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It’s an exaggeration to say that early access city builder Manor Lords was made by one person—developer Greg Styczeń has worked with a number of contractors—but it certainly isn’t being developed by a big, 50-person team. Some players think it ought to be, though.

In a recent interview with PC Gamer, Tim Bender, CEO of Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse, recalled seeing a post in the Steam forums asking if the game had been “abandoned” because it hadn’t had an update yet—just four days after its early access launch. A solution put forward by another commenter was that Styczeń should “immediately hire 50 people and create a gigantic company, and that way they can get faster updates.”

Bender brushed off those comments, which are hardly the first of …

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One of the first things that interested me about Starfield before it launched was the revelation that there was a weird space cult who worshipped some kind of giant serpent. Why would astronauts believe in an eternal space snake? I couldn’t wait to find out more about them.

Unfortunately, Starfield didn’t delve all that deeply into the House Va’ruun cult, at least not enough for my satisfaction, and you couldn’t join them like you could the other main factions. The RPG’s best companion, Andreja, was a lapsed member, and there were some encounters and quests where you crossed paths with the cult, but they mostly just hissed and attacked on sight.

Starfield’s first DLC, Shattered Space, is poised to explore the cult more deeply. In a new trailer shown at the Xbo…

The Team Fortress 2 voice cast continue to have far, far too much fun with their characters. Hot on the heels of occupying a jazz bar to croon about sandwiches (or sandviches, if you’re a stickler for grammar), the gang has once again reunited to recreate another video from the Meet the Team series that Valve put out over a decade ago.

This time the video in question is Meet the Sniper, a recreation of the video from 2009 (oh my god) that replaces the original’s in-game models with their real-life voice actors. In this instance, the star of the show is John Lowrie, the VA behind TF2’s Sniper, dressed to the nines in an authentic rig-out.

It’s not just Lowrie, though. The original Meet the Sniper vid featured appearances (and grisly deaths) by various other members of the tea…

Yesterday’s tease was true: Netflix has dropped the first official trailer for The Witcher season 3, and even better, announced the release dates. And yes, it’s dates, because the new season is coming in two parts.

Season 3 volume 1 will debut on June 29, according to the trailer, while volume 2 will land a month later, on July 27. Netflix clarified that the first volume will include five episodes while the second will have the last three, which is kind of a weird split—why not four and four?—but as someone who blazed through the first two seasons at maximum speed, I appreciate being given a mandatory break in the middle.

The new season of The Witcher on Netflix will follow Geralt, Yennfer, and Ciri as they attempt to escape “monarchs, mages, and beasts …

We’ve suspected AMD’s Granite Ridge family of Zen 5 based processors might show their faces soon, given that AMD has already said it’s aiming for a launch in the second half of this year, and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to deliver the Computex keynote on June 3. Now Gigabyte has released a BIOS update for several of its AM5 series of motherboards in anticipation of the new chips, and it seems to confirm that they’ll be called the AMD Ryzen 9000 series.

In a news post on the company website, the Gigabyte AM5 X670, B650 and A620 motherboards are confirmed to receive boot up support for “the coming AMD Ryzen™ 9000 series”, with the most recent AGESA 1.1.7.0 beta BIOS. 

While we’ve already seen leaks suggesting this name would be used for the new chips, this is the first o…

An Elden Ring player player has knocked out the game’s most difficult boss on its highest difficulty, New Game+7, in a mere 15 seconds. The speed kill was completed by RS_Lionheart, and takes down Malenia by just… walking in and beating the absolute crap out of her.

Using an extensive suite of damage-boosting effects in a buff-up routine that takes about 45 seconds of the entire video, something like three times as long as the fight itself, RS_Lionheart knocks out Malenia in an impressive 15.7 seconds. In the words of Malenia herself: “Your strength, extraordinary…”

RS_Lionheart’s 15-second kill got a lot of attention when posted over on Reddit, where it inspired a lot of commentary. Such gems as “I would have died and retried 3 times in the amount of time it took you to…

The Steam Deck is good at many things, but a wonderful typing experience it is not. Either you’re furiously flipping away at those thumbsticks like some kind of—shock horror—console gamer, or you’re jabbing your fingers and thumbs at the touchscreen like—even bigger shock horror—a mobile gamer. Well, thanks to some clever modding, the Steam Deck now has a 3D printable design for a keeb of its very own, and it hinges right off the Deck like it was meant to be there in the first place.

The keeb in question is the split ergonomic design Corne keyboard, a typing device available as a kit that’s been given its very own 3D printable frame thanks to custom designs by Thingiverse user [a8ksh4], that in turn allow the keyboard to clip on to the Steam Deck (…

The Chinese Communist Party—who had taken aim at free-to-play monetisation schemes just before the holidays—softened its stance. This was after “nearly $80 billion in market value” bled from Tencent (League of Legends) and NetEase (Diablo: Immortal). 

The draft rules intended to target the live service giant’s favourite toys (such as daily login bonuses) while also threatening a core species of player—the deep-pocketed ‘whale’—completely extinct, with harsh spending limits. While I’m sure us players are tired of these systems, they aren’t so easily toppled. The market panic was inevitable, in hindsight.

Despite analyst’s insistence that the draft rules wouldn’t be changed, adjustments were announced later in the month, according to a report from …

In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Sam Lake—creative director of Remedy Entertainment—revealed that prolific horror writer Stephen King granted Alan Wake’s opening quote for just $1. Remedy is, of course, on the promotional circuit for the upcoming sequel to Alan Wake.

“I really, really desperately wanted a quote from him to start it off,” Lake told Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell. “It’s my understanding he wanted $1 for us to get the rights to use it. [It was] so very generous.”

The quote is from a piece King wrote for Entertainment Weekly, “Why Hollywood Can’t Do Horror”. In it, he writes that “nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear.”

King goes on to cite a m…

By all accounts, space-dwarf mining sim Deep Rock Galactic has one of the last positive communities left in all of videogames. There’s something about rambunctiously stripping the galaxy of resources as a squad of stout ‘n’ shouty guys that brings out the best in people. That must be why—per developer Ghost Ship Games’ own 2023 end of year stats—over 8 million people have gotten in on the action since the game released in early access back in 2018.

Or at least, 8 million have bought the game, and I suppose a fair few of them went on to let it languish in their Steam libraries untouched. Nevertheless, DRG is going from strength to strength, selling a record 2.5 million copies in 2023 alone. But we have to talk about some of these other stats.

Ghost Ship has also p…