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Hades 2 early access review: a roguelike of witchy crowd control with a sparkling new cast

(They do not.) The harbingers of a confident, slash-happy action game, and another poppy adaptation of classic Greek japes. Something sinister has happened in the underworld (no way!) and the pantheon of Gods is in disarray, along with all attendant heroes and hellions. Zagreus, our nippy protagonist of the previous game, is missing in action. So is helldaddy Hades and various others. Into this absence steps Melinoe, forgotten baby sister of Zag....

Hades 2 is another Steam Deck banger, early access or no

Make that 90fps on theSteam Deck OLED, too. Its just afabulous gamefor handhelds, even in its earliest of early access days. That makes it somehow even less charge-hungry than Hades, which emptied the original Deck in 3h 27m. Even so, I cant see how its deeper reaches of Hell could pose the Steam Deck much issue. Its pure, frenetic, deity-flirting fun right from the off.

Helldivers 2 drops PSN account linking requirement for Steam players after widespread backlash

Helldivers fans – weve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update.

Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account

Two days later and the game has received 100,000 new negative reviews on Steam. “Well, I guess it’s warranted. Sorry everyone for how this all transpired. I hope we will make it up and regain the trust by providing a continued great game experience. I just want to make great games!” Spitz also said that the decision and announcement were carried out by Sony, not by Arrowhead themselves. “We’re not going to force people to either break Sony TOS or not play the game....

A modder is beautifying Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite with cel-shaded visuals

Frame break Crossover fighting gameMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinitefirst sauntered onto various videogaming mechanisms back in 2017. We forgot to review it. It’s now almost seven years later but at least one person has not forgotten this missed opportunity. The shader is looking swish, with lots of pop art dithering and deep, thick outlines. The same code-wrangler working on this alsoput Sonic into Guilty Gear: Strive, andCloud Strife in Multiversus. Either way, I appreciate it....

Best units in Manor Lords

Retinue are not listed here, as they are not divided into individual units with different names. For more on winning battles, check out our guides to fightingBanditsand defending againstRaiders.

Bloodstained’s final update arrives next week, adding Chaos and Versus modes originally planned for 2020

Chaos mode and VS mode were both originally planned to arrive way back in 2020. Whichever player outlives the other, wins. It sounds pretty fun!

Carceri is a "chaotic Art-toy" from a former Metroid Prime 4 dev, inspired by Piranesi

Here’s a trailer. All in all, I score this AI disclosure Inception out of 10. Carceri’s story portrays a world made by programs, for programs. These are fictionally portrayed as art works created by the characters (programs) of this world. No names of modern, living artists were used to generate these images. From there, I photo-shopped all images so that none are 100% unaltered from the generation process.

Co-op horror Content Warning now has a hat shop, new map, island upgrades and 13 fresh monsters

Not sure how the latter work. Some players are finding that their videos are going AWOL.

Cutesy fairytale citybuilder Fabledom hits 1.0 later this month

This is kind of a cool way of handling a marriage (bitCrusader Kings-y, maybe?) in this kind ofstrategygame. Who knows, maybe they can add buffs sometimes too? News ed Edwin said it made him want a Shrek townbuilder.

Fortnite is now a Lego Star Wars game, with a whole new world for its survival mode in time for May the Fourth

), racing game or music-rhythm successor toGuitar Hero. Youll get Lego Chewbacca as an outfit for jumping up to premium, too. All games should have a throwable lightsaber, in truth. Youll have until May the Four(teenth) to finish them. Completing quests in the music mode will get you the Hallikset Guitar, too. Outfits-wise, Dagobah Luke, Lando Calrissian and the AWR Trooper (I think thats a TIE pilot?) all show up, with Lego versions to boot....

Helldivers 2 PC players will soon need to link their Steam accounts to PlayStation Network

Safety and security apparently. New players will need a PSN account as of May 6th. It also allows those players that have been banned the right to appeal." I had no idea there was a grace period! Anyway, I’m lucky enough that I’ve already created a PSN account and linked the two. I should get back to earning super credits for thisnew wintery warbond that came out. Looks like it has some anti-robot measures in there....

All three remastered Mass Effect games and their DLC are 90% off on Steam

TheLegendary Editionof BioWare’s ravishing sci-fiRPGseries is90% off on Steamuntil 13th May. If you haven’t played a Mass Effect game before, this is a pretty good place to start. They brought on some guy called Geoff Keighley to serve as a punching bag, if memory serves. It begins by (spoilers, I guess?) Mass Effect 3, finally, isan apocalyptic spectacleboth within the universe and in terms of fanbase management. Strange memories on this misty London morning in 2024....