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Part two of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s big free expansion comes this month, featuring a new mission, injectable magic potions, and… a foldable shovel?
One year on from its rocky launch, co-op shooter Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has been on a bit of an apology tour, making major overhauls of core systems to get the game into a more lovable state. So far it’s been a really successful makeover, and it’s culminated in a big free expansion, The Traitor Curse,…
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Slay the Princess is 2023’s most fascinating horror game, a visual novel that twists itself around every choice you make
The premise of Slay the Princess is immediately intriguing. You’re a hero seeking a captive princess, but as the title suggests, you’re told you must kill her, not rescue her, or else she’ll end the world. She seems like a normal young woman—are you being deceived into committing a cruel murder, or is she truly…
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Finally, a game that combines tower defence, factory automation, and the systematic slaughter of a thousand worms
When you first start Mob Factory, it seems like just a very simple tower defence game. There’s a hole in the ground. Worms come out of it. They follow a clearly marked path towards your castle. You set up crossbow towers, which shoot arrows at the worms, so that they die and don’t reach your…
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Alan Wake 2 review | PC Gamer
Need to Know What is it? A surreal survival horror sequel that also ties into Control and Remedy’s other past games. Release date 27 October 2023 Expect to pay $50/£40Developer Remedy EntertainmentPublisher Epic Games PublishingReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM Steam Deck UnsupportedLink Official site In the first playable…
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Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption is complete, but the future remains murky for CD Projekt
It’s official: Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc is complete. It feels like after three years of flagellation, CD Projekt can finally move on. But I can’t help but think the company’s future is still murky. The Witcher 3 was a masterpiece, firmly establishing CDP’s original studio, CD Projekt Red, as one of the best RPG development…
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Three great Warhammer tabletop RPGs for under $20 is a deal worthy of the Emperor himself
You might raise your eyebrow at me posting about tabletop RPG bundles two days in a row, and I wouldn’t blame you. But I’m afraid I can’t just ignore a deal this good on not one but three great Warhammer RPGs. Humble Bundle’s latest deal includes PDFs of the core books, as well as sourcebooks…
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Arcane is officially canon, and from now on League of Legends lore is going to stop contradicting itself all over the place, say Riot
Riot’s approach to League of Legends lore has always been a bit… flexible. Champion backstories have been repeatedly retconned, and the entire premise of the game has changed a couple of times since launch (remember when it was a literal sport?). More recently, as the Runeterra universe has expanded with books, spin-off games, and the…
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Build your own digital D&D dungeons and let your players explore them in first-person with this clever new tool
[ad_1] As someone who’s been playing tabletop RPGs entirely online ever since the first pandemic lockdown, I’m fascinated by the growth of new platforms and technologies to support that style of play. Digital game aids (such as D&D Beyond) and shared virtual table spaces (such as Roll20) have been around for a while now, but…
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You need to try building your own castles block by block in this brilliant RTS demo
[ad_1] Well, I can now say definitively, if your country comes under siege from an unending horde of mutants, you do not want me building your defences for you. After my sloppy stonework left archers without a clear line of sight to their foe and bomb lobbers stranded on outcroppings as the stairs collapsed behind…
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Deep Rock Galactic’s new Vampire Survivors-inspired spin-off proves everything’s better with dwarves—and you can try it for yourself right now
[ad_1] Even as a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, I didn’t quite get it when a Vampire Survivors-like spin-off was announced. How do you translate the feel of a four player co-op FPS into a singleplayer top-down bullet heaven game? But after just a couple of hours with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor’s new demo,…