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The stars have not aligned The news arrived via atweetthis afternoon, with Bethesda stating, “The teams at Arkane Austin (Redfall) and Bethesda Games Studios (Starfield) have incredible ambitions for their games, and we want to ensure that you receive the best, most polished versions of them” when they release. “We want to thank everyone for their excitement for Redfall and Starfield. That energy is a huge part of what inspires all of us every day and drives our own excitement for what we are creating....

Custom settings for this game, and that game, and oh yes that game too Steam Decksoftware updates continue to refine Valve’s handheld PC. This time, the big new feature is the ability to create per-game performance profiles, which let you pick and choose from the Deck’s toy chest of power and battery-saving settings and apply your tailored configuration to a specific game at a time. You can then switch between games without having to manually re-adjust those settings every time you play something different....

Alongside a new free patch Stellaris’sOverlordexpansion is out now, jamming the vast scifi grand strategy game even fuller with megastructures, story events and - as is Paradox’s wont - more vassals. Overlord aims to offer more control over your empires, both to let you shape them in more specific ways and also to generate more anecdotes when it all goes wrong. As always, the expansion also releasing alongside a new free patch with balance fixes and bux fixes for all....

Plus a new look at it’s art Here’s the full livestream, should you want to know more about how many graphics this remake has versus the original: The original Dead Space launched back in 2008 and was a gruesome action horror game set aboard a spaceship overrun by many-limbed Necromorphs. You, as engineer Isaac Clarke, were luckily armed with a laser cutting device with which to slice off those limbs. It was interesting and scary and well-scoped, and difficult enough to jam microtransactions into that EA rapidly led the series astray across its two sequels....

The pen is mightier than the gun We’re going macro this week, so we’re talking about the best writing in video games. This is a very broad topic for discussion, so that means I also get to say ‘ludonarrative dissonance’ (we also describe ‘ludonarrative harmony’ as its opposite). Please don’t let this put you off, though, because we do talk about some bloody well good games. The times being what they are, though, results in us having a long discussion of patter theft, because some dreadful American (we assume) stole the “It’s me, Blorko!...

Here’s the answer to Wordle #328 Oh, I see! You’re not interested in the working out part. Or maybe you’ve already done that part yourself, and just need a reminder of what today’s word was. Well either way, below you’ll find out the answer to today’sWordle. For those who are struggling, you might want to take a look at our hints for today’s Wordle solution to see if you can work it out yourself before checking the answer....

Weekly free Primogems and item drops for players up until the next version launches The next update for free-to-play professional Breath Of The Wild impersonatorGenshin Impacthas been delayed, but developers MiHoYo have promised to hand out ‘compensation’ starting from today. MiHoYo announced the delay onTwitterlast week due to “project progress”, but promised to issue Travelers with complimentary goodies every week until the launch of update 2.7. They don’t clarify when that update will be though....

Crossing you in style someday, just not today Loot River, the pixely roguelike with a bit of Souls and a bit of Tetris, is all about making multiple attempts to navigate weird dungeons made of moving platforms, before dying and starting again. It’s one of those games that’s perfect for Game Pass, at least in its current form, but that’s going to be changing in a small bit, according toa postdevs Straka Studio made yesterday....

Modular inputs are designed for work and games alike Microsoft have expanded their array ofaccessibility-focused PC hardware with the Adaptive Accessories range. Unveiled during yesterday’sMicrosoft Ability Summit, the set comprises three devices - the Adaptive Mouse, the Adaptive Button, and the Adaptive Hub – that aim to make games and apps more usable for anyone, by allowing themselves to be customised with 3D-printed attachments. Each Adaptive Button, for instance, can turn into a big D-pad, or a joystick controller, or just a pair of two chunky buttons....

Elder Dragon Malzeno wants to suck your blood Capcom have unveiled more deets about their upcoming beast-laden expansionMonster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, including a closer look at its new big bad Elder Dragon Malzeno.Monster Hunterseries producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and Sunbreak director Yoshitake Suzuki also debuted three more monsters you’ll be meeting in the expansion during their latestdigital broadcast, along with its new Switch Skill Swap ability and Follower Quests. As a Monster Hunter greenhorn, I have to say that Malzeno does not look like a dragon I’d like to idly tussle with....

Free wieldin’ Just a few days ago, the expected release ofSongs Of Conquestturned into the expected release of Songs Of Conquest into early access. There are times when such a pivot might dramatically change the angle you’d need to review a game from. This isn’t really one of those times, because I think I’d be recommending Songs Of Conquest overall as it is anyway. Giving it an estimated year for Lavapotion to “figure out, together with the community, what features we should prioritize” could well push me into a wholehearted endorsement, though....

Too many tentacles Source Of Madnessis a side-scrolling roguelite set in a Lovecraftian setting populated by twisted Bamzooki. And it’s a world where everything been procedurally generated with the help of machine learning. This makes for some fabulous, gloomy aesthetics and tormented beasts, but also means it’s a messy roguelite with a loop that leads more to frustration than anything else. Source Of Madness looks at all the roguelites saturating the marketplace and it says, “Heh, you callthatprocedural generation?...

New sniper and stealthy characters shown on Slitherine’s Home Of Wargamers stream Creative Forge’s sci-fi real-time tactics gameStargate: Timekeepersis aiming to launch a public beta to coincide with its TV inspiration Stargate SG1’s 25th anniversary in July. Senior producer Neil McKenna pencilled in the timeframe at publisher Slitherine’s Home Of Wargamers event yesterday, while showing more new characters and gameplay from later in the campaign than when the gamewas last seenin December....