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Dino Dealy Steam’s latest genre-specific sale is entirely about sports games. From yesterday - this post was postponed due to frozen pitch, sorry - until May 22nd, you can find discounts on everything from skateboarding to golf, wrestling to fishing, and of course lots of fitba. Alas, there’s no discount onStreetStep: 21st Century Basketball. the sports game I currently want to play most. But then it’s only £8.50/$10, so I’ll probably take a punt/half-court toss on it anyway....

Hawken Reborn launches into F2P early access on Wednesday Hawken Reborn will pop us into the cockpits of stompy little mechs to blast through story missions (six available at first, with more to follow) and patrol zones (one at first). Along the way, we’ll upgrade mechs with weapons and power-ups and such. In those patrol zones, the blurb says, we’ll get to take on Radio Missions to earn resources, though the zone will get harder the longer we’re out, and we risk losing goodies if we die....

$399.99 after a $430 discount. EVGA’s Kingpin motherboards are some of the most bonkers out there, proper slabs that are designed for extreme overclocking with hugely impressive power delivery, multiple BIOSes and some unique features. They’re also hugely expensive, normally costing close to $1000, but a deep discount on their Z690 model over at Newegg brings it to $400. That’s still pricey, but a reasonable pickup given the feature list for anyone designing a top-end gaming rig around Intel’s 12th-gen or 13th-gen Core processors....

High stakes genre Free-to-play battle royaleVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhuntis ending development a year after launch, the team at Sharkmob have announced. That means the game won’t receive frequent updates in the future. Sharkmob points to their limited player base, which made sustainable development difficult for the battle royale, although servers will remain online indefinitely, as long as there’s an “active player base and community.” “Ever since launch, we have been on a journey to excite and delight our players,” the studio wrote ina blog post....

Free to play and out in Early Access this week I’ve been meaning to write aboutVeiled Expertsfor over a month now, since playing it religiously during the Final Beta Test. I’ve been putting it off mostly because I’ve been busy, but also because I’m trying to find a way of saying “actually it’s really good” without people laughing and throwing garbage at me. It’s very hard to describe Veiled Experts to someone in a way that doesn’t prompt an instant dismissal....

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Tuesday is widely regarded as the most daunting day of the working week, and since taking care of yourself is paramount, you can basically argue that your dailyWordlebreak is vital for your psychological wellbeing. 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?...

And it’s 20% off for two weeks It’s long been possible to download demos of some games on Steam, particularly during periodic Steam Next Fests. It’s also technically possible to buy a game, play it for under two hours, then refund it if it’s not for you. As of yesterday, you can experience a marriage of both these ideas on Steam via a time-limited 90 minute trial for EA’sDead Spaceremake....

Final brushstrokes before its release next month Despite sharing a name with the original game, this new one is neither a simple remake nor a reboot of the series. Instead, this collection remakes the first Layers Of Fear, Layers Of Fear 2, and all of their DLC in Unreal Engine 5. Ray tracing and other fancy tech features are also here in full force, making it easier to get spooked in the dark....

These are the very best lightsaber builds in Jedi: Survivor Looking to build the very best lightsaber design in Jedi: Survivor?Respawn’s second instalment of Jedi Knight Cal Kestis’s journey,Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is almost certainly the best game we’ve ever seen when it comes to customising your lightsaber. There are literally millions of possible combinations to choose from, combining parts, textures, materials, and colours to create a saber that perfectly fits your own version of Cal....

The spiritual successor to Democratic Socialism Simulator TheGreen New Deal Simulatorbegins with a talking owl. This owl can’t sleep at night, mainly because it’s nocturnal, but also because the planet’s impending environmental doom has affected their shoddy sleep schedule. That’s where the Green New Deal Simulator comes in, a micro deck-builder about transitioning the USA into a post-carbon economy, all while keeping employment rates stable. The results are simultaneously funny, educational, intense, and they help that damn owl get a good night’s rest....

A month after the UK blocked the deal Microsoft’s proposed buyout of Activision Blizzard just received some good news. The European Commission have todayapprovedthe $70 billion acquisition, saying that Microsoft’s commitments “represent a significant improvement for cloud gaming.” That’s a markedly different tone to the UK’s conclusion last month, as the British regulatorblocked the acquisitionover concerns about the cloud market’s future. One of the European Commission’s previous findings said that Microsoft could lock future Activision Blizzard King games exclusively to their own cloud streaming services, potentially reducing competition with mega franchises....

Takaya Ishiyama is pleased to see his game is going down well outside Japan Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries Of Honjoisn’t your averagevisual novel. There are some buck wild concepts in Square Enix’s game, including fourth wall breaks to manipulate characters' actions and literally muting someone by turning voices off in the options menu, to name just two of the wackier features (and a big plot twist is discussed in this article, so beware if you’re planning on playing Paranormasight soon)....

Alongside a pet ghost rat Early access strategy RPGSongs Of Conquesthas added its newest necromantic campaign today, letting us raise an army of undead and knock a few bones about. The Barony Of Loth campaign features four singleplayer missions, and similar to the previous campaigns - Arleon and Rana - we’ll be focused on one main faction: the necromancer. The campaign follows the titular Baron Aldus Of Loth, who stumbles upon a mysterious figure that promises him an ancient power....