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The Metro games focus on cultivating atmosphere about all else. Carefully making your way along the hazard-filled train tracks of a post-apocalyptic metro station, or narrowly escaping mutated creatures while your broken gas mask impairs your vision, is what it's all about. So, with VR's immersive capabilities, Metro Awakening seems like a logical next step for the series. I'm happy to say that besides some bugs and performance hiccups on the Meta Quest 3, it's a must-play survival horror concoction. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

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Enshrouded has received what developers Keen Games are calling the survival game's "most sizable" update yet, sizable being an appropriate word for mountains. Expect a new playable area, the Alabaneve Summits, with its own enemies, resources, non-threatening wildlife and quests. The maximum character level has risen to 35! There are new townsfolk to find and place in your poorly built houses! You can tame animals, and make them live in poorly built houses too! You can get hypothermia! Read more View the full article

The survival action RPG Enshrouded just launched a new update called Souls of the Frozen Frontier, and it adds lots of new content. There’s a new region with new loot and quests, a higher level cap, new crafting tier, new dynamic weather changes, and lots more. It’s the biggest update since the game launched in early access. For the uninitiated, Enshrouded is a third-person survival game that takes place in Embervale, a massive open world that up to 16 players can explore at once. The game world is entirely made out of voxels, and you can terraform the world around you to build a base, castle, or even a village block by block. There are tons of options to build your ideal home. Want an underground lair? You can build that. How about a base inside a mountain *****? You can do that too. Or maybe you’d prefer a treehouse. You guessed it, you can do that too. If you’re not as concerned with all that and would prefer to build something quickly, then no worries. There are pre-made elements like building blocks and furniture you can use to easily get a base up and running. Regardless of how you go about creating your base, you can then bring friendly NPCs back to it to help you. When you first start a new game, you’ll have nothing but the clothes on your back. You’ll need to gather materials to craft new gear, or you can find valuable loot in the Shroud, a dangerous area full of monsters and covered in fog that will ***** you if you stay in it too long. So you need to get in, gather loot, and get out before falling victim to the monsters or fog. There’s action RPG combat, so you’ll choose from a variety of weapons and make use of dodges and parries to avoid damage and take down enemies. As you progress, you’ll unlock the ability to specialize in one of three classes: Trickster, Battlemage, or Survivor, each with its own sub-classes for further specialization. In addition to dealing with monsters and the harsh environment, you’ll also need to stay fed and hydrated to be at your best. It’s a survival game at heart, after all. Enshrouded launched in early access on PC in January, and Souls of the Frozen Frontier marks the most significant update to the game since. The biggest addition is a large new explorable region called the Albaneve Summits, which brings with it new environments, building materials, quests, lore, collectibles, and wildlife. The region is designed to challenge even the strongest and best-equipped players. There are lots of new enemies with new attacks and tactics to keep you on your toes. And the new environments include ice and deep snow, which will require you to use caution while you explore. The ice is slippery, and you can get stuck in the deep snow. It’s not just the new environments you’ll need to contend with. The update also added dynamic weather changes, like rain and extreme cold, that can be dangerous for the unprepared. There are new crafting recipes, so you’ll need to make some gear to protect yourself from the cold. Speaking of crafting, the update added a new crafting tier with recipes that use new materials introduced with the Albaneve Summits. You can also now craft new fitting gear for the game’s various classes and sub-classes. The overall level cap has also been raised to 35, which adds new levels for spells, new skills, and new types of perks that can be unlocked during character progression. You’ve always been able to craft and then equip different gliders on your back that let you travel through the air at high speeds. But the Albaneve Summits add a new traversal mechanic: updrafts on mountainsides, which let you gain height while gliding so you can stay airborne longer. It’s great for traveling across large sections of the area quickly. Souls of the Frozen Frontier also brings some changes to your base. If you’ve played Enshrouded and wanted your base to feel more lively, then we have some good news. There are new NPCs across Embervale you can bring back to your base, and as you add more people, you’ll get new stories, quests, and dialogue. There are also new assistants you can add to your secondary bases who will provide access to all the recipes of the original crafting NPCs. More interested in filling your base with animals? Well, you can do that too. There’s new wildlife to tame and bring home to your farm, and there are some previously existing non-aggressive animals that can be tamed and added to your base for the first time. If the animals you bring home are fed and comfortable, they can settle down and start a family. There are also new pets — including cats and dogs — you can find across Embervale who can call your base home if you build up enough trust with them. And in case you’re curious — yes, you can **** your farm animals and pets. Enshrouded is available in early access now on Steam, and the Souls of the Frozen Frontier update comes included at no additional cost. The game is planned for a full release on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S in 2025. If you’re interested in joining the community, you can check out the game’s accounts on X, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Discord. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Another pretty good month for Humble Choice subscribers with some nice looking games included for the November 2024 selection. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

