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The Long Dark already offered an expansive survival game, including an open survival mode and many hours of a story campaign. Still, it’s getting bigger if you want it to with Tales From The Far Territory, a paid expansion pass that will deliver a year of updates beginning on December 5th. A new trailer shows

Here’s an exciting ‘AI can do that now’ moment: Meta’s latest AI, Cicero, can beat human players at classic negotiation and betrayal game Diplomacy. While playing online at webDiplomacy.net, it’s achieved “more than double the average score of human players”, ranking “in the top 10 percent of participants who played more than one game”. It

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X is an awesome gaming processor that also kicks a lot of butt in content creation tasks, but a high asking price means that it’s out of reach of many. However, that is slowly changing, with Black Friday Eve bringing a new low price on the high-end CPU: £475, down from a

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold more than 10 million combined units over its launch weekend, claiming the top spot for most three-day launch weekend software sales in Nintendo’s history. The number, which includes physical and downloadable copies as reported by Nintendo, already places Pokémon Scarlet and Violet in the top 15 best-selling Nintendo Switch titles

Age Of Empires 4 is the first RTS I’ve taken seriously. I’ve practised build orders, memorised specific civ counters, watched pro matches and agonised over key bindings. I have gone down into the nitty gritty of sheep micro, just to shear off microseconds from early villager gathering times, but I’ve never seen a good reason

A new Fire Emblem Engage trailer has detailed how players can summon ”Emblems,” characters from past Fire Emblem games. Units will be able to equip Engage Rings to gain the ability to gain the power of a hero, like Marth or Byleth. When units equip the rings, they become synced with the Emblems, boosting their stats and giving

No Man’s Sky has expanded a huge amount beyond its original vision, and last year developers Hello Games introduced a new kind of seasonal update: Expeditions. These are time-limited activities with one-off awards, but although this year’s fourth and final Expedition finished back in September, all of 2022’s Expeditions are making a shortened, end-of-year return

Epic Games recently announced that Fornite’s Chapter 3 would come to a close in December and now, with under two weeks to go until its end, the studio has released new details about how to participate in the Fracture finale. Plus, the team has a few more goodies for players to earn in the final

Project Winter is one of the best social deduction games you can play on your PC. You could uncharitably call it the grumpy rules lawer uncle of Among Us, smothering the raw thrill of lies and accusation beneath a blanket of systems and complexities. I had an absolute blast with it a few years ago,

Update, 11/21/22: Nintendo announced in September that Wave 3 of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Booster Course DLC was coming this holiday season and now, the company has revealed we’ll be getting eight tracks on December 7. Check out the Wave 3 trailer in the tweet below:  Start your engines! Wave 3 of the #MarioKart 8

At this point, I’d consider the wacky bugs continually introduced to The Sims 4 as more of a feature than a bug. For example, a recent update turned previously placid Sims into moody, argumentative jerks who were constantly scrapping with one another. That sounds great to me, although if you disagree there’s bad news. EA

I was once a regular Counter-Strike player, but that was almost twenty years ago. What’s remarkable about Valve’s team shooter is how little its fundamentals have changed over those twenty years. The AWP and M4A1? Still pretty much how they were when I was first mishandling them in the Half-Life mod. Which makes yesterday’s Counter-Strike:

In today’s installment of New Gameplay Today, your hosts Wesley LeBlanc and Kyle Hilliard discuss Atari Mania, the new Atari microgame collection that plays like WarioWare. The two take you through the game’s opening, showcasing what exactly you do in this Atari museum as its sole caretaker, from sweeping away dust to killing bugs and more. 

