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If you want even more animals for your revamped 1.6 farm in Stardew Valley, a suite of incredibly popular mods that give you more dogs, cats, horses, barn, and coop animals to hatch and have wandering around are perfect to breathe even more new life into your virtual flora and fauna. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 21 best Stardew Valley mods April 2024 Stardew Valley blooms into surprise Steam Deck champion Stardew Valley dev "eager" to get back to next game after 1.6 settles View the full article

If you want even more animals for your revamped 1.6 farm in Stardew Valley, a suite of incredibly popular mods that give you more dogs, cats, horses, barn, and coop animals to hatch and have wandering around are perfect to breathe even more new life into your virtual flora and fauna. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 21 best Stardew Valley mods April 2024 Stardew Valley blooms into surprise Steam Deck champion Stardew Valley dev "eager" to get back to next game after 1.6 settles View the full article

A new ***** from Honkai: Star Rail confirms a major nerf for upcoming five-star character Boothill, expected to release during the game's Version 2.2 update. The launch of the game's newest world of Penacony has introduced a wealth of new and upcoming characters to the HoYoverse sci-fi RPG, featuring plenty of cast members within the world's Trailblaze Mission. Version 2.0 saw the debut of three new characters, while the recent launch of Version 2.1 brought the highly-anticipated launch of Acheron within Honkai: Star Rail. Now, Boothill is one of the next characters planned for the game. View the full article

