Beaver colony sim Timberborn's biggest ever update brings a tidal wave of pollution and disease

You liked good water? I wouldn’t recommend they rehydrate with the bad water, though. Bad water is all thanks to us, basically. The update would be very mean if it just added horrible water and no way to deal with it. Besides a swathe of sickness and pollution, the update adds new faction-specific decorations and attractions. Big fans where beavers can participate in mock skydives.

January 18, 2024 · 1 min · 65 words · Kari Coleman

Everything announced at today's Xbox Developer Direct 2024

There was also an update to the previously announced 2024 release window. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 will launch on May 21st. It looks extremely pretty, with a procedurally generated world and sweeping changes across each different era of history. It mostly focused on the design of its monsters and companions, as well as its battles.

January 18, 2024 · 1 min · 55 words · Sarah Bradshaw

Everything we know about Black Myth: Wukong

The exact release date wasconfirmedat the tail end of 2023. Black Myth: Wukong platforms Black Myth: Wukong will launch on PC viaSteamand theEpic Store. It will also be available for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Since then, multiple trailers of similar length have appeared to promote the game. One of the most visually stunning is a 12-minute Unreal Engine 5 gameplay test released in mid-2021. That said, the monkey protagonist featured in Black Myth: Wukongmay notbe the legendary Sun Wukong himself....

January 18, 2024 · 1 min · 128 words · Jason Espinoza

A wholly subscription-driven games industry would be "savage", says Larian CEO

His broad takeaway is: that ain’t it, chief. He feels that “direct from developer to players is the way”. Whatever the future of games looks like, content will always be king. “Subscription models will always end up being cost/benefit analysis exercises intended to maximize profit. “We are already all dependent on a select group of digital distribution platforms and discoverability is brutal. Should those platforms all switch to subscription, it’ll become savage....

January 17, 2024 · 1 min · 137 words · Wesley Brown

Cult of the Lamb’s Sins of the Flesh- has come

Sins of the Flesh is far more than its viral addition, too. Youll set some of that sin as a reward, though. Another ritual allows a follower to be cannibalised by the rest of your cult, which is cheery. Two followers can enter the mating tent for the chance to lay an egg. A follower can hatch from the egg, with rare golden eggs leading to new follower skins. Max level followers can be turned into disciples via a new ritual that forms your closest circle of devotees....

January 17, 2024 · 1 min · 88 words · Randall Johnson

Dave The Diver studio's next game is a team-based PvP arena battler

Now Mintrocket have announced their next game and it seems less likely to cause such confusion. It’ll have a demo in Steam Next Fest next month and there’s a teaser trailer below. Perhaps that moves it more intoBattleriteterritory, which would beno bad thing.

January 17, 2024 · 1 min · 43 words · Jose Hicks

Diablo 4 Season 3 revealed, introducing WASD controls and a customisable robot pal

Trailer drops ahead of release on 23rd Jan What the hell is going on inDiablo 4these days? “Devilish machinations”, would you believe. These machinations aren’t just devilish, in other words. They areliteralmachinations, with all manner of automated foe awaiting beneath the deserts of Kehjistan. The moderately Orientalist robot-bothering begins in the Gatehall, a new town centre underneath Kehjistan. Governing Stones are for different attacks, while Tuning Stones are for buffs and utilities....

January 17, 2024 · 1 min · 145 words · Sandra Morales

Don't worry, Lara's tank controls are still an option in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

“So the conversation evolved into: how do we surprise and delight these fans? And that’s where we started brainstorming additions instead of revisions.” I can live with that.

January 17, 2024 · 1 min · 28 words · Kristin Martin

Against The Storm's update 1.1 is out, making the early game more interesting

You’ll findall the patch notes over on Steam. Dealing with this bug is part of why they say Update 1.1 isn’t as spectacular as first hoped.

January 16, 2024 · 1 min · 26 words · Nicholas Nelson DDS

Dawnwalker is the "revolutionary" dark fantasy RPG from former Witcher devs Rebel Wolves

That title is… Dawnwalker. The title recalls Daywalker, the nickname given to Marvels dhampir hero Blade by fearful undead. Here’s the reveal tweet. “For me, nothing beats fully immersing myself and discovering handcrafted stories and worlds.” Dawnwalker is in the “alpha stage of development, with more details slated to arrive later this year. I wonder if those are from the game?

January 16, 2024 · 1 min · 61 words · Edward Salazar

Frostpunk 2 and its rowdy citizens will be storming the gates of Game Pass day one on PC

and “yo can wenotwith the human waste hothouse jobs! Gone are the days where you’re confined by the walls of your crater. This is wasteland apocalypsesurvivalwrit large, and bigger cities naturally mean: more grumpy sods to deal with. And man alive, do those sods make themselves heard in the trailer. Cries of “Steward! Do you hear us?” Mates, I’m trying my best here, no need to get uppity about it....

January 16, 2024 · 1 min · 98 words · Abigail Robertson

Get AMD's former fastest graphics card for $500 at Newegg when you buy an open box model

The ASRock RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D is one of the fastest variants too. That’s outstanding, given that this card cost twice as much when it debuted in 2020.

January 16, 2024 · 1 min · 30 words · Micheal Pugh

Ark: Survival Ascended to get mod tools that let you create "entire custom Unreal Engine games", devs boast

This will greatly expand the game’s moddability, though concrete details are thin on the ground. It’ll ship with a “Mario-inspired” platformer to show you how. There’s also a dev kit update planned next week for multiplayer spin-offArk: The Survival Of The Fittest. Can you imagine it? We can’t wait to see what you cook up!" Also in the Frontier Adventure Pack: the ability to build trains. Can dinosaurs drive trains?...

January 15, 2024 · 1 min · 87 words · James Chang