HomeNews Dungeons & Dragons survive-o-life sim coming from Disney Dreamlight Valley studioDrizzt Dreamlight Valley Drizzt Dreamlight Valley Image credit:Gameloft Image credit:Gameloft The studio behind unexpectedly decent Mickey Mouse life simDisney Dreamlight Valleyare venturing into another fantasy land where anthropomorphic animals adventure with human chums, the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dungeons. Today Gameloft announced they’re making a D&D game offering a “hybrid of survival, life simulation and action RPG”. They don’t have much more to share about the game, not even a name, so presumably it won’t be out for some time....

HomeNewsDeus Ex: Mankind Divided Epic’s spring sale is underway, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is free to keepThat’s a good deal That’s a good deal Image credit:Eidos Montreal Image credit:Eidos Montreal The Epic Games Store’s spring sale is underway, from today until March 28th. That makes it twice as long asSteam’s spring sale, which also started today. I’m not sure if that makes it twice as exciting, but here’s what does:Deus ExMankind Divided is free to keep for the next week....

HomeNewsFinal Factory Final Factory’s blend of space station building and exploration will launch in April’Factorio in space' blasts off April 9th ‘Factorio in space’ blasts off April 9th Image credit:Never Games Limited Image credit:Never Games Limited It’s now got an Early Access release date: April 9th. As per the genre stalwarts, everything you do can be automated, and much of the game is about improving the efficiency of your space station and other constructions while advancing through a huge tech tree....

HomeNewsHelldivers 2 Helldivers 2 Cutting Edge warbond is out, sparking fresh debate about the Illuminate factionAll the lightning guns, laser rifles and fancy armour you can eat All the lightning guns, laser rifles and fancy armour you can eat Image credit:PlayStation Image credit:PlayStation Still, I think the real star pick here is surely the Localization Confusion booster, which extends the time between enemy spawns, allowing weirdo solo players such as myself to disentangle from a dragged-out gunfight a little more gracefully....

HomeFeaturesDragon’s Dogma 2 How to be the worst wizard in Dragon’s Dogma 2 - Third ImpactOur Dragon’s Dogma 2 preview diary concludes with a prison break and an endless Golem brawl Our Dragon’s Dogma 2 preview diary concludes with a prison break and an endless Golem brawl Image credit:Capcom Image credit:Capcom Welcome to the third and final part of myDragon’s Dogma 2hands-on diary, in which I heroically try to make headway in Capcom’s outsized fantasyRPGwith a party of pure magic-users....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Mar 14)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #277 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #277 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeReviewsOutcast 2: A New Beginning Outcast: A New Beginning review: an open world dead endCutter down Cutter down Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/THQ Nordic Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/THQ Nordic A shame, then, that all its visual splendour amounts to is little more than an empty husk filled withopen worldbusy work that already felt tired and done ten years ago. Its non-linear approach to storytelling remains intact, letting you tackle the quests and problems of its numerous village settlements in any order you wish, but even this has been boiled down to tedious checklists of fetch quests, escort missions and shooting up the same identikit facility one after another....

HomeNewsRimWorld Fleshbeasts and free update 1.5 Image credit:Ludeon Studios Image credit:Ludeon Studios As if colony simRimWorlddoesn’t already have enough ways for your sci-fi frontier adventurers to die, a new expansion titled Anomaly is goiong to add “all manner of monstrous, mysterious, and maddening threats”. It’s out in around a month, and will be paired with a free 1.5 update for the base game. The Anomaly expansion seems designed to increase the rate of terrible accidents and other grisly events, with a horror theme designed to inspire “dread, psychological tension, suspicion and mystery”....

HomeNews Saber Interactive splits from Embracer, taking 3D Realms, Slipgate, Metro devs and more with themEmbracer will also cease all operations in Russia Embracer will also cease all operations in Russia Image credit:Focus Entertainment Image credit:Focus Entertainment “This is the first transaction of the previously mentioned structured processes and marks a small but important step in our journey to transform Embracer into the future for the benefit of all employees, gamers, and shareholders,” said Embracer boss Lars Wingefors....

HomeNews “Previously announced AAA game based on a major license” needs “deep love and respect” Image credit:Embracer Group Image credit:Embracer Group This week’s announcement thatEmbracer are selling off Saber Interactive to new company Beacon Interactivehas cast further doubt over the future of one of Embracer’s bigger projects, the much-delayed Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic remake. While Embracer have yet to actually state this out loud, it sounds like the KOTOR remake will be a “joint project” between Saber and Embracer....

HomeNews Steam’s spring sale is liveRunning from March 14th until the 21st Running from March 14th until the 21st This is purely vibes based, but the sense I get is that Steam Next Fest, with its onslaught of demos for new games, is increasingly exciting. Steam sales, meanwhile, seem more routine and underwhelming than ever, because there are so many sales all the time. Not just on Steam, but also on every other storefront - and not just sales, but freebies and giveaways and games added to subscription services and…...

HomeNewsCrow Country Tangle Tower devs' love letter to Resident Evil hits Steam in MayPlay the demo for Crow Country while you wait Play the demo for Crow Country while you wait Image credit:SFB Games Image credit:SFB Games Crow Countryand its spooky, mutant-stuffed theme park will be opening its gates on Steam on May 9th, developers SFB Games have announced. It’s the first of two games from theTangle Towermicro-studio coming to PC this year, the other one beingThe Mermaid’s Tongue, which will be picking up the adventures of their Tangle Tower detective duo on a marginally less spooky-looking submarine later this year....

HomePodcastsOpen The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 10: making fun of that Ready Player One metaverse gamePlus, the games we weren’t allowed to play as little’uns Plus, the games we weren’t allowed to play as little’uns Image credit:Warner Bros Image credit:Warner Bros You wouldn’t know because shehardlyevermentionsit, but Alice Bee is not a Ready Player One fan. In fairness, the newly revealedOpen(or Opthreen), an RPO-themed metaverse battle royalething, does look, sound, feel, and smell horrible, so a solid chunk of this week’s Electronic Wireless Showpodcastis just us despairing over it....