Star Trucker is sluggish, frustrating and my favourite Steam Next Fest demo

I’ve always loved Euro and American Truck Simulator, at least conceptually. But I spent too much of my youth stuck in my parents’ car, driving across Europe, to find the series’ purposefully mundane road trips particularly novel. Space, though? That’s a more thrilling—and crucially dangerous—setting, and the source of Star Trucker’s more thrilling journeys.  While…

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The world’s biggest mod site pops the cork on 10 billion downloads and $7 million-worth of payouts: ‘If every download were a footstep, you could walk to the Moon 11 times’

Nexus Mods, the world’s largest mod site and almost certainly a bookmark in your browser if you’ve ever wanted to fiddle with Skyrim, obliterate yourself in Fallout, or annihilate thugs with cans of soft drink, is celebrating a milestone. Specifically, it’s celebrating the fact that the site will today hit 10 billion total file downloads….

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This ‘rustic fantasy’ tabletop RPG couldn’t feel more different to D&D: ‘That sense of the hidden and the spiritual has just been dumped, and we want to bring that back to life’

City of Mist has been one of the biggest breakout hits in tabletop roleplaying in recent years—a unique noir-superhero game about people gaining the powers of the heroes and villains of mythology. Now, after two hit Kickstarters and the release of a whole flood of adventures, supplements, and spin-offs, the creators at small independent studio…

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How to get Acacia in Skull and Bones

Tracking down some Acacia in Skull and Bones is one of the first quests you’ll find yourself undertaking in the open beta. After you escape your shipwreck and arrive in the pirate port of Sainte-Anne, you’ll be tasked with building your very first ship. But in order to construct your pirate vessel, you’re first going…

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Palworld’s latest patch stops its capture chance boosting items making capture chances worse, and prevents your breeding Pals from being sent to a farm upstate forever

If you can cast your mind back to last week, you’ll recall a Palworld bug that saw Lifmunk Effigies, which are supposed to increase your chances of successfully catching Pals, seemingly decreasing those odds instead. It was a minor scandal that saw players pull out their calculators to verify that—yep—their chances of catching Pals while…

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