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Today’s lineup is stacked. Two big hits from the Lies of P series are on deep discount over at Fanatical, and there’s a shiny preorder deal for Borderlands 4 with multiple editions up for grabs. If you’re itching for fresh horror-laced action or chaotic looter-shooting, you’re in luck. Use the FANATICAL15 code and you can scoop both Lies titles for under $26 each, which is downright criminal given how much content they pack in.
A work-in-progress version of Dune: Awakening‘s first big post-release patch is now testable on Steam, so you can hop in and check out the changes Funcom’s making early doors before it rolls out for everyone in a few weeks.
A bunch of the changes the game’s devs teased or confirmed during their recent AMA and letter to players haven’t found their way into the patch, or at least this early version. Though, you’ll at least be able to try out PvE in the Deep Desert, something folks have demanded en-masse.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has a sizeable game update that promises to finally get the game’s A-Life system working as intended. For those just joining us – perhaps because you only popped into existence the second you entered my field of view – A-Life is developer GSC Game World’s noughties-era buzzword for the pervasive simulation of NPCs throughout the open world, leading to unpredictable interactions and conflicts and the general sense that things are happening without your input.
Elden Ring Nightreign’s next Enhanced boss is Fulghor, Champion of Nightglow, developers From Software have confirmed. You’ll be able to get your teeth into him from June 26th at 4pm central European summer time, 7am Pacific Daylight Time, or 11pm Japan Standard Time.
These timezone distinctions are meaningless, of course, because there is only one timezone in which Fulghor operates, and that timezone is Butt Kicking Time. He’s one of the co-op RPG’s harder scraps, and he’ll be all the worse for being Enhanced.
Back when Matt Nava was art director for glistering mountain pilgrimage Journey, he and his colleagues at thatgamescompany took a research expedition to California’s Pismo beach, a swathe of desert that rolls right up to the Pacific Ocean. The spectacle of land and ocean overlapping did a number on Nava. “It looks like the dunes of the Sahara, you know, these massive sand dunes,” he tells me. “But it’s a beach, and so the ocean is right there. And it’s amazing visually, because you have the waves of the ocean, and you have these sand dunes, which are wave shapes, and it’s so easy to imagine them moving just like the ocean.”
Following the announcement earlier this week that Riot-backed Minecrafty sandbox game Hytale has been cancelled, a former Hypixel Studios dev has claimed that internal friction and “mismanagement” at the studio are to blame.
Hytale had been in development for a decade when Hypixel co-founder Noxy revealed that it’d been canned in a website post on June 23, also revealing that the studio will be closing in a few months’ time. The game’s release had been pushed back a number of times since 2020.
I’m sure Supermassive are going to do a perfectly respectable job with horror puzzler Little Nightmares 3. But, when there’s two games coming out, one of which looks like a pitch-perfect spiritual sequel by Little Nightmares‘ creators in the form of Reaminal, and the other is an eh-looking numbered affair by a different, talented but wildly inconsistent studio, it’s hard not to pick favourites. Nonetheless, Little Nightmares 3 is out on October 10th. Here’s a trailer. It’s too bright. Grumble.
I love fishing in games. I already went over this last week with Out Fishing, so I won’t repeat myself much more. But I do desperately need to tell you about FISH³, or FISH³: FISHTASTIC FISHING FISHSCAPES, a very unconventional fishing game that’s also an arcade time trial racer, where the fish you catch are also your boat’s engine, and you can fish while you’re racing? If, like me, that entire description has you thinking “come again”, then read on.
Another month, another Assassin’s Creed Shadows update, again one that comes with a list of quality of life changes, but also one that comes with another surprising collaboration. Let’s start with that one, which is, weirdly, a new story pack made in collaboration with Critical Role, the wildly popular actual play series. For some context, Critical Role did an official Assassin’s Creed themed oneshot a little while back. In said oneshot, Hi-Fi Rush‘s Robbie Daymond played a character called Rufino, who’s being added into the game through this new mission in update 1.0.6.
I’m not entirely sure of the cultural relevancy of Chicken Run, even if it did get one of those trendy legacy sequels back in 2023, and yet here we are with the reveal of an entire video game. The name of said game is Chicken Run: Eggstraction, and quite fittingly it is an action stealth game, one that might even look quite good?
