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Hades 2’s update adds Ares to the pantheon and a “final confrontation” atop mount Olympus Something is slithering up there Image credit:Supergiant Supergiant have released their third big update for slashy dashy roguelike Hades 2 , and it adds familiar murdergod Ares to the roster of deities helping you out. Like other immortals he’ll offer boons ’n’ blessings while smarming at you from afar. The update also adds a new animal familiar - a polecat named Gale who will please defensive players by boosting your dodge chance and movement speed....

Helldivers 2 director confirms Arrowhead are biting the addition delay bullet while working on performance fixes “We’re focusing way more now on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again” Image credit:Arrowhead Despite having initially indicated they’d prefer not to do so if it could be avoided, Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have now confirmed that they’re holding off adding new stuff to the shooter while they focus in on improving its performance....

Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 17 (Choral Chambers) Plot the perfect path through the many corridors of the Choral Chambers <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hollow-knight-silksong-walkthrough-17-header.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Hornet in Hollow Knight: Silksong launches herself up towards an upper ledge by “pogo-ing” off the top of a hanging bronze circular bell in the Choral Chambers region of the map. - 1”> Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Where should you go once you reach the Choral Chambers in Silksong?...

How a SpaceX engineer ended up working on a spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program A chat with Kitten Space Agency’s resident rocket scientist Image credit:RocketWerkz Late last year, RocketWerkz shared the first details of Kitten Space Agency - a spaceship engineering management game from a team including the original developer of Kerbal Space Program , which aims to fill the sparking void left by the downfall (or is it? ) of Kerbal Space Program 2 ....

How ten years of Game Maker’s Toolkit’s design analysis informed Mind Over Magnet “There are probably as many levels on the cutting room floor as actually ended up in the final game,” says Mark Brown Image credit:Game Maker’s Toolkit “A lot of puzzle games can leave you staring at the same static screen for ages, but here, I’m always pushing you forward,” says Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit. For a decade now, Brown has been releasing accessible deep dives on game design for his popular YouTube channel , like " How Game Designers Protect Players From Themselves" and " The Two Types of Random in Game Design....

How to be the worst wizard in Dragon’s Dogma 2 - Act 1 The first of three hours with Capcom’s sumptuous, chaotic action-RPG Image credit:Capcom Before I sat down to play three hours of Dragon’s Dogma 2 at a Capcom event last month, I gave myself two broad objectives. The first was to discover if there’s anything genuinely different about this undeniably enchanting but very familiar sequel to one of the happiest, barmiest action- RPGs of the past 20 years....

How to deconstruct in Enshrouded Here’s how to deconstruct any object or build in Enshrouded Image credit:Keen Games Wondering how to reconstruct or remove items and building parts in Enshrouded? As with most survival crafting games, a large portion of your time in Enshrouded will be spent building up your home, wherever you choose to locate it. We grow very attached to our builds in these games, so it’s important to know what to do when you make a mistake and need to remove or reposition something....

How to install and use Lutris on the Steam Deck Unlock even more games with multiple non-Steam launchers, all in one place Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun To install Lutris on your Steam Deck is to swing open the doors that SteamOS, being a Linux-based device in the Windows-dominated world of PC games, normally keeps shut. See, for all the thousands upon thousands of Steam Deck-ready games on Steam itself, there are many more hiding within their publishers’ preferred launchers – launchers that SteamOS can’t install without help....

I love that somebody is making a single-player flight sim dedicated to formation flying Dance like nobody’s stalling Image credit:CloveTek Often, the gaming internet depresses me with gestures expansively, but sometimes, it delights me with some relatively specific and impassioned Thing like, in this case, a single-player aerobatics sim dedicated to formation flying. Created by Japanese indie CloveTek, Dancing Wings – The Aerobatic Simulator is as far from yer Ace Combats and Delivery Must Completes as you can get while still having wings....

I saw her in MindsEye And I’ll never forget her Image credit:Build A Rocket Boy/Rock Paper Shotgun I saw her in MindsEye . I saw her in minds, aye. I saw her in minds, why? I don’t know, but in MindsEye, I can’t stop seeing her. “Could have been worse,” Robin Hood says to me, hours after I saw her, “At least she wasn’t naked, on the toilet, or naked on the toilet....

