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Dominions 6 is in development and is expected to release “at the end of the year.” The low-key announcement was made on Steam’s Dominions 5 discussion forum, with designer Kristoffer Osterman saying that the next iteration of the fantasy 4X would have “more changes than any previous version, both mechanics-wise and UI/QoL-wise.”
Clock Tower is a survival horror point-and-click adventure released in 1995, but only in Japan. Its availability is going to expand next year. WayForward, the studio responsible for the Shantae series and remastering the likes of DuckTales, are bringing the game westward in 2024 with an English translation and new animations.
Payday 3 looked pretty similar to its predecessors when shown during last month’s Xbox Games Showcase. Almir Listo, global brand director at developers Starbreeze, confirmed one way the heist ’em up sequel would differ during a recent livestream: it’s ‘always online’ and so will require an internet connection even when you’re playing solo.
Want some fancy DDR5 RAM? 6000MT/s? CL30 timings? Some (optional) RGB in the bargain? EXPO support for AMD Ryzen 7000 processors? This Corsair Vengeance 32GB kit has it all and is down to £105 at Corsair’s UK store, some £25 cheaper than it is on Amazon and a great price for this spec – which offers a tangible performance advantage over base-spec DDR5-4800 based on my testing.
Dell make some cracking monitors, from titanic OLED ultrawides to more pedestrian models suitable for office work and slower-paced gaming. We normally focus on the upper end of the spectrum, but today we’re featuring an entry-level 27-inch 1440p model that’s able to deliver excellent image quality, wide viewing angles, a higher-than-normal 75Hz refresh rate and superior ergonomics thanks to a nice stand. All that for £175 – not bad, right?
To get this price, you’ll need to sign up for Dell’s newsletter to get a 5% off code, then use it with another code – TELEGRAPH5MON – at the checkout. That brings this £259 monitor down to £175, complete with a three-year warranty and free delivery.
Fun as it is to pose as an expert on everything, I am not the best judge when it comes to the old psychojalimical horror. Which may be why I don’t quite know how I feel about Decarnation.
There’s a big content warning needed here for sexual assault, something that I assumed would turn out to be the whole point of the game. An unfair judgement, it turns out, as one of its strengths is the intriguing mystery of what’s actually going on, not the more common “what traumatic thing is everything a metaphor for”.
Protagonist Gloria has a lot going on, see. She’s a talented cabaret dancer who recently modelled for a statue, for an artist who immediately makes some creepy remarks about how she’s an ugly old hag at 29. Misogyny and self image are at the heart of this, but they’re wrapped up in Gloria’s worries about getting older, chasing intimacy with a new lover, and her deep love for dance, an art form that games so rarely do much with. It’s not an ugly or blunt game, despite its distressing themes, and I think that’s why it works for me overall.
HBO’s The Last of Us is an outstanding adaptation of Naughty Dog’s grim zombie-survival action game, and a rare exception to the rule that most video game movies and TV shows are pretty terrible. That’s not really news to anyone by now, but what is news is that The Last of Us’ excellence has helped it make history as the first live-action adaptation of a video game to be nominated for any major awards. In this case, the Emmys, where it’s up for no less than two dozen awards.
Seventies arcade hit Lunar Lander is touching back down from the abyss of forgotten classic video games with a modern reimagining. The still-kicking corpse of Atari is behind the incoming addition to the influential series, with Cris Tales studio Dreams Uncorporated leading development on a new game that will apparently add what Lunar Lander – a game about landing a lunar module on a bumpy moon – has been missing all these decades: a rich story.
2001’s Stronghold was a mediaeval real-time strategy game about constructing and destroying beautiful castles. Series developer Firefly Studios are now putting out the game’s second re-release with Stronghold: Definitive Edition, releasing on November 7th.
The even newer edition features the original game’s two campaigns alongside a new one designed by studio co-founders Simon Bradbury and Eric Ouellette. The fresh campaign takes us across the “devastated English hinterland,” while presumably doing what you’d expect from the series: gathering resources, managing your economy, building stuff, and waging war. Here’s our first look:
I started with cats. They lapped up all the milk I could get them, earning me splatters of coins plus a further boost from a lucky early beastmaster. I threw some toddlers in too, basking in bonanzas of candy whenever I found a pinata for them to bash open, along with a smorgasbord of chests, fruits, urns and eggs. Then I slowly swapped all of that out for gems, and my board became a pristine, soulless, basically fully optimised money printer.
Luck Be A Landlord is about meeting ever escalating rent demands by playing a slot machine. Each month gives you a limited number of spins to come up with the money, and the chance to add one of three random symbols after each spin. Those symbols bounce off each other in zany but logical ways: bees pollinate flowers, comedians amplify monkeys. Dogs befriend humans. Billionaires get guillotined.
