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Ocean 4X strategy sim Endless Legend 2 will release in early access this August Water surprise Image credit:Hooded Horse / Rock Paper Shotgun The wait for Endless Legend 2 is no longer without end. Developers Amplitude and publishers Hooded Horse have announced that the 4X strategy game will release into early access on 7th August 2025. As you hopefully learned from my hands-on earlier this year , Endless Legend 2’s key differentiating factor is that it takes place on a procedurally generated waterworld that gradually dries out as you grow your civ....

One of the best cheap mechanical keyboards, Logitech’s G413 SE, is even better value on Cyber Monday As little as £65 / $60 for a full-size mech board Events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, while devastating on the emotional wellbeing of hardware editors, are as useful for knocking a few more quid off already-cheap bits of gaming gear as they are for saving hundreds on big-ticket luxuries . It’s the re-bargainating aspect we must concern ourselves with here, as the Logitech G413 SE – already a premier choice of affordable mechanical gaming keyboard – is now more attainable still, dropping to £65 / $56....

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap to continue killing Orcs in 2025 with new co-op thrills and roguelite progression But what if we could talk to the spike pits Image credit:Robot Entertainment Back in 2011, Robot Entertainment released tower defender Orcs Must Die! , adding an exclamation mark to spark some urgency and also, irritate anybody who has to write about video games for a living, though not as much as the absolute maniacs behind Tom Clancy’s H....

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast hasn’t been for sale in 14 years, but a fan is still updating it Faster loading and better UI among the tweaks Image credit:Sega You can’t purchase Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast digitally on PC anymore, because the Ferrari license expired and it was removed from sale back in 2010. We live in a cruel universe. The excellent, stylish racing game is still playable if you do own a copy, however, and it just received a fan update that’ll make it run better on modern machines....

Palworld: How to catch and breed Jetragon Here’s how to catch and breed Jetragon in Palworld Image credit:Pocketpair Want to know how to catch and breed Jetragon in Palworld? Jetragon is Palworld ’s apex opponent, a legendary Level 50 Dragon Pal that exists to take on all contenders and test the mettle of experienced Palpagos Islands adventurers. Like all Pals in Palworld , however, Jetragon can be defeated and caught with the right amount of skill and luck....

Paralives delayed into 2026 as designer explains that life sims are “really 3 games in one” Playtests reveal some “impactful bugs” and a shortage of town activities Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Paralives Studio Woe unto people who like making smaller, prettier versions of themselves kiss: the Paralives developers are delaying their homey life sim following playtests, to fix some bugs and fill out the game’s town with activities. Paralives had been due in early access this December, but will now launch on May 25th 2026....

Pathologic 3 devs keen to avoid “premature promises” about bringing back the Changeling in Pathologic 4 Bachelor-helmed threequel is more about investigation than survival Image credit:Ice-Pick Lodge Like a plague doctor delicately administering another handful of leeches, Ice Pick Lodge have shared a bit more about the recently announced Pathologic 3 , explaining how their plans for the cult epidemic-battling series have progressed since the release of Pathologic 2 ....

PC Game Pass in January adds Resident Evil 2 Remake and an Assassin’s Creed that will last you until 2025 Close to the Sun, Hell Let Loose and We Happy Few also among this month’s offerings Xbox have revealed their first haul of games headed to PC Game Pass in 2024, and there are some corkers. Among the selection is one of - if not the - best horror games ever made , a whopping Assassin’s Creed that ranks as one of the better entries in the series and some other interesting picks, too....

Peak’s new Mesa update is just too damn deadly, cue three different types of tumbleweed nerf Save us from OP rolling plants Image credit:Aggro Crab / Landfall Stay in cover. It’s coming. THERE. You see it? A tumbleweed, the deadliest of creatures to roam the desert. Stay quiet, it might roll up on us! Well, at least we’ll stand some chance of survival, thanks to a patch Peak ’s devs have just put out in response to the Mesa update being deemed to damn hard....

Players still don’t feel “comfortable” with game subscription services, says Ubisoft+ boss “Gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games.” Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft’s director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay has said that for all the growth of videogame subscription services in the past few years, players are still accustomed to “having and owning their games”. Accordingly, he feels his task is to help you grow “comfortable” with the idea that the game you’re playing might be taken offline as part of the release schedule, with Tremblay pointing out that you can still resume your save file when the game is next available....

