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Strategy game Bolt Action is a tabletop WW2 miniatures port with indirect fire, armour facings and overwatch
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Strategy game Bolt Action is a tabletop WW2 miniatures port with indirect fire, armour facings and overwatch

Today I became aware of Bolt Action, a historical strategy sim based on the World War II tabletop miniatures game from Warlord Games (founded by erstwhile Games Workshop staffers John Stallard and Paul Sawyer). It sees you fretting over questions of morale, line-of-sight and cover, while leading US, British or German armies across maps that range from beaches to churchyards. There’s multiplayer, too. Trailer ho! Read more

Is Highguard down? Current server status
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Is Highguard down? Current server status

Don't go blaming your PC if you can't connect to Highguard without checking whether the servers are actually up and running first.

Old School RuneScape's 2026 roadmap includes the finale to a questline that's legally old enough to drink
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Old School RuneScape's 2026 roadmap includes the finale to a questline that's legally old enough to drink

Against the overbearing weight of modernity, Old School RuneScape continues to complete a Sisyphean task of simply existing two and a half decades after it originally launched. It just celebrated that 25th anniversary at the start of the year in fact, and now during a Winter Summit a slew of updates coming to the MMO were shown off in a roadmap from developer Jagex. Read more

Banjo-Kazooie gets an unofficial PC port thanks to modders, with handy technical tweaks and Steam Deck support
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Banjo-Kazooie gets an unofficial PC port thanks to modders, with handy technical tweaks and Steam Deck support

A group of modders wearing the finest reverse-engineering goggles has managed to port birdly and beary platformer Banjo-Kazooie to PC, with a bunch of extra bells and whistles to make sure it won't make for a disappointing dip back into your childhood or adulthood. Their creation's dubbed Banjo: Recompiled, and it dropped over the weekend. Read more

Hytale being unfinished is fine, but I'd rather see nothing than its WIP signs
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Hytale being unfinished is fine, but I'd rather see nothing than its WIP signs

I like Hytale. I like how it plays smoother and weightier than Minecraft, while matching the explorative highs of creeping through an infested cave or stumbling upon some ancient, unplundered ruin. I like how it runs on the Steam Deck without trying to. And I like the pace at which it’s being updated: one substantial patch per week, at the current rate. You could argue, fairly, that regular content injections are vital for an early access game that’s accessible as early as Hytale is

Play viral Tetris with Winnie the Pooh's horrible guts in this not very Disneyfied turn-based roguelite
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Play viral Tetris with Winnie the Pooh's horrible guts in this not very Disneyfied turn-based roguelite

Back in 2022, Winnie The Pooh entered the public domain in the USA, meaning that any denizen of that nation can publish work featuring the OG incarnation of A.A. Milne’s honey-supping woodland bear (the UK copyright expires in 2027). At some point in the future, once the newly founded Poohlike genre has matured, we can surely expect a renaissance of Winnie derivatives, ranging from erasure Pooh-ems through josei anime interpretations to Kaufman-ass Hundred Acre existentialism. Right now,

Skilful hero-juggling can elevate Resident Evil Requiem, even when Leon kicks the tension in half
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Skilful hero-juggling can elevate Resident Evil Requiem, even when Leon kicks the tension in half

Resident Evil Requiem director Akifumi Nakanishi has said the imminent sequel is "almost equally split" between its two protagonists, stealthy newcomer Grace and returning mass zombie murderer Leon S. Kennedy. After playing a few hours at Capcom HQ, a chapter that apparently follows on immediately from the pure horror hag-dodging that Edwin endured, I’m hoping that’s an imperfect translation - Leon’s gun fu action brawls can mesh surprisingly well with Grace’s spook 'n'