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Flip your dad's crap laundromat into a local hotspot in Arcade Paradise
Call Of Duty: Warzone's next huge download will actually save you space
The Falconeer just let loose a free DLC that lets you be a proper pirate
PAX East 2021 is cancelled but PAX Online is coming back in July
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey just sent alpha players onto the surface
Evil Genius 2 review
This Microsoft Flight Simulator mod adds the Ever Given in the Suez Canal
Spacebase Startopia does this one weird trick that all base building games should copy
Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.2 is out now, fixing bugs and improving performance
Crash Bandicoot 4's launch was dogged by server issues
The Sunday Papers
Hidden Deep is a physics horror game inspired by The Thing
Death's Door is the new boss battler from the makers of Titan Souls
Loot River is a hack-and-slash RPG set within a Tetris dungeon
Moonglow Bay is a cute, slice-of-life fishing sim
Mech Mechanic Simulator's methodical machinery repair is available now
What are we all playing this weekend?
Virtual detective RPG Gamedec has a new demo and launches in September

Flip your dad's crap laundromat into a local hotspot in Arcade Paradise

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 03:20 PM PDT

You know how it is with kids. You leave on vacation and next thing you know they've turned your failing small business into a nightlife enterprise. Classic 80s teen movie stuff, that. In Arcade Paradise, you'll help Ashley do just that while her dad Gerald is off in the Riviera, who's voiced by none other than Doug Cockle of Geralt of Rivia fame. More than just a collection of cabinet classics, Nosebleed Interactive say, Arcade Paradise will have you manage the laundry's transition from old hole in the wall to booming hotspot.

Call Of Duty: Warzone's next huge download will actually save you space

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 02:20 PM PDT

Call Of Duty: Warzone and Cold War are heating up tomorrow with a mid season update. New maps are coming to multiplayer. New operators are dropping in to both Cold War and Warzone. Oh, and Warzone's install size is shrinking. After a biggo download tomorrow, that is. Don't be surprised when your main game drive suddenly feels just a little bit roomier afterwards.

The Falconeer just let loose a free DLC that lets you be a proper pirate

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 01:01 PM PDT

Avian combat 'em up The Falconeer has doubled back for another fly-by. The very pretty falcon dogfighting game has just gotten a free DLC called Atun's Folly which adds some new missions and enemies and lets you become a more dastardly pirate than before. You can get a look at what's arrived in the update in its new trailer right here.

PAX East 2021 is cancelled but PAX Online is coming back in July

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 11:57 AM PDT

If you're looking at the 2021 calendar and really starting to miss your usual gaming convention trips, PAX has some good and bad news. The bad news is that PAX East, which had been tentatively scheduled for June 2021, is officially cancelled. The good news is that PAX Online will make a comeback in July and the organizers are feeling "cautiously optimistic" about hosting PAX West in person this September.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey just sent alpha players onto the surface

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 09:09 AM PDT

We've got contact, Commanders. Elite Dangerous has fired up the alpha test for its Odyssey expansion—the one that'll let you stomp around on space surfaces. No longer will pilots be confined to their cockpits. Starting today, Alpha players will be testing out combat and exploration over the course of a few weeks, according to this new flight plan. Frontier Developments say that the full launch for Odyssey is still expected in late spring this year, but you can catch a look at what's coming right now.

Evil Genius 2 review

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 09:00 AM PDT

The lair is on fire. A generator just exploded. A superspy has infiltrated the vault. This is Evil Genius 2 at its most hectic, a game of base-building and minion management, with a bit of tower defense thrown in. In true supervillain style, this game has two dramatically different faces. One reveals a handsomely animated base-building game of trap-setting and floor-planning, with a fun theme, appropriately silly voice-acting and plenty of panicked fire-fighting. The other shows a gurning numbers game, a stubborn goblin of timers and clicky icons, withholding resources and chuckling. I like one of these faces a lot more than the other.

This Microsoft Flight Simulator mod adds the Ever Given in the Suez Canal

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 08:50 AM PDT

The greatest spectacle of 2021 has been a container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. The saga of the Ever Given has thrilled many, who will need to find something new to fill the howling void now that the ship is free and on its way. But you can keep the memory alive in Microsoft Flight Simulator, thanks to a mod adding the Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal and all the busyness around it. Even if the Ever Given didn't grab you, do stick around for the cool mod which fills waterways with loads of different boats.

Spacebase Startopia does this one weird trick that all base building games should copy

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 08:21 AM PDT

Alright, so it's not that weird, when you sit down and listen to me explain it to you. But it's also something that I've never seen before. Maybe I'm a fool of the highest order, and loads of games have been doing it for years. If so, please cite those games in the comments.

