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Eiyuden Chronicles, the RPG series that’s effectively a sequel-slash-spiritual successor to nineties and early noughties JRPG classic Suikoden, will continue with a sequel despite the death of its creator earlier this year.

Prison Architect 2 has been delayed once again. The upcoming jail sim sequel will now arrive this autumn, following the discovery of «unexpected issues occurring too often».

While Manor Lords may at first glance seem similar to the Total War series, its developer has said the upcoming strategy game should not be seen as a competitor.

While Cities: Skylines 2 has made progress on the performance front, not everything about the troubled citybuilder is on the up. In fact, player reception to the recently released Beach Properties DLC has proven so un-sunny that both developers Colossal Order and publishers Paradox Interactive have issued a joint statement apologising for the state it launched in.

Eiyuden Chronicle developer Rabbit & Bear Studios will continue working on a sequel following the death of its creator Yoshitaka Murayama.

Imagine Earth, a city building strategy title that launched a few years back on PC and Xbox, is making the jump to PS5 and PS4 on the 9th May. The game takes place in 2084, and tasks you with creating sustainable civilisation on various alien planets, following on from the greed-driven ruin of humanity's original home. We think developer Serious Bros. is trying to tell us something...

UK studio and publisher Kwalee has revealed recent staff cuts were made to «reshape» the company's business around «significant growth opportunities.» The company has layed off approximately 10% of its workforce, around 40 people, in recent months. Despite that, Kwalee stressed it expects to grow its headcount (currently about 400) to somewhere between 410 and 420.

Helldivers 2 players have been issued a new directive as the Galactic War effort again devolves into a grinding stalemate. The Automatons have deployed increasing numbers of Factory Striders to break the impasse, but for now, the line holds. To amass the necessary fuel to fire a Super Earth counterattack, billions of Terminids must die to acquire enough of that sweet, sweet oil E-710.

Helldivers 2 players have recently managed to blunt the advance of the oncoming Automaton invasion fleet, with the conflict again devolving into a grinding stalemate. However, it seems the machines never rest on their laurels, as reports of the lumbering Factory Striders being deployed in unprecedented numbers begin to trickle in.

SteamWorld Heist, the beloved turn-based tactical shooter, is getting a sequel. Launching on PS5, PS4, and basically everything else on 8th August 2024, SteamWorld Heist 2 is a direct follow-up to the original, swapping out spaceships for a sea-faring adventure but retaining the ricochet-based strategy fans know and love.

Beating the Tides of War event in 2.1 is a matter of using the best team comps and selecting the ideal Support Functions that will not only give you a bonus during the combat phases but also synergize with the team you chose. In one stage of this combat event in 2.1, for instance, the best way of getting through all the boss encounters is to focus on Energy Regeneration alone, with a party that boosts that effect, sustained by Support Functions that further increase the rate at which your characters recharge their Ultimates.

Manor Lords is launching into Early Access next week, and as the milestone approaches, its developer is taking a moment to remind fans what the game isn't.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, after the success of Amazon's Fallout TV series, we discuss the TV and movie adapatations of video games we'd love to see next.

Cities Skylines 2 publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Colossal Order have issued a stark apology for the state of the game and the release of its recent DLC, admitting to fans: «We let you down».

With the world of Dungeons & Dragons now officially behind it, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has confirmed it currently has two new projects in development, both based on its own IPs, which studio founder Swen Vincke has described as «our best work ever.»

Hot off the heels of its BAFTA wins, developer Larian has given a little tease for Baldur's Gate 3's upcoming «improved» evil endings.

Baldur’s Gate 3 studio Larian has announced that it’s working on two new projects based on its own original IPs.

