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Steam Next Fest February 2023 Edition - here’s some cool demos you need to try Demos upon demos upon demos. Steam Next Fest kicked off earlier this week, and there are tons of indie demos ready for you to download and play. Steam Next Fest: February 2023 Edition runs through February 13 and alongside demos, developers are taking part in livestreams to discuss their upcoming releases. There are also chats with the devs themselves, and this will continue for the duration....

Street Fighter 6 is one of the best games of 2023 – but as the year ends, DLC greed threatens its glory Capcom, in a rare miss, has misjudged the price of Street Fighter 6’s Outfit 3 offerings – and that’s a damn shame. Image credit:Capcom/VG247 With Street Fighter 6 , Capcom nailed it. The mood of the series, the visual look, the balance. Its online modes are sublime, and the company finally found a template that works for single-player....

Sword of Convallaria Col build guide The best skills to keep Col sneaking and stabbing. The best Sword of Convallaria Col build layers on the right stats to help this formidable assassin dish out heavy damage every turn. Col is your standard rogue-slash-assassin Sword of Convallaria character whose skills almost all involve stacking damage and critical hits, but her unique passive trait means she benefits from working alone. It only activates when allies are at least three tiles away from her, which means you’ll want to mix some self-sustaining abilities in with her offense-focused skills....

Test audiences didn’t like Across the Spider-Verse’s original ending, so its directors took a leaf out of Star Wars’ book If in doubt, watch Star Wars. Image credit:Sony Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s ending was apparently a bit of a last minute addition after test screenings were negative, and it all came together thanks to Star Wars. Spoilers ahead for the ending of Across the Spider-Verse, obviously. It’s pretty safe to say that Across the Spider-Verse is very much a middle movie....

The best Genshin Impact Yaoyao build, artifacts, and F2P options Radish of death Genshin Impact 3.4 is here, and that means it’s time to get your Genshin Impact Yaoyao build ready. Yaoyao occupies a unique position among her fellow 4-star characters. She’s a hybrid healer and sub-DPS, but if you want to maximize her healing potential, you have to use her as both. Her burst won’t work unless Yaoyao is active....

The best management sim isn’t even a video game: The Best Games Ever Show episode 61 You never know what Tom Orry may bring. Welcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 61: The best management sim. Video games are a treasure trove if you like managing things. People. Buildings. Civilisations. Transport networks. Space programs (as in NASA, not as in Star Trek). Whatever organisational or logistic problem you can imagine, there’s probably some kind of video game that attempts to let you solve it....

The bodies are hitting the floor in Yellowjackets season 3’s latest trailer, but I’m not sure if the five second rule counts with cannibalism Something’s got to give. Image credit:Showtime/ Paramount Yellowjackets season 3 has a new trailer ahead of its release next month, and it looks like things are going to get messy in the past and present. Look, if you set a trailer for a show about a bunch of highschool soccer players that crash land in the middle of the wilderness and can’t get home so they resort to cannibalism to Bodies by Drowning Pool, I’m immediately going to be won over, and wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly what the trailer for Yellowjackets season 3 did!...

The demo for Building Relationships made me horny for a windmill, and you could be next with Steam Next Fest I could never date a building… unless? Image credit:VG247 Objectophilia. That’s the closest word I could find that might potentially represent the feeling of being attracted to a building, though it’s more just attraction to general inanimate objects. After playing Building Relationships , though, I think they’re going to have to invent a new word thanks to all the people this is going to awaken something in....

The developers of one of PlayStation’s best exclusives faces massive layoffs Scavengers Studio, the developer behind Season, is cutting over half of its employees following low sales. Scavengers Studio, the Montreal-based developer behind Season and Darwin Project , is laying off over half of its employees following low sales on its latest game. Season, an indie darling and one of PlayStation’s best exclusives in recent years, appears to have sold less than 60,000 copies according to French journalist Gauthier Andres ....

The Dune Awakening team had “a bunch of constraints” placed on what they could show by working with Hollywood This limitation is what pushed the team towards the alternate history approach. Image credit:Funcom Dune Awakening creative director Joel Bylos revealed during a press Q&A earlier this month that “a bunch of constraints” were put in place for the team as part of its collaboration with Hollywood. This, it turns out, was one of the core reasons why the game takes place in an alternate history....

