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Time to climb a weird mountain in Cairn, the windy backpacking odyssey from the creators of Haven and Furi
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Time to climb a weird mountain in Cairn, the windy backpacking odyssey from the creators of Haven and Furi

One of the nicer Industry Trends of the past few years has been the rise and rise and rise of climbing sims. It turns out climbing is a source of many emotions, from the melancholy wonder of Jusant through the savage loneliness of Lorn's Lure to the slapstick camaraderie of Peak and the agony of various Sisyphus sims. Also Celeste. And I guess we should mention Getting Over It here? See, it's an absolute avalanche. Cairn is on the somber side. Created by The Game Bakers, it's about a woman w

Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL gaming keyboard review
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Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL gaming keyboard review

Hello you. Welcome to Quick Kits, a new series of PC hardware reviews for people who just want to know, with minimal preamble and probably zero bar charts, what a piece of gear is like to use. I’ll still be testing everything as if it were getting a full-length writeup, but shrink-raying the wordy parts should help us bring you more hardware advice, more often, and across a wider range of component and peripheral types. I’ve got just the thing to get us started with, too: a three-mo

Yarrrrrgh, cool, so the cabin boy's now well and truly been let out onto the poop deck
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Yarrrrrgh, cool, so the cabin boy's now well and truly been let out onto the poop deck

After years worth of all of that, and this, and that, and the other thing, they've just randomly decided now's the time to acknowledge it. Via a Tweeter reply containing that GTA: San Andreas meme no less. I may be a weathered old sailor with cannon fuses tied into my beard and more trips up the rigging than I can count to my name, but I didn't foresee this being how Ubisoft finally acknowledged that Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake. Read more

Stardew Valley creator breaks silence to shoot down myths about Haunted Chocolatier, including that 2030 release rumour
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Stardew Valley creator breaks silence to shoot down myths about Haunted Chocolatier, including that 2030 release rumour

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has emerged from the giant Easter egg in which he makes games to “debunk a few myths and false assumptions” about Haunted Chocolatier, his forthcoming sticky-fingered life sim. The good news is that he’s been “very productive” lately, though he admits that he “shouldn’t have announced the game so early”, which suggests we’ve a ways to go yet before the first proper Haunted Chocolatier traile

Anthem revival efforts look to hinge on whether EA's Frostbite engine freezes attempts to wrangle its myriad quirks
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Anthem revival efforts look to hinge on whether EA's Frostbite engine freezes attempts to wrangle its myriad quirks

A group of tinkerers working on reviving Bioware's Anthem via private servers following its shutdown earlier this month have now offered more insight into how that project's going so far. While a video posted last week got hopes up that a return could be relatively imminient, the group say there's plenty of work to be done yet, with the main potential stubling block being efforts to figure out the quirks of EA's Frostbite engine. Read more

Blizzard veterans reveal Darkhaven, a Diablo 2-style RPG that trades "incrementalism" for "bold, expressive loot" and destructible terrain
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Blizzard veterans reveal Darkhaven, a Diablo 2-style RPG that trades "incrementalism" for "bold, expressive loot" and destructible terrain

Do you miss the good old days of Diablo, before Blizzard’s hellish clickfest megamorphed into a live service Beezelbub owned and operated by stinky uncle Microsoft? Be upstanding, perhaps, for Darkhaven – a new action RPG from a studio founded by a trio of Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 veterans, who have some questionable notions about weaponising volcanos. Said veterans are Diablo 2 lead character artist Philip Shenk, Diablo 2 programmer/designer/lead Peter Hu, and the original Diablo&rsqu