Larian aren’t just not making Baldur’s Gate 4 – they’re treating Baldur’s Gate 3’s success as an opportunity to develop their own intellectual properties, with two new games in the works. These games will build on the “sensibilities” of Baldur’s Gate 3 in being “immersive experiences shaped by your choices”, but by the sounds of things, they won’t be adaptations of anybody else's narrative or setting. Divinity: Original Sin 3? It’s the obvious call, but come now, free your mind. How about a kart racing game, Larian, or a banging old school mascot platformer? When are you going to make a platform game, Larian?

The Anniversary Edition of Braid was originally announced almost four years ago, and originally meant to be out sometime in 2021. As such, the latest delay to Jonathan Blow’s time-rewinding puzzle-platformer - which sees its date pushed back two weeks into the middle of next month - feels like a relative drop in the hourglass.

Samsung is reported to stick with a dual-chipset launch strategy for its upcoming Galaxy S25 series, where some regions will offer the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, while others will sell the Exynos 2500 variants. The Exynos 2400 provided a slew of surprises as the company significantly improved its current-generation flagship SoC. Next year, Samsung is expected to kick things up a notch and is rumored to leverage its second-generation 3nm process to mass produce the Exynos 2500. This move could give the SoC power efficiency attributes that dwarf Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.

Close Cities is a new puzzle game on Android that lets you play mayor without the headache. Think of it as your laid-back path to being a city-building pro. Created by indie dev Juan Manuel Altamirano Argudo, who has dropped titles like Broki, Brainito – Words vs Numbers, Chesspert, Chessplode and DueLito.

Mobigames has dropped a new title, Light of the Stars, on Android today (April 18th). It’s free to play and offers some in-app purchases. A strategy game out and out, it has anime-style art and lets you be a star who will fight a calamity and save the world.

Dwarf Fortress — the hugely influential, dizzyingly expansive colony sim that's been in development for over 20 years — has just released its roguelike Adventure Mode over on Steam, albeit initially in public beta form.

Slavic Magic, the sole creator behind anticipated (sub genres forthcoming) strategy game Manor Lords, has written a transparent and refreshingly to-the-point blog post on Steam addressing both expectations and future updates. Specifically, Slavic Magic aka Greg Manor Lords has taken time to outline exactly what his game - currently the most wishlisted on Steam, ahead of Hades 2 - isn’t.

After weeks of speculation, former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei-led Nothing has launched its latest wireless earbuds - the Nothing Ear and Ear (a). The launch of these wireless audio products takes place just weeks after Nothing's sub-brand CMF introduced its first-ever earbuds and neckband earphones. While the Nothing Ear is the premium offering, meant to be a true successor to the Ear (2), the Ear (a) is the non-flagship audio product that aims to cater to users who don't want to spend a premium for flagship wireless earbuds.

After proving themselves in darn near every genre under the sun, the devs behind the incredible SteamWorld series are finally returning to the format of their fantastic XCOM-style strategy game with a proper sequel set to launch later this year.

F1 Manager developer Frontier has been accused of mismanagement in a new report in the wake of layoffs at the company.

Braid: Anniversary Edition (or Braid, Anniversary Edition as it's officially styled) has been delayed by two weeks. The remake is now set to launch for PlayStation, Switch, and PC on 15th May, with Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One versions arriving a day later, on 16th May.

We learned that SteamWorld Heist would finally be getting a sequel during the April 2024 Indie World showcase.

UK developer and publisher Kwalee is cutting around ten per cent of its staff.

Larian Studios confirmed earlier this year that it will not be involved in Baldur's Gate 4. The studio is moving away from Dungeons & Dragons to focus on its own projects, whatever they may be. But that doesn't mean the series is over.

Baldur’s Gate IP owner Wizards of the Coast has addressed the future of the franchise, following the news that developer Larian won’t be making another game in the series.

Apple has long been criticized for offering a meagre 128GB as base storage capacity on its iPhone. Even the $999 iPhone 15 Pro features 128GB storage as standard. Owing to flak from consumers, the iPhone maker may be changing its strategy. A new leak suggests that with the iPhone 16 series, the Pro models may feature 256GB storage as standard, which, if true could be a highly appreciative move.

