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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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, June 14

Let us help you win Saturday’s Wordle, your way. Today’s answer is waiting below if you just like the idea of seeing five green letters pop up in an instant, and the June 14 (1456) hint’s happy to help if you’d rather take your time and see how you get on (while still knowing you’ve…

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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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Out of Words features one of the cutest videogame characters I’ve ever seen, but there’s a tinge of Kafkaesque darkness to it, too

(Image credit: Kong Orange, WiredFly) After yapping about nothing but videogames for three days at Summer Game Fest, I tried my best to talk about anything else, but I just couldn’t stop bringing up Out of Words. It’s a sidescrolling tale of young love brought to life by a charming handicraft world and striking stop-motion…

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Say goodbye to Overwatch hero Bastion and say hello to next season’s Cooler Bastion who will be 10% smaller because he was such a bullet magnet

In order to save Overwatch’s friendly neighborhood robot Bastion from getting demolished every time he steps out of cover, hero designer Scott Kennedy made an unusual suggestion: shrink him. Smaller targets are harder to hit and that could be all it takes to keep him alive a little longer. After some internal testing, the decision…

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