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Star Trek: Outposts Unknown’s demo introduces an upbeat settlement builder, though my crew of clocking-out ship slackers wouldn’t last a day in RimWorld

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Star Trek: Outposts Unknown’s demo introduces an upbeat settlement builder, though my crew of clocking-out ship slackers wouldn’t last a day in RimWorld

bashu June 8, 2026

Offworld settlement builders delight in forcing their pebble-gathering, ore-hoarding colonists into a life of subsistence scrounging by...

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Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs

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Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs

bashu June 8, 2026

Alkimia Interactive and THQ’s Gothic remake launched over the weekend, and many are the complaints that the...

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Stealth’s been replaced with scrappy swordfighting in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, but what I really miss are the rat swarms

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Stealth’s been replaced with scrappy swordfighting in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, but what I really miss are the rat swarms

bashu June 8, 2026

I’ve never mastered the combat of Sekiro and Sifu. They’re games that demand you recognise an incoming...

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Resident Evil Veronica is the remake I’m most excited about, because the original was such a mess

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Resident Evil Veronica is the remake I’m most excited about, because the original was such a mess

bashu June 8, 2026

Of all the Resident Evil remakes to burst forth from Capcom like zombie-spawn in recent years, I...

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To the delight of its skateboarding aliens, I have failed to solo Saturday morning cartoon-styled co-op roguelike Maximum Thunderness as if I have four hands

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To the delight of its skateboarding aliens, I have failed to solo Saturday morning cartoon-styled co-op roguelike Maximum Thunderness as if I have four hands

bashu June 8, 2026

A mass of flailing fingers flop against my desk. I’m doing badly at playing cartoony roguelike shooter...

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This week in PC games: some enormous space sims and strategy games, plus a cheery prop hunt where you paint your own camouflage

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This week in PC games: some enormous space sims and strategy games, plus a cheery prop hunt where you paint your own camouflage

bashu June 8, 2026

Good news, everybody! We made it through the Summer Game Fest weekend pretty much unscathed. True, I...

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“Trust that we’re going to be smart about this” Amazon Game Studios boss says of 007 First Light sequels, while insisting he didn’t confirm who’ll publish them

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“Trust that we’re going to be smart about this” Amazon Game Studios boss says of 007 First Light sequels, while insisting he didn’t confirm who’ll publish them

bashu June 8, 2026

Last week, Amazon gaming general manager Jeff Gattis rather put the cat amongst the pigeons when talking...

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“We made a series of mistakes”: GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game

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“We made a series of mistakes”: GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game

bashu June 8, 2026

Retro-focused game sellers GOG have apologised after sending out a newsletter featuring runes which have long served...

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Bleak, disquieting action game Virtue and a Sledgehammer blends family heartbreak with stout wall-smashing in its new demo

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Bleak, disquieting action game Virtue and a Sledgehammer blends family heartbreak with stout wall-smashing in its new demo

bashu June 8, 2026

Deconstructeam, of Many Nights a Whisper and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, say their newest game Virtue and...

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Going by its demo, Ascenders: Beyond the Peak is a pitiless Darkest Dungeon-style climbing RPG in which one party member’s fall could doom the rest

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Going by its demo, Ascenders: Beyond the Peak is a pitiless Darkest Dungeon-style climbing RPG in which one party member’s fall could doom the rest

bashu June 8, 2026

Seldom has the phrase “balance your party” carved deeper clawmarks into my soul than when playing Ascenders:...

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