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We got our first look at Mouse back in May, and it was immediately intriguing: How could you not be at least a little curious about an M-rated FPS with a visual style clipped straight out of 1930s Disney animations? It was very barebones at the time, just some concept art and early animation clips,…
The Day Before was one of the most-wishlisted games on Steam before it came out in early access last week. Players flooded into the servers—over 38,000 were playing concurrently at its peak—but very quickly began flowing out, either because they were unable to connect to the servers, which featured no login queues, struggled with crashes…
We weren’t terribly surprised to see early access zombie survival game The Day Before crash and burn, but the speed with which it fell apart—a mere four days between the game’s disastrous launch and developer Fntastic closing—was a bit of a shock. I’m not a particular fan of grave-dancing about a failed game and a…
Need to know What is it? A Far Cry-like set in the world of James Cameron’s Avatar Release date December 6, 2023 Expect to pay $60/£50 Developer Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Düsseldorf Publisher Ubisoft Reviewed on Radeon RX 6600, Ryzen 7 7700x, 32GB DDR5 RAM Steam Deck TBA Link Official site Avatar: Frontiers of…
Bethesda says some big changes are coming to Starfield in 2024 including ongoing quest fixes, support for FSR3 and XeSS, and—this is the big one—”all new ways of travelling” on your journey through the stars. A small new update rolled out for Starfield today that fixes a crash issue during saves, clears up a problem…
The long-running lawsuit between Epic and Google has taken a surprising turn because, well, Epic seems to have won. After a brief deliberation, a jury has decided that Google has in fact engaged in anti-competitive behavior in order to establish a monopoly on Android app distribution and billing services. The full verdict, available via CourtListener,…
Hasbro, the toy company which oversees D&D and Magic: The Gathering (under Wizards of the Coast), has announced sweeping layoffs just two weeks before the holiday season. The decision was announced yesterday in an internal memo by CEO Chris Cocks, who wrote: “While we have made some important progress across our organisation, the headwinds we…
Need to know What is it? A casual building sim about restoring houses and selling them for profit. Expect to pay $40/£35 Release date Dec 14, 2023 Developer Frozen District, Empyrean Publisher Frozen District, PlayWay S.A. Reviewed on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060 Steam Deck TBD Link Official site You can see…
Need to know What is it? Survival management plus pausable RTS Release date Out now Expect to pay $40/£35 Developer Ashborne Games Publisher THQ Nordic Reviewed on Radeon RX 6800 XT, Ryzen 9 5900, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Playable Link Official site Last Train Home is an engaging military management game and tactical RTS that…
Given Remedy’s preoccupation with looping stories in Alan Wake 2, it feels particularly fitting that the game now has a New Game Plus mode. Just as Alan himself is trapped experiencing the same events over and over, now you too can pretend you’re in the Dark Place by turning the year’s best horror game into…