Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn’t safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore

Players new to Dune: Awakening should watch their backs in the Hagga Basin starting area—or risk getting swallowed by a sandworm thanks to griefers. After the Dune: Awakening devs significantly increased the PVE area in the Deep Desert region last month, rowdy players looking for more unsuspecting targets have relocated to the PVE, beginner-friendly Hagga…

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Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: ‘It’s not just a new feature or two. It’s a full rework’

City-building smash hit Manor Lords received relatively frequent updates after it launched into early access last year, but the pace of patches has slowed considerably since the start of 2025. While there have been plenty of previews for new features planned by developer Slavic Magic, actual, tangible changes to the game are thin on the…

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Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers

I haven’t paid much mind to Teardown since it was released back in 2022, so I was surprised to see what a strong run of post-release support the destruction-focused heist sim has received in the last three years. Over that time, a featured mods menu, a creative mode, new mini-campaigns, and a third-person camera have…

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RoboCop: Rogue City’s expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I’m more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9

I mostly enjoyed RoboCop: Rogue City when it launched in 2023, by far the best of developer Teyon’s roster of licensed shooters based on classic ’80s action films. It did have one amusing problem as an FPS though, namely that RoboCop’s signature Auto 9 was so good it made virtually every other available weapon redundant….

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