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While I have not one but two Windows gaming rigs for testing and writing, they’re both desktops. For working on the go, I use a MacBook Air (boo, hiss), but these HP Omen laptop deals have me considering a swap.
I had totally forgotten that Resident Evil Village was in development alongside a new Resident Evil multiplayer game, which (at the risk of yet again inflating my own importance) is perhaps why Capcom have just shut the latter down. As promised earlier this year, Resident Evil RE:Verse is no more. Capcom have burned down the game’s storefront listing, taken a shovel to its DLC pages, and now put a pitchfork through the servers. Run tell the peasantfolk that the beast is finally dead.
Capcom have a tough fight on their hands at the moment. No, Arkveld hasn’t escaped from its lair to terrorise the non-OP masses. Monster Hunter Wilds has been suffering from some pretty nasty performance issues on PC.
While they don’t look to have the action game running as well as some kind of crash and stuffer-free Usain Bolt quite yet, the release of Wilds’ second title update has seen the studio try to curb some shader compilation and VRAM-related problems.
The Alters is a sci-fi management game in which you remix your character’s life history in a “Quantum Computer” to generate a workforce of deeply disturbed, borderline non-functional clones. In a twist so on-the-nose I can feel its fingers plucking at my olfactory bulb, developers 11 Bit Studios may have used generative AI to spawn or auto-translate parts of the in-game lore – despite the absence of a generative AI disclosure on Steam.
Yaaar, me hearties. Pull up a barstool and take another swig of grog. I be hearin’ fresh tales of a treasure that’s reportedly still in development at Ubisoft.
These whispers be comin’ from Matt Ryan, the voice actor behind Assassin’s Creed Black Flag‘s swashbucking stabber Edward Kenway. He’s cheekily told some landlubbers that they may have to beat the game again, prompting the parrots to start squawking about a return to the Carribean yet again.
Balls have never been footed so fast. Rematch, the moreish multiplayer soccer game from the developers of Sifu, has seen its first cases of speedhackers infesting the game over the last week.
It’s not unusual for multiplayer games to suffer a few cheaters, and it’s not clear how widespread the hacking tools are being used among the growing number of players (now at 3 million players, according to Sloclap). But it is a mild concern to anyone who prefers their team mates and opponents to move at regular human pace, and not say, the speed of an angry motorcycle, as shown in footage captured by several players.
Welcome, friend, to the good year of 2025. Scavengers Reign has just been renewed for its third season, Greggs have starting doing their festive bake all year round, and the Dead Space remake sold gangbusters.
Wait, no, sorry. This is the bad timeline. Scavengers Reign was acquired by a company who actively balk at anything people might want to watch with their entire faces, and Dead Space apparently didn’t sell well enough for EA to greenlight more. It’s with a certain melancholy then, that I recommend the Steam Summer sale’s offering of Dead Space remake at 80% off (£10/€12/$12/perhaps a sillier price if you live somewhere Valve doesn’t consider important).
Deep discounts aren’t always a sure indicator of success in either direction, of course. The brilliant Resident Evil 4 remake is 50% off its already very generous usual price and apparently did very well. But I can’t help get abandoned bargain bin vibes from this one. It deserved so much better.
I have thus far in my life avoided playing any factory automation games because I only ever see them recommended in the same breath as dire warnings and laments. “Play Infinifactory! It ruined my life! “, “I now exclusively play Opus Magnum inside the skip that is now my home after my family kicked me out. 10/10!”, etc etc. But the way Number Machine‘s extendo-arm hex pushes sets of tiles has awakened something in me. Taking a sprawling genre and making it tiny and a bit pastel is basically a genre unto itself now but one I’m a supporter of. Here’s a trailer.
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! We’re doing tabletop designers now, firstly because I think tabletop is cool and secondly…nope, that’s it. Every week we stray further from videogames, and every week we regain feeling in body parts we’d forgotten we had. Ten toes, you say? Marvellous.
Yes, yes, you’re reading that headline right. Yet another Battlefield 6 leak has taken place, if you can believe it, showing 15 whole minutes of the game that we all know exists but hasn’t really been shown off in an official capacity. This follows on from the leak in March, and even just last week, which might have confirmed the presence of a battle royale mode. This latest leak offers something new though: the return of Rush mode, a mode that’s appeared in a number of previous Battlefield entries.
