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Time to Levolve The first time I glimpsedThe Finals' bonkers environmental destruction (some might say “levelutions”)last August, I couldn’t quite believe it was real. But it is real, and you can play it today. Following itsclosed alphalast September, the first-person shooter is now having a closed beta test for the next two weeks, and you can join the mayhem simply by requesting access onSteam. The Finals is a free-to-play, PvP shooter where you duke it out in a virtual game show for a chance to win the big bucks and eternal fame....

Strap in for a spin-off revolution on April 18th Last month, Riot Forge announced their latest spin-off would launch sometime this Spring. We now have an April 18th release date forThe Mageseeker: A League Of Legends Story, alongside an snazzy trailer that’s bursting with sick 2D pixel art, outrageous magical abilities, and a few lore teases. The action RPG comes from developer Digital Sun, the folks behindMoonlighter, the roguelike shopkeeping-sim hybrid....

Before The Green Moon coming from the makers of Little Party Upcoming farm-o-life sim gameBefore The Green Moonhas an interesting setting: a small community round the base of a space elevator, set in the lead-up to you leaving for the moon. Even more interesting is that it’s coming from Turnfollow, an indie team best known for wonderful little story games likeLittle PartyandWide Ocean Big Jacket. Huh! Life sims are not my genre but I really like Turnfollow’s games, so I’m in....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatQuake 2’s railgun is better than the currency ‘Gold’. I take this as a solid sign that we can trust in the process, that we know we are on the right path, that we will find our way to the single best thing in video games. This week, I ask you to choose between dropping things in very different ways. What’s better: ground pound attacks or reloads dumping unspent ammo?...

It would have a pro-wrestler or ex-American football player in the lead “Have a go ofSons Of The Forest,” my compatriots at RPS told me. “It’s a great newsurvivalgame, with cannibals who live on an island!” And I was like, “wait, so until you turned up to they just eat each other? How do they have a sustainable population? What’s going on here?” The main character is there with his squad, one of whom is gurning at you in an openly unsettling way, and will clearly be the comic relief for the rest of the film - and he is!...

Use these tips to easily beat the Aoye in Wo Long Need tips on how to beat the Aoye in Wo Long?Players of Koei Tecmo’sWo Long: Fallen Dynastymay as a whole be currently preoccupied with Zhang Liang, the first boss of the game, but you only need to go a little further into the game to discover an even greater threat - the demonic Aoye. This horrible cow demon uses its otherworldly maw and its long tendrils of iron-like black hair to punish new players for underestimating the beast’s startling range....

Stuck on the Wordle word for Mar 8? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Go do thatWordlethat you do so well! That searing hot reference was brought to you by my steady childhood diet of 1960s and 1970s pop culture, so hopefully someone understood it. Wordle is popular with all ages, after all, so there’s a better-than-average chance that my little pun landed forsomebody....

The portable PC’s creators reflect on its first anniversary and look to its future Happy birthday, anniversary, launchiversary, or whatever you want to call it to theSteam Deck. Valve’s handheld SteamOS games machine has successfully evaded hardware flop status, currentlysitting fourthin Steam’s own top sellers list a full year after it began shipping. That’s well deserved, too: the Steam Deck was afun little alternative way to play PC gameswhen it released, and through a combination of added features, ongoing improvements to game compatibility, and simply a wider choice ofgreat games, it’s a better device now than it’s ever been....

Code snippets seem to reference the feature Building things inMinecrafttakes a long time. Even in the vastly quicker Creative mode, you’re limited to constructing your grand designs block-by-block. That might change soon, if leaked footage which appears to show a Minecraft Bedrock edition world editor mode is legitimate. As spotted byEurogamer, the footage was sharedon Twitterby user ‘Roger Badgerman’: Don’t worry creators! I have things for you as well…Here’s a sneak-sneak peak at Bedrock’s work-in-progress editor modepic....

“We ran out of time” The developers of breezy stealth ‘em upsAragami1 and 2 are closing down. Lince Works announced the news earlier today, saying that they would “stop the development of new projects indefinitely, starting this April.” Both games will remain available for sale and online co-op will still be accessible. “We have been lucky enough to work on what we love for the past nine years, pouring our hearts and souls into creating immersive and entertaining games for you to enjoy, and we are so proud of what we have accomplished,” said Lince Works in the statement sharedon TwitterandSteam....

Pounding the pavement Cities: Skylines 2was announcedyesterday, with a CG trailer and scant details aside from it being in some way “revolutionary”. If you hunger for something more concrete about how it might differ from its predecessor, as I do, then you might be interested in an apparently leaked list of achievements that contains details of disasters, weather, embiggened map sizes and more. As spotted byPC Gamer, the seemingly full list of Xbox achievements is available via bothXbox AchievementsandTrue Achievements....

More JRPGs! March’sfirst batchof Game Pass additions included JRPGs and remixed versions of history, and the second group is adding… more JRPGs and remixed versions of history. We now know what’s coming to Game Pass through March 21st, and there are some big highlights like Ni No Kuni 2,Civilization 6, and Guilty Gear. Here are the next batch of Game Pass titles: Other highlights include Civilization 6, and honestly, what more needs to be said about this one?...

Blazing speeds, reduced prices. Earlier this year we highlighted a deal on theCorsair MP600 Pro LPX 2TB, which dropped to £200 - a fair price for one of the very fastest SSDs on the market. Now though, the same drive is down to £164, a scorching-hot deal for this level of flash-based firepower and one well worth bringing up again! Looking at the specs of the MP600 Pro LPX, there’s plenty to be impressed about, with high figures for both sequential speeds (single large files) and random speeds (reading lots of smaller files)....