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[ad_1]  Yesterday, at Sony’s State of Play presentation, we got a deeper look at Suicide Squad and such thrilling features as:    A loot system, complete with ‘gear score’ and set bonuses.   Upgrade and crafting systems.   A battle pass.   Giant, glowing weak points on everything, including a tank.  A guy whose entire shtick is boomerangs…

[ad_1] Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened—a new entry in the long-running series, which pits the iconic detective against Lovecraftian weirdness—has been delayed “to March, or April at the latest”. The accompanying video (opens in new tab) by Ukrainian developer Frogwares paints a bleak picture of daily life in the country. “Had a busy day at work…

[ad_1] NEED TO KNOW  What is it? A roguelike third-person shooter with a strong bullet hell lineage.  Expect to pay: £50 / $60 Developer: Housemarque Publisher: PlayStation PC  Reviewed on: 64-bit Windows 10, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM Multiplayer: Co-op only Link: Steam page (opens in new tab) In 1996,…

[ad_1]  After a year hiding in shadow—that is, in Early Access as an Epic exclusive—Darkest Dungeon 2 is almost ready to emerge to terrorise innocent PC gamers. On May 8th, it’ll be launching its full 1.0 release, and in the meantime a free demo is available now on both Steam (opens in new tab) and…

[ad_1] After 20 years and nine Sherlock Holmes games, Frogwares, a Ukrainian studio based in Kyiv, has established itself as the undisputed champions of making games about one of literature’s stuffiest Englishmen. The course of the Sherlock Holmes series hasn’t always run smooth, but that’s never stopped Frogwares’s developers. It may be that nothing can…

[ad_1] As the first of four planned DLCs for Marvel’s Midnight Suns, The Good, The Bad, and The Undead has a stage to set and expectations to manage. I’m not sure Deadpool was the right character to help facilitate that, but even putting the divisive hero aside, there’s a flimsiness to this expansion that doesn’t…

[ad_1]  Despite a damage-controlling apology (opens in new tab) from Wizards of the Coast in the wake of the disastrous reception to their planned update to the Open Gaming License (opens in new tab), the conversation is very much not over. The company hasn’t actually backed off from its plans for the OGL, instead moving…

[ad_1] Risen comes out next week, on January 24. It’s a rough-around-the-edges and unforgiving, yet deeply immersive and interesting RPG, that also happens to have already come out 14 years ago. Re-releases aren’t exactly unusual these days, but something intrigued me about this one. It’s not a remaster, or a remake—it’s just a port to…

[ad_1] I’ve been playing digital card games almost every day for probably a decade now. For the last few years, that’s meant regular games of Legends of Runeterra. Before that, I was obsessed with Hearthstone, then Gwent. More recently, Marvel Snap has lured me in. So here’s a confession: I still don’t like deck-building. I…

[ad_1] Chad Stahelski, stuntman and director of all four John Wick movies, will be taking a break from his Keanu-packed schedule to make a Rainbow Six movie. Called Rainbow, it’ll be based not on any of the recent games, but on the original Tom Clancy novel.  That is the same story the first Rainbow Six…