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Caravan SandWitch review: a tiny open world with open roads and open arms Open-faced Image credit:Plane Toast Developer: Studio Plane Toast Publisher: Dear Villagers Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam / Epic Games Store Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10 Better check those desert dunes again Caravan SandWitch , someone’s buried the lede. An open world you can explore in a few relaxed evenings?...

Chicken Run: Eggstraction is a co-op stealth game sequel to Dawn of the Nugget that looks like good, silly fun Egg salad! Image credit:Aardman Animations Limited I’m not entirely sure of the cultural relevancy of Chicken Run, even if it did get one of those trendy legacy sequels back in 2023, and yet here we are with the reveal of an entire video game. The name of said game is Chicken Run: Eggstraction , and quite fittingly it is an action stealth game, one that might even look quite good?...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sequel or DLC confirmed: it’s only “one of the stories that we want to tell” Sandfall Interactive now working on the concept for a follow-up tale Image credit:Sandfall Interactive You know what, I’m going to bare all: I’ve still yet to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 beyond the hour or so I played at a preview event, during which I approximately deemed it “a pretty tidy slice of RPG with some cheeky QTEs on the side”, but certainly not the diamond-plated GOTY candidate described by Nic in his review ....

Craft Anime codes (February 2026) Free in-game cash to fund your next craft Image credit:SGR Studios Looking for Craft Anime codes for free Cash to spend on new elements? Craft Anime is like a crossover between Little Alchemy and Roblox ’s favorite tycoon games. In it, you’ll spawn and buy elements, use them to craft different anime characters, and fill out your index. Once you’ve placed a character on your plot, they’ll earn you some sweet in-game cash, which you can use to buy new elements… and the cycle repeats....

Dead Cells devs’ The Rogue Prince of Persia dodges Hades 2 with a release date delay It had been due to hit early access next week, but will now land later this month Image credit:Ubisoft/Evil Empire The Rogue Prince of Persia , a game that is pleasingly candid in choosing its name for a roguelite Prince of Persia spin-off, has been delayed. It turns out that developers Evil Empire - they of very good roguelite platformer Dead Cells - saw the Hades 2 train steaming down the tracks, and decided to sensibly dodge-roll out of its way....

Discord promise they won’t force everybody to do a face scan following outrage at new age verification policy Also discuss their machine learning “age inference” system Image credit:Discord Social media company Discord are trying their best to reassure people irked by the recently announced global rollout of some new age verification measures , which include face scans and a background “age inference” system for determining whether the user is an adult....

Does Metal Gear Solid need a new Kojima? Konami have “many people” in mind, but it’s “difficult” Remake producer hails younger generation but says there’s no new creative head Image credit:Konami Almost a decade after his acrimonious departure from Konami, the shadow of Hideo Kojima still looms over Metal Gear Solid . He’s there, barely camouflaged, in the undergrowth of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater - a remake of the fifth Metal Gear game, originally released in 2004, which tells the tale of a lone US special operator hunting superweapons and old mentors in the jungles of the southern Soviet Union....

Doom: The Dark Ages doesn’t run badly on PC, but enforced ray tracing slows the pace Heavy metal Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks I’m liking Doom: The Dark Ages more than local reviewist Nic does , possibly because spending most of 2024 remoulding my brain to learn Elden Ring has unduly engorged the part that appreciates a good parry-and-riposte. C’est la vie demons, and colleague. There is one issue that bothers me, though: why, of all the games on Bethesda’s production lines, was this chosen to be the next game that follows Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in making ray tracing effects compulsory?...

Dragon Age Veilguard Lucanis romance guide Here’s your cheat sheet to romancing this grizzled assassin Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Wondering how to secure a Lucanis romance in Dragon Age Veilguard? Lucanis has a slow-burn romance in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and it can be completely missed depending on your gameplay decisions. Despite this, he is one of the most popular characters to romance out of the 7 available - and for good reason....

Dragonsweeper is a free, neat and nifty RPG take on a venerable PC puzzler Still a few mines in there somewhere Image credit:Daniel Benmergui The last Minesweeperalike I wrote up was a sparkling slurry of mind-altering pop-ups and resinous AI cleavage . It was David Cronenberg’s Minesweeper : The Substance Edition, and I was sincerely worried that I’d put you all off Minesweeper for life. But before you mop your last munition and turn in your index finger for good, give Dragonsweeper a try....

