My liege, I bring more tidings from Crusader Kings 3 and its Coronations DLC. After apologising for the add-on "not being up to the standard you deserve" last week, developers PDS Black have released a second patch aimed at smoothing out the edges of in-game oaths that've been causing issues.

As we reported not long after Coronations arrived, it quickly turned into another instance of Paradox rather stepping in it when it comes to DLC. Negative reception was fuelled both by technical issues with the new oaths rulers can take on ascending the throne, and the fact that the publishers were charging for features that are relatively compact, but also a pretty central aspect of any kingly lifespan.

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A new Hollow Knight: Silksong mod lets folks load directly into any of the metroidvania's boss fights from a dedicated menu, essentially turning the game into a choose your own bottom kicking adventure.

After all, who doesn't crave the ability to deliberately battle the one boss they're actually good at beating over and over again, ego juice coursing through their veins, a roar of sheer powerful ecstacy reverberating around their quarters? Or, you know, you might just fancy some practice ahead of your next full run through the game.

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Many moons ago, I missed my chance to join a weekly Twilight Imperium play session. Missed my chance, or dodged a bullet? Twilight Imperium is an infamously complicated and backstabby boardgame, the kind of baroque strategy space opera that can swallow up entire days and expose any number of terrible character flaws along the way.

Thank goodness there's now a PC version in the works for Steam, which will at least remove the need to set up the pieces and remember what they do. Here's a trailer.

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It's been long enough since I last played an Ace Combat game that I can remember only two things about Ace Combat. 1) This Ace Combat 7 cutscene featuring what appears to be a wavy JPEG of a dog, which the Twitterati all thought was an exasperated animator's joke, but which I understand is actually a homage to a real staff member's dog who died before the game's release. And 2) you can 'powerslide' by wilfully initiating a stall, which I think might actually be a move from Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Delivery Must Complete sort of builds a whole subgenre around the thrill of powersliding planes. How does it do this? The clue is that "DMC" is also an abbreviation of "Devil May Cry". Here's a trailer. I promise you there will be no further confusing/upsetting references to dogs.

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