For the average wrestling fan, turning to WWE’s games is a safer way to live out your sports entertainment fantasies than, say, jumping off the roof of your garage through a flaming table. Since the late 80s there’ve been well over 50 such games that have averted countless such ill-advised* attempts to be a pro wrestler at home, all wearing the WWF/E banner. And while it’s as difficult to parse out the incremental improvements from one year to the next as it is to kick out of a Tombstone, here’s an attempt at narrowing down the 10 best WWE games of all time.** To start with, we didn’t book this list all by ourselves without consulting our roster. The IGN audience participated in a Face-off, giving us a capacity crowd's worth of data to work with. There are a handful of surprises and no small dose of nostalgia for the Attitude Era that showed up in the results, but without further ado or wrestling wordplay,*** let’s ring the bell. 10: WWE SmackDown! Vs. Raw (2004) - 65% At number 10 with a win percentage of 65% in our Face-off, we find ourselves in the heady days of the mid-aughts with 2004’s WWE SmackDown! Vs. Raw. The game represents a fairly major shift for WWE as well. The Attitude Era was coming to an end and the silly Invasion storyline was getting smaller in the rearview mirror. Meanwhile, the brand split between Raw and SmackDown that happened just a few years prior was popular enough to gamble on rebranding the SmackDown series of games. The Clean and ****** mechanic was a weird little blast as well, giving even the kayfabe-iest fans a chance to lean into a gimmick and be rewarded for it. Meanwhile, the stare down and test of strength style mini-games, including a **** and ******** match spanking mechanic that snuck in at the tail end of the Attitude Era's influence, offered a little more of what the live wrestling events featured on TV. You could also create your own belt in a Create-a-Championship mode for when creating yourself in a wrestling game just isn’t enough. The Royal Rumble of WWE games, SmackDown! Vs. Raw at number 10 feels like the new guy in the promotion that lasts for a respectable run in the ring, but ultimately you forget he was there by the next pay-per-view. 9: WWF SmackDown! (2000) - 65.6% Counting down to number nine, we go back to Y2K and the beginnings of what became the WWE 2K series, with WWF SmackDown! It was a welcome change from previous entries on the PlayStation that went back to the more arcade style action we knew from the N64 games which, not to give too much away, might do a run in and ******* this list with a chair here in a few spots. SmackDown! is also a little notorious for the things it got rid of. With no commentary, you had to wrestle to a bizarre mix of stock house-adjacent music and a steady hum of fan noise (it was honestly a little stressful...) while the bizarre non-entrances for the wrestlers in front of matches felt like a wonky corner-cutting measure more than a creative choice. On a personal note, however, the ********* and steel cage match were an absolute must of an inclusion. What are we even doing if, at the height of the Attitude Era, we don’t have unimpeded ********* on the menu. I think I got injured just watching the TLC matches with The Dudley Boyz, The Hardyz and Edge and **********. All that to say, it’s a solid enough way to kick off a new series. This is a game that would’ve had 2 memorable spots during a Royal Rumble before getting dumped over the ropes by the 15th entrant immediately, so landing at number nine on our list feels right. 8: [Hidden Content] (2007) - 65.8% For our eighth pick with a 65.8% win rate that’s not even a full percentage point higher than our number 10, we jump ahead to the 2007 edition of WWE SmackDown! Vs. Raw. Landing on the Xbox 360, it’s the first WWE game for a 7th generation console, and immediately took advantage of those sweet, sweet joysticks. The analog control system introduced in the game made the action more realistic where important grappleman tactics like throwing a guy into the audience are concerned. Perhaps the most realistic part of the game though is how wet Triple H is on the cover. This may be my own bias, but nothing says “2007 in the WWE” quite like a soaking wet Triple H screaming on the apron, baby oil from his hair streaking down either side of his chest, having undoubtedly just ***** half a bottle of Crystal Geyser onto the front row. It was a sticky, greasy time for the WWE in those days and “soggy Triple H” as the cover image for this game makes the most sense. In fact, the game might’ve gotten bonus points in our Face-Off for being a ******* highlight for wrestling fans than the actual wrestling happening in 2007. That 2007’s SmackDown! Vs. Raw made this list feels like more of a testament to something being the first. In retrospect it isn’t spectacular for anything more notable than being our first chance to play WWE games on 7th gen consoles. It seems like that nostalgia could’ve been the tie-breaker between this game and the games that finished eleventh or twelfth, just a percentage point or two behind it. So to sum up, Wet Hunter 2007 in the number eight spot is like the time Diamond Dallas Page entered the Rumble to promote his yoga program. It’s nice to see a guy whose better days you remember. 7-6-5: A Triple Threat Match of The Rock's Catchphrases Before we move on to the next few picks, I want to remember how stupidly popular The Rock was in the Attitude Era. That probably goes without saying, but don’t forget that in the real world of Determined Outcome Grappling, SmackDown as a brand was basically The Rock’s spinoff show. Like if The Rock went to be a radio psychiatrist in Seattle while Stone Cold kept running the bar in Boston.**** Having popularized “laying the ****** down on candy ******,” the game series moved on to borrow more of Dwayne’s completely over verbiage for the next three games in the series, which also happen to be the next three spots on our list. Because I’m, frankly, a little confused as to how that happened, I’m going to talk about them in one oversized segment. So for our numbers seven through five, we’ve got Know Your Role, Just Bring It and Shut Your Mouth. 7: WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role (2000) - 67.7% So going back to when the WWE was coasting through the peak of its popularity, at number seven, winning 67.7% of its match-ups in our Face-Off, is WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role. Dropping just months after its predecessor WWF SmackDown! in 2000, the game had options galore. While previous wrestling games featured them, Know Your Role had the first properly advanced Create-a-Superstar mode. Crafting your own gimmick complete with individualized taunts really gets what being a wrestling fan is all about: telling yourself “I could do that without serious injury” and believing it.***** Know Your Role, which now that I think about it is a thematically perfect subtitle for a game with the first proper Create-a-Superstar mode, offered you the chance to prove you understand how to be a wrestler. 6: WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It (2001) - 67.8% A year later in 2001, WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It dropped another of The Rock’s mic gems to herald the return of commentary to the action. But while it was the first SmackDown game to feature Michael Cole and Tazz talking you through the matches, it was the last to feature the WWF branding before the World Wildlife Fund landed a frog splash from the top rope of a courtroom. While Just Bring It also includes six- and eight-man match formats, those were subsequently ditched for over a decade and a half, and the game is the meat of a SmackDown sandwich. It’s a midcard gimmick match in the forgettable stretch of a pay-per-view destined to be outshined by the main event. Or, to continue my thread of Royal Rumble allegories, a Mark Henry/Big Show confrontation near the halfway point of the Rumble where they somehow eliminate each other because nobody else is strong enough to get them over the ropes. 