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The RPG/tower-defender is coming to PC later this year Developer Level Up Labs and publisher Armor Games have released a new trailer to mark the re-announcement: The sequel is bringing back the real-time tactics while revamping the series’ art style. Old DQ had lo-fi, 2D pixel art; new DQ instead has hand-drawn, 2D illustrations. The fantasy world of The Shining Lands has gotten notably darker in the time between the games....

The best bits of Inkle’s Pendragon and 80 Days combine to create a rhythmic hiking platformer like no other A belated apology to anyone who was assaulted by a sudden burst of upbeat bagpipes in the GDC press room the other week. I was having an early sneak peak at Inkle’s new gameA Highland Songin an appointment booth with paper-thin walls and no ceiling. The speakers on my Steam Deck demo unit were really going “full pipe” that day, so I’d like to say a big awkward sorry to any of my neighbours in there who were trying to conduct actual serious business interviews....

A bigger update is coming this Friday The Last of Us Part 1developers Naughty Dog have released the latest hotfix for its beleaguered Murder Dad adventure, although it doesn’t include the anticipated fix for a widespread camera jitter issue that’s been popping up for mouse users. According to an officialtweet thread, that’s been pushed back to a later patch, leaving this update –v1.0.1.7– to squash some other UI and UX problems....

Overdrive Mode is coming on April 11th Nvidia have previewed the upcoming Overdrive Mode forCyberpunk 2077, showcasing how it replaces the game’s already extensiveray tracingeffects with full path tracing. Why Nvidia and not the developers, CD Projekt Red? Well, that might have something to do with Overdrive Mode being such a graphics card shatterer that it will supposedly take a GeForce RTX 40 series GPU – withDLSS 3in effect – to run....

four new egg messes to unscramble A Little to the Leftis dropping its second free Special Event, running from April 7th to April 10th (that’s this weekend coming!). This Easter-themed Something Eggstra event will introduce four new egg-themed messes for players to unscramble. Not sticky egg messes in real life, but cute egg puzzles in a warm, charming video game. Something Eggstra follows on fromDecember’s Christmas freebies. For the first two decades of my life, I was torn in a war between two foes: spring cleaning season and video games....

Humans love ‘em, otherworldly fish hate ‘em In an effort to document every game that features dog-petting, cat-stroking, and other cute interactions with animals, popular Twitter account @CanYouPetTheDogposted about Dredge. The account highlighted a sidequest where you have the opportunity to soothe a stray dog, place said dog into your inventory, and set sail in search of its owner. I’m assuming the sailor’s inventory is GTA V-sized, otherwise the poor dog would be bouncing around a bag filled with fish hooks and blood-thirsty creatures (Ed: yep, that’s exactly what happens, fish nets and all)....

The best of the best from Boston It’s episode seven of Indiescovery and this week, wow, the gang istired. With a busy four days in Boston forPAX East, mine and Liam’s brains were basically mush last week, so Rebecca - an absolute angel - graciously said she could host a special PAX East episode where she chats with Liam and me about the indies we saw on the show floor and try desperately to string together a coherent sentence....

Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortal’s devs will fight the trademark dispute Monster Energy strikes again, coming back to claw at games with the word “Monster” in the title. The drinks company and its legal department have now targeted the indie devs behindDark Deception: Monsters & Mortals, a multiplayer game where you control either the titular humans or horrors through a maze. Developer Glowstick’s CEO Vincent Livings posted Monster Energy’s legal terms onTwitter....

Corsair’s MP600 Pro LPX is a fantastic fit for PC or PS5. The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is a great SSD that we’verecommended before, on the back of its excellent performance - and often, great value too. Today it’s cheaper than usual, with the 2TB drive dipping to £154.99 on Amazon UK - that’s £45 below the £200 price point we wrote a deals post to commemorate back in January!...

We’ve played it, and it absolutely rules I really like retro first-person shooters. Show me a game with a gun in it that looks like it could feasibly run on Windows 95, and all of the neurons in my brain will start to fizzle and spark. I justthink they’re neat, and their recent resurgance has been extremely nice for me, specifically. Unsuprisingly, then, I’ve been very excited to get my hands onWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun, a retro FPS by Auroch Digital set within the grim-dark universe of Warhammer 40k....

Grab a hot slice A new month means it’s time for theRPS Game Clubto pick its next game, and I thought, you know what, let’s doBetrayal At Club Low, the surreal nightclub RPG from Cosmo D Studios. Not only did we give it aBestest Bestwhen it came out in September last year, but just last month it was freshly annointed as the IGF Grand Prizewinner, making it an excellent time to revisit this latest slice of Off-Peak City madness....

Integral’s M3 Plus is a value champ that’s easy to recommend. We’ve covered surprisingly cheap NVMe SSDs on this deals patch before, but today we’ve hit a new high - or new low, depending on how you look at it. Right now you can pick up an Integral 2TB SSD for just £94.99, down from a regular price of £124, and best of all it’s a fast PCIe 4.0 SSD capable of 4850MB/s reads and 4400MB/s writes....

Mirror Of Madness brings a survival mode and a Laboratory-like one Total War: Warhammer 3’snext expansionForge Of The Chaos Dwarfsis still coming on April 13th, but now it’s being accompanied by some free DLC too. Developers Creative Assembly have detailed the Mirror Of Madness update - previously teased a couple months ago - in ablog post, and it’ll contain two new game modes for all players. The first is a wave-based survival mode called The Trials Of Fate, putting you in the shoes of the Daemon Prince of Tzeentch as he relives battles from the past....