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Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy might just have everything I want from a CRPG
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (900+ words) Owlcat's found my wishlist. After 132 hours of Rogue Trader, I wasn't sure I had another one in me so soon. Another dense, grimdark RPG set in the miserable far-flung future. But I love that miserable far-flung future, so flinging caution…...
Age of Wonders 4's next expansion introduces nomadic, post-apocalyptic bunnies
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (298+ words) A new species, magical post-apocalyptic maps and a trio of new tomes are coming with Rise from Ruin in March. I could never look at cute bunnies the same way after watching Watership Down, but I feel more prepared for…...
Here's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (275+ words) I taught myself Caravan in New Vegas. I can learn this. Anyway, I may have to finally learn it, because some mad lad has gone and added mahjong'under the setting-appropriate name of mazte'to The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, probably my favourite…...
Medieval physics romp Besiege has spent a decade letting us conquer the land and sea, so naturally its next expansion is heading to the final frontier
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (292+ words) Flit off into space to conquer alien worlds. Besiege has been knocking around for a while. Hitting Steam early access only a couple of years after the programme started, it quickly became a fave, though it would linger there for…...
Finally, a fantasy game filled with adorable gnomes that you can punch right in their adorable faces
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (390+ words) You've heard of a rumble in the jungle. The demo for Fight-Quest is an altercation in the vegetation. A peaceful fantasy realm. A lush and gentle forest. Hark! Mythical creatures wander hither and thither: gnomes! Tiny and cute, with their…...
Valheim devs have been working on a first-person co-op dungeon-crawler 'in the evenings and on weekends,' and you can try it now on Steam
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (312+ words) Rob the dead to pay the living in Begraved. It's been a minute since Valheim launched into early access, if "a minute" can mean "almost exactly five years." While the Viking survival game has grown considerably since February 2021 with new…...
FTL-like Void War was DMCAed by Games Workshop due to 'oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim"
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (592+ words) Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show…...
Thanks to one mad modder, we can now play Doom on an in-game computer inside another FPS
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (177+ words) Escalating levels of FPS turducken. Doom can run on so many weird devices now, it's easier to tally up the things that don't support id's 1993 masterpiece. But running a game inside another game always tickles my lizard brain, and Squaresweets…...
Deadlock's next hero is Venator, a special agent of the Vatican who has 2 guns—also a grenade, a bear trap, and a crossbow that shoots holy stakes
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (382+ words) In the name of the Holy Father, I will lock & load. The most recent addition to the cast is Venator, leaving the fencer Apollo and carnie Celeste in the lurch, and to be fair it's not hard to see why'this…...
Doom: The Dark Ages, the superior sequel in the rebooted FPS series (sorry, not sorry, Eternal), is now 67% off thanks to id Software's 35th anniversary celebration
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (260+ words) While id Software's rebooted Doom got me reaching for my Super Shotgun with suitably psychotic glee, I never warmed to Doom: Eternal. I know that for many gamers, it delivered the hyperfast bullet ballet they'd always wanted, but for me,…...