PowerWash Simulator 2’s first bit of DLC takes you to the distant lands of Adventure Time’s Ooo It’s… well, you know what it is Image credit:FuturLab I’ve always found PowerWash Simulator ’s Big Brand Collabs slightly odd, if a touch humorous. They don’t always make much sense to me, like the SpongeBob one, though I will admit that the Shrek one does feel like a good fit, even if I am loath to look at intellectual property....

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake resurfaces after years of silence to tease a release… in 2026 It was originally announced back in 2020 Ubisoft’s remake of time-rewinding Prince of Persia classic The Sands of Time has finally reappeared to tease - with the emphasis on tease - a release not this year, not next year, but in 2026. The Sands of Time remake , you might recall, was originally announced way back in 2020 ....

PUBG creator’s oddly named open world survival roguelike Prologue: Go Wayback gets an early access release date Seriously what’s with that name Image credit:PlayerUnknown Productions How do you follow on from making a game that essentially popularised a whole new genre? I can only imagine that question is one Brendan Greene, aka Player Unknown, i.e. the creator of PUBG, has asked himself a few times. The answer to that question is Prologue: Go Wayback , a game that has been in the works for a little while now, and at long last has an early access release date....

Save on a microSD for your Steam Deck, with 1TB options discounted in US and the UK More space equals more games. Image credit:Various While the Nintendo Switch 2 may have done away with microSD cards in favour of the faster (and pricier) Express variants, the standard cards have been pretty affordable for a while now in smaller sizes, which makes them ideal for Steam Deck usage . In fact, they’re reaching a point now where you may find yourself picking one or two up on sale, knowing you can swap between them to switch between different games....

Schedule I creator seems to have vastly undersold how much content is in his new Steam hit I ate a weed once but I’m better now Image credit:TVGS There are few things more heartwarming than a solo developer seeing breakout success, especially if their game is a wholesome testament to community spirit, entrepreneurship, and innovative street cleaning solutions like Schedule I . Pretty close, though, is a solo developer pulling a ‘Miyazaki lying about Elden Ring ‘, and underselling just how big their game actually is in the run-up to release....

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 will release on May 21st, 2024 Glum’s gone to Iceland Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 was featured in this evening’s Xbox Developer Direct. Ninja Theory gave a further glimpse of the things they show when talking about Hellblade : motion capture, graphical fidelity, mental health representation, and stabbing. They also provided a release date: May 21st, 2024. The Developer Direct deep dive into Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.Watch on YouTube...

Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll Forklifted to greatness Image credit:SEGA The most influential game of all time is Yu Suzuki’s 1999 proto open world Gashapon ’em up Shenmue , according to a public poll held by BAFTA. To claim that top spot in the top five, it beat out Doom, Super Mario Bros, Half-Life , and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time....

Should you bother with… mini PCs? Box ticking Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I’m hoping you’ll forgive a spot of mission-bending here, given Should You Bother With? Is usually intended to test out the new and the strange of gaming hardware. Instead, I want to talk about mini PCs – not just small-form-factor desktops, but properly tiny, box o’ chocolates-sized computers – which have, of course, been around for decades. Recently, however, I’ve been wondering if mini PCs are finally on the cusp of having their moment as serious games machines....

Silent Hill f’s latest update adds in a “casual” difficulty and the option to skip some of a new game plus run You’ll also run into less “unskippable combat encounters” across the board Image credit:Konami Silent Hill f ’s got a fresh patch and it generally focuses on making the schoolgirl spookfest easier for those who want that option, or just aren’t too fussed about fights. There’s a new “casual” difficulty option and the chance to a certain sections during a new game plus run, plus some wider tweaks that should make the game less combat-intensive ....

Skate heelflips into my calendar with an early access release some time in 2025 but. still. has. a. dumb. full. stop. after. its. name. Image credit:Electronic Arts The upcoming skate . game now has an (admittedly vague) early access release date of 2025, according to a post by the developers on Xitter. It’s difficult to write about the new skate. game because if you choose to write skate. with the imposed stylings which skate....