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New party game Task Time promises ‘unlimited chaos’ with over 500,000 task variations and the instruction to ‘do what it takes’ to win

Does it ever feel like videogames just have you completing random tasks? In Task Time, that’s the whole point. From developer ReadGraves, whose staff includes Fall Guys and Gang Beasts developers, comes a party game that promises more than 500,000 task variations for you and your friends to do. Revealed today for the first time…

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Don’t lie: You’ve always wanted to be a djent-fueled shapeshifting robot samurai, and Morbid Metal’s imminent playtest will finally deliver the goods

Morbid Metal looks over the top even among character action games. You play as not one cyberninja, but three (which I guess makes this a characters action game), and when PC Gamer news writer Elie Gould checked out a preview build at Gamescom, they said their expectations were “blown out of the water within the…

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D-topia is about a city where ‘life is curated by artificial intelligence to maximize happiness,’ which actually sounds like something the tech industry is on the verge of pitching

Do you ever wonder how those utopian sci-fi societies in the movies are actually managed? Sure, everyone’s needs are met and robots do all the cleaning, but what happens if a robot breaks down? Does another robot fix it? In D-topia, you play as a Facilitator who helps an AI run the perfect city. Residents…

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If the average JRPG moves too slowly for you, keep an eye on Threads of Time, which gets through 12 million years and an apocalypse in one campaign

It’s been a firecracker year for JRPGs between the return of Trails in the Sky, the acclaimed Expedition 33, and the imminent remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics. It seems that the hype will keep flowing for genre fans of all stripes, assuming Threads of Time—which popped in with a new trailer at today’s PC Gaming…

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