Real-life rally racing is dying and triple-A rally games are dead, but the sport’s gotten a second life thanks to these excellent indie racers

The sport of rally racing is simple and accessible: you take a cheap city car, give it some all-terrain tires, and throw it down a hair-raising man-versus-nature gauntlet of winding dirt roads with a copilot shouting directions in your ear. There are no laps, no other drivers, and no pit stops. Unfortunately for fans, there’s…

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The Outer Worlds 2 director offers the most sympathetic answer I’ve yet heard for the $80 game question: ‘We don’t set the prices for our games,’ and ‘You’d have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks’

First reported by GamesRadar, The Outer Worlds 2 director Brandon Adler had the most reasonable and sympathetic developer-side explanation I’ve yet heard for a game’s $80 price tag: Sorry, but it wasn’t my call. GamesRadar asked Adler about The Outer Worlds 2’s retail price at last week’s Summer Game Fest. “We’re a game developer. We…

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This massive mod for Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord not only converts it to Sengoku-era Japan, it adds fully simulated naval battles months ahead of the base game

Shokuho is hardly the first mod to adapt TaleWorlds’ Mount & Blade series to a new era of history. Mount & Blade: Warband’s startling array of total conversions practically let you command armies anywhere and, indeed, anywhen in the world. Yet not only is Shokuho a total conversion for the slightly less well-served Mount &…

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Two Point Museum’s latest update adds memorial exhibits for staff who vanish on expeditions, which you can put on display or sell for cold, hard profit

It may not have caught the same attention as Clair Obscur or Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, but Two Point Museum is quietly one of the best games released this year. Two Point Studio’s latest management sim is comfortably its best yet, and a game that nudges the genre forward in small but meaningful ways. A…

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Satisfactory’s biggest patch since launch makes it friendlier for Steam Deck players: ‘It’s no exaggeration to say this update includes more than a year’s worth of work’

I’ve adored what I’ve played of Satisfactory, but I’ve held off on delving too deeply into Coffee Stain’s extraordinary automation extravaganza. See, I know that it’s going to obliterate my social life for at least a month, because that’s what factory sims do. Hence, it only seems fair that I bring my partner on that…

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Oil rig horror game Still Wakes the Deep is going underwater in a surprise story expansion that arrives next week

It’s a scientifically proven fact that nothing good ever happens underwater, and that’s especially true in videogames. Subnautica, SOMA, Barotrauma, Iron Lung, the list goes on: Basically, if you’re in a videogame and you’re underwater, you’re in for a bad time. Which brings us to Siren’s Rest, the newly announced DLC for The Chinese Room’s…

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