Beloved puzzle game Baba is You is back with another weirdo spinoff: Mobile Suit Baba, which puts the titular star and friends in giant mecha versions of themselves to engage in tactical, turn-based puzzles all about predicting how enemies move, knock them around, and in true Baba is You fashion change the fundamental rules of…
Dinosaur survival game remaster Ark: Survival Ascended will get massive improvements to its development kit this month, letting modders do much more than they can now. Developers Studio Wildcard have also announced a release window and date for delayed expansion maps The Center, by the end of February, and Scorched Earth on April 1st. This…
Cities: Skylines 2 was not in great shape when it launched in 2023. The underlying game was quite good but it was plagued with performance problems and missing a number of features, most notably an editor. That sparked a quick backlash on Steam, visible in the “mixed” user rating, but it also kicked off what…
Dieselpunk city builder New Cycle will release this week on January 18, 2024, challenging you as the leader of a band of survivors trying to rebuild Earth’s civilization following a series of devastating solar storms that obliterate our societal and technological infrastructure. The Early Access release from developer Core Engage and publisher Daedalic Entertainment will…
Long-running strategy series Dominions gets a new entry this week, as Dominions 6: Rise of the Pantokrator will launch on January 17, 2024. The Dominions series has players take on the role of a powerful demigod-creature attempting to become the next god of gods, the Pantokrator. The deep, complex strategy games are known for their…
Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller has apologized for last week’s announcement of upcoming changes that will grant every tank and DPS hero a self-healing ability, saying that there’s a whole host of changes coming to the game in season 9 and talking about this one out of context “was a mistake.” The upcoming addition…
In February 2022, a group of CD Projekt veterans headed up by Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz announced the launch of a new studio called Rebel Wolves and teased its first project with a bit of concept art that Rich Stanton said gave him “strong vampire vibes.” Today, two years later, the studio finally dropped…
Trade-off. UK retailer GAME will reportedly be refusing physical video game trade-ins from February 2024. This news comes from Eurogamer, which has spoken to numerous staff across multiple branches of the county’s largest video game retailer. GAME has yet to make an official announcement to the public, but multiple staff working for the company have…
Bouncing back after a quieter opening. After Ubisoft admitted to being “disappointed” by the launch sales of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope last year, it looks like the sleeper sequel’s luck has been somewhat on the turn in the ensuing period. A new report from VGC claims that Mario’s tactical follow-up is, in fact,…