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If you need more Shakespeare with your Slay the Spire, check out demon lawyer deckbuilder The Killing Stone

Slay the Spire 2 may yet prove this year's best deckbuilder, but The Killing Stone is more intriguing. It's also heckin' Elizabethan, if you opt for the "period" dialogue option. The setup, in present-day English: it's the 17th century, and you are a student of the great occultist Mariken Svangård. As is the fashion among occultists, your mentor has just popped her clogs in mysterious circumstances, and you've come to a bizarre mansion in the Antarctic circle to pay respects and meet her r

Here are our PS Plus Premium and Extra games for April

Sony has lifted the lid on its PS Plus Premium and Extra game offerings for April. Read more

First-person survival horror Total Chaos is getting a Switch 2 port later this month

After making a decent splash last year, Total Chaos has found a new platform to terrorize in Nintendo Switch 2, and the best news is we won't have to wait long to return to Fort Oasis. Read more

Old School RuneScape's latest League is out now, pushing thousands of players to cry at kids and get haircuts for the devil

Old School RuneScape has just launched its sixth ever limited-time league event, allowing MMO lovers to dive into a selection of new servers to experience the world under the thumb of the hellish Yama. Called Demonic Pacts, over 150,000 people are playing the game as of writing, mere hours since its release. Read more

Hades 2's second post-launch update secretly adds a new game mode

Hades 2 is pretty great, but as we all know, developer Supergiant Games rarely steps away from its hits right after dropping a killer 1.0 launch. Now, alongside yesterday's PS5 and Xbox release, the second post-launch patch has arrived. Read more

Samson's second update continues to swat serious bugs, and its street races have been tweaked into ideal day-ending money-makers

Liquid Swords continue to chip away at the biggest issues Samson, their bitesize tale of a small-time crim pulling jobs to gradually remove the debt albatross from his neck, has faced since it launched the other week in a state the ranged from harmlessly quirky to frustratingly broken. The second of these patches picks up the first's problem-eliminating baton, but also sees the devs start to make some more in-depth tweaks to mechanics that work fine, but leave a bit to be desired. Read more

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Revisiting Atomfall’s pasty-pocalyse survival jaunt a year on, I’ve finally been seduced by its hallucinated monks and jarred brains

When I finished my first playthrough of Atomfall for review last year, I felt like Rebellion’s pasty-littered survival game was just starting to properly get its hooks into me. I’ve dug plenty of short games over the years - Return of the Obra Dinn and The Red Strings Club are a couple of examples - but with that brevity comes the challenge of delivering on the promise of your premise in a briefer window than longer games are afforded. The base version of Atomfall instead reached its

Leaked GTA Online revenue data boosts publisher Take-Two's stock

Even though the hacker group ShinyHunters successfully broke through (part of) Rockstar Games' security and extracted internal data, the developer and its huge publisher, Take-Two, haven't minded the unfortunate event much. In fact, it seems they're coming out on top. Read more

Horror RPG Look Outside's chunky new 2.3 update gives you even more reason to share soup with the cursed folk living in your basement

Funky horror RPG Look Outside has just gotten a big update, with some fresh additions, enough balancing tweaks to kill any window-looking monsters, and some extra "nasty surprises" for its cursed mode. Seriously, these are some looooooooooooooooooong patch notes for the Devolver-published flick of spooky pixel artist Francis Coulombe. Read more

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Starfield's PS5 port manages roughly 140K sales in a week, estimates analyst firm

Starfield's Free Lanes update and the Terran Armada DLC are pretty fun... as long as you want more Starfield. The game's long-awaited PS5 port has run into a number of big issues since it launched on 7th April though, and fixes are coming soon. How does that translate into sales numbers? The first estimates are in... Read more

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Multiple PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium titles for April have leaked

It looks like those on PlayStation Plus' Extra and Premium tiers can expect more blockbuster games to join the service next week. Read more

Overwatch's Switch 2 version is currently missing the promised 60 FPS boost, but a fix is coming soon

Overwatch's relaunch, which has totally erased '2' from its title and brought back some of the original iteration's looser vibe, has been pretty convincing so far. Now, Season 2 has just hit alongside new DPS hero Sierra, but the accompanying Switch 2 port is, sadly, a disappointment that hasn't quite landed as advertised. Read more

"The most fun I've had in the last week playing" - Marathon players react to the mid-season update, and its new friendly-first features

Marathon has received a massive mid-season update, bringing with it a host of balance changes, major adjustments to powerful tools, and new cosmetics. But one of the most interesting additions was the C.A.R.R.I feature - which promotes something truly alien to the mostly ruthless playerbase: being friendly to each other. Read more

Star Trek: Resurgence isn't going to live long and prosper - it's being delisted from Steam around three years on from release

Update: It's now been pulled from sale on Steam. Original story follows: Star Trek: Resurgence, the Telltale-style Trek game which came out back in 2023, is set to be delisted from Steam soon. Unlike the mysterious spate of Disney delistings the other day, Resurgence developers Dramatic Labs have been upfront about the reason it's being pulled. Read more

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Labyrinth.os is a dungeon crawling ode to late '90s and early 2000s uncanny CGI

Labyrinth.os is the kind of game where I'm not entirely sure I can tell you what it is exactly. It is, as the game's itch.io page says, a "new 3D Dungeon Crawling Dream for Windows Machines." A brief, seemingly in-world description explains the setup for the game too: "Before dying out, the smartest of the world from before left a machine, A machine with the power to restart the world, The Thirteen Architects who were built to maintain this machine dubbed it: The World Egg." But beyond that, it

"You cannot create art like this": The Blood of Dawnwalker director on making AAA games that aren't just interested in money

If the *waves hands frantically* general state of the games industry hasn't made it clear already, it cannot be understated how much of a priority making money is for the suits that own all these game studios. Who cares if the thing is good! Will it make lots of money? And judging by a recent interview, The Witcher 3 director and director of the upcoming The Blood of Dawnwalker Konrad Tomaszkiewicz takes issue with this frustrating fact. Read more

Hades 2's second post-launch patch adds in more prophecy conclusions and flirtier friends

The work of an early access game, even when it's hit 1.0, is never truly done. That is certainly the case for Hades 2, which has received its second post-launch patch today. Nothing mind blowing has been added in with this one, but there does seem to be a few more narrative threads tied up, and a number of quality of life changes. Read more