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Anyway, its new free Sunset Station update makes it endless. Oh no. Here’s a trailer: The Sunset Station Update, aka v1.1.0, is free and out now and adds an infinite dungeon called “the Limitless Line.” It takes place aboard a train with carriages players can endlessly fight through, including new enemies, elite enemies, and a new boss. Players will gain items called Trinkets on the train, which “define a meta of their own,” according to the Steam post about the update....

This is, effectively, the same thing Twitch said immediately following the original source code hack and leak of streamer earnings numbers. Presumably now they’ve had time to look into the situation and be more certain that other user informatoin wasn’t also accessed. Here’s the rest of what they had to say as of October 15th: You can catch the rest of their previous updates on the situation on their Twitch security incident page....

The past week has seen an outpouring of allegations of sexual harrassment, sexual assault, predatory behaviour, physical violence, abuse, bullying, discrimination, and more against dozens of video game steamers, YouTubers, developers, and press. As more speak, more feel emboldened to speak themselves, with some allegations going back years. It has been a mass public venting of grievances that communities and fanbases. Allegations against Ubisoft staff in workplaces and at events came from both colleagues and members of the public....

The ASA last week issued new guidance on advertising in-game purchases, our corporate siblings The European Gamer noticed. The ASA are the UK advertising industry’s self-regulatory body, and don’t establish or enforce regulations but they aren’t wholly useless. UK broadcasters are required to follow ASA rulings, and the ASA can refer issues to bodies with actual teeth. They also issue public shamings which can: 1) apply pressure 2) be funny....

We also talked a bit about pre-E3 stuff and some stuff not really related to E3, like Warzone Season 4 and Overwatch getting crossplay. But mainly, we chatted about the shooters that got us all hot and bothered at E3. Imogen liked the look of Rainbow Six: Extraction and I thought Halo: Infinite’s multiplayer hit the mark. Did I mention E3 was on? I reckon this week’s Names bit is one of our best yet....

Macro adds four new levels to Umurangi Generation’s alternative Aotearoa - from a VR nightclub DJ’d by a cyborg dolphin to the rat queen’s underground rave city, by way of an honest-to-god mech hangar. Like the game’s existing levels, they’re dense photography puzzleboxes filled with human dioramas to capture on film. Now, you’ve got even more tools to do so. A bunch of new attachments have been added to help you snap more stylish pics....

Down below you will get the lowdown on everything that’s coming with the card set and how you can get involved with what’s new. When does United in Stormwind release? Hearthstone’s latest card set is on the horizon and after sweltering out in the heat with Forged in the Barrens since March, players will be greeted by the capital setting of United in Stormwind. The expansion is currently will go live on August 3rd for all platforms....

On this page: How to unlock the Streetsweeper shotgun Best loadout to unlock the Streetsweeper fast How to unlock the Streetsweeper shotgun in Cold War and Warzone Let’s start off with how you’ll unlock the Streetsweeper shotgun. According to a leak from ModernWarzone, here’s what needs to be done: Using Shotguns, get 3 kills without dying in 15 different matches. Once you’ve completed this challenge you’ll also get +1000 XP too, a lovely little bonus for your efforts....

The leak videos below were first shared over the weekend by YouTube channel “БАЧОК” (which Google translate says means “Tank”), giving an idea of this possible new character’s abilities, as well as a look at what the next battle pass might contain. His kit reminds me a little of Omen’s, the current edgy teleporting character that Matt Cox (RPS in peace) so liked to stealth around with. Have a watch for yourself (though if you haven’t been practising your Russian it might be a little bit difficult to understand)....

Riot’s anti-cheat lead Paul Chamberlain said yesterday: “it sucks, but today we had to ban our first cheater.” Chamberlain didn’t elaborate on what Valorant’s first recipient of the ban hammer had done to earn it. “I was hoping for a little more time before this fight kicked off but we’re in it now and we’re ready,” he says. Riot are certainly taking an active parenting approach to their new shooter....