5: WWF SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth (2002) - 70.3% Two years after Know Your Role, the SmackDown! Series finally finished The Rock’s signature catch phrases with Shut Your Mouth in 2003. It’s another incrementally better game in the series, with a bump in the graphics so the wrestlers looked more like the wrestlers and, while I personally love being able to climb and jump off the jumbo tron, it’s interesting to find this game along with its two predecessors occupying all three spots in the middle of our list. Perhaps it’s a nostalgia thing and these years were the first the majority of IGN’s audience got into wrestling games. It could also be that this stretch of the series gets mixed up with one another so they all kind of split the vote. Regardless, SmackDown’s early 2000s entries generated some fond memories. Like how maybe you can’t remember which Rumble it was that Kane eliminated himself when the orderlies tried to take him back to the insane asylum, but you can narrow it down to a couple of years window. 4: Wrestlemania 2000 (1999) - 70.7% Arguably the first officially great WWF game, dropping in 1999 (a year that could be considered the high watermark for pro wrestling's popularity), Wrestlemania 2000 won over 70% of its matchups in our Face-Off. It’s also a game that makes me feel safe saying that N64 stuff was all unimpeachably great while also taking no follow-up questions on the matter. While it was the first time you could edit the Superstars, and the idea of putting Chris Jericho in Shane McMahon’s tracksuit would be worth the price of the cartridge just in case it was possible, the truly incredible thing about this game is how the development of it mirrored the business of the time. The Monday Night Wars weren’t really a contest anymore, with the WWF lapping the WCW in popularity by 1999. It would be another two years before the McMahons straight-up bought the competition, but the rivalry between the two companies extended into the video game space in the late '90s. WCW/nWo Revenge from developer AKI and publisher THQ was a truly beloved wrestling game from 1998, so the only natural response would be for WWF to ditch Acclaim and swoop in to partner with AKI and THQ. The result is more or less the same game as the popular WCW/nWO Revenge, just with wildly more popular Superstars from the WWF roster. The huge database of move sets and customizable options in the create-a-wrestler area that already existed in the game’s engine from the WCW title actually made it possible to mimic the WCW wrestlers that got left behind, which is such an on-brand middle finger from the WWF to their on-the-verge-of-vanquished competitor. It was a pile on after the bell had already rung. As far as the actual game goes though, it ***** a sturdy groundwork for subsequent titles, including the one that landed at number one on our list. Kind of like the guy that’s already feuding with the champ coming into the Rumble in the twenties somewhere. You just know he’s going to end up winning so they can square off at Wrestlemania. 3: WWE 2K24 (2024) - 71% WWE 2K24 won 71% of it’s match-ups in our Face-Off, earning it a spot on the podium in this Top 10 list, which is wild considering where the series was just a few years ago. WWE 2K20 was such a trainwreck that they just said “nevermind” in 2021 and started from scratch for 2k22. So, if 2K20 was the end of a heel turn angle before a wrestler takes a little time off, 2K22 was his return to the active roster building up to his title run in 2K24. With a more reliable foundation built with the year off, 2K24 was the third year in a row that has been about layering the bells and whistles back into the gameplay, and as a result 2K24 feels complete in a way that WWE games just haven’t in a very long time. WWE 2K24 built on the solid foundation of its predecessor by not only polishing and improving every feature across the board, but adding way more than perhaps anyone expected for an iterative WWE game. Ambulance and Casket matches were a welcome change to the grappling action, and the return of special guest referee mode - the first time we’d seen it in over 10 years - was as surprising as Shane McMahon flipping Austin twin birds when he put on the ****** and white stripes himself. There’s recency bias with this one, sure, but WWE 2K24 does feel like a feature-complete wrestling package, an accolade previously reserved almost exclusively for our top two on this list. 2: WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain (2003) - 77.3% We have to jump back to the run of successful WWE SmackDown! Games for our number two spot with 2003’s follow-up to Shut Your Mouth, the equally threatening Here Comes the Pain. Winning over three-quarters of its Face-Off match-ups, it might have been the best of the SmackDown! bunch before the series changed to 2K. The Elimination Chamber showed up in a game for the first time, as did the **** and ******** match (although the aforementioned spanking mechanic that unlocked a cut scene of the two female wrestlers kissing would have to wait another year). The game also featured Legends for the first time, with all-timers showing up like Rowdy Roddy Piper, Sgt. ********** and The Iron Shiek. That you couldn’t pit The Undertaker’s ***** Man gimmick against George The Animal Steele in a **** and ******** match feels both not surprising and like a missed opportunity, however. The thing that gives this game a lasting legacy though has to be its career mode. It had an RPG feel to the locker room maneuvering. Players were free to talk to more people backstage and chart a course for your Superstar that felt a little more off the rails. This game is the face that takes a good long run through the Rumble, the one you want to win the whole thing, but comes up short in the end by just under three percentage points.****** 1: WWF No Mercy (2000) - 80.5% So here comes the payoff to my TLC match comment from way back in number nine. On the list of things that tug on my wrestling nostalgia strings like a desperate Bubba Ray Dudley trying to loose a tag team belt 20 feet above the ring, the top two are grimacing through ladder matches and huddling in front of a very small tube TV with three friends, Swanton ******** from the top of a ladder on an N64. WWF No Mercy has been a benchmark for wrestling games for more than 20 years now and at just a tick over an 80% win percentage, we’ve got the proof that it continues to be everyone’s favorite (or more accurately, at least four out of five people’s favorite). As part of the class of the N64 era (on which I’ve already made my feelings clear), additions like the ladder match and backstage brawls brought more of what was popular in-ring at the time, while the create-a-wrestler function continued to expand and a career mode that branched in all kinds of directions was an obvious upgrade over Wrestlemania 2000. There’s something about that combination, catching everything that was wild about the height of the Attitude Era and channeling it through easy to get grappling mechanics, that has made this game more enduring than every other one on this list. Modders are still actively adding new wrestlers to the playable roster and even AEW ****** Forever was an attempt at recreating No Mercy’s magic. The game wasn’t perfect (it chugged as soon as four players showed up) but it nailed the most important thing: capturing the essence of a wildly popular time in wrestling history, which is why we think it’s one of the best WWE video games ever made. What do you think? Agree with this list? It’s kind of yours actually, on account of you guys voted in the Face-Off, but feel free to disagree with it down in the comments anyway! *seriously, don’t ******** backyard wrestle **in this case “all time” refers to the last 40-ish years, which is still a while, but in the grand scheme of things it’s only four decades and “of all time” is mostly just here for the cheap heat ***had to sneak one more in and didn’t feel like deleting this promise ****yep, it’s 100% exactly like that *****my gimmick was named “Arrogant” Dandy Blaine, and he was a vicious and muscly heel, just like me ******I am aware Royal Rumbles are not scored on a percentage point basis View the full article

