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Including Little Nightmares A handful of Bandai Namco Europe games are headed to the GeForce Now cloud streaming service this week:Get Even,11-11 Memories Retold, andLittle Nightmaresand its sequel. They’re four of the seven games joining the service, and the full list also includes the multiplayer medieval melee,Mordhau. The Little Nightmares games are the highlight of the bunch. They’re creepy puzzle-platforms and both received Bestest Best badges from us, with Adamloving almost every minuteof the first and Alice Bconsidering the sequel almost as perfect....

Coming from Ascendant Studios, I forget who founded it WhenImmortals Of Aveumwasfirst revealed in December last year, there wasn’t a lot to know. After a hands-off preview last week, I can tell you it’s a singleplayer first-person shooter but with magic, which would sound a lot likeForspokenif I described it without context, and it actually looks pretty cool. Mainly, though, I can tell you that I’m never going to forget whose idea this game was....

Look! It’s Ellie, Joel, and Abbey on Broadway Dragon Agewriter David Gaider’s new adventure gameStray Gods: The Roleplaying Musicalwill now hit the stage on August 3rd. It was formerly known as Chorus - and presumably changed its name to avoid sharing an RPS tag withChorvs- but afterreaching its crowdfunding goalsand finding a publisher, Stray Gods is ready for the limelight. Stray Gods is set in a hand-drawn “modern fantasy” world where the Greek Gods secretly live among us....

Developer Amplitude needs more time for polish Fans ofAmplitudeStudio’s ever-evolving ENDLESS series might be sad to hear thatEndless Dungeonhas been delayed by five months, pushing its May release date back to October 19th. The extra time will be spent “to better incorporate community feedback,” by improving the balancing, meta-progression, and onboarding, and giving the roguelike a few more layers of polish. Endless Dungeon is both a tower-defender and a co-op action roguelike, which is in stark contrast toEndless Space’s 4X strategy and Dungeon Of The Endless’ turn-based tactics....

One of the fastest gaming processors at a near-historic low. After debuting at £320, the Core i5 13600K has remained resolutely at that price thanks to limited supply and high demand. Now, the 13600K has seen its first major discount, dipping to around the £300 mark at Amazon UK. Meanwhile, the same CPU without integrated graphics, the 13600KF, is down to £281. These are solid deals for a great-performing 14-core, 20-thread CPUs that excel in gaming and content creation - especially given that you can pick up a motherboard that allows you to carry over the DDR4 memory in your existing build to keep costs down....

Explore abiogenesis in The Barnacle Goose Experiment I entered a sterile biodome with nothing but myself present and nothing to do but cry, spit, and piss. This is what science looks like. From these scant three verbs, you can create a whole world in The Barnacle Goose Experiment, combining substances to spontaneously generate whole other forms of matter, life, landscapes, and oddities. Made by Everest Pipkin, it’s part idle game, part clicker, and wholly fascinating....

But it’s not currently in development The Steam Deck is powered by SteamOS, a custom Linux-based operating system developed specifically for running Steam and its games. It’s possible to install Windows on your Steam Deck if you wish, but the drivers are rudimentary and there are a bunch of obstacles when it comes to controlling Windows via Steam Deck’s controls or its touchscreen. A leaked project from an internal Microsoft hackathon shows that staff at the operating system developer have noticed these issues - although it sounds like a version of Windows optimised for gaming handhelds is a long way off....

The Cooler Master MM720 looks odd but performs like a god. The weirdest, wonderfullest ultralight gaming mouse, Cooler Master’s MM720, is down to $16.99 at Amazon compared to a launch price of $52.99. This is an awesome pickup at almost any price, but at $17 youneedto consider this - even if you’ve never tried an ultralight mouse before - or if you’ve already got a full collection. The MM720 looks strange, but its wide and ergonomic honeycomb design actually works incredibly....

Now this is Cinema Movie tie-ins are back, and smaller than ever! After the freePac-Man-style adaptations ofBanshees Of InisherinandCocaine Bear, we now have a game for Renfield, the “Nic Cage is Dracula'' horror-comedy. It’s been appropriately turned into aVampire Survivors-likebullet heaven shooter calledRenfield: Bring Your Own Blood, and it’s in early access right now. The film follows vampire assistant Renfield (played by Nicholas Hoult) as he tries to quit a toxic job and leave his boss Dracula (Nic Cage) behind....

An efficient, forwards-thinking graphics card that excels at 1440p It’s taken a few GPUs, but Nvidia’s RTX 40 series is finally veering away from ludicrous luxuries and heading back in the right direction: that ofgraphics cardsyou can, and maybe evenshouldbuy, even if you’re not the heir to an Emirati property conglomerate. TheGeForce RTX 4070launches with a heavier price tag than theRTX 3070, and doesn’t make the shin-splintering performance leap forward that its predecessor did, but between its high speeds, low power usage, andDLSS 3advantage, it’s a potent upgrade regardless....

Say hello to the Sentinels Of The Forest update As I was pleased to let you knowearlier this week, the next free game for RPS premium supporters is roguelite citybuilderAgainst The Storm. This is your reminder that you can log on to claim your copy today, April 13th, from4pm BST/8am PT. That should be around the same time as Against The Storm gets is new free update, Sentinels OfThe Forest, which adds Foxes as a playable species, along with new buildings, abilities, and porridge - the most sensible of all the breakfast foods...

I got a hug from Ellen McLain. That’s not relevant to the video I just wanted to brag about it. At PAX West in Seattle last year, I had the pleasure ofinterviewing the voice cast of Team Fortress 2. I chatted to John Patrick Lowrie (The Sniper), Gary Schwartz (The Heavy, The Demoman), Robin Atkin Downes (The Medic) and Ellen McLain (The Administrator) about the game’s fifteen year long legacy, the process of finding their character’s voices as well as their favourite quotes....

The tardy boys Back in February, Rocksteady releasedseveral trailersofSuicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leaguethat confirmed that it was a looter-shooter with a battle pass andan always online internet connection. The response was poor and anonymous sourcescited in a report in Marchthat the game was to be delayed. The news was announced on Twitter: pic.twitter.com/iycWye9X42 “We have made the tough but necessary decision to take the time needed to work on getting the game to be the best quality of experience for players,” says the statement....