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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week we play probably the closest thing we're ever likely to get to Bloodborne on PC; we jump back in time in a retro-inspired RPG; and we enjoy the easy delights of this year's Clash Mini.

Hayley Atwell - known for her role as Peggy Carter in numerous Marvel projects - is set to voice Lara Croft in Netflix's upcoming Tomb Raider animation. While this has been known for a while now, we hadn't heard how the actress sounds in her new part. Until now.

Tonight's Summer Game Fest showcase marks the beginning of a weekend of announcements, filling the typical June slot the now-dead E3 used to fill.

My position on things is that you can't really finish Spelunky. In Spelunky, a brilliantly malevolent yet dependable roguelike and platformer, there's always something more to try, something new you might learn.

Silent Hill 2's original creators "didn't want to make the same thing again" when it came to Silent Hill 2 Remake, causing Remake developer Bloober Team to push back on some of their suggestions.

PlayStation has laid out the various editions of Astro Bot on PlayStation 5, and who do we have popping up? Why, it is only Bloodborne's Hunter!

BioWare boss Gary McKay has shared fresh details of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including word on its romance and combat, just a day after the game was announced to have changed its name from Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.

I liked Fights in Tight Spaces. It mashed together two things I'm fond of: Roguelike deck-builders and badass secret agents. FITS gave me a turn-based experience that made me feel like Jason Bourne, punching and kicking and weaving my way around enemies on cramped battlefields. I stepped around their punches and redirected them back at them. I slammed their heads into walls and tables. I dodged bullets - whoa. I even booted people off the wings of aeroplanes. I survived insurmountable odds. FITS did what it promised and fulfilled my hand-to-hand spy-fight fantasy. But where does the series go from here? Well, the answer is hundreds of years back in time, to medieval times, to Knights in Tight Spaces.

Dystopika is a city-building toy, but it's also a place. It's a place loading before you drop your first superscraper in or pan the camera to frame the luminous smog of the eternal sunset. Just start the game up and there's a sense of urban life twinkling in the darkness, while the soundtrack moans and warps and chatters to itself. Dystopika is already here. It can feel complete before you've started.

There's a hand reaching out of the toilet in the women's lavatory, groping around in the air like it wants something. It's freaky - this whole place is freaky. It's a hospital ward overrun by a fleshy, otherworldly infestation of... something. Doors are obstructed by fleshy vines and huge fleshy pipes bulge intermittently with the passing of something within. Darkness and malice tinges the air. I'm reminded quite strongly of the Upside Down in Stranger Things. It's a place I don't understand, a place of bizarre rules and inhabitants. For some reason, there are mannequins arranged in distressing postures - mannequins that seem to move around. And in the middle of all of it is me, an older gentleman (in the game!) who woke up in this wretched place. Why, I don't know, but I know I want out. Anyone would. This place is a kind of hell. And then it comes to me: toilet paper! What else would someone be reaching out for in a toilet but toilet paper? It sounds simple but it works. This puzzle is solved. Onto the next one I go.

Killing Time - the cult classic haunted house FPS originally released for the short-lived 3DO console back in 1995 - is being resurrected and remastered by retro specialists Nightdive Studios, and the developer is teasing that 2002's The Thing is up next.

Yooka-Laylee, the Banjo-Kazooie-inspired platform collect-'em-up from developer Playtonic Games, is getting a bit of a spruce-up for PC and unspecified consoles by way of a newly announced (and dubiously named) remaster, Yooka-Replaylee.

Microsoft is reportedly working on a remaster of Bungie's classic first-person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved and is eyeing up a PlayStation release - alongside multi-console releases for the likes of Hellblade 2 and the next Doom - potentially marking a landmark moment for one of Xbox's most recognisable exclusives.

Shenmue fans have rented out a billboard in New York's Time Square to campaign for a fourth game and give creator Yu Suzuki a chance to "complete his life's work".

Weyrdlets might look like a typical virtual pet game, but if you look beneath its adorable exterior, you’ll find it's secretly helping you to become more self aware, acting as a useful reminder to be more mindful about your own wellbeing. Alongside Stardew Valley, Summerhouse and Animal Crossing, Weyrdlets' relaxed vibe naturally makes you want to slow down when you dive into your island pet paradise, but if you don't have time to spend in the game itself, then you can still take care of your pet on the side as they occupy your desktop. They're truly virtual pets in that sense, as they can wander exactly where you don’t want them to, and they'll be interested in the most random items when you're performing your everyday PC tasks.

As Eurogamer reported earlier today, Dragon Age Dreadwolf has a new name - which has now been formally announced as Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

UPDATE 06/06/24: Sony has confirmed the £35 price of Concord, with pre-orders now open.

Sony's rumoured Lego game based on Guerrilla's Horizon series will launch day one on both PlayStation 5 and PC, it is claimed.

Behold, the beauty of destruction: as enemies home in on your position, you pull the trigger and marvel as the screen fills with particles, smoke and destruction... and as the air clears, you're left with an eerie calm. This ebb and flow between the quiet and the loud serves as the fabric of Selaco, a new FPS developed by a small team and derived from 26-year-old technology.

Sony is removing mention of 8K support for the PlayStation 5 on console packaging.

Microsoft has detailed the next selection of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass, arriving from today until the middle of June.

Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League game was a flop for Warner Bros. due to multiple issues resulting in a tumultuous development.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard fans should be looking forward to seeing more of BioWare's long-awaited next chapter in its fantasy role-playing series, but there's now confusion over exactly what might be shown at this year's Summer Game Fest.

Fallout's showrunners say they want to get the second season of Amazon's adaptation out as soon as it is possible.

A little over a year since I stepped into Punchdrunk's astonishing interactive theatre experience The Burnt City, the company has reopened its doors in Woolwich, London, for a vastly different production.

UPDATE 06/06/24: Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 are now available everywhere.

The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin has revealed the show's second season will be shorter in terms of episode count than the first, but there is a reason for that.

It's about time the Scions of the Seventh Dawn had a holiday, right? After the adventures of A Realm Reborn and its four expansions - the latest of which took them to the moon and beyond - the heroes of Final Fantasy 14 deserve some sun.

Where there is tea, there is hope. I have always appreciated this sentiment. Often when things are feeling overwhelming and I can’t quite get my thoughts in line, I will put the kettle on. It's a simple ritual, but there is something incredibly soothing about the whole process. The selection of which leaf - something that changes depending on the time of day - and finding the perfect mug to go with it. Then, pouring the boiling water into a pot, watching as the tea leaves slowly start to stain it with swirls of brown, and, ah! That restorative first sip. As the warm liquid slips down, I take a deep breath. Yes, where there is tea, there is hope.

Naoki Yoshida, Final Fantasy 14's producer and director, has addressed fan fears of recurrent problems impacting the launch of the next expansion Dawntrail, stating there's "almost no chance" of server congestion.