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ConcernedApe wins my funny bit of the year award for making Clint a marriage candidate in Stardew Valley’s 1.7 update

Stardew Valley, as of today, as temporally upsetting as it is to write this, is officially 10 years old. An entire decade! A far cry from being able to vote, but in the UK it could be convicted of a criminal offence, if such a situation were to arise. And to commemorate such an occasion, creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone shared a 22 minute long video showing some old builds of the game, shared some behind the scenes and tidbits, and revealed the new marriage candidates coming in the farming sims’ 1.7 update.

When a game like Highguard, with its Apex Legends creators and reported Tencent funding, comes out and just kind of flops, you have to wonder what happened to get it to this point. Well, a new report from Mr. Scoop himself Jason Schreier over at Bloomberg appears to have shed a bit of light on the whole palaver through speaking with former Wildlight staffers.

Samson looks like it’ll offer the sort of dumb action fun I can’t resist, and it’s now locked in a full release date. Liquid Swords, the Swedish studio founded by former Just Cause and Mad Max developer Christofer Sundberg, are set to let their game about a bloke attempting to brawl and car chase his way out of crippling debt loose in early April.

Why do they always make cyborg types in movies and games talk like that? You know what I mean, that kind of “I’m not a robot but I talk as if I am one,” kind of cadence. We may never find the answer, but in any case, such a case has cropped up again in the latest update for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, which introduces the Techmarine class for you to spill some guts with.

Antarctica is quite possibly the perfect setting for anything remotely horror related, given its absolute remoteness. All you’ll find there are penguins, seals, and fungus, it is as no where as no where can be, of course serving as the setting for The Thing, so I guess maybe that’s there too. And soon, the tundra will be home to another piece of horror media, a psychological horror game called Cryptica “where the apocalypse is just the beginning.” Oh goody!

Phhheeeeeeeepppppppp! Nope, that isn’t the whistle which signals a rally car’s about to hurtle through this neck of the woods, it’s Assetto Corsa Rally devs Supernova Games Studios trying to get our attention so they can shout about SNOW. They’ve added some to their uber-simmy rally sim in its latest early access update, and it coats some new laser-scanned Monte-Carlo trails.

Been a while since I’ve done one of these. Been even longer since I didn’t have a complaint about wonky performance or some manner of debilitating stutter issue to open it with. Nope, Resident Evil Requiem is, on the technical side, a big and shiny blockbuster like they should be made: a good looker and a smooth runner both, almost regardless of graphics card heft. It is, as Capcom promised, the anti-Monster Hunter Wilds. Not a bad shooty-horror game, either.

Most of the time, life sucks. On rare occasions, however, the moons line up. Having spent a few hours this past weekend playing the Steam Next Fest demo of cosy campervan survivabuilder Outbound, I returned to my desk on Monday and stumbled across a campervan mod for my long-time vice Cyberpunk 2077.

Naturally, I wasn’t going to turn down the chance to compare the experience of driving around the countryside in a mobile home twice.

The team behind Electronic Arts-published early access skateboarding game Skate have announced that they’re laying off an unspecified number of staff. Well, I say that, Full Circle have actually announced that they’re “transforming as a studio”, which happens to entail “making changes to our team structure” which impact some folks’ jobs.

Valve’s Lionel Hutzes have been summoned to slide down the fireman’s pole and deal with yet more legal wranglings involving the behemoth behind Steam. New York state attorney general Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the company for allegedly violating gambling laws via the use of loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2 and Team Fortress 2.

Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

ConcernedApe wins my funny bit of the year award for making Clint a marriage candidate in Stardew Valley’s 1.7 update

What went wrong with Highguard? The “hubris” of its developer’s leadership, say former staff in a new report

Thwack, debt-driven driveabrawler Samson’s just clocked us with an early April release date-laced punch

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s latest update adds in the incredibly red, claw-machine-arm-toting Techmarine class

Look for your lost documentary making sister in an ancient fungus filled Antarctica in the walking sim horror Cryptica

Assetto Corsa Rally’s latest update adds laser-scanned Monte-Carlo stages and won’t stop shouting about SNOW

Resident Evil Requiem’s zombie nightmare runs like a dream on PC

My thirst for campervanning has been quenched by Outbound’s Steam Next Fest demo and a Cyberpunk 2077 mod

Skate developers Full Circle lay off an unspecified number of staff, claim this’ll somehow help them “better support” the game

Valve accused of “letting children and adults alike illegally gamble” via loot boxes in New York state lawsuit