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Future focus turns to Cities: Skylines 2 Cities: Skylines 2wasannounced in Marchand is due for release later this year. As a result, the next expansion forCities: Skylinesis also its last. Hotels & Retreats is a “mini-expansion” that adds hostels, cabins, hotels and luxury resorts to make your city friendlier to tourists. Here’s the announcement trailer: Players will start with one-star hotels and unlock more impressive destinations as their revenue grows. The expansion will also add an array of tourism-oriented buildings including restaurants, parks and playgrounds, and five new maps on which to build all the aforementioned....

Plenty of fire Armored Core 6: Fires Of Rubiconis dropping into action on August 25th, developer FromSoftware have announced. Last December, the studio most famous forDark SoulsandElden Ringannounced they werereturningto their mecha action roots, and we now have the first gameplay trailer showing off those chunky mechs and huge explosions. Take a look below. The story focuses on a mysterious substance called Coral, which was initially exploited as an energy source before causing a catastrophe and engulfing nearby planets in flames - creating the appropriately titled Burning Star System....

One of the best PCIe 3.0 SSDs available. Samsung’s 970 Evo Plus 2TB SSD is an almost legendary SSD, offering great real-world performance at a reasonable price. Recently the largest 2TB size has dropped from £145 to £99.99, making it significantly more affordable to add a ton of fast NVMe storage to your PC or laptop. As well as being cheaper than comparable PCIe 4.0 SSD alternatives, the 970 Evo Plus also works in a wider range of machines, including many made before the advent of PCIe 4....

Our Honkai Star Rail tier list ranks all 22 characters from best to worst in 1.0 Looking for an up-to-date Honkai: Star Rail character tier list?Honkai: Star Railhas a total of 22 playable characters so far in version 1.0, and that number is only going to increase over the next few months of Star Rail’s infancy. Even more so than its cousin,Genshin Impact, each of the characters in HSR can be extremely useful if used in the right ways at the right moments, in the right situations....

Replacing every enemy with the Blade Of Miquella The now legendaryElden Ringstreamer known as Let Me Solo Her has done the seemingly impossible and completed a Malenia-only run of FromSoftware’s giantRPG. Over the last month, Let Me Solo Her has been using a mod to replace every single enemy in the game with the boss who brought them fame - the ultra-toughMalenia- and you can now watch the full playthrough of ‘Elden RingBut Everything Is Malenia’ onYouTube....

But the rumours around Firaxis delaying the game to drop it were “wishful thinking” “Hah, that was wishful thinking for some people!” laughs creative director Jake Solomon when I ask him at GDC how he felt about those rumours at the time. It’swell-knownnow that the delay was simply about polishing the game rather than anything more drastic, but to Solomon’s credit he does also concede that he was perhaps “a little naïve” at the time for thinking it would go down without question....

Creeping up Grab a holy cross, maybe make some friends, and spray yourself with gross garlic water. Vampire-hunting shooterRedfallis only a mere week away, so developers Arkane have dropped a fun launch trailer to celebrate. It gives us another look at the titular rural town, haunted by fanged monsters, violent cultists, and psychic anomalies that distort the environment in weird and wonderful ways. Nothing blatantly new there, but it’s another tease of whatRedfallis all about....

After some licensing issues left it in limbo After a few weeks in time limbo,Quantum Breakhas returned to storefronts on PC and Xbox. Publisher Microsoft had said “some licences that expired” were to blame for its removal from Game Pass (for consoles), which was probably the same reason it waspulled from storefrontstoo. It’s now rewound the clocks, available to buy, and as a nice bonus, it’s joined PC Game Pass for the first time since it was previously only available on the console version of the service....

Along with 14 other games including Lake, Planescape Torment, and Agatha Knife May is on the horizon and that can mean only one thing: Star Wars Day of course. To celebrate May the 4th (be with you), Amazon Prime are giving away 15 games to subscribers over the next month, with the flight combat simStar Wars: Rogue Squadron 3Dleading the pack of freebies. Every single Thursday a new batch of free games will be available to claim, so take a look at the lineup below....

Between a clock and a hard place Between the spooky reality tears ofOxenfree II: Lost Signalsand the chrono-bending clue hunts ofCrime O’Clock, we at the Electronic Wireless Showpodcasthave had time travel on the brain. Clever game mechanic, or narrative copout? Maybe both? Maybe neither? Or maybe it’s just a reason for Nate and I to gush aboutTitanfall 2’s singleplayer campaign while Alice considers the temporal implications of save scumming. To know the answer, you yourself must travel back to the past, specifically Tuesday, when we recorded it....

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood deals with fate, divination and revenge For me, developers Deconstructeam are the GOAT at fleshing out characters through the subtle art of conversation. Whether it’s revealing the dark secrets of corporate espionage from the mouths of loose-lipped employees after a cocktail or two inThe Red Strings Club, uncovering the cut-throat life of a hitman as he arranges beautiful bouquets inEternal Home Floristry, or unravelling the personal philosophies of an old man who claims he can speak to God through a radio inInterview With A Whisperer, their games are detailed portraits of complex people....

A great price for an A2-rated memory card capable of 160MB/s reads. Samsung’s Pro Plus memory cards areour top pick for the Steam Deck, so I thought you’d like to know that the giant 512GB cards are now down to £39.99 at Amazon UK, making it a good time to upgrade your Steam Deck game storage if you haven’t already. This memory card came out near the top in our game load time tests, only behind the£62SanDisk Extreme....

No progression-locking here Long-running sci-fi MMOWarframehas just released its biggest update yet, The Duviri Paradox, for free. Jumping into any 10-year-old game can be intimidating, especially anMMO, but developer Digital Extremes say this is the first story-driven update that’s not progression-locked based on skill level or experience with the game. In other words, this is a new experience within Warframe that’s immediately available to newcomers, while also adding weird cool stuff for old-timers....