Laid-back city-builder Cities: Skylines today enters the period of supreme slack with the addition of universities in its latest expansion. ‘Campus’ is its name, and building campuses is its game. You too can establish fine educational establishments for students to doss about, build sports arenas for them to shout in, and shape your city’s policies to enable their idleness. It’s possible you may find some benefits to educating and occupying young people, I suppose. Their vomiting in the streets might sate seagulls who’d otherwise be mugging grannies for chips, for example.

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Alright, yesterday was depressing and made some of you sad (buddy, if you think reproductive healthcare bums you> out, imagine how some of the rest of us feel!). But today I’m actually feeling pretty good today, which is out of sorts with Marty Burnham The Moon Witch, who is feeling trapped by hope. That probably needs a whole several hundred words of analysis by itself. But, blimey love, lighten up, am I right? Luckily I’m here to bring the mood back up again.

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When American Fugitive was announced – a game about escaping from jail, staying one step ahead of the cops and avenging your dad’s death – I didn’t expect it to be as big a tribute to Grand Theft Auto as we’ve got at launch today, despite obvious similarities. Still, those looking for something more in the vein of earlier GTA games, where the cars were small, the people were even tinier and explosions are frequent, this might be worth taking for a spin. Not to say that developers Fallen Tree Games haven’t had a few ideas of their own. Case the joint and the launch trailer below.

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Even as a fan of RPGs myself, the Atelier Arland series and I have been like two ships passing in the night. Starcrossed by both my limited schedule and the role-playing genre’s requirement that I sacrifice the equivalent of a small child’s lifetime to complete any one game. And that’s just with a single playthrough. Many fans swear the synthesise ’em up is every bit as lovely as its beautiful cutscenes look, though, and today the fourth instalment hit Steam, Atelier Lulua: The Scion Of Arland.

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When Valve implemented Steam’s anti-review-bombing policy in March – manual exclusion of “off topic” review clusters from a game’s overall score – they’d not given much thought to what a ‘positive’ review bomb could look like. Just one month later, Notre Dame cathedral goes up in holy smoke and Ubisoft bring in a flood of positive press (and reviews) for Assassin’s Creed Unity through a Uplay giveaway and a half-million-dollar donation to help rebuild the landmark. This has led Valve to a rare bit of public introspection on how they should even define “off-topic”, shared in this official blog post.

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Finding a good gaming mouse can sometimes feel like you’re stuck in the story of Goldilocks. You don’t want one that’s too heavy, nor do you want one that’s too light. Instead, you want one that feels just right> under your palm. Or you could just buy a weighted one such as Corsair’s new M65 RGB Elite and make your own mind up as you go along. With three removable 4g weights at its disposal, the M65 RGB Elite can weigh anything from an almost featherweight 97g right up to 116.5g, giving you plenty of leeway to find that ‘just right’ spot to suit your style of play.

However, when its price of 60 / $50 will set you back as much as the similarly weighted Logitech G502 Hero, the M65 RGB Elite’s got quite the task on its hands to prove itself the better mouse. Can Corsair make a better case for best gaming mouse greatness? Let’s find out.

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Well, so much for waiting until June for the reveal of AMD’s Navi GPUs at their big E3 event, as the latest rumours suggest we could see two> Navi GPUs announce themselves to the world in less than a week – mostly likely when AMD take to the stage at this year’s big Computex tech show over in Taiwan.

Codenamed the Navi XT and Navi Pro (but also allegedly called the Radeon RX 3070 and Radeon RX 3080), these two graphics cards will apparently be revealed on Monday May 27, which just happens to be the same day as AMD head lady Dr Lisa Su’s key note speech. Handy that, eh?

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In case you’re running low on good feels, this news packs a healthy dose: In the last week, two players got their dying wishes answered thanks to the help of Reddit. In one of those too-rare instances of the internet being a pretty ok place, users rallied and now a 26-year-old cancer patient will get his hands on Borderlands 3 ahead of its September release. Another campaign secured an early copy of Total War: Three Kingdoms, due to come out later this week, for a player diagnosed with leukemia before he passed away Sunday.

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If we ignore the wonky Sonic R, then Sonic The Hedgehog has had a pretty good track record as far as mascot kart-racers go. Team Sonic Racing is out today and the latest from Sumo Digital, formerly of the excellent Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. This time, they’ve narrowed their focus a bit, swapping transforming omni-vehicles for regular cars and focusing solely on Sonic and pals instead of the greater Sega universe. From what I’ve heard from folks who snagged the console version early, it’s still a grand time despite missing out on Football Manager racing around Skies Of Arcadia. Below, a launch trailer.

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Last time we fawned over the dithered and glitchy world of Totem Teller, we hadn’t even seen it moving. Reader dear, this morning I saw it in motion and must resume our fawning. I still don’t know what this “game about storytelling and discovery” is but I have now cracked my monitor by trying to plunge my head under the waterfall I saw in a GIF today. It looks: gorgeous. The busted pixels and blood on my screen enhance the effect, really.

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