Tim Schafer and Double Fine celebrate 25 years of Grim Fandango and thank fans for their memories: 'I'll keep them next to where my heart used to be!'

Bandai Namco has been collaborating with Nintendo on a number of the latter’s projects for several years running now, and now the company has cemented that partnership in a much more official capacity with the formal announcement of Studio 2 and Studio S, a team dedicated primarily to working on projects commissioned by Nintendo.

I wish I lived in Sandrock. It's a place where a cat can be a celebrated member of the town guard and every street gets fully decked out for the holidays. It's where newcomers are enthusiastically welcomed, contrary to other Western stories where folks "not from around these parts" are met with suspicion. It's got plenty of Western staples though; a ranch managed by a salt-of-the-earth family (even if the husband is a little unhinged), a cute main street with a saloon and general store, plenty of lovely Western accents, and of course, a touch of danger. My Time at Sandrock is an excellent entry in an ever-growing list of cozy games, consistently fun while managing to stand apart from the crowd thanks to its theme of optimism grown out of hard times.

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Gols are your primary currency in , making them perhaps the most important resource to earn fast in this adventure RPG. Nothing is free in the small town of Sandrock in this post-apocalyptic yet wholesome world your character finds themselves in. You'll have to focus on specific upgrades and pay attention to your objectives and missions to farm a good amount of money for your adventures.

Diablo 4's first expansion, titled Vessel of Hatred, launches late 2024.

December 10 will be the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking FPS Doom, and to mark the big day two of the driving forces behind the game, John Carmack and John Romero, will be taking part in a livestreamed discussion moderated by videogame historian David Craddock about one of the most influential videogames of all time.

My Time at Sandrock doesn’t shy away from introducing some eye-catching characters into the mix. Among them, there’s the stunning Fang. His flowing locks and aloof demeanor make it pretty easy to develop a crush on him.

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has been available on PC in early access for quite some time with regular updates and additions being made to the game, but now is officially being released as a full game. Although this doesn't mean there won't still be new characters or story added in the future, at launch there are an astounding 21 romance options available. Players can date their favorites, marry them, and even have children in this wholesome post-apocalyptic life sim RPG.

manages to expand and improve upon its predecessor in almost every way, and despite a few bugs and small qualms, it stands as one of the best life simulation games in years. Just like, this new entry comes from developer Pathea Games and publisher Focus Entertainment, the latter of which has also helped release titles like and. While there will be players who simply don't care for the game's fundamentally task-centric nature or wish for more complex combat, for fans of the genre does almost everything right.

My Time at Sandrock is a life simulation game in an alternative Wild West with robots, attractive outlaws, and camels who communicate through a loudspeaker. I don’t know whose life we’re trying to simulate exactly, but I’m down to play it.

The space is filled with mysteries, and no matter how many of them we uncover, finding something new still instills a feeling of awe. That is one of the reasons why space agencies such as NASA invest so much in space exploration. In 2021, it launched the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a space observatory with three identical telescopes designed to measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays. Together with the NASA Chandra telescope, it has now discovered a stunning pulsar wind nebula. Named MSH 15-52, it resembles a bony human hand, and NASA is calling it the ‘ghostly cosmic hand'.