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Can’t Stop Playing is our monthly celebration of a game we’re loving. This time we have been buried under the pixel avalanches of physicsy roguelike Noita. Watch out for more articles on it throughout the month. Castle Shotgun has been ringing with the sound of spells, explosions, and squelching purple monsters thank to the chaotic

Death Stranding developer Kojima Productions has announced that the title is coming to PC some time next summer, and it’ll be published by 505 Games. Kojima Productions made the announcement via twitter, and currently there are no other details regarding any possible additional content or enhancements for the PC version. We’ll have our review of the PS4

The latest interactive file system pal from Nathalie Lawhead is a delightfully anxious almost-spider called SHARED_ANXIETIES_WITH_A_FRIEND_ON_YOUR_BIRTHDAY.exe. They wander about your screen, expressing all kinds of day to day fears. And I love them. The insect friend within the file crawls about and, as the name suggests, shares their anxieties. But they’re shared in more way

If you’ve not been following PC games goings-on across the week, catch up on some of the big stories quick in our noncomprehensive Weekly News Digest. I’ve slipped in a few things we haven’t already posted about, and do also read The Updates Update for some of the week’s notable patches and updates. In this

The Underlords of Dota Underlords are no longer a naming flourish, today becoming actual units leading our armies with handy perks and abilities. Valve name today’s update The Big Update because, well, it is. Along with the first two Underlords, it adds new heroes from Dota 2 and new Alliances with new bonuses. A Duos

During Ubisoft’s financial earnings call, the publisher announced that it will be delaying Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Watch Dogs: Legion to the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Ubisoft’s CEO and Co-Founder Yves Guillemot stated that the reason for the delays was to give each developer more time to craft its vision of each game.  While

Neil Druckmann has confirmed that The Last of Us Part II will not meet its original February 21 release. In a post on the PlayStation blog, Druckmann announced the game’s new release date: May 29.  Despite the “blowout” announcement during last month’s State of Play, The Last of Us Part II may not be as

“What the hell is going on?” Thoughts like this creep into my mind whenever I watch new Death Stranding trailers and gameplay videos. Don’t take that as a bad thing, per se. Hideo Kojima delivering wild ideas is nothing new, and he usually knocks them out of the park. That said, I am worried about

Hot on the heels of Bethesda delaying Fallout 76’s NPC-focused Wastlanders update until next year, the company is now giving players something unexpected, and it costs money. Bethesda is inviting people to join Fallout 1st, a premium monthly membership that gives players access to private worlds, unlimited storage for crafting components in a new Scrapbox,

Halloween descends upon Rainbow Six Siege today with the launch of Doktor’s Curse, a hide ‘n’ seek mode where monsterhunters armed with honking great hammers are out to squash ghoulies who just want to live. It’s not their fault they’re alive, you awful hunters. Take it up with the Doktor. You can meet the fiend

The third episode of icy survival sandbox The Long Dark‘s story mode arrived today. Crossroads Elegy switches protagonists, putting us in the hiking boots of the doctor we were searching for in the first two episodes. Handy thing to be in the icepocalypse, a doctor. More useful than a pilot without a plane. Here, see

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is set to conclude the long-running Skywalker Saga this December, but we still have a lot to learn about the finale. While many of us would prefer to go in as blind as possible, that’s not the rule everyone abides by, nor is it the way the entertainment industry

Playing a multiplayer game shoulder-to-shoulder with pals in the same room is grand but does, y’know, require being in the same room. For times when you want to play those local multiplayer games but aren’t all together, Steam is adding a technomagical way to play them online. It’s called Steam Remote Play Together, it entered

Gearbox hosted a Halloween-themed Bloody Harvest event for Borderlands 2, and the the company has revealed that this celebrations is returning in Borderlands 3. The event takes place from October 24 through December 5. During Bloody Harvest, players discover a new crew member named Maurice. Players can also travel to a new location, called Heck, where they can

I like a video game that tells me everything I need to know right there in the title. Like Bleakstead. Bleakstead is about a certain place, a stead, if you will, which is bleak. Thanks Bleakstead! It also has just incredible stars. In Bleakstead, you accidentally oversleep and end up at the final stop on

