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Patiently waiting Dragon Ball FighterZhas been a big success in the fighting game scene, and it’s probably thought of as the best way to experience the famous anime in game form - complete with an endless barrage of multicoloured punches. But growing up, the Budokai Tenkaichi series weretheDragon Ballfighting games, and 16 years after the last entry Bandai Namco have announced a new Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi title. The announcement trailer doesn’t give too much away apart from a stylish glimpse of Goku transforming into Super Saiyan Blue form....

…And The Tower At The End Of The World, coming this year Harebrained Schemes - the folks behindBattleTechandShadowrun- have announced their newest strategy game, but this one’s quite the mouthful.The Lamplighters LeagueAnd The Tower At The End Of The World is set in an alternate version of the 1930s where “the best of the best are all dead… so you’ll need the best of the worst.” The game launches on PC, next-gen Xboxes, and Game Pass later this year....

The Dell Alienware AW3423DW is a brilliant 34-in gaming ultrawide. It was only a few days ago that we reported on a UK sale of theAlienware AW3423DWFultrawide gaming monitor based around Samsung’s incredible 34-in QD-OLED panel, and now its American cousin is also discounted at the official Dell store. This model debuted at $1300, but a $100 price drop and a 10% off coupon code -SAVEMONITORS10brings the AW3423DW to its lowest US price ever....

From today’s Paradox Announcement Show Cities: Skylinesturns 8 years old next week, so Paradox are celebrating with a special announcement: a new Cities: Skylines. As part of today’s Paradox Announcement Show, the publisher revealed their urban management sequelCities: Skylines 2, coming from the studio behind the first game, Colossal Order, is coming later this year. Colossal Order’s CEO Mariina Hallikainen says “we’ve brought the years of experience we’ve gained to take a new step forward in the city builder genre, again....

The Dragonborn comes, but was distracted by mead espionage WhenThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimcame out I was a student, and I worked in Gamestation (RIP) to help pay for chicken noodles. I remember the hype around it very clearly because Gamestation had a deal where you could buy it for like £22, and I had a sideline going when the stock was low to keep some back for my friends. Apols if you were caught in the crossfire for that, but dragon fever was running high off the back of astill very cool trailer, and shouting Fus Ro Dah was the only cure....

Please admire these interesting and attractive indies Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by cute townbuilding, decapitating horror, a demon skateboarding through Hell, bouncing logos, handcrafted strategy, an entire movie jammed into an immersive sim, and more. Come admire these interesting indies! The hellful tricking ofSkate Story(coming to Steam) still looks lovely:...

Using emojis for game art was a clever idea For a long time,Super Auto Petsused a strange and clever (and cheap!) source of artwork for its attacking animals: emojis, scaled up far larger than they appear in WhatsApp messages from your mum. The super auto-battler did eventually start making custom artwork for its later expansions, but much of the furious fauna was still emojis. That has now changed with today’s patch, going back to replace all the old emojis with new animal pictures....

A new version built in Source 2 Rumours of aCounter-Strike 2have been circulating for so many years that it’s become a recurring meme in the playerbase, almost veering intoHalf-Life 3levels of wishful thinking. But rumblings of Counter-Strike 2 have gotten louder over the weekend due to areportfrom journalist Richard Lewis which states there’s “a new version ofCounter-Strike: Global Offensiveon its way” being made in the Source 2 engine, and it could release with the working title of Counter-Strike 2....

A ton of storage for the money. We’ve seen 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs under the £100 mark before, but never have we see one for a clear £5 below - and never this model either. The Adata Legend 800 has been steeply discounted at Ebuyer, where £92 plus £3 shipping gets you this new model capable of 3500MB/s reads and 2800MB/s writes. Yes, this isn’t thebest gaming SSDin terms of raw speed, but its PCIe 4....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Mar 6? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordletasks its players every day with guessing the right five-letter word using a Mastermind-esque system of clues obtained by guessing various other five-letter words. If you don’t get the word right within six guesses, then there’s no way to play again until the next day. Cruel, isn’t it? That’s why we write these guides so you never have to feel such cruelty for yourself....

Citybuilding is back on the table Last month, city-builderWorkers & Resources: Soviet Republicwasremoved from Steamfollowing a DMCA takedown notice filed by a disgruntled player. The industrial management game is now back on Steam and available for purchase again. “We want to apologize to those who were looking to purchase the game and were unable to,” says the latestdeveloper blogposted to Steam. Studio 3Division continue to say, “We realise that we underestimated the situation, and it quickly escalated to a point that posed a threat to our game....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Mar 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis, a lot of the time, a fairly easy game. Just a nice quick way to stretch your linguistic muscles during a lunch break. Sometimes though, an uncommon letter or an unfortunate starting guess might send your latest Wordle attempt into a spiral of failed attempts and disappointment....

“Why make a sequel” when DLC exists I had a brief, intense relationship withVampire Survivorslast year, but a steady stream of early access updates and now post-release DLC has kept other players in its thrall for much longer. Those updates have been successful enough that its developer says that they’d only make a sequel if it offered “something radically new.” “With the way Vampire Survivors is designed, we can deliver both new content and new game mechanics on the existing game, so why make a sequel?...