Dead Island 2, because most zombies are quite shambly – I encountered many a rich-person decor. Last week, I was given a preview build of the upcoming first-person zombie-smasher and played about the first five hours of it in single-player, taking in sights like a community of gated millionaire mansions, a slightly less palacious but still ridiculous neighbourhood, and an upmarket hotel styled after the famous Beverly Hills Hotel. They’re all full of weird stuff.
There’s a panic room where a guy turned into a zombie mid-demo tape recording. Actress Emma, who you’re battening down the hatches with, has a truly awful full-length Burt Reynoldsian portrait of herself. A shared house called the GOAT PEN, where a team of influencers all live together, has a set for a video series called LIT OR SH!T, and a whiteboard with the script for an apology video. I ask the game director David Stenton if it’s low hanging fruit, or if there’s no such thing with Hollywood rich people. “Of course, it’s low hanging fruit!” he says, laughing. “And also, there’s no such thing.”
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Lightyear Frontier, a sort of Stardew Valley but in space, in which you bring agriculture to an alien planet with a big multipurpose mechatractor suit, has been delayed. It was supposed to come out, well, sometime around now (Spring 2023) but developers Frame Break announced the delay with a statement on Twitter – including that they “can’t commit to a launch window right now”.
SimCity (2013). It was beautiful and it was fun, even if it was heavily compromised in its construction.
Forspoken failed to meet Square Enix’s sales expectations,” 
Resident Evil 4‘s demo dropped on Thursday and in all likelihood its ganados-packed village is difficult and scary enough for me. If you’re made of stronger stuff, you might be interested in the demo’s secret ultra-hard “Mad Chainsaw Mode”, though.
Lemnis Gate is a multiplayer shooter trapped within a turn-based timeloop, in which players work across turns to support their past selves and stymy their opponents. If that were possible in reality, this would be the perfect moment for a new iteration to appear and throw a shield around Lemnis Gate, because its developers have announced that it will close down this summer.
a bit of a genre purist so with a name like 
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closed beta for their co-op horror prequel 
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective has waited a long time for a revival, but Capcom have finally landed on a date for their remaster: June 30th. The game was