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Oh no, it’s a pre-order article for Civ VII, get down! Well, it’s also just a friendly PSA, in case you’re looking for the best deal right now. The game is launching on February 11, and if you’ve been waiting to carve your place in history again, we’ve found a solid discount going right now for PC gamers.
Resident Evil Re:Verse, the multiplayer spin-off announced alongside Resident Evil Village, is being shut down. Capcom say that the game and its DLC will be delisted from stores next month and its servers will go offline in June.
True to the word of Capcom’s German social media marketing, Monster Hunter Wilds has a new, generally less extravagant set of PC system requirements ahead of its February 28th launch. There’s also a standalone benchmark tool that you can download from the game’s Steam page, so you can see for yourself how the beast-biffing RPG will run on your hardware.
In theory, these are great developments. Lower requirements mean a more widely accessible game, and the benchmark tool – which covers a good six minutes of combined cinematics and simulated free roaming – brings reassurance and accountability to this otherwise hype-reliant prerelease period. Sadly, there are two problems. One, the benchmark confirms outright that Monster Hunter Wilds will run like stagnant goulash on low-end PCs, and two, it does so to the extent that I’m not sure that the revised minimum specs are even reliable.
The creators of sci-fi corridor explorer Duskers are making a “spiritual successor” to the 2016 space game. The studio revealed their plans in a video showing three prototypes they’re currently working on. The working title for this one is “Humanity 2.0” and it’ll see you carving up derelict ships to build your own vessel and sometimes defending that ship from pirates trying to take it over. It sounds like you’ll still be the sweaty cybermaster of a bunch of glitchy drones, who now might suffer “fun personality quirks” when you install upgrades, “like not wanting to go down narrow corridors because it’s now claustrophobic”.
Sad, busted-ass space robots just trying to get by? Yes, I’m interested.
Sci-fi battle royale Apex Legends is due a “meaningful update” , according to the CEO of Electronic Arts, something he’s called “Apex 2.0”. To a normal person, adding a 2 to the end of your game’s name is the sign of a sequel. But as the attendant decimal and zero suggest, it’s not clear if that’s exactly what he means. It could mean a revamp with new features, or some other new direction for the existing game. His later words do make it sound more like this is what EA have in mind. Or at least what they’re prepared to tell folks in a financial report.
Steam early access games that haven’t been updated in a long while will now be more prominently labelled as such, according to reports. As noticed by third-party tracking platform SteamDB, Valve have begun adding warnings to early access info boxes, making it harder to accidentally spend your pocket money on a promising project that hasn’t advanced in years.
When I’ve had enough of fighting the dogs in a respectable, straightforward manner, I pick them up with my mind and – with a casualness that has to be extremely insulting if you’re a dog – drop them directly off a cliff. This ends the fight immediately. Sometimes I resort to this low move out of frustration, when a dull fight has dragged on for too long. Sometimes I resort to it out of panic, because I’ve accidentally set fire to every hard surface within ten feet, or frozen myself to a wall. Often it’s just for the pleasure of it.
In Eternal Strands, Yellow Brick Games’ debut title, you play the leader of a “weaver band”, a crew of freelance magicians, in a world where something extremely bad happened to magic. Some years ago, the Enclave, a city state acting as the isolationist heart of the world’s magic, exploded in a kind of power surge – one part tsunami, one part blown fuse – and just as quickly sealed itself off from the world outside. Somehow managing to breach the wall, your band finds themselves the first people to set foot inside the ruined capital since the calamity and sets about uncovering the mystery of what exactly went wrong.
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The first wave of Nvidia 50 series GPUs have arrived. Now they’re gone. So, if you need an RTX 5080-prebuilt gaming PCs are currently your best bet of securing. While Dell has got some overpriced $5000+ Alienware 51 desktops up for preorder, there other (considerably cheaper, but not necessarily affordable) options up for grabs right now.
Vendrán Las Aves – “The Birds Will Come” – is a brief, quiet, hopeful game about burnout recovery. Summarised as a “slice of life tamagotchi” and available in Spanish and English, it’s a gamejam production from Francisco Riolobos, Chuso Montero and Deconstructeam, the Valencia-based developers behind The Red String Club and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood.
It’s free to download from Itch.io, and takes the form of a snowglobe perspective of somebody’s one-room apartment. The person in question has just left their job after a rough spell, and has impulsively bought a guitar. They are also, however, totally exhausted, with barely the willpower to do anything beyond getting out of bed, let alone make music. Your task is to help them through each day and rebuild their morale till they feel able to pluck a few chords.
Hoo-eee! The sequel to the rootinest-tootinest gassiest-guzzlingiest racecar rasslin’ game is launching into early access in March this year. Wreckfest 2 is the follow-up to smashing racer Wreckfest, which came out in 2018 but which I only discovered last year while listing our best racing games. My friends, it got on the list. Developers Bugbear say they have “overhauled its physics engine to deliver the most intense crashes, deeper component damage, and absolute vehicular mayhem.” We can see a little bit of that in a new trailer below, which also gives us an exact early access release date.
