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In a surprise move, Frictional Games has introduced Steam Workshop support for its foundational horror game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The change came four days before the launch of the latest game in the series, The Bunker, and brings The Dark Descent more in line with later games from Frictional like Soma and Amnesia: Rebirth.”We are well aware (and in awe) of the countless mods and custom stories made throughout the years,” Frictional wrote in its announcement. “And now we’ve finally ensured you can publish and install them smoothly via Steam.”Frictional has historically been friendly to modding already, making level…

Nike, never one to pass up a cynical corporate cash-in, obviously made its own “web3” platform last year, debuting the .Swoosh “digital community experience” in November and selling a bunch of boxes of randomized virtual shoes in its beta period. “Build your collection,” it advertises, “Display, trade, or wear your Nike Virtual Creations in video games and immersive experiences.”Now one of gaming’s very own cynical corporate cash-grabbers, Electronic Arts, is getting in on the “immersive experiences” to do something vague involving its games and Nike’s blockchain-powered .Swoosh platform. “In future EA Sports titles, EA Sports and Nike plan to make select…

Save your Wordle win streak with today’s hint, designed to give you a prod in the right direction without giving the game away. Prefer to skip straight to your latest victory, or are you too close to the bottom to risk a bad guess? Don’t worry—the answer to the June 3 (714) Wordle is ready and waiting just below.A huge wave of relief washed over me when I finally found today’s solution: after a string of puzzling non-starters and one rather odd green, I had almost given up hope of finishing today’s Wordle with a win. Today’s Wordle hint(Image credit: Josh…

“Forever in our hearts, eternally comfy,” reads a memorial tweet for Puppers, also known as Max, a popular Dead by Daylight streamer who died this week at age 32. In 2020, Max was diagnosed with terminal ALS, an incurable nervous system disease.The tweet, which references Max’s warm appeals to “stay comfy,” came from Light in the Fog, a Dead by Daylight fundraiser tournament series that collected $270,000 for his treatment in 2021 and 2022. The events were organized by Sunshine, Eshleee, and Silver, three long-distance friends who relocated to help care for Max following his diagnosis.”Being his caregiver as he…

Long before you make a decision between necromancer and sorcerer you’ll need to make a choice about Diablo 4’s high resolution assets. Should you install them or not?The first thing you’ll notice when you’re faced with the choice is the amount of storage required for the high resolution assets—as well as the time it will take to download them. Without the high- res assets you’re looking at about a 45GB download for Diablo 4, but with the high-res assets the size is just about doubled to around 90GB.That alone might be enough to help you decide, depending on how fast…

Katamari Damacy is a difficult game to describe—it’s about rolling a ball around strangely earthly playgrounds to collect up a random and expanding assortment of stuff, starting with thumbtacks and paperclips and working your way up to crabs and buckets and cars and houses and entire skyscrapers. But it’s also about, like, love and joy and consumerism and maybe innocence? If there is one thing Katamari Damacy is definitely not, it’s subtle, which is why I was completely caught off guard by We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie’s release on Steam on June 1.Bandai Namco sure wasn’t hyping this one…

Tabletop RPG Pathfinder has already spawned a series of successful CRPGs, in the form of Pathfinder: Kingmaker and its sequel Wrath of the Righteous. But the latest game based on the Pathfinder ruleset is an ARPG that points its weapons squarely at Diablo, and the Kickstarter campaign for this bold fantasy upstart has just launched.The full title is Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults, and the Kickstarter page describes it as a “Co-op Hack and Slash game based on the epic Adventure Path of the same name, in which up to four players lead iconic Pathfinder heroes into the farthest depths of Gauntlight…

Ever since their mobile game debut in 2010, Talking Tom, Talking Angela, and their pals, have become some of the greatest icons of family entertainment. The two of them have featured in dozens of mobile games, many of which have garnered billions of downloads. In fact, they’ve starred in some of the most widely downloaded games of the last decade, such as My Talking Tom 2, Talking Tom Gold Run, and My Talking Angela 2.But with great fame comes great responsibility, and now Talking Tom and Talking Angela are harnessing their powers for a greater good. Outfit7, the multinational company…

Though treasure goblins started as a Diablo thing, they’ve had a couple of cameos in World of Warcraft, showing up during the Diablo 20th anniversary world event back in 2017 and then as “loot specialists” added in a Dragonflight patch earlier this year. The idea’s always the same: they drop treasure if defeated, but only if you catch them before they escape via magic portal. What made loot specialists different was that they had a lore-appropriate reason for their very videogame behavior, being members of the Venture Co. acquisitions department—a goblin trade cartel that’s been used to parody corporate malfeasance…

A clue written for today’s Wordle is ready and waiting to save your win streak if you need it, and our tips, guides, and past solutions below can improve every game. If you just need to win as quickly as possible, the answer to the June 2 (713) Wordle is only a short scroll down this page.I found myself utterly stumped about halfway down the board today, my solitary green neither the right sort of letter nor in the right place, and my yellows were shedding no helpful light on the situation. Whatever I did only seemed to make the…