Larian Studios didn't so much smash last year's Baldur's Gate 3 out of the park as launch it straight into orbit, collecting countless Game of the Year awards and even a few BAFTAs along the way. But while the studio has made it clear it has no interest in returning for a Baldur's Gate 4, Dungeons and Dragons owner Wizard of the Coast is definitely onboard for more, and is currently «talking to lots of partners» about the future of the series.

Like previous entries in the series, Mortal Kombat 1 is rolling out plenty of DLC fighters, with the game’s first “Kombat Pack” including Omni-Man from Invincible, Quan Chi, Peacemaker from Suicide Squad, Ermac, Homelander from The Boys, and Takahashi Takeda.

With Larian having now officially handed the reins of the Baldur’s Gate series back to Dungeons & Dragons owners Wizards of the Coast (and their Monopoly-making parents at Hasbro) - with the developers saying they have no plans to make any DLC or a sequel - the ball for a Baldur’s Gate 4 now sits in Wizards’ court. The good news is that, yes, they also want to make a follow-up to one of the most acclaimed and successful video games of the last few years. Just don’t expect that to necessarily be anytime soon.

A board game based on Rayman is coming this year.

Xbox has announced the next wave of games coming to Game Pass in late April.

Ninja Kiwi’s Bloons Tower Defense is currently on the Google Play Store for $3.99, a pretty big drop from its usual $6.99. It’s the first time Bloons TD 6 has been on sale in over six months.

Manor Lords is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam ahead of games like Hades II and Black Myth: Wukong, having surpassed two million wishlists earlier this year.

Baldur's Gate 3 players who have modded their games are seeing references to a popular NPC character that suggests they were once set for full-on companion status.

A pair of scientists working in the Antarctic have managed to get their remote research station added as a location in Pokémon Go.

Let’s dive into Blackjack. No, I’m not talking about the old-school Blackjack. I’m talking about Blackjack 21, a new digital version of the classic card game. The game’s got a lovely 3D makeover and lets you win virtual chips all for free!

Content Warning publisher Landfall Games has announced the viral Steam hit has sold an impressive one million copies even after its eye-catching free launch period.

Manor Lords, one of our most anticipated city-building games, has become the world's most anticipated city-building game according Steam wishlist charts.

Our Class Writers have prepared Best in Slot Gear Guides for every Class and Role combination in Season of Discovery Phase 3, which features gear acquired from the new Phase 3 Level-Up Raid Sunken Temple. If you'd like to learn more about Sunken Temple or Phase 3, take a look at our guides below -- Phase 3 Overview Sunken Temple Overview Sunken Temple Loot We held off from updating our gear guides while discovering everything new that Phase 3 has to offer, from the impact of new gear and runes, to strategies, theorycrafting, and community discussion. As our writers have had time to assess these new additions to the game, all of our guides have been updated with the latest and greatest information to help you make the most out of this Season of Discovery!

Recently, a Hotfix was released that fixed the Mixology For Fun and Profit quest, allowing Alchemists to receive a ~30% bonus to Potion and Elixir crafting. Now, players are reporting that they are able to complete both this quest and the Master of Transmutation quest in order to receive additional Transmutation bonuses as well!A player shared that they were able to complete both Mixology For Fun and Profit and Master of Transmutation. You'll need to turn in quite a few items in order to complete these quests — Mixology For Fun and Profit requires players to turn in 10x Elixir of Demonslaying, 10x Invisibility Potion, and 5x Elixir of the Sages to Mixmaster Blix, while Master of Transmutation requires players to turn in 3x Arcanite Bar to Crimeon Lablade.

As if you needed more proof that Baldur's Gate 3 is, in fact, a pretty damn fine video game, Larian’s D&D RPG swept through the video game BAFTA awards yesterday, picking up five of the British entertainment org’s top trophies. Even more impressively - after all, Baldur’s Gate 3 winning a shedload of awards is old hat by now - its latest Best Game triumph means that the sprawling RPG-slash-fanfic machine is now the first video game to win all five of the industry’s major Game of the Year awards.

