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I found out about Tile Cities the way I find out about almost all PC gems - from the wonderful Sin Vega on RPS. I have been playing it on and off for the past week, slowly getting drawn in. Now the inevitable has happened and I go to bed and see those city blocks turning and clicking into place in the grainy midnight air above me. I have become one with the city of tiles.

Tactical FPS Ready or Not is back on sale on Steam today after resolving a trademark dispute.

Nintendo has joined up with Lego once again to create eight new Super Mario-themed character packs.

The award-winning team behind Xbox's candid six-part documentary series, Power On: The Story of Xbox, has secured another award: a Daytime Emmy.

We already knew that Lego Brawls - a minifigure fighting game previously launched on Apple Arcade - was set to relaunch this summer on consoles and now we have a release date: 2nd September, 2022.

The long-teased Werewolf expansion has finally arrived in The Sims 4, and with it comes a handful of new items with sneaky references to Final Fantasy 14.

Despite its controversial launch, Diablo Immortal - Blizzard's pocket-sized Diablo experience - has generated almost £20 million ($24m) since it launched earlier this month.

Drawings, paintings, photographs, found objects, and text: Leanne Shapton's work crosses boundaries. So what brings it all together? This: she is a poet of absence. Her best stuff often seems to speak of people who are no longer present, and the empty chairs she places on the stage are perfect spaces to allow the reader in. This is why, although I doubt anybody would call Shapton a game designer, her work always feels gamelike to me.

For a long time, the SteelSeries Arctis line of headsets has appeared at the top of our list of gaming headset recommendations. They're an easy and popular pick: comfortable, great-sounding and available in a wide range of formats to suit all manner of platforms, connection types and budgets. But five years after the first Arctis headsets were revealed, the overall formula hasn't changed much - and so, it's time for something new. That something is the Arctis Nova Pro, a timely redesign that recaptures the line's strengths while also marking the most substantive evolution in its history.

The $449/£429 Ryzen 7 5800X3D is something a bit different from AMD, a processor that exists to demonstrate the power of the firm's 3D V-Cache design for its upcoming Ryzen CPUs and fight off Intel's 12900KS for the title of 'fastest gaming processor'. It's also something of a last hurrah for the surprisingly long-lived AM4 platform, which debuted back in 2017 and outlasted half a dozen Intel generations as Ryzen CPUs improved in leaps and bounds.

Nearly five years after the last series entry, we finally have some concrete information about the new Forza Motorsport coming next year. While the eighth game in the series drops the number from its title, the presentation was all about numbers: 4K resolution and 60fps with real-time ray tracing, double the frame-rate that was shown in the 2020 teaser. Running games at 4K 60fps with RT is a tall order even for high-end PCs, so how can this be possible on Xbox Series X?

Earlier this month, developer Supermassive released its sumputous slasher horror The Quarry on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in collaboration with publisher 2K Games - but a new report has claimed the game was originally in development as a "signature" title for Stadia, before Google made the decision to downsize its gaming operation and send the project elsewhere.

As part of its ongoing war against cheaters, the team behind Call of Duty's server-side and kernel-level anti-cheat solution, known as Ricochet, has unveiled a new mitigation technique that takes a player's weapons (and fists) away when the system identifies them as a cheater.

Judging by some of the biggest showcases over this summer of gaming, space horror and guns are at the forefront of many AAA games.

It's fair to say that Starfield is one of the most anticipated games and it's not difficult to see why - Bethesda, for all its faults, has built its empire with large-scale open world RPGs. There's a reason games like Skyrim remain popular to this day - the meticulously crafted worlds and sense of freedom capture the imagination. On paper, Starfield feels like the logical conclusion, a game that extends beyond a single planet through the reaches of space. I thought it would be fun to dive into Bethesda's presentation and see what we can glean about the game - from basics like image quality and performance to the overall approach to tech and design.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is currently on offer as it launches on Steam.

In perhaps the most impressive Elden Ring controller news to date, a harpist has hooked up her instrument to play FromSoftware's epic.

11 Bit Studios, the developer behind the acclaimed likes of This War of Mine and Frostpunk, has unveiled its latest publishing partnership, a "deep, morally ambiguous narrative-driven RPG" currently going by the codename Project Vitriol.

A new trailer for Sonic Origins has detailed its various game modes, including its museum of extra content.

Andrew Wilson, boss of FIFA and Battlefield publisher EA, has seen his annual pay reduced to $19.9m, down from $39.2m previously.

There are many ways to indulge in procrastination as a writer, from cutting down trees to reorganising your Pokémon cards, but running a bathhouse for spirits is by far the best ‘I’m totally working on my fantasy novel honest’ excuse I’ve ever heard. It’s also exactly what happens to the inspiring author protagonist of Spirittea - a management simulator, with a mixture of RPG and life sim elements, from developer Cheesemaster Games - after drinking tea from a magic teapot. Though you have to wonder if there’s something magical about those leaves… Guided by cat spirit Wonyan, your goal is to rebuild the ruined bathhouse, ease the troubles of the local spirits and fill your pockets with cash along the way.

Brilliant indie Unpacking has an Easter egg for developer Witchbeam's next game, the studio has now revealed.

A new fan made crossover sees The Last of Us' Joel and Ellie take on the snow-covered wilds of God of War.

N64 classic Pokémon Snap will be added to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack library next week, on Friday 24th June.

Some ideas left on the cutting room floor for Returnal could end up in Housemarque's next game.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Emojis, blocks, and substitute teachers.

Vampiric survival game V Rising has hit the 2m sales milestone since launching itself fangs-first onto Steam a month ago.

Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion, a remaster of the original Crisis Core, will be released this winter across PlayStation and Xbox consoles, Nintendo Switch, and PC (via Steam).

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade will be available on Steam from 17th June.

It's been a long old wait but Capcom has finally announced it's working on a sequel to cult-classic fantasy RPG Dragon's Dogma.