An early access update completed Teardown’s campaign back in December, so I’m not sure what to expect from the full launch. The devs haven’t really said. But they have released a new update today with additions including a shooting range and skeet machine for target practice, new topiary, a summertime sandbox version of Cullington, and new particle effects: Pretty particles, those. Now I’m even more keen to make a big stinking mess with my clumsy heisting....

Designer and director Sam Barlow announced the new project today on the fifth anniversary of Her Story’s release. He’s certainly gone all out on the secrecy for this one, redacting even the name to “Project A███████”. Some folks have already spotted the full name, if that is its real name, that is. You can find it listed as “Project Ambrosio” on SteamDB. Aside from that though, there are precious few words to actually go on....

As you can see from the roadmap below, the stuff Crema want to introduce this spring includes some new social features, ranked matchmaking and a spectator mode. In summer and autumn there are plans for two new islands, 50 new Temtem (Temtems? Is Temtem singular and plural? Like sheep?), player housing and a quest diary, so all those pesky quests have somewhere to organise themselves. For all you competitive Temtem Tamers, the developers are introducing auto-scaling into ranked matches....

Terraria’s Steam Workshop offers worlds, texture packs, music packs, and language packs. So you can give things new looks and sounds, play it with new words, or just go see what other people have made. I am seeing: lots of golf courses. Texture packs might be more varied than you think, mind. Along with reskins of lots of monsters and weapons and new world textures and such, people do use this to tweak the UI with new fonts and styles and things....

Best management games We’ve selected all different kinds of management games below, with something to satisfy you whether you want to run a household, keep colonists sane, process poisonous gases, or obsess over conveyor belt efficiency. The only rule is that it needs to be fun to play right now. That means we’ve excluded some formative classics that feel less easily recommended - although you’ll still find a handful of games here that are old enough to drink....

Whether you like gore, survival horror, text-based chills, a bit of action, or even a deck builder, this list has something for fans of all kinds of horror - including if you simply cannot stand a jump scare. A few of the games on this list are jump scare free! We take a bit of a broad view, but in general if a game scares us then it counts as horror and could turn up on the list....

Yaughton - Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture The first abandoned village on our list. This will be a theme, because emptiness is unsettling (it’s also handy for developers who don’t have time to make a bunch of NPCs). A completely vacant village is doubly unnerving when everything looks picturesque and summery. In this game, it’s a beautiful day in rural Britain. People should be out and about. They should be having flower shows, they should be sitting in a park with a disposable barbeque, their skin turning the same shade of suspicious pink as the burgers sizzling over the coal....

A good deal of the appeal of The Ascent is how pretty it is. It shines and glimmers, and its angled camera will pan to reveal gorgeous cybervistas. It’s a game where it might be worth caring about ray tracing, then. At launch, DLSS and ray tracing was available on PC via Steam but was absent from the Xbox Game Pass version. That’s fixed now. As the patch notes explain, the update should also address issues affecting co-op players, including crashes, controller issues on menus, and weapon replication bugs, among many other fixes....

The person who kicked it off appears to be u/FrozeninIce248, who declared that the sub should take a leaf out of the Titanfall subreddit and then did. They posted commemorating the anniversary of Arkham World’s release, asking for “this sub’s opinion on the game”. “I loved the open world in this game the most,” they said, “because it was a literal world”. And boy did the sub respond. Since then there have been a lot of posts, all expanding the Arkham World lore in both the content of the original post itself and the discussion in threads beneath it....

This guide will show you everything that you need to know to make the best Jim build in Back 4 Blood. Best Jim build in Back 4 Blood Jim starts with a Magnum, which is very powerful and worth using over most other pistols. However, we recommend grabbing a Desert Eagle if you find one. The Desert Eagle is one of the best weapons in Back 4 Blood, and it’ll help you quickly pull off precision kills....

In the Indonesian horror game DreadOut 2, these spectres are known as kuntilanak (as they’re referred to in Indonesia). These long-haired, howling spooks are every bit as vicious and frightful as I had imagined them to be, and plenty more such Indonesian ghosts lurk in the city you’ll spend the bulk of your time in in DreadOut 2. As the sequel to the original DreadOut from 2014, DreadOut 2 still leans heavily on the “kill ghosts with camera” schtick that’s heavily inspired by seminal J-horror series Fatal Frame....

In other words, Tighnari is here to stay, and he’ll occasionally crop up in banner pulls for a long time to come. So read on for details of our favourite build for Tighnari, including his best weapons, artifacts, party members, and more. How to build Tighnari as main DPS in Genshin Impact Best weapon: Hunter’s Path 4-star alternative: The Viridescent Hunt You may not be surprised to know that the best weapon for Tighnari is the Hunter’s Path, the 5-star bow that launched alongside Tighnari himself in Version 3....

Now, time to enjoy your nice joke! Q: What kind of colourful legume is the main ingredient for rainbow humous? H: Chicory peas

We discuss our favourite game medical types, and also discuss why doctors in games are so often evil baddies. The saga of Matthew and his teeth continues, as well as envisioning Matthew as a clown who just turns up to your kids birthday party smeared in his wife’s lipstick, drinks all your Fanta, and leaves again. Now that’s malpractice. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts....

It’s in this spirit that the Kingdom Hearts series seems to have been made: lure in children with the promise of Olaf from Frozen and other beloved Disney and Pixar characters, but then make them work for those appearances by having them sit through dozens of hours of spiky-haired JRPG characters with too many belts and zips. The Kingdom Hearts series is out on PC now via the Epic Games Store - and it costs too much, too....

The advent calendar starts here, counting down our favourite PC games of 2020. What lies behind the first door? Reach out and pluck it open to find out. Didn’t that feel beautifully tactile? It’s Half-Life: Alyx! Graham: If a revolution in game design happens and no one’s in a VR headset to hear it, does it make a sound? Half-Life: Alyx applies every lesson from the last few years of VR first-person shooter design, and then pushes the genre further with Valve’s talent for design, writing, and their unrivalled resources....

I admit it was a trick question, but look, I’m a genuinely big fan of devs doing a completely different project after a successful game. I also know a whole lotta people who love painting plastic fighters in cool colours, carefuly placing them on a tabletop, and slowly pushing them into other plastic fighters in different colours. I’m absolutely sure that Unknown Worlds will make a very good version of a digital tabletop strategy game....

However, the second proudest moment for them, of course, is being recognised at the most flash and prestigious video games awards ceremony of the year: The Spotty Awards! No expense has been spared for this year’s awards show, which celebrates the best that video games had to offer, and only very briefly mentions what video games will be offering in 2021. We couldn’t nab any world premieres, so we thought we’d leave off the trailers and announcements this year....

It’s the iVoler Steam Deck Dock, which normally costs £49.99/$55.99 but is now down to £37.59 in the UK or $44.99 in the US. I’ve been testing this model for the past few days; here’s why I rate it. Get the iVoler Steam Deck Dock for £37.59 (was £49.99) Get the iVoler Steam Deck Dock for $44.99 (was $55.99) So iVoler reached out to send me their first generation dock a few months back, and it was pretty decent - its plastic build fit the deck like a glove, the three USB ports were super handy and the included USB-C cable for charging was perfectly sized....

“does ur heart ache every time u squeeze the trigger on one of the lovable tomato boyz?” reads the description on the ModDB page. “well now with the power of ‘Cacofrendo’ you dont have to! simply pat the Caco on his lovely little head and watch the blossoming friendship take hold!” You can see the pat-to-befriend method in action in this tweet by the mod’s creator: There are probably two distinct categories of AI fights I enjoy....