We've prepared Boss Strategy Guides for Sunken Temple, the new Level-Up Raid introduced in Season of Discovery Phase 3! These guides will help prepare your 20-player raid group to defeat each boss in Sunken Temple, which has been redesigned for Season of Discovery with entirely new boss encounters and mechanics! Take a look at our boss strategy guides below --

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Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 has been celebrated for the performances of its voice cast, who received several performance nominations for this year's BAFTA awards and which last night won the coveted Best Game award.

Her character in Barbie may not control the railways or the flow of commerce, but soon Margot Robbie herself will. Well, sort of.

The medieval survival strategy RPG Bellwright is heading into Steam Early Access later this month on 23rd April.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has won the award for best game at the 2024 BAFTA Awards.

If you’re looking for a new adventure game, then here’s the scoop on the latest dragon-hunting title. Inariel Legend: Dragon Hunt is a fresh role-playing game from HK Hero Entertainment that’s up for pre-registration on Android and iOS. Keep reading to know more about this fantasy-laden idle strategy card RPG.

Pokémon Go looks set to add a new mechanic from the main series Pokémon games: the concept of Pokémon Fusion.

After a lot of speculation and a few rumours, the Five Nights at Freddy's movie adaptation is officially getting a sequel.

Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes for April 11: Garena Free Fire MAX is a battle royale game where players need to survive till the end and become the winner. This can be done in two ways - by playing solo or with a squad. While having items like gloo walls, grenades and weapon skins can give your gameplay a boost, it is crucial to know the best tips and tricks for playing the game and getting a victory.

During the second lockout of the Sunken Temple Raid, players noticed something peculiar about the Jammal'an the Prophet and Ogom the Wretched encounter. In week 1, Ogom the Wretched needed to be killed first, however this week the two bosses switched roles, and Jammal'an the Prophet needed to be killed first.

Laysara: Summit Kingdom, the promising mountain-themed city builder from developer Quite OK Games and publisher Future Friends Games, has surprise launched on Steam, where it's expected to remain in early access for between six and 12 months.

No one can see the future, but I've a fairly good sense of where at least 300 hours of my life will go next year. Slay The Spire II was announced during today's Triple-i Initiative stream, returning to the towering fantasy city where Steam says I've spent more than 300 hours building decks and battling monsters. While the announcement doesn't reveal much about the sequel, Slay The Spire is still my favourite roguelikelike deck-builder, so that's just grand.

Laysara: Summit Kingdom, a breathtakingly gorgeous city builder set in a fantasy world inspired by the Himalayan region, is out now in Steam early access. The meditative mountain environments are the sort of tranquil backdrop I’d happily stare out for hours, possibly with a Bonobo album and some incense, which is helpful, because the actual game is aiming to be quite a challenge.

As part of this evening's Triple-i livestream, the developer of Darkest Dungeon 2 has detailed a new campaign mode, Kingdoms.

Ever wondered about those sleepy spores emitted by Grass-type Pokémon? Ever thought about rolling up their aromatic leaves, and subjecting them to a Fire-type attack?

A number of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Kickstarter backers have been met with unexpected shipping costs, which in some cases have nearly doubled the amount people will pay.

The Apple Watch Series 10 could get a big boost in battery life owing to upgrades in the display technology, reports suggest. Apple's next-generation smartwatches are slated to launch this year alongside the iPhone 16 series. It is likely to be a special lineup due to the 10th anniversary of Apple Watches, with some reports suggesting that the smartwatch could even be named Apple Watch X, a naming strategy that Apple previously followed with the iPhone X. Now, it has been reported that the Apple Watch Series 10 (or Apple Watch X) might have better battery life than previous models. Here's why.

