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Santa Cruzin' American Truck Simulator’s first released version included only the state of California, and its developers have been working their way eastward with each new state added via DLC. Work is currently ongoing on bothOklahoma and Kansas. SCS Software have got better at replicating the long roads and countryside of the United States, however, so they’ve also been going back periodically and revamping their very first. Five cities in northern California were updated last year in a second update, and work is ongoing on a third phase of revisions that should arrive soon....

Brace Yourself Games confirmed earlier reports Crypt Of The NecroDancerdevelopers Brace Yourself Games have laid off around half their staff. Employees began tweeting about being affected cutsyesterday, with Brace Yourself Games later confirming the decision to “lay off a portion” of staff. The studio had around 43 employees before the cuts, according to LinkedIn. “Yesterday, senior management at Brace Yourself Games made the incredibly difficult decision to lay off a portion of the company’s staff,” Brace Yourself Gamestold PC Gamer....

Rights to the game have returned to its developer I have a soft spot forOverdungeon, a maximalist real-time mashup of tower defense and collectible card game, and Isang its praises three years ago. Its developers, Pocketpair, haven’t updated it since, instead pouring their work into similarly expansive “everything game"Craftopiaand the Pokémon-alike (but with guns)Palworld. Now Pocketpair have released a content update for Overdungeon and say that previous radio silence was because they were “a bit tired and struggled with our contract with the publisher....

“Sunset” update is out now Prison Architecthas received “the Sunset Update”, which developers Double Eleven say is “focused on improving the player experience as much as possible.” That’s because it’s their last update to the prison simulator originally created by Introversion Software. The update was also released alongside a trailer thanking fans for supporting the game, which also seemingly teases a 3D sequel. “While we’re closing this chapter, the book is certainly not yet finished,” says thepatch notes for the update....

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?If something seems a little different in the page titles today, it’s becauseWordlehas hit 700! That’s right, it’s been 700 straight days of word puzzle endorphins, and no sign of it slowing down any time soon! 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?...

Escape from a Cold War facility, this time with friends Co-op horror prequelThe Outlast Trialsis out now in early access. Playing under-the-bed peekaboo with brainwashed killers can be an overwhelming ordeal, so now you can drag along a friend and spread out the trauma. This time, those snotty shakycamBlair Witch-type chases are set in a Cold War-era facility where you’ll be put through some gruelling experiments. The early access launch trailer below lays out some of the titular trials you can expect....

Razer’s BlackShark V2 X headphones are comfy, sound great and have no RGB. Razer’s BlackShark V2 X is an incredible value gaming headset even at its £60 RRP, but today you can pick it up in a fetching white colourway for just £37 at Amazon UK. That’s by far the cheapest we’ve ever seen this model and a pretty much unbeatable bargain for a gaming headset of this quality. The BlackShark V2 X is one that we’ve recommended for some time over at my main digs at Digital Foundry, thanks to its light, comfortable “chopper headset” design, good quality microphone and clear, balanced audio....

REHREATED “Does that pommel horse have a grenade launcher?” is one of many bizarre questions I found myself asking while playingHROT. This Slavic shooter revels in the strange, straddling the line between hyper-bleak Soviet satire and goofy memetic joke factory. This isn’t the best thing about HROT, we’ll get to that in a couple of paragraphs. But the balancing of these two personality strands is what defines HROT’s quality. At the outset, they exist in perfect symbiosis, but the relationship becomes less stable as the game goes on....

And Zane_Rocks_36 hacked Phil Spencer to make it happen Take a deep breath!Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance Of The Slayeris releasing on June 1st with a simultaneous Game Pass drop. It’s an old-school shooter set in the same retro-futuristic universe asHypnospace Outlaw, but this time the focus is on fan-favourite character Zane Lofton, who actually “made” Slayers X in the fiction of the game. Rude dude Zane “Zane_Rocks_14” Lofton started making the shooter back in 1999 when he was probably in love with Doom and other boomin’ shooters from the era....

An amazing price for RAM of this speed. Extremely high-speed DDR5 memory is becoming eminently more affordable, with this DDR5-7000 kit costing just $125 for 32GB at Amazon US. That’s an awesome deal, especially for a RAM kit with RGB lighting addressable via Corsair’s popular iCUE software. DDR5 RAM’s advantage is that it allows for significantly higher transfer rates, but the base level JEDEC spec of 4800MT/s CL42 is far from ideal compared to affordable DDR4-3200 CL32....

Promised as a stretch goal during the Kickstarter campaign The Wonderful One: After School Hero is being split into two parts - one half is out today, the next half releases on May 26th. There’s an Arcade Mode that tells the origin story for schoolboy Luka before he became the goofy superhero Wonder Goggles. Then there’s an extra Challenge Mode, so you can test your newfound laser-blasting powers. That’s quite a departure from the main game which had you controlling colourful tiny heroes each with their own unique abilities....

Star Waaaaars. It’s VR Star Wars. Yes VR Star Wars. VR Star Waaaaars! Of the various corporatised fictional universes out there, Star Wars is the one I’m most emotionally invested in. But my affection for George Lucas' brain-baby is less about the stories and characters, and more about the general vibe of the galaxy itself. I love its retro-futurist junkpunk style, the rusty spaceships, dusty planets, and fusty aliens. That’s why I’ve more fondness for games like Dark Forces and KotOR than any of the films or TV shows, as they let me poke around locations like Tatooine and Ord Mantell at my own pace....

From the studio behind Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator Developer Strange Scaffold have announced another genre-blending adventure,Teenage Demon Slayer Society, this time mixing turn-based strategy combat with some character action flare. The game follows teen figurines, who are already struggling with the hellish world of high school crushes when an army of demons invades their world. Demonic invasions and teenage angst are - as we all know - a match made in heaven....