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Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead is hard at work on improvements to both the shooter itself and its transparency with players, just as current creative lead Johan Pilestedt promised it would in a grisly Reddit AMA session at the end of April.At the time, Pilestedt told players disappointed with what they felt was infrequent communication from Arrowhead that the team would begin checking in “once every other week” – and the developer has now clocked in right on time with its new “Transmission from Super Earth Command” posted on Steam May 8.Reinforcing Pilestedt’s promise, Arrowhead writes in its update, “Helldivers 2…
Many are those who stray before Vlad the Impaler seeking eternal life as a vampire. Poor, ignorant cattle! Immortality is a goblet of ashes, a bouquet of thorns, an endless stairway among the fading portraits of bygone loves. Besides, you have to solve a bunch of alchemy puzzles first, and if I’m interpreting the announcement materials for Dracula: The Disciple correctly, you might only get halfway there and transform into a normal dude with a gross undead hand.
Windows 11 has been getting criticism from all directions in recent months, thanks to its proliferation of CoPilot AI features, sluggish performance in handhelds relative to the Steam Deck’s SteamOS, and restrictions on basic customization like taskbar placement. However, green shoots are emerging. Following yesterday’s news that Xbox could be ditching CoPilot, today we’re hearing that a new Windows 11 low-latency mode could in the works, potentially giving your gaming PC a lift. Although only rumored at the moment, the new mode is reported to give your Windows 11 system a momentary boost in speed, which should help apps and…
Alabaster Dawn, the follow-up to beloved indie RPG CrossCode, has launched in Steam early access to near universally positive reviews.As someone who deeply enjoyed the Steam demo for Alabaster Dawn and previously said it “might be even better than CrossCode,” this isn’t terribly surprising. Radical Fish Games proved itself an incredibly capable pixel art specialist with CrossCode, itself one of the most highly acclaimed indie RPGs in recent memory, and Alabaster Dawn has long positioned itself as more of the same, but better. According to its Steam reviews, 96% of which are positive at the time of writing, that very…
I first played Family Reunion at Gamescom Latam last week, which in hindsight was a bit of trek, considering the demo is right there on Itch and Steam. It’s good fun, though: a unique and chaotic time-attack adventure game, in which you play a disinterested child forced to entertain themselves throughout an interminable family meal, and rendered in the hand-doodled style that we all have before we learn how to properly hold a pen.
It’s no secret that extraction shooters are the hot new thing in gaming. Arc Raiders was an out-of-nowhere smash hit, and Escape From Tarkov continues to put up decent numbers on Steam, despite the majority of its playerbase being on the standalone client. Everyone wants to put their possessions in jeopardy while dodging gunfire; even Krafton, the makers of PUBG are getting in on the act. Black Budget is an extraction shooter in the vein of Tarkov, although decidedly more supernatural and less gritty warzone. That isn’t to say Black Budget skimps on the realism – it is a PUBG…
Leon Must Die Forever is the long-awaited free update to Resident Evil: Requiem, and there’s a lot to learn.RE9’s promised story DLC might be some time away, but Leon Must Die Forever is here to fill the gap until then. Similar to Resident Evil 7’s Ethan Must Die mode, Leon Must Die Forever takes Leon S. Kennedy through multiple areas from the main game, linked together with red doors.Your run will conclude with a boss fight or two, and you need to ensure you’re ready for the fight by the time you get there, or you’ll be sent back to…
Sony’s latest financial report is in, and would you believe it? The company is keen to tell investors just how much its business is going to be improved by AI. PlayStation is just one part of the larger Sony business, but sluggish PS5 sales and big losses around Marathon and Bungie are having their effects. Don’t worry, though – PlayStation’s investment in AI is going to make it all better, and we’ve gotten some specifics about how the tech is being used in games like Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.”At PlayStation, our goal is always to be the best place to…
This week the former Zachtronics folk of Coincidence released U.V.S. Nirmana, a new “Zach-like” puzzler that has fairly spaghettified my synapses, despite being billed as “medium-difficulty”. It puts you in charge of a monastic spacecraft embarked on a pilgrimage through the galaxy, steeped in references to Dharmic religions. During your voyages, you’ll help other civilisations with their philosophical dilemmas using a cosmic reactor that functions like a music sequencer. You’ll join up pipes and components to resolve relationships between terms like “form”, “amen” and “svaha”, doing your best to minimise “flux”. Playing the opening few puzzles, I felt…
There’s still no end date yet, but I’m really starting to believe. A new Skywind video just gave us a fresh look at the fan project rebuilding the entirety of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind inside the modern Skyrim engine. Inspired by the “creative risks” of the Bethesda original, which was made as a last-ditch effort but won enough acclaim to springboard the series into Oblivion and Skyrim, it imagines how the groundbreaking RPG might have looked if it was built using the technology of the latest installment. As the first full progress check-in since its 2024 reveals, it’s come…