In this new medieval city builder that launched on Steam today, build a sprawling town with the help of companions who level up and train their own apprentices

There’s a familiar start to City Tales: Medieval Era, a new city builder that launched on Steam today. You’ve got a few citizens that need housing and food and work, so you place a wood cutter’s camp near the trees, a gathering station near a berry patch, and a hunter’s cabin in the woods: stuff…

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IO Interactive’s upcoming MindsEye system requirements recommend an RTX 4070 or above, which makes my new rig want to cry

Despite the game launching on June 10, in just a few weeks, we have only just received the MindsEye system requirements. Designed with developer Build a Rocket Boy’s Unreal Engine 5 creation system, Everywhere, it’s effectively a proof of concept that allows players to remix and create content to build new games, modes, maps, and…

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Remedy director says that FBC: Firebreak ‘respects player time’ instead of relying on FOMO, which has ‘infected modern games’

FBC: Firebreak is Remedy’s upcoming chaotic co-op shooter / Control spin-off. I was already invested in it thanks to Robin Valentine’s FBC: Firebreak preview, which talked about all the hilarious and treacherous times to be expected, but after hearing what Remedy Director Mike Kayatta has to say about the studio’s approach to this game, I’m…

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CDPR boss says Witcher author Sapkowski’s grumpiness is a ‘persona,’ he’s actually lovely and the studio’s ‘updating everything’ to make sure they respect his lore

There are two things I know about Andrzej Sapkowski: he wrote (and continues to write) the original Witcher novels, and he’s a legendary grump. In fact, if I search our own website for the author’s name, I find stories about him advising young writers to instead learn something “That makes money” like PC repair, saying…

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NZXT H3 Flow case review

Case aficionados rejoice; we’ve been graced with not one but two new chassis launches from NZXT, side-by-side, and they couldn’t be any more different from one another if they tried. On the one hand, you have the big, bold, redefined, redesigned NZXT H9 Flow RGB+, complete with exhaustive 420 mm fan setups, plenty of mesh,…

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‘That magic is back’: Peter Molyneux really wants you to know he’s not hyping Masters of Albion, while name-dropping Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable

I’ve kinda turned around on Peter Molyneux. The man cannot stop over-hyping and over-promising, and it makes it hard to trust anything he says—especially after the Curiosity and Godus fiascos—but increasingly I feel like he’s just the sort of person who dreams big and can’t contain their excitement, even when it’s only going to lead…

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