EA re-release The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 on PC as DLC-stuffed Legacy editions Just in time for the original’s 25th birthday Image credit:EA As rumoured , The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 have returned to (official) PC stores. Kindly Uncle EA has taken a break from his busy layoff schedule to rustle up a pair of Legacy collections that include a bunch of old expansions. It’s the very first time the original Sims has graced a digital retail platform, I believe - it was first released in 2000, back when people used to access the internet using smoke signals and semaphore....

Elden Ring Nightreign DLC: Scholar Remembrance quests walkthrough A full guide to all three Remembrance quests Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Trying to complete the Scholar’s Remembrance quests in the Elden Ring Nightreign DLC? Alongside the Undertaker, the Scholar is the new character in The Forsaken Hollows, and this erudite Nightfarer is a true naturalist at heart, with amazing skill at analysing the weak points of all threats in his path....

Elden Ring Nightreign gets a dedicated and customisable boss arena mode thanks to a modder The same person also has plans for an “Expedition Boss Rush” mode Image credit:FromSoftware You there, fumbling around in the dark darkness of Elden Ring Nightreign ’s Deep of the Night . A new mod offers you the chance to channel your inner gladiator and test your strength in a dedicated boss arena. I know, I know, you’ve spent at least 80% of your time with Nightreign thus far battering and being battered by bosses....

Even 23 years on, Final Fantasy 11 is still getting updates, with one coming that’ll let you change how your character looks Talk about a commitment Image credit:Square Enix At a time where there is constantly word of this or that game shutting down, even successful ones, it will never fail to surprise me that Final Fantasy 11 is still going. You can’t play it on PS2 anymore, but there’s still an active community on PC even now....

Everspace 2 turns Monster Hunter with secret nebula-dwelling kaiju that are essentially living procgen dungeons Titans DLC to up the scale Image credit:Rockfish One of my formative video game moments is the final mission of Psygnosis cyberpunk flight sim G-Police. (It came out in 1997, and as such, I think the statute of limitations on spoilers has passed, but if you still intend to play, stop reading now.) The mission completes the long arc of foreshadowing begun by the intro’s mention that capital-class spacecraft have been outlawed, following a ruinous war....

Final Fantasy creator’s artful RPG Fantasian Neo Dimension launches on PC today Finally freed of its Apple Arcade prison Image credit:Square Enix Developed by Mistwalker, a studio founded by Final Fantasy dad Hironobu Sakaguchi, Fantasian was originally released on Apple Arcade in 2021 and locked within the big fruit’s exclusivity cage. Now, though, Mistwalker and Square Enix have come together to re-release the RPG for us PC heads, calling it Fantasian Neo Dimension ....

Floops Big House Adventure is a Nickelodeon Saturday morning gross-out shooter “90’s references galore!” Image credit:Buttery Games I won an awful board game from Nickelodeon once. I say “won”. Actually, I got disconnected phoning into a competition line after I’d gotten through, got upset loudly, my mum called them to complain, they fast tracked me to the next competition thing, I got the quiz answer wrong, and the presenter pretended he’d heard the right answer and pulled a prize out of the big prize bucket....

Football Manager 25 has been cancelled Shifting goalposts Image credit:SEGA Put your red and white scarf back on the coat rack, football friends. The match has been called off. The entire season, in fact. Football Manager 25 has been cancelled because it has not met a high enough standard in time for its intended release next month, according to developers Sports Interactive. Anyone who pre-ordered the game will be given a refund, they say....

Former Paradox, CD Projekt and 11-bit devs reveal new 4X strategy RPG that splices Manor Lords with Crusader Kings I can’t beliege it Image credit:From Chaos New Polish studio From Chaos consist of former members of Witcher developers CD Projekt Red, Frostpunk developers 11 bit studios and 4X household Paradox Interactive, led by erstwhile Gwent programmer Tomek Dietrich - so it’s no huge surprise that their debut game, Liegecraft , is a big beardy historical strategy RPG ....

Fortnite is now a Lego Star Wars game, with a whole new world for its survival mode in time for May the Fourth Some non-bricky bits have been added to Battle Royale, Rocket Racing and Fortnite Festival, too Image credit:Epic Games In its continuing quest to become Everything to Everyone, Fortnite has shapeshifted, The Thing-like, into a new Lego Star Wars game. The Lego Fortnite survival mode has been expanded with a new, permanent Star Wars world, with this weekend - which includes May the Fourth, don’tcha know - also kicking off a new battle pass and bringing additions to every other part of Fortnite: whether you’re playing it as a battle royale shooter (remember that?...