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The horrible Construct cyborgs of tactics game Menace are getting a rework for "style" and "variety", while the devs put a bullet in the promotion tax
Grim and grubby mercenary tactics game Menace is getting a big update that removes a "not-so-popular" promotion tax, gives all units the ability to clear away wrecked vehicles, and reworks the major Construct enemy faction, deemed by developers Overhype to be "severely lacking in uniqueness, variety, and style". Read more
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Slay the Spire 2 roadmap suggests we won't get matchmaking but does promise "whimsy" – here's what's new
It's been a little more than a month since Mega Crit's hugely anticipated sequel Slay the Spire 2 released in early access, but already the team is on the "road to version 1.0", "fix[ing] up major issues, improving the feedback systems, polishing up visuals, and reworking/balancing content so that all of the cards and items feel interesting and viable". Read more
The Division was originally a World of Warcraft style MMO, but "that skill component wasn't there", says Massive Entertainment
Massive Entertainment has revealed that at one point in development, The Division was a World of Warcraft style MMORPG with a hotbar and dog companion, before transforming into the game we know today. Read more
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a strong comeback for a strategy RPG series with few modern competitors, though it could explain itself better
It's been over a decade since the last Heroes of Might & Magic game, and more than 25 since we set foot in the fantasy world of Enroth, the setting of the first three titles in the strategy series. So there is a lot riding on Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era, the reboot of the series from developers Unfrozen, backed both by a collaboration between Ubisoft and Hooded Horse, and the series' creator Jon Van Caneghem. Who better to tell if this venerable and cherished jewel within PC gaming's crow
Slay the Spire 2 gets its first major update, buffing the Regent, bringing sweeping balance changes, and adding a powerful new card
Slay the Spire 2 has received its first major balance update, bringing with it a suite of substantial changes after roughly a month of continuous tweaking on the game's beta branch. With the Regent recieving massive buffs, a new card in the mix, and a phobia mode, regular 'ol players can experience plenty of new surprises. Read more
Rally Point: Genre-crushing choose-your-own strategy Heart of the Machine might be peak Arcen
Centuries ago, before 2022, before the Good Darkness of 2020, before the Before Times of 2015, the ancient age before even that of 2013, and perhaps, some fringe scholars suggest, even before the beginning of this sentence, there was Arcen Games. Read more
After a month of haggling with players, Mega Crit make Slay the Spire 2's beta patches official, with big character reworks alongside new art and scoring systems
Slay the Spire 2 has received a major update that rolls all of the additions, tweaks and fixes from recent beta updates into the main branch of the game - though developers Mega Crit are at pains to repeat that "this is still an Early Access game, so just because something made it from beta to main does not mean it's set in stone". Read more
Firaxis reveal Civilization 7's not good enough at building attack maths, tanking its late-game performance - a patch/tutor is here
Band of soldiers + building. What does that equal, Civ 7? It's ok, stop panicking. I know you've been struggling with some late-game maths, and Firaxis have gotten you a tutor in the form of a fresh patch, which also rolls out 2K's teen accounts. The latter allow parents to cut off access to a few elements of the strategy game, in an effort to keep under 18s safer from forces that aren't nuke-happy Confucius. Read more
Infamous Keepers is a reverse dungeon crawler where you have to survive after mass layoffs and oh no is this a games industry metaphor
Infamous Keepers, I think, might be a game about the games industry. It's not about making games explicitly, not in the slightest. It is a tower defence roguelite, one where you run a dungeon, with this as the narrative setup, however: "Your employer, the Dungeon Company, has recently gone through massive layoffs, putting their dungeons to the test by closing the portals that connect them… if a team of heroes makes it all the way through, you can kiss your career goodbye." You do have to
Homeworld junkies rejoice, brilliantly brutal sci-fi strategy sim Nebulous is finally getting its singleplayer campaign
Hooded Horse and Eridanus Industries are finally adding a singleplayer narrative campaign option to Nebulous: Fleet Command, the outrageously nerdy space navy strategy game that makes Homeworld look like bashing rubber ducks together in a star-spangled bathtub. The first act of that campaign launches on May 29th, and puts you in charge of a fleet operating behind enemy lines in a wartorn star system, over the course of 17 missions. You know what this means, don't you? It means I have to reme
I'm sad to report that when I worked on Black & White 2's expansion I was never offered a weed-laced chilli con carne
You may not be remotely surprised to learn that while making Black & White, the god game in which you can care for a three-story tall cow, many of the developers at Lionhead were smoking marijuana. As Peter Molyneux tells it in a recent anniversary piece for Eurogamer: "If there's any stimulant that aids creativity, it's weed." The developers interviewed do point out that this wasn't everyone on the team. "It would get to six o'clock, which was the official end of the day, and the 'normal' peopl
Horror RPG Look Outside's chunky new 2.3 update gives you even more reason to share soup with the cursed folk living in your basement
Funky horror RPG Look Outside has just gotten a big update, with some fresh additions, enough balancing tweaks to kill any window-looking monsters, and some extra "nasty surprises" for its cursed mode. Seriously, these are some looooooooooooooooooong patch notes for the Devolver-published flick of spooky pixel artist Francis Coulombe. Read more
Overwatch's Switch 2 version is currently missing the promised 60 FPS boost, but a fix is coming soon
Overwatch's relaunch, which has totally erased '2' from its title and brought back some of the original iteration's looser vibe, has been pretty convincing so far. Now, Season 2 has just hit alongside new DPS hero Sierra, but the accompanying Switch 2 port is, sadly, a disappointment that hasn't quite landed as advertised. Read more
"I wanted you to feel bad": former Battlefield audio designer recalls punching himself to record more realistic gunshot screams
Arc Raiders audio director Bence Pajor has spoken on the Game Makers Notebook podcast about his earlier career at DICE, working on sound effects for the Battlefield FPS series. The discussion includes some insights about how Pajor – a former Swedish military sniper – created effects for soldiers getting struck by bullets. Amongst other things, he experimented with punching himself hard enough to elicit cries of pain. It's not clear whether the resulting recordings made their way into
Disney yank a bunch of games from Steam, including bonafide classics Star Wars: Dark Forces, Outlaws and High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance
A bunch of older games linked to or published by Disney have just been delisted from Steam in one fell swoop, with the original 90s versions of Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws among their number. These 15 make up the second round of Disney-related games to be yanked from the storefront this year, with 14 having gotten the hook back in January. Read more
Nintendo celebrates Animal Crossing turning 25 with a charming commemorative item to display on your New Horizons island
Animal Crossing has just turned 25 years old, and to mark its quarter century Nintendo has released a fresh update for New Horizons which along with various fixes also adds a commemorative item. Read more
Warhammer Classics initiative re-releases 28 vintage Warhammer and W40K games, with seven out on Steam for the first time
Games Workshop have buddied up with bygone re-release specialists SNEG to launch Warhammer Classics: nearly thirty games of varying oldness (but spanning both the original Fantasy and shooty 40K Warhams), "revived in their original state" on Steam. Read more
"This is the most reasonable and wise thing to do": survival shooter Road to Vostok's dev plans to recharge a bit before tackling fixes and larger updates
Finnish survivashooter Road to Vostok has fared very well since wandering out of the early access gates last week, and its solo developer Antti Leinonen's now turning his thoughts towards how he'll build on that going forwards. However, he's keen not to rush into any fixes or work on overhauls/additions, instead taking some time to get back to 100% following what sounds like an intense push to this initial build. Read more