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Arc Raiders’ Cold Snap event will turn ‘every raid into a high-stakes survival run’ as frostbite drives players into what little shelter remains

The next big event on Arc Raiders’ calendar is a snow day. Dubbed the Cold Snap, this limited-time event introduces the new Snowfall map condition for Topside locations, turning once lush regions like Dam Battlegrounds, Spaceport, Buried City and Blue Gate into a frozen hell. “The update continues the game’s strong momentum with a limited-time…

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Darktide’s first DLC class gets a cybernetic dog who is a very good boy, and will arrive alongside a free update that structures missions in a campaign at long last

What’s better than being Judge Dredd? Being Judge Dredd with a pet robodog. Darktide’s first DLC class is the arbitrator, who enforces the Lex Imperialis with shotgun and shock maul. Or assault shield and shotpistol. And grenades and shock mines, and a flying loudspeaker drone called the nuncio aquila that barks commands and insults. But…

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Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should ‘scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need’

The future of BioWare has never looked murkier. Dragon Age: The Veilguard proved the latest highly divisive release from a studio that hasn’t had a launch unmarred by controversy since Mass Effect 2 in 2010. Over which time a huge number of key developers have left or been unceremoniously laid-off. Now BioWare, formerly always a…

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‘Brutally honest’ city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: ‘It’s a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day’

Most city-builders are creative toolsets with an optional management sim attached, canvasses for the imagination with a budget you might glance at occasionally. But Microlandia is built different. The city-builder developed by Information Superhighway Games is designed to be “brutally honest”. Roads are expensive, traffic jams can cost your citizens their jobs, and uncontrolled rent…

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