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Dune: Awakening’s first major free update is live, boasting all-new murders, secrets, contracts and tattoos

Dune: Awakening has received its first “major” free update, a continuation of the MMO survival game’s story following the revelations of Act 3. What revelations were these? Honestly, lads, I never made it that far. My character is presently a furry chunk of worm jerky, crammed into a half-built shack after accidentally encasing herself in the furniture, so I couldn’t spill the beans even if I knew. But I can reveal there are “gruesome murders” to investigate from this point on, and further opportunities to dig up the misbegotten secrets of Arrakis. Here’s a trailer.

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Possible GTA 6 parody websites hint at in-game activities, including buying tackle from Hookers Galore and posting creepy corndogs

GTA 6 will feature a bunch of in-game websites with real-world URLs, going by various domain registrations spotted by an active and efficient dataminer. The site URLs offer potential clues about the businesses and organisations you might patronise, during your time in Vice City. They include what sound like parody versions of ride-sharing app Uber and communication network WhatsApp, together with a government website for Leonida, the fictional US state and parody of Florida in which Rockstar’s new Grand Theft Auto takes place.

One of the other rumoured GTA 6 websites appears to feature “hookers galore”. I give odds of 6-4 that this will prove to be an in-game fishing supplier, ho ho. And then there’s “myboyhasacreepycorndog.com”. I give odds of 3-2 that “corndog” means “penis”, har har. It’s GTA, isn’t it. There’s absolutely a dick joke in there somewhere.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong’s first patch makes some early bosses slightly easier, out now in Steam and GOG beta

The notes for Hollow Knight: Silksong‘s first proper post-release patch have arrived. Team Cherry have been busy fixing bugs and making some “slight balance adjustments in the early game”, which you can now give a go early via beta branches on Steam and GOG.

That’ll mean you’re testing the changes ahead of the update’s planned full deployment next week, with Team Cherry aiming for a mid-week arrival “barring any unforeseen issues”. Now you know that, let’s get into the changes, which the studio have outlined in a post on the Steamy platform.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong multiplayer mods are already starting to arrive, and it’s not even been a Skonging week

Ok, that was quick. Hollow Knight: Silksong has been out less than a week, and no less than two modders have already had a crack at getting multiplayer working in it, so you can take on those pesky bosses with some co-op aid or moral support.

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, the Skong modding scene has exploded out of the gates with the same level of gusto folks have had for just playing the base version of the long-awaited metroidvania. Then again, it’s one thing for folks to be putting out a bunch of smaller scale tweaks that can help make things easier, and another for them to turn a one player game into a more than one player game.

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Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are “not properly valuing” developers, says former Bethesda exec

Former Bethesda marketing chief Pete Hines has been chatting about the ups and downs of videogame subscription platforms, such as Microsoft’s Game Pass service, GeForce Now and whatever the hell Ubisoft are calling theirs at the minute. Subisoftscription? UbiPassPlus? Answers on a postcard.

Hines is broadly of the opinion that subscription platforms are failing many of the developers who sign up to publish through them, though he cautions that his experience is out-of-date – he retired from Bethesda in October 2023.

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Starfield’s second DLC might involve a “Terran Armada”, and that sounds quite whelming

Steam tells me I’ve spent 171 hours of my life to this point playing Starfield. It’s not an insignificant amount of time, but it pales in comparison to how long I’ve spent with the myriad other works of developers Bethesda. Said devs now look like they might have fired up the tease rocket for the space RPG‘s second major expansion. If they have, the very little they’ve shown off so far hasn’t gotten me right on board to play more.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong’s early mods sand off its more annoying edges, including double damage and distant spawns

Shhhhh. If we’re quiet, we might be able to avoid discourse with this one. If you’ve spent your weekend playing Hollow Knight: Silksong and found that the likes of enemies inflicting double damage and spawns being miles away put a dampner on the fun, mods can help.

I know, I know, these are videogames and we must take their difficulty with the utmost seriousness. How else are any of us supposed to learn important life lessons, like ‘press button dodge at this point’, unless we go through hours of frustration trying to beat one boss (or look such info up)? As such, I stress that these mods, like all mods, are entirely optional. No need to shout at people for using them. Save your voice for singing love ballads to Hornet during breaks in the action.

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Paradox take “first step” in response to Bloodlines 2’s DLC clan backlash with PlayStation refunds, promise more info next week

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 publisher Paradox have gotten the ball rolling on the “adjustments” they promised in response to the controversy over the game’s day-one paid DLC vampire clans.

As we’ve covered previously, the Toreador and Lasombra clans were originally revealed to be locked behind a purchase of either Bloodines’ £18.69/€21.99/$21.99 Shadows and Silk DLC pack, or the £74.99/€89.99/$89.99 premium edition that said DLC comes bundled with. Cue understandable unhappiness, and Paradox swiftly moving to declare they’d rejig some stuff before launch.

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