Guild Wars Reforged, a big update to 2005 MMORPG Guild Wars that's designed to make it a lot more convenient to play on modern hardware, is set to hit Steam on December 3rd. Steam Deck verification, modern controller support, and an interface revamp are among the tweaks developers ArenaNet and 2weeks have made, with the possibility of further "improvements" down the road being teased.

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To say that Demonschool comes out swinging with its premise would be an understatement. Trapped on the isolated Hemsk Island and surrounded by increasingly spooky occurrences, it quickly becomes clear that Faye and her classmates have no choice but to kick demons’ spines out, pass their semester without going to prison, and face the greatest horror of all: making friends in university.

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The word "morsel" comes from the Latin "mordeo", meaning "I bite". Every time you play Morsels, you are bitten and eaten by a horrible cat. The beast's incisors crash shut around the screen, and you tumble slowly down its oesophagus after the game's squealing mouse protagonist.

I could write a whole article about the bastardly antics of cats - there's one living next door who's at that stage of feline youth when she really, really enjoys playing with her food. But the first time I succumbed to those jaws, I thought instead of the plughole in my bathroom sink, a trivial hellmouth full of hair and toothpaste. I thought, too, of the tenacious little flies that keep emerging from that soap-scummed porcelain sphincter, the life that keeps surfacing from a conduit of my filth.

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If you really dug Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC, you'll be glad to know a couple of modders have been gradually working away at adding a bunch more post-apocalyptic versions of real-life islands off the coast of New England to the RPG's map for a little while now. Following the release of their first atomic-boomed atoll, Boon Island, last year, the pair have just released a trip to Massachusetts' Misery islands.

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Battlefield 6's latest set of additions, dubbed the California Resistance update, have arrived today, November 18th. Alongside the unboxing of the new suburban skirmish setting that is the Eastwood map and a sabotage mode, the update brings a sizeable patch with tweaks aimed at the likes of ensuring bullets do end up where you intend and making sure mortars are clean enough to eat meals off of.

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I’ve moaned plenty about the technical and performance woes that Monster Hunter Wilds inflicted upon itself, and only seems committed to remedying at a glacial pace. Yet on the possibility of future RE Engine-powered games suffering the same fate, even I haven’t been as worried as certain Capcom investors, who recently extracted an assurance from the developer-publisher that upcoming horror sequel Resident Evil Requiem will arrive in better shape.

During a conference call to discuss fiscal earnings and other businessy matters – the official transcript is here, translated from the original Japanese – Capcom were asked if there was "a risk that Resident Evil Requiem will experience technical issues similar to those seen with Monster Hunter Wilds." The response: nah mates, probably not.

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Interplay co-founder and veteran game designer Rebecca Heineman has died at the age of 62 following a cancer diagnosis earlier this year. The news has been shared on social media by numerous friends and former colleagues of Heineman, including Heidi McDonald and Brian Fargo, while the latest post to a GoFundMe the developer set up to raise funds for treatment says that page's funds will now go towards Heineman's family making funeral arrangements.

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Right, here's your prescribed dose of actual nice news in the games industry for the week. Hytale is back from the dead! Despite a decade's worth of development, the game was canned with Hypixel Studios forced to completely shutter. Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme did say he wanted to talk to previous owner Riot about re-acquiring Hytale, and as it turns out, that's exactly what he did!

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