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Also, a new update brings new content and, uh, Denuvo? If you’re starting playingGhostwire: Tokyoafter it came to Game Pass this week, I have a hot tip for you: prioritise upgrading movement abilities. The freedom to glide from rooftop to rooftop over haunted Tokyo will bring you so much more joy than any incremental damage upgrade. That’s the most important thing I have to say, that it makes for good virtuatourism....

Alongside Second Extinction From now until April 20th, you can add Mordhau to your Epic account viaits store page. Once added, it’s yours to keep forever. Mordhau has both spectacle and finesse and it works well when you’re charging across the mud against players on horseback in the midst of a hectic, 64-player castle siege, and when you’re fighting just one other person in tense, hard-scrabble duels. The swordplay is particularly sweet, rewarding those who learn to use momentum and directional attacks to break defences and skewer their enemies....

It’s out now and there’s a demo Shardpunk: Verminfallsmooshes together a bunch of different ideas you’ll have seen before. It’s got turn-based tactical combat against rats with magic rifles in a steampunk world already in ruins. It’s got the need to keep on moving, lest an approaching rat horde overwhelm you. It’s got bunkers in which your party rests, de-stresses, and tools up before moving on. Kind of a Fallouty, XCOMy, FTLy, Vermintidey mix, then - which together seems very cool....

With 13 new weapons Part of the fun ofVampire Survirorslies in discovering new weapons and items, and knowing that there are still surprises to uncover as you construct your monster murder machine. That thrill fades as complete more runs and reach the game’s edges, but its DLCs are so far doing a good job of creating new, uncharted territory. The latest, Tides Of The Foscari, is out now. Tides Of The Foscari is set in a folkloric western European woodland filled with demi-humans, spirits and murderous angels, and has at its centre a magic school populated by witches, warriors and thieves....

Around 15-20% faster than RTX 4070 for $10 more. As you may have noticed, the RTX 4070 was released earlier this week - indeed,the official RPS 4070 reviewwent live yesterday. It’s a good graphics card, fundamentally speaking, but like many recent releases it’s a bit more pricey than it should be at $599 / £589. Thankfully though, in the US you can actually pick up AMD’s more powerful last-gen flagship card, the RX 6950 XT, for just $10 more thanks to a deal at Newegg....

Beton Brutal is challenging yet chill I spent my morning trying and failing to rise from the depths of a vast Brutalist tower inBeton Brutal, a new first-person platformer. It’s a challenging climb yet a curiously chill vibe, perhaps because any time I fall all the way down, I’m delighted to be back surrounded by overgrown plants and sculptures rising from a pond. The developer says Beton Brutal “tries to replicate and build upon the parkour mechanics seen in Minecraft,” and I think I have a lot to learn....

A right piglin’s ear Surveying the sprawling piglin outpost before me, a plan forms. With a flourish of button presses from my controller, I spawn a sizeable army of zombies. They’ll zomble their way up the main path, and with their high health pools they’ll cut into the vast piglin forces and buy me time. With another flourish a contingent of friendly creepers scuttles along behind me. I lead them on a flanking attack around the outpost, targeting their spawners while the main piglin army is occupied with my frontal assault....

They’re Suspicious Stew flavoured I’m always up for trying new and odd foods. I mean, I barbecued some womb in a restaurant in Japan recently, and I can confirm that it was like calamari but tougher, and, largely, a lot worse. So, that’s why the idea of Pringles releasing a limited-editionMinecraftSuspicious Stew flavour intrigues me! I would like to give it a go and see if it’s actually quite nice or makes me barf....

You also play as a llamaworm, there’s that too Japan’s brutal working culture isn’t exactly a secret. You’ve probably heard the horror stories, or at least, got the general gist that success in Japanese business often equates to time. You don’t necessarily need to be doing work, you just need to be present as the clock hands shift. A hard worker is reduced to a statue that only springs to life again when their boss gets up to leave....

I welcome this development If you recognise the name PlayWay it is because PlayWay publishes most of the [Noun] Simulator games, often but not always involving being a mechanic of some kind. Today, though, I’m excited to tell you that with their next game, developed by PlayWay subsidiary Games Incubator, they’re branching out into the long-neglected magical horsegirl genre withMy Horse: Bonded Spirits. The trailer does a lot of my talking for me, doesn’t it?...

50% off for a small, comfy mouse with bulletproof wireless connectivity. First of all, its lightweight design can be made even lighter by swapping out one of your standard AA batteries (ideally rechargeable) with an AA to AAA adapter and an AAA Lithium Ion battery, dropping the weight by up to 15g and putting it squarely into the ultralight category. This makes it even better for fast flicks in FPS titles....

Secrets Of Gloomrot is animating next month Update: this post originally said Gloomrot is coming “next week” because I don’t know what month it is. Frakenstein is often cited as the first science fiction thing, and now it can add to its honours because it’s the inspiration for the first major update toV Rising. The info on Secrets Of Gloomrot doesn’t actually use the F word anywhere, but it’s a new biome “twisted by the tortured ambitions of a scientific genius and his legions of followers”, so I feel pretty confident in the citation....

From the team behind CK2’s AGOT mod Many moon rotations ago,Crusader Kings 2’s sprawling grand strategy receivedA Game Of Thrones faceliftthanks to a fan-made mod, replacing the political tensions of mediaeval Europe with the political tensions of Westeros. The AGOT mod was both huge and hugely popular, and now the team are back with a similar mod forCrusader Kings 3. It’ll be released in open beta tomorrow, April 14th. In aReddit postdetailing what to expect, the AGOT mod team say that Westeros will be 87% bigger than the base game map in Crusader Kings 3 - and they have plans to expand it further on the road to 1....