In Spacebase Startopia (a spirtual sequel to 2001's Startopia) you become the administrator of a big donut-shaped space station. A large part of your job (in fact, the largest part) is building rooms that provide different services, and thus fill the different needs of your alien vistors. There's a berth for sleeping and eating, and a disco for dancing and possibly dropping space Es - although this is not represented in the game, I just assume nobody could dance like those aliens do without chemical help of some kind.

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.2 is out now, fixing bugs and improving performance

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 07:14 AM PDT

I believe I've enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077 more than many, but I do still think it's unfinished. While I don't demand major new features, I sure would like the RPG to be less janky, slow, and crashy. So I am quite pleased to see the huge patch notes CD Projekt Red released today as a teaser for the upcoming update 1.2 ("soon", they say). It's a list over 500 changes, including bug fixes, crash fixes, performance improvements, and more. Sounds good.

Update: Annnd now the patch is now out on PC and consoles, with Stadia following later in the week. 28.8GB to download for me on Steam.

Crash Bandicoot 4's launch was dogged by server issues

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 03:36 AM PDT

While Crash Bandicoot 4 is mostly singleplayer with some local multiplayer, the game does require on online connection on PC. That's always bad, and especially when server issues stop people from playing a game on its launch day. Crash 4 arrived on Battle.net on Friday, then Blizzard's authentication servers burst soon after, rendering the game unplayable for many until the issue was fixed. Cool.

The Sunday Papers

Posted: 28 Mar 2021 04:00 AM PDT

Sundays are for sinking some time into a new book. Before you turn the page, let's read this week's best writing about games.

Hidden Deep is a physics horror game inspired by The Thing

Posted: 27 Mar 2021 10:42 AM PDT

I might like Hidden Deep more if it wasn't for the monsters. It's a 2D game about descending into caverns beneath the ocean and using physics, ropes, and gadgets to chart your way through. This is a game I strongly want to play. But then, there are also terrible, gristly beasts that will rip you and your squad into chunks, and I'm a giant wuss.

If you're braver than I, there's a demo you can play now, and a recent trailer below.

Death's Door is the new boss battler from the makers of Titan Souls

Posted: 27 Mar 2021 10:16 AM PDT

Untitled Goose Game cast you as the naughty resident of a parochial village, and it only makes sense that a game in which you play as a crow sends you into some strange demon dimension. So it is in Death's Door, in which you control a crow trying to retrieve their "assigned soul" by battling beasts and demigods in a "realm untouched by death."

It's from the developers of Titan Souls, and there's an announcement trailer below.

Loot River is a hack-and-slash RPG set within a Tetris dungeon

Posted: 27 Mar 2021 09:38 AM PDT

We recently asked you whether you preferred inventory Tetris or fishing minigames. Well, Moonglow Bay - which I wrote about with the same intro in the post preceding this - is for the folks who yelled "fish", and Loot River is for the folks who love rotating shapes to make them fit.

It's topdown hack-and-slash combat through procedural dungeons which consist of floating platforms you can move and rotate in order to bamboozle and best the demons you're battling. The trailer does a good job of explaining the appeal.

Moonglow Bay is a cute, slice-of-life fishing sim

Posted: 27 Mar 2021 09:14 AM PDT

We recently asked you whether you preferred inventory Tetris or fishing minigames. Moonglow Bay is a game for people who chose the latter: a 'slice-of-life' fishing sim with a colourful voxel art style set in a village where rumours of strange beasts have scared the locals into becoming landlubbers.

The announcement trailer is just lovely.

Mech Mechanic Simulator's methodical machinery repair is available now

Posted: 27 Mar 2021 08:30 AM PDT

Hayao Miyazaki once wrote that he didn't like mech anime because he thought the person who builds the machine should be the hero, not the person who pilots it. Here's your chance to be Miyazaki's hero.

Mech Mechanic Simulator is out now and it's about dismantling, repairing and rebuilding mechs for fun and profit. It's published by PlayWay, they of House Flipper, Car Mechanic Simulator and approximately a million other similar sims. Games in which you click without skill to perform every action, and games which I find endlessly fascinating.

What are we all playing this weekend?

Posted: 27 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PDT

Spring has sprung, and this weekend the clocks spring forward in the UK. Honestly I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I will wake up with my phone automatically set to the right time then go around fixing the other clocks. Thanks, technology, for letting me be stupid as hell. But what are you playing this weekend? Here's what we're clicking on.

Virtual detective RPG Gamedec has a new demo and launches in September

Posted: 26 Mar 2021 03:58 PM PDT

In the 22nd century, video games are life. Or most of life, anyhow. Gamedec is the upcoming isometric RPG where you, the game detective, investigate cybercrimes in 2300s Warsaw City. It's gritty. It's swear-y. Apparently sometimes folks get stuck in naughty sex games. That's the video games we know and love, folks. You can do a bit of cyber-sleuthing yourself in the latest Gamedec demo until it launches properly in September, Anshar Studios have announced.

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