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Last month, FromSoftware announced that Elden Ring would be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, which is wonderful for that plumber guy, but mostly meant piss all for us PC people. The thing is, this version of the game actually comes with some new stuff, and I like new stuff, and publisher Bandai Namco only vaguely said all the new bits would be coming to “other platforms”. But! I bring good news, as yes, the Switch 2 Tarnished Edition extras are coming to PC as part of a Tarnished Pack DLC.
Alright, look, I get it. There’s a lot of farming sims already. There’s even the odd anime inspired farming sim here and there. But Tales of Seikyu, which fits into that second camp, is different, I promise, because it has dating – and I think you can date an anthropomorphic otter man. I’m not talking queer slang here to be clear, though the character does kind of fit that meaning too. I’m talking about a man that looks like an otter, who walks around on two legs.
While Bungie is obviously quite busy presumably stressing over lukewarm responses to its next game Marathon, they’re still working on a bunch of Destiny 2 stuff. The studio revealed a plethora of expansions today, all of which are building up a new “multi-year saga” called the Fate Saga. We’ll get to it in a moment, but one of these expansions might raise an eyebrow, as it is quite literally a Star Wars crossover, but is also described by narrative designer Alison Luhrs as one that will push the Fate Saga “forward in important ways and introduce characters that we’re going to spend time with for years to come.”
I think this Alienware AW3225QF is one of the most impressive displays I’ve seen hit the $900 mark in a long time.
I’m a bit of a sucker for weird genre combos. With the amount of games getting released every single day that often combine the same kinds of genres, you start to get hungry for mashups that make you go, “hang on, would that even work?” So when I saw Drop Duchy release yesterday, which mixes Tetris, land-grabbing strategy, deckbuilding and roguelite gameplay, I asked that exact question. Turns out the answer is yes!
Stellaris is one of those forever games where occasionally I’ll see that it’s released something new and think “dang, that old dog is still truckin’ along?” It seems to be that time of year again, as both a big update for the game as well as a new expansion dropped yesterday. Paradox previously described this as a “phoenix update” to try and sort out a bunch of the game’s long-running issues, as well as make some tweaks to help bring in new players.
I think this Alienware Aurora ACT1250 deal is exactly what I’d recommend to anyone who wants a top-end desktop without falling into the rabbit hole of part-picking and compatibility headaches.
What in the name of jumping jellybeans is happening to The Maw? Our grizzled regular column summarising all the latest game news is going through some sort of midlife crisis and doesn’t know what it wants to be. I can hear it grinding its molars, squelching its many news bladders, and unfurling its long, insipid tendrils. The usual Mawkeeper, Edwin, is away today, so it’s up to me to soothe the beast and tell you all the new games being released on PC this week, as well as a hint for some anticipated strategy game news from Paradox Interactive.
I have an unhealthy habit of throwing money at several solo tabletop RPG projects a year, whether or not I actually plan on playing them: tables and lists corresponding to dice rolls are one of my favourite ways to consume microfiction, and I get a real buzz out of TTRPGs as discrete creative writing artefacts, if not necessarily functioning games. Naturally, I’m all over Spindlejack – a print and play solo game set in the Citizen Sleeper universe that you can download for free here on itch.io.
I once got in a heated debate with Graham over whether the chest-high walls in the Gears Of War series could accurately be called ‘massive’. The Gears men are massive, I argued. So it stands to reason that any wall that could provide adequate bullet cover to a massive man must itself be a massive wall. No, said Graham. They’re famously normal size walls, hence why the massive men have to squat down like they’ve just had a bowling ball lobbed at their kidneys. Well, we can finally examine the true scale of these walls – in 4K no less – with Gears Of War: Reloaded. A “faithfully remastered” version of the 2006 large man action game, coming to Steam on August 26th this year.
I couldn’t find a trailer so enjoy this extremely old one and just imagine it looks nicer. Bit nicer. Little bit nicer. That’s it, now you’re thinking like a customer!