One of the most pivotal decisions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard comes during the main quest "Isle of Gods." In this quest, Rook and their allies have finally tracked down the elven goddess Ghilan'nain, and are prepared to defeat her once and for all. However, rather than rush in directly and risk their own lives, Rook and company decide instead to split into two units. One will distract Ghilan'nain's forces; the other will confront the goddess herself. It falls to Rook to choose who will lead the distraction team, while the rest of their allies will ****** alongside them. View the full article

BioWare has revealed some of the changes that will be introduced with the first Dragon Age: The Veilguard patch. Launching this week for all platforms, the update promises “some bug fixes, minor balance changes, and some ****** mitigations”. Ahead of the release of the full patch notes, BioWare said the update will include the following: Read More... View the full article

The original Resident Evil, from 1996, is one of my favorite ever games. Likewise, the first Metal Gear Solid, ***** from 1993, Deus Ex, and Fallout 1. We all have our beloved, acclaimed, almost-impervious top ten - a game has to be truly special to earn a seat in that pantheon. For me, 1000xResist is already one of those games. Although it only came out this year, it's become one of my all-time favorites, alongside all those inveterate, historical hits. If you've been busy so far this year with Helldivers 2, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree, and Balatro, now, as 2024 winds down, it's time to give 1000xResist a try, especially considering it's cheaper than ever. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best game of 2024 was just released and nobody is playing it Award nominated Nier Automata style sci fi indie game out now on Steam Resident Evil, Nier Automata, and Persona collide in new sci-fi game View the full article

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, the man who just will not cut it out, has revealed that the newly-released 1.6 update contains, on top of everything else, a "secret, experimental mobile multiplayer feature" that enables players on mobile platforms to join in on the fun with others... Read more.View the full article

Every so often in Call of Duty, a certain operator skin goes viral on social media for one reason or another, and that’s happening with the Redacted operator right now. Sometimes, it’s a frog that actively grows mushrooms on its body the more ****** you rack up, while other times it’s just a massive rubber ducky or Monster Energy skins. In ****** Ops 6, the first viral skin is one that is as mysterious as it is awesome-looking, and players want it badly. View the full article

Looking for the MTG Edge of Eternities release date? The fourth major Magic: The Gathering release of 2025 takes the game to a whole new type of setting: space! That's right, it's the space opera set, featuring high-tech ships, fascinating planets, and graceful space beasts. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG: Marvel Secret Lair's disastrous launch is a bridge too far for fans MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm release date and latest news The best MTG cards of all time View the full article

Lucky Tower Ultimate from Studio Seufz is probably one of the funniest real-time dungeon crawlers I've ever played and I can't wait to play more. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

I've spent quite a lot of today trying to figure out why, exactly, some of the monsters in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta looked like bundles of copulating pyramids slathered in crocodile gravy. Nic clued me in on this reddit thread earlier, which cites unnamed ******** players who've allegedly data-mined the beta's monster models, and learned that they are extremely large, encompassing hundreds of thousands of polygons. If every monster in Monster Hunter Wilds were that fancy all of the time, your computer would become a volcano. As such, the game resorts to loading-on-demand systems to ensure that you only see those gorgeous details when the monsters are close by and, as the case may be, angrily sitting on you. When they're further afield, the flourishes fall away to free up memory and processing power. The popular Redditor explanation for the presence of monsters that look like Henry Moore sculpture is basically that the LOD systems are being forgetful, and neglecting to load the additional polygons at proximity. Read more View the full article

Look, pretty much everyone loves Helldivers 2, even if things have looked a bit shaky on that front on a few occasions this year, and sometimes the best way to show that is by demanding Arrowhead fill it with crossovers. We're not talking about official crossovers, and Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt's just run down his personal list of ones that might be cool in theory, in addition to saying a thing about the possibility of big PVE battles. Read more View the full article

With the rhythm of Guitar Hero and the top-down roguelike antics of Hades, the new ***** The Music demo is one I heartily recommend. Fluid gameplay and great tunes are punctuated by a colorful UI that would even put the Persona series to the test, and you can try it for yourself right now on Steam. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

Act fast and you can get a huge $365 price reduction on this MSI gaming laptop that comes absolutely packed to the gills with high-end hardware, including an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090. This MSI gaming laptop deal gets you one of the most powerful gaming laptops around for well below its usual price. As a maker of some of the best gaming laptop designs, we're well used to MSI creating some impressive portable gaming devices but this Titan 18 HX A14V ups the ante to another level with one of the highest gaming laptop specs we've ever seen. In fact, we've got a review of this laptop that will be up in just a few days, so keep an eye out for it. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get up to $100 in Steam codes when you buy select MSI PC gaming products This $599.99 MSI Nvidia GeForce RTX gaming laptop deal is genuinely outstanding Grab Stalker 2 for free, thanks to MSI View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Have you started your Christmas shopping early? Well, why not pick yourself up a little treat, too - you deserve it. It may be Fanatical's birthday but this excellent bundle deal will see you celebrating, with a huge discount available on icy survival sim Frostpunk's Game of the Year Edition, and many more great games. With this deal, you can build a great gaming bundle, starting with two games for just $5.99 / £5.99 - less than $3 / £3 a title. The more games you add to your bundle, the more money you save, with three games available for $7.99 / £7.99, four for $10.66 / £10.66, and five for $11.99 / £11.99. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get some of the best strategy games, RPGs, and FPS games for $3 each Brutal, brilliant strategy game Frostpunk is now cheaper than ever 10 top games to grab during the Steam Summer ***** 2024 View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

