‘Over-the-top bullet hell first-person shooter’ Bears In Space announced for PC

Publisher DreadXP and developer Stroboskop have announced Sylvio: Black Waters, the third entry in the atmospheric first-person horror series. It will launch for unspecified consoles and PC in early 2024.

Publisher Nordcurrent Labs and developer Misfit Village have announced SCOP-inspired first-person horror investigation game Go Home Annie. It will launch for unspecified consoles and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG in 2024.

Italian studio Stone Shelter has announced CTRL-U, a science-fiction first-person parkour action adventure game for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

The most-played Steam Next Fest demos have been revealed, and I'm not surprised to see what's topped the list. 

Intel Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs will be the next major family for high-end PC gamers and entry-level workstation users. While we wait for the chips to launch in 2024, there are several reports & leaks that tell us what to expect.

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days aren't the be-all and end-all of online sales. Some of the world's biggest retailers are counterprogramming Amazon's deep discounts with doorbusters of their own. Case in point: Walmart is bringing a huge sale on Dyson products. These bagless vacuums, dryers, and other household items are ergonomic, clean, and energy-efficient, and right now you can get up to $200 off select models.

Laika: Aged Through Blood promises a "Motorvania" where a "mother coyote reloads her gun doing backflips" on a motorcycle, and that's all I need to hear.

Warframe developer Digital Extremes unveiled Soulframe last year, which is the first project known project that the studio has undertaken since 2013. We got a glimpse of what the combat looks like at Tennocon 2023, and I am personally excited to try out the game. Digital Extremes has managed to get the free-to-play formula right with Warframe, but things are far from perfect in its most successful game to date. Here are our picks for the top five things that Soulframe can learn from Warframe.

First we give our initial impressions of Forza Motorsport and Assassin's Creed Mirage now that the review embargoes on them have lifted, and then we spend the bulk of the episode giving our top-5 rankings of Xbox's internal game studios (including Bethesda/Zenimax) while also contemplating Phil Spencer's Xbox legacy to date as PlayStation boss Jim Ryan finalizes his ahead of his retirement.

London-based studio Phabula has announced Hexrite, a third-person action adventure game set in a stylized fantasy world where you play as a sorcerer who sets off on a quest to complete an ancient ritual. It will be available for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.

Although innovated greatly from its predecessors, it did not change one fundamental part of the game — the Fatalities. Since bursting into arcades in the 1990s, has been known for blood and guts — no part of the game quite so graphically encapsulates this as the loved and loathed Fatalities. Ever controversial, Fatalities are such a significant part of the series that they are often taken as a measure of quality for each installment. Although some games, such as have abysmal Fatalities, others like have exceptional ones., although not perfect, undeniably has great Fatalities.

Publisher Retrovibe and developer Deathless Games have announced Undead West, a roguelite bullet hell action game coming to PC via Steam in 2024.