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“A Civ-like with neat ideas, but half-formed fundamentals and messy execution make your decisions feel less than impactful,” wrote contributor Ian Boudreau in our Millennia review from March 2024. Sounds like the kind of thing updates might fix, but alack, there shall be no more. Paradox have announced that the 4X strategy Civ-like’s eighth patch, out now, will be its last.
You there, fumbling around in the dark darkness of Elden Ring Nightreign‘s Deep of the Night. A new mod offers you the chance to channel your inner gladiator and test your strength in a dedicated boss arena.
I know, I know, you’ve spent at least 80% of your time with Nightreign thus far battering and being battered by bosses. But come on, you know you need to roll around more big blokes, with the chance to customise each bout of rolling exactly to your liking.
Last Monday I spent three paragraphs crying havoc over a shortage of tasty new releases to feed the Maw, our resident headline-guzzling cosmic kaiju. The week didn’t go so terribly in the end. True, the Maw did swallow the colour purple on Friday, but Mark managed to distract everybody with a bulky Baldur’s Gate 3 mod while I administered the emetic.
This week, several monkey paw fingers have curled, and there is an embarrassment of groovy material that spans the whole spectrum of budgets, brand recognisability and pricepointage. So let’s get right to the listing.
Remember how the upcoming extraction shooter Arc Raiders was meant to launch in 2022? Good times! And quite different times, because back then the game was PvE, seeing you and a few friends take on some nasty bots. Three years on, the game has shifted into a PvPvE experience, and the reason for 1. such a lengthy delay, and 2. a complete change in what players actually do is a simple one: the game was “not fun.”
I could probably quite safely bet some money that many of you are still happily ticking away at Baldur’s Gate 3, but for those of you that would like newer pastures to get your TTRPG fix in video game form, there’s some good news. The board game-esque tactical RPG Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked at long last has a release date!
There’s a strong chance a good few of you out there saw that initial Kingmakers trailer from last year and thought “I’ll take a piece of that pie.” You came pretty close to getting your slice too, as it was due out next week on October 8th… except the devs have announced that it’s been delayed. Indefinitely.
Elden Ring has been out for – hang on, let me just check my calendar… crikey, that long? – four years now, and despite being a behemoth of a game that I could never imagine seeing absolutely all of, I imagine there are some of you out there that have and crave new ways to go about that. So how about a mod! One which doesn’t exactly turn you into Geralt of Rivia, but does at least let you fight like everybody’s favourite witcher.
Remember last month when Nine Sols developer Red Candle Games started teasing… something… related to the Metroidvania? That something leaned much more into the studio’s horror origins, and as it turns out has developed into a whole entire ARG. I won’t dive into every last detail of said ARG, you can go down that rabbit hole yourself. However it has led to something interesting: Red Candle Games have hidden an entirely new game within Nine Sols.
It’s inching closer to last thing UK time on a Friday, so my job is to bring you the single most devastating and depressing bit of news I can to get the weekend started right. Building Relationships, the funky little game in which you play a house in search of a romantic connection with another building, has had its full release delayed to early 2026.
See, I told you it’d be devastating. A few months’ extra wait until you can engage in more vaguely flirty banter with a windmill. I knew I should have insisted we develop some embeddable tissues which could be inserted into articles.