Legendary Sonic designer and Balan Wonderworld director Yuji Naka has been arrested in Tokyo in connection to an insider trading investigation involving the reveal of a Dragon Quest game.  According to the Japanese news outlet FNN, the last 24 hours saw ex-Square Enix employee Taisuke Sazaki and his friend Fumiaki Suzuki arrested on suspicion for

Each time we start up a new mainline Pokémon game, we begin our journey with a choice. Sometimes it’s an easy one. Sometimes it’s agonizing. But regardless of where on that spectrum each generation lands for you, the general choice remains the same: grass, water, or fire. Thanks to the rock-paper-scissors nature of the types

Anyone who’s had to physically stop me from banging on about Black Sails will confirm that I love a bit of piracy. Games mostly don’t do it justice at all, either making “piracy” shorthand for “mindless omnicide for no reason” or slapping a parroty theme onto a generic action game. Buccaneers! isn’t primarily a piracy

The Risk Of Rain intellectual property and both Risk Of Rain and Risk Of Rain 2 are now owned by Gearbox. Gearbox were previously the publisher of Risk Of Rain 2 and say they are “eager to prove ourselves as worthy custodians” of the series. They bought the IP from original developers Hopoo Games, who

Ubisoft celebrated Spinter Cell’s 20th anniversary by releasing a new video reflecting on the series and discussing its upcoming remake. The video revealed some details on the project’s status as well as some early images.  [embedded content] The Splinter Cell remake was first announced last December, but we’ve known very little about it other than

Trinity Fusion is an upcoming futuristic sci-fi action-roguelite that looks great, and its first closed beta begins today.  Developer Angry Mob Games announced today that you can sign up for the beta right now, which will run through November 24. If you don’t make it into this round of playtesting, don’t worry – you might get

Update, 11/17/2022: Earlier this year, Supermassive Games filed multiple trademarks for new games that many predicted were part of its Dark Pictures anthology series. One of those games was Directive 8020 and now, with the latest anthology game, The Devil In Me, out tomorrow, it’s been confirmed that Directive 8020 is up next. It will

Mechanical keyboards are brilliant. If you agree, you probably have one on your desk right now – and we have just the deal for you. SteelSeries’ PrismCaps are an awesome upgrade over your stock keycaps, offering high-quality PBT construction, backlit legends and a beautiful two-tone ‘pudding cup’ design that looks great, especially with an RGB

The long-awaited Pokémon Trading Card Game Live app is now available in beta worldwide on PC and mobile devices after a staggered rollout last month. The successor to the now-defunct Pokémon Trading Card Game Online game has been in the works since its reveal last September.  For fans of the previous mobile game, TCG Live aims

Newly announced MMO shooter Project LLL is doing several unusual things. For one, it’s set in a science fiction world in which post-apocalyptic South Korea, the 10th century Byzantine Empire, and a 23rd century future are all somehow colliding. For two, it was revealed yesterday not with a brief logo or a show-nothing cinematic trailer,

Nintendo and Game Freak have released an overview trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, showcasing more than five minutes of new footage.  Hot on the heels of the official release of Pokémon’s ninth gen this Friday, this overview trailer will get you prepared for your upcoming journey through Paldea. Veteran trainers will recognize a lot of what

Somerville reviewMechanically simple but visually engrossing, Somerville offers an interesting, if not particularly deep, sci-fi adventure. Developer: Jumpship Publisher: Jumpship Release: November 15h 2022 On: Windows From: Steam, Game Pass Price: TBC It’s late evening. A family is dozing in front of the TV, their dog at their feet. Suddenly the TV turns to static,

During a live event streamed this morning, Geoff Keighley and the team behind the Game Awards revealed their nominees for the 2022 awards season, including their six picks for Game of the Year. The show will take place in person at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, but will also be streamed online for free on

Crucial’s rather excellent value SATA DRAM-less QLC SSD, the BX500, is down to £56 on Amazon UK from an RRP of £74. I feel that’s a decent savings on a drive ideal for upgrading an older machine or as media/game storage in a new one, where money spent per gigabyte is the primary measurement of

After launching into early access in April last year, the free-to-play shooter Scavengers is closing down. Its servers will close on December 16th, with publishers Improbable pinning the cause on a “decline in the playerbase.”

Save Room wears its inspiration on its sleeve from the moment you hit start and a deep, scary voice announces that you’re playing “Save Room!” It takes a singular idea from Resident Evil 4 – organizing your briefcase of weapons – and expands it into a dedicated puzzle game. Join Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard

Remedy Entertainment has announced a new deal with publisher 505 Games to co-develop and market Control 2. The news also provided insight into the sequel’s development status.  According to a press release, Control 2 (once known as Codename Heron) is currently in the concept phase, being built in Remedy’s proprietary Northlight engine. The game will