Welcome to the future of Fortnite. Season 9 sees the dawn of a new era, and another tie in with a film – this time for the latest John Wick movie. As such, there will be a plethora of new challenges, including the brand new scavenger hunts known as “Fortbytes”, required to unlock a hidden secret.

Now into its ninth season, Fortnite is a global juggernaut when it comes to just how popular it still is. There’s still a lot to learn about not only getting that all-important “Victory Royale”, but also the changes to the map as the seasons progress. For some beginner’s tips, make sure you go to our main [cms-block] hub for every single thing you need to know to get started.

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Put that putty knife down, you storming degenerate. You re a terrible decorator, we all know that. But listen, that doesn t mean you can t follow your dream in the fantastical realm of the videogame. Tools Up will let you to indulge in that wallpaper-stripping you love so much. It s a couch co-op game about renovating apartments in a mysterious skyscraper. Four players, a new sofa, some carpets, and plenty of paint. Surely you will fare better at this pretend decorating than you do with all that spackling paste in your bathroom. Surely. Let s look at the footage and see.

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I spent a great many dozens of hours figuring out how to play Mordhau before I first tried Horde Mode. I’d got to the point where I would consistently rank at the top of the leaderboards on Frontline, Team Deathmatch, Duel servers… but when I first played Horde, I was completely lost. I died on Wave 4, after being pinned against a stone wall with a dozen hairy bare-chested peasants kicking me over and over until I fell.

I say all this as a warning: don’t expect to be able to use the same style of play in every one of Mordhau’s game modes. Instead, why not take a look online at some sort of guide to describe every different game mode, or something… Oh, you’ve done that part already? That’s why you’re here? Well then! This Mordhau game modes guide will walk you through each different mode available in this beautiful medieval decapitate-’em-up, with tips on how to adjust your style of play to ensure you play each one to the best of your ability.

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Oh look, one of the best games in existence has changed a bit. Yesterday’s patch to Mordhau‘s swords and vandals hasn’t brought any major changes, but it has brought a few that made me go ‘oh cool’. The headlines: kicking is better, stab attacks are a bit slower, and it’s slightly easier to get past some of the most annoying shields. Oh, and the AI in Horde mode now throws less poo at you if you try to cheat.

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Traffix sounds like the name of a breakfast cereal made from five whole grains that s full of fibre for the whole family. But no, listen. It s a small and simple game about controlling the flow of traffic by clicking on wee lights. You basically have to keep the cars moving and avoid jams or pile-ups, but it s all done with a minimalistic Mini Metro vibe. If you have a soft spot for the administration of road safety (or if you just like playing those air traffic control games that demand a suspicious amount of permissions on your phone) this might be something you re into. Come look at it in the moving pictures below.

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Everyone is dead when you arrive at The Mount Inn. Well, almost everyone. Only the bartender is left alive, among a scattering of cowboy corpses. My memory is little hazy he says. Don t know why.

It s probably because he has a knife stuck in his head. This is Once Upon A Crime In The West, the third murder mystery game from the folks who made 2000:1 A Space Felony. It s a crime story, but also a western, but also a comedy, but also a Christmas game. So the exact genre is as much a mystery as the pile of cadavers. It s like arriving late to a Tarantino movie and trying to reconstruct the plot while stepping over all the blood.

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Duck Season was when VR clicked for me. Imagine what happens when you put Duck Hunt into VR, but made by some very twisted people. It takes some getting used to when it comes to shooting mallards with a shotgun, but as soon as you think you’ve got the knack of it, Duck Season has other ideas.

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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus was such a pleasant surprise last year, so I’m glad to report that there’s an expansion on the way. Heretek, due this summer, is the first DLC announced for Bulwark Studios’s offbeat squad tactics game. In the main story, the bickering factions of the Adeptus Mechanicus worked together against the Necron threat, but Heretek escalates to full-blown infighting. It will add a new set of missions aboard an Ark Mechanicus ship, and a bunch heretical cyber-monks to murder. Plus the option to recruit a few along the way, pragmatically.

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Today, Coffee Stain rolled out their first major early access update for Satisfactory, their 3D Factorio-like space-industrial sandbox. While shockingly good even in its first release, it still felt like the game had some gaps to fill. Today’s update adds new vertical conveyor belts, an exploration vehicle with springy suspension, demolition charges and firearms which go a long way to filling out those blanks. Below, a straight-to-the-point developer update video, made significantly more amusing by hair-dye interfering with their chroma key effects, or the full patch notes here.

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Yes, you can now pet the dog in lovely action-RPG CrossCode. There are also now dogs to> pet, as of today’s massive Version 1.1 update for the game. Developers Radical Fish have made good on their post-launch plans, and gone above and beyond with this one. The showcase feature this update is the Rhombus Square Arena, the new end-game place to be for combat fiends. There’s three cups to compete in, each with multiple scored battles plus a non-stop endurance mode, all scaling up to top level. Skilled players can earn fancy new gear there, decorative items and adorable pets.

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