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Star Citizen is free for the next few days, please don't accidentally buy a $300 spaceship
Cloud Imperium's Foundation Festival is underway with myriad discounts
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A former Fortnite tech artist is making the world's most advanced slime monster in Unreal Engine 5
Possibly featuring "Splatoon mechanics in dungeons"
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The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
Flock, Flintlock, Kanitsu-Gami, Norland and more besides
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Deck-building space sim Breachway re-emerges from warp with an August early access release date
Once more unto the 'Ways
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Black State is a glossy Metal Gear Solid-style shooter that's thinking with Portals
Door snakes won't keep out the bullets
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Once Human is the centre of a storm of data privacy concerns over a policy line about collecting government ID
Developers Starry Studio insist they haven't broken the law
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New colonial fantasy RPG Greedfall 2: The Dying World hits early access in September 2024
And here's a trailer full of axeplay, spellcraft and pullquote
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Planet Coaster 2 revealed with water parks and multiplayer park-building for 2024 release
First trailer makes a few waves
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The Manor Lords publisher thinks we should all reject the "opportunistic and predatory" quest for a viral hit
A chat with Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender about strategy games and letting devs cook
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Here's a demo for Tako no Himitsu, a Game Boy Advance-style JRPG with music from Golden Sun's composer
And a lot of magic octopus pets
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If you want to play that whopping Fallout London mod you'll need to downgrade Fallout 4's "next gen" version
War must never change too much or it'll cause crashes
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Why haven't Sonic Team made a Sonic RPG yet, asks Sonic Team boss
"How have we gotten to 30 years with no RPGs?!"
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Total War: Pharaoh's enormous free Dynasties update gets a July release date and trailer
It's the "final content addition", says game director
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Helldivers 2 players are escaping death by performing aerial salutes and hugs
Patriotism > gravity
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Spooky free-to-play open worlder Once Human is out today, and the devs have some crash and performance tips
No controller, Steam Deck or DLSS support right now
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Dark strategy game Anoxia Station is Dwarf Fortress for oil drillers with a squirming helping of body horror
Still Wakes The Creep
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Disco Elysium-inspired RPG Hollow Home is a memory of Mariupol from before Russia's invasion
"We want to tell the story of the people, and how the city has changed."
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This weekend I grew a fungus daughter in eerie narrative RPG Mushroom Musume, which has a demo
The morel the merrier
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Long Dark dev criticises Manor Lords for lack of updates, Hooded Horse CEO replies that not every game needs to be "some live-service boom or bust"
Medieval town-builder under no publisher pressure to expand
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The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
Once Human, Anger Foot and a helping of cosy alchemy
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No new seasonal content planned for ailing dino shooter Exoprimal
But everything that's currently available will remain