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Whether you’re a hardened, embattled League of Legends player or a hardcore Europa Universalis enthusiast, sometimes you just need a little bit of cozy. City Tales scratches that itch, with its cartoon aesthetic and more relaxed approach to strategy giving you the Manor Lords experience without the grit. Perhaps the most exciting addition for me is the new Fluffy Companions DLC. Yes, you can now own another virtual pupper: congratulations! If you’re unfamiliar with City Tales, the premise is pretty simple. You build your own medieval hamlet, watch it grow, and manage your people. With nine skilled companions to help…
Marathon is a greatest hits of '90s futurism, according to Bungie lead, who says the shooter was "deeply inspired" by wild PlayStation ads and "translucent DualShocks"
If it were a person, Marathon seems like it would spend the most time out of its house after 1AM. Its characters wear chunky, neon helmets that make them look like grasshoppers at Coachella, and its official music is all electronica that would sound better in a humid basement, because, according to Bungie global franchise director Philip Asher, the upcoming extraction shooter is largely influenced by late ’90s debauchery.He says so in a Twitter exchange with Michael Douse, publishing director at Larian, which is currently working on Divinity. That series is more concerned with the kind of debauchery that happened…
If you think Hytale and Minecraft are too easy, this underloved sandbox survival game will truly test your mettle
It’s hard to imagine a time when Minecraft, a sandbox game that now features crossover content with Star Wars and Hello Kitty, or offers ‘happy Ghasts’ as a mob, was scary. I remember back when I was 11 playing it on an old PC with fog covering the in-game map, where broken world generation wasn’t a bug but a leftover artifact of whoever came before me. It was deeply creepy in a way that no horror mod can ever truly replicate. I had an unreal fear of encountering Herobrine, as the Minecraft forums would scatter the name and heighten the…
Whistle director says he's "never known chemistry" like Sophie Nelisse and Dafne Keen's in the new queer supernatural horror: "It worked so perfectly"
New horror movie Whistle may give the Final Destination franchise a run for its money when it comes to elaborate death scenes, but it’s not all blood and guts. So much so in fact, director Corin Hardy describes the scary flick as The Ring meets The Breakfast Club, as it sneaks a genuinely heart-warming romance in amongst all the gooey, gory terror.Written by Owen Egerton (Mercy Black), it follows Chrys (Marvel’s Dafne Keen), as she moves in with her cousin following the death of her father. It doesn’t take long for her to catch the attention of sweet student Ellie…
One of our favorite strategy sims adds mod support, and I can finally build a flight path to Rivendell
If you could book a flight to anywhere in the world, where would you go? Now expand that to anywhere in your imagination. I’d choose Rivendell. I can’t imagine how restorative it would be to just go and chill with Elrond and his mates on a weekend, the stresses of the working week fading into obscurity as you dine on fine cuisine and listen to gentle lyre-music. Well, you can do that now. Kind of. Hit transport sim-slash-strategy game Worldwide Rush has added mod support in its latest update, and it’s only a matter of time before someone adds my…
The Elder Scrolls fans fire back at Skyrim lead's fightin' words: Morrowind "manages to hold up better than Skyrim" and Oblivion's Attribute system was great, actually
When former Bethesda dev and Skyrim lead Bruce Nesmith said, in so many words, that Morrowind is outdated and Skyrim is refreshingly streamlined, I don’t think he meant to ignite a feud within the fandom of one of the most beloved RPG series in video games, but boy has he. Recent comments on the direction of the series – from, let’s be clear, a veteran designer with clear respect for the IP – stoked fierce defense of what The Elder Scrolls has been in the past, and underneath some dramatic reactions is an interesting design discussion.Nesmith told Press Box that…
Team Fortress 2 Classified is out now on Steam, the mod having finally earned Valve’s blessing after a bit of a tizzy with its former name of Team Fortress 2 Classic. That makes it an easy one-click job to install, assuming you have the original TF2 installed, and it’s a fine piece of modding work in general: inspired by the shooter’s past without being beholden to nostalgia, while expanding itself with restored modes and weapons that Valve left on the cutting room floor. Wisely, Team Fortress 2 Classified doesn’t drag itself all the way back to TF2’s very earliest days,…
This Skyrim mod turns it into a "multiverse" of Dragonborns, and now I'm praying for something similar in Elder Scrolls 6
While you can of course be accompanied on your adventures by NPC companions, Skyrim remains a firmly single-player affair. Just you, a solitary Dragonborn with the fate of a region on your shoulders. There’s a lot of merit to that – it puts pressure upon you to do the right thing, as you’re seemingly this world’s only hope. But what if there were others like you out there, all working towards the same goal? And what if you could see the traces of their journeys? Lumis, a Skyrim mod that aims to bring some “passive multiplayer” magic to the game,…
Nioh 3 could end up being released on other consoles as soon as this summer, according to small print spotted on a PlayStation trailer.The Nioh series has always been exclusive to PlayStation and PC, with Team Ninja never releasing them on any other consoles.However, Nioh 3 – which will be released on PS5 and PC on February 6 – could eventually break this trend.That’s according to a new trailer released on the official PlayStation YouTube channel, which details some of the game’s features.As spotted by TheGamer, the trailer ends with small print which states that the game’s PS5 console exclusivity…
To get Arc Resin in Arc Raiders you’ll need to take on some Arcs. Or, if you’re lucky, find some that have already been defeated. The question is, which ones? Usually you’re trying to avoid a fight to stay alive, so if you are going to start something you want to make sure it’s with the right thing, as not every Arc will have synthetic resin on it when defeated. There are also some way, way easier options to go after, so here’s what you’re looking for. If you’re trying to get the 10(!) you need for the Arc Raiders…