Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy is the next tactical and bloody CRPG from the devs behind Rogue Trader

The Warhammer Skulls Showcase was full to the brim with, unsurprisingly, lots of Warhammer 40,000 game news, including a sequel to Boltgun and a definitive edition of Dawn of War. CRPG heads were also treated to a reveal of Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, a new party-based title from Owlcat Games, the devs behind another Warhammer game Rogue Trader. The reveal came in the form of a nicely partially 2D-animated trailer alongside some brief looks at gameplay, all of which is looking quite good.

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Monster Hunter Wilds nabs Street Fighter 6’s Akuma, Chun-Li and more for a Capcom centric collab

The unthinkable has happened, folks: Monster Hunter Wilds, from the one and only Capcom, is collaborating with Street Fighter 6, also from the one and only Capcom. This won’t be much of a surprise for many of you given that 1. Capcom own both titles and can arrange collabs like this pretty easily I assume and B. it’s been teasing it for days now. That isn’t to say the trailer showing off the crossover didn’t have anything concrete, as it did confirm that you’ll be able dress up as Street Fighter baddie Akuma.

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Bungie leaders feared Destiny 2’s fancy glowing Trials gear would kill the microtransactions, claims source

A new video from Youtuber Destin Legarie includes a number of allegations about Destiny 2 and Marathon developers Bungie from anonymous former employees. Amongst other things, we hear that Bungie staff once proposed a Destiny subscription model, but were “vehemently shut down” by leaders. There are also lots of claims about toxic, unaccountable management, and some throwaway insights about how the company’s culture has changed in the course of being acquired by Sony.

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Your snacks are trying to kill you in Leftovers KO!, aka Punch-Out for foodies

I can’t be the only person here who’s ever had a fistfight with their washing-up. I have this big metal spatula that has a malicious habit of bouncing out of the drying rack. Again and again, it sneaks under my elbow to spring and sproing over the lino, gathering as much stray onion peel as it can on the way to the door. The fourth time this happened I bent it in two. Then I thought my sieve was giving me stinkeye, so I threw it down and stamped on it, gangland-style. Look, it was kind of a bad day. But one thing I will swear to you, probably-concerned reader: I would never behave this way towards my leftovers.

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Lies Of P’s upcoming easy difficulty modes have wonderfully unhelpful names

Which sounds like the more intense experience to you, dear reader – “Butterfly’s Guidance” or “Awakened Puppet”? No, this isn’t me workshopping titles for my latest range of exotic fragrances. I’m referring to the new easier difficulty modes Neowiz will add to Pinnochio-powered soulslike Lies Of P alongside the game’s Overture DLC this summer.

The difficulty modes will arrive in a free Lies Of P update. The standard difficulty will be “Legendary Stalker”, which honestly I think is a bit of a letdown, after “Butterfly’s Guidance” and “Awakened Puppet”. It barely sounds like an exotic fragrance at all. Possibly you could peddle it as some kind of feline musk.

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Randy Pitchford shows he’s capable of not being an idiot about Borderlands 4 prices, raising questions about previous insistence on being an idiot

Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford submitted an-all timer entry into the pantheon of neoliberal thirst tweets earlier this week, telling a player concerned about a potential $80 asking price for Borderlands 4 that “if you’re a real fan, you’ll find a way to make it happen”, before telling an anecdote about how, when he were a lad, he used to lick the fleas from unwashed goats for quarters to play Bubble Bobble, or something.

This went down about as well as you’d expect, prompting Pitchford to yesterday follow-up with a clip of him on a panel talking about a potential price increase in, wait for it, much more sober and considered terms. So, in the interest of not only reporting on Pitchford when he says something incredibly stupid (although, lets be real, only because it’s related, I’m still muckraking here) here’s the clip.

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Dreamspring is an open world RPG inspired by Morrowind and King’s Field

The Steam trailer for open world RPG Dreamspring contains: shooting spiders with a revolver. Hanging out near a green ocean. Fighting green skeletons. Most curiously, it features an armoured knight convulsing on a bed as if being shocked, from the inside, by some sort of magical electricity disease. Did this knight eat an entire pack of bad batteries? Do batteries even exist in this world, described as “a realm in ruins…beneath a twilight sky”. It’s a damn hell ass bum mystery, and mystery is exactly what I want from a game that lists both Morrowind and King’s Field as influences.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 review: passable GPU, shame about the drivers

I’d so desperately like to do a graphics card review without the fug of a wider controversy (or cacked-up market conditions), but the RTX 50 series hasn’t been particularly cooperative in that regard, so why should the RTX 5060 be any different? This time, the sadness cloud comes wafting from Nvidia themselves, amid accusations of engineering dodgy RTX 5060 previews and attempting to trade access for greater coverage of its Multi Frame Generation (MFG) capability.

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