Better resources mean better gear, and you’re going to want the best if you’re looking to really get out there and explore. Here is how to make one of the most most essential Once Human resources: Glass.Acquiring Glass in Once HumanGlass is a relatively early-game item to get in Once Human. It can be crafted almost as soon as you have built your base using the most basic Facilitues on the list. You will simply have needed to build your base, and then you can unlock the furnace. This facility will be used to create a lot of the base items you need in Once Human,The Furnace can be found by entering the Build menu with B, and then locating the Facilities Menu by pressing Right Mouse Button. Here you will see the furnace, needed to craft Glass in Once Human. You will need 20 Copper Ore, which can be mined from the orange rocks around the map. You will also need 30 Gravel which you will find from any of the mineable rocks in the game.Image: PC InvasionOnce yo...View the full article

Rich Lambert, the creative director of The Elder Scrolls Online, has revealed the reason why a classic version of the game has never been released. As the game approaches its 10th anniversary, The Elder Scrolls Online retains an enormous community of millions of players, keeping the game extremely relevant in the MMO space. View the full article

A recent Baldur's Gate 3 update has seemingly made the ******-Leap Trial puzzle even more annoying to complete. That section of the game has already given the Baldur's Gate 3 fandom quite a bit of trouble even before this change. View the full article

A recently debuted SimCity 4 mod adds a fully functional 3D camera to the game, thus giving it a whole new look. This add-on is yet another example illustrating how SimCity 4 continues to attract both player and modder interest more than 21 years following its launch. View the full article

Roblox developer Roblox Studio has released an official statement responding to previous allegations of the company using child labor with connection to its user-created games. Since its debut in 2006, the sandbox game platform has become one of the most popular games within the online space. Alongside the wealth of games available through the platform, the game offers a variety of creation tools allowing users to code and develop their own games, with larger games able to monetize their Roblox creations. Now, the developer is responding to some serious accusations. View the full article

Treyarch has often served up some of the best Call of Duty games, such as World at War and ****** Ops Cold War. Now, COD players can start getting hyped for ****** Ops Gulf War, which is heavily rumored to be the franchise's next entry. You won't have to wait too long to see it in action, as it will reportedly feature in the June Xbox Showcase. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Warzone Season 3 adds a lucrative new Rebirth Island easter egg Warzone Season 3's best mode will let you exploit the COD meta Don't overlook this free Call of Duty MW3 Combat Pack on PS Plus View the full article

