Sample Frostpunk 2’s New Sandbox Mode with the New Beta, Available Now Through April 22

Terrifying horror nopefest Phasmophobia combined with immersive room lighting looks like an easy way to give yourself a chronic case of the brown trousers

I’ve been around this game long enough now to have sat through many immersive gaming experiences. VR headsets, racing wheels, game-synced RGB room lighting, bum-rumblers, the lot. But there’s inevitably a point where all this gear transitions from a gameplay-enhancing experience booster into something genuinely terrifying, and I think TikTok user Idaxix may have found…

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Russian politician calls for Call of Duty ban and home-grown alternative because ‘you’re almost always shooting at Russian soldiers’ in the Modern Warfare games

The Russian government is prepared to support the development of a homegrown military shooter akin to Call of Duty through measures including reduced corporate tax rates and insurance premiums for developers who make it. Confirmation of those potential incentives comes a month after a Russian lawmaker called for a ban on the Call of Duty…

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Our best RPG of 2024 is half off in the Lunar New Year sale, as are the adventures of Charlie Tunoku and countless other Sega series

If videogames are about anything, it’s solving deep-rooted and overdetermined social problems by hitting them really hard and also sometimes magic. And few games have ever videogamed harder in that regard than Metaphor: ReFantazio, Atlus’ polychromatic RPG from 2024 that puts you in the shoes of a young man on a quest to defeat racism…

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Mortal Kombat 1 review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? The latest entry in the long-running hyper-violent fighting game series. Release date September 19, 2023 Expect to pay £60 / $70 Developer NetherRealm Studios, QLOC Publisher Warner Bros Reviewed on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 Steam Deck Verified Link Official site  Few long-running series…

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‘We hear you’: RoadCraft dev will address early negative feedback with hotfixes, free new vehicles, and a ‘Hard Mode’ with systems like fuel management

The early reception for RoadCraft, the new driving sim from the developer of MudRunner and SnowRunner, was—like the washed-out roads of the game itself—a bit rocky. Day one “Mixed” reviews on Steam have improved the more players get their hands on it, and it’s now sporting a 71% “Mostly Positive” score—but not everyone is loving…

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