If you’ve not been following PC games goings-on across the week, catch up on some of the big stories quick in our noncomprehensive Weekly News Digest. I’ve slipped in a few things we haven’t already posted about, and do also read The Updates Update for some of the week’s notable patches and updates. This week,

Humble’s game subscription service Humble Monthly will soon relaunch with a higher price as Humble Choice. Rather than giving a fixed bag of games (usually 8) for $12/month, each month Humble Choice have a choice of 10 games and let you pick some to keep. You’ll get 3 on the Choice Basic tier for $15/month,

Sideshow and PCS Collectibles have created the ultimate item for fans of the game. Standing in at 24-inches in height, the Spider-Man Advanced Suit statue can be yours for just $1,100. Sideshow is creating two different versions: an “exclusive” one that comes with a flexible web, and the “standard” edition that doesn’t have it. Spider-Man

It must be hard to make Halloween updates for a game where most enemies are swashbuckling skeletons. But that’s just what Sea Of Thieves is trying to do with Fort Of The Damned, October’s harrowing Halloween twist on Rare’s sea shanty. With a damnable new castle and skinless pets, Sea Of Thieves wants to make

Red Dead Redemption 2 arrives on PC on November 5, and you can now get a taste of just how beautiful it is going to look for people who have the hardware to run it in 4K. The first shot of this short minute-long trailer shows off the increased draw distant and general improvements to

Analogue, the company behind the Super Nt and the Mega Sg premium retro consoles, has announced the Analogue Pocket. This new handheld device follows in the footsteps of the Super Nt and Mega Sg systems in that it allows you to play retro games you already own natively, with no emulation required, but it also

In celebration of League of Legends’ 10-year anniversary, developer Riot Games has revealed a huge slate of new games set in the League of Legends universe. In addition, a new animated series and documentary are on the way, and the popular autobattler Teamfight Tactics is coming to mobile. The first all-new game announced by Riot is

Google announced today that its bold entry into console-less gaming will arrive on November 19. With servers launching at 12 p.m. Eastern/9 a.m. Pacific, fans will either have to preorder the Founder’s Edition or subscribe to the Stadia Pro plan. At $9.99 a month, The Pro subscription gives players access to 4K resolution, better sound, and

There’s a chill in King’s Canyon tonight. Apex Legends‘s Fight Or Fright Halloween spectacle began today, bringing ghosts and ghouls and all that spooky stuff into Respawn’s battle royale. For the next three weeks, the familiar cast of the Apex games will be dressing up in their spookiest costumes, dishing out bullets and grenades to

In a new trailer, Sega has announced that the revitalization of the Super Monkey Ball series, an HD remake of Banana Blitz, will feature a hidden character for players to unlock. That character is none other than Sega’s own Sonic the Hedgehog. While details are scarce at the moment, Sonic appears to play similar to

When I first saw HP’s Omen X 2S dual-screen gaming laptop a couple of months ago, I thought they were having a laugh. After all, what could you possibly do with such a tiny secondary display above the main keyboard when you’re playing games? It screamed ‘gimmick’ at the time, but after visiting Intel’s Open

Epic Games is no stranger to using viral events to promote the next season of its popular game Fortnite, but the newest way of hinting at what’s next puts the strange purple cube from last year to shame.  This morning, rockets flew through the map, then converged with a meteor to destroy the game’s world.

Fortnite: Battle Royale‘s ominous countdown has ended, and a rocket barrage fractured its (extremely pretty) skydome. Then all the players, the entire map, and even the long-suffering battle bus were hoovered up into oblivion. Now the entire game’s been replaced by a mysterious (and occasionally horrifically flickering) black hole. A normal Sunday night. The black

Fix ’em up In all the hubbub of the week, you might’ve missed some of the patches and updates rolled out to games. Presenting the Weekly Updates Update, a noncomprehensive roundup of new maps and characters and balance tweaks and fixes and such which caught my eye over the week – including a few we

Fortnite‘s had a good run. Since an admittedly awkward 2017 launch, it’s become this cultural behemoth, completely unparseable yet unstoppably popular. But it’s acquired some bloat over those two years – Map locations have vanished, reappeared and warped in and out. Weapons and gimmicks have floated in and out of an interdimensional vault, a vault