What task must I complete now?” drudgery of playing a video game. So I hugely admire Cosmo D’s Off-Peak series, which has built the feeling of a huge and fascinating city through only four tiny locations visited across four games with a combined playtime of under eight hours....

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 26? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?If you’re ready to start winding down for the weekend,Wordlemight throw a spanner in the works with yet another tough brainteaser. Fortunately, that’s where we come in with our handy hints! 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?...

At no extra cost Starting from June 1st you can claim the SNK arcade beat ‘em upsSengoku2 and Mutation Nation. From June 8th you can grab the top-down racer Over Top and the top-down cyborg footballing game Soccer Brawl. From June 15th you can get another arcadey beat ‘em up with Top Hunter and Super Spy, which is a mash-up of first-person shooting, beat ‘em up action, and action-RPG elements from the ‘90s....