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Ash has rounded up some strange pals in the trailer above to ward off some nasties from the cabin you might recognise from Evil Dead films. I say strange pals mostly because one of them is dressed like a knight. I mean, it’s probably a good way to be dressed when fighting off zombies, he just looks a little out of place. “Work together as a team of four survivors, exploring, looting, crafting, managing your fear, and finding key artifacts to seal the breach between worlds, " says the press release....

Exit The Gungeon is a side-on platforming spin off from Dodge Rolls’ shootey roguelike Enter The Gungeon. A mobile version came out on Apple Arcade back in September, but last night it escaped to Steam, too. I’ve played a little and enjoyed destroying sentient bullets with an electric guitar. The Gungeon is collapsin’, and the elevator outwards is plagued by the Gungeon’s minions. You’ll be fine. There’s much more surface area to shoot at....

Fall Guys tips: how to win all 24 games There are an impressive number of minigames in Fall Guys, and each one requires you to employ different tips and tactics in order to survive to the next round. Below we’ve listed all 24 game modes in Fall Guys. Click the links to skip ahead to descriptions and top tips for each minigame! Block Party | Dizzy Heights | Door Dash | Egg Scramble | Fall Ball | Fall Mountain | Fruit Chute | Gate Crash | Hex-A-Gone | Hit Parade | Hoarders | Hoopsie Daisy | Jinxed | Jump Club | Perfect Match | Rock ‘N’ Roll | Roll Out | Royal Fumble | See Saw | Slime Climb | Tail Tag | Team Tail Tag | The Whirlygig | Tip Toe Please note: all video clips have been taken from the official Fall Guys site....

The FDA say it’s “the first digital therapeutic intended to improve symptoms associated with ADHD, as well as the first game-based therapeutic granted marketing authorization by the FDA for any type of condition”. The game is iOS-only, but it certainly sets an interesting industry precedent. According to Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, “The EndeavorRx device offers a non-drug option for improving symptoms associated with ADHD in children and is an important example of the growing field of digital therapy and digital therapeutics....

More importantly, it’s all set to kick off this week, with FIFA 23 Early Access and the full release both coming before the weekend. In this guide, we break down the FIFA 23 release date and time for Early Access and the full launch. FIFA 23 release date and time FIFA 23 releases on Friday 30 September at midnight local time. However, FIFA 23 technically has two release dates this week, as there was an Early Access period that started a few days before the full release....

Rumours began circulating earlier today that FUT wouldn’t receive the popular dedicated World Cup mode that it saw in 2014 and 2018, following leaked info from Fut Sheriff on Twitter. Fut Sheriff had reliably leaked promo cards and game modes from FIFA before, and claimed that this World Cup would see time-limited cards that would be removed after the season was over. EA has since confirmed that FUT will feature the World Cup tournament as “a full season of content”, but not as a dedicated mode, and that time-limited cards are part of it....

Spotted by the folks on ResetEra, the Epic Store has an unlisted product called Pineapple QA that was submitted by Square Enix. The listing info is courtesy of EpicData, which pulls in database info from Epic’s store. Pineapple QA is pretty well disguised, but down in the “customAttributes” section you can spot the “CloudSaveFolder” which is listed as: In the next section, “CloudExcludeList” you can spot the value listed as “ff7remakedevice....

Big on the list is Final Fantasy X and its sequel X-2 which are being added on May 13th. It’s a good’un on the long list of fantasies final. “Pro Blitzball player Tidus is minding his own business and being great at sports when a bloody great big thing sends him spiralling into a distant future. Thanks, thing,” Brendy Caldwell (RPS in peace) explained when the remasters came to PC in 2016....

But you should have seen me at the Endwalker hands-on preview, Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming fourth expansion. I played as a tall bunny boy, not Shadow Hulk. I was suddenly at the highest level cap, not the foothills of the early-mid game. I soared over new zones and wrestled through a new dungeon in a state of delirium. And now, writing this in the present, I desperately want to go back....