Exploring the weird and wonderful world on Once Human is going to take some serious gear and resources. You will have to loot, mine, and farm many locations to acquire what you need. One of the more important materials in Once Human is Adhesive.Where to find AdhesiveAdhesive can be acquired from many of the scrap items around the Once Human map. One of the most common places to get it is from sticky tape, which can be looted from around the map. Keep your eyes out for scrap items and crates to dig through to get the materials you need.Once you have collected together the required material, you will need to construct a Dissasembly Bench. This will allow you to extract the adhesive from Once Human scrap. How to build a Dissasembly BenchThis facility will need to be constructed using 20 Gravel and 10 Copper Ingots. Gravel can be mined from the various rocks around the map, and Copper must be smelted in a Furnace from Copper ore. Once you have these materials, head into...View the full article

Establishing a cozy homestead in the untamed wilderness of outer space is the main goal of Lightyear Frontier, and mech upgrades are the key to success. This peaceful open-world farming sim has players jumping into the pilot’s seat of a rickety old mech, using its tools to tame a previously unexplored planet. However, building your dream settlement requires special resources that only an upgraded mech can harvest. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Establishing a cozy homestead in the untamed wilderness of outer space is the main goal of Lightyear Frontier, and mech upgrades are the key to success. This peaceful open-world farming sim has players jumping into the pilot’s seat of a rickety old mech, using its tools to tame a previously unexplored planet. However, building your dream settlement requires special resources that only an upgraded mech can harvest. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Skarner, the old Brackern of Runeterra, is getting some love from Riot Games. They have micropatched a buff to the champion, who performed with an abysmal 37.03 percent a day after its VGU release hit live servers. Matt “Phroxzon” Leung-Harrison, League‘s lead gameplay designer, shared an interesting anecdote about the champion’s role. “Top is outperforming Jungle when at low mastery (yet to be seen whether that’s the case when mastered, though). High mastery Skarners are performing pretty well on him.” View the full article

Helldivers 2 players discover an easy and quick way to put out flames, countering the recent update that makes ***** damage even deadlier than before. One of the appealing elements about Arrowhead Game Studios' latest hit, Helldivers 2, is the dynamic nature of the third-person shooter, as it constantly evolves over time both in content and features. The game itself allows for player expression and creativity, leading to plenty of funny or impressive clips online, though constant updates from the studio make sure that the experience continues to feel fresh. View the full article

C’mon, how cute is this? | Image: Things Inc. The similarities between Rooms — a simple, charming game for iOS and the web where you design rooms — and Minecraft are easy to spot. Both share a blocky visual style and a design-your-own-retreat objective. But describing Rooms as a scaled-down Minecraft for people over the age of 12 doesn’t give it enough credit. It’s good, old-fashioned building in the vein of Lego, The Sims, and Animal Crossing. Rooms builds on the time-honored tradition with a dose of coziness and creativity that’s limited only by your patience for arranging three-dimensional pixels. Rooms is free, at least for now; creator Jason Toff says there are no “concrete monetization plans.” The premise is as simple as it sounds: you start with an empty room and fill it up... Continue reading… View the full article

Stardew Valley has a large variety of crops to grow for the authentic farm simulation experience, but the 1.6 update puts the spotlight on one choice in particular that can yield higher profits than ever before. With fruits, vegetables, flowers and more, there's plenty to grow all year round, and deciding how to optimize a high-performing farm can be difficult. As the game has grown in complexity over the years, the sense of overwhelming options has only increased, making knowing a few tips and tricks more essential than ever. View the full article

Stardew Valley has a large variety of crops to grow for the authentic farm simulation experience, but the 1.6 update puts the spotlight on one choice in particular that can yield higher profits than ever before. With fruits, vegetables, flowers and more, there's plenty to grow all year round, and deciding how to optimize a high-performing farm can be difficult. As the game has grown in complexity over the years, the sense of overwhelming options has only increased, making knowing a few tips and tricks more essential than ever. View the full article

