Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap

Need to know What is it? A co-op roguelite tower defense/third-person shooter hybrid.Release date: January 28, 2025Developer: Robot EntertainmentPublisher: Robot EntertainmentReviewed on: Windows 11, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Intel Core i7-12700F, 16GB RAMSteam Deck: PlayableMultiplayer?: YesLink: Official site If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That mantra could apply to horde shooters in general—demonstrating…

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Microsoft wants to ‘recruit your squad’ in the latest unbidden Game Pass ad on your Windows Settings homepage. Also, it might crash

The latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build (22635.4805) has been rolling out for some, and Microsoft’s blog proudly lists the changes. Among them is the announcement that Game Pass Ultimate and regular Game Pass subscribers will see a new card on the Settings homepage encouraging you to share a 14-day free trial of PC Game…

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Swamped with 1,500+ LinkedIn invitations in 24 hours, the manager at Palworld’s new publishing arm ‘underestimated how much interest there would be’

Palworld’s developer Pocketpair, not being slowed down by Nintendo’s lawsuit, has gone and opened a publishing arm. Pocketpair Publishing, which already has a horror game made by Surgent Studios in the works, is up, running, and taking inquiries. The studio’s publishing manager and communications director, who goes by Bucky, recently posted to X that things…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, January 27

Make sure you use our Wordle tips to help you fine-tune your guesses for the January 27 (1318) puzzle, or take a quick look at Monday’s clue if you’d like a more direct hint. Don’t panic if those green letters still haven’t turned up either, because today’s answer is waiting below just for you. I…

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Avowed’s newly-revealed character creation backgrounds tripped my RPG sicko radar, offering funky fantasies like ‘Noble Scion,’ ‘Court Augur,’ and ‘Vanguard Scout’

First spotted by TheGamer, in a recent thread on X, “The Everything App,” Obsidian showed off the character creator for its upcoming first person RPG, Avowed. In addition to demonstrating the gamut of appearance options like rainbow hair or mushroom frills, Obsidian also revealed all five potential character backgrounds coming to the game: Arcane Scholar…

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Nvidia is winding down developer support for 9 and 10-series graphics cards, but they’ll likely keep getting driver updates for a while yet

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, the patch notes for the latest update to Nvidia’s CUDA Toolkit state that support for the Maxwell and Pascall architectures⁠—GTX 9 and 10-series cards⁠—will be deprecated in an upcoming update. Those cards will still be getting GeForce driver updates, and while Nvidia has not yet announced for how long, we…

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Firaxis celebrates Civilization 7’s launch with the Civ World Summit, a live streamed five-way strategy showdown with ‘an exciting announcement’ planned

We’re weeks away from the launch of Civilization VII, officially PC Gamer’s Most Wanted game of 2025. We all intend to celebrate the game’s release in our own way. Personally, I’m thinking about conquering a small nation. Luxembourg perhaps, or possibly Andorra. Firaxis’ own plans for marking the occasion are less megalomaniacal, though conquest will…

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Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes ‘some pretty big changes’ to the game’s enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam

Hyper Light Breaker, Heart Machine’s 3D follow-up to moody action-adventure Hyper Light Drifter, smashed into Steam early access earlier this month. But the initial response to it has been less than stellar, with players complaining about specific issues like frame rate drops, lack of keybinding, and problems with the parry system, while generally being divided…

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