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Vote now! Last time, you decided thattime loops are better than resuming interrupted reloads. We thankfully won’t need to re-run that result, but we cannot fully leave the past behind us. One eagle-eyed reader observed that time loops and staged reloads “aren’t really comparable”, and I cannot overstate my embarrassment at having made such an obvious mistake. My deepest apologies to everyone who has trusted me to conduct this research with great rigour....

Respawn chat to us about lightsaber colours and Cal’s expanded Force powers An important Star Wars question is: what colour lightsaber would you have? The lightsaber is the mood ring of elegant weapons for a more civilised age. Jason de Heras, design director onStar Wars Jedi: Survivor, agrees with me on the purple blade (a colour introduced to the canon specifically because Samuel L. Jackson wanted it for his character in the prequels)....

A great price for a spec that includes a 16-in 2560x1600 165Hz display, Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. One of my all-time favourite gaming laptops is £300 off at Ebuyer UK today. The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro offers sterling performance in a slim, stylish chassis, and now you can pick up a model with an 11th-gen Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD and RTX 3060 graphics card for £899....

Another day, another ActiBlizz lawsuit Yesterday, the US Department Of Justicefiled a civil suitagainst Activision Blizzard, accusing the publisher’s Competitive Balance Tax of capping esports players’ wages and penalisingOverwatchandCall Of Dutyleague teams if they exceeded the salary cap. Like other sports leagues,Overwatchand COD teams remained competitive by offering higher pay to attract and retain the best players. The DOJ say ActiBlizz’s rules had the “effect of substantially lessening competition for players by suppressing player compensation… Teams were fined if their total player compensation exceeded a threshold set by Activision each year....

There’s more to this handheld PC than an April Fool’s lark Asus have confirmed that the ROG Ally, aSteam Deck-esque handheld PC announced on April Fool’s Day, is in fact a real device that’s in production right now. There’s no price or release date info as of yet, but it sounds like it will be more of a premium alternative, aiming to beat the Deck on specs like APU power and display performance....

Be a crab and shoot everything I played for about an hour, and can confirm that Crab Champions is a fast-paced shooting game where players take on the role of a crab traveling across islands, defeating hordes of enemies, and collecting loot. Playing Crab Champions reminded me of Risk Of Rain 2 as I needed to control my view while I aligned my crosshairs with oncoming enemies and shot them down....

Fittingly called Tours & Tournaments Crusader Kings 3’s next expansion has been announced. Tours & Tournaments will introduce new events to the medieval grand strategy game including jousting events, grand weddings and the ability to send you ruler on a tour of their domain. All offer an opportunity to impress your subjects and rivals - or, I’d guess, to fall off your horse and die. Here’s the announcement trailer: If you choose to go on a tour of your realm, you can handpick the entourage you take with you and select the route to follow....

Acquisition spree continues Devolver Digital have acquired Doinksoft, the developers of kitty mech platformerGato Robotoand the upcomingGunbrella. All of the indie team’s games had thus far been published by Devolver, including a physical-only Switch game, Demon Throttle, and theDevolver Bootlegcompilation. Devolver announced the news on Twitter: Today is a historic moment. We are excited to announce that the world-renowned franchises and talented people at@doinksoftwill be joining Team Devolver!pic.twitter.com/16wP3iH6Ab (Red Dead Redemptionhas become a running joke for Deolver....

Looting at lightspeed Everspace 2is an arcade space shooter with an action-RPG style loot system and a distinctly early 2000s vibe, set entirely within a false memory of a Saturday morning cartoon that never existed, and featuring some obscenely shiny spaceships. I don’t claim to understand whether this has something to do with “ray-tracing” or some manner of “screen space occlusion” or what have you – Digital Foundry, I am available for work – all I know is that there’s an option to crank up the gloss until you’re pretty much zooming around the galaxy in a big angry disco ball....

Plus more ways to upgrade your gear EA’s monster-huntingWild Heartsis getting its first new Kemono species later this week as part of a post-launch update. April 6th will bring new creatures to hunt, new abilities to hunt with, and more ways to enhance your equipment - presumably to get better at hunting. Developer Omega Force have released a trailer that shows off their newest beast, the wind-wielding, appropriately Spring-themed fox Murakumo....

Mighty foot engaged A new mod forElden Ringadds one of the most important things a game can have: a really hefty kick to boot people onto their bums and over edges. This has come with an update to First Person Souls, an impressive mod which gives FromSoftware’s game a good first-person camera view. And thanks to the mod’s recent update, you can now punt ragdolling baddies across The Lands Between, following in the bootprints of games likeDeathloopand Dark Messiah Of Might & Magic....

Build and infiltrate death mazes Meet Your Makeris out. The first-person shooter from the developers of Dead By Daylight is set in a post-apocalypse in which players alternately construct death mazes to protect their precious resources, and infiltrate the death mazes of others. Here’s the original announcement trailer from last year, which I still think is pretty neat: The precious resource everyone is trying to protect and steal is “pure genetic material,” which is seemingly the secret to restoring life on earth....

Along with Iron Brigade, Goat Simulator (again), and Minecraft Legends Here’s the full of list of Game Pass additions in April: Everspace 2is already on the service, but the spacefaring shooter is nowleaving early access, too. As an Xbox-owned studio, Double Fine continues to drop off its back catalogue of games, this time with the playful tower defenceIron Brigadejoining the trenches. Speaking of Double Fine, the upcomingMinecraft Legendshas a healthy dose ofBrütal Legendabout it, by virtue of being a rare third-person action-RTS hybrid - replacing the heavy metal art with Mojang’s loveable blocks....