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Classic series returns Is there worse box art than that forthe first Age Of Wonders, back in 1999? Probably - but I still wouldn’t have seen it and bet on the series continuing 24 years later. Yet here we are.Age Of Wonders 4is out today. It’s quite good, too. Here’s an accoldates trailer: Age Of Wonders4 is a strategy 4X, in which players harness different kinds of magic to help them explore, expand and exploit their way towards exterminating rival fantasy factions....

In place of a £1/$1 first month No one on RPShaving much fun with Redfallso far, but perhaps you want to try Arkane’s open world vampire shooter for yourself. Game Pass would be a good way to do that, particularly if you have a free trial. As of today, any Game Pass subscriber can offer up to five friends a 14-day free trial to PC Game Pass. So I guess it’s time to bug your friends....

A new record low UK price for a PCIe 4.0 drive of this size. The Kingston NV2 is a budget PCIe 4.0 drive, designed to be assembled from the cheapest available components to deliver a decent baseline of performance. That makes it often an aggressively priced SSD compared to others at similar speeds, and today Box are offering the 2TB model for just £77.50. That’s the lowest price we’ve ever seen for a 2TB PCIe 4....

High-end 1440p gaming for less (than before). AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 graphics card is one of the firm’s best mid-range to high-end options, with excellent 1080p and 1440p performance that saw it get awarm write-up here at RPS. Now, MSI’s RX 6800 Gaming Z Trio is down to £480 at Ebuyer here in the UK, a good price for a GPU of this calibre - if not quite as good value as the new RTX 4070....

Don’t go alone I first played co-op third-person shooterGlitch Busters: Stuck On Youat Summer Games Fest last year, andcame away really impressed. I played with couch co-op with two members of developers Toy Logic, which was lighthearted, slightly chaotic fun; everything couch co-op should be, right? So, I thought I’d give the game a whirl but as a solo player. How would a game built for up to four players cope when there’s just one person taking the reins?...

Creative director Jake Solomon tells us they cut at least 30 scenes “because we realised this is just simply too much” Marvel’s Midnight Sunsmay be a turn-based tactics game first and foremost, but it also has a substantialRPGelement that drives both the story and the interpersonal dramas of its superhero teams between missions. When you and your squad head back to your Abbey HQ, there are side stories and quests to investigate around the Abbey grounds, items to find, and more....

Scarlet Deer Inn’s hand-stitched villagers run around painted backgrounds Social media surfers may have already caught a glimpse of side-scrollerScarlet Deer Inn, which recently went viral over the weekend for its fully embroidered animations. Yep, embroidered as in using needles, thread, and fabric to stitch together every animation in real life, from the protagonist’s big jump to a sheep’s wagging tail. This stitching is then scanned into the game by developers Attu Games, creating a uniquely beautifulplatformerwith a slightly physical touch....

Admiring more attractive and interesting indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday (or Tuesday, after a holiday weekend like this), I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by weird musical contraptions, a quiet moment on the balcony with a cup of coffee, chill building, frozen sledding, and the ability to skip a game’s tutorial so hard that it sinks to the bottom of the sea....

Nearly a decade in the making We’ve been writing about Skywind fornine years. The ambitious modding project aims to import the entirety of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind intoThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimengine. To celebrate the 21st anniversary of Morrowind, the Skywind team have released a 21 minute video of a single quest in Skywind. I have a theory that people only ever truly love the first Elder Scrolls game they play, but there’s no denying that Morrowind is the most passionately advocated for by its fans....

Like a vampire’s straw-like fangs So far, I wouldn’t sayRedfallis a “mess”. A mess, to me, implies an excess of things that become a horrible, overwhelming tangle. Having played the vampiricFPSfor a clutch of hours now, I’d say it feels more like an “absence”. Arkane’s latest strikes me as an open world shooter with a few simple strands that never seem to go anywhere. Occasionally, there are flashes of a team that - as we all know - are capable of brilliance, butRedfallhas me following a path of irritation, and feeling a slight sadness for what might’ve been....

Hooked a roadmap The underwater scares ofDredgeare about to run even deeper. Developer Black Salt Games have revealed a roadmap for their spooky fishing game, promising four new bits of content coming over the next year including a chiller passive mode, nice quality-of-life additions, and a larger paid DLC pack with a new non-eldritch horror threat. The roadmap starts with a much-requested map marker feature that should be arriving before the end of June, letting you place colourful icons to represent shipwrecks, mysteries, and other eye-catching stuff under the waves....

Here’s how to get to the hidden region in Dredger Gorge and find the Gorge’s Secret Want to know how to Find the Gorge’s Secret and enter Winding Ravine in Jedi: Survivor?If you’ve been keeping on top of your rumors - the side missions given to you by various characters inStar Wars Jedi: Survivor- then you may know that Dredger Gorge in Koboh is home to a certain secretive location which can only be reached in a very particular way....

Where to find every last chest, treasure, and seed pod on Shattered Moon Looking for every last collectible location on Shattered Moon in Jedi: Survivor?Star Wars Jedi: Survivorvastly outguns its predecessor in terms of the sheer amount of stuff to explore and discover across all its planets. Shattered Moon, while one of the smaller maps in the game, still holds a very important place in Cal’s story - not to mention a fair few collectibles to track down....