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Sidestepping through Darkspawn Early footage and screenshots fromDragon Age: Dreadwolf, BioWare’s fourth entry in its fantasy RPG series, have been leaked online. Although links to the video and screengrabs have since been removed fromReddit,the original post remains live and describes the contents of the leak in detail. According to the Redditor, the video shows a trek through Darkspawn-infested Weisshaupt, the Grey Warden’s headquarters. The player controls a sword and shield-wielding Elf in the Knight Class, and the menus apparently refer to them as a “mid-level Grey Warden....

The next generation Sims game is officially in development — here’s what we know about it so far What’s the latest news about The Sims 5?After many years of rumours, the “next generation Sims game” has finally been confirmed, and as RPS' resident mega-fan of all thingsThe Sims, it’s fair to say that I’m just a little bit excited. Details are still emerging and it’s clear that The Sims 5 (a....

A good value for a 10-core design. One of Intel’s best budget gaming CPUs, the Core i5 13400F, is down to £189 at Tech Next Day in the UK - compared to£238for the cheapest 12400/12400F model on Amazon UK. This is a great price for this level of performance, with a 10-core and 16-thread design, max turbo frequency of 4.6GHz and of course the same socket 1700 compatibility as other 12th and 13th-gen Intel CPUs....

Developers Frame Break also said they’re not ruling out including automation further down the line It takes a particular type offarming gameto really hook me in these days, butLightyear Frontier’s crop-planting mechs might just be the thing I’ve been looking for. Everything I’ve seen of Frame Break’s futuristic life sim looks delightful so far, and in a recent ID@Xbox showcase, the developers told us a bit more about how it’s going to operate, and whether thoseStardew Valley comparisonsare on the money....

The freeze potion is also good for making iced coffee I hesitate to callPotion Talesa shop sim or retailmanagement game, because the economics of running a figuratively and literally underground magic potion shop seems a secondary concern next to making the potions and deciding whether you want to screw people over or not. If the answer to that last part is yes, you need to move on to the question ofhow....

We list our favourite games from 2006, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else As per usual, we’re going by the year of a game’s PC release here, not when it came out on consoles, and it’s this particular version of the game we’re preserving, too. That’s why some games might be absent from their original release year, as they may have received a shiny HD remake or remaster in subsequent years we’d want to save instead (needless to say, our Time Capsule is not bound by what is and isn’t available to physically buy in this day and age - it’s the sentiment that counts)....

Admiring interesting and attractive indie games 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 a walking witch hut, using a shotgun to rocket-jump, some Dark Messiah-style kicking baddies into spikes, and unusual animal encounters. Come see! Sure, shotgun-jumping in parkour shooterSprawl(coming to Steam) jibes with my understanding of Newton’s third law:...

Damn, son. That’s a ton of fast storage for the money. So what’s the catch? Well, this is a QLC drive, so we can expect worse longevity (but more GBs per dollar) than an equivalent TLC drive. However, it’s still great for bursty workloads, offering 390K random reads and 540K random writes - about half to one-third the speed of the fastest PCIe 4.0 drives, but significantly faster than PCIe 3....

Hackin' & slashin' through the Han Dynasty During the weekend’s Taipei Game Show, Team Ninja announced thatWo Long: Fallen Dynastywould receive one final demo on PC and consoles. The action-RPG’s demo will be available starting from February 24th at 8AM GMT/ 9AM CET/ 3AM ET until March 27th. The full game is slated to launch on March 3rd for PC, consoles, and Game Pass, so you can try out the game’s Chinese-martial arts combat before and after release....

A long flight After two years of early access, the spacefaring looter shooterEverspace 2is ready to fly into full release for PC on April 6th. Last November, the open-world sequel received its last major update before release, adding in arift-openingendgame. The game already hasgrappling hooks- which automatically makes every shooter better - so, now we’re just waiting for a few extra bits before it’s ready for takeoff. Developer Rockfish Games are still hard at work ahead of the 1....

Make broom for this in your library Spellbook Demonslayers is as you’d expect from aVampire Survivors-like. An arena quickly fills with rotten hounds and fetid fungi, and you must steer a witch out of their way while periodic auto-attacks help keep the demonic massies to a manageable amount. What’s neat about Spellbook Demonslayers is the way it iterates on Vampire Survivors' formula, borrowing the good bits from it but still managing to bundle it all up in a convincing witchy way....

Wishfully’s cinematic platformer will “definitely get darker” as it goes on, though “I was very inspired by Studio Ghibli films, and especially the film Spirited Away,” Stjärnljus told us. “That’s been kind of like a guiding star from the beginning in terms of tonality with this serious, emotional story, but [also] still, like, a fun quirkiness to it, and really this sense of exploring another world, which we really want.”...

UPDATE: Microsoft believe they have a strong case in Britain Original story:A new week means one thing: another update on Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. According to areportfrom The New York Times, Microsoft is expecting the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to oppose the deal, after EU regulators issued their own antitrust warningslast week.Microsoft reportedly believes it can convince EU and UK regulators to accept their concessions and eventually approve the acquisition....