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Making biscuits If modern gaming has given us anything that’s good, it’s the surge of recent catventures. Last year’sStraymeowed its way into every cat lover’s heart,Little Kitty, Big Cityis taking things a chaotic step further later this year, andA Space For The Unboundhad an abundance of cats just lying about. Just last night, we received a release date forMineko’s Night Market, a slice-of-life adventure that’s set on a Japanese island bursting with kittens, cats, cat gods, and other furry feline variations....

The sequel launches later this year The first Blasphemous was a great fusion of side-scrolling Soulslike action and a metroidvania structure that threaded you through a grotesque and melancholy world. It made it onto our list of thebest games like Dark Souls, where Ed said “it runs so hard with its theme that you’ve got to admire its blood-soaked vestments.” Supernatural baddie The Miracle has somehow returned, and in the developer’s own words, that gives you no choice but to “stop the prophetic birth of a new miracle child....

Learn how to fast travel around Hell-A in Dead Island 2 Want to know how to fast travel in Dead Island 2?Dead Island 2doesn’t feature a big, seamless open world. Instead, it’s a series of 10 zones to explore, tied together through loading screens. As some quests make you dart between zones like a proper Hell-A tourist, backtracking can become particularly painful if you don’t use fast travel. Dead Island 2fast travel is an oddity, though, as you can’t just whip open the map and select your preferred zone....

The 3D puzzler will launch on May 16th Humanityis a puzzle game about controlling a glowing Shiba Inu who can drop instructions for a streaming crowd of human beings to follow. It’s a concept reminscent of Lemmings, but wrapped in a style that evokes the self-assuredly video gamey early PlayStation era. That’s what its latest trailer does, too, while also announcing a May 16th release date. Here’s the trailer, which is actually several live action adverts strung together, each designed to look like a mid-90s or early-00s Japanese TV spot:...

Humming these basslines Its newest trailer (embedded above) debuted at last night’s Nintendo Indie Showcase, and I’d like more of this vibe sprayed over my eyeballs, please. Right off the bat, we see loads of ways we can potentially navigate the futuristic city of New Amsterdam, chaining together rail grinds, cartwheels befitting a gymnast, and an unnaturally high jump only reserved for platformers. The city will be split into five boroughs which sounds like five mini-open levels....

Or friends, but who has those Most co-operative platformers are for two players and an optimal experience normally involves both being sat side by side on a couch. Not so inKarmaZoo. It’s a co-op platformer designed to be played by “up to 10 random players around the world” in which the levels adapt to the size of your team and any helpful action you perform earns ‘Karma’ with which to unlock new characters....

Pew pew Immortals Of Aveumhas a magic bracelet and quip-laden cutscenes and if you saw a clip of itsreveal trailerout of context, you could easily mistake it forForspoken. This is a first-person shooter with a boy protagonist called Jack (sorry, Jak) from a former Call Of Duty andDead Spacefella, though, and a new “gameplay first look” trailer does more to distinguish itself. I think it’s difficult to make ethereal, pew-pew magic stream attacks feel impactful, because they lack the bass sounds and quick impact of, say, a shotgun....

Crime O’Clock comes out in June Freshly announced puzzle gameCrime O’Clockwill be putting you in the shoes of a time-travelling detective when it comes out on June 30th, its release date seemingly perfectly timed (sorry) to coincide with Capcom’sobject-hoppingtime puzzle detective game,Ghost Trick. In all seriousness, though,Crime O’Clocklooks to be its own distinctive beast (and not just because you seem to play as a rabbit). It has shades of Where’s Wally?...

Remember when this used to happen all the time? Over the last few weeks we at the RPS Electronic Wireless Showpodcasthave noticed a slight resurgence in a trend we thought was basically over. That’s right: video game tie-ins to films! There used to be loads of them, and now there aren’t. Except there are again, culminating in Renfield (of all movies) having a Vampire Survivorslike you can actually buy on actual Steam....

Fast storage, small size, low price. We’ve continued to see prices fall on solid state storage over the past few months, as manufacturers are looking to sell on excess stock caused by falling demand in commercial sectors. That makes it a great time to be a PC gamer, as you can pick up some great tech for bargain basement prices - including this Crucial X6 portable SSD, which offers 1TB of space for £56....

This frequency’s getting clearer Spooky supernatural sequelOxenfree 2: Lost Signalsis launching on July 12th, developer Night School have announced. Just like the firstOxenfree, there’ll be plenty of flexible walking and talking where you’ll be able to interrupt conversations at any time, or just stay silent throughout, which would be creepily on-brand for a series about ghostly rifts and unsettling radio frequencies. Set five years after the original, this time around there’s an entirely new cast, setting, and threat to deal with....

Venti your problems over another warm cuppa Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterflyis a continuation of that story, set three years later in the same, alternate version of Seattle where elves, werewolves, orcs, mermaids and other fantastical creatures all rub shoulders as city-dwelling citizens in need of a good cuppa. Once again, you play as the owner of the titular late-night coffee shop, brewing up a multitude of exotic hot drinks that you’ll need to match to each customer’s request that night as they tell you their woes....

Plus the best settings for handheld slaying I’m too prejudiced against first-person melee games to enjoyDead Island 2as much ourreviewer Rick Lane did, but even a mind as narrowed as mine can appreciate its slick performance on PC. I wanted to see how well that smoothness and stability would carry over to theSteam Deck, and although the long-delayed zombie mulcher needs some cuts to quality settings, finding the right balance will haveDead Island 2running almost as comfortably as the verybest Steam Deck games....