“Choose your playstyle, go solo or together, battling rivals and the hostile Entity who’s hellbent on exterminating all vampires,” the devs say on their site. “Use your supernatural powers, weapons and blood to become stronger in order to hunt, fight and survive the night.” Weird. As a game it could be fun, mind. Ubisoft’s Hyper Scape isn’t great but shows a battle royale with high mobility in a city can be a right lark, bounding over buildings and zipping through streets....

On my last life, I killed around 24,000 monsters in 30 minutes. I am hooked. It starts small. I like to play as an unlockable character with a wand, and as I walk around the grass-textured level they’ll fire off a blast towards a nearby enemy every few seconds. Pew. Pew. Pew. Defeated enemies drop gems, which are XP. I collect them and quickly level up. Levelling up lets me select an upgrade: a new attack, or a stronger version of an existing attack, or some more health....

With that disclosed, I do like the look of Hundred Days, a genteel vineyard management game that just launched on Steam. There’s a lot of detailed work that goes into making wrong Ribena. The process of the awful cordial is involved and lovingly recreated. You plot your vineyard out then get graping. Grapes are fickle beasts, but the game tells you all about your soil pH, what sort of exposure they’re getting, the health of the plant… It goes on....

Having played the demo last night with a couple of friends, I can confirm that I like this reverse direction the devs have taken. I had an okay time. And I was totally okay with that. Not everything needs to be brilliant nowadays, sheesh. The moment you lay hands on Outriders it feels like you’ve travelled back in time to the early noughties. It is 2021, but on your monitor it is 2006, as your character ducks into cover like Marcus Fenix, right before they crack open a juicy loot chest....

Isn’t this just adorable? I’m more excited about this than I am the flash cyberpunk world of Stray. That’s mostly down to my love of grappling hooks, and spiders being nature’s grapplers. It seems like you’ll be using your web to swing, to gain momentum, to drag objects, and to string webs together to make ad hoc platforms. Ya know, spider stuff. I like also that you’ll be doing some of these things while riding on a skateboard and wearing a top hat, and using your powers to fix giant antbots....

Alice Bee Honestly I’m not sure what I’ll get up to this weekend. I was recommended a Dreamcast survival horror game called D2 (I was never a Dreamcast kid so I won’t have played most Dreamcast games you recommend), so I might spend a couple of days trying to get an emulator working. Alice0 My mum is visiting for the first time in years, so I’m playing an intense session real-life Viscera Cleanup Detail....

Thankfully there are lots of games which do it wonderfully - so, which game does it best? “Melee” covers a pretty broad range of ways of hitting things. I’m thinking about the gleeful high kicks of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, and the just as gleeful low kicks of FEAR. I’m thinking about spinning lightsabers in Jedi Knight 2, and the mannered fencing combos of Blade Symphony or more recently Hellish Quart....

Ridiculous spell animations One of my favourite moments in RPGs is getting into a back-alley brawl with misguided muggers who don’t realise I have endgame magic. While they brandish bronze daggers, my mage blasts a laser into outer space, shattering an asteroid and drawing the fragments down to rain meteors upon the poor bandits. Overkill, sure, but I cannot resist ridiculous spell animations. Not having consoles, I came to JRPGs (the true home of daft animations) late....

Romance Romance can be many things in games: a noun, a verb, a genre, or what went down in those Three Kingdoms. Even as someone who broadly dismisses most video game romances (n) as terrible, oh I cannot resist the opportunity to romance (v). And if a game offers a choice of romantic partners, I will hold strong feelings on which options are correct and which exist only to root out bad people....

So I’m here to ask: what’s your comfort gaming for when you’re sick? For me, I’m looking for the sweet spot between “easy sense of accomplishment” and “engrossing enough that I briefly forget my sinus pain.” A game with which I can interact without a lot of focus, but which has enough going on that I can binge on it. That rules out most action games, from deadly platformers to first-person shooters....