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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 it’s caverns, knowledge and doors.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure will support and respect whichever ending you chose in the original Life is Strange game, developer Deck Nine has said as part of an extended look at its upcoming sequel.

The Internet has been devoted to cats since its very beginning. We’ve had cat focused forums, cat-themed flash games, art and even a website dedicated to pictures of cats in sinks, aptly named Cats in Sinks. Not to forget about I Can Haz Cheezburger and Nyan Cat. (Look I can’t list them all, we’d never get to the video game part.) The rise of social media has brought us accounts, some with millions of followers, solely focused around someone’s cat. If you’re online, there’s truly no escape from our fluffy friends; ‘cats’ is one of the most searched for terms on Google after all. Thanks to this feline fever, you really shouldn’t be surprised when I tell you about Neko Odyssey - an upcoming game all about photographing cats for social media.

We've seen some poorly optimised Unreal Engine games over the last few years, especially on console as developers try to implement new and impressive visual features within a limited performance budget. Ark: Survival Ascended, a UE5 remake of 2015's Ark: Survival Evolved, might just be the worst to date.

Everywhere, the next project from ex-GTA producer Leslie Benzies, is getting a closed beta next week.

Xbox has announced a release date for Ara: History Untold.

Back in 2021, GamesIndustry.biz spoke to former PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan about his hopes for the future of the company. And he gave the following answer:

Sonic Dream Team has received another update, adding additional levels and an endgame mission.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami's forthcoming remake, will have a visual filter to recreate the look of the original game.

David Gaider, creator of Dragon Age and lead writer on the series' previous installments, has praised BioWare's reveal of new game Dragon Age: The Veilguard - the first title in the series he will not have had a hand in.

Fans of the 1993 film Jurassic Park will be able to revisit many locations from Isla Nublar on Jurassic Park: Survival's release, but also some previously unseen spots.

Grunn is a normal gardening game set in a mundane village, according to the Steam blurb. It is not at all weird and horrifying, not remotely a glimpse into the abyss. Moments after first arriving off the bus you won't find yourself trapped in the garden by a bridge with a rotten plank. You won't accidentally murder a magpie while chopping down tall grass. And you thoroughly won't be stalked by a nameless tormentor as you go about your gardening work.

FragPunk, the new hero shooter revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase earlier this week, will have a closed alpha test on Steam at the end of the month.

Sony is rolling out the ability to join Discord calls from your PlayStation 5 without relying on the service's PC or mobile apps.

The Banished Vault was one of last year's best, and possibly most difficult, games. It cast you as one of the last Exiles in space - a kind of monk - and tasked you with outrunning a universe-swallowing darkness known as the Gloom. But underneath, it was a game about maths. A game about careful space flight and fuel economy, and about planning many steps in advance to execute a plan. Run at it with the expectation of easy progress and you will meet with an abrupt thump. It wasn't a game for everyone. But the people who persevered, loved it. Chris Tapsell called it "dense and brilliant, like a neutron star" in his Banished Vault review. "When it all clicks, and the fog of numbers and tables and energy calculators clears, it's magic."

If you're a yearly subscriber to the Eurogamer website, I've got a treat for you. You can now claim a free key for The Banished Vault on PC (on Steam). Hooray!

League of Geeks - the studio behind Armello, Jumplight Odyssey, and Solium Infernum - has announced it's going into "hibernation for the foreseeable future", following its decision to cut 50 percent of its workforce at the end of last year.

Valve is being sued for £656m by a UK digital rights campaigner, who claims the company is rigging the PC games market and deliberately "shutting out" competition through Steam.

The next musical stars to join Fortnite are Metallica, via an all-encompassing arrival set to land across the game's various modes.

June's additions to the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games catalogue have been revealed, and it's a pretty strong line-up, introducing the likes of Monster Hunter Rise, Crusader Kings 3, Anno 1800, and Football Manager 2024.

While chatting with Guerilla's narrative director James Windeler shortly after my time with Lego Horizon Adventures, I was reminded that Horizon Zero Dawn's signature robo-dino creatures have already had ties to Lego for some time. "The story goes that we prototyped the first machines in Horizon Zero Dawn from Duplo," he said, "so it's always been a part of the studio."

Elden Ring has now shipped an impressive 25m units worldwide.

Yes, F-Zero 99 was a cute diversion after Nintendo's high speed racing series seemingly went into hibernation, but fans are still waiting for that next proper F-Zero game to arrive.

Results of a Capcom poll designed to find out its players' most beloved games and characters have been published, and Dino Crisis fared pretty well overall.

Fallout 76's Skyline Valley update certainly isn't short on sights and sounds to tempt you from the comfort of its six-year-old Appalachia map. Bolted onto the southern reaches of the Savage Divide running down the centre of the map, the newly added Shenandoah region has a giant, ominous vortex swirling up into the sky for starters, and on approach, the air itself starts turning a distinct shade of very evil-looking red. Lightning streaks constantly across the clouds, and as you descend into the valley proper, the earth has been ruptured and ripped apart by savage-looking earthquakes. It's your classic 'end of days hellscape', if I'm honest, but after spending two hours bombing through its new story quest last week, this isn't what sticks in my memory the most.

At first glance, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector looks and feels just like the original we know and love. As I catch up with the sequel's new, standalone android protagonist and their fellow shipmate Serafin on the small space station of Hexport, the most important tasks on their agenda have a pleasing familiarity to them: get some cash, stock up on supplies, and poke your nose in with the locals. You're both still feeling a bit highly strung after your escape from gang leader Laine - which we saw play out in explosive fashion during its animated reveal trailer last year - but for now, at least, you've got a small window of time where you can take a well-earned breather, and gradually adjust to your new life on the run.

Starfield players have left a flurry of negative reviews on Steam - more than 500 in the last 48 hours - following the launch of the game's Creations storefront.

Visions of Mana, the next entry in Square Enix's Mana series, is set to release this summer.

Ahead of the highly-anticipated Elden Ring DLC expansion Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki has said he understands why many players use guides to help them with the studio's games, but doesn't want them to be a necessity.

A new, unofficial online database of game listings from the Epic Games Store has been launched and promptly rifled through - turning up mention of numerous unannounced PC game projects.