I urge you to playtest Abiotic Factor, a survival game about scientists trapped in a vast underground black site

«How do I craft a backpack?» is typically the fifth question I ask when starting a new survival game, following «How do I craft an axe?» and «Where can I find water?» and «How do I make a campfire?» and the all-important «What the hell was that noise?» 

Just finished Dragon's Crown Pro on PS4 after roughly 12 hours of playtime. Thank freaking god I managed to finish this game. It got gradually harder and harder towards the end, despite having CPU allies. My money was dwindling and I genuinely thought I was going to be at an impasse with this game. Thankfully, the final boss wasn't that hard and I managed to finish it.

Just finished Tokyo Xanadu eX+ on PS4 after 63 hours of playtime. I started playing this game back in September and I managed to finish the base game before new releases in October grabbed my attention instead. Then I had the epilogue and the new story content in the PS4 version left to play, which I just finished.

Creator Consumer Softproducts is back, folks, with a creatively upsetting and extremely intriguing idea for another hybrid FPS and Immersive Sim: Psycho Patrol R, a game that has you as a mech-piloting cop with some kind of almost-surely-upsetting superpowers.

Estonian independent developer Fracture Labs aims to rectify one major shortcoming in the gaming market with its Decimated project: the current lack of any decent cyberpunk-themed online game.

MSI Vector | RTX 4080 | Intel Core i9 12900HX | 16GB DDR5-4800 | 1TB SSD | 16-inch | 1200p | 144Hz | $2,099$1,599 at Newegg (save $500)This is the most affordable RTX 4080-based gaming laptop I've found, possibly at any time this year. It's not some hobbled GPU implementation either, using a 175W design of the graphics card to give you the full gaming performance. It's certainly not the most beautiful laptop you will see, nor the slimmest (though that helps keep it cool), and I'd rather a higher refresh rate panel and a bit more RAM, but it's a great price for an otherwise high-spec gaming machine.

Thirsty Suitors started out as a concept surrounding a playable card game, its director has revealed.

Final Fantasy VII Remake (again)

Hello Games have announced Light No Fire, the Guildford, UK-based developer's most ambitious new game since 2016's space sim No Man's Sky. In development for roughly five years so far, it's an exploration-driven fantasy experience with building mechanics, a range of curious mythological creatures, and a procedurally generated open world that is apparently Earth-like in both geography and scale. Hello have just screened a trailer at this year's Game Awards. Earlier this week, they invited me down to their Guildford offices for a quick, informal chat about the game, which I am going to characterise as Fable meets Microsoft Flight Simulator.

In a trailer shown during The Game Awards, Daniel Mullins Games revealed a sequel to well-liked 2016 indie game Pony Island. It's called Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, and is apparently «a phantasmagorical voyage through time, myth, divinity, and video games» that is «not a game about ponies.»

Now we’re cooking. Terrific, demonic rhythm-basher THUMPER is getting a sequel of sorts called THRASHER, created by the first game's artist and composer Brian Gibson. It’s a weirdo racer in which you use gesture controls to evolve the creature you're controlling, in a “breakneck race for survival that begins at the dawn of time”. Which is certainly a concept. Will there be any flying hell triangles in this one? Will my thumbs be able to keep up, seven years after almost breaking them against the sneering face of THUMPER's world 3?

Harmonium The Musical is a new game developed by The Odd Gentlemen. The game, developed with inclusivity in mind, doesn’t yet have a release date, but is slated to come to Netflix Games and Xbox Game Pass. Check out the trailer below.