Just when the Epic Games Launcher seemed like it might have been the final salvo in the launcher wars, along come Rockstar Games with a launcher of their own. The imaginatively-named Rockstar Games Launcher lets you launch Rockstar Games games, and also buy them. Okay? And? Why would I want that? Well, Rockstar are hoping to tempt people to install it by initially offering 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a freebie.

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Groundhog Day has a VR sequel. Let that sink in for a second. The Bill Murray comedy vehicle has been handed over to Tequila Works, and they’ve handed the curse of living the same day over and over to Phil Connors Jr – the junior to Murray’s Phil Connors. He’s back in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania, living his old man’s nightmare, and just like pa, he’s got to learn an important lesson about being a good dude by suffering horrifically. Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son launched today. Hopefully, it’s the only today.

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Valve are preparing a new look for the digital shelves storing your games, expanding the client’s Library view with more information on game updates and what your pals are up to. Basically they’re repainting the digital shelves and tucking an iPad between your fiction and poetry sections. Excellent metaphor, Alice. Valve are looking to test the new Steam Library before rolling it out to everyone, so you can now opt into the open beta to see for yourself.

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In Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch, saving the world isn’t so much about doing battle with the forces of evil (although that’s certainly part of it). Instead, it’s about mending the broken hearts of the people within it. Whether it’s restoring the enthusiasm of a depressed town guard or snapping the bovine ruler of a desert kingdom out of their all-consuming cheese obsession, it’s the personal struggles that come to define this otherwise bright and breezy adventure. They give it a lot more heart than your Dragon Quests and your Final Fantasies, where the extent of people’s troubles often stop at ‘please kill ten of these giant rats for me so I can give you a stat-boosting sock in return’.

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Daymare: 1998 is the zombie survival horror shooter from the team who started out with a fan remake of Resident Evil 2, before getting an awkward “could you not” from Capcom in 2015.

The premise is similar, and given the game’s roots it’d be mean spirited to give it a hard time for being a case of “investigate the mystery oubreak, but oh no! It’s zombies!” again. You clomp about a dark installation and parts of the city, reading paperwork, snatching supplies, and launching bullets into zombies and warped monstrosities with a small metal tube powered by explosions. I’ve had a bit of a go at it, so there’ll be impressions and a trailer below.

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Skateboarding was born out of the surfer movement of California in the early 1950s, when a bunch of surfers were dismayed that their surfboards ground to a halt whenever they tried to surf along park benches or ollie over a man lying down in the street with an egg in his mouth. By adding wheels to their boards, and making the boards really tiny, and then doing something with ball bearings I guess, they transformed a once aquatic hobby into a cool new sport that could be enjoyed while wearing cargo pants.

The ability to skate anywhere and everywhere> spawned a counterculture movement among rebellious young skateboarders, who had no issues flipping the bird to the pigs who couldn t deal with their attitude towards the unconventional use of public urban spaces hijacked by faceless corporate landlords following the capitalist land-grab of the mid-20th century , maaan. Which brings us to hurtling through the subsequent decades to Session, an early access skateboarding game, out today.

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Mini Metro is awfully pleasant, isn’t it? I’ve grown quite fond of lounging around, putting together an idealised transit system that – no matter how much I fudge things up – always turns out utopian compared to what the real world can put together. Yes, I say to myself, isn’t it lovely to lay down this tramline without racking up millions of quid and shutting down half the city. Truly, games are fantastical creations.

Now that developers Dinosaur Polo Club have solved railway problems for good (probably), their next shot is aimed squarely at the bad boy of public infrastructure. Announced today, Mini Motorways will take on traffic.

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One of the few PC series even sold in boxes nowadays, Football Manager will switch from ye olde plastic DVD case to “eco-friendly” packaging with this year’s game. They’ve hit upon a revolutionary new material for PC game packaging: cardboard. Unlike the horse-sized PC game boxes of the 90s, this is a wee gatefold affair made from recycled cardboard and vegetable inks and things. Sports Interactive bossman Miles Jacobson says this is “the most environmentally friendly packaging we’ve been able to put together.”

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Amara is one of four playable characters in Borderlands 3, and one of the six Sirens – women with legendary magical powers whose reputation is known far and wide across the Borderlands. With her trio of explosive and spectacular powers, she is both a powerful solo Vault Hunter and a brilliant team player who can be upgraded and customised to suit pretty much any playstyle.

In this Borderlands 3 Amara build guide, we’ve laid out 3 top-tier builds that you can use to get the most out of this no-nonsense Siren: one for Phasecast, one for Phaseslam, and one for Phasegrasp. With each build we’ll also detail our route down the different skill trees and the decisions made, along with useful tips and explanations to ensure that Amara lives up to her fearsome reputation.

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You’re on a hostile alien planet, in a machine you don’t know how to work. You’ve jumped into this device in a desperate bid for safety, wanted for crimes unknown, with the cops at your heels. The actions of the entities outside (yep, definitely entities outside) can only be gleaned through your scanners, once you’ve turned them on. You don’t know how to turn them on. Or how to move. Or how to stop the pressure from crushing everything.

Nauticrawl, previously 20,000 Atmospheres, has one of the most intriguing pitches I’ve ever read. It’s out now, but you won’t catch me in that machine until someone tells me I won’t cry.

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