Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s gamiest videogame releases
New week, new PC games!
Did you know that European magpies are great mimics?
Second only to the Northern Mockingbird, apparently, though many ornithologists contend that the BrownThrasheris sorely overlooked.
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
IT’S… TUESDAY ALREADY?
Some of the “announcements” and “surprise releases” appear to have been genuine, however.
Here’s one Alice0 spotted - a very short game aboutcars.
Here’s anew Helldivers 2 patch.
This one adds blizzards and sandstorms while rebalancing various weapons, missions and enemies.
Best of luck to everybody affected.
Fans got some juicyHollow Knight: Silksonginfo over the long weekend.
The long-awaited metroidvania was given an official listing in the form of an Xbox Store Page.
Chicken butt and frying pan enjoyers, rejoice!
The Guardianhas a gaming-adjacent pieceabout research demonstrating that some people effectively perceive more frames per second.
Blizzard say they’reopen to more Warcraft moviesif they can find the right filmmaker to partner with.
Former Dragon Age director Mike Laidlaw has revealed his much-teased fantasy game.
Game Pass is gettingsix more games for PC in April, including the delightful Lil Gator Game.
April 1st or not, youcan now actually play it for real.
That gives you three more days topick it up at the cheaper price, if you’re interested.
Gearboxconfirmed to Eurogamerthat there are layoffs at the company following its sale by Embracer to Take-Two.
It’s unknown how many staff are affected.
“We are grateful that our talent and capability are of interest to you and your audience”?
Edwin wrote about recently-released horror game Content Warning and its beingfree to keep for a short whileearlier today.
It now has over 200,000 concurrent players on Steam.
HELLO WEDNESDAY
Former GTA dev Obbe Vermeij has been tweeting about the finer points of GTA.
Here’s some insight on the mechanics of plane collisions and near collisions in San Andreas.
What direful corpo-lunar cash-in wizardry is all this?
I’m off to burn some protective incense.
Atari are now publishers for the whole RollerCoaster Tycoon series, after buying missing 2004 sequel for $7m.
Finally,a gamewhich lets me pass on love letters using a vacuum cleaner.
it’s time to put an end to the A-POCKY-LIPS!!
!pic.twitter.com/oSwLJWfvtx
NOW FOR THURSDAY
The Merlin Matrix has overloaded!
Hose it down for a few minutes while I fetch another bucket of pixies.
There’s now a magic tickbox that stops this happening.
And yes, it hopefully makes the feed more digestible, pun intended.
It also touches on the infamous failed Savvy Games deal.
It seems like magic.
I want to try it out.
Speaking of games that exist, No Plan Bcame out this week.
It’s a topdown tactics game about plotting synchronous breaches, takedowns, and grenade tosses.
It looks like it might be slicker (and less ick?)
Right, I’m out.
It’s out 11th April.
Castawayis a pint-sized The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.
I saw this go past earlier in the week and forgot about it - thanksGamesradarfor the reminder.
There are distant rumblings of the Splinter Celery variety over on Ubisoft Toronto’s Facebook page.
Seems likely we’ll hear more at the Ubisoft Forward event on June 11th.
It’s due some time in May.
Player Non Playeris out now, and has the smack of something special.
you’re free to also chuck them around like dolls.
Theres now a cure for Dragons Dogma 2s dreaded pawn pox Dragonsplague:mods!
I mentioned this in The Maw previously but hey, now it has its own post.
