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You don't just paint the map your colour in new WW2 RTS Battleplan, you redraw the frontline with a pencil and hope your troops do the rest

You may have heard that the pen is mightier than the sword, but did you know that the pencil is mightier than the 7th Panzer Division? Here is Battleplan to educate us on the subject. In this WW2 real-time strategy game, you issue orders by drawing on a big pseudo-paper map based on geographical survey data. Then you s...

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ARC Raiders: "Empathetic Prototypes" Quest Guide

Empathetic Prototypes is one of the quests added to ARC Raiders as part of the Frozen Trails update that will take players to the Trench Towers area of the Spaceport map. The quest has branching objectives, so players will have the freedom to either manually disable the Magnetic Lock or find a terminal to remotely disa...

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Steam Smashes Its Player Records, With Over 43 Million Concurrent Users In October

It also broke the record for the number of players in-game by another half a million

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Valor Mortis review

Valor Mortis plays a bit of a sneaky trick. For a while it keeps it straight. 'Yes', it seems to say; 'I'm definitely a Soulslike. Look at my bonfire equivalents, my healing flasks, my corpse runs, even my early impossi-boss feints. Look at my cautious action, my fog gates, the oppressive air of melancholy that lingers...

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Valor Mortis review - this Napoleonic first-person swordfighter is one of the freshest Soulslikes in years

Well, I say "freshest." In its ickily up-close vision of Napoleonic battlefields, swapping the boring old bubonic plague for a fleshy, pustulating necro-blight, Valor Mortis is as horrid and grim as a standard Soulslike rulebook would compel. At the same time, One More Level’s first-person take on campfires and a...

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Valor Mortis Review: An Incredibly Fresh Take On A Saturated Genre

Out of all the games I’ve played so far this year, few have had me as emotionally invested in their worldbuilding and gameplay loop as One More Level’s Valor Mortis. Having loved the team’s Ghostrunner games, I had high hopes for Valor Mortis, but those expectations were blown away by the grim spectacle and how the in-...

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Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Officially Reveals Brand-New Character Redesign

Remakes give developers a chance to revisit familiar characters and rethink how they should look with modern hardware. Sometimes, the changes are subtle enough that longtime fans might not notice them immediately, while other redesigns completely change the impression a character makes. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of...

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Valor Mortis Review: The Most Refreshing Soulslike in Years

There have been so many soulslikes in recent years that the genre, which was once considered to be at the cutting-edge of melee-action game design, can inspire weariness more often than excitement. A lot of gamers are tired of the same old, FromSoftware-led dance, as even well-designed soulslikes can suffer from a lack...

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Starfield seamless planetary landings are finally nearly a thing, thanks to one modder's tireless work

For many Starfield players, the need to go through a loading screen each time you want to land on a planet - rather than seamlessly travel through the planet's atmosphere like in No Man's Sky - was a big turn-off. Read more

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The RTX 4090 launched four years ago today, and now the RTX 5090 is rumoured for the chop, I can't help but look upon it with a warm glow

Join me in saying "Happy birthday" to the RTX 4090, Nvidia's enthusiast-level graphics card of the previous generation. It launched four years ago today, October 12, with an eye-watering MSRP of $1,499.Well, eye-watering for the time. The cheapest RTX 5080 I can find right now is this Asus Prime variant for $1,640, whi...

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All Star Wars Galactic Racer Voice Actors

Star Wars: Galactic Racer's gameplay may largely take place on circuits on various planets in a galaxy far, far away, but there's a whole cast of characters you'll regularly hear from throughout your time playing the game. From the more supportive scouse accent of Hibi and the booming voice of Darius Pax, through to th...

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This week in PC games: play a human-eating Katamari from outer space, take over a nature reserve in Planet Zoo 2, and battle Napoleonic body horror in Valor Mortis

Edwin came up the ladder to my office last week to remind me that my quarterly Maw Safety Certification was up for renewal. Without an in date health and safety and wild eldritch creature control license, I'm not allowed to remain in the Treehouse and we have to shut down the site. So, today I'm down in the Maw's chamb...

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