‘It’s like Die Hard but with more comedy’: Immersive FPS Skin Deep has talking cats, banana traps, and enemies you can disable by making them sneeze

Space piracy is a real problem in the future, but luckily there’s a new and exciting loss prevention system to meet the needs of cautious space travelers. That’s where you come in. In Skin Deep, you’re Nina Pasadena, a former assassin turned insurance commando, part of the deluxe insurance package for corporate starships. You’re frozen…

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This open world bicycling game from the developer of Nidhogg is so chill that ‘you don’t really have to do any of the challenges if you don’t want to’

For me, open world games like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption 2 really only peak when I’ve fought my way through the missions and completed the main story and there’s not much left to do except… doing whatever the heck I want. Sometimes that’s making sure I’ve explored every single inch of the…

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‘I think it kind of wouldn’t make sense anymore’: Monster Hunter Wilds is breaking my heart by doing away with its bespoke language voice option, but that doesn’t mean it’s vanished entirely

Something that I have always deeply adored about the Monster Hunter series is the fact that you can play the entire game in its own made up language, sporting the very unornamented name Monster Hunter Language. Well, you could, anyway. Much to my dismay, as Monster Hunter Wilds executive director Kaname Fujioka revealed to me…

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All Totem of Revelations locations in Avowed

Hidden amidst harsh sands and deadly dreamthralls, the Totem of Revelations locations in Avowed‘s third major region of Shatterscarp are much harder to stumble upon than their counterparts in Dawnshore and Emerald Stair. However, the Eyes of the Obscured provides some of the best perks of the bunch, especially for mages, so it’s worth finding…

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Twitch is changing its suspension policy so that violations have an expiry date because the system ‘didn’t acknowledge community members who had learned from their past mistakes’

A recent update to Twitch’s enforcement system saw the process of punishing violations change. Instead of maintaining strikes against your account indefinitely, they will now disappear after various lengths of time to “reduce the risk that streamers lose their communities and livelihoods for low severity violations.” Despite only 4% of active streamers receiving any sort…

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WoW promising 3 expansions with a bunch of roadmap deadlines has, paradoxically, helped its devs slow down and take their time: ‘The team is really energized’

Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere (I wouldn’t blame you, mind) you’re probably aware that World of Warcraft put on its big boots and announced three expansions in 2023. This is downright unprecedented. Even games that plan big, multi-expansion story arcs like Final Fantasy 14 will keep their next expansion tucked under wraps to…

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