Might & Magic: Chess Royale, by comparison, is the jacket potato of autobattlers. Rounds are quick, simple and tasty - but it won’t be long before you tire of them. The basics are the same. Each round, you spend gold to recruit heroes (of Might & Magic) from a random selection. You can also spend gold refreshing which heroes are available to choose from, or increasing how many you can plop into battle....

I never cared to pursue The End in the original Minecraft, but this Dungeons version of it looks a lot more interesting and colourful than what I’ve seen in screenshots of the base game. The expansion adds three new missions to round out the game’s story, alongside new weapons, gear and artifacts, and two new skins and a pet. Minecraft Dungeons, if you didn’t know, is an action RPG, which means it’s very much a game about clicking on mobs until they drop weapons and gear....

In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the Warden, including how to find and avoid the Warden in Minecraft 1.19. What is the Warden in Minecraft 1.19? The Warden is a new hostile mob introduced in Minecraft 1.19. It is a fearsome predator and seemingly impossible to defeat in a standard Survival world. Since it is able to kill players in just one hit (Netherite armor does give you a small amount of extra protection), the Warden is currently one of the strongest enemies in Minecraft....

The April date isn’t directly available on Honkai: Star Rail’s App Store page, but if you search for publisher Cognosphere and click on the game there, you’ll see an “Expected 26th Apr 2023” message. As always, dates like this are subject to change until HoYoverse confirms it for themselves. But, for any Honkai stans who are eagerly awaiting Star Rail, this should quench your thirst. To celebrate Star Rail’s final beta, HoYoverse have also unveiled their newest character, the blue-tailed Bailu....

Infinity Ward changed the names of many of Amsterdam’s sights for the game, including rebadging the hotel as the Breenbergh. In spite of this attempt at distancing the COD hotel from its real-life counterpart, management at the luxury stay is having none of it. “We have taken note of the fact that the Conservatorium Hotel is undesirably the scene of the new Call of Duty," hotel manager Roy Tomassen told Dutch paper de Volkskrant (via PC Gamer)....

To compound the issue, the game’s tutorials aren’t always delivered at the best moments, and you may well find that you’ve clicked through several pop-up text boxes without really taking in some information you later wish you’d paid more attention to. There are plenty of things I wish I’d understood before embarking on my first few quests, so on this page, I’ll pass on to you the most important things I’ve learned about starting out in Monster Hunter Rise....

On this page, we’ll teach you the basics of how to take over and manage your own town, as well as how to defend it against invaders. How to get a settlement in Bannerlord Settlements come in multiple forms. These are towns and castles which you can take over control of. The surrounding villages contribute to your town or castle’s overall wealth and prosperity, but are also vulnerable to being raided for supplies by enemy nobles or bandits....

NX is “Netflix’s home of all things geek”, and it basically just highlights all the sci-fi and fantasy stuff that fans of Swedish thrillers will turn their noses up at. In a follow up tweet, NX confirmed that Netflix “will be developing an Assassin’s Creed live-action series” with Ubi’s Jason Altman and Danielle Kreinik of Ubisoft Film & Television on board as executive producers. I’d say their LinkedIns are lighting up right now....

I don’t know if anything in the report is particularly surprising. It gives more examples of alleged sexist, racist, homophobic, and harassing behaviour which yeah, fit the pattern. It has more allegations about Serge Hascoët, the chief creative officer who resigned earlier this month, including that he and his team sometimes held business meetings in strip clubs and naturally this stifled women’s careers. It has more people reporting inappropriate sexual behaviour from colleagues and managers....

Tamer’s Paradise has a lot of new battle types. First up is the Archtamers’ Sanctum, a gauntlet that, like so much of Temtem, clearly pulls from its Pokémon inspiration. This time, think the Elite Four - you’ll need to beat a series of “the best tamers in history” without losing to any of them. Secondly, the island is also home to the Grit and Draft Arenas, a kind of endless mode for either your own Temtem team or the best you can assemble from a special randomised set....

