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Doom: The Dark Ages release date tipped to make a royal mess of May

This is supposed to be a time of joy and greenery

A new mode turns Halo: Infinite into Fall Guys with a "hex-a-gone" minigame

They've bean copied

Get froggin' and demagogue'n in manufactured dissent simulator Vox Regis

Vox Regis is latin for loud Reginald I believe

Almost a third of developers think generative AI is a negative for the games industry, says new survey

One in ten respondents to GDC's annual survey was laid off in 2024

Here's a demo for Eternal Strands, the Zelda-meets-Colossus wizarding sim from a former Dragon Age director

Do I detect a touch of Midway here

My most anticipated indie of 2025 quietly updated its demo build while I was off eating lunch

The King Is Watching, but I wasn't apparently

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director thinks GTA 6 might have the "clout" to normalise a $100 price tag

Other publishers "will sink or swim"

Sledding Game is a chill "hangout game" like Webfishing, but with penguins that ragdoll downhill

Slippy days

In creepy real-time strategy game Calyx you battle a huge mass of alien plants

Rout the sprouts

Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements may yet fall, as Capcom aim to improve performance

Are they really that demanding?

Lysergic FPS Mohrta is a medieval western gothic blend of Morrowind and Doom

Mohrta love

New RPG Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a Lovecraftian Ultima homage, and I can't get torches to work

Out in early access now, still has a demo

Specialist RPG studio's unannounced Warhammer game revealed following layoffs

No morehammer

Mindwave is a punky, relentless and completely hypnotic Warioware

Wahnderful

Straftat resurrects a Counter-Strike map you either love or hate, cannibalising FPS history in the best way possible

It's one of 30 free new maps

Marvel Snap has been "banned" in the USA alongside TikTok, but devs insist it'll be back online soon

Card battler affected by US divest-or-ban policy towards Chinese parent company

Identify the scary numbers in macrodata refinement with this free Severance-inspired game

Melon bar not included

The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?

Mekkablood, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth and a nice bit of snowboarding

Dino Crisis-esque horror Code Violet won't be coming to PC because the risk of "vulgar" mods isn't worth the "extra money"

Diplodocus's big naturals

Topdown tactical shooter Intravenous 2 now has Steam Workshop support and a map editor

As all games should

Sons Of The Forest now lets you build rafts - and don't worry, Kelvin is better at swimming now, too

Plus lots of fixes

Genshin Impact maker will pay a $20 million fine to settle FTC charges that allege they misled players about lootbox odds

They'll also be banned from selling lootboxes to teens under 16

Unless this cake is lying to you Silksong will reappear in April

Hollow Knight sequel fans yet again huffing the copium

11-bit's latest curiosity Death Howl is a sorrowing open world deckbuilder set in the Nordic Stone Ages

From developers The Outer Zone

PlayStation put the axe in a live service God Of War game, alongside a project from the Days Gone studio

A bad case of GaaS