[Patch Notes] v1.0-62ef8f8.2024.0406.19 Dear Commanders, thanks for your patience and support. We are currently investigating and trying to optimize the mid-to-late game performance issues that many players have reported, and it will take some time. Today's patch has been deployed, please refer to the details below for more information. Please note that some of the changes/bug fixes will affect the game's difficulty. [General] 1.Optimized the [Bullet Time] post-progressing effect in Command Mode. 2.Optimzed the experience of deploying Support Facility during [Bullet Time]. 3.New feature added to Pack Mule. Now you can give order in command mode to a Pack Mule to return to the container, and put the items there. 4.Tour will start right after selecting the area without the 5 second waiting time. [Character] 1.Food, drinks, and all kinds of explosives can be stacked together with a limitation of 5. 2.Changed the stored size of the Barrel attachment to 3*1. 3.Changed the stored size of Xenium Vial to 2*1. 4.Players now can reload while *******/aiming/springting without interrupting. 5.Operative’s sudden deceleration at the end of Rocket Glove usage is now more smooth （improvement of inertia）. 6.The same inertia improvement has also been implemented on Levitation Boots. [Enemies] 1.Adjustment on Railgun Apostle: Now instead of aiming at the top half of the [Core Tower], it aims at the bottom part of the tower. As a result, structure components on ground floor and second floor will provide some protection to the Core Tower. [Level] 1.Areas in [Windy Desert] have reduced to 2. 2.Futhur optimization of the items location in some POIs. 3.Pack Mule can help to complete [The Nebulas] mission now. [Sound Effects] 1.Optimzied some system-related sound effects. [BUG Fixation] 1.Fixed the problem of some performance anomaly. 2.Fixed the problem of enemies attacking invisible objects in recovery day of [Broder Woodland] on difficulty I & II. 3.Fixed the problem with Nebula Specter attacking players through the wall. 4.Fixed the problem that Scorpions may be stuck in the [Infinity Siege]. 5.Fixed the problem that background music goes unheard after the ****** of BOSS in recovery day. 6.Fixed the problem that the destroyed EMP missile from Kronos Omega may still have an effect on the outpost. 7.Fixed the problem with the abnormal craft option of Cyro Ammo Box in assembler. 8.Fixed some audio mistakes in [The Nebulas] mission. 9.Fixed the anomaly with the surroundings of some underground POIs entrance. 10.Fixed the modeling problem with some boxes in [Xenium Lab]. 11.Fixed the problem with some items being stuck at abnormal locations.View the full article

There's quite a broad selection for fans of voxel sandbox games packed with mining and base building on Steam, and Hydroneer is a great such option. With a 'very positive' Steam rating of 87% from almost 20,000 reviews, there's plenty of reasons to check it out, and that list just got even ******* with a new DLC expansion, a huge free update to the base game, and a hefty Steam ***** discount. If you're a fan of the likes of Astroneer, Terraria, Minecraft, and Valheim, and in the mood for something different, Hydroneer might be just what you're after. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Minecraft-like Hydroneer update overhauls co-op and vehicles View the full article

There's quite a broad selection for fans of voxel sandbox games packed with mining and base building on Steam, and Hydroneer is a great such option. With a 'very positive' Steam rating of 87% from almost 20,000 reviews, there's plenty of reasons to check it out, and that list just got even ******* with a new DLC expansion, a huge free update to the base game, and a hefty Steam ***** discount. If you're a fan of the likes of Astroneer, Terraria, Minecraft, and Valheim, and in the mood for something different, Hydroneer might be just what you're after. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Minecraft-like Hydroneer update overhauls co-op and vehicles View the full article

Just like how Balatro turns poker on its head and into a roguelike masterpiece, the new Pool of Madness Steam demo could do the same for, well, pool. With a simple ruleset, unnerving Lovecraftian imagery, and mechanics that kept me coming back in between writing the paragraphs of this article, the free demo shows a lot of promise for a brilliant idea, and you'll want to download it fast. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

The new Warhammer Vermintide 2 versus mode is proving hugely popular, with a big turnout for its first open alpha test on Steam, which ran across the sixth anniversary event for the beloved co-op Warhammer game. The new mode brings in that classic asymmetrical multiplayer of the likes of Left 4 ***** 2 and ***** Space 2, allowing players to step into the roles of both the Heroes and the Skaven. Following on from an earlier closed alpha, the Fatshark team says it's very happy with the feedback from players, which ranged across a much broader playerbase, with DLC characters and a new map included this time around. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Warhammer Vermintide 2's new versus mode will start public tests soon The best sword games on PC 2024 Warhammer Vermintide 2 update makes big changes for the holidays View the full article

1997's Final Fantasy Tactics has been one of the most beloved entries in the Square series for decades. People have been clamoring for a new entry for years, and it looks like Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida has heard these pleas, and he agrees. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: FF14 Dawntrail release date, trailers, story, and more The best new MMOs worth playing 2024 FF14 Dawntrail is already so popular pre-orders stopped working View the full article

Just like how Balatro turns poker on its head and into a roguelike masterpiece, the new Pool of Madness Steam demo could do the same for, well, pool. With a simple ruleset, unnerving Lovecraftian imagery, and mechanics that kept me coming back in between writing the paragraphs of this article, the free demo shows a lot of promise for a brilliant idea, and you'll want to download it fast. Read the rest of the story... View the full article