There’s nothing worse than acquiring an exclusive item in Stardew Valley only to end up accidentally throwing it away or otherwise losing it. Luckily, as of the 1.6.9 update, there’s a way to get your precious items back through the Lost Items Shop. Recovering your previous lost items isn’t an easy task if you don’t know where to look. You also need a pretty decent amount of gold to get them back. This process has a lot of steps, but reclaiming your lost valuables is certainly worth the effort, so here’s how to find the Lost Items Shop in Stardew Valley. View the full article

The popular review aggregation website Metacritic has responded to the ongoing review ******** of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which has been attacked by players upset by the game's characters and themes. Since Dragon Age: Origins, BioWares franchise has always been fairly inclusive, allowing fans to engage in same-**** romances. However, the perceived wokeness in Dragon Age: The Veilguard has prompted some users to give the game incredibly low scores. View the full article

*********'s Creed Shadows' executive producer Marc-Alexis Ct has admitted that the series "struggled to find its footing" following the ****** of Desmond Miles in *********'s Creed 3, while also confirming that the next title will lay the groundwork for a new modern-day story. Although the *********'s Creed series is well-known for taking place in key historical periods, earlier titles were intertwined with a modern-day setting featuring Desmond Miles, and it looks like Shadows is about to set up a brand-new foundation for the controversial setting. View the full article

As a yearly blockbuster, Call of Duty, through sheer expense and effort, would like you to think it is the **** Hard of video games. Or, depending on the setting, the Saving Private Ryan of video games. But it is barely ****** Hawk Down. This latest campaign in Call Of Duty: ****** Ops 6 reminds me more of the forgettable Netflix shootfests that thumbnail their way across your TV screen as you try to find some gritty nothing to aid you in zoning out of life. Still, there is an anecdotal contingent of casual sofa sitters for whom Call Of Duty is the game. A ******-to-the-wall shooter to return to every winter and rinse through in a weekend. Ed has already gestured at its multiplayer, announcing: "yup, it's COD", like a deeply tired Captain Birdseye inspecting the day's catch, wondering when his life will change. But never mind that. How does the single player story mode hold up? Some are calling it the best campaign in years. And I guess that's true, in the sense that it is the least worst. Read more View the full article

Pokemon TCG Pocket may not have much in terms of an in-built ranked mode, nor many competitive features at all aside from a standard PvP online battle mode, but that doesn't mean there aren't high-intensity matches going down. In fact, players are taking matters into their own hands. Read more View the full article

What is the best Model L loadout? Looking at the Model L you'd be forgiven for thinking there isn't anything special there; a no-frills ******** rifle, it looks like it may have outlived its usefulness, even in a game set in the 90s. Well, think again. The Model L - especially with our loadout - is a fast-******* mid-range ******, and can take entire teams out in the blink of an eye. Quickly finding itself on our ****** Ops 6 best loadouts list, the Model L should be an instrument in everyone's locker, especially in ****** Ops 6 maps with mid-range sight lines and long corridors. We've opted to completely kit out the ******** rifle with the Gunfighter Wildcard, creating a ****** Ops 6 ******* that can take on all comers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: ****** Ops 6 Zombies Liberty Falls main quest guide Upcoming PC games 2024 and beyond Best BO6 loadouts for the current meta View the full article

Stellaris gives you outer space, Civilization 6 goes hard on the historical accuracy, and Cities Skylines 2 drills right down into the minutiae of everyday local governance. But what about the magic? What about a strategy game where you can rule over your own private version of Skyrim, or build a fantasy realm in the vein of the Lands Between or Sanctuary? Published by Paradox, Age of Wonders 4 is a giant 4X game with a vision. It has depth, detail, and complexity, but it's not concerned with ********* realism - on the contrary, it's focused on arcane rituals and mythical creatures, and it's just gotten even ******* thanks to a new DLC. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Age of Wonders 4 DLC suddenly drops, with much more on the way Age of Wonders 4's latest update needs more work, Paradox admits Age of Wonders 4 unleashes its dark side in new expansion out now View the full article

The latest Pokémon mobile game is here, with Pokémon TCG Pocket releasing just last week after a lot of build-up ... Read more View the full article