I’m stoked for this immersive sim about escaping a town in the shadow of a colossal policeman Come watch ten minutes of Militsioner Image credit:TallBoys I was instantly taken with the idea of Militsioner when I first saw it in 2021. The upcoming “Kafkaesque” immersive sim gives you the simple goal of escaping a town within a few days, a task which is somewhat complicated by the fact that a Leviathan-sized Russian cop towers over the city, watching you....

If you miss how much Hornet used to scream and shout, there’s a Hollow Knight: Silksong mod you’ll shaw-ly want to pick up Hegale! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Have you, like me, been unable to get that one TikTok sound out of your head that mixes Anri’s iconic anthem I Can’t Stop The Loneliness with the screams of Hollow Knight’s very own Hornet ever since Silksong came out? It’s a surprisingly good combo, but it also serves as an unintended reminder for something: these particular screams of Hornet’s are nowhere to be found in Silksong ....

If you need an absorbing dungeon RPG this winter, here’s one with over two billion floors Just how many caves are there in Caves Of Qud? Image credit:Freehold Games Last week, Brendy left a note in our weekly Maw liveblog about a player-made map of Caves Of Qud, the reportedly excellent sci-fi roguelike RPG that lets you “chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations”, represented as 2D Dwarf Fortress -esque layouts. Glancing over that map as a newcomer to the game, my eye was caught by the creator’s casual mention that Caves Of Qud is technically 2,147,483,646 levels deep....

In Left 4 Dead and Diablo-influenced space shooter Jump Ship, you can wreck yourself by making pizza The game formerly known as Hyperspace reannounced for 2024 early access release Image credit:Keepsake Games In Keepsake’s co-op four-player space game Jump Ship , née Hyperspace, you can scuttle your own vessel by overcooking a pizza. There’s a cooking minigame in your ship’s canteen which grants a health boost if you nail the timing, and sparks off a fire if you don’t....

It’s now slightly trickier to accidentally buy a ‘dead’ Steam early access game Thanks to a new labelling system Image credit:Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun Steam early access games that haven’t been updated in a long while will now be more prominently labelled as such, according to reports. As noticed by third-party tracking platform SteamDB , Valve have begun adding warnings to early access info boxes, making it harder to accidentally spend your pocket money on a promising project that hasn’t advanced in years....

Jurassic World Evolution 3 brings baby dinosaurs with it this October Life, way, preoccupied, etc Image credit:Frontier Developments Jurassic World Evolution has always been an ‘almost’ series for me. On paper, it’s such a slam dunk of a concept it feels to hard to imagine it being anything other than brilliant. In practise, the games have always felt a bit thin and tedious, even while boasting some undeniably impressive dinos. Could the third time be the charm?...

Life is Strange and The Expanse devs lay off 20% of studio in second wave of job losses in under a year Deck Nine blame “the game industry’s worsening market conditions” The developers behind the Life is Strange remaster, spin-offs Before the Storm and True Colors , and The Expanse: A Telltale Series , Deck Nine, have laid off 20% of the studio’s staff due to “the game industry’s worsening market conditions”....

Little Nightmares 3 has a pint-sized bad dream demo out now, ahead of its arrival next month Half an hour or so of eerie puzzling awaits you Image credit:Supermassive Games Supermassive Games have put out a demo for Little Nightmares 3 , so you can give the spooky co-op puzzler a whirl before it arrives in October. “Step into the Necropolis “, the studio say. Go on then, that sounds like it has zero potential to end badly....

Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders has a new release date and it’s next week Multiplayer ski ’em up hits fresh powder on January 21st Image credit:Megagon Industries Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders was one of the best demos I played last year , because it felt so good to gracefully slide down its white-powdered mountains (and clumsily crash into a tree). It might have been one of the best games I played last year, who knows, but it was delayed into 2025....

LYMBUS is hostile to my existence and keeps demanding brain cells I haven’t grown yet Arggghhhhhh Image credit:Happy Accident Studios What are you LYMBUS ? In what vat were you grown? I feel like I’ve sluggishly ambled my way down to the fridge and tried to scoop a gherkin from the jar, only to find a disconcertingly tasty sliver of my own brain - like a creature from Flatland trying to play 4D chess, and all the pieces are just tiny carvings of my face with “lol get a load of this prick” whittled into the forehead....