Metaphor: ReFantazio features seven party members, a giant sandworm, and a high difficulty

Oh, and Atlus say that the difficulty of the battles is “intentionally made to be high”. Metaphor: ReFantazio is due out on 11th October and you might keep up with it over on itsSteamandXboxpages.

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 34 words · Dalton Woodward

Microsoft are shutting down the studios that made Prey, Redfall and Hi-Fi Rush

Redfall’s most recent update was its final one, said the internal memo this week. The Hi-Fi Rush creators Tango Gameworks were also responsible for the well-liked horror titlesThe Evil WithinandTokyo: Ghostwire. Alongside these losses, some publishing roles have also been axed. Studio closures likewise seem to be occuring with greater frequency.

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 51 words · Carla Pollard

Narrative driving adventure Heading Out is out

Fork in the road Heading Outis a driving game not about finishing first or delivering freight. It’s out now. Well, that can happen when you take big swings. Heading Out is available nowfrom Steamfor 14.84/18/$18.

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 35 words · Paul Walker

NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, May 7)

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #331 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming over from Wordle! If not, check just below for the full answer....

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 133 words · Barbara Meyer

Remedy and Tencent's co-op multiplayer game Kestrel has been cancelled

Remedy to focus on “existing franchises” Remedy have called it quits on the project codenamed Kestrel. “Codename Kestrel showed early promise, but the project was still in its early concept stage. This is yet another means to ensure that our game projects continue advancing well.” Not much was known about Kestrel other than that it was a premium cooperative multiplayer game. Now that Kestrel has been cancelled, developers are being re-deployed on new games in “existing franchises”....

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 87 words · Deborah Carter

The Maw-10th May 2024

The gobbets in question? Some tasty game releases this week! Plus whatever else we think might be interesting enough in PC gaming news to appease it - and you. Busy few days, eh? Oh!Hades 2! If you want to help you’re free to comment with nutritious news yourself! Our live coverage of this event has finished. Exceptmaybe it’s not a joke…? I’m into the endless tiles, unironically. Public toilets have big liminal space energy....

May 7, 2024 · 3 min · 443 words · Whitney Estes

The Witcher 3's REDkit mod tools launch May 21st, enabling a new era of ambitious overhauls

REDKit pledges onits Steam pageto give people the power to edit “almost anything in the game.” Anything beyond that required third-party tools, although there’s still a healthy 6000 mods available onNexus Mods. REDkit should allow for much more ambitious projects and total conversions.

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 43 words · Monique Haas

This bodycam mech shooter has a slick rainy day look and Zelda-like vehicle construction

All of that sounds interesting. Don’t you want to say “oooooo” too? It looks like you’ll also be piloting the mechs themselves. “Brawl with enemy mechs using searing laser attacks and bone-crunching grapple throws,” say developers Kakaru. Body-cam chic via Unreal Engine lighting is really taking off recently. The sense of weight and movement this perspective brings is doingsome favours for the horror genre, for example. “Semi-body-cam,” bark the developers....

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 148 words · Laurie Williams

V Rising 1.0 review: one of the slickest survival games gets even slicker

It has, however, streamlined some things and added in an endgame zone. And with its 1.0 release, you’ll be totally unsurprised to learn that this also hasn’t changed. And to build that something else, you needsomething else. In most other survival games, I find the building loop grinds me down. V Rising is different, though, in that gathering materials is generous and simple. No smashing a button to pick up individual bits....

May 7, 2024 · 2 min · 311 words · James Cabrera

Wordle hints and answer (#1053): How to solve the Tuesday May 7 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 7? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments!...

May 7, 2024 · 3 min · 452 words · John Gray

It looks like Space Marine 2 will let you go head-to-head in PvP multiplayer

A wave-based co-op mode was added in a later piece of free DLC. Space Marine 2will be out this September, having beenpushed out of its original 2023 window.

May 6, 2024 · 1 min · 28 words · Catherine Gay

No Rest for the Wicked lowers its recommended specs as first big patch brings “significant” performance boosts

There are plenty more improvements and additions in the patch beyond polishing performance, too.

May 6, 2024 · 1 min · 14 words · Brian Gibson

NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, May 6)

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #330 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming over from Wordle! If not, check just below for the full answer....

May 6, 2024 · 1 min · 133 words · Nancy Davis