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I have a confession to make: despite Valheim ostensibly being about hunting down terrifying monsters, I've instead become obsessed with making huge piles of food. I've even created a "snack shack" on my server so my friends can grab food on the go, and I regularly drop supplies in to keep it well stocked.

Steam Next Fest, a multi-day event featuring developer livestreams and downloadable game demos, will be held on 16th to 22nd June.

A new seven-part expansion is coming to Hitman 3, themed around each of the seven deadly sins.

PUBG Season 11 is kicking off at the end of this month, and it seems like the season will update some features of South American map Paramo, along with a couple of tweaks to spawn rates and game mechanics.

Watch Dogs: Legion gets a free trial this week, Ubisoft has announced.

On 25th March, Civilization 6's New Frontier Pass releases its final premium DLC: the Portugal pack - and it's going out on a high. This eye-catching, naval exploration-based new civ has a unique ability we've not seen before: it can put a building on another civ's tile. And when it does, there's nothing you can do to get rid of it.

Nintendo Switch still lacks Netflix - and most common media apps, really - but it does now have Funimation in the UK.

Ikumi Nakamura, the former Tango Gameworks lead designer who stole the show at Bethesda's E3 2019 press conference, has set up her own indie studio.

Gloucestershire, England, 1837: renowned English educator Sir Isaac Pitman published what would become the most culturally significant of the seven books he wrote before his death in 1897, Stenographic Sound-Hand. In it, Pitman outlined a series of phonetic abbreviations to better write British-English as economically as is achievable - a style which is simply known as Pitman's Shorthand.

The time has come. If you've been holding off on a purchase of Super Mario 3D All-Stars for Nintendo Switch, you have just one week left to play into Nintendo's artificially-induced FOMO and purchase a copy - or miss out forever.

Shadow Man: Remastered, Nightdive Studios' enhanced version of Acclaim's much-loved 1999 action-adventure, finally has a release date and will be coming to PC on 15th April.

Serious Sam, Croteam's massively over-the-top first-person shooter series, is 20 years old this week, and the developer has surprised fans by launching a substantial free update for Serious Sam 2 on PC as part of its birthday celebrations.

March 2021 marks two years since Hopoo Games' enormously successful co-operative rogue-like shooter sequel Risk of Rain 2 first entered early access, and the developer is celebrating with the launch of a significant free update on PC.

UPDATE 23/3/21 4pm UK: Fortnite will refund all purchases of the Wild music track, an Epic spokesperson has told Eurogamer. The item should not have been included in the game's item shop, the company confirmed, and its appearance did not constitute a change of any rules around the exclusivity of battle pass items.

Amazon Games is opening a new studio in Canada - and it's being helmed by a bunch of former Rainbow Six Siege devs.

I've just drifted my dog into battle, his hindlegs tilting out in a glorious arc at the press of a button for that precious extra boost of speed, before dismounting with the flick of a wirebug that sends a silken line up into the sky, allowing me to grapple onto it and swing towards my prey. In mid-air I pull out a sword fashioned from the remains of a bony Besarios and drive it straight down into the skull of another. Bring this big bastard down and I can fashion a hat out of his hide to complete my Besarios outfit and grant myself an attack boost, so that I might be able to go out and do it again only with more flair, and more efficiency.

Blast processing. Controversial in its time, Sega used the phrase heavily to market its Genesis/Mega Drive console in the US against Super NES - and it was so successful that Nintendo was driven to take out double-page advertorials in the gaming press to rebut Sega's claims. Many dismissed it as marketing hot air - which is true to an extent - but the fact is that Blast Processing is indeed real and today we're releasing a proof of concept demo, put together by talented coder Gabriel Morales.

Monster Hunter has finally arrived on Nintendo Switch with Monster Hunter Rise and some might say it's a landmark title for the series. It's the first wide-open 3D experience built around Capcom's RE Engine for Nintendo Switch. It showcases what is possible with the engine on more limited hardware, combining elements the series was known for in previous handheld incarnations along with big feature improvements delivered by the excellent Monster Hunter World. The compromises are clear, but the results are impressive.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about Valheim's Body Recovery Squad - a group of players who risk virtual life and limb to help players get their items back, no matter the difficulty, and do it all for free. It's a wonderful community effort, but something you might not expect is that the BRS is also a well-oiled machine, with lots of work going on in the background to keep the wheels turning. Members file paperwork, take part in training exercises, and even carry out industrial-scale farming to keep operators stocked and fed.

If you've browsed the Valheim subreddit in recent weeks, you may have seen posts about a particularly grisly cheese method: players were harvesting materials from greydwarves by turning the area surrounding their spawn into a blazing inferno, creating an infinite supply of stone, resin and wood. But the latest Valheim patch should put an end to automated greydwarf farms, thanks to a simple tweak to how fires work.

Like you, I have been surrounded by the same four walls for approximately one billion years now, entombed in a two-bedroom sarcophagus, hemorrhaging rent to an invisible overlord to maintain homeostasis in a world stood still. I'm convinced that, when I am asleep, these walls creep inwards by a few imperceptible millimetres, and that soon I'll have to slowly squeeze through narrow hallways to get around, like my flat is perpetually loading the next area, until one Tuesday afternoon I am finally crushed to death.

Microsoft is one of several companies in talks to acquire Discord, a pair of new reports have claimed.

UPDATE 23/3/21: In a statement to Eurogamer this morning, Microsoft has explained the recent branding change for its underlying online infrastructure. In short, the new Xbox network phrasing is more "descriptive", the company said, and none of the systems, subscriptions or anything else you actually use were changing.

At first, you're having a fine old time.

Cityscapes have always had a kind of ugly charm to them for me. Even if your main definition of beauty derives from a moonlit flower on a winter's eve, or the blossoming sunrise over a mountainous horizon, there's no doubt that peering into a vast, endless concrete forest has an awe-inspiring effect as you imagine the intricate weaving of life it contains.

Sony is reportedly readying to permanently close its PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita digital stores starting in July.

Fall Guys' neon-streaked fourth season, which sends everybody's favourite bean folk off to a very 80s future, is now live, bringing with it seven new rounds, a new squad mode, and more.

EA has had a tough month. It's money-printing FIFA series has come under fire from multiple angles, but perhaps most shocking of all is the accusation an EA employee allegedly sold coveted Ultimate Team cards for thousands of pounds.

After a couple of coronavirus-related wobbles last year, production on the second series of Netflix's The Witcher adaptation is now well underway - and new casting details have confirmed some of the stars set to bring a range of familiar characters to life as the season rolls on.

Bethesda has shared a new Fallout 76 development roadmap, detailing the various additions coming to the online survival adventure throughout 2021, including new Brotherhood story content, multiple CAMP slots, and more.