The first full trailer for HBO’s movie-making satire The Franchise wants to show us how awful working on a superhero film is Not pointing any fingers, here. Image credit:HBO The Franchise has received a new official trailer, and it certainly looks like it’s going to capture how terrible making a superhero must be. I think we all know by now that making a movie is often a stressful experience, and that’s putting it lightly....

The first trailer for A24’s surreal comedy Friendship asks one important question: is Paul Rudd a bad friend? A tough question to ask, but a necessary one. Image credit:A24 Friendship, a new nightmare comedy from A24 starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, finally got its first trailer, and I’m starting to think Ant-Man might not be a good friend. Tim Robinson is no stranger to out there comedies, obviously best known as the creator of his own sketch show I Think You Should Leave, but so far his acting has been mostly relegated to TV, with only a few supporting film roles to his name....

The Fortnite x Attack on Titan update is nearly here - brings new skins and slick new ODM gear I don’t even watch the show - the ODM gear movement just looks fantastic. The Attack on Titan x Fortnite update is coming soon, according to a new post on the official Fortnite website . A teaser trailer has also been released showing off the new features in game, if you’d like to see it all in motion....

The Game Awards 2023 will begin to drop the tacky ‘world premiere’ cards, do something about stage crashers “What is a world premiere?” asks Keighley the philosopher. Image credit:VG247/The Game Awards This year’s Game Awards show is set to see its creators begin to move away from referring to a bunch of the various trailers and previews being showcased as world premieres, as has been the trend in recent years....

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer shows Hyrule in trouble A Collector’s Edition and Amiibo are on the way as well. Nintendo dropped a new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . It features gameplay footage of Link’s adventure, including the islands floating above Hyrule, and never-before-seen weapons and mysterious vehicles. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Trailer #2 In this sequel to Breath of the Wild, you’ll decide your own path through the landscapes of Hyrule and the mysterious islands floating in the skies above....

The Minecraft movie just keeps on printing money, as the film brings in $80 million in its second weekend It looks like the Minecraft movie money train ain’t stopping just yet. Image credit:Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures It looks as though the Minecraft movie money train just keeps on choo-chooing away, as the film has generated another $80 million in its second weekend in movie theatres in the USA. That doesn’t even include worldwide ticket sales, which continue to fly off popcorn counters around the globe....

The MonsterVerse may stay silly a while longer, as Godzilla x Kong director Adam Wingard wants to stick around Showa-era kaiju flick enjoyers rejoice. Image credit:WB Pictures/Legendary Pictures Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire looks rad, but I can see how it’s not for everyone, especially if you aren’t familiar with like 90% of Toho’s Godzilla franchise and would rather stick to more serious affairs, such as Godzilla Minus One ....

The next Mad Max movie may be another prequel to Fury Road, actually A lot of stuff happened right before he came across Immortan Joe, it seems. Image credit:Warner Bros. Pictures As we eagerly await Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga , we’re also wondering what’s going on with the actual follow-up to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Well, it now sounds like it could be another prequel! Look, I’ll forever be on George Miller’s team, but it’s a bit odd the saga is now kind of stuck circling around Fury Road’s events....

The Sims 4’s latest update adds playground venues to the base game ahead of October’s kid-friendly expansion pack The next big update for The Sims 4 is here a little early, with just about enough features to get everyone ready for Adventure Awaits. Image credit:Maxis, EA. We’re very much on the road to the next The Sims 4 expansion, Adventure Awaits, and Maxis has rolled out a cool new update to hold you over until the big day next month....

The Witcher 3 Act Two and Act Three secondary quests Here are all of secondary quests you can expect to find during Act Two and Three of The Witcher 3. The final hours of The Witcher 3 are the perfect time to tackle all those super difficult challenges. On this page, we’ve detailed all of the secondary quests you can expect to run into, from quests that’ll grant you new gear to Treasure Hunts that’ll line your inventory with loot....