Eve Online has changed how pilots buy and sell its fancy golden space ticket known as Plex Some com-PLEX economics Image credit:CCP Games Skullduggerous space MMO Eve Online has changed the way its glittering golden subscription token is sold in the hellish hypercapitalist void. The change affects Plex, a shiny type of trade good you can use to re-up your subscription to the game. From now on, the ethereal digigood will be sold on a magical “global” market across the entirety of space, as opposed to being sold locally from region to region....

Former Dragon Age director’s new game has Zelda’s physics powers and Colossus’ climbable bosses Eternal Strands is due for release next year Image credit:Yellow Brick Games Former Dragon Age director Mike Laidlaw is making a new fantasy game. Eternal Strands is third-person adventure pitched as a mixture of Shadow Of The Colossus and Monster Hunter with Tears Of The Kingdom’s physics powers. The trailer, which you’ll find below, certainly has giants you can clamber across and spray with goop....

Forza Horizon 6’s Japan setting and 2026 launch officially confirmed, following leak Now-removed Instagram ad gave away Microsoft’s TGS reveal Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Update: Microsoft just formally announced Forza Horizon 6 during their Tokyo Game Show event, confirming the Japan setting and 2026 release with a lovely shot of go-to Japanese iconography Mount Fuji. No in-game footage or screenshots for now, though. Not even a little kei car. Original story continues below:...

Frosthaven is getting a digital follow-up to Gloomhaven, and you can play it this month They’re haven’ a beta Image credit:Snapshot Games. Like predecessor Gloomhaven , Frosthaven is a tactical RPG where you’ll resolve story events and encounters between dungeon delving, retiring old characters and unlocking new classes as you progress. New to Frosthaven is a fleshed-out management game that has you build up and protect an outpost, while dealing with harsh seasons and invaders....

Gardening sim Horticular is an isometric Viva Pinata featuring a dead planet and loads of gnomes Gnome country for old men Image credit:Slug Disco I’m not sure if this applies in other countries, but in England we have this thing where you’ll stroll down some random suburban street without a care in the world, and stumble on a house that has been absolutely overrun by garden gnomes. A house on which garden gnomes have either settled, like the avian hoodlums in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, or from which they have erupted, like the malignant mushrooms of Annihilation....

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Grimy 90s GTA homage Vivat Slovakia leaves early access in April Please explain the table Image credit:Team Vivat I confess, I’m writing up the 1.0 release date for grubby open world game Vivat Slovakia less because I’m tantalised by the carboot sale GTA 6 aesthetic, than because the latest trailer ends with main character Trotter squatting weirdly on a coffee table. He perches there with track-suited elbows akimbo, smiling faintly. Mockingly....

Helldivers 2 CEO slams the games industry layoff wave, saying that bosses are making “regular devs” pay for their screw-ups “Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries?” Image credit:Arrowhead Game Studios Arrowhead Games Studio CEO Shams Jorjani has criticised other games industry executives for letting rank-and-file developers take the fall for what he styles “very unsound business decisions” over the past two years. An extremely compressed recap: tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs across companies like Embracer , Microsoft , Ubisoft , Sega and PlayStation in the past year alone, as the industry’s beefiest operators struggle to meet the expectations of investors and repay debts following a period of expansion kindled by a gaming boom during the worldwide Covid pandemic lockdowns....

Helldivers 2’s huge Into the Unjust: 4.1.0 update fires out over 200 bug fixes, plus some weapon balancing Arrowhead say it “focuses on what matters most right now: making Helldivers 2 feel better to play” Image credit:Arrowhead Big Helldivers 2 patch alert. Seriously, it’s massive. Dubbed the Unjust: 4.1.0 update, this behemoth boasts of having attempted to murder more than 200 bugs, alongside delivering some performance optimisation and gun balancing tweaks....

Here are all the confirmed ray tracing and DLSS games so far Got a good GPU? Treat yourself to ray tracing, DLSS, or both “Oh yeah, I’ll just update the ray tracing and DLSS games list,” said the dimwitted hardware editor. “It won’t take that long.” Four hours later, it’s become exhaustingly apparent that there’s been some kind of recent (possibly DLSS 4 -propelled) push for these modern graphics tools, with dozens upon dozens of games launching or announcing with support for them in the past few months alone....

