This farming sim adds vampires to the Stardew Valley mix - and you can try it today

Disney is more fun with friends, especially now that Disney Dreamlight Valley’s full release amps up its multiplayer finisher with the full release version on the horizon.

Science fiction, to echo Ursula K. Le Guin, is not predictive, but descriptive. While most science fiction films attempt (and fail) to extrapolate the ideas and concerns of their respective present to predict what the world may look like in the not-so-distant future, these extrapolations ultimately amount to stories that exist in conversation with the hopes and fears of the times in which they were conceived.

Nostalgic Fortnite fans rejoice — the latest season,Fortnite OG, starts today, and it’s bringing the battle royale all the way back to 2018 with classic locations, loot, weapons, and more. 

For the third time in less than two years, I have COVID-19. Whenever an illness has forced me to stay in bed, my comfort food has been gaming. In 2009 I played through all of Assassin’s Creed II in a feverish, swine flu-induced haze. When I was sick with COVID for the first time, I jumped into Red Dead Redemption 2 blind, and found a story about sickness and human mortality. Now, during one of the most stacked years in recent gaming history, I find myself under the covers not with Starfield, Spider-Man 2 or any of the other big fall releases. Instead, my bedside companion is a small Apple Arcade exclusive called Japanese Rural Life Adventure.

Larian Studios has released the fourth major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3, containing over 1000 fixes and some new features. Three Colorblind Mode settings are available – protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia – which change the colors of portrait frames, character outlines, map icons and more. You can also now customize the appearance of Hirelings and dismiss dead avatars to Withers’ Wardrobe.

Disney Dreamlight Valley: A Rift in Time is an expansion that whisks players away to three biomes and introduces them to four new characters.

Resident Evil Village can now be played on the iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Max, and iPads equipped with either the M1 or M2 processor. For those among you who are understandably skeptical about this high-production game running on your mobile device, you can currently play a trial version for free from the Apple App Store. If you’re satisfied, you can save 60% on the full version of the game and the Winters’ Expansion (which comes with a free bonus outfit) through Nov. 20. This discount lets you pick up the base game for $24 (was $39.99), or the expansion for $8 (was $19.99). Other in-app purchases are also available.

Gaming is about to get a little more magical as Disney Dreamlight Valley, the cozy game that has bewitched every Disney adult since 2022, prepares to cast off its early access shackles.

Many indie titles in the past several years have taken visual inspiration from previous generations. Some draw from the NES and SNES eras, but lately more are taking cues from the PS1/N64 generation.

If it wasn’t already clear that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is going to be plenty zany in that good ol’ Yakuza way, RGG Studio has now revealed that Ichiban Kasuga’s next adventure will pack in its own Animal Crossing minigame - but done Yakuza-style, naturally.

Stardew Valley’s precious Iridium is a sought-after resource and for a good reason – you can use it to improve each one of your tools and quickly get rich in the game.

I think this tops the Megan Fox thing. Last week, Blizzard dropped an announcement asking fans to «donate to the blood harvest», allowing them to earn some in-game swag for Diablo 4.