The game for the mobile app can be solved quickly when you use several strategies to find important connections between letters. This game puts a grid in front of you, with various letters on every edge of the shape. This puzzle aims to trace different letters together to form words, then use the last letter to begin the next phrase you choose to create.

The original Gigantic blended MOBA and hero shooter ideas together at the height of the gold rush in both genres, but failed to carve off a large enough audience of its own and sadly shut down in 2018.

Paradox have a reputation for updating their games in perpetuity, with both free patches and DLC, even if players would rather they stopped. Star Trek Infinite is bucking that trend, it seems.

Helldivers 2 is a funny game, with great physical comedy that naturally occurs from its robust friendly fire mechanics. It’s also a challenging game that pits extremely squishy Helldivers with limited resources against endless waves of enormous bugs. But few people talk about how it’s sometimes a terrifying game thanks to the Automatons.

The American Tabletop Awards, the United States’ answer to Germany’s Spiel des Jahres, is back for the sixth consecutive year. The annual award celebrates the very best in board gaming across four different categories, with dozens of games judged by a panel of industry experts who collaborate within a shared set of ethical guidelines. The result is a collection of 20 excellent games, with four winners overall. The categories mirror those of last year, and include titles best for Early Gamers, an assortment of Casual Games, more traditional Strategy Games, as well as Complex Games for more experienced players.

Sega and Creative Assembly have released the first proper trailer for Total War: Warhammer 3's forthcoming Thrones of Decay expansion, which pits the human Empire, Chaos Nurgle faction and industrious Dwarfs against each other in what the press release terms "a showdown of mohawks, maggots and machines". Alliteration, is it? Well, two can play at that (strategy) game: the new expansion explodes upon the extensive environments of this elaborate ex-tabletop experience with an eccentric... ensemble of new legendary lords, battle units and campaign features, plus various free bits for owners of the base game.

What is it that draws people to the strategy genre? Is it planning ahead? Is it puzzling over the best course of action? Is it the orderly nature of grids and linear movement? Or, going off the Fire Emblem series, is it helping an unlikely group of sellswords and mercenaries become super best friends? Whatever it might be, Unicorn Overlord has ‘it’, an X-factor that ensures that it’s an early entry for strategy game of the year.

Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and developers LEAP Game Studios and Tiny Ghoul will release a Switch version of Dicefolk, a tactical roguelite game that combines monster collection and dice mechanics, the companies announced.

A new ACE SPEC card from ’s upcoming expansion has been revealed, showcasing what may be a very powerful asset to add to several types of competitive decks. ACE SPEC cards are a fairly new gameplay mechanic to return to the after its original debut back in 2012. ACE SPEC cards in are unique assets that often represent Item, Pokémon Tool, or Special Energy cards. In general, the rule of thumb is that only one ACE SPEC card is allowed per deck, forcing players to be additionally careful when picking.

The Splintered Sea is an upcoming expansion for beloved battlements blasting building game Besiege, taking its so far decisively land-based action to the high seas for some aquatic anarchy. You’ll be able to pit your custom war machines rudder to fin with enemy fleets and underwater nemeses when it launches May 24th on Steam.

Ahhh League Of Legends, a MOBA that occupied my university years. While I'd argue climbing the ranked ladder with my housemates were some of the best game moments I've ever had, I'd also argue giving up League was necessary. I became too involved, too close to the toxicity. But now League's threatening to drag me back in with something I hadn't seen coming - a Vampire Survivors-like PVE mode. No! I must resist (I will be on it immediately when it arrives).

Pokémon Go teased a big new addition the game as the moment of totality hit during yesterday's solar eclipse.

After quietly roiling away on Itch.io for a few months, bite-sized strategy gambling game Buckshot Roulette has come to Steam and instantly become one of the most popular and highest-rated PC games of the year. It only costs $3 ($2.69 thanks to an ongoing sale), you can finish it in well under an hour, and there's a very good reason that it's gotten over 6,600 user reviews with a 96% positive score since its April 4 Steam launch.