Hands-on preview: Nightingale prioritizes worldbuilding in a world worth exploring

A new Terminator game has been in development for some time, and you’ll be able to play it later this year. Well, in Early Access at least, as Terminator: Survivor will be hitting Steam on October 24. Check out the “Aftermath” trailer below.

Today, during the NACON Connect 2024 event, French developer Spiders announced that GreedFall II: The Dying World will be released in early access this Summer on Steam.

The open-world Terminator survival game is called, quite aptly, Terminator: Survivors, and it hits Steam Early Access in October.

GreedFall II: The Dying World will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam this summer, followed by a full release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC at a later date, publisher Nacon and developer Spiders announced.

A major new Palworld patch has just been released that does away with the game's most effective gold-farming method.

Nightingale is a game of fascinating contradictions. While I’m still early on in the Early Access version of this co-op survival crafting game, it’s already jumping wildly between intriguing and confusing, aesthetically pleasing and outright ugly, intuitive and obtuse. It does a lot right, and I can see the potential of building a life from the ground up in this mysterious land – but it also does a lot wrong, particularly with how much time and effort it takes to make meaningful progress. I have a lot more to play before I put a score on this review, but so far I can’t quite tell if Nightingale's rough spots will eventually become part of its charm or hold its otherwise interesting ideas back.

Pocketpair’s survival crafting monster collecting game Palworld has hit yet another milestone, hitting 25 million players in its first month. 

Nightingalelaunched into its official Early Access this week to plenty of anticipation and mixed feedback, as it presents a unique theming and spin on the popular co-op survival game. But it turns out that many players didn’t want the co-op part, as the game has plenty to offer already on its own. In response, the development team has announced that it’s bringing an “Offline Mode” up on its list of priorities. 

, the new fantasy Victorian-era-inspired survival title that challenges players to re-think the survival genre, has a few interesting quirks that make it stand out among its peers, one of which happens right in the character-creator of the game. Unlike other character creators in modern games that rely on sliders to adjust certain aspects of one's face, the Ancestry tab in asks people to fill out an entire family tree or Lineage.

After several delays, Inflexion Games’ Nightingale is now available in early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Helmed by former BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn, the fantasy survival title sees players traversing the Fae realms in search of the titular city. Check out the launch trailer below.

Sker Ritual is a big shift from the atmospheric stealth horror Maid of Sker that came out a couple of years ago. Designed to be played either solo or in online co-op, Sker Ritual takes the setting and backstory of the original game and completely reimagines the gameplay and atmosphere by making it a wave based FPS with score bonuses, upgrades and even some roguelike aspects. Having spent some time in the Early Access version and tried out the different maps, here’s what I think so far.

Among the things I like bestest about Inflexion's alt-Victorian fantasy survival game Nightingale is its Realm cards mechanic, whereby you generate and modify worlds by playing Major and Minor cards. Major cards are used at portals to conjure up a particular biome or world type and set the difficulty, including an approximate choice of resident NPC factions, local fauna and resources. Minor cards are played within worlds to mess with their workings. You can lower the gravity for optimal umbrella gliding conditions, alter the weather or summon a Blood Moon (sorry, Zelda) that reduces your max health.