Endless Legend 2 is everything I love about 2014's best 4X, but on a map that's constantly changing

You dont need to order the ocean to piss off inEndless Legend 2: its already in headlong retreat. But not from you. Always keen to place my back to a wall, me. The balance of power erodes and new opportunities arise. Seabeds surface and all manner of slithering oddity offers itself to the light. It has some familiar strengths. At heart, this feels like the same, gracefully imagined 4X with an undercurrent of florid RPG questing....

April 10, 2025 · 2 min · 244 words · Danielle Steele DVM

Existentially terrifying clone management meets survival game The Alters gets a June release date

Could you live with yourself? So, he makes different clones of himself to do things like technician work, mining, botany. Or perhaps your miner cut his arm off! Certainly makes that in-game timer counting down to your imminent doom seem all the more stressful. Maybe it’ll change my mind about cloning myself! Probably not, though.

April 10, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Mary Prince

Here's 11 thoroughly whelming minutes of The Outer Worlds 2

That video is below. Watch it in isolation for a guaranteed blissful Reuben-free experience, or keep scrolling to read my awful opinions. The clip kicks off mid-quest. We’re on what looks like a mining planet, all sandstone cliffs and crystalline bunches. Art Deco’s the theme, actually. We soon approach an open plaza overlooked by a mythologising mural that evokes similar art fromPrey’s Talos I. “Everything must become nothing, before it can become everything,” blasts a tannoy....

April 10, 2025 · 2 min · 347 words · Wendy Brooks

As US tariffs hit, PC hardware is joining the Switch 2 in pre-order delay limbo

All three products are still available on Razers UK site at the time of writing. Razer havent confirmed this un-selling as a direct result of the taxes, instead taking a no-comment approach. And again, they wouldnt be the first. All of which would likely result in… higher prices for the consumer. This is, just, stupid.

April 9, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Darlene Brown DDS

Azure Latch codes April 2025

Earn thousands of free Cash for styles, emotes, and more with these new Azure Latch codes! making all the difference in the final score. To unlock them, you should probably earn Cash - the currency of Azure Latch. Found a missing or expired code?Let us knowand well get it sorted. How do you redeem Azure Latch codes? Not sure how to redeem all these codes in Azure Latch? There’s a sneaky extra step involved which lots of players may not realise at first....

April 9, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · William Lara Jr.

Fanatical's 2025 "Build Your Own" Easter bundle sale is now live, here's what's included

Doomed to Hell, and more top indie titles to choose from. It’s almost rude how cheap that is. This is the sort of deal that wrecks my backlog in the best way. Rocket Rats is ridiculous and that’s why I love it. Its tiny rats strapped to rockets, flinging themselves through chaotic platforming levels. Its the kind of stupid fun I need after a long day pretending to be a functioning adult....

April 9, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Heidi Herrera

A Short Hike fans may enjoy befriending this pigeon

They’re currently making a new small game every 3 months, the latest of which isLittle Wings Deliveries. I do not mind. I have a headache. The soothing coos and soothing faceplants of a skateboarding pigeon are just what I need right now. “Discover floating islands and befriend their quirky citizens. Jump, roll, climb, and skate through Cloudburg.” The more calories the pigeons save, the less disastrous chippy assaults. Nicely done, Skye....

April 8, 2025 · 1 min · 71 words · Renee Farrell

Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it

The developers detail the changes inan update post on Steam. It was a strange choice. Not least because Capcom’s reptilian wrecker hasa lush and gorgeous world, just like Shadows. But maybe that doesn’t matter to you at all. Go get your brain. It’s important to have a brain. Instead of what it could be: a journey, sojourn, a pilgrimage. You control your horse and your brain is focused. You activate auto-follow and your brain thinks: now what?...

April 8, 2025 · 1 min · 77 words · Danielle Nelson

Civilization 7's next update will make food actually worth investing in and let you play forever, if you've got that long

Plus plenty more besides It’s another week, and with that comes word of the nextCivilization 7update. There’s a few big changes coming too, so how about we just jump right in. First up is a change to resources. Resources will now crop up differently thanks to a “newly added randomized resource generation system.” Treasure resources will also be getting passive effects too. Then there’s the changes coming to food.

April 8, 2025 · 1 min · 69 words · Tina Hobbs

Diablo 4's 2025 roadmap outlines upcoming seasons, tweaks and, ugh, collabs

Not the dreaded IP collab! Universes, plural, because season ten, (we’ll get there) also features a collab. Blizzard should take a look at that, can’t read what’s been burned away.

April 8, 2025 · 1 min · 30 words · Ian Carson

Helldivers 2 CEO slams the games industry layoff wave, saying that bosses are making "regular devs" pay for their screw-ups

“Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries?” “A lot of companies are shedding a lot of jobs. And that’s because of bad growth decisions made by business leaders who have taken stupid risks.” Jorjani had more vitriol to share elsewhere in the chat. Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries? “What’s happening is that regular developers, are paying the cost of that....

April 8, 2025 · 1 min · 99 words · Pamela Hebert

Blue Prince review

The first is the house you discover. Every time you enter the house, the layout wipes itself clean and must be filled in again. You get 50 steps to begin with, and most rooms consume a single step every time you enter. What happens to the hamster when the Bunkroom isn’t on the floorplan? All these spaces immediately fascinate, however humble. Even the walk-in closets are portentous. There’s a horror game pallor to the whole thing, though the more appropriate moodboard connection isGone Home....

April 7, 2025 · 2 min · 285 words · Christian White

Bungie's pink cyborg pussycat teases a proper Marathon trailer

Blue blooded Bungie have released a trailer for a trailer for extraction shooterMarathon. Last week the studioteased the possibility of an announcementwith some cryptic tweets. We’ve still not heard that news, really. It is a visual missive for impatient fans: sit down and wait until this weekend. No idea what the cat is all about. Will you be able to pet this cat, or do you use it as a grenade?...

April 7, 2025 · 1 min · 122 words · Ashley Anderson