Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Warframe scares me a bit. Ok, it scares me a lot. Here’s this big free-to-play MMO that’s been growing for over a decade, adding layers upon layers of complex sci-fi lore and context to its imposing metal form.

I couldn’t tell you before googling it why one of my fellow article writers had declared in the chat for a recent press preview that Excalibur Prime users won’t be spared when the revolution comes. I can tell you that its end of year 2025 update is called The Old Peace, and looks like it’ll be a hoot.

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Soulframe is getting a Wazzard. No, not a wizard, a Wazzard.

What’s a Wazzard, you ask? Same, friend. You best believe that when I got a chance to talk to Geoff Crookes and Sarah Asselin, creative director and senior community manager on Digital Extremes’ still-in-alpha fantasy MMORPG, I asked them. Is there a difference between the Wazzard of Wastes the player fights in the demo of the game shown off at this year’s TennoCon, and your regular neighbourhood wizard?

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Civilization is a series in thrall to the illusion of endless incremental progress, and what more bruisingly poetic way to refute that narrative than by sticking two fingers up at this year’s ailing Civilization 7 and opting to play 2016’s much better-regarded Civilization 6 instead. Conveniently, you can currently get Civilization 6 for free on the Epic Games Store – the giveaway runs till 24th July.

Of course, if you’re mad about Civ 7’s failings, there’s a fair chance you already own Civ 6. But the freebie does include access to all of the game’s DLC and expansions, so might be worth bagging if you only ever bought the base game from a different store. For clarity, you do not need to stick two fingers up at Civ 7 while downloading the free version of Civ 6. It is a piece of software and cannot respond to your hatred.

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Alongside working on The Duskbloods and Elden Ring Nightreign‘s post-launch bits, FromSoftware are reportedly deep in development on an unannounced game that could release next year.

That’s according to MP1st (via VGC), which claims said game is codenamed FMC, multiplatform and – based on “the nature of the source these details come from” – at an advanced stage of development.

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I’ve only dipped my distal index fingerbone in The Necromancer’s Tale, a just-released historical fantasy tactics RPG from Psychic Software, but I can at least report back that the character creator is a gentle joy, to the point that I was disappointed to reach the end of it. True to the promise/threat of “400,000 words of hand-written narrative and lore”, it’s a hearty choose-your-own-adventure prologue that follows the protagonist’s infancy and early adulthood. Each choice you make skews the stats on the left. Might sound unremarkable of concept. Here’s why it’s stuck with me.

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If you’re sick of being tag-teamed by Gaping Jaw & Darkdrift Knight, then I bring good news. Elden Ring Nightreign‘s next wave of enhanced bosses have now successfully RSVPed to the big darkness party. They’ll be arriving when the next cycle begins on July 31st.

Sure, that was the most logical point for a fresh rotation, given it’s when the established lot of Everdark Nightlord duos were set to disappear. Though, for whatever reason, FromSoft haven’t fully committed to a date until now. One can only assume the Equilibrious Beast was busy polishing its horns.

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“I’m not a perfectionist,” says the guy who makes niche puzzle games that turn me into a gibbering wreck obsessed with efficiency. And I feel a wave of comical fury. If like me you’ve been whirring and clicking your way through very good engineering puzzle game Kaizen: A Factory Story, you’re probably a fan of previous work from the same developers. The creators of Opus Magnum and Infinifactory may have dissolved their old studio Zachtronics and chemically regenerated as Coincidence Games, but there are still large traces of a Zach present. I caught up with designer Zach Barth to ask about perfectionism, the Factorio-like automation game he gave up on out of boredom, and how the team managed to make a story about factories in 1980s Japan feel human.

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BoJack Horseman was a show about Horsin’ Around.

There was a good thing that had once been and a horse man who was now years removed from it, but still clung on to the idea that the magic was still there. I’ll not stray into spoiler territory, but that clinging generally didn’t go too well for old BoJack. He was a bitter, selfish, washed-up star who so often looked back, rather than looking forwards. It was to his detriment.

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Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have made clear that they’re still very much all-in on the game right now, with adding more stuff to the good shootery thing they’ve got going being the main focus. That said, the studio’s bigwigs have provided a couple of hints at what the future might hold for them, with the latest being that Helldivers 3 is “hopefully many years away”.

Also, they aren’t fans of players voting to rename a city on Super Earth ‘Gun’, which is a thing that’s been going on in Helldiverland lately.

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