No online game ever launched smoothly, and that goes double for Blizzard games. Maybe triple for Diablo given the legacy of old mate Error 37. As Diablo 4 arrives in early access for folks who pre-ordered it, those of us playing on PC have mostly been able to get in easily, with a five-minute queue here and there. The same can’t be said for our PS5 friends.The unexpected error message “Unable to find a valid license for Diablo IV” has prevented many players from being able to enjoy their early access privileges, and Blizzard has noted the issue, saying, “The…

Diablo 4 is live now for those who preordered one of the special editions, and rather than meandering through Sanctuary—stopping to smell the corpses here and there—some players are racing through the game in an effort to be one of the first to reach level 100. Some of those racers are well-known streamers whose progress is being tracked by website Diablo Builds, which is streaming coverage of the race on its Twitch channel. The competitors are divided into normal and Hardcore mode players, the latter of whom have to start over if their characters die.I’m not planning to play Diablo 4…

Want to know how to unlock the classic outfits for Street Fighter 6’s roster, plus alternate outfits for its newcomers? Capcom’s latest fighting game has given a number of its characters a fresh new look, marking a new era in 2D fighting game history. If you’re missing their old-school style though, don’t worry. Each returning fighter has a classic look that you can unlock, while the newcomers are given a secondary outfit to rock.There are two ways to unlock Outfit 2: Either with your wallet, or by doing a little in-game grinding to get them free of charge. I’ll detail…

There’s still no news on long-awaited RPG Bloodlines 2, but we do have yet another Vampire: The Masquerade game on the way. This time around it’s Justice, a new VR adventure that sends players to the dark streets of Venice in search of the truth behind a dark conspiracy.Revealed during today’s Meta Quest Gaming Showcase, Vampire: The Masquerade – Justice follows the story of Justice, a member of the Banu Haqim clan, who travels to the home of the death-worshipping Hecata clan to track down and punish the killers of their sire, and discover the mystery behind the theft of…

Total War has been revelling in fantasy and legends for a good long while now, but with Total War: Pharaoh the series returns to its roots, presenting a more grounded vision of history, albeit with some artistic licence. But even without magic, gods and superhuman leaders, Pharaoh still has some tricks up its sleeve. Set during the Bronze Age collapse, Pharaoh sees Egypt dealing with myriad crises: the death of its ruler, threats from neighbours and incursions from the enigmatic Sea Peoples—an invading force of unknown origin. The tumultuous nature of the period is reflected in a stability system that throws…

You might not be ultra-familiar with the case manufacturer Azza, but it’s made a bit of a rep out of geometrically interesting chassis designs. And the latest lineup fresh from the Computex show floor is no different. It’s range of Pyramid chassis is the one you’ll likely recognise, but it has a few other classic designs, such as the Cube (balanced precariously on one corner) and its Overdrive case (an open style chassis resembling a car engine). But the new Sanctum is the one which has caught my eye from its new cases.It’s another showpiece chassis, with three sides of tempered…

At Computex this week Adata has been showing off the extreme capacity of its nominally 1600W Fusion Titanium power supply. And it’s been doing that by running four of Nvidia’s most powerful graphics cards in tandem and thrashing those RTX 4090 cards with the FurMark power virus and OctaneBench.Our colleagues over at Tom’s Hardware spotted the setup on the show floor, and noted that the system was peaking at over 2200W of system power drawn from that Adata PSU. May I just remind you again that it’s meant to be a 1600W PSU?At the GeForce cards’ peak TGP of 450W, that…

Find the answer to today’s Wordle your way with our comprehensive range of help and advice. Need the June 1 (712) solution in a hurry? Then you’re in luck because you’re only a quick click away from a win. Prefer to take your time? No problem. You’ll find everything from general tips to a fresh clue waiting just below.My opening pair of guesses were complete opposites today: the first giving me nothing at all, the second locking one letter in place, and generously giving me two yellows to puzzle out. From that helpful point, I found almost the right word,…

Development of “realistic first-person tactical shooter” Six Days in Fallujah began all the way back in 2005, less than a year after the actual Iraq War battle it’s based on. On June 22, it will finally release in early access on Steam.Six Days in Fallujah was originally going to be published by Konami, but in 2009, the company abandoned the game following outcry over its subject matter. Call of Duty was also being criticized at the time for turning contemporary military adventurism into entertainment, but got by with its over-the-top fictional thriller plots. For many, basing a videogame directly on…

The people making artificial intelligence say that artificial intelligence is an existential threat to all life on the planet and we could be in real trouble if somebody doesn’t do something about it.”AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public are increasingly discussing a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI,” the prelude to the Center for AI Safety’s Statement on AI Risk states. “Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks. “The succinct statement below aims to overcome this obstacle and open up discussion. It is also meant to create…