The birds are singing old Celtic ditties.

There are extinct species of fern growing through the vents of my i7 12700F.

Mind you, this week it’s all about the demos.

An etching of a man on horseback battling a monster with several heads

Participating developers have taken to stuffing them up a few days in advance to beat the rush.

Our live coverage of this event has finished.

Spin up the Infinite Improbability Drive and FEED THE MAW.

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“I dont have a story, but I do have that concept,” he said.

So it does feel like theres probably one more chapter to this story."

The “second hand” on the shoulder of Fragile, played by Lea.

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Do orcs next hey.

Ed Thorn found the early access build to be afairly good timeback in 2022.

A new Manor Lords videoemerged over the weekend which delves into the game’s music.

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Lots ofverynice strings, and some neat talk about the wider process of creating the soundtrack.

Apparently, people are using footage of Dorfromantik to advertise their own games.

The developers haveput up a Steam postasking players not to call attention to these ads, for obvious reasons.

There’s ademo upfor Silent Hilly exclusion zone thriller Hollowbody.

Footgun Undergroundalso has a demo.

It’s a roguelike in which you fight things using your soccer skills and some accompanying 2D ricochet physics.

The Caribbean has come to Microsoft Flight Simulator, care of the latest free update.

Last week’sFactorio Friday Factsblog entry was particularly interesting to me.

Anyone here played it?

I’m not sure anybody in the Treehouse has.

Your friendly neighbourhood TCG fan is here to let you know thata bunch of classic Yu-Gi-Oh!

video games are headed to PC- and outside of Japan - for the first time!

The Early Days Collection will bring the likes of 2000 Game Boy Color title Yu-Gi-Oh!

Whisper it: feed the maw.

Sorry for the site outages last night everybody.

We had a Cascade Event and the Maw expanded past the 19th parallel, overwhelming the server farms.

Glory to Beetle Brownings!

A statue will be erected in her honour.

There’s a “future of Xbox” event coming next week, according to Phil Spencer.

Does this one involve more layoffs, Phil?

Or is it about Xbox console exclusives coming to PlayStation, like the leakers have been saying?

We’re listening and we hear you.

Here’s a video of new maps coming in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 2.

I share this mostly because I want to live in the mountain-top resort depicted.

Laralyn McWilliams was a fiercely talented game developer who dedicated so much time to sharing her knowledge with others.

She was kind and genuine and we will miss her.

Well, this is a surprise.Nightingale is launching two days earlier than planned, devs Inflexion Games have announced.

It’s now coming Tuesday February 20th.

The full game is also coming to Steam on March 8th.

An end-of-shift demo recommendation from me -Dusky Depths.

Crusader Kings 3 is getting another year of DLC, under the name Chapter 3.

The first is called Legends Of The Deadand it’s out in March.

Infinite Craft is afree internet tool toy in which it’s possible for you to seemingly craft anything.

There’s no objective to it, but experimenting with it is great fun.

Someone has made a12-hour long video essayabout Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.

Whether someone else has yet had the fortitude to watch all of it, I do not know.

More steam, more steam!

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth got its very own State of Play showcase last night.

Lies of P is borrowing some weapons and gear from Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.

Worth returning to the game for?

I’m still in the opening third myself.

ViaDSOGaming, there’s an unofficial PC port of 1999-released RPG The Legend of Dragoon.

It’s called Project: Severed Chains.

Valve haveadded Arms Race mode to Counter-Strike 2as part of the latest round oftweaks and fixes.

Ed has dug upan offbrand Armored Core gamethat puts him in mind of certain supermarkets.

It turns out the “A” in “double-A” is for “Aldi”.

Good lord, the sleepless nights I spent trying to figure out the bloody Junction system.

It seems fairly transparent in hindsight, but teenage Edwin was in over his head.

Visual Concepts are the developers of WWE 2K23, NBA 2K24 and Lego 2K Drive.

I didn’tthinkthe controls werethatunwieldy.

It can only be a new Unreal Tournament set in Disneyland, right?

Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter has areporton the lack of funding for marginalised developers.

Deus Ex got canceled.

Free-to-play turn-based tactics gameFeudleaves early access on February 23rd.

I’ve not played this but it seems fun.

Turn 10 areoverhauling car progressionin the latest Forza Motorsport.

Do you like Elden Ring?

Ooh eck, I like the cut ofHyperspace Deck Command.

I have just stumbled on tasty-seeming 1972-set immersive simSpectra.

It’s agood piece!

Assassin’s Creed’s visit to feudal Japan should arrive before March 2025according to the latest Ubisoft financial report.

The same update also confirms that Star Wars Outlaws is due to release sometime in 2024.

Developers Arrowheadsay they’re working on a hotfix.

Ubisoft will you stop trying to make “AAAA” happen, it’s not going to happen.

“We do think we can optimize that.

We also have third-party expenses, software, other vendors, supply services.

And we always find opportunity there.

The hardest thing to do is to lay off colleagues, and we have no current plans.”

Card Craftis a roguelike homage to Final Fantasy’s Triple Triad cardgame.

It’s been in early access since 2022 and now has a release date.

As a recovering Triple Triad player, I could see myself losing a lot of time to this.

Set your Tardis to February 28th.

The other half are in the hands of King Charles.

RuneScape makers Jagexare being boughtby the multibillion sports giant behind Six Nations and LaLiga, for a reported 900m.

The result is Physint.

It’s out now.

The French union STJV has expressedconcerns about worker wellbeingat French developer Don’t Nod.