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HomeNewsMafia III Mafia 3: Definitive Edition contains hidden bits of Berlin from a cancelled spy gameThe spy thriller codenamed Rhapsody The spy thriller codenamed Rhapsody Folks rooting around in the recent release ofMafia III’s Definitive Edition have found part of Berlin, a level scrap likely from a cancelled espionage game. Supposedly a project Hangar 13 started afterMafia 3, the game known as Rhapsody was never announced but whispers have leaked out before....

HomeNewsMinecraft: Dungeons Minecraft Dungeons is out nowClick click! Click click! Maybe there’s not much Minecraft inMinecraft Dungeons, but there is a pretty decent action-RPG or so I hear. Mojang’s click-click-click-click-clicking dungeon crawler launched today, with nary a block to mine or tree to punch but some weird and fun builds to experiment with. I’m up for an ARPG where one armour perk gives you a pet bat.To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeHardwareNews The best Logitech keyboard is getting a tiny tenkeyless model Just when you thought the excellentLogitech G915 Lightspeedwireless keyboard couldn’t get any better, Logitech have just gone and announced they’re making a compact tenkeyless model of it, the G915 TKL. Launching this June for £200 (US pricing TBC), it’s still going to cost you a pretty penny when it comes out next month, but if you’ve been searching for a space-saving gaming keyboard that does away with all those pesky wires, then the G915 TKL could be just the thing....

HomeNews Ubisoft are revamping four vintage Anno games4K support and more 4K support and more Ubisoft today announced revamped rereleases of four vintage games from the colony-building strat-o-sim series Anno, due in June. TheAnno History Collectionwill bring new versions ofAnno 1602, Anno 1503, Anno 1701, andAnno 1404will newfangled fanciness including 4K resolutions and multiplayer matchmaking, all while preserving save compatibility.Ubisoftexplainthat the new ‘History Edition’ of each game will support resolutions up to 4k, improve multiplayer running through Uplay with new features including matchmaking and desync recovery, bring them into 64-bit to shake off performance and stability problems like Anno 1404 running out of memory, and wham in the expansions and that....

HomeNewsSuper Mario Bros. Guinness World Records accidentally copyright claimed a bunch of Super Mario Bros speedrunsHold yer hammer bros, Guinness Hold yer hammer bros, Guinness Guinness World Records seems to have gotten a bit copyright cuckoo this weekend thanks in part to YouTube’s automated Content ID system. A bunch ofSuper Mario Brosspeedrunning videos were sent copyright claim notices based on a record holder’s speedrun that Guinness uploaded to their own channel....

HomeFeaturesFrom Dust Have You Played… From Dust?The hand of God The hand of God The god game genre hasn’t had many breakout hits, and it’s hard to argueFrom Dustis one of ‘em. But despite a load of hoo-ha about DRM when this first released on PC, back in 2011, it’s probably the most meditative god games I’ve ever played. You’re not omnipotent, you see. You don’t actually have a lot of powers....

HomeFeatures I am the Tower Bully now: an Age Of Empires 2 match reportIn soviet russia, the watchtowers are all around you In soviet russia, the watchtowers are all around you Well, here’s how it played out: Step one was admittedly pretty simple. Indeed, right after seeing my barracks, the enemy freaked out and built one right next to it, a way away from their base. Good news. Then, the moment the little rattly noise told me I’d invented feudalism, my three little geezers legged it up the hill to build the first tower, and the brutish militia came swaggering over to cover the operation, while thinking really hard about becoming men at arms....

HomeFeatures Might it already be too late to remake 2002’s Mafia?Maul In The Family Maul In The Family It was with raised eyebrows that I metthe news of 2K’s plansto re-release all three Mafia games. With the second and third already out, butneithergameworth playingat all, it is the first that creates intrigue. This long-loved, but very long-in-the-tooth 2002 mob-me-do, seems like such a fascinating prospect to see given an overhaul. But might eighteen years since its release mean maybe it’s already too late?...

HomeNewsTorchlight III Torchlight 3 will share future plans on Friday when the closed beta endsWhen life closes a beta it opens a launch window When life closes a beta it opens a launch window Next up in the hack and slashin' RPG series,Torchlight 3previously had a change of heart after starting life as an online game called Torchlight Frontiers. Echtra Games have now announced that the currently-running closed beta will wrap this Friday....

HomeNewsMinecraft: Dungeons What other game should have a spinoff in a totally unlikely genre?Fire up the genre generator Fire up the genre generator After a brief moment of uncertainty during its first reveal, I had a pretty good feeling thatMinecraft Dungeonswould be some nice and breezy block-clad fun. Until I’d seen it though, turning Minecraft into Diablo’s little brother was not an obvious experiment—at least not to me. What other game series should get a spinoff into some totally unlikely other genre?...

HomeNewsCloudpunk Cloudpunk’s city becomes personal with a new first-person viewA more personal delivery A more personal delivery Neon Lights over a crowded parking lot. The steam and sounds of a ramen stand. Billboards glistening in the pouring rain as entire tower blocks tumble in the distance. There’s plenty to appreciate inCloudpunk’s towering urban sprawl - but until now, it’s always been kept at an arm’s length. This week, developers Ion Lands began testing a new first-person mode inCloudpunk’s beta build, letting drivers get up close and personal withNivalis' gorgeous mile-high neighbourhoods....

HomeNewsMaximum Action Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Killer words, quiet skiing and the thing in the desertScreenshot Saturday Sundays! Screenshot Saturday Sundays! All hands on deck for our first vessel, a vibrant sky-bound shipment from Hyperluminal creative director Rob Madden. You can stop off at an island now after building a dock. Next is to get some inventory management on the go to move goods around!#gamedev#indiedev#unity3d#madewithunity#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/LR5c3DV8YW— Rob Madden (@LaffingLad)May 23, 2020 You can stop off at an island now after building a dock....

HomeNewsWarframe Warframe is giving its oldest derelicts a makeoverHome improvements Home improvements WhenWarframeset up shop in 2012, it was a simple thing. A few rooms, a few baddies, and a good helping of backflips. But with each update bringing increasingly fanciful new designs, the free-to-play slasher’s oldest hallways are starting to look rather dusty. That’s why the devs are unpacking their toolkits for a little bit of D.I.Y - re-imagining the game’s ancient Corpus environments to meet modernWarframe’s lavish expectations....