When Nate played a preview version, he came away gabbing about bits like playing an actual character with goals and a family rather than a broad concept of a nation’s will. “Your player character doesn’t exist in isolation, either,” he said. “They have a whole modelled family tree, all of whom are entwined in personal politics with each other, and with their counterparts among the nations representing your allies and enemies....

Thankfully, the devs have announced they’re on the case, with updates planned for February and March to fix these issues. “We have heard your comments over the past few days about various issues found inside the game. We are taking all of your messages into account and are actively working on several updates planned to release during February and March to fix these issues.” Koei Tecmo said. “The content of the upcoming updates include: several bug fixes, improvement of the performance of the game via the integration of DLSS, and the addition of keyboard & mouse prompts....

Wrecks will be out there in space for you to discover, full of secrets to learn. Maybe aliens have infested it. Life support systems could be busted. Maybe the security system will try to murder you. But you might find data logs revealing the crews’ procedurally-generated fates, as well as freighter tech to salvage for your capital ship and machines that can expand its inventory slots. You can stumble across ships by chance, detected by the radar when pootling around with your pulse drive, or buy the new Emergency Broadcast Receiver to seek them out....

Not For Broadcast puts you in charge of all of the news. Set in an alternate timeline 1980s Britain in which an authoritarian far-left party has swept to power on a wave of populist policies, it casts the player as the lens through which the nation will view its new government. Seated in front of a bank of glowing screens, sliders and controls, you have the enviable power to switch between four live camera feeds, bleep out naughty words (and later subversive opinion), choose which ads to run during the break, and select which images are highlighted on screen during each news story....

£249 is a fantastic price for the Oculus Quest 2. Not only is it a great wireless VR headset in its own right, but it also lets you play all the best PC VR games as well via a USB cable and its Oculus Link technology. It’s the best of both worlds. Yes, it does require you to have a Facebook / Meta account in order to use it, but given the lack of deals on Valve’s superior Index headset these days, the Quest 2 is a much better option for wired and wireless VR right now than any of HTC’s Vive headsets....

Othercide is a tactics game that I’ve seen on posters at numerous games gatherings, but only got to play days before release. Not normally a good sign; people don’t hide things away because they’re too good. Having now explored its monochrome murderscapes I’m not sure why it wasn’t more heralded: I have issues with some wonky roguelite elements, sure, but there’s plenty of novelty to celebrate here, too. All explained in more detail - and with some shiny, if drab, moving pictures - in this video chat....

In a new blog post published May 6th, Wolfire Games co-founder David Rosen writes that he felt he had “no choice” in bringing the suit, after Valve told him “that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere.” “Valve abuses its market power to ensure game publishers have no choice but to sell most of their games through the Steam Store, where they are subject to Valve’s 30 percent toll,” alleges the suit against Valve....

“It was truly the honor of a lifetime to have the opportunity to create worlds and heroes for such a passionate audience,” wrote Kaplan in his goodbye note. “I want to express my deep appreciation to everyone at blizzard who supported our games, our game teams and our players. but I want to say a special thanks to the wonderful game developers that shared in the journey of creation with me....

Forbidden Sanctum throws your character into the foreboding depths of its titular dungeons, challenging them to survive runs as best they can across four floors. Each floor has a boss to tackle, but they are the least of your problems. You’ll also stumble into rooms that Grinding Gear’s CEO Chris Wilson calls “afflicted”. Your character can succumb to minor and major afflictions by entering these rooms, but they can be balanced out or counteracted by finding boons of varying strengths....

It’s completely motionless, seemingly frozen in the act of bursting out of the crate that contains it, and there is absolutely no explanation for it to be found in its immediate environment. There is of course an explanation for this bizarre apparition, which can be pieced together from information found in a side quest, but I’m not going to spoil it. To be honest, I long for the time before I unravelled its mystery....