Spit-shine your spats, dust off the fedora you hid in shame, and prepare to give some goombas the ol’ rat-a-tat-tat in Empire Of Sin, a 1920s mobster strategy game announced this week at E3 by Paradox Interative and Romero Games (the studio of those> Romeros, Brenda and John). We’ll get to do crimes and build a gang of toughs with excellent names including Dotty Bacon, Zee Zee, and Two-Ton Clyde Malone. No joke, those names are in screenshots. Making pals with cool nicknames is surely 90% of the motivation behind engaging in organised crime.

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The silly, maddeningly tough and compelling Enter The Gungeon by Dodge Roll Games is the new giveaway on the Epic Games Store, and an easy pick for fans of terrible puns. Take the Binding Of Isaac (or any roguelike-like action dungeon crawler), clean up the blood, and stuff it with bullets to dodge and videogame firearm goofs. Descend into the six chambers of the Gungeon to battle the Beholster, the Dragun, the Mine Flayer and an army of Gundead, who are bullets, with guns, that shoot bullets. Grab the gun pun fun here before June 20th and keep it forever.

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Forza Horizon 4 remains one of the most joyous driving games you can play on PC, and the new LEGO Speed Champions expansion (out now) is just further proof that the folks over at Playground Games know how to have a real good time behind the wheel. As a result, I thought it was high time to revisit this colourful motor fest to see what kind of performance you can get from Forza Horizon 4 with today’s best graphics cards, plus a couple of oldies I’ve got knocking around in the boot. Whether you’re here for the big blocky LEGO cars or coming in fresh as part of Microsoft’s new Xbox Games Pass for PC, here’s how to get the best settings for your GPU.

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Week 6 in Fortnite’s ninth season has also brought the horde of monsters with it for a limited timed event, complete with its own mutant slaying challenges. With the daily updates to the Fortbytes, that means a whole lot of stuff you might miss out on, and so we’ll be cataloguing all of the challenges that will appear in this Season; yes, including the Fortbytes.

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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With E3 now almost over, Fortnite has got some challenges for you to complete and the most recent of them has you fly through some rings with a specific glider. Fortbytes been going on a little while now and even though some are easy, others will need the Battle Pass to be purchased in order to complete those challenges. To make things easier, we’ve updated the table so that it has each of the links to the Fortbyte you’re looking for. There are a hundred in total and I will be going over all of them. Wish me luck.

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Oh dear god, I’ve got so much work to do updating this Mordhau weapons guide. For those unaware, Patch #7 of Mordhau has released, bringing with it not only two entirely new weapons (the Javelin and the Heavy Handaxe) but also a huge amount of minor stat changes and balance tweaks to Mordhau’s expansive weapons arsenal. Some damage values have literally been increased or decreased by 1. I swear, they’re doing this just to screw with me.

Below I’ve done my very, very best to condense the massive amounts of information on every single weapon in Mordhau so that it’s easy to understand and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each one. I’ll walk you through each weapon in order of its point cost, with my own personal opinions on how to succeed with them. So if you want to know your Arming Swords from your Heavy Handaxes, your Short Spears from your Javelins, your Zweihanders from your Greatswords – well, you’re in the right place.

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Those who are familiar with Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s history will already know just how much of a big deal it is that a sequel is being made at all. The original is beloved by many, but also a tale of how fans picked up where the publisher dropped the ball. But what is known about Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2? We will be going over all of that, including the release date, and trailers for the game.

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I ve got two completely separate takes on Maneater. It s almost as if I split into two people when watching the gameplay footage released at E3 — two fizzing outlines of myself, roughly tethered to my physical form like a bad 80s special effect.

One of those outlines, the crackly red one, loved it. I think he s my inner nine year old, who used to entertain himself on long journeys by imagining a shark zooming alongside the car, crunching oncoming vehicles in its jaws and doing sick flips over roadsigns and overpasses. Maneater is his game>. The ghastly fluidity of the game s protagonist – a ten foot bull shark – is immensely satisfying to watch. It whooshes along like a brutish Ecco the Dolphin, slamming into hapless swimmers from below, then propelling them fifty feet into the air before grunching> them with a sound like a kilo of raw chicken cartilage in a hydraulic press.

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The Bloodlines liker has, as they say, logged on. Paradox and Hardsuit labs have released a new gameplay trailer for Bloodlines 2. Excellent. It s a smaller mouthful than the taste I had at GDC last year, but it s a slightly different one. An amuse-bouche, we might say. Made of blood pudding, or something else all vampire-y. Brendy saw an extended demo, and has thoughts about the dancing. It s pre-alpha, and does look a bit, whisper it, janky in places. But I am undeterred due to one small, key part of the video.

Look, I can tell you a couple of helpful things based on my own chats with the team. The voice over near the start, the whiny lad who says welcome to the first day of the rest of your death! , is your next door neighbour, and in full context he s clearly meant to be a bit cringy. The loft apartment with brick walls and a big Charlie Day conspiracy map is your home. And the lady in a club with a lip ring who is pictured above? She is my best friend now. None of you can have her. Sorry, that s just how it is.

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Do you ever get sold on a game purely on the strength of how its enemies look? I’m sure this happens to me a lot, but just off the top of my head, Killzone, XCOM, and Dark Souls all first got my attention this way. The trailer for Oninaki – an upcoming, classic-style JRPG from the I Am Setsuna and Lost Sphear gang at Square Enix’s Tokyo RPG Factory – features these awesome looking goblin lads on a mural. I’m not sure if they’re for certain in the game yet, but I’m already quite into the idea of getting a chance to meet some. Have a trailer:

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