Heroes World codes: Redeem these codes for free spins! More free spins means more chances to roll a rare power in Heroes World Image credit:[B:S] HW Team Looking for the latest Heroes World codes you can redeem for free spins? Anime-inspired fighting games are huge on Roblox , and Heroes World - which was formerly known as My Hero Mania - is a veteran of the genre. I’m a sucker for a game where you wield elemental powers, and since that’s exactly what Heroes World allows you to do, I consider this one worth an extra look when you’re choosing which Roblox fighting game to get hooked on next....

Honkai: Star Rail publishers sue player for $150,000 over streaming a character before release How much is that per minute? Image credit:HoYoverse Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero publishers HoYoverse are suing a player for $150,000 over a pre-release stream of a new Honkai: Star Rail character. According to HoYoverse’s copyright claim, Lopez has “unfairly or unlawfully obtained a game update before its release date”, but the suit appears more vexed by Lopez sharing footage of the character, than how he obtained the game build in question....

How to beat Arkveld in Monster Hunter Wilds Learn Arkveld’s weaknesses, drop list, and more Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Need help with how to beat Arkveld in Monster Hunter Wilds? Arkveld is a flying wyvern that will give you trouble regardless of whether you’re fighting them for the first time or not. As the flagship monster for Monster Hunter Wilds , they’ve got a lot of power and fast moves to catch you off guard....

How to beat Widow in Hollow Knight Silksong Learn how to counter all of Widow’s attacks Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Is the Widow boss in Haunted Bellhart giving you trouble in Hollow Knight Silksong?? You wouldn’t be alone. As the first true two-phase boss fight you’re likely to encounter, fighting Widow is all about escalating pace, mechanics, and attacks. Like all bosses in Silksong , however, mastering her fight is not only possible but almost certain, provided you know what you’re looking for....

How to complete Back on Top in Arc Raiders All four locations to mark in Back On Top revealed Image credit:Embark Studios Can’t find Tian Wen’s locations in the Back on Top quest for Arc Raiders? Don’t stress! We have all four locations outlined for you here. This is one of the harder quests in Arc Raiders , not only because the spots you need to mark can be hard to reach, but also because you have to visit four separate areas to complete the quest....

I finally found a reasonably priced RTX 5080 pre-built gaming PC: Alienware Aura R16 for under $2400 A well priced Alienware PC? Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Dell If you’ve been trying to buy an RTX 5080, you already know it’s nearly impossible to find. Nvidia’s new GPU has been selling out instantly, with standalone cards unavailable or listed at outrageous resale prices. That’s why this deal from Dell is worth a look....

I found a great deal on this HP OMEN 45L RTX 4080 gaming PC, down to just $2199.99 with this coupon code All the power without the brand tax. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / HP Fancy a gaming PC deal that makes sense? HP is slashing $800 off its flagship HP Omen 45L RTX 4080 Gaming PC , bringing it down to $2,199.99 from a painful $2,999.99. That’s a hefty discount, which includes a $100 off coupon code: SURPRISEPC100....

I got my least favourite Battle Brother immediately mutilated and I feel great about it Lol. Lmao even. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Overhype Battle Prose is a diary of Nic’s exploits in emergent turn-based tactics game Battle Brothers . It was always going to end badly for Thillmann The Braggart. 30 gold, he told the brigands. He’d pay them 30 gold each if they could knock up a stew so disgusting that even he - Kobmanhaven’s most famous glutton - couldn’t keep it down....

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If Letters Had Pants is a confusing but joyful word puzzle roguelite with a touch of archaeology Off the grid Image credit:PUNKCAKE Délicieux If Letters Had Pants appears to be the product of three different elevator pitches that took place in the same elevator, and somehow resolved amicably rather than eating each other alive. The first pitch was for a verbal puzzler in which you combine letters into words on a randomised grid against the clock, with the twist that words vanish when scored to create blank spaces that can be bridged by other letter combinations for higher scores....