To celebrate the imminent launch of a new Styx adventure, Epic is giving away Cyanide’s last two goblin-flavoured stealth games for free

Remember Styx? Cyanide Studios’ horrible goblin was the hottest stealth game protagonist of the early 2010s. By this I mean he was the only stealth game protagonist of the early 2010s, as bona-fide sneaking games were vanishingly rare. Then Hitman returned from the dead, and everybody forgot about Styx for a while. But the fast-talking,…

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The sequel to isometric mech sim Brigador gives off serious Syndicate vibes in its latest footage, and you can play its alpha version right now

Isometric mech sim Brigador is 10 years old this year—a fact that kicked me right in the mortality given that I was certain it only came out a few years ago. The original version of Stellar Jockeys’ shoot ’em up was a decent, if flawed affair. But the developer spent the next year overhauling the…

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Ambitious The Witcher 3 restoration mod adds yet more cut dialogue to the game, including a new Yennefer romance scene and extra choices for its most famous quest

With nearly half a million words in its script and 950 speaking roles to voice them, one thing The Witcher 3 isn’t short of is dialogue. Yet like any properly edited work of fiction, there were originally a lot more words in CD Projekt’s brilliant RPG. Hundreds of cut voice lines lurk within The Witcher…

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Hytale console commands to give yourself any item, teleport around the map, and swap between game modes

Whether you’re playing alone or managing a server online with friends, tinkering with Hytale console commands takes the charming Minecraft-like sandbox and turns it into the perfect playground for your most creative ideas. They’re easy to use, albeit a little hard to parse with so many modes and early access growing pains. There are no…

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