So, in For The Warp you’re piloting a spaceship from warp-hole to warp-hole, navigating pirate-infested space and encountering randomly generated scenarios along the way, while managing your limited fuel reserves, bank balance and hull integrity as you go. Each jump depletes your remaining fuel by one precious unit, encouraging you to willingly charge into battles to shore up your resources or to find a safe route to a trading platform in order to fill up your dwindling tank....

The game comes out on January 24th, so we’ll know for sure soon enough. Ignore the waffle about the nature of fear unlocking your true potential. Look at those demonic deer, the flippy lightning blasts, the wibbly tentacle cyclops. Put me in, coach. Or not! PS5 owners were divided about the demo, with some adoring it while others said the combat felt sluggish and the map empty. I sold my PS5 for travelling money, so I haven’t had a chance to try it for myself....

Foxhole’s world is now substantially larger than before, with seven new regions to the north and seven to the south. That includes new towns and villages, and enough space to support up to 3000 players in a single, persistent war. There are also 15 new uniforms so each type of soldier looks different, new tank classes, a better camera system and much more. But it’s the new combat engineer activities that interest me most....

Every time I sit down to write, the first thing I do isn’t open up a blank document, it’s find some nice video game music to listen to. And loads of it can be found free on YouTube. Ambient music from Skyrim, relaxing compilations from Animal Crossing, lo-fi Legend of Zelda remixes Sometimes, work or study just can’t get done without my 10-hour loop of Chrono Trigger’s Corridors Of Time....

Along with those 69 bees, Microsoft boasted about the 25 emms in the big announcement, casually mentioning that “Game Pass now has more than 25 million subscribers”. Big number, but not a surprising one given how much of a bargain it is. That’s where they also announced that once the Actiblizz deal is settled (expected by June 2023, if shareholders and regulatory authorities approve), they plan to “offer as many Activision Blizzard games as we can within Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass”, both new and old....

“We love Double Fine and they have been really fantastic to us,” say Boneloaf in a new post. “With Double Fine Presents winding down due to Double Fine’s acquisition by Xbox Game Studios last year, we think it is a good time for Boneloaf to stand on its own…legs and publish Gang Beasts ourselves.” Currently, Boneloaf say they’re planning to release Gang Beasts update 1.13 as a beta branch on Steam sometime next month....

Disclosure: The Wild Rumpus, a collective to which I belong, have run our Mild Rumpus showcase at GDC for several years and were due to do so again. “After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March,” the organisers said in tonight’s statement. It’s not yet clear what the alternative “GDC event later in the summer” will be....

Take $50 off the 4TB WD Blue SATA SSD with code EMC2AAZA827 The WD Blue SSD is one of the better SATA options, with sequential reads up to 560MB/s and sequential writes up to 530MB/s. Similar random I/O performance to an NVMe drive means that there’s little different in game load time performance, while costing much less than a typical 4TB NVMe - for comparison, the cheapest NVMe drive is $450 and comes from a less distinguished brand than WD....

You take control of a strange robed pilgrim with a big clockwork dial on their head, who’s journeyed to the mysterious Gravity Castle to explore its depths. You’ll be descending deep into its underground belly, which is unhelpfully filled with lots of insta-death spikes and traps. Lucky for you, you’ve got a mystical doodad that lets you control the flow of gravity, allowing you to twist the castle left, right and upside down to hop, skip and a jump through its twisty passages....

The update has also increased security for the popular Cayo Perico heist, which was one of the main ways people earned their money, so folks are understandably grumpy. Maybe they can sell some acid instead? Those thugs call themselves the Fooliganz, and have rocked up in town with dreams of “climbing to the top of the Southern San Andreas criminal food chain”. As an extra incentive to help them on their way, developers Rockstar are doubling any GTA$ and RP you earn for completing their missions before December 21st....

I understand Halo 3 is very popular. I believe our Nate is haloed out of his gourd and will be telling us all more about it soon. The PC release comes with new shininess including support for high and wide resolutions, field of view options, customisable keyboard and mouse controls, and high framerates. Halo 3 was Bungie’s last chronological contribution to Halo, though they did go back and fill in some gaps with